Thinking about it, it isn't very durable against gods and other Saiyan, but if you consider the Saiyan favorite pastime is to conquer less advanced planets it might make some sense?
@@CodyCantSwim further thought DB/DBZ setup is extremely logical Gather energy cycle 1. Reinforce body + internal enhancement 2. Learn to externalize into an aura shield + blasts Before they can physically get hurt needs to break/overwhelm shield plus hit body harder then body reinforcement
They do go against advanced civilisation just take the ceralians they were very advanced only low class or newborn saiyans go for lesser planets. The saiyans were one of the main forces for the frieza army.
To be fair, I think the real advantage of the "armor" being durable and flexible is that sayans don't end up naked during a fight. They don't need protection but clothing
If nappa didn't have that armor the power difference is so great it likely would not have mattered, considering this is Z and not super it probably would have bloodied nappa's back a bit but that's kinda it when Nappa steps into the fight you kinda just had to entertain him long enough for Goku to show up Tien and Gohan both failed however Piccolo died in place of Gohan Then Goku broke his back and Vegeta had no use for a Sayian who couldn't move
@@JJ-qz1dg Doesn't change the fact that it didn't break his armor. Power levels protect your body, armor doesn't have that luxury. Armor's made with whatever it's made with, and that's that. I'd say laughing off an explosion from a vampire child that's very much god like compared to a regular human is a great case for it's defensive capabilities.
@@JJ-qz1dg The armor absolutely protected him. It might not have killed him if he didn't have it, but it certainly would've weakened him to the point where Kurrian, Tienshinan, and Piccolo could take care of him after.
"Less trained martial artists" was one of the categories he said it'd protect against. Chiaotzu is not being forgotten here, even though he is by both the authors and the fanbase at large.
It actually is viable cause of what you said in the end! Its great for small arms fire and lesser powered combatants while keeping the saiyan warripr completely flexible. Exactly the kind of situations the saiyans found themselves in during Frieza's reign
@@hannesromhild8532Raditz was above average Saiyan power level. Nappa was the general of the Saiyan army and Vegeta was considered above elite. So anything below Super Saiyan the armor could hold up against decently
@@Nitro1000 Goku was Bulletproof from the very first episode of OG Dragonball! That is with a PL of less then 50. At ca 150 Roshi was a moonbuster. Small arms are a JOKE to them.
I think the idea is that the armor is like oobleck (water and corn starch) when struck. It reactively hardens to the strike, but otherwise remains flexible. This is most evident after a hard strike to the armor makes it shatter, which elastic things typically don't do when struck.
For example, how Vegeta's armor cracked when Frieza was punching him. It makes a lot of sense that it'd be some kind of oobleckian polymer. My only real question is: how do the pauldrons stretch to fit the oozaru dude with nothing pulling on them?
@@mavendeo maybe it’s somehow designed to remain relatively proportionately shaped no matter what, so when any part of it stretches enough the whole thing grows?
Thing about stormtrooper armor is most of those troopers (say, the ones shot in the opening of A New Hope) aren’t dead. It’s mass produced shit designed to be cheap, scary and to be JUST good enough to keep them alive by dispersing the heat and some of the impact from blaster fire. Good armor is expensive. Training and outfitting a trooper is also expensive. But bacta, the magical algae wonder drug that does all but regenerate severed limbs, is surprisingly cheap. A dead trooper has to be replaced; a damn-near-but-not-quite dead trooper can be dumped in a bacta tank for a few days and then shipped back out. It aint beskar, but it’s good enough. Just.
Yup and if the armor was really good (like beskar) then not only would it be really expensive, but they’d have nothing to recover as it’d be looted after every battle.
Just like modern body armor it will stop a few rounds, and you're still going to get injured but it keeps you alive. You may get knocked flat on your butt or you may be able to walk it off. And just like modern body armor storm trooper armor does have a failure point, a powerful enough shot or a enough shots will degradate the armor enough to cause a fatal injury.
It actually helped Raditz and was almost unbreakable for the z cast in the first arc so yes it is helpful against powerless enemies like most of the planets that the freeza establishment destroys
If i remember correctly, sayan armor is specifically designed to sustain blows that could otherwise be lethal. Some enemies like frieza actually needed techniques made specificalli for piercing, like the destructo-disk or Frieza's death beam.
