Power Levels

Everything in italics is an estimate, but everything after the Freezer saga is normal, because they're ALL estimates. If you see a + or a - after a level, that means the level was rising or falling during that time period.

For notes on how I figure Super Saiya-jin levels, scroll to the bottom of the page. There are also notes on how I arrived at the level I did for some of the other fighters, too.

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Notes...

<Freezer Saga
I know Gurudo's power looks pretty low, but keep in mind that he never really physically fights. He just uses his mind techniques to fight Son Gohan and Kuririn before he's decapitated by Vegeta.

Artificial Human Saga
Yes, Trunks is stronger than Perfect Cell. Even Cell himself says so. He loses the battle because Ultimate SSJ Stage 3 increases your muscles, but not your speed. You become really bulky, and Trunks couldn't keep up with Cell.

The Cell Game
I realize Piccolo makes kind of a big jump there, especially in comparison to others. While I have them raising their levels by 1 or 2 million in the Room, his jumps about 60 million. I have no explanation for why, but he keeps up with the other fighters well enough that I really think that's about right. I think maybe because he's a warrior-type Super Namekseijin, he can probably increase his power pretty easily, whereas the Saiya-jin rely on SSJ. Keep in mind that, even though the Saiya-jin are a warrior race, no other Saiya-jin in history has attained the levels that the Z Senshi have, so we don't really know for sure how their power is supposed to increase after they get this high.

Also, it's never really shown or stated that any of the Saiya-jin fight in Ultimate SSJS2, but it's kind of a given that they would use their strongest possible form. As for Gohan, they never even say that he REACHES Ultimate SSJS2, but for him to have been fighting Cell in regular SSJ before his transformation, his base power would have to be leaps and bounds beyond that of any of the other Saiya-jin, and I just don't think that's the case. Furthermore, when Gohan first undergoes his transformation, Cell states that he's "just like Trunks," implying that perhaps Gohan hadn't reached SSJ2, but instead, USSJ Stage 3. Later in that same episode, though, he undergoes another, much less dramatic transformation and Cell says something to the effect of "This is it." So...yeah.

Majin Buu
Vegeta has been training for the past seven years. Son Gohan has not. I think it's very logical that Vegeta's base level would have passed Gohan's by this point.

Majin Vegeta got a few extra points on his power level because in becoming a Majin, Vegeta got a power upgrade as well.

Son Gohan at Super Saiya-jin 2 is way too low if you go by my method of figuring SSJ power levels. Reason? I don't think that Gohan was at full power when he powered up to Super Saiya-jin 2 at the Tenkaichi Budokai, because Vegeta states that he's no where near the level he reached when he fought Cell.

Yam, Supopobichi, Videl, and Mr. Satan are all average humans. Yam and Supopobichi got power increases when they became Majins.

When Buu absorbs people, it's not quite the same as Cell. Rather than gain their strength, it's more that he takes on some of their characteristics. That's why I don't have him powering up a whole lot after absorbing people like Goten, Trunks, and Gohan.

Son Goku never gets Super Saiya-jin 3 to full power because he has to go back to the afterlife before he finishes. That's why you might be scratching your head, wondering why Goku was strong enough to beat Buu and didn't do it.

Bardock Story
Bardock's strength is estimated at one point, but we never get a real scouter reading of him.

All of Bardock's team are literally shots in the dark. I figure they're all probably about the same, but since Toma seems to be the "second in command," per se, I figure he's probably a bit stronger than the others and a bit weaker than Bardock himself.

Freezer, Zarbon, and Dodoria are all based on the assumption that they don't do a whole lot of the fighting themselves, so their power levels wouldn't change a whole lot between now and Namek. Dodoria does a bit of fighting here and there, as we saw both on Namek and Meat, so he might go up some.

Freezer's team of henchmen had to be strong enough to take out all of Bardock's team, but they also were obviously weaker than Bardock himself.

Trunks Story
In the TV series, Trunks states that the Artificial Humans the Z Senshi are up against are much stronger than the ones from his time.

Son Gohan is able to take on both Artificial Humans at once, and after his injury, he actually appears to be stronger than both of them combined (as we see with how easily he blocks a punch from Juuhachigou and the fact that his one ki blast repels one that they both put their energy into). Why did he lose? Well, for one thing, he might be stronger, but he still gets tired, while they don't. Furthermore, he was handicapped. He was fighting two on one, and he only had one arm.

13-year old Trunks may have fought the Artificial Humans, but save for one good hit he got in, Juuhachigou pretty much whomped his ass. When he's 17, he seems about as strong as Gohan was during the amusement park battle. It's difficult to say for sure, because during that battle, Trunks was actually a handicap on Gohan; 17-year old Trunks experiences no such handicap. In any case, we know Trunks got beaten pretty badly, so he couldn't have been too much stronger than the Artificial Humans (though the fact that he survived attack after attack and got a few great hits in does say that he's at least on par with them and could probably take one of them individually).

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Super Saiya-jin
This is how I figure regular levels vs. Super Saiya-jin. If you notice, Son Goku goes from 300,000 to 15 million when he first turns Super Saiya-jin. That's the only normal to Super Saiya-jin set of levels ever actually given, and if you look, you'll see that's divisible by 50, which is quite a nice, round number to be coincidental. Since most fights take place as Super Saiya-jin later on, I decide a neighborhood for that level, and then I just divide by 50 for the normal form level. I do 65x normal for Ultimate Super Saiya-jin Stage 2, 80x normal for Ultimate Super Saiya-jin Stage 3, 100x normal for Super Saiya-jin 2, and 150x normal for Super Saiya-jin 3. Aside from the regular SSJ level, all of those are, of course, estimates on how far it's raised. I only do decimals for the base power levels, though. So, for instance, when I calculated Vegeta's Ultimate Super Saiya-jin Stage 2 level, it came out at 188.5. I simply rounded that up to 189 million. Once you get that high, I really don't think a few hundred thousand power level points are going to make a huge difference in the outcome of the fight.