I always assumed Piccolo's regeneration worked based on how much ki he had left. Every time nameks regrew limbs, they always seemed a bit wiped out afterward, whether it be from pain of the regrowth or the use of ki it takes to do it. Piccolo's regeneration also seemed to get stronger as he got stronger as the series went on. Maybe King Piccolo was just out of ki and could not regenerate.
he did launch several huge energy attacks a few minutes ago and was probably all tuckered out. he was also going to finish goku by physically diving down instead of using another ki blast
I guess their healing is sort of only activated as an adrenaline boost in certain situations, when their ki/ power level is low it has a slower effect rate and with the young body he got he didnt know how to acclimate his ki yet.
I kinda like the idea that regeneration is a warrior class ability. It makes a lot of sense for them to have it while dragon clan have the ability to heal others instead.
From an in-universe standpoint, Daimao probably didn't have enough energy to regenerate. Goku's attack was powerful enough to negate any possibility of regeneration, imo. We see Dodoria impale one of the Namekian warriors that finished him almost instantly. I don't think regeneration is one of those abilities that's automatically enough to save you.
@@kleatise52yeah but to be fair cell had the durability of Frieza which we all know is very high add Saiyan durability on top of that there’s not way Cell could.
but i'd argue super namekian/dbs unlocked potential piccolo could close that gap... his regen should be buff'd considerably now. especially when hes orange. tho i think it only works for severed limbs and heavy damage like blasted thru and things. since he can still get beat down and k.o.'d.
@@ssppeeaarr To be fair, this makes sense. You could see this even after merging with Kami. Cell blasted a huge hole in Piccolo and tossed him in the water. Everyone said Piccolo's Ki was gone...yet he later washed up on shore with the hole fully regenerated despite being unconscious.
There's no reason to assume an alien egg would in any way resemble human reproduction lol. Or even concepts humans are used to from fiction, such as the abdomen or stomach, navel etc being necessary. It's totally reasonable to think that an alien egg might just start in the throat or even the brain. And grow and then be ejected from the mouth as shown lol. For all we know aliens could reproduce by tearing out their eyeballs and planting them lmfao
nearly every answer to any DB question is a combination of Toriyama didn't plan that far ahead or /Toriyama forgot he wrote it ...love his work, but Tori is Tori, just have to live with it
My impression was originally namekian regeneration only regenerated limbs, thus why even though Picollo's entire body including head was intact after Nappa's blast, Picollo still died, why Nail couldn't regerate even though his head was intact, and why king picollo couldn't regenerate even though his head wasn't even so much as touched. Then, after Cell blew himself up, Toriyama decided he didn't want to end the arc on that downer of a note, so he just retconned namekian regeneration even though it made absolutely no sense, including within the same arc since cell had already had his head disintergrated. When the moment in question in the buu arc happened, he just stuck to his end of cell saga established rules. So long story short, the answer to the question in my eye was always "bad writing", but not in that arc but in the cell arc. I don't think the "didn't have enough ki" left explanation can work because cell was as on empty as any being could be when he blew himself up, there just isn't a viable explanation.
You can make a head canon. And just say, Cell has a upgraded version of a regular Namekian regeneration factor. I always wonder if Cell powers were stockpile based similar to OFA from MHA or even fusion. So maybe all the mixture of different characters data made Cell very powerful, with multipliers.
Cell survived dismemberment from gokus kamehameha and vegetas final flash and even blew himself up so piccolo can apparently grow more than just his limbs but it makes king piccolos inability to do that look weird in retrospect, clearly no planning ahead with that, i dont even think toriyama was thinking about piccolos own abilities when creating cell besides the fact he could regenerate.
Cell perfects all the skills he has This includes the Namekian regeneration and being able to gain a zenkai despite how explosion being a self inflicted injury
I always thought cell had the capability to regen from all those circumstances due to frieza’s and king cold’s dna allowing him to live despite being all dismembered mixed with piccolo’s regen
@@ondobaza1034 First time I watched the series that was my initial head cannon as well, some how the mixing of their DNA resulted in a regen that was far beyond that of a namekians. My theory was torpedo'd, however, with that joke scene in the buu arc where picollos body is shattered, but then he recovers like it was nothing and shrugs it off saying as long as his head is intact, regenerating the rest of his body is no problem (inspite of the fact even his head appeared to have been damaged). As far as I can tell, that was Toriyama trying to play it off like cell's out of no where absurd regeneration abilities were how namekian regeneration had always worked, even though it very much hadn't worked that way, but whatever the reason, the implication of that scene is that Cell's regen is just namekian regen.
10:51 I agree with this part more but ever noticed in earlier episodes of DB he spawned minions like drum and tambourine that were abnormal to regular namekians
I feel like they made the stone piccolo regenerate as a way to explain why cells regeneration was so OP. Even tho Cells regeneration is still more impressive it doesn’t look as bad after cell regenerates from being broken as stone. Whilst it makes sense they should’ve just made it so that Cells regeneration ranks above piccolo because of the added durability from friez/king cold
The other thing to note with this is that while Cell did lose strength from the regens, he also got boosts from it thanks to the Saiyan DNA so it made it basically negligible if you did a lot of damage, so Cell’s was still pretty OP
Great video. I’m pretty sure Raditz blasts off Piccolo’s arm, and Goku ask about his regeneration. Piccolo responds with something like he’d rather use that energy for the special beam cannon. Feel free to check me on that..