Well it WOULD work as actual armor considering people don't typically shoot laser beams and punch craters in the ground. Since it's for protection when conquering other plantes I'm sure it would be fine against swords and such
Exactly no earthling gun is shooting threw that when they can take blunt hits from characters like broly frieza and a weaker character like zarbon who hits harder than the world's strongest nukes
Okay, in dragon ball z, that armour has still taken a LOT before breaking up. Usually the saiyan wearing it looks more beaten than there armour. I'm not sure how well the armour handels kinetic force combined with KI
Stormtrooper armour actually protects you. Intead of getting a single fatal wound to the chest for example it disperses the hit across the entire body. Same goes for the armour the clones wear. But because it disperses the force to the entire body, it stops you from dieing but it is often also enough force to knock you out. This is why certain badasses take multipile shots before dieing or being knocked out. Its not them biting through a damaged organ, but them just biting through a hard blow to the body. The armour is also highly protective of the various other dangers you might come across in a fight. Shrapnel, things falling on their head and stuff should be of no danger. Ofcourse more powerfull blasters do still kill you. The blasters the mandalorians use are often on the higher end of pistols, and han solos blaster is like the equavilant of a desert eagle. It is safe to say that anyone who he hits in the head or body is 100% dead
Thing about stormtroopers armor is that it actually does its job better than saying armor as depicted on screen. It disperses the plasma bolts fired at it through the whole armor so that instead of being lethal, the shot will just incapacitate. Majority of troopers we see downed are still alive as a result, unless they fall from great heights or get lightsabered or hit with a much, much, much stronger plasma bolt like from a heavy weapon
Chiaotzu’s self-destruct on Nappa in the Saiyan Saga was probably equivalent to a decent real-world explosive and Nappa’s armor suffered little to no damage so it’s incredible by Earth standards at the very least.
It seems useless now that characters are just planet buster level casually, but you have to remember that other than Vegeta and Nappa, the "average" Saiyans power level was about Raditz level before. Without armor, any normal laser could go right through them. Vegeta's armor was durable enough to keep Yajirobe's slice across his back minimal and knocking him out rather than killing him. It was not enough to fully protect him, but it very clearly gave much protection at the time. So it does have some resilience to it to block some of the damage of that blow. If I remember right it also helped Vegeta survive being crushed by Great Ape Gohan. During the time of Planet Vegeta, that armor gave protection from the enemies the Saiyans fought against. Now because of their power level, they only attract and fight opponents who can rival them. So yeah, it doesn't protect much against their current opponents. Vegeta himself only wears it as tradition. He is still loyal to Planet Vegeta and the Saiyan ways. He is the prince after all. Theres probably some sentimental value to it as well. Also, after being given their armor in early fights, they didn't realize how strong Freiza was in his perfect form. They wore armor in the hopes that it would help them out in some way.
It protected center of mass from gunfire, which it should easily absorb. But it made him vulnerable to close range strikes. I'm not sure why people are confused by this statement
Lol no its literally the opposite, leather is a very flexible fabric that provides good protection and the whole point of it is to mitigate damage by either blunt force or from cuts. So the Sayian armor would do the exact same.
@@DevilSlayr also what ever magic sci fi material or method its made with makes the saiyan armor flexible when pressure is applied from the inside, but rigid and stone-like when applied to the outside. it makes no sense but thats what is shown in the show
@@jamesbarnett8832 tbf, technology is crazy in the dbz universe. Capsules, infinte energy sources, healing pods flying cars, laser blasters, drugs to turn you into an animal person etc... So honestly the Sayian armor doesn't really break the norm.
@@DevilSlayrSo this is awkward because both you and OP are right. You are correct in assuming that a soft (as in padded) surface will avoid shock, and a cause of that is flexibility, which is correct. And the OP is correct in saying that a flexible material may not absorb shock well because it's stretchy, (imagine wearing a balloon as armor). The key is thickness, a thick yet flexible surface will provide padding, but a thin and flexible surface will not, this is my conclusion. Have a nice day.
@@kingsizedmidget7294 well if thickness is the only concern than thats fine, if you ever get a look at damaged Sayian armor, you can see that in some areas its nearly an inch thick if not thicker. So we're not really talking about balloon armor here.
