Quote Originally Posted by master of read View Post
to be even a bit more fair, there isn't many masters who could teach fighters to break into the superhuman levels of goku and the gang. the only ones i know of are roshi and the crane hermit. roshi doesn't take students anymore and the crane hermit fucked off to where ever launch went to. so it's expected that the martial artist of this era aren't up to snuff with goku and the gang since most of them are either ignorant of such things or are learning from satan. that might change since tien opened his own school though.
Yeah outside the main cast from Z, the number of fighters that was super human was pretty paltry. You have Tao (who was taught under the Crane School) then maybe Nam from the 21st and King Chopa from the 22nd? Nam probably an old man by the time cell was around, I think King Chopa was already retired and came back from retirement before losing to Goku early.