We only ever see Piccolo regenerate an entire body part at once, and with great exertion. I don't think he can regenerate any of the tiny holes 3rd form Frieza was puncturing into him, and I don't think he can regenerate an entire torso while the rest of him is still attached, it's like a landlocked injury. We never seem him regenerate many small wounds like vampire, only the lizard style of an entire part that was lopped off. So I think that explains it better beyond just the sorta copout answer of "not enough energy that time". Another thing of note is that Cell's regeneration is inherited from Piccolo and operates from that same head core principle, but Goku blasted his head off with a warp kamehameha before, with the only possible headcanon being that he moves his core around. So King Piccolo is not the only example of the regeneration detail being seemingly forgotten and unaddressed
except based on dbz logic, piccolo should be able to regenerate as long as his head remains intact. we see this when trunks breaks his statue and his body is destroyed, real answer is "toriyama didn't think of nemekiens at that point, at this point he was a demon.
To me in Buu Saga, it didn't seem that Picolo had Not only the head left, but much more than that. the Namecians can regenerate arms and legs but not deadly holes in the bodies because that is something completely different, it requires some kind of immortality like Buu has.
Figured from what we saw, he was pushed to his limits and his ki was low, and after the long drawn out fight as mentioned, this was his last ditch effort to make sure 100% it wasn't the end so he put everything he had left into the egg
To actually try to answer the question... Maybe he suicided himself since he already knew he was a goner, or it automatically happens if you egg reincarnate
An explanation from the opposite side could be that king Piccolo felt he was about to expode (Ki left by Goku? Remember the two energy balls Goku used against Freeza?) and regenerating would've been either useless or too slow.
Good point about the stamina and power level. But I think it's just like what you said last, Toriyama didn't think of regeneration and Namek yet at that time. Heck, Piccolo was called a Demon and not Namekian.
It's also possible that regeneration isn't a natural ability for Namekians, Dragon or Warrior clan, they might have to learn how to do it on their own. If that's the case it would make sense that King Piccolo, and possibly Kami as well, just never learned how to do it.
As others have said, my first thought was he had no energy left and chose to use what little was left to reincarnate into his child. My second thought was he can't survive without his heart, and the Piccolo comment about his head was ridiculous spur of the moment lore to explain away a dumb joke Toriyama took too far. Which honestly I think I believe even more. Especially when I think to the guy Dodoria killed by one shotting him through the chest. I can't imagine a Piccolo head grunting to regrow a whole body. If he was decapitated and his body was next to him, could he just reattach it? I think it was really just Buu Saga writing creating a problem that didn't need to exist.
I always love how much emotion Goku had back in the original run celebrating his victory out loud with tears in his eyes for avenging the death of his friends.
King Piccolo was powerless at that point because he used all of his power on those two huge blasts that destroyed the city. That's why he took Tien hostage and attacked Goku with rocks instead of blasting him again. He had no more energy to regenerate. Goku was physically injured but still had much power left as he only fired a Kamehameha once.
Makes sense evil kp is a dragon while he created piccolo as a warrior hence why he can regenerate cause that is useful for warriors and dende can heal which is good for the dragon class and they help each other a symbiotic relationship
Similar when Piccolo fought Imperfect Cell, that Cell blew a whole right through his chest and broke his neck. He could not regenerate because he was so depleted of energy and beaten up. I think probably that Piccolo post merging with Kami and being the whole Namekian "with no name" again, let him be able to up his regeneration ability. He's probably also trained it, along with all the training he does, over the years, so that regeneration as long as his head is intact is now "nothing" to him, comparatively.
My personal head canon is that healing works different based on which clan a Namekian is from. I believe that dragon clan Namekians aren't meant for the battlefield, so, they have no use for self regeneration and evolved to turn the ability outward. Following that logic, warrior clan Namekians would benefit more from self regen until they can rest since they have to be able to keep fighting. It's essentially like how Saiyans have adapted to be able to break their limits and stay in peak condition for longer.
I chalk it down to the fact the hole was large enough that the circulation required to move things around the body couldn't happen. That or King Piccolo knew even if he did regenerate, he would still have lost to Goku and would probably been sealed away or basically forced to live in fear of Goku if ever steps out of line...
Was about to add that warrior types probably regenerate better than dragon clan namekians but then you brought it up lol. But hey fun question for you, who do you think would win android 16 or super android 13. Assuming movie z fighters are equivalent to their mainline counterparts.
I’d assume that he knows that he had no chance as remember that he used his “full power” which also reduces his lifespan by a lot so guess he made a reincarnate-offspring
It makes sense if you think about it like an rpg. Namekians have HP like everyone else and die when they run out of it. But when they lose a limb or body part that is damage to HP and Max HP. I recall regeneration permanently taking away some of your total power level or chi as well. So not only was King Piccolo near death (low hp), he was also near zero chi energy, so even if he knew he could regenerate, it fits why he couldnt regenerate actually
I always assumed that King Piccolo used a lot of his power to generate off spring, even when he became young again it seemed like a proper child consumed a large amount of his ki.
If you remember in the Booth Age, right at the beginning, when he was turned to Stone and trunks knocked piccolo over and broke him into pieces He regenerate it then as long as his head is intact those were his words.
Your questions could be the answer...with such a mortal wound, possibly ripping out his spine and brainstem, he focuses the last of his energy into reproduction, which must take place in his throat and mouth, being close to his brain, He then launches the egg, a sort of escape pod for his soul, and his previous vessel self-destructs to damage his opponent.
