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

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!

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!

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DB OST 4, 19
DBZ OST 1, 23, 39

[DataDaft]

This version reduces the amount of bar movement quite a bit since power levels only increase. I also made it so that transformations occur in-place, so you don't have bars dropping off and new bars coming in for each new transformation.

[DiablMask]

The reason Mr.Satan didn't appear is because he's too high you can't see him on screen.

[rickyricardo]

Never thought I’d be so involved in watching a moving bar chart for a solid 10 minutes.

[robdenini]

I love when Tien spikes hard twice in Z, going as high as the second strongest for a split second. No transformations, no fusion, no zenkai hacks, just raw training and an OP technique

[seanholland]

2:40 really really set the reminder the VAST difference in power Vegeta had from everyone else when he came on the stage.

[shaynelewis]

Dude Piccolos power up with Nail was massive...and he stayed relevant all the way up to the tournament of power. Thats insane lol

[TheDoughboy]

I love how it just all goes to shit once Raditz gets introduced

[negrokrilinful]

Mr Popo is incredibly strong, remember that he could resist both SSJ Trunks and SSJ Goten’s attacks during the Majin Bu saga. Imagine if he could actually have defeated Raditz, Nappa, Vegeta and Freezer since he first appeared but he didn’t do shit because he was watering Kamisama’s plants.

[ElSandwich]

It’s pretty amazing how every time Vegeta achieves a new form or state, his power positively skyrockets then almost immediately plateaus, while Goku maintains a steady pace the entire time.

[parodysam]

Piccolo: _finally passes majin buu_
Majin Buu: _trains for 1 day_

[AtomsmasherROBLOX]

Basically it’s “let’s see who can hold the top spot for longest until Goku gets here”

[OtySunset]

Dude watched all episodes while wearing the scouter and noted all the numbers from each episode. Respect!

[eldest]

Respect to Yamcha. Dude stayed consistently at the bottom but for the most part still on screen.

[Houdine]

The entire show was playing out in my head as I was trying to keep with the story

[evanb]

Freiza's 2nd form was over 1 million, but this shows his final form at 1 million. These numbers are way underrated

[stuffwithsoph]

I miss when Yamcha, Tien and Bulma were all characters that were in the action and actively did things of use and were powerful 😔

[dumpy]

Friendly reminder that there was a split second in the show where Mr. Popo was the strongest

[hotsoner]

It's beautiful how we can remember what is going on every second through the chart

[julianmuniz]

This is basically a race to see how long it takes for Goku to surpass a major villain in every arc.

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

2:50 marks the moment Goku's power level went over 9.000