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What is a
saiyan?
A saiyan is an old race of warriors that were destroyed by Frieza
when he realized just how powerful they were. He felt they
were a potential threat if they ever rebelled, and destroyed
their entire planet as Bardock made a vain but noble attempt
to kill Frieza. Originally lived on Planet Vegeta (known as Planet "plant"
before they took it over) where the weak warriors were sent
to far off planets where they were not a threat to their
enemies but would follow out orders. The strong saiyans were
leaders and powerful warriors.
Only a few remain.
Traits: brown tail, more power than normal, extra
ambition to fight
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Why are they special?
They have very special abilities. One is when there is a full moon they turn into giant apes (have to have their tails). The disadvantage
of a child becoming an Oozaru is they loose control of themselves and reek destruction. They also have the ability to go Super Saiyan or
SSJ. To do that you have to have a pure heart, lose your control in battle and obtain a power
level of 100,000 for
transformation. That
will explain why Vegeta doesn’t go SSJ until he has Bulma as his wife and has a son that he truly loves
down deep inside (he didn’t have a pure heart until then).
After that it becomes easier to get back to a super saiyan. When you go Super Saiyan you reach a very high stage of
power estimated at 10x your normal power.
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Vegeta didn't have a
pure heart! How did he go SSJ?
A lot of people tend to disagree with
me here. But to answer your questions, I believe that Vegeta
was pure hearted for only a short time when he was about to
be killed by an asteroid. His life and his ambitions flashed
before him, and he let it all go. After that he was back to his bad old self, but
now had the ability to become a super saiyan. Some other
speculation lies in the fact that a saiyan can have a purely
evil heart, and they say Vegeta and Brolli falls into that category.
You decide.
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More about the apes...
As I have explained above, at the sight of a full moon a
saiyan with his tail can become an Oozaru. Many webmasters
think that to transform into SSj4 you have to be an Oozaru.
And only when
a saiyan is in the SSj4 stage, can he reach a Golden Oozaru.
When a saiyan goes into the Oozaru stage their normal power
is increased by 10 times!
Traits: Believe you’ll know when you see a giant ape.
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Now time to get to the good stuff!
SSJ or Super Saiyan
This is the first stage of the legendary Super Saiyans. Goku was the first seen to achieve
this after Frieza killed Krillin. Though earlier there
were others (unknown). When you reach this stage you gain
extraordinary power. You can push this stage further by
increasing your power (muscles get huge) but you lose a lot of speed. This is
known as "ultra ssj". Which some mistake
for ssj2, but was achieved by Vegeta first after he came out of the hyperbolic
time chamber. All that follow have reached the super saiyan stage: Goku, Vegeta,
Brolli, Gohan, Goten, and Trunks. Also the longer you stay in this form or the more
frequently you transform the easier it is to get back to and
the less energy it requires.
Traits: Their hair turns blonde and their eyes turquoise and hair turns vertical,
yellow aura surrounding them.
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SS2
This stage is when you reach an even more powerful level of super saiyan. You gain speed and power
of preformed correctly. Trunks had reached the ultra ssj
stage when fighting cell in the imperfect cell saga. Trunks
had pumped up his muscles to much which cause him to lose
speed. When Gohan transformed he perfected the ultra SSj by
correctly gaining great power without losing speed causing
him to be the first to reach the ssj2 stage. You can maintain this level for a rather long time. First achieved by
Gohan. Lightning forms around your body.
Traits: Hair and eyes stay same color but hair grows higher up, yellow lightning
strikes around them.
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SSJ3
This stage is you gain extreme power but you loose speed in result you can't maintain this for
long at all. This is by far the most powerful stage of super
saiyan and also the most odd physical features. Your eye brows
disappear, hair falls down past knees, and muscles bulge.
These deformities show signs of its immense source of power.
First achieved by Goku. And only reached by Goku and the fused
fighter Gotenks (Trunks and Goten).
Traits: Hair grows very long and falls back
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SSJ4
This is the final form of super saiyan, and can only be seen in Dragonball GT.
This form is not considered to be a true form of Super
Saiyan, but there are theories that would explain it either
way. It can only be achieved if a saiyan turns golden Oozaru. In the ssj4 stage your hair goes
back to original color and a red fur coat grows across their
chest. Gogeta of course is an exception who had some brown fur and red
hair. More attributes include the hair growing very long
and propping back up around head and very strangley they
appear with some hippy looking pants after the
transformation.. All stats are increased and you can
maintain the stage for awhile. First achieved by Goku. Only ones to get here are
of course Goku, Vegeta, and Gogeta.
Traits: Hair turns back to original color, red fur coat, and
ability to go to golden oozaru.
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Mystic Saiyan
The only known saiyan who accomplished this is Gohan. Gohan
was taught this power up by Dia Kaioshin after he was released
from the Z sword. After Gohan learned the technique, he
could have enormous power (approximately equal to the SSj3 form) without even
going super saiyan. That's why after the Buu Saga, Gohan is rarely seen as a
super saiyan.
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Important
Notes: Each time you go
super saiyan on any of the levels it becomes easier to get back to.
If you reach SSJ3, and you have enough power you can get
right back to that level without going to the ones before it
without working your way up. But if your weakened from
battle it might be easier for a saiyan to remain a super
saiyan until they have enough power to work up to the next
level.
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Requirements for Super
Saiyan levels
Must be a saiyan or have saiyan
blood.
Must have a pure heart (good or
evil) for any
length of time before going SSj. A very high power level (100,000),
Must be enraged, extremely
mad, or have a lust for battle.
And in order to get there it
needs to be in response of a need.
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