I agree with the reason that he took so much damage might be right. Also let's not forget that he gave another birth before he died, that alone is mentioned in both the English and Japanese anime as life risking and energy draining. Also I remember that Kakarrot bit him on the thumb, it showed blood and King Piccoro sucking his own blood. So it might also be a metaphor to the regeneration technique that maybe he simply can't in general. I am happy you did a video about it Mike because I also always wondered about it. I don't read mangas but I decided in the past 2 years that any anime I watch I watch in Japanese with English sub for getting the most accurate idea. The English anime ruins everything if you ask me.
Yeah, the ki thing makes more sense, early on when they were weaker regen took a decent bit of energy but as they get strong the more they can do it with ease with the more ki build up, as they get stronger I don't believe the cost of ki increases, it should stay consistent
Dragon clan has amazing hax too like reading minds and sense opponents energy and power level Kami teaches goku to read mind by touching gohan's head in frieza saga but totally forgotten in later part of Z and Super .
Dende is shown to heal wounds that include giant holes with other people similar to what the warriors can do on themselves. It makes sense that they have healing powers but directed to either the user or outsiders. I also think that even if Toriyama knew about regeneration, he would have not used it because he wants Goku to win and at that point Goku was basically useless after the finisher, using regen would write himself into a corner, I think if he wrote it like that he would need to introduce zenkais if not ssj by getting a senzu.
I definitely agree with the energy idea I also wonder if king piccolo was fully aware of his abilities since up until that point he was never wounded and never trained
I may be forgetting a time but don't remember another time a giant body sized hole was blown through a Namekian, the core of the body. Piccolo in the Buu Saga had his entire body there, just in pieces. Energy was most likely also a factor for DKP. Possible plothole or w/e but isn't it just the elder that make offspring?
So that Still leaves a couple questions with me: 1) how did he develop/spit up piccolos egg with a hole in his chest? 2) I thought cells regeneration made him lose energy, but every time he does regenerate he'd obtain a zenkai
@@weezymafia1 a) Namekian are not humans, and their reproductive organs are obviously not where that hole was. It's never explained but that egg might've literally grown where humans have their tonsils. b) Cell isn't just Namekian, but the ultimate hybrid. And the Zenkai boosts granted by his Saiyan Genes is obviously stronger than the energy loss from the Namekian Regeneration. (Zenkai are busted)
On top of requiring ki to regenerate, it could be that regenerating different parts of the body takes more energy than others, like regenerating a limb is not as taxing as having to regenerate all that got blown off by goku going through king piccolo's chest like organs, muscles, etc. In piccolos case during the buu saga, maybe he didnt need to regenerate everything since his pieces were right next to each other and by putting them together he could reattach them. We also see in the moro arc a namekian warrior pretty much dying instantly after moro impales him with his arm, so maybe they cannot regenerate from certain damage to the torso.
I honestly think King Piccolo genuinely didn’t know about this ability. The Piccolo we know found it out likely by accident and then learned others of his kind could do it via his merger with Nail.
I like how you pointed out that the Dragon Clan of Namekians may not be able to regenerate. We see that the Warrior Clan can regenerate, as shown by Piccolo (Jr.), Nail, and even Lord Slug, but the Dragon Clan seems to have different abilities, such as Guru's ability to unlock potential, Dende being able to heal OTHERS, as well as Moniato being able to heal others in the DBS manga. However, we've never seen Demon King Piccolo, Kami, Guru, Dende, or Moniato regenerate or heal themselves, the same as we've never seen Piccolo, Nail or Slug heal others... 🤔 Interesting bit of lore! I would've never even noticed if not for this video.
Maybe King Piccolo had a self-destruct sequence he meditated into himself, like the Predator, so he always had that technique subconsciously wired into his being as a last resort to damage anyone who defeated him.
My guess is King Piccolo's might have been able to regenerate at least enough to stave off death but his power was already low and it wouldn't win the fight.. But yoshi'ing up a reincarnation however... And so that is where he placed all his remaining energy. He is established to risk creating an off-spring to accomplish his goals even at the risk of his own life when he was old. Hell Jr basically continues the trend in a not so obvious way with Gohan continuously sacrificing himself.
So I will agree energy does play a factor in it and it does take energy we see it when Piccolo does it post Raditiz fight and Nail do it fighting Freiza that it takes energy to regenerate. However Cell who has Piccolo's cells kinda throws that out the window as he is blown to almost nothing a few times. But we also see the registration isn't consistent on Namek. Loom at the Namekians that fight Freiza's army especially the ones in Dende's village one has a fist put through his chest by Dadoria while another is tackled so hard into a wall it looks like he's broken in half. We see similar feets when the androids in Trunks timeline kill Piccolo, the androids don't seem to blast him away with a ki blast they verh much hit him so hard he goes down and doesn't up again. So most likely energy plays a big part and King Piccolo had enough energy to create a small child with no power or worst case this is another example of Toriyama not thinking certain decisions through.
Easy: He didnt think he could defeat Goku after spending too much Ki regenerating such a large Wound. And even if he had enough power to kill Goku afterwards.. Tien was still around and Kami might have taken action against him in his weakened state. And as a final suggestion: Toriyama didn't have that concept ready yet :P
I'm under the assumption that the injury was severe enough that King Piccolo couldn't regenerate from it . That's mostly because of the nature of the injury. Having your center of mass literally blown out like that probably put him into shock while the force from the blow wrecked his bones and organs. Compare how Jr. couldn't regenerate from Nappa's attack. Or perhaps how in the Buu Saga, Piccolo Jr. can regenerate from being in literal pieces (Frieza did this too, but Frieza also had the help of machinery); being in pieces was probably less traumatic than what King Piccolo wen through, since re-attaching severed pieces is a lot easier than regrowing all your vital organs.
