Rest in Peace, Akira Toriyama. To respect his legacy, I've created a playlist dedicated to him and will go through the power ups and transformations used by Goku in Dragon Ball, Z, GT and Super. Next up, Super Saiyan 3. Don't forget to check out previous episodes on Super Saiyan 1, 2 and Oozaru which are already out! Unfortunately, KZfaq demonetised over 100 of my videos and wouldn't restore them, so all hits of the Like button will help this video once again. Also, your Patreon Support really helps keep me going. If, at any point, you feel like supporting my content please visit www.Patreon.com/ScholarVerse Thank you so much

SSJ3 is one of the most badass looking forms. It screams raw primal energy.

To this day, I'm still envious of how dam good Goku made SS3 looked, I LOVE SS4, but goddam SS3 is still the king of SS transformations in my heart.

What people don't understand is SSJ3 is meant to be a form in which Goku doesn't use alot, but can use it as in quick burst, which.... fits the forms that Goku has learn all through Dragon ball. (excluding GT). Kaio Ken was this form before Goku learn SSJ. Once he master SSJ2, SSJ3 became the replacement for Kaioken, when Battle of god came, his God ki form became this, and at the end of the tournament of power, Ultra Instinct became this form. People need to understand, the way Goku is design, he will always have 1 form above the form in which he stays in 100% of the time, and that form will always have drawbacks that require him to use it in quick burst, and if he does it too long, it weakens him.

ssj3 was always my favorite form as a kid and it still is now. I loved how in the OG budokai 3 goku screams "let's finish it!" and changed his stance, keeping his arms down and overflowing with confidence. Very underrated form, just like ssj2.

everyone who fought SSJ3 goku in xenoverse 2 knows that nothing short of CaC grind/plot armor stands a chance against him unless it's super's writing "the only one to push me this far was majin buu, come at me if you're ready to die"

Super Saiyan 3 is a scary looking form, but that's the point of it

My headcanon is that SSJ3 was an incomplete form. Goku was trying to achieve a form above SSJ2, and he only recently discovered SSJ3, and while he was in the middle of fine tuning the form, the buu saga happened. Ssj3 feels to me like grade 2/3 of super sayain a stepping stone in order to master a form, where you just directly increase the power output without caring for the consequences. It feels like goku was experimenting with the possibility of what SSJ3 was capable of when the buu stuff happened, and he hadn’t gotten to the point of optimizing it.

Super Saiya-jin 3 is so badass looking, no matter what, my fav design ever.

Accurate title i feel as if we could've gotten so much more development with ss3 maybe even eliminate it's draining issue but ever since it got no diffed by beerus it's appearances have been sporadic at best

3 will always be my fav goku transformation.

Super ssj3 is the most wild good looking form of Dragon ball . It should have more development. Maybe in the future we could watch a ssj3 ultra instinct

Was this form TRAPPED and BETRAYED in the Time Chamber?

I believe that they cleared up Kid Buu's power level in the Super Manga that showed that Kid Buu actually had inherited the divine power of The Great Lord of Lords or the Grand Kioshen, or Kioshin, however it is spelled, which is why Kid Buu was so powerful and why Uub will be so powerful. Someone tell me if I am wrong.

Wrath of the Dragon being evidence Goku SSJ3 is stronger than Gohan is horrible evidence to use. The movies exist outside of canon and always have holes. Look at the first Broly movie which featured post ROSAT SSJ Gohan. He wasn't nearly as strong as Goku and Vegeta in that movie, meanwhile in CANON he was by far stronger even as a SSJ 1.

Sjj3 has always been my favorite form. Was always super strong and awesome looking

I liked how Fighterz had Goku go into 3 for big finishes but had most of the fighting in SSJ1 which Goku perfected into Grade 4/Full Powered, it feels like a better version of manga super Vegeta using god and blue to fight or like Roshi using full power for the kamehameha. Super Saiyan 3 just felt so strong in Budokai especially when growing up as Kai only went up to Cell so as a kid seeing 3 was just so different and then Budokai 3 even gave Goku a different stance to show how strong it was.

Yes! Thank you for fighting for this form! It's my favorite as well!

PPKKE Warp Kamehameha was my favorite move

I thought that super saiyan 3 was under utilized. In terms of the difference it provided. Eg. - I thought it had more phsycic power. - It releasead more ki at once. Allowing for massive ki waves and spectacular ki blasts. Without charging. I noticed this as a concept because of how draining the form is, tenkaichi game ultimates and the Dragonball Devolution aura flow.

