sexysoccerstud8 said:
well duh fighting a dragonball, a fusion of two androids that absorb energy, an alien that is using your friends body which is in the form of a giant monkey, wouldn't be easy things to take down in a couple of punches, so in dbz he got beat up ALOT in ssj1-ssj3. there weren't as many fights in the mountains in gt, you dont need strategies when you're in ssj4 just b/c of how strong you are. endurance, speed, and power of blasts get cancelled out b/c of how strong the new villains were. remember gogeta was trying to save the universe not blow it up so he wouldn't put all he had into "charging up". please again explain the problems goku had.
again, you're using comparative battles based on power levels to give implications of the strength capabilities of others to judge the ssj 4 state.
in the anime, goku only got beaten up once as a sjj and he was ill at the time, he drew with cell but didn't take a senzu bean to recover and carried on fighting. Even so, that's twice.
as ssj 2 when he fights vegeta he's already more powerful than him at this point and just carries on and vegeta sucker punches his 'victory' out of him. Even so, that's three times
as a super saiyan 3 he takes on fat buu and takes on kid buu well, doesn't get beaten up though as he wins. alright let's say he gets beaten once also in gt, so that's four altogether
now as super saiyan four in his very first outing, goku gets beaten bad enough to require a re-charge during battle, that's one. He also gets beaten real good by super 17 and also requires assistance to win. I'm pretty sure the other dragons give him a run for his money (not sure didn't watch it in great detail), but the no 1 dragon as well as the ice and fire ones wear him down pretty good, so that's another. so that's at least three from one transformation.
compared to arguable four from when he turned supersaiyan initially, i would say ssj4 takes a bit of a beating, considering that in super saiyan 1 he was potentially the most powerful being in the universe at that point and z brings in outside phenomena, some of the things that beat goku in gt have been around for quite a while... (not just talking about ssj4 but the series).
to an outise viewer, ssj 4 looks less spectacular/impressive in battle.