2 questions for possible future videos. How did demon king piccolo spit out an egg if everything below his collarbone was missing? And why are there only ever a handful of senzu left when they need them? When yajirobe first ate them, the jar was filled to the brim…
Plot and plot. Toriyama doesn't go into details about how things work (like the creation of Namekian eggs), so you can just imagine how it works. Having loads of senzus would make fights more boring, situations less tense and dramatic. Plot is also why Goku arrived late to fight Nappa and Vegeta, for example. It made the situation much more dramatic and gave them a new goal for later.
A namekians ability to regenerate is a move that is powered by their life energy or gen ki. People have a finite amount of this and will die if they run out. If a namekian is damaged to a point where using the regeneration will deplete their life energy, then they will just die anyway, just without an injury. This is why piccolo couldn’t regenerate after frieza blasted him on namek when he pushed goku out of the way. He was already running on empty. He fought someone literally millions of times stronger than he was a few years prior. And literally multiple thousands of times stronger than he was literally hours before. What I’m interested to see is if his regeneration is increased in his orange form.
Maybe when he split from Kame. He lost the ability to regenerate completely. And also knew he would use too much energy to regrow. New that he would be beaten and so accepted his defeat made piccolo as s long term plan
Great video man, I’d love for you to cover if SSJ2 teen Gohan was really more powerful than super perfect cell. It’s a debate I’ve been having with a friend for a while now
I think he could have used regeneration but it would have left him without any energy left. So even if he did he knew he lost and would be picked off by a lesser fighter afterwards anyways. The only option left to him was to reincarnate and play the long game.
Blocking Nappas blast took all his "Stamina". Similar to how Frieza killed him in Resurrection of F. Picollo blocked the beam that was meant to kill Gohan and used all his power to not let it fully penetrate his Body.
This had me thinking, how tf did he die against Frieza in Fukatsu no F when protecting Gohan? His head was intact. This is my head canon, and I think he needs to have a certain amount of ki to regenerate, but then even in the Tournament of Power you see the Namekians from Universe 6 getting a beam through the freaking chest and are alive!!!
It’s pure writing convenience, Namekians have never shown regeneration outside regrowing a missing limb let alone anything close to Cell, Piccolo best regeneration feat is offscreen with the statue accident and arguably what you see in the panel is his libs that brake off when he shatters.
This is irrelevant. But it was the video I was watching when I had this thought: Can you imagine having Goku as your dad? Slam a door in his house, and he'll instant transmission into your room and Kamehameha you.
Excellent question! I'm interested to see what you come up with! Or maybe the answer is simply...Akira Toriyama just made up regeneration with Piccolo Jr 😂
And let’s not forget, Ki generates in the torso/stomach area of the body. Since King Piccolo got hit there, he probably couldn’t gather Ki if he wanted to anyway. 🤷♂️
I thought is was cause of the difference between namekians from the warrior clan and from the dragon clan.Cause we only see warrior clan namekians being able to regenerate. And it makes sense cause a warrior clan namekian is more likely to loose limb
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I always assumed Piccolo's regeneration worked based on how much ki he had left. Every time nameks regrew limbs, they always seemed a bit wiped out afterward, whether it be from pain of the regrowth or the use of ki it takes to do it. Piccolo's regeneration also seemed to get stronger as he got stronger as the series went on. Maybe King Piccolo was just out of ki and could not regenerate.
he did launch several huge energy attacks a few minutes ago and was probably all tuckered out. he was also going to finish goku by physically diving down instead of using another ki blast
@@Vapor817 yeah plus he was fucking old
I always assumed that he couldn't regenerate piercing attacks, but only limbs
fair point
I guess their healing is sort of only activated as an adrenaline boost in certain situations, when their ki/ power level is low it has a slower effect rate and with the young body he got he didnt know how to acclimate his ki yet.
Because he didn’t DODGE!!!!
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Dodge or die...
Yeah
To dodge or not to dodge?
DODGE.....OHHH CRAP!😂😂😂😂😂😂
I guess you could say Piccolo Jr is just better at...
Holding himself together
That's enough, Sokka 😒🙄
Love it
I kinda like the idea that regeneration is a warrior class ability. It makes a lot of sense for them to have it while dragon clan have the ability to heal others instead.
Yeah it does make them more unique if it was an exclusive class ability. Fighters would need it.
Pretty sure nail was dragon clan. Anddd he regenerated.
@@jesiachord31797:04 the manga says right there, Nail is a warrior class.
From an in-universe standpoint, Daimao probably didn't have enough energy to regenerate. Goku's attack was powerful enough to negate any possibility of regeneration, imo. We see Dodoria impale one of the Namekian warriors that finished him almost instantly. I don't think regeneration is one of those abilities that's automatically enough to save you.
Unless it’s a villain. Cell would never die to a piecing attack.
@@kleatise52yeah but to be fair cell had the durability of Frieza which we all know is very high add Saiyan durability on top of that there’s not way Cell could.
@@kleatise52 i mean, cell literally blew up and regenerated back so yeah, he wouldve been fine lol
but i'd argue super namekian/dbs unlocked potential piccolo could close that gap...
his regen should be buff'd considerably now.
especially when hes orange. tho i think it only works for severed limbs and heavy damage like blasted thru and things.
since he can still get beat down and k.o.'d.
@@ssppeeaarr To be fair, this makes sense. You could see this even after merging with Kami. Cell blasted a huge hole in Piccolo and tossed him in the water. Everyone said Piccolo's Ki was gone...yet he later washed up on shore with the hole fully regenerated despite being unconscious.
