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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#12226: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:31:54 AM

Yeah, the Kaioken is incredibly difficult to learn and use. Even Kaio-sama can't actually perform the technique.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#12227: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:32:30 AM

So since it's difficult to learn, no one has even tried except for Goku?

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#12228: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:33:10 AM

[up][up] Which is a shame, because King Kai should be able to fist people too.

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#12229: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:33:28 AM

We see very little of the humans and Piccolo training on Kaio-sama's planet. It's entirely possible that they did try and failed.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#12230: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:34:12 AM

I mean, at least they got past his first test.

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#12231: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:35:23 AM

I like to believe that, after they came back to life, Yamcha finally got it down but kept it to himself because he knew nobody would believe him and it wouldn't matter anyway.

edited 3rd Jun '15 10:35:36 AM by TobiasDrake

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#12232: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:36:17 AM

I don't think Piccolo would have been pure enough to do the Spirit Bomb by that point.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#12233: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:40:06 AM

Someone creating a technique they can't use amuses me almost as much as people creating Self-destruction moves.

How do you know that works? [lol]

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#12234: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:41:55 AM

Because..... because shut up!

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#12235: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:44:21 AM

Science!

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#12236: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:44:29 AM

Why is Goku still the only one who knows the Kaioken, considering he's one of the only one of the main cast who wouldn't actually use it?

Because King Kai apparently taught them fuckall when they were dead.

edited 3rd Jun '15 10:46:38 AM by Lionheart0

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#12238: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:47:33 AM

[up][up]Thanks Toriyama.

edited 3rd Jun '15 10:47:49 AM by BaconManiac5000

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#12239: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:48:26 AM

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, Yamcha was absorbed by Super Buu. Buu tried to shake it off, but his battle power began to drop at an astonishing rate. Yamcha was fighting Majin Buu from within: he'd triggered the Kaioken and was ramping up the multiplier, amplifying the effects his negative battle power had on Buu. As he hit x10, Super Buu fell helpless to his knees and Goku was able to defeat him with one swift kick.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#12240: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:50:58 AM

Good job Yamcha.

A far better job than your usual jobs that weren't even needed.

How many jobbing jokes can one make?

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#12241: Jun 3rd 2015 at 10:55:43 AM

There was a fanfic I saw once where there were multiple universes, and for each one one of the other characters was as strong as Mystic Gohan. First world the fic was in, and viewpoint character, was Yamcha.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#12242: Jun 3rd 2015 at 12:08:57 PM

Someone creating a technique they can't use amuses me almost as much as people creating Self-destruction moves.

How do you know that works?

See, when they usually do it it just causes fainting, like with 16 (who died when Cell broke the rules and killed him afterwards).

Chiaozu was doing a Nuzlocke run, so he died.

edited 3rd Jun '15 12:09:07 PM by KnownUnknown

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#12243: Jun 3rd 2015 at 12:21:18 PM

[up]x20 In Xenoverse, both Krillin and Yamcha know the Kaioken.

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
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#12244: Jun 3rd 2015 at 12:37:16 PM

Poachers in a park being ranged by 17.

...with a sniper rifle.

Or do you mean another type of ranged?

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#12245: Jun 3rd 2015 at 1:49:42 PM

The park is what's being ranged by Lapis. He's a park ranger. Ranging parks is what he does.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#12246: Jun 3rd 2015 at 1:52:51 PM

...Do they know their real names?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#12247: Jun 3rd 2015 at 1:57:19 PM

It's not that King Kai couldn't use the Kaioken it's that he couldn't master it. Him being unable to even use the thing he came up with makes no sense.

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#12248: Jun 3rd 2015 at 1:59:22 PM

Didn't we do this yesterday?

Anyway, I'd say probably? They retained enough memory to want Gero dead for what he did to them. It's impossible to say for sure, of course. In DBZA, I'd say the answer is definitely, what with them referring to their parents and all that.

...Calling them by their birth names is a bit weird to me, actually. I keep thinking of a different Lapis all together.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#12249: Jun 3rd 2015 at 2:30:39 PM

I asked, you didn't answer.

And, well. It didn't seem like they knew in the original series. Especially since they still go by 17 and 18.

...And, I mean. Sometimes people forget different parts of things.

Especially with regards to trauma.

...I mean, their eyes flash red at one point, so. Gero put things in their heads.

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#12250: Jun 3rd 2015 at 2:32:28 PM

Considering how recently Toriyama came out with their real names, I think they probably kept going by 17 and 18 because no other names were in the script until about a year ago.

edited 3rd Jun '15 2:33:01 PM by Enlong

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