It