A better question is, where was he hiding that egg? Most of his stomach is gone
Good question. 🧐🧐
lol. its magical. like clothes beam...
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There's no reason to assume an alien egg would in any way resemble human reproduction lol. Or even concepts humans are used to from fiction, such as the abdomen or stomach, navel etc being necessary. It's totally reasonable to think that an alien egg might just start in the throat or even the brain. And grow and then be ejected from the mouth as shown lol. For all we know aliens could reproduce by tearing out their eyeballs and planting them lmfao
it is literally magic
@@ssppeeaarr Easily his most metro attack.
nearly every answer to any DB question is a combination of Toriyama didn't plan that far ahead or /Toriyama forgot he wrote it ...love his work, but Tori is Tori, just have to live with it
My impression was originally namekian regeneration only regenerated limbs, thus why even though Picollo's entire body including head was intact after Nappa's blast, Picollo still died, why Nail couldn't regerate even though his head was intact, and why king picollo couldn't regenerate even though his head wasn't even so much as touched. Then, after Cell blew himself up, Toriyama decided he didn't want to end the arc on that downer of a note, so he just retconned namekian regeneration even though it made absolutely no sense, including within the same arc since cell had already had his head disintergrated. When the moment in question in the buu arc happened, he just stuck to his end of cell saga established rules.
So long story short, the answer to the question in my eye was always "bad writing", but not in that arc but in the cell arc. I don't think the "didn't have enough ki" left explanation can work because cell was as on empty as any being could be when he blew himself up, there just isn't a viable explanation.
You can make a head canon. And just say, Cell has a upgraded version of a regular Namekian regeneration factor. I always wonder if Cell powers were stockpile based similar to OFA from MHA or even fusion. So maybe all the mixture of different characters data made Cell very powerful, with multipliers.
Cell survived dismemberment from gokus kamehameha and vegetas final flash and even blew himself up so piccolo can apparently grow more than just his limbs but it makes king piccolos inability to do that look weird in retrospect, clearly no planning ahead with that, i dont even think toriyama was thinking about piccolos own abilities when creating cell besides the fact he could regenerate.
Cell perfects all the skills he has
This includes the Namekian regeneration and being able to gain a zenkai despite how explosion being a self inflicted injury
I always thought cell had the capability to regen from all those circumstances due to frieza’s and king cold’s dna allowing him to live despite being all dismembered mixed with piccolo’s regen
@@ondobaza1034 First time I watched the series that was my initial head cannon as well, some how the mixing of their DNA resulted in a regen that was far beyond that of a namekians. My theory was torpedo'd, however, with that joke scene in the buu arc where picollos body is shattered, but then he recovers like it was nothing and shrugs it off saying as long as his head is intact, regenerating the rest of his body is no problem (inspite of the fact even his head appeared to have been damaged). As far as I can tell, that was Toriyama trying to play it off like cell's out of no where absurd regeneration abilities were how namekian regeneration had always worked, even though it very much hadn't worked that way, but whatever the reason, the implication of that scene is that Cell's regen is just namekian regen.
Answer: Plot
@@gregkareem9824 It’s a joke lad
@@gregkareem9824 Apology accepted
3:55 - Good thing he didn't see the Krillin statue first...
10:51 I agree with this part more but ever noticed in earlier episodes of DB he spawned minions like drum and tambourine that were abnormal to regular namekians
His heart was ripped out so sudden. I have no idea Mike you tell us!!
Loving the piccolo deep dives lately
It only looked like it just went through him. The punch was so powerful that it destabilized his entire atomic structure.
I feel like they made the stone piccolo regenerate as a way to explain why cells regeneration was so OP. Even tho Cells regeneration is still more impressive it doesn’t look as bad after cell regenerates from being broken as stone.
Whilst it makes sense they should’ve just made it so that Cells regeneration ranks above piccolo because of the added durability from friez/king cold
The other thing to note with this is that while Cell did lose strength from the regens, he also got boosts from it thanks to the Saiyan DNA so it made it basically negligible if you did a lot of damage, so Cell’s was still pretty OP
Cell was so effective cause he was part frieza who could live with most of his body gone which allowed the nameks ability to regenerate far better .
Great video. I’m pretty sure Raditz blasts off Piccolo’s arm, and Goku ask about his regeneration. Piccolo responds with something like he’d rather use that energy for the special beam cannon. Feel free to check me on that..
Do this video: SSJ3 Gohan Vs. 100 Septillion bloodlusted chickens.
We only ever see Piccolo regenerate an entire body part at once, and with great exertion. I don't think he can regenerate any of the tiny holes 3rd form Frieza was puncturing into him, and I don't think he can regenerate an entire torso while the rest of him is still attached, it's like a landlocked injury. We never seem him regenerate many small wounds like vampire, only the lizard style of an entire part that was lopped off.
So I think that explains it better beyond just the sorta copout answer of "not enough energy that time". Another thing of note is that Cell's regeneration is inherited from Piccolo and operates from that same head core principle, but Goku blasted his head off with a warp kamehameha before, with the only possible headcanon being that he moves his core around. So King Piccolo is not the only example of the regeneration detail being seemingly forgotten and unaddressed
Goku hit his vital organs
except based on dbz logic, piccolo should be able to regenerate as long as his head remains intact. we see this when trunks breaks his statue and his body is destroyed, real answer is "toriyama didn't think of nemekiens at that point, at this point he was a demon.
