Dragon Ball Power Levels Over Time (1 Second = 1 Episode)

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Published on November 15, 2019 7:34:36 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hw_DWt7uAw

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (2005)

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Duration: 9:48

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This is an animated bar race plot showing the top 10 character power levels in the Dragon Ball anime series from Dragon Ball episode 1 through Dragon Ball Super episode 131.

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**UPDATE**
Watch the Remastered version here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCwraq3bJmA

The new video has been rescaled for 120 million final form Frieza and 150 million SSJ Goku, among a host of other changes. The power levels start to get a little crazy, but hey that's Dragon Ball!

About power levels and the numbers I used:

Power levels act as a general gauge of a character's overall fighting strength in Dragon Ball, which encapsulates a combination raw strength/destructive power, speed and durability. Official power level numbers are only known for a small subset of characters at a few snapshots in time. Thus to create a plot like this, most of the power level numbers had to be created/estimated by hand.

To create a compelling plot I erred on the conservative side and kept power levels relatively low, diverging from the official numbers at the end of the Frieza saga and focusing on the relative strengths of characters at any point in time. In other words, you won't see massive power scaling caused by multiplicative transformations. It makes for a better plot not to have numbers with too many trailing zeros and to not have most characters dwarfed by a couple with massive power levels. Also, there is little practical difference between having a power level 10 times more than someone else or 10,000 times more.

Also note that the plot generally only includes characters who are alive, relevant to the current story-line and have actually revealed their fighting power in some way. Therefore deities like Zeno and the Grand Priest that are known to be powerful but who never use their power or only use magic/special abilities are not listed and characters like Beerus and Whis are not listed while they are sitting on the sidelines.

At the end of the day, power levels should be taken with a grain of salt and are just for fun!

Data:
Hand made data set, informed by known official power level numbers through Frieza Saga (https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Power_Levels)

Tools Used:
R, MovieMaker, flourish.studio (https://flourish.studio/)

Music:
DB OST 4, 19
DBZ OST 1, 23, 39
Dragon Ball Super - Ultimate Battle/Ultra instinct | Instrumental Epic Rock COVER by Friedrich Habetler Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaeXN-MByjU)

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