I like how you make it very clear that the anime and manga are very different continuities, Kid Buu being just one example Super fanboys obsessed with c a n o n can't comprehend, there's many continuities, not one is to be considered better or superior to the other, and if you do... its just your opinion, a headcanon 😂

Super buu is still stronger than Kid Buu in the anime as well

there is some thing i thought about for a while and that is in regard to the super saiyan 3 design , now aside from the fact that it was one of the most unique transformation design i've ever seen , some thing that kind of bothered me is how " and especially in dragon ball heroes " , that any character seem to have tthe same design which after thinking about it i was like come on, if the super saiyan transformation can have different hair styles so why not the case of super saiyan 3, with a little attention to detai , you can make it that each character whose super saiyan hair look quite differrent than goku's, has his super saiyan 3 design while keepin the same hair of super saiyan but only making it larger, and than adding a differrent structure of that longg hair, sorry for being carried away , but those are just some ideas i wanted to share

SSJ3 + tail = perfected saiyan form no stamina drain. Primal power of the saiyan.... which will link to SSJ4 sadly god ki came...it messed it up :(

2:02 " Big Power" That line that always scared me.. Him not having eyebrows mirrors the great ape form , a taste of things to come in GT..

It’s a good day when the scholar uploads

The legendary banana tree

I wish we got to see three more. Love his fight with Kid Buu

Yep, they done SSJ3 dirty, SSJ4 too.

Great video Thank you for giving SSJ3 the Credit it deserves. And interesting theory SSJ 3 is my favorite form. I like the Cost of the form, it created tension. Could SSJ 3 defeat someone before the power ran out??

Super Saiyan 3 was like the coolest form in DBZ and Goku's strongest form as well in DBZ. However, once DBS started, SS3 Goku was made like a joke against Beerus, and Goku only used SS3 a few times in DBS. They never made Goku master SS3 to prevent the mass Ki-consumption without his Saiyan tail.

Super and GT didn't need to push those forms, they just did because they are evil. SSJ2 and SSJ3 were the most badass forms in Z.

The way I see it is that base state is walking, you can do it endlessly. Super saiyan is running. At first it will tire you out but the more you run the easier it will feel and in the end you’ll be able to do ultra marathons. Super saiyan 2 is a race pace run. You can hold it for a long time, but before long you will start getting tired. Super saiyan 3 is a sprint, it’ll tire you out quickly and there isn’t a way to train it for long distance but its speed is unmatched.

Super saiyan 5 could have been SS4 with spiky golden hair. And then 6 even spikier and without eyebrows.

Hearing another Welshman talking dragon ball takes me back to my school days

In terms of transformations it came out perfect. The works of Akira Toriyama and the combined works that make up the franchise are just chefs kiss, truly the pinnacle of Anime worldwide

Tbh, plotwise, SSJ3 seems like a x10 power up from SSJ2. But all of the databooks, at least from what I have heard, say it is a x4 boost from SSJ2. 4:57 Kid Buu is NOT the strongest form of Buu, he is just the most deadly because he is using 100% of his power 100% of the time, and is basically a wild animal that likes destroying everything. All the other Buu's could think and strategize, Kid Buu didn't have that and couldn't do that.

I like to think that ss3 is a somewhat supernatural transformation. Goku was only able to explore and tap into that power after being in the other world. (The depiction of goku ss3 with the halo and aura has an angelic resemblance). It wasn’t meant to be achieved as a mortal , and Gotenks was only able to do it through the power and increased ability of the fusion. It’s a form very unique to goku and touched upon his death experience and detachment from humanity which is why I never saw vegeta nor gohan ever achieving that form

I love this!

"This form extracts every drop of potential from a Saiyan's blood" Should be way more Unique then just a 4 x Multipler. Should be as it describes a potential unlock and or maybe a special set of powers rather then just a strength boost

SSJ3 was one of my favorites. Looked awesome.

Still one of my favourite forms, i'm glad they introduced a full powered version of it.

Speaking of SSJ 3 I have 2 Goku SSJ 3 Action Figuarts 1 is Tamashi Nation SH figuart

The song Open Wings being the intro to this video brought up so much Nostalgia from all the Dragon Ball games I played growing up 🤣 especially Raging Blast 2. I'd love if Sparking Zero came out with a classic soundtrack DLC or something, I'd definitely be jaming to the old soundtracks while playing 🤣

SSJ3 probably had this big flaw, eating energy faster than anything else.. But wouldn't that be great for stamina and endurance training? Just like Goku and Gohan did back in the Cell saga - Staying SSJ 24/7, do the same with SSJ3. Stay in that form for along as you could.

I also always loved the crazy power yet at a price dynamic if SSJ3

Wrath of the movie and fusion reborn arent canon to original Z.