Honestly I'm so glad mike is doing his videos again. He truly is top tier when it comes to Dragonball TH-camrs. Much love from Magnolia Texas
To me in Buu Saga, it didn't seem that Picolo had Not only the head left, but much more than that.
the Namecians can regenerate arms and legs but not deadly holes in the bodies because that is something completely different, it requires some kind of immortality like Buu has.
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Demon King Piccolo simply said, "Screw regeneration. We reincarnate 'round here."
Figured from what we saw, he was pushed to his limits and his ki was low, and after the long drawn out fight as mentioned, this was his last ditch effort to make sure 100% it wasn't the end so he put everything he had left into the egg
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imho the bigger question is why did he explode?
To actually try to answer the question... Maybe he suicided himself since he already knew he was a goner, or it automatically happens if you egg reincarnate
An explanation from the opposite side could be that king Piccolo felt he was about to expode (Ki left by Goku? Remember the two energy balls Goku used against Freeza?) and regenerating would've been either useless or too slow.
4:25 - OG _"Nothing happened"_ moment right there 🤣
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Why didn't Popo come down and whoop his ass 300 years ago?
Because popo ain't got time for that
He has to take care of his birds
@@JohnnyHeracles Fair...
He was probably high as a kite, or was otherwise engaged (most likely on a booty call)
Good point about the stamina and power level. But I think it's just like what you said last, Toriyama didn't think of regeneration and Namek yet at that time. Heck, Piccolo was called a Demon and not Namekian.
I love dragon ball but it is just a dumb series.
Hey Mike digging the beard. I also have brown hair and a red beard. I think us and Christian Bale pull it off well.
It's also possible that regeneration isn't a natural ability for Namekians, Dragon or Warrior clan, they might have to learn how to do it on their own. If that's the case it would make sense that King Piccolo, and possibly Kami as well, just never learned how to do it.
As others have said, my first thought was he had no energy left and chose to use what little was left to reincarnate into his child. My second thought was he can't survive without his heart, and the Piccolo comment about his head was ridiculous spur of the moment lore to explain away a dumb joke Toriyama took too far. Which honestly I think I believe even more. Especially when I think to the guy Dodoria killed by one shotting him through the chest. I can't imagine a Piccolo head grunting to regrow a whole body. If he was decapitated and his body was next to him, could he just reattach it? I think it was really just Buu Saga writing creating a problem that didn't need to exist.
I always love how much emotion Goku had back in the original run celebrating his victory out loud with tears in his eyes for avenging the death of his friends.
King Piccolo was powerless at that point because he used all of his power on those two huge blasts that destroyed the city. That's why he took Tien hostage and attacked Goku with rocks instead of blasting him again. He had no more energy to regenerate. Goku was physically injured but still had much power left as he only fired a Kamehameha once.
Makes sense evil kp is a dragon while he created piccolo as a warrior hence why he can regenerate cause that is useful for warriors and dende can heal which is good for the dragon class and they help each other a symbiotic relationship
I like to think that he was too weak to regenerate. and exploded because he basically put his entire life essence into an egg (Piccolo Jr)
I like that this channel is focused more on answering lore questions now, instead of the usual what-if stuff.
Nice to see you enjoy making these videos. They are great quality too and dragon ball is amazing 🎉
Similar when Piccolo fought Imperfect Cell, that Cell blew a whole right through his chest and broke his neck. He could not regenerate because he was so depleted of energy and beaten up. I think probably that Piccolo post merging with Kami and being the whole Namekian "with no name" again, let him be able to up his regeneration ability. He's probably also trained it, along with all the training he does, over the years, so that regeneration as long as his head is intact is now "nothing" to him, comparatively.
My personal head canon is that healing works different based on which clan a Namekian is from. I believe that dragon clan Namekians aren't meant for the battlefield, so, they have no use for self regeneration and evolved to turn the ability outward. Following that logic, warrior clan Namekians would benefit more from self regen until they can rest since they have to be able to keep fighting. It's essentially like how Saiyans have adapted to be able to break their limits and stay in peak condition for longer.
Since your channel change tbh the content is somehow even better it’s more relaxed it’s nice
I chalk it down to the fact the hole was large enough that the circulation required to move things around the body couldn't happen.
That or King Piccolo knew even if he did regenerate, he would still have lost to Goku and would probably been sealed away or basically forced to live in fear of Goku if ever steps out of line...
Hey mate, can’t wait to watch this vid I’ve always wondered this!
Yo mike, really appreciate the consistency in your uploads.
Was about to add that warrior types probably regenerate better than dragon clan namekians but then you brought it up lol. But hey fun question for you, who do you think would win android 16 or super android 13. Assuming movie z fighters are equivalent to their mainline counterparts.
Good explanation, I never notice this on Picollo and his son...
I’d assume that he knows that he had no chance as remember that he used his “full power” which also reduces his lifespan by a lot so guess he made a reincarnate-offspring
It makes sense if you think about it like an rpg. Namekians have HP like everyone else and die when they run out of it. But when they lose a limb or body part that is damage to HP and Max HP. I recall regeneration permanently taking away some of your total power level or chi as well. So not only was King Piccolo near death (low hp), he was also near zero chi energy, so even if he knew he could regenerate, it fits why he couldnt regenerate actually
I always assumed that King Piccolo used a lot of his power to generate off spring, even when he became young again it seemed like a proper child consumed a large amount of his ki.
Because Toriyama didn’t think it up at the time.
*round of applause for most obvious answer*
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I swear dragonball has got more plotholes than a land has blades of grass.
