re: The Official DragonBall Thread....est 2012

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In the episodes just before Goku wakes up they learn about Cell and spend a few episodes playing cat and mouse with him while absorbs whole cities. Right after Goku wakes up he immediately decides that the best course of action is to take their 4 best fighters out of commission for 2 days.

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At this point, Android 17 an 18 were stronger than Cell and the Z fighters. Goku and Vegeta were about equal, and stronger than Gohan and Trunks.

After Piccolo fused with Kami, he was (at that point) the strongest fighter on the show (until we found out how badass 16 really was). Piccolo was going toe to toe with 17, and would have destroyed Cell, had he not escaped using the Solar Flare technique. After that point, Cell had absorbed too many people and became much stronger than Piccolo. Android 16 was handling Cell, but fricked up and let him absorb 17 anyway. If they would have teamed up with the androids, they could have beaten Cell before he had a chance to absorb 17 or 18.

This saga could have taken so many different turns.