Imagine if Goku mastered the SSJ3 form like he did with the original SSJ. It felt like we never saw Goku truly become comfortable with this form. He should’ve just spent a year staying SSJ3 all day until he could do it flawlessly

There's a reason my main Guy and one of my two girl OC's in Xenoverse mains SSJ3, if they won't give it love and master it so you can hopefully overcome it's issues to wield it's power with no issues, then I'll make those two do it, lol.

I don't have a single daizenshu but I gotta go get one so I can cry.

Hey, i remember you had a list of multipliers from a guide saying how much stronger someone had to be to tank damage. What guide is it from?

No, i will not go cry against the wall with my daizenshuu and here's why. Because i have my oh so soft Android 18 and Android 21 body pillows to provide me with comfort in the presence of all this blasphemy.

So here is my logic ssj is x50 ssj2 should be 50 squared not 50x2. ssj3 should be 50 cubed. And thats not even counting the boost from the Grades 1-4 of ssj

Great video 😂

What if Super Saiyan 3 was BETRAYED and TRAPPED in the Time Chamber for 749339 billion years Part 6438

SSJ3 was amazing. No other form hit me like this one did. And it made sense, pushing hard to obtain a short lived insane amount of ki to deal with a stronger opponent. It was as efficient as the first two forms but the short burst in power made sense.

I think the lost of tail prevent ssj3 from reaching it full potential

I wish the tail didn't get cut from the ssj3 design. I really like it on there. More primal.

Super Saiyan 3 is ugly? One of the most beautiful in my opinion. Just me though.

Imagine SSJ4 but with long golden hair and golden fir and no eyebrows, that's how I imagine SSJ4 through using SSJ3 first, then Ozaru.

You know that I wouldn't mind seeing the ssj3 with his tail back just back in Gt I just think that it'll be great to see if that would happen.

SS3 always has been my favorite transformation. Because it was totally different

My head cannon is with the Ozaru form being a 10 times multiplier and, as you mentioned in video, SSJ 3 having to be more than a 4 times multiplier over SSJ2 to perform the way it did, that SSJ3 would utilize the Ozaru multiplier on SSJ1…making it a 5x multiplier over SSJ2. One additional multiplier doesn’t seem like much but that’s an extra Cell games Gohan level of power added on. That is not a small bump in power.

I never really thought about it before but it's kinda strange that there was nothing different about Gohan's ozaru form since he's a half sayin. I'm surprised he didn't have more control over the form or something because of his humanity or have his great ape form look like a hybrid of human and ape like SSJ4.

I really like the SSJ3 form and I wish they did more with that, but I respectfully disagree with 2 things. Buuhan is the strongest buu, and ultimate Gohan is stronger than SSJ3 Goku

Watching this video, and thinking about the power boosts of EVERY other transformation, x4 does sound really stupid and hard to believe

To me ss3 was the incomplete ss4 form Pulling out the maximum ss power without transforming into the ape but still tapping into it to achieve the form So i think of ss4 as the true ss3 and ss3 being ss2 grade 2 or 3 and like ss grade 2 and 3 it has a massive drain on stamina So it would go Super sayian Grade 2( super vegeta) 3 (ultra trunks) Ss2 (gohan cell games) Grade 2 ( goku vs majin vegeta) 3 ( ss3 goku) Golden oozaru True super sayian ( ss4)

Imagine if the only reason SSJ3 wasn't discovered even sooner was the fact that all the Saiyans lost their tails.

What if SS3 is to SS4 what Grade 3 was to SSJ2/Grade 5? Also, even without the Oozaru animation, the manga power up and ape like brow alone indicate Son tapped into his Saiyan blood

betrayed form? you mean Super Saiyan 2 right? Joles aside, the build up was very short and its impact on the series is...nonexistant imo. You can argue it served as an indicator that Goku stands alone above the other Z fighters, but then later forms do its job better, I said to someone earlier today that I've always seen SSJ3 as the SSJ2 equivalent of SSJ Grade 3. Huge power with a huge drawback. This time it basically has a timer like fusion - even up to later story arcs like TOP or even GT if you use that timeline. It's a stepping stone that was never passed - so if you feel like it was betrayed because of that, that's fair. But when you compare to the forms before it, there's no build up or focus on improving it (or the state that came before it - instead it's just hinted at by Goku once. Reminds me of Trunks' implication of being stronger than Super Vegeta) For me SSJ3 was not betrayed because it felt thrown in rather than built toward. It was lucky to exist - we got a nice moment from it. Who doesn't love to go even further beyond? But that's where it stops for me, as it served little purpose outside of movies ( benig the plot-based all-or-nothing in GT sucked). So if you think it was underwhelming, yes its was and that's fine. But it was never hyped up in the canon to be anything significant either despite being the 'next step'. And being that does not mean it is meant to be significant. It's just a shame it had such an awesome moment ( 2 moments if you count Hirudegarn) just to be useless later on. But that's that. Not betrayal, just like Grade 2 and Grade 3 being unimportant after Cell isn't betrayal. They appeared again, sure, but did nothing of importance. If we saw that SSJ3 was to lead to a form even greater - a mastered form, then sure. It'd have been great to work toward that. But we never given that I guess

Okay so hear me out. Super saiyan 1 is the embodiment of rage in a saiyan's human form. Super saiyan 2 is the perfection of that form Super saiyan 3 is that form plus the oozaru power. Super saiyan 3 is the oozaru amp on top of the previous form. Totalling a 1000x amp. 50x2x10.