One of the many explanations for storm trooper armor is that it usually keeps the trooper alive. Trooper armor won't stop a blaster from hurting you but it will often turn a fatal hit into an incapacitating one. This is why, in a new hope after attacking Leia's ship, they check to see if the downed troopers are alive.
Imagine how the people on the planets Saiyans conquered felt, not only are a bunch of great apes attacking them, but they're in full armor their blasters can't even get through
Vegeta going *out of his way* to get armor for Krillin and Gohan when they were going to fight Frieza only for it to do literally nothing is probably the funniest thing in DBZ to me.
The armor that Frieza Force soldiers where is effective if the person you're facing against is weaker than you. So if Raditz landed on Earth and fought the US Military. He could probably take a nuke to the face and his armor wouldn't even be scratched, like we're talking about a guy who can one shot the Moon.
In the human world it would be insanely top tier level armor, but when you have to fight gods that can wipe out the Multiverse it’s kinda just fashion, a fashion that only vageta ever uses
The strongest direct attack any of the armor has ever taken and survived I feel like would have to be when Chiaotzu blew himself up against Nappas back. It took a point blank explosion and the armor stuck together
I haven't watched dbz but the Stormtrooper armor analogy immediately make sense to me, like it could protect you from plasma bullets of a cheap blaster but it wouldn't help much against a literal blade of plasma
I mean I remember something my uncle told me about the armor he had in the US army. It wasn't made to make them bullet proof, thats impossible. But in the event that they get shot its supposed to help make it more survivable. Based on the show (up till about frieza) It appeared to do that. It even kinda helped them a little bit against frieza.
That armor was for conquering small week planets (like earth) and on earth we have guns for defense so the armor worked perfectly for them as they don't have to fight gods at that time.
The armor starts breaking a lot more when you get to around dodoria’s level which in the frieza force was around the top like 10 or something and so in most instances it’s pretty good, nappa’s suit survived a lot of punishment and Vegeta’s was mostly intact aside from some padding on the shoulders and groin by the end of the saiyan saga
The saiyan armor has 2 significant features. First off is to add protection from less powerful races when conquering them. Secondly is to add durability to the body, on top of what their ki gives them. This durability is compounding and exponential, relating to the ki. Therefore it does add something, we just never see how much it adds because we almost never see vegeta without armor
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Because their armour regularly gets destroyed, Recoome once suggests in Xenoverse 2 to fight naked.
It apparently prevented vegeta from getting crushed by gohan in his great ape form but that’s really one of the only times it was mentioned to be useful that I can recall
It’s mainly used for Smaller enemies, back when Dbz didn’t have planet busting humans and in the “Older” days, no real species could stand up to saiyans like others and if some could, they’d only do mild damage and the armor would protect them from any damage.
its stated the pauldrons 'dont get in the way at all' in the freeza arc manga. also ive always assumed it lessens blows to some extent, otherwise they wouldnt spend time obtaining it and bulma wouldnt spend time reverse engineering it in super. bulma quite clever she doesnt waste time on useless junk
"even sans can wear this armour" you already know what im gonna say. Cmon you already know. its a beatiful day outside. birds are singing, flowers are blooming. on days like these kids like you. S H O U L D B E B U R N I N G I N H E L L
When gohan hit raditz with a headbut the armour protected him, keep in mind piccolo was moon level when raditz came to earth and gohans powerlevel when he hit raditz was almost twice piccolo.
I would love to see a smaller series where you follow Saiyans invading less powerful species, and the armor actually stopping their weaponry or weaker powers. Also. It could be a fear factor, like you see these guys fall from the sky and then blow up areas around them, and then they just walk up, their armor puts the fear into their opponents and stall them from actually fighting.
Thinking about it, it isn't very durable against gods and other Saiyan, but if you consider the Saiyan favorite pastime is to conquer less advanced planets it might make some sense?
When you realise 99.9% of the fighters use guns ... the armor is PERFECT for the peons/grunts
Exactly
@@CodyCantSwim further thought DB/DBZ setup is extremely logical
Gather energy cycle
1. Reinforce body + internal enhancement
2. Learn to externalize into an aura shield + blasts
Before they can physically get hurt needs to break/overwhelm shield plus hit body harder then body reinforcement
@@darunealbane very true
They do go against advanced civilisation just take the ceralians they were very advanced only low class or newborn saiyans go for lesser planets. The saiyans were one of the main forces for the frieza army.
