Piccolo current strength

I recall somewhere in the novelization Piccolo stated that he's still weaker than Perfect Cell so he hasn't improved much. I would say FPSSJ tier at best.

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Oh my bad! In DBS, he was weaker than Gohan in RoF but I don't know how strong Gohan was exactly. Gohan seemed to have lost his ultimate form and wasn't sure if he could turn SSJ so he might've been weaker than he was against Dabura. Next episode, Gohan and Piccolo are training together so that might give us a better idea. I think Piccolo is FPSSJ tier or between FPSSJ-SSJ2 depending how he does against Gohan.

I doubt he's weaker than Frost personally, because that would mean he's below SSJ level. That makes no sense because he trains constantly and the last time he had a real fight (against 17 in Cell Saga) he was on par with him. Considering he got "much stronger" after training in the Time Chamber during Cell Games he probably came close to Semi-Perfect Cell's power by then. He's had roughly twelve years since then to train, but we know that he was still weaker than SSJ2 by then. So my best guess is he's hit SSJ2 level by this point in Super.

Funny thing is, if the limits on the Time Chamber have been removed (which I believe they have been), Piccolo (aside from Roshi who's probably hit his peak) could spend all of his time, even years of outside world time (say 100 years which would equate to a little over three months) and train himself to his absolute limit. He doesn't age so he could have spent all of his time between Cell Saga and Buu Saga in the chamber (almost 4000 years) training if he really wanted to reach his peak. If Vegeta was ageless he'd probably live there and come out to visit his wife and kid every few years.

Rough estimate (also a guess, so don't be mad ): FPSSJ to Cell Jr tier

Not bad for someone that ISN'T a Saiyan if I must say.  

Actually he is. He inherited it from his father/past incarnation. DBZ wiki says it's been proven in multiple games.

If this were the case Kami would have become young as well, given they were the same split entity, but they didn't. Also, Current Piccolo isn't only King Daimaoh reincarnation/son. He also reincorporated Kami which was quite old, and Nail who was young, but had no antecedents of weird DB wishes.

I don't accept videogame stuff as serious proof. Nor DBZ wiki. My memory on the old DB is sketchy but I recall King Piccolo only wishing to regain his youth, not to be immortal or ageless.

There are no 5 years, if I remember correctly. BoG was only a few months after Kid Buu. And since then only a short amount of time went by.

Piccolo has a unique training method that nobody else uses: He meditates. I don't really understand how that makes him stronger but it seems to work for him. But I am still not sure if Piccolo really improved after the Cell Games. I remember him beeing on par with Super Vegeta and Trunks because those 3 were the only ones capable of fighting the Cell Jrs. So he must have been way more powerful than Semi-Perfect Cell. But in the Tournament he instantly surrendered against the Kaioshin who seems to be a lot weaker than that. So either Piccolo is plain stupid (which he usually isn't) or he did it out of respect (most likely) or his strength drastically decreased (also likely). Just compare pictures of him from Cell Saga and Buu Saga. He does look a lot weaker in the latter (if muscle mass is an indicator of power by any means).

Videl was pregnant with Pan though. We know she was born four or five years after Kid Buu was defeated. Timeline wise it BoG has to be set around that time period. Unless Super plans to retcon it.

Okay you got me. Because every instance I researched said he wished for "eternal youth" I was mislead. Kind of hard to tell when almost every DBZ adult appears the same age for the whole series.