Here's the thing. They clearly move faster in the air then they do on the ground. In fact they cover alot more ground flying. Let's use Videl as an example. Sure she's EXTREMELY weak compared to the rest of the z fighters. But she is at least a good example on one thing. Does anyone truly think Videl can either fight or run faster then she can fly? Or for as far/long distances? Obviously she'd get tired running a few miles while barely breaking a sweat just flying that same distance. So that "conserving energy" excuse doesn't fly (pun intended). People always say the Z fighters only move that fast in short bursts.....but in all honesty when you see them making bubble/circular shockwaves all over the sky or battlefield it stops being a "short burst" (at least by my definition/perspective of it) If they have the stamina to be zig zagging all over the place for minutes at a time in these fight scenes then there is no excuse for them to not use their full speed in a straight line for at least a minute (short burst...I don't think so) This should at least make their feats more measurable or quantifiable. There flying speed should technically count for their combat speed. Not in the same way as guys like thor or green lantern but hopefully will get what I mean. We know flying speed ALSO increases with strength in this show. For example ever notice that whenever Vegeta tried to fly away from Frieza, Frieza simply sped up right in front of him? what about that one time when Tien grew extra arms and to counter it Goku simply moved his arms fast to make it look like he grew extra arms as well (which makes no sense considering Back then they were at the same relative level so why couldn't Tien just see the arms for what they really were?) Because it's all for nothing more then entertainment and look cool.
Then we have "Hit" the Assassin. He once said that his Time skip only lasts for about 0.1 seconds. One tenth of a second. What I wanna know is....why is that only enough time for him to throw a few punches? If he had nanosecond (one BILLIONTH of a second) speed like flash or superman then he'd have over 31 years worth of time to do whatever he wants to his opponent....But he doesn't. It doesn't make sense. This is one of the few times the show gave us a number to measure and they didn't even give us a high number to work with to seem impressive for characters that have gone through so much and improved over so long.
And then we have "Dyspo". His appearance is either proof that goku's speed is a retcon by the writer or just plain ignorant writing. Dyspo is said to exceed the speed of light in short bursts. How much faster? We don't know. That's the vague part. So to be fair we will lowball it. Lets put him at at least light speed since that much is confirmed and not vague at all. However here's the part that messes with my head a little. He's one of the few characters in the show to have an actual quote of being this fast (other then the gods of destruction, except Whis travels via his staff) ....and yet not to long after they state he has a weakness. Which is that his movements were to "linear" and so goku was able to predict where he'd be. He didn't have to actually be faster to hit him. Dyspo just sort of ran into the punches. Because apparently the one character in the show who can go faster then light is shown having "linear" movements. Which is basically saying that he can't properly control/react to his own speeds very well. He was faster then goku at least. But he couldn't use his speed casually like a real speedster. Flash can FUNCTION at those kinds of speeds. He doesn't do something stupid like only move that fast in a straight line. So if Goku who is slower then Dyspo who can't even properly utilize that kind of speed....then that mean's Goku can't really be at that level. At least not currently with what is shown.
For example Buu is shown firing a blast at mr Satan and despite Gohan being in the area he wasn't fast enough to even try to save them (despite for some reason Mr satan still had time to pull out a pistol and fire at the Ki ball as it approached him) Either way I don't really trust the power scaling with how the speed is portrayed. Since everything is guesswork it just makes it hard to tell what is normal and what is inconsistant. And even then we can tell DBS is inconsistant. Remember when Goku swam all around the world in a day? For some stupid reason it took him longer then that to travel snake way. The writer is clearly doing this without consideration for numbers or anything truly measurable. It's just mindless entertainment. The fights even look the same. If you weren't told that they had gotten stronger then you'd never know.
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