I'm so glad that Sans can wear this armor.
Me too lol
Sans the skeleton or the alien species
@@thepotatolordtorulepotatos7220 Both you bonehead! Sans decided to put on armour in the genocide run.
@@anannoyance4807 nah he he he my bonetroten brotheren
His hoodie is the best armor in the game lmao
"So flexible that Sans can wear the armour in their great ape forme"
_Man, These Undertale AUs are starting to get out of hand real fast..._
@@krismadden6484 Kakasans! It is I, Great Skeleton Pyreta!
@@krismadden6484 Frisk x Sans or Papyrus x Sans
I can't tell which is worse but they're both horrendous.
@@NotRick05 Both of them.
@@NotRick05 Frisk is a child and Papyrus is his brother.
Damnit sans fucking stole vegetas body armor
“You’re gonna have a bad time!”
*Transforms into great ape*
It’s probably good armor, just not in the dragon ball universe where they have to fight gods
It's god tier plain human armor but anyone stronger it's basically an accessory
Kinda pointless anyway cuz ki armor is a thing
@@unstable875 or against space traveling warriors that can destroy planet without effort
@@cockdepartment6610 true
I don't think it has universal durability
To be fair, I think the real advantage of the "armor" being durable and flexible is that sayans don't end up naked during a fight. They don't need protection but clothing
True
I mean, when you turn into king kong almost daily to speedrun wipping a planet from existance, It makes sense.
For real, what is the point on winning the fight when everybody can see the Pp
@@adolphgracius9996 that Just takes away the pride of commiting genocide.
@@Simpo-iu6gx Exactly. If you're gonna conquer a planet then you should at least look a bit dignified.
So we just going to forget that the armor protect Nappa from chiaotzu body explosion.
If nappa didn't have that armor the power difference is so great it likely would not have mattered, considering this is Z and not super it probably would have bloodied nappa's back a bit but that's kinda it when Nappa steps into the fight you kinda just had to entertain him long enough for Goku to show up Tien and Gohan both failed however Piccolo died in place of Gohan
Then Goku broke his back and Vegeta had no use for a Sayian who couldn't move
@@JJ-qz1dg Doesn't change the fact that it didn't break his armor.
Power levels protect your body, armor doesn't have that luxury. Armor's made with whatever it's made with, and that's that. I'd say laughing off an explosion from a vampire child that's very much god like compared to a regular human is a great case for it's defensive capabilities.
@@JJ-qz1dg The armor absolutely protected him. It might not have killed him if he didn't have it, but it certainly would've weakened him to the point where Kurrian, Tienshinan, and Piccolo could take care of him after.
I was thinking about Gohans headbutt against Raditz.
He cracked the armor but didn’t break it, so it definitely absorbed a huge amount of damage.
"Less trained martial artists" was one of the categories he said it'd protect against. Chiaotzu is not being forgotten here, even though he is by both the authors and the fanbase at large.
It actually is viable cause of what you said in the end! Its great for small arms fire and lesser powered combatants while keeping the saiyan warripr completely flexible. Exactly the kind of situations the saiyans found themselves in during Frieza's reign
Oh yeah protection against small arms is important to guys tanking planetkiller Ki Blasts to the face.
@@hannesromhild8532Raditz was above average Saiyan power level. Nappa was the general of the Saiyan army and Vegeta was considered above elite. So anything below Super Saiyan the armor could hold up against decently
@@Nitro1000 Goku was Bulletproof from the very first episode of OG Dragonball! That is with a PL of less then 50. At ca 150 Roshi was a moonbuster. Small arms are a JOKE to them.
@@hannesromhild8532 Didn't mention anything about firearms. Might wanna actually read my comment
@@Nitro1000 You commented on ME and i was talking about small arms and so did the OP. Pay attention or stay quite.
I think the idea is that the armor is like oobleck (water and corn starch) when struck. It reactively hardens to the strike, but otherwise remains flexible. This is most evident after a hard strike to the armor makes it shatter, which elastic things typically don't do when struck.
