
Goku himself had little experience with the transformation, and performing it twice in a short time brought him to his knees and expended all of his remaining energy. SS3 Goku fighting Janemba, the first warrior to surpass Super Saiyan 3 in powerĭistracted Kid Buu, he was unable to recover the strength needed, thus draining his power completely and leaving him in a weakened, normal state where he could not even control the Spirit Bomb until his power was restored by the Namekian Dragon Balls.


Likewise, when Super Saiyan 3 Goku attempted to regain energy while Vegeta and Mr. For example, when Goku showed Babidi and Majin Buu the form, he cut his remaining temporal revival energy in half, and his third usage that was present only in the anime (as it was implied that he first achieved Super Saiyan 3 while training on Grand Kai's planet) had him return to Other World completely (in the manga however, Baba only told Goku that he had half an hour left, and he simply spent the remainder of his time before traveling back). However, with the enormous power, there are some very serious setbacks. According to the Daizenshuu, the Super Saiyan 3 form gives the user four times the strength of a Super Saiyan 2. (His subsequent transformations to the form were controlled enough to prevent such dramatic side-effects.) In addition, this power could be sensed even as far as the distance between Earth and Supreme Kai's planet, something that not only shocked Supreme Kai, Kibito, and Gohan, but worried them as well. Ku used this form on Earth, its power caused tidal waves and hurricanes and nearly shook the planet apart.

Gotenks Super Saiyan 3, the powerful and cocky fusion Super Saiyan 3's successor is Golden Great Ape and its successor is only mentioned in the Anime. The difference between Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 2, its predecessor, are immediately noticeable as speed, strength and endurance are all pushed past normal limits.

If the user has died and is not encumberedīy a living body, this strain is reduced somewhat, and additional energy depletion is minimized (such as in Goku's case). Where the third stage of Super Saiyan's purpose was 100% utilization of physical stamina, the purpose of the Super Saiyan 3 transformation is to increase the utilization of ki, and as a result, the transformation rapidly consumes the energy of the user, which leads to extended levels of fatigue, even long after powering down. Goku initiating his transformation in SSJ 3
