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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4626: Sep 20th 2013 at 11:20:07 AM

Maybe as Piccolo's power grew so too did his healing ability?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#4627: Sep 20th 2013 at 12:48:37 PM

Regenerate from Nappa's mouth blast? From Goku's fist of justice?

Which body part was lost here? He blew up and made an egg just before that.

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#4628: Sep 20th 2013 at 1:07:19 PM

In the case of his impalement by Kid Goku, the body part lost was a huge chunk of his chest and internal organs. Do those not count as body parts? From the mouth blast, it was whatever damage the mouth blast did to him.

If he can regenerate from "shattered into a million pieces" as long as his head is intact - if he can regrow literally his entire body - then there's no reason these should have been lethal to him.

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#4629: Sep 20th 2013 at 1:14:22 PM

Cells regen at least had the excuse that Freeza cells allowed him to survive normally fatal injuries.

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#4630: Sep 20th 2013 at 3:25:46 PM

He wasn't literally shattered into a million pieces, and I believe it took him time to heal while he was offscreen. As long as it was from Dabura's death to the time they found him.

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#4631: Sep 20th 2013 at 3:27:31 PM

Which raises even further questions because it disqualifies the idea that the body can die before regeneration kicks in. He regenerated from a smashed off head. If "severed head" can live long enough to regenerate an entire body, nothing short of head destruction should be lethal to a Namekian.

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#4632: Sep 20th 2013 at 3:51:04 PM

Takes a bit of time to regenerate, and again, only the Warrior-Class Nail and Piccolo have been shown to do it in canon, even though the wiki states they all can. Plus, they seem weakened after it, and take longer to recover from torso injuries.

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#4633: Sep 20th 2013 at 4:10:37 PM

If one's physical ability and/or ki levels have anything to do with it, we should remember that Piccolo at that point was orders of magnitude more powerful than Demon King Piccolo was.

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#4634: Sep 20th 2013 at 4:37:55 PM

[up]x3 He was turned to stone, he probably just slowly regenerating piece by piece to make sure he wasn't out of energy by the time Trunks and Goten came back.

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#4635: Sep 21st 2013 at 2:11:03 PM

Could Piccolo do it at any point before fusing with Nail? It seems like this could ebe explained as just a special ability of nails that Piccolo gained.

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#4636: Sep 21st 2013 at 2:22:23 PM

Yeah, Raditz cut his arm off then it regened after the fight.

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#4637: Sep 21st 2013 at 2:25:50 PM

I'm pretty sure I just linked to the wiki less than 5 posts ago.

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#4638: Sep 22nd 2013 at 5:13:44 AM

[up]Exactly 5...5 post above this one(Yours)

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#4639: Sep 22nd 2013 at 11:50:11 AM

A Namekian can only regenerate if their ki levels will allow it. Same case with Buu. King Piccolo didn't regenerate because he used all of his energy to spit out the egg out that would later hatch into Piccolo Jr.

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#4640: Sep 22nd 2013 at 3:23:21 PM

Between the regeneration and the zenkai, Cell should've just kept having Cell Jr's blast him in order to become the strongest.

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#4641: Sep 22nd 2013 at 3:32:28 PM

[up][up]To spit out another version of himself, which made him implode as he became an empty shell, which then caused an explosion because of the force within.

Buu can do it because he just can. I don't think he would let himself get blown in half multiple times if it was based on his energy at time. Unlike Namekians he can do it the instant he loses it or even from being blown to pieces.

edited 22nd Sep '13 3:38:02 PM by randomness4

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#4642: Sep 22nd 2013 at 3:56:53 PM

Buu seems to have more trouble regenerating the more exhausted he is. I assume he can only regenerate if he has enough energy to do so (That being said, he'd probably still be alive if splattered while totally spent, just unable to reform until resting for a long time).

The Spirit Bomb could probably have obliterated him even if he was at his peak, but I do imagine fatigue helped too.

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#4643: Sep 22nd 2013 at 6:59:35 PM

Buu wasn't fatigued at all when hit by the Spirit Bomb; he had just stomped all three of the powerful heroes (Goku, Mr. Buu, Vegeta) with ease and was laughing about it. It was simply far more powerful than him and was physically large, allowing it to engulf him. If the same thing was launched at Super Buu, he would've just flicked it away.

Buu can do it because he just can. I don't think he would let himself get blown in half multiple times if it was based on his energy at time. Unlike Namekians he can do it the instant he loses it or even from being blown to pieces.

Buu can be beaten to death by physical attacks, as his ki drains.

edited 22nd Sep '13 7:01:55 PM by sockpuppet1

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4644: Sep 22nd 2013 at 7:05:14 PM

He had been fighting Goku and the others for a long time. Judging by the fact that Fat Buu ran out of energy fighting Kid Buu, and by Buu's regeneration becoming increasingly strained during the fights that actually give him trouble, I think it's safe to assume he has finite energy.

Which would explain why regular Super Saiyan 1 was enough strength to overpower him with the Spirit Bomb.

edited 22nd Sep '13 7:07:02 PM by Anomalocaris20

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stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#4645: Sep 22nd 2013 at 8:00:24 PM

The only time we saw any indication that a buu could be defeated by purely physical attacks was when Kid and Mr. Buu fought. This makes a real possibility that it was because the two combatants were buus, rather than it being possible under standard circumstances*

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#4646: Sep 22nd 2013 at 8:12:14 PM

It was simply far more powerful than him and was physically large, allowing it to engulf him. If the same thing was launched at Super Buu, he would've just flicked it away.

What?

[up]Of course. I mean, it's a given that someone's probably going to fight a Saiyan instead of someone else.

edited 22nd Sep '13 8:13:05 PM by wanderlustwarrior

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4647: Sep 22nd 2013 at 8:12:45 PM

I don't know if Buu could be killed by anything short of complete atomization from a powerful energy attack, but he could probably be beaten into unconsciousness or physically weakened and destabilized to such a degree that a weak energy blast could finish the job.

edited 22nd Sep '13 8:13:13 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#4648: Sep 22nd 2013 at 8:20:50 PM

[up][up] If they tried to use the Spirit Bomb on Super Buu, he would've flicked it away, because he was far too powerful to fall to such a weak attack. What's hard to understand...?

edited 22nd Sep '13 8:21:07 PM by sockpuppet1

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#4649: Sep 22nd 2013 at 8:33:30 PM

  1. So what does it being physically large have to do with it?
  2. Is Super Buu that much more powerful than the final Buu?

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4650: Sep 22nd 2013 at 8:37:58 PM

That Spirit Bomb would probably be crippling to Super Buu at least, if not lethal. I doubt he'd be completely unaffected.

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