For example, how Vegeta's armor cracked when Frieza was punching him. It makes a lot of sense that it'd be some kind of oobleckian polymer. My only real question is: how do the pauldrons stretch to fit the oozaru dude with nothing pulling on them?
@@mavendeo maybe it’s somehow designed to remain relatively proportionately shaped no matter what, so when any part of it stretches enough the whole thing grows?
Perhaps Bardock the scientist made it
Are you, perhaps, suggesting it **hardens in response to physical trauma?**
@@lintecassidy206 NANOMACHINE ARMOR, SON
Thing about stormtrooper armor is most of those troopers (say, the ones shot in the opening of A New Hope) aren’t dead. It’s mass produced shit designed to be cheap, scary and to be JUST good enough to keep them alive by dispersing the heat and some of the impact from blaster fire. Good armor is expensive. Training and outfitting a trooper is also expensive. But bacta, the magical algae wonder drug that does all but regenerate severed limbs, is surprisingly cheap. A dead trooper has to be replaced; a damn-near-but-not-quite dead trooper can be dumped in a bacta tank for a few days and then shipped back out. It aint beskar, but it’s good enough. Just.
Yup and if the armor was really good (like beskar) then not only would it be really expensive, but they’d have nothing to recover as it’d be looted after every battle.
The armor does work against normal civilian allowed weapons. The rebels are using heavy weapons thought.
Also troopers have a 77% accuracy
Wich is very good
Wich just goes to show how much plot armor the protagonists in star wars movies have
wow that's like how actual armies buy and make products, cheap and just good enough to do what it's meant to
Just like modern body armor it will stop a few rounds, and you're still going to get injured but it keeps you alive. You may get knocked flat on your butt or you may be able to walk it off. And just like modern body armor storm trooper armor does have a failure point, a powerful enough shot or a enough shots will degradate the armor enough to cause a fatal injury.
It actually helped Raditz and was almost unbreakable for the z cast in the first arc so yes it is helpful against powerless enemies like most of the planets that the freeza establishment destroys
If i remember correctly, sayan armor is specifically designed to sustain blows that could otherwise be lethal. Some enemies like frieza actually needed techniques made specificalli for piercing, like the destructo-disk or Frieza's death beam.
Well it WOULD work as actual armor considering people don't typically shoot laser beams and punch craters in the ground. Since it's for protection when conquering other plantes I'm sure it would be fine against swords and such
Exactly no earthling gun is shooting threw that when they can take blunt hits from characters like broly frieza and a weaker character like zarbon who hits harder than the world's strongest nukes
Yajirobe’s and trunks’ swords would beg to differ 😎
@@djbanzai354 trunks is extremely powerful and yajirobe is one of the best swordsman on earth
@@viletoxxie on earth, in the dbz universe, so that's a huge flex
On top of that we use leather to protect ourselves from arrows historically so this would work perfectly
"Sans can wear this armor in their great ape form"
*having a bad time intensifies*
I don’t like this au
@@herb2110 DragonTale
@@AikaDear lol genocide run is killing namekians first so no one revives from the dead
@@leverite6127 no, I think humans first
@@AikaDear easier access? Understandable
"So flexible that sans can wear the armor in his great ape form"
Sans is Goku confirmed
you mean vegeta?
i am the 100th like 😫
I can't explain it, but the jpeg of Vegeta in the black body suit just *_popping_* in and out of existence is hilarious.
This armor is extremely durable, literally the only piece of saiyan armor never damaged too horrendously is Gohan’s Namek saga armor
what about the cell saga time chamber
Yeah in dbs vegetas armor only started breaking near the last 10 or 6 minutes of the ToP
Okay, in dragon ball z, that armour has still taken a LOT before breaking up. Usually the saiyan wearing it looks more beaten than there armour. I'm not sure how well the armour handels kinetic force combined with KI
U saw that hakai thing that broke vegetas armour and everyone was freaking out about it in yhe manga lmaooo
@@prodiG69420 To be fair, it is Hakai, it's supposed to be able to destroy anything. But yeah, in early Z it's actually pretty good.
