"Like Piccolo I can fully regenerate as long as my core remains.
Like the Saiyans my power increases greatly after I heal from near death, and like Freeza I can survive anywhere."



His energy is quite particular and unique, since those who can sense chi always feel multiple auras from different characters at once in one spot.

Cell has acid inside his body that is shown when he regenerates his tail while in his first form after Android 16 removed it, which might be how he melted his way through Trunks' Time Machine, instead of using chi. He has the ability to revert his form (demonstrated when he reverts to an egg and potentially by his evolving body). It is likely that Cell's asexual reproductive capability in spawning the Cell Juniors is taken from Piccolo's Namekian physiology. Among other abilities unique to his own, he's got a self-destruct mechanism.

Along with Piccolo's regeneration, he has Freeza's ability to survive any injury; after Cell achieves his Super Perfect Form due to his brush with death when he self-destructs, he explains in the original English dub of the anime that this is because each individual cell in his body has a life-force of their own.

In the manga, Japanese dub of the original anime, and both versions of Dragon Ball Kai, Cell explains that, like Piccolo, he has a regenerative nucleus in his head; as long as that survives, so does he. Also, his Saiyan cells make him stronger from every near-death injury he survives, thanks to the Saiyans' Zenkai.

Cell has the techniques of those whose cells make up his body from the time when the samples are taken from them, even techniques which weren't part of those he shares his cells with before his creation, such as the Big Bang Attack. The likes of Goku, Piccolo, and Vegeta have their cells taken during Vegeta's invasion of Earth, while Freeza and King Cold have theirs taken when they invade during the Trunks Saga later. It's very possible he could use the Kaio-Ken and the Genki-dama, or Spirit Bomb.