If you remember in the Booth Age, right at the beginning, when he was turned to Stone and trunks knocked piccolo over and broke him into pieces He regenerate it then as long as his head is intact those were his words.
Why didn't he regenerate? How did he produce an egg without a stomach? Why did he spontaneously combust? A lot of unanswered questions in this scene.
I mean it was already shown I made the eggs in my neck when I spawned Cymbal and Drum
Your questions could be the answer...with such a mortal wound, possibly ripping out his spine and brainstem, he focuses the last of his energy into reproduction, which must take place in his throat and mouth, being close to his brain,
He then launches the egg, a sort of escape pod for his soul, and his previous vessel self-destructs to damage his opponent.
I agree with the reason that he took so much damage might be right. Also let's not forget that he gave another birth before he died, that alone is mentioned in both the English and Japanese anime as life risking and energy draining. Also I remember that Kakarrot bit him on the thumb, it showed blood and King Piccoro sucking his own blood. So it might also be a metaphor to the regeneration technique that maybe he simply can't in general. I am happy you did a video about it Mike because I also always wondered about it. I don't read mangas but I decided in the past 2 years that any anime I watch I watch in Japanese with English sub for getting the most accurate idea. The English anime ruins everything if you ask me.
Because regeneration takes Ki and he didn't have enough to heal that injury.
Yeah, the ki thing makes more sense, early on when they were weaker regen took a decent bit of energy but as they get strong the more they can do it with ease with the more ki build up, as they get stronger I don't believe the cost of ki increases, it should stay consistent
Maybe cause it hit his core?
I have never once questioned this. I am now questioning why I never questioned this...
Dragon clan has amazing hax too like reading minds and sense opponents energy and power level Kami teaches goku to read mind by touching gohan's head in frieza saga but totally forgotten in later part of Z and Super .
Dende is shown to heal wounds that include giant holes with other people similar to what the warriors can do on themselves. It makes sense that they have healing powers but directed to either the user or outsiders.
I also think that even if Toriyama knew about regeneration, he would have not used it because he wants Goku to win and at that point Goku was basically useless after the finisher, using regen would write himself into a corner, I think if he wrote it like that he would need to introduce zenkais if not ssj by getting a senzu.
Maybe the answer is a follow up to your other video, maybe King Piccolo couldn't regenerate because
he isn't a warrior clan Namek?
I definitely agree with the energy idea
I also wonder if king piccolo was fully aware of his abilities since up until that point he was never wounded and never trained
I may be forgetting a time but don't remember another time a giant body sized hole was blown through a Namekian, the core of the body. Piccolo in the Buu Saga had his entire body there, just in pieces. Energy was most likely also a factor for DKP. Possible plothole or w/e but isn't it just the elder that make offspring?
So that Still leaves a couple questions with me:
1) how did he develop/spit up piccolos egg with a hole in his chest?
2) I thought cells regeneration made him lose energy, but every time he does regenerate he'd obtain a zenkai
@@weezymafia1 a) Namekian are not humans, and their reproductive organs are obviously not where that hole was. It's never explained but that egg might've literally grown where humans have their tonsils.
b) Cell isn't just Namekian, but the ultimate hybrid. And the Zenkai boosts granted by his Saiyan Genes is obviously stronger than the energy loss from the Namekian Regeneration. (Zenkai are busted)
On top of requiring ki to regenerate, it could be that regenerating different parts of the body takes more energy than others, like regenerating a limb is not as taxing as having to regenerate all that got blown off by goku going through king piccolo's chest like organs, muscles, etc. In piccolos case during the buu saga, maybe he didnt need to regenerate everything since his pieces were right next to each other and by putting them together he could reattach them. We also see in the moro arc a namekian warrior pretty much dying instantly after moro impales him with his arm, so maybe they cannot regenerate from certain damage to the torso.
I honestly think King Piccolo genuinely didn’t know about this ability. The Piccolo we know found it out likely by accident and then learned others of his kind could do it via his merger with Nail.
Regeneration is an instinctive trait, he should have been able to heal even without knowing it.
@@justinarzola4584 And where was it stated that it's instinctive?
I like how you pointed out that the Dragon Clan of Namekians may not be able to regenerate.
We see that the Warrior Clan can regenerate, as shown by Piccolo (Jr.), Nail, and even Lord Slug, but the Dragon Clan seems to have different abilities, such as Guru's ability to unlock potential, Dende being able to heal OTHERS, as well as Moniato being able to heal others in the DBS manga. However, we've never seen Demon King Piccolo, Kami, Guru, Dende, or Moniato regenerate or heal themselves, the same as we've never seen Piccolo, Nail or Slug heal others... 🤔
Interesting bit of lore! I would've never even noticed if not for this video.
Maybe King Piccolo had a self-destruct sequence he meditated into himself, like the Predator, so he always had that technique subconsciously wired into his being as a last resort to damage anyone who defeated him.
My guess is King Piccolo's might have been able to regenerate at least enough to stave off death but his power was already low and it wouldn't win the fight.. But yoshi'ing up a reincarnation however... And so that is where he placed all his remaining energy. He is established to risk creating an off-spring to accomplish his goals even at the risk of his own life when he was old. Hell Jr basically continues the trend in a not so obvious way with Gohan continuously sacrificing himself.
Absolutely Nail-ed it as usual!