Krillen one shot vegita through his armour on namek so he could abuse his zenkai. Their armour is piss
@@reeboosda3872 it saved him form yajirobe
@@reeboosda3872 and getting absolutely monkeyd on by gohan
Stormtrooper armour actually protects you. Intead of getting a single fatal wound to the chest for example it disperses the hit across the entire body. Same goes for the armour the clones wear.
But because it disperses the force to the entire body, it stops you from dieing but it is often also enough force to knock you out. This is why certain badasses take multipile shots before dieing or being knocked out. Its not them biting through a damaged organ, but them just biting through a hard blow to the body.
The armour is also highly protective of the various other dangers you might come across in a fight. Shrapnel, things falling on their head and stuff should be of no danger.
Ofcourse more powerfull blasters do still kill you. The blasters the mandalorians use are often on the higher end of pistols, and han solos blaster is like the equavilant of a desert eagle. It is safe to say that anyone who he hits in the head or body is 100% dead
Vegeta: "This is easily the best thing you've ever produced."
(baby trunks makes a noise)
Vegeta: "Yes, even you!"
"Sans can wear this Armor"
Sans: Oh, you broke my armor. Ok, round 2.
*Having a bad time electric boogaloo*
Ah yes, I’m pretty sure sans could indeed wear that armour.
"Sans can wear this armour"
*Megalovania starts playing*
Thing about stormtroopers armor is that it actually does its job better than saying armor as depicted on screen. It disperses the plasma bolts fired at it through the whole armor so that instead of being lethal, the shot will just incapacitate. Majority of troopers we see downed are still alive as a result, unless they fall from great heights or get lightsabered or hit with a much, much, much stronger plasma bolt like from a heavy weapon
"so flexible that sans can wear the armor" Sans DBZ
“That S A N S can wear the armour in the great ape forms!”
So flexible that Sans can wear them *Megalovania intensifies*
Chiaotzu’s self-destruct on Nappa in the Saiyan Saga was probably equivalent to a decent real-world explosive and Nappa’s armor suffered little to no damage so it’s incredible by Earth standards at the very least.
It seems useless now that characters are just planet buster level casually, but you have to remember that other than Vegeta and Nappa, the "average" Saiyans power level was about Raditz level before. Without armor, any normal laser could go right through them. Vegeta's armor was durable enough to keep Yajirobe's slice across his back minimal and knocking him out rather than killing him. It was not enough to fully protect him, but it very clearly gave much protection at the time. So it does have some resilience to it to block some of the damage of that blow. If I remember right it also helped Vegeta survive being crushed by Great Ape Gohan. During the time of Planet Vegeta, that armor gave protection from the enemies the Saiyans fought against. Now because of their power level, they only attract and fight opponents who can rival them. So yeah, it doesn't protect much against their current opponents. Vegeta himself only wears it as tradition. He is still loyal to Planet Vegeta and the Saiyan ways. He is the prince after all. Theres probably some sentimental value to it as well. Also, after being given their armor in early fights, they didn't realize how strong Freiza was in his perfect form. They wore armor in the hopes that it would help them out in some way.
Good comment and all
But damn
What a PFP, you got me good
Well, Raditz was magnitudes stronger than 21st WMAT Roshi, who atomized the moon. Considering that, the armor is still impossibly strong.
@@eliasandbros1366 true! That slipped my mind
So it would be ideal for us as long as we don't fight gods
D-did he say Sans “megalovania intensifies”
I can only imagine sans as Vegeta now for the rest of time and that's HILARIOUS
Zarbons armor was the best.
It made him fight his best because basically every vital target minus the torso was exposed to striking
You sure your wording is right cause that wouldn't make sense at all
did you have a stroke thinking of this comment
Uhh what
It protected center of mass from gunfire, which it should easily absorb. But it made him vulnerable to close range strikes. I'm not sure why people are confused by this statement
@@chrismanuel9768 probably because it's the same armor design as everyone else aside from the cape
If it is flexible then each punch will feel at it's 100 per cent.
Lol no its literally the opposite, leather is a very flexible fabric that provides good protection and the whole point of it is to mitigate damage by either blunt force or from cuts. So the Sayian armor would do the exact same.
