Super Saiyan 4

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Power Progression

The table records documented breakthroughs and first demonstrations across the form’s users, rather than a single character’s leveling history.

Transformation Mechanics

Bloodline Evolution

• Super Saiyan 4 follows the ultimate awakening of the ancient Saiyan bloodline, rather than the spiritual and martial elevation associated with Super Saiyan God 155.
• Main-timeline Goku describes the GT pair’s transformation as pure Saiyan bloodline reversion, noting that they possess no godly ki 144.
• A strong foundation remains essential: Qin Feng explains that the final power of any Saiyan transformation depends on the user’s underlying strength 140.

Qin Feng’s Initial Method

• Foundation: Reaches the peak of Super Saiyan 3 Full Power through more than five years of training and actual combat 24.
• Trigger: Uses his retained tail and an Artificial Moon to enter the Great Ape state 24.
• Intermediate step: Plans to advance into a Golden Great Ape while preserving his reason; the passage shows golden aura engulfing his Great Ape body before the completed transformation 24 25.
• Control requirement: Losing control could, by his own estimate, destroy the planet. He therefore moves Android 18 far away before beginning 24.
• Uncertain explanation: Qin Feng attributes his unexpectedly clear mind to either his transmigrator soul or the system, but neither explanation is confirmed 24.
• Later use: Once attained, he transforms directly into Super Saiyan 4 during combat without repeating the displayed Artificial Moon sequence 43.

Appearance

Standard Form

Qin Feng’s initial transformation establishes the form’s principal features 25:

• Longer, thicker black hair resembling a lion’s mane.
• Red fur covering the upper body, with the chest and abdominal muscles exposed.
• Sharp golden eyes surrounded by red shading.
• A thick, flexible red Saiyan tail.
• A tall, muscular physique and an explosive aura.

GT Goku’s transformation enlarges his childlike body into a taller, more powerfully built figure. Reverting to base restores his smaller appearance 144 146.

User and Variant Differences

Abilities & Skills

Physical Power and Speed

• Qin Feng’s first completed transformation surpasses his Super Saiyan 3 Full Power state by a substantial margin 25.
• GT Goku’s Super Saiyan 4 overpowers his main-timeline counterpart’s Super Saiyan God in both a direct strength contest and a beam struggle 145.
• Broly’s version overwhelms Saibo, Clay, and Besso after they had challenged him in their ancestral Super Saiyan forms 222 224.

Endurance

• During the cross-timeline spar, Super Saiyan 4 remains stable under intense combat, with no major decline in stamina or internal energy 146.
• Main-timeline Goku compares its endurance to Super Saiyan God, contrasting it with the rapid consumption of his Super Saiyan Blue state 146.
• Stability does not prevent damage from weakening the form: after Omega Shenron’s attacks, GT Goku and Vegeta retain Super Saiyan 4 but have drastically reduced, unstable ki 139.

Full Power Super Saiyan 4

• GT Goku previously needed other Saiyans to pour energy into him to access this explosive state 146.
• Fighting Super Saiyan Blue with Tenfold Kaioken enables him to activate it independently 146.
• Gogeta later achieves his own Full Power breakthrough, described by the Grand Priest as raising his combat foundation by an entire dimensional tier 211.

Limit Full-Power Super Saiyan 4

• Developed by GT Goku and GT Vegeta through the absorption of five Saiyans’ bloodline power 159.
• The precursor ritual produces a major power increase without completing the transition into Super Saiyan God; Goku’s ki remains detectable to mortals 157.
• GT Goku presents it as his newest transformation and the full extent of his core power during the Tournament of Power 175.
• Its strength does not bypass Ultra Instinct’s automatic evasion: main-timeline Goku dodges GT Goku’s barrage while using Ultra Instinct -Sign- 197.

Super Saiyan 4 Red God Form

• Whis describes the form as seamlessly combining Super Saiyan 4’s berserk physical strength with Super Saiyan God’s higher divine laws 150.
• Its amplification is described as geometric rather than a simple addition of the two forms’ strengths 150.
• Qin Feng uses it against Lei Zuku, Yamoshi, and an advanced virtual training opponent 150 225 229.
• It remains compatible with Qin Feng’s learned techniques: he uses Time-Skip and Hakai Energy against Yamoshi, then Tenfold Kaioken during training. These are his abilities, not established innate properties of Super Saiyan 4 225 229.

Notable Battles and Limits

These encounters do not establish a universal ranking between Super Saiyan 4 and the divine forms. Qin Feng explicitly emphasizes the importance of each user’s base strength 140.

Further Evolution

• Super Saiyan 5: Qin Feng breaks his genetic limits through ultimate wrath. His black hair and red fur briefly turn silver-white before he later masters the transformation in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber 134 135.
• Later silver-white form: During subsequent training, Qin Feng displays a form resembling a fusion of Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4, with waist-length silver-white hair and scarlet eyes. He considers its power overwhelmingly superior to his Red God Form 230.

Trivia

• Earth’s Shenron cannot explain how to attain Super Saiyan 4, despite being able to describe the Super Saiyan God ritual. The narration attributes this gap to differences between space-time systems 83.
• GT Goku warns that stacking Kaioken with violent Super Saiyan energy can rupture the body; his own earlier attempts to use Kaioken in a Super Saiyan state had failed 146.
• Super Saiyan 4 Vegito appears fighting Kamba, but the supplied passage does not explain how that fusion or transformation was achieved 233.