How did Trunks get so strong so fast?

[Deadmed]

Like uh, he was fighting the Androids for a good long while and was still getting his ass beat, his "love for hoomanity" never suddenly made him 400x stronger it took Gohan dying just to unlock Super Saiyan.

All of a sudden he goes from being roughly equal to SS3 to holding his own against SSB level opponents to summoning random genki dama swords to take out SSB Vegito level foes. Where was this Trunks during the Cell saga? Did plot just not call for it? If he can exponentially increase his strength this drastically overcoming the androids shoudlnt have been so hard for him.

 

[Calpal]

plot plot/bad developmental overlook seems to me.
get some foo

 

[Greedie]

Plot.

He needed an ass pull power up to become relevant other wise he would have to sit back and get no screen time since goku and vegeta would of done all the fighting.
Seems everything he went through in the android/cell saga, watching his mother die in front of him or thinking black killed mai, conveniently didn't trigger this power up but black hurting it feelings with words did.

 

[Jiren]

This is facts.

 

[Ōkami]

Here's a good way to look at the the difficulty of levels.

Super Saiyan = $60 Brand new game

Everything afterwards = $10 DLC

 

[kimb]

I find that power scaling in dragon ball when it comes to transformations, to be more of an issue. I never appreciated how someone in a lower state of super saiyan could surpass the power level of someone in a higher state of super saiyan. I understand that base strength plays into how strong someone's ssj form is compared to someone else (ex. ssj Goku > ssj Goten), but when it comes to the class system, there should be a threshold to how powerful someone can become before they enter the next stage of super sayian.

If the manga followed a threshold system, it would give Super Saiyan 3 a purpose, and actually make it useful through the story. The only major difference between ssj2 and ssj3 is the 100x multiplier vs the 400x multiplier. Of course there is an issue of stamina, but that could easily be taken care of with training, which we never saw for ssj3 since it was introduced at the very end of dbz.

 

[Punk Hazard]

Didn't he take energy from other people or something?

 

[SSU]

It's mainly plot convenience, but when Black and Zamasu were ranting at Trunks at how he had caused all of this when he first time travelled to save Goku. Rage and anger is what makes a saiyan strong. Zamasu saw this so he decided to take Goku's body to get much, much stronger. Keep in mind Trunks is a saiyan hybrid, so his emotions will react much more drastically as it did with Gohan and Goten. All that anger and rage + his genius (he could learn mafuuba and learn to control enery and ki really quickly) resulted in his enormous powerup. Also remember Golden Frieza existed.

Oh and merged Zamasu wasn't that much stronger, even Goku could keep up with him. Vegito didn't realize that his fusion would last for 10 minutes so he wasn't going full force.

 

[xxsasukex]

trunks for the win

 

[Styles]

He was training with Vegeta for a while and he used his rage/love which made saiyans stronger and absorbed/took people's energy.

 

[rollin]

Training with vegeta and the other z fighters made him stronger than androids and imperfect cell
Training with the kais made him as strong as ss3 kinda like gohan

 

[Kanino]

In the manga he trains with the Kais, Trunks had his training..... not the mangas fault the animators decided to skip in that

 

[God Of NarutoBase]

Supes still recks them

 

[Uzumaki Macho]

Didn't he take energy from other people or something?

He took some energy from like 25 fodders and weakened base Goku and Vegeta.

 

[Punk Hazard]

He took some energy from like 25 fodders and weakened base Goku and Vegeta.

lol then what's the question here? Did these people not see the first Broly movie?

 

[Uzumaki Macho]

lol then what's the question here? Did these people not see the first Broly movie?

We expect this kind of bullshit from movies though.

 

[Bling Kai]

Shitty writing thats how. I cant believe watch this shit anyway.

 

[Punk Hazard]

We expect this kind of bullshit from movies though.

Y'all out here acting like Goku didn't get enough energy to hurt Frieza in a Spirit Bomb from a bunch of grass, rocks, trees, and frogs. DBZ IS bullshit

 

[Umari Senju]

In the manga he trains with the Kais, Trunks had his training..... not the mangas fault the animators decided to skip in that

This. I was wondering why no one brought this up. Is everyone just watching the Anime? This isn't the first time they skipped parts that were in the manga.

 

[giostep]

You all have to remeber that the greatest trait of saiyans is there ability to get exponentially stronger the closer they get to death. Trunks experienced the greatest growth, but also almost died like 3 times.

So ill say that it was mostly anger and almost dying 3 times, along with the people lending him their strength.