@@DevilSlayr also what ever magic sci fi material or method its made with makes the saiyan armor flexible when pressure is applied from the inside, but rigid and stone-like when applied to the outside.
it makes no sense but thats what is shown in the show
@@jamesbarnett8832 tbf, technology is crazy in the dbz universe. Capsules, infinte energy sources, healing pods flying cars, laser blasters, drugs to turn you into an animal person etc...
So honestly the Sayian armor doesn't really break the norm.
@@DevilSlayrSo this is awkward because both you and OP are right. You are correct in assuming that a soft (as in padded) surface will avoid shock, and a cause of that is flexibility, which is correct. And the OP is correct in saying that a flexible material may not absorb shock well because it's stretchy, (imagine wearing a balloon as armor).
The key is thickness, a thick yet flexible surface will provide padding, but a thin and flexible surface will not, this is my conclusion. Have a nice day.
@@kingsizedmidget7294 well if thickness is the only concern than thats fine, if you ever get a look at damaged Sayian armor, you can see that in some areas its nearly an inch thick if not thicker. So we're not really talking about balloon armor here.
*Frisk finally hitting Sans*
Sans: "Heheheh...You fool." *Lifts up shirt and hoodie to reveal saiyan armor*
"I'm so glad sans can wear this armor."
So flexible that Sans can wear it in their great ape forms 😂
Could you judge the dark souls boss weapons of how effective they'd be as actual weapons?
One of the many explanations for storm trooper armor is that it usually keeps the trooper alive. Trooper armor won't stop a blaster from hurting you but it will often turn a fatal hit into an incapacitating one. This is why, in a new hope after attacking Leia's ship, they check to see if the downed troopers are alive.
Imagine how the people on the planets Saiyans conquered felt, not only are a bunch of great apes attacking them, but they're in full armor their blasters can't even get through
Vegeta going *out of his way* to get armor for Krillin and Gohan when they were going to fight Frieza only for it to do literally nothing is probably the funniest thing in DBZ to me.
The armor that Frieza Force soldiers where is effective if the person you're facing against is weaker than you.
So if Raditz landed on Earth and fought the US Military.
He could probably take a nuke to the face and his armor wouldn't even be scratched, like we're talking about a guy who can one shot the Moon.
Never forget that Yajirobe cut though Vegeta's armor in the Saiyan Saga with just a regular ol' Earth katana.
Then Toriyama laughed and said “now let’s give Vegeta those SSJ3 brows y’all wanted in 2002!”
i think its meant to not let weaker soilder get killed by blasters/ non ki projectiles
There upper arms are always exposed and it annoys me 😭
You are annoyed by the arms. Some of them have exposed groins. Like Nappa with his tighty backies.
In the human world it would be insanely top tier level armor, but when you have to fight gods that can wipe out the Multiverse it’s kinda just fashion, a fashion that only vageta ever uses
"The pauldrons are bulky and would get in the way..."
*Space Marine has entered the chat*
The amor was for 90% of the army, like on the Namek Saga most soldiers save from Zarbon, Dodoria and Gyniu force used guns basically.
"so flexible that sans can wear the armor in their great ape form" the subtitles are drunk again
*so flexible that even sans can wear it in its ape form*
"So flecible that San-"
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET O
Love how they made an incredibly durable armor that doesn't protect against one of the main things they use in battle... LASER BEAMS
Looks weird how they’re flexible meaning it’s soft but when they break it looks hard
Gotta love the trope of armor that only protects characters from things they are already resilient against.
They give you a passive defense boost so even if you can't really on it, it is always better to have one instead of none at all
Last statement reminds me of how in Dark Souls series you usually don’t wear armor because it’s good. You wear it because it looks good
I started crying when I saw the word 'sans'
Theres many instances of someone being shot or punched through the armor. I think I even saw rocks go though it once!
I'd say the armor is pretty impressive.
If it can take hits from people who can literally punch plants in half,
I think it's at least alright 🤔
As soon as he read out the question I flashed back to when Vegeta's armor got punched through in the stomach,lol!
"I WASN'T WEARING MY ARMOR!"
The strongest direct attack any of the armor has ever taken and survived I feel like would have to be when Chiaotzu blew himself up against Nappas back. It took a point blank explosion and the armor stuck together
I haven't watched dbz but the Stormtrooper armor analogy immediately make sense to me, like it could protect you from plasma bullets of a cheap blaster but it wouldn't help much against a literal blade of plasma
You know you reached peak armor performance
When the armor becomes fashion
I mean I remember something my uncle told me about the armor he had in the US army.
