The days of Ultra Instinct are the most powerful and important transformation in the Dragon Ball Super officially coming to an end. With Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol set to release once Dragon Ball Super: Beerus finish redoing DBS anime, the series' power hierarchy will change forever. New forms are coming that will push Ultra Instinct Goku out of his place as the strongest Z-Fighter and deadliest in the multiverse.
Goku's best Ultra Instinct story is still not coming in Dragon Ball Super 2's Moro Saga, but after that it's all downhill for the franchise's greatest martial artist. New, stronger personal transformations will debut between Granolah the Survivor and the Super Hero Sagas, gradually pushing Goku into a corner as Ultra Instinct is surpassed. That doesn't mean Goku is weak – far from it – but Dragon Ball Super sets the stage for a future where Ultra Instinct Goku is humbled by stronger characters.
Gohan Beast & Black Frieza are now the most powerful personal forms
The Dragon Ball Super manga has made it very clear that Ultra Instinct is no longer the strongest personal form in the Dragon Ball. In Granolah the Survivor Saga, Frieza trains for ten years in a hyperbolic time chamber, unlocks his Black Frieza form, and effortlessly destroys Awakened Gas, True Ultra Instinct Goku, and Ultra Ego Vegeta in a few pages. IN Dragon Ball Super: Super HeroGohan unlocks his Beast form, which Chapter 103 of the manga confirms is indeed much stronger than Perfected Ultra Instinct.
In it Dragon Ball Super manga, Gohan Beast is not only faster than Perfected Ultra Instinct Goku's instant reflexes, he is much more powerful and knocks Goku out of PUI with a strong punch. Goku has fallen far behind both his greatest enemy in the world and his own son. Now that Goku has perfected the form, Ultra Instinct has seemingly reached the peak of its power, meaning that both Gohan Beast and Black Frieza will remain stronger than UI Goku, unless he miraculously manages to further mutate the transformation.
Ultra Ego & True Legendary Super Saiyan has more potential than ultra instinct
Not only do Frieza and Gohan surpass Goku, so do Broly and Vegeta. Following Dragon Ball Super: Brolys release, Saikyo Jump confirmed that Broly could have defeated Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta if he gained control of his Full Power Super Saiyan form and transformed himself into a true Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly ends up unlocking the TLSSJ while fighting the Gohan Beast Dragon Ball Super Chapter 103. With so much room for his power to grow, Broly will quickly surpass Perfected Ultra Instinct Goku, if he hasn't already.
Then there's Vegeta. Vegeta unlocked Ultra Ego while fighting Granolah in the manga and gained a Power Boost that rivaled Ultra Instinct Goku at the time. Unlike Ultra Instinct, which prioritizes defensive and evasive moves, techniques and counters, Ultra Ego is all about raw power. The more damage Vegeta takes, the stronger he becomes. The longer a battle goes on, his power level rises. Ultra Ego's only downside is that Vegeta can't accurately measure how much stamina he has left, but Ultra Ego still has a lot of room to grow, unlike Ultra Instinct.
Goku has officially unlocked a new transformation
Although not canon for the manga, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 actually introduced an entirely new form for Goku: the Ultra Supervillain Quelled, or Ultra Superhero as it is colloquially known by fans. Ultra Superhero is the result of Perfected Ultra Instinct Goku successfully resisting the corruption of Fu's Ultra Supervillain infection. Ultra Supervillain Quelled Goku gets all the power buffs from Fu's corruption, with no drawbacks whatsoever.
Ultra Supervillain Quelled Goku is stronger than Gohan Beast, meaning he is much more powerful than Perfected Ultra Instinct Goku from the end of Dragon Ball Super manga. It is not likely that Goku will unlock Ultra Superhero i Dragon Ball Super manga itself, but with how much stronger the rest of the Z-Fighters are getting, and Goku more or less reaching the end of his Ultra Instinct journey, a new form or evolution could be on the way in the Black Frieza Saga.
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Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball DAIMA
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Dragon Ball
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Akira Toriyama
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Dragon Ball DAIMA
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Dragon Ball DAIMA
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February 26, 1986
