The climax of Akira Toriyama's latest Dragon Ball Super series showed Goku's latest form, Ultra Instinct. Many mysteries still surround this incredible and aesthetically successful transformation. Over the years, Dragon Ball's star protagonist, Goku, has undergone increasingly impressive transformations that have taken his power far beyond fans' expectations. 🔥
Much to Vegeta 's dismay, as it seems that every time he or another character comes close to surpassing Son Goku's power, they undergo another incredible transformation that leaves everyone speechless. 😲
So continuing this tradition in the new Dragon Ball Super anime, Goku's latest form is by far the most powerful yet, marked by silver eyes and a blinding white haircut. As this new form diverges from the sequence of normal transformations characterizing the Super Saiyan, fans naturally have questions. What is Ultra Instinct? How to unlock it? What new skill does it grant? Here is everything you need to know about Goku's Ultra Instinct form in our Ultimate Guild ! 📖
1. ULTRA INSTINCT: WHAT IS IT?
Ultra Instinct is an ultimate technique that separates consciousness from the body, allowing its user to move and fight independently of their thoughts and emotions that are unique to the martial artist who masters it. This is an extremely difficult technique to master, even for Hakaishin . However, as seen in Dragon Ball Super, angels like Whis seem to have mastered him. As a result, it is known as the "state of the gods" (神の領域, kami no ryōiki) . 👼🏻
This technique only manifests as a transformation of Son Goku in the Dragon Ball Super anime and manga and is his most powerful form, previously transcending the Super Saiyan Blue form. Despite this, Beerus and the other gods recognize the completed form of the transformation, hinting that it may not be completely unique to Goku in the end. 😏
2. HOW DID GOKU ACHIEVE ULTRA INSCTINCT?
Son Goku managed to achieve the Ultra Instinct form thanks to his will to survive the destructive force of the spirit bomb, says Genkidama , which was transformed into a black hole after an intense struggle between Goku and Jiren when the spirit bomb reached its peak. This is how Whis explains it in the anime:
"The spirit bomb was the trigger. This meant that Goku was growing by absorbing the spirit bomb [...] In this great explosion, the power of the Genkidama that entered Goku and even stronger than this shock of power, Goku pierced the shell to the deepest potential within himself.”
3. HOW TO LEARN ULTRA INSTINCT?
Ultra Instinct is more than a power, a skill. It's a state of mind in its own right. This state can be achieved in real life, regardless of what others may think. Although it's not quite what you're thinking of as you won't transform into a super-powered Saiyan, it does require a lot of training to achieve it. 📚
Ultra Instinct is the process of acting purely on instinct, without any thought process constraints, it is much faster than normal human reaction and much more precise, but extremely difficult for an average person to achieve. Train yourself to concentrate in order to try to master it! 😉
4. WHAT IS GOKU’S LATEST TRANSFORMATION?
At the end of the Universe Survival saga in DBS, Goku's most technically mastered final form is obviously Ultra Instinct. But because Ultra Instinct isn't a true transformation per se but rather a technique, let's not really consider it a form of Goku in its own right. 📿
In the anime, with the resurgence of the Kaio-ken form after SSJ rendered it useless to use, Goku's current final form is the Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken x 20 (SSBKKx20) . In the DBZ manga, where the Kaio-ken technique is still abandoned and in complete obscurity, Goku's final form is Super Saiyan Blue .
5. WHY IS JIREN SO STRONG?
During the Tournament of Power , as you know, Goku faces Jiren and unlocks his Ultra Instinct form. Jiren stands up to Goku and so one might wonder how can he be so powerful compared to this new state. First of all Jiren is probably very old, much like Hit. He probably trained through regular methods and learned newer and more effective training methods while getting better every day.
Eventually, therefore, he probably reached a higher mental/enlightened state, this is explained as he is constantly seen meditating in the Dragon Ball Super anime and manga . And while we see Piccolo do it quite a bit too, in Jiren's case it almost seems like a part of his character. This mental state likely served as a more advanced method of "training", and perhaps even allowed him to access a form close to that of the Gods of Destruction.
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6. GOKU ULTRA INSTINCT IN DRAGON BALL FIGHTERZ
Like most characters in the fighting video game DBZ FighterZ , Goku Ultra Instinct features a variety of useful special moves. Each of them offers the character an interesting and unique playstyle. It 's important to remember the character's unique and versatile "auto-combo."