It wasn't made to make them bullet proof, thats impossible. But in the event that they get shot its supposed to help make it more survivable.
Based on the show (up till about frieza) It appeared to do that. It even kinda helped them a little bit against frieza.
When it’s so flexible you could probably be impaled by blunt force before breaking, but the plot kicks in
That armor was for conquering small week planets (like earth) and on earth we have guns for defense so the armor worked perfectly for them as they don't have to fight gods at that time.
That's about the best damn description I've ever heard for saying armor :)
You'll find that despite Goku not wearing armor, he is protected by the plot armor
I like how it’s super flexible, that it can even grow. But there are sizes.
The Armor actually did play a part in the Raditz fight, even defending him from Gohans headbutt.
I never expected this man to be so cultured and wise.
cheelai knows how flexible the armor is
'even sans can wear this armour.'
:) you know what song it is already.
When you don't have a job so your job becomes remembering fictional lore
The armor starts breaking a lot more when you get to around dodoria’s level which in the frieza force was around the top like 10 or something and so in most instances it’s pretty good, nappa’s suit survived a lot of punishment and Vegeta’s was mostly intact aside from some padding on the shoulders and groin by the end of the saiyan saga
When one size really do be fittin all
Dude is dressed like he is going to a wedding, but before he just wants to talk to us about weapons and armor in fiction 😭
The saiyan armor has 2 significant features. First off is to add protection from less powerful races when conquering them. Secondly is to add durability to the body, on top of what their ki gives them. This durability is compounding and exponential, relating to the ki. Therefore it does add something, we just never see how much it adds because we almost never see vegeta without armor
Because their armour regularly gets destroyed, Recoome once suggests in Xenoverse 2 to fight naked.
Yajirobe almost cut through it once.
It apparently prevented vegeta from getting crushed by gohan in his great ape form but that’s really one of the only times it was mentioned to be useful that I can recall
in all fairness, wearing that armour while fighting the main characters in Dragon Ball is like trying to wear a Stab-Proof vest against a GAU-8
I was thinking the armour would just appear in some arsenals in 2025 for the example.
It protects your modesty from having your pants explode off after the first ki blast hits you
Incredibly flexible yet cracks like ceramic.
Still boggles my mind.
"Lesser trained melee fighter."
*shows Gohan*
I am fully convinced that armor is what kept Napa alive for as long as he did in the sayan saga
Finally Sans gets some defense
It’s mainly used for Smaller enemies, back when Dbz didn’t have planet busting humans and in the “Older” days, no real species could stand up to saiyans like others and if some could, they’d only do mild damage and the armor would protect them from any damage.
its stated the pauldrons 'dont get in the way at all' in the freeza arc manga. also ive always assumed it lessens blows to some extent, otherwise they wouldnt spend time obtaining it and bulma wouldnt spend time reverse engineering it in super. bulma quite clever she doesnt waste time on useless junk
"even sans can wear this armour"
you already know what im gonna say.
Cmon you already know.
its a beatiful day outside. birds are singing, flowers are blooming. on days like these kids like you.
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When he said Sans i was like "wait what"
I don't think one time in the entire franchise a single person ever said "Thank Goodness I had this armor on, it really made a difference."
vegeta said it
actually when Vegeta got sliced in the back, it probably saved him from a fatal blow
The only time I ever remember the armor actually working, was when kid Gohan headbutted Raditz in the stomach after breaking out of his pod.
When gohan hit raditz with a headbut the armour protected him, keep in mind piccolo was moon level when raditz came to earth and gohans powerlevel when he hit raditz was almost twice piccolo.
It's amazing armor when you're not fighting literal planet busters.
I would love to see a smaller series where you follow Saiyans invading less powerful species, and the armor actually stopping their weaponry or weaker powers.
Also. It could be a fear factor, like you see these guys fall from the sky and then blow up areas around them, and then they just walk up, their armor puts the fear into their opponents and stall them from actually fighting.
Arguably the armor protected Nappa from Chiaotzu kamikaze attack.