On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Phuc Tram <songoku@CrystalTokyo.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Bill Seney wrote:

Also, Ranma has the talent of finding his oponents weaknesses and 
using them against them.  I agree that he isn't in the league of 
the DBZ characters for raw power, but he displays remarkable 
ingenuity in battle. 

Unfortunately for Ranma, the DBZ warriors do not have much in the way of
weaknesses.  They have skill, power and _lots_ of experience (moreso than
Ranma) in fight-to-the-death combat.

	Well, I'd say that Ranma's greatest personal advantage isn't so 
much his ability to use his opponents weaknesses as it is the sheer 
creative learning capacity he has.  Ranma's learning curve is dramatically 
steeper than anyone else in the Ranma storyline, and if he gains the chance 
to upgrade his level of Chi, that learning curve would enable him to put it 
to use with truly impressive results.

Also, his Hiryu shouten ha is powered by his oponents battle aura.  
Can you imagine what it would be like if it were fed by a Saiyan.

That is _if_ he can perform the move.
The things obstructing it is that Ranma still needs to spiral into them
to perform the move and that the move is dependent upon the anger of the
opponent, not the overall power of the opponents chi level.
Also, even if Ranma was able to pull it off, the move would not damage his
opponent(s) since all of the DBZ warriors are capable of flight and that
it is the impact from the fall that causes the damage, not the ascension.
See Ranma's initial battles with Herb as a reference.

	Well in that case, in Ryouga's case when Ranma first learned the 
technique there were three damaging parts, first the tornado exploding in 
Ryouga's face,(Who compaired it to smashing into a wall of ice) then there 
was being inside the tornado with everything smashing into him(Well it 
smashed into Ranma when he got sucked into it at the end of the story arc, 
though the way Ryouga was scraped up it probably happened to him too) and 
then there's the suden stop at the bottom  And I think the destructive 
power of the version he used against saffron would sugest that the tornado 
itself has some inherant power.

In any case, the original question was what Ranma's power level would be
in DBZ terms.  I would place it at 200 to 300 maximum.  A far cry from the
hundreds of thousands plus that the DBZ warriors are at.

	That's at the end of the manga.  Before Raditz's arival Ranma would 
have troubles, but would probably be able to learn and match most of them.

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