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I was watching the Pikkon fight right now. (Sure it is a filler, but heck.) I noticed Pikkon calling Goku "a complete idiot or a fighting genius", and that set me thinking.
Consider Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto is far from being gifted. Not that I am saying that his enormous chakra capability isn't a gift. What I am saying is that he has his skills because of the training Jiraiya put him through. To quote Shippuuden (I havent read those chapters. started Naruto manga at like 250) "Ero-sennin worked me so hard that my clothes tore and even the head band that you (Iruka-Sensei) gave me broke apart and so I had to get myself some new clothes."
And Kurosaki Ichigo from Bleach. This is a double-edged sword (pun unintended). Ichigo is skilled. Surely no one swings a 6 foot Zanpaktou without being skilled. But his later skills did come from training under Urahara, Yoruichi and later the Vizards. Yet, he had enormous skills.
And for One Piece fans, Monkey D Luffy: the lazy captain who never trains and yet pwns every villain out there. Yeah he has pretty much of what you could call a seasonal skill. Gets his skills when he's emotional. NAMI IS MY NAKAMA!!!!111ONENINETHOUSAND
And back to Son Goku. Well. I haven't really ever thought about it. But I feel that Goku did not show much skill in Dragonball. For a human, sure learning the Kamehameha would have been a great feat, but remember that Dragon Ball Z sets the scale a lot higher. In Dragon Ball, where none of us knows or suspects his Saiyan past, he could be considered a gifted fighter. But remember in Dragon Ball Z, things seemed to come easier to him that it did to Vegeta, for instance. Or is it because King Kai's training (both in the Saiyan saga and in the 7 year time gap on Other World) was a much harsher situation that what Vegeta put himself through. This isn't likely, though. I remember that Goku himself says that Vegeta must have pushed his limits even harder than he himself had.
But we have to remember who was the sole person to go Super Saiyan 3.
whew... did I win something for typing all that in?
Consider Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto is far from being gifted. Not that I am saying that his enormous chakra capability isn't a gift. What I am saying is that he has his skills because of the training Jiraiya put him through. To quote Shippuuden (I havent read those chapters. started Naruto manga at like 250) "Ero-sennin worked me so hard that my clothes tore and even the head band that you (Iruka-Sensei) gave me broke apart and so I had to get myself some new clothes."
And Kurosaki Ichigo from Bleach. This is a double-edged sword (pun unintended). Ichigo is skilled. Surely no one swings a 6 foot Zanpaktou without being skilled. But his later skills did come from training under Urahara, Yoruichi and later the Vizards. Yet, he had enormous skills.
And for One Piece fans, Monkey D Luffy: the lazy captain who never trains and yet pwns every villain out there. Yeah he has pretty much of what you could call a seasonal skill. Gets his skills when he's emotional. NAMI IS MY NAKAMA!!!!111ONENINETHOUSAND
And back to Son Goku. Well. I haven't really ever thought about it. But I feel that Goku did not show much skill in Dragonball. For a human, sure learning the Kamehameha would have been a great feat, but remember that Dragon Ball Z sets the scale a lot higher. In Dragon Ball, where none of us knows or suspects his Saiyan past, he could be considered a gifted fighter. But remember in Dragon Ball Z, things seemed to come easier to him that it did to Vegeta, for instance. Or is it because King Kai's training (both in the Saiyan saga and in the 7 year time gap on Other World) was a much harsher situation that what Vegeta put himself through. This isn't likely, though. I remember that Goku himself says that Vegeta must have pushed his limits even harder than he himself had.
But we have to remember who was the sole person to go Super Saiyan 3.
whew... did I win something for typing all that in?