Thiln

Jun 6 2015, 06:47 PM

Actually, the only copied techniques that Cell used in the manga were the Kamehameha, Taiyoken, Instant Transmission, Namekian regeneration and Death Beam. He's allegedly capable of using the Spirit Bomb, but we never see him actually use it. All of those other abilities like the Special Beam Cannon, Kikoho, Kienzan, and Multi-Form were given to him by Toei during the filler segments of fights.

I'm thinking the same thing. For the regeneration to be effective without having too much of a downside, you need to have a power advantage over your enemy. Otherwise, you're just decreasing your ki by a substantial amount. Although it might balance itself out if the opponent needed to exert a heavy amount of power to inflict that kind of damage. For example, while regenerating half of his body would take a sizable amount of ki to accomplish for Cell, the simultaneous usage of a fully charged Kamehameha with teleportation may have drained a larger percentage of Goku's overall strength by comparison to the regeneration.

Much of the hype surrounding Cell has to do with him being this conglomeration of the world's best fighters. He's supposed to be this perfect warrior with all of the knowledge and hereditary gifts of multiple species like the Saiyans, Namekians, and Frieza's race. It'd be like extracting the specific genetic traits of other creatures like gorillas for their strength, cheetahs for speed, and lizards for limb regeneration, then somehow finding a way to give those traits to a human with the brain of Einstein, thus making them into some of kind of ultimate human.

Professor Gohan

Jun 7 2015, 02:07 AM

I don't think of Cell of having endless amount of techniques. Knowing how many warriors' DNA he copied from the manga greatly justifies why he didn't use many attack against formidable foes like Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, etc.

Dark Matter

Jun 8 2015, 06:42 PM

I mean if you compare Cell to a lot of people, his advantages are just glaring.

Goku (in general) vs Cell. At this point there's basically nothing Goku knows that Cell doesn't. Even if you consider the idea that Goku has learned more techniques and stuff, he still has to compete with the combination of abilities and techniques from Vegeta, Piccolo and Freeza all wrapped up into one package. It's the same thing for everyone, Piccolo, Vegeta, etc.

And Cell knows how to use these abilities.He has the fighting knowledge of all of these people wrapped up into, again, one whole package. You basically give him the best of the best and then put it all together. As already mentioned, regeneration is a huge factor. It may take a lot of ki but being extremely weak beats being dead.

As for not using every single technique he has, why would he? If the guy throws out his strongest Kamehameha and it gets blasted right back at him, he's kind of out of options now. What is he going to do next? Throw a Galic Gun and hope that somehow works better? Throwing a bunch of attacks at the person isn't the sign of someone skilled, its the sign of someone getting desperate.

Dark Matter

Jun 8 2015, 08:15 PM

But Cell still had the notable advantage against Goku. Even when Cell was purposely lowering himself down to Goku's level, he was still 1-2 steps a head of him. It's not like Goku's skills closed the gap in power,, it was the simple fact that Cell was letting Goku close the gap.

It would be one thing if Goku and Cell were equal and Goku's skills were then helping to give him the edge or advantage. But unfortunately there's nothing say that this is the case. Goku's simply able to fight Cell because Cell's letting him. Goku's so called skills weren't exactly playing much part in the fighter either and definitely not much to take away that 1-2 steps advantage Cell had.