To perform this move , players need to press the light attack button 3 times, this will allow Goku to perform a unique animation with powerful functions. Unlike many characters, Goku's Ultra Instinct auto-combo allows the character to perform a powerful lateral shift. This allows Goku to reverse his attacking side when performing this auto combo. 🎮
Son Goku has a unique command array, or moves that are performed by pressing a direction and a particular attack button. His Forward Ki Blast button allows Goku to fire a Ki blast that covers in front and behind this character, making it a useful aggressive move and a defensive move. 💥
Goku's God State , achieved by performing a quarter circle forward and a light, medium, or heavy attack, provides the character with a powerful combo. The heavy version of the move grants Goku a bounce, which can create high damage combos. Goku also has a powerful invincible Dragon Punch style attack in his rear quadrant and light, medium, or heavy attacks.
The light version of this special move, called Godly Strike (神の一打) , is only invincible to projectiles, while the medium and heavy versions are completely invincible. This provides the character with even more powerful defensive abilities! 😉
7. ULTRA INSTINCT OR SUPER SAIYAN?
In Dragon Ball Z, the Super Saiyan (SSJ) form has allowed Goku to get out of many difficult situations and fights in the past, but his new Ultra Instinct technique is even more powerful because it is one of the last unlocked by Son Goku. However, allow us to qualify our remarks a little and compare these two very distinct transformations:
A. THE SUPER SAIYAN TRANSFORMATION
Super Saiyan is a transformation that certain Saiyans (like Vegeta and Goku) and half-Saiyans (like Gohan and Trunks) can undergo to increase their power. The form is usually brought on by intense rage. For example, Goku first transforms into a Super Saiyan in chapter 317 of the Dragon Ball manga during his fight with Frieza . Goku becomes furious after Frieza kills his friend Krillin, leading to this transformation.
In the years since, Goku and others have reached higher levels of Super Saiyan, going all the way to the perfected Super Saiyan Blue , which was achieved exclusively by Vegeta in the Dragon Ball Super manga. This form is said to be the most powerful iteration of the Super Saiyan, but it is still weak compared to the Ultra Instinct technique. 💨
B. ULTRA INSTINCT TRANSFORMATION
Ultra Instinct, also known as the "State of the Gods" as noted above, was first used by Goku in Dragon Ball Super during the Tournament of Power, a competition where champions from multiple universes are forced to fight each other. The losers' universes are destroyed, so the stakes have never been higher for Goku and the Z-Fighters, who is selected as one of his universe's champions.
Through training with Beerus , Goku will learn more about this new ability and he will even be able to temporarily achieve it during his fight with Moro and Jiren later. The technique separates the user's consciousness from their body, allowing them to fight unhindered by thoughts or emotions, greatly enhancing their power and speed.
Beerus and Whis later reveal to Goku that he was only able to achieve the Ultra Instinct Sign, an incomplete version of the technique, which is why Goku was only able to hold it so briefly.
8. CONTROLLED ULTRA INSTINCT
In the manga, Goku reflects on the teachings of all his past martial arts trainers, and by synthesizing everything he has learned, he is able to achieve the full form of the technique, called Autonomous Ultra Instinct , where Ultra Instinct Mastered. Unlike the Ultra Instinct sign, this one can be used for extended periods of time. To use the technique correctly, three steps must be taken:
- First, the user must clear their mind of all distractions to operate only on instinct. ⭐
- Then he must break out of his “self-limiting shell” and unleash his full inner potential. ✨
- The last step is finally to combine the first two steps without losing clarity or control. This may seem easy when boiled down to three steps, but Mastered Ultra Instinct is difficult to master even for gods, making Goku's ability to learn it particularly impressive. 🌟
The fact that Goku was unable to defeat Jiren with his Super Saiyan Blue form combined with the Kaioken technique , but was then able to defeat him using Ultra Instinct proves that this new state is much more powerful. But, don't get too attached, because in the end it's only a matter of time before Goku surpasses him too! 😏
If you want to deepen your knowledge about the famous hero of the series, we invite you to consult this article: 20 secrets about Goku's family .