It's also worth noting Goku had just unlocked Super Saiyan 3 at the time he fought buu, so we never really got to see what it could do

4:33 Think that this is the Case because this version of Boo has no Stamina limit

I have always loved super saiyan 3 the very most of them all ever since i first saw it in the buu saga. even though some other transformations were more powerful. i always wanted to see super saiyan 3 Broly.

SSJ3 is like the SSJ equivilent of Kaioken. I know the video says it but i really mean that.

The golden forms was probably experimental forms whatever for them to stumble on during ascensions.

Hopefully we see ssj God ssj3 soon or even ui ssj3

I have that goku and vegeta unit in dokkan(the ssj3 goku on the thumbnail)

SSJ3 is always gonna be the rawest form imo

please make videos about Sand Land anime series

Yeah, at the time they had tails, but not anymore, and I kind of makes sense, because have Sayians are not primitive as their pure blooded counterparts

I always considered each super saiyan form has a symbol for one thing each! Super Saiyan 1 symbolizes fury. Super Saiyan 2 symbolizes a thunderstorm. Super Saiyan 3 symbolizes a Dragon. Super Saiyan 4 symbolizes Ape. Super Saiyan God symbolizes Fire. Last but not least super saiyan blue symbolizes Light. At least these are my opinions and thoughts on each forms.

Ss4 I s the imate form. Plu imagine if each transformation had its own special

My personal head canon since I was a child was that ssj3 was like the legendary ssj (broli). And that Gohan actually achieved this level first when he beat cell. Ssj2 is just ssj at full power. I know this isn’t true it’s just what i preferred to think and just made things make more sense to me

I would like too add that both super saiyan three and the great ape don’t have any eyebrows

I don’t think you understand how significant a times 4 boost is in dbz. Goku couldn’t even touch vegeta in base in the saiyan saga, he was getting completely bodied then a x3 kaioken made him superior to that vegeta, now imagine if goku could maintain a x4 at that point. Vegeta would have zero chance without great ape

You mean the form with the best music

Hypothetically how would Raditz’s SS1 form differ from a SS3 form

The Multiplier part is a bad argument 50 x 100 (SSJ 2) = 5,000 50 x 400 (SSJ 3) = 20,000 Is a massive difference

I never did like the trunks n Goten super Saiyan nor Gotenks at least at this time

The statements displayed here as evidence of Kid Buu being the most powerful really don't confirm that at all. The Kaioshin speak to Kid Buu being troublesome... his untameable, chaotic nature that can't be reasoned or baragained with. In the interview piece it's the interviewer using "most powerful" to frame their question. Yes, Toriyama didn’t refute those words, but doing so wouldn't have been to the point of the question. In every instance of Goku taking on Super Buu, Buutenks, and Buuhan, he refuses to fight head-on without fusing first. That points to Kid Buu < Super Buu and his respective transformations.

You could even call it TRAPPED and BETRAYED

Hold up not to start an argument or anything, but if you what you’re saying is true and Kid Buu is the strongest anime wise. Then how come when Goku got his life back from the Elder Kai, and pulled up to Earth with fusion in mind, didn’t fight Buutanks with his SSJ3 form. If Kid Buu was stronger then Buutanks? (I’m assuming Buuhan too) just asking a question lol Luv SSJ3 though 🔥

Super trio

YESSS 3 IS MY FAVORITE FORM. In xenoverse my only goal was get super sayian 3. For me the buu saga is best. Very unpopular opinion ik. Also gotenks rocked 3 which at the time was my favorite "character" of sorts. Technically 2 but i dont like kid trunks or goten that much so i consider gotenks a seperate character.

Why did SS3’s first transformation shake the world so much but not later uses of SS3 along with more powerful transformations?

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Super saiyan 3 and 4 are the best imho

I dont get why no one talks about how ss3 was toriyama stealing the aesthetic of Super Sonic the Hedgehog. Which was totally fair- cause super sonic was totally ripping off super saiyan.

Ssj3 is all raw power and 0 control but it does look badass af