So I will agree energy does play a factor in it and it does take energy we see it when Piccolo does it post Raditiz fight and Nail do it fighting Freiza that it takes energy to regenerate. However Cell who has Piccolo's cells kinda throws that out the window as he is blown to almost nothing a few times. But we also see the registration isn't consistent on Namek. Loom at the Namekians that fight Freiza's army especially the ones in Dende's village one has a fist put through his chest by Dadoria while another is tackled so hard into a wall it looks like he's broken in half. We see similar feets when the androids in Trunks timeline kill Piccolo, the androids don't seem to blast him away with a ki blast they verh much hit him so hard he goes down and doesn't up again. So most likely energy plays a big part and King Piccolo had enough energy to create a small child with no power or worst case this is another example of Toriyama not thinking certain decisions through.
I assume the simple reason is toryiama hadn't thought of it yet
Crazy Finger Beam.
The problem isn't a case of energy etc, its a difference of injury type. Severing vs having a hole blasted through him.
Easy: He didnt think he could defeat Goku after spending too much Ki regenerating such a large Wound. And even if he had enough power to kill Goku afterwards.. Tien was still around and Kami might have taken action against him in his weakened state. And as a final suggestion: Toriyama didn't have that concept ready yet :P
I'm under the assumption that the injury was severe enough that King Piccolo couldn't regenerate from it .
That's mostly because of the nature of the injury. Having your center of mass literally blown out like that probably put him into shock while the force from the blow wrecked his bones and organs. Compare how Jr. couldn't regenerate from Nappa's attack. Or perhaps how in the Buu Saga, Piccolo Jr. can regenerate from being in literal pieces (Frieza did this too, but Frieza also had the help of machinery); being in pieces was probably less traumatic than what King Piccolo wen through, since re-attaching severed pieces is a lot easier than regrowing all your vital organs.
2 questions for possible future videos. How did demon king piccolo spit out an egg if everything below his collarbone was missing?
And why are there only ever a handful of senzu left when they need them? When yajirobe first ate them, the jar was filled to the brim…
Plot and plot. Toriyama doesn't go into details about how things work (like the creation of Namekian eggs), so you can just imagine how it works. Having loads of senzus would make fights more boring, situations less tense and dramatic. Plot is also why Goku arrived late to fight Nappa and Vegeta, for example. It made the situation much more dramatic and gave them a new goal for later.
A namekians ability to regenerate is a move that is powered by their life energy or gen ki. People have a finite amount of this and will die if they run out. If a namekian is damaged to a point where using the regeneration will deplete their life energy, then they will just die anyway, just without an injury. This is why piccolo couldn’t regenerate after frieza blasted him on namek when he pushed goku out of the way. He was already running on empty. He fought someone literally millions of times stronger than he was a few years prior. And literally multiple thousands of times stronger than he was literally hours before. What I’m interested to see is if his regeneration is increased in his orange form.
Yes you’re right at the end. He just didn’t have them do that then
Maybe when he split from Kame. He lost the ability to regenerate completely. And also knew he would use too much energy to regrow. New that he would be beaten and so accepted his defeat made piccolo as s long term plan
Piccolo devastated by "finger blasts" 😂
Great video man, I’d love for you to cover if SSJ2 teen Gohan was really more powerful than super perfect cell. It’s a debate I’ve been having with a friend for a while now
I think he could have used regeneration but it would have left him without any energy left. So even if he did he knew he lost and would be picked off by a lesser fighter afterwards anyways. The only option left to him was to reincarnate and play the long game.
A better question is why didn’t piccolo regenerate against nappa
Blocking Nappas blast took all his "Stamina". Similar to how Frieza killed him in Resurrection of F. Picollo blocked the beam that was meant to kill Gohan and used all his power to not let it fully penetrate his Body.
This had me thinking, how tf did he die against Frieza in Fukatsu no F when protecting Gohan? His head was intact. This is my head canon, and I think he needs to have a certain amount of ki to regenerate, but then even in the Tournament of Power you see the Namekians from Universe 6 getting a beam through the freaking chest and are alive!!!
I always thought that piccolo could only regenerate limbs and not piercing attacks
It’s pure writing convenience, Namekians have never shown regeneration outside regrowing a missing limb let alone anything close to Cell, Piccolo best regeneration feat is offscreen with the statue accident and arguably what you see in the panel is his libs that brake off when he shatters.
This is irrelevant. But it was the video I was watching when I had this thought:
Can you imagine having Goku as your dad? Slam a door in his house, and he'll instant transmission into your room and Kamehameha you.
Excellent question! I'm interested to see what you come up with!
Or maybe the answer is simply...Akira Toriyama just made up regeneration with Piccolo Jr 😂
So basically Namekian regeneration is complicated and Cell's regeneration is, by extension, a walking pile of bullshit 😂
I always thought it was the first reason he was at full strength and had done the destruction technique or whatever twice I think he was just tired
why do people keep forgetting namekians can only regenerate LIMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY ARMS AND LEGS. THEY AINT MAJIN BUU OR CELL!!!
YUP Piccolo's upper body was fine after being broken to pieces, at least, there's
that
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And let’s not forget, Ki generates in the torso/stomach area of the body. Since King Piccolo got hit there, he probably couldn’t gather Ki if he wanted to anyway. 🤷♂️
Because he hit all of his vital organs, yes ALL OF THEM lol
I haven’t watched the video but I would imagine it has something to go with the fact that he got a Goku-sized hole in his torso
I thought is was cause of the difference between namekians from the warrior clan and from the dragon clan.Cause we only see warrior clan namekians being able to regenerate. And it makes sense cause a warrior clan namekian is more likely to loose limb
If King Piccolo was a Dragon clan why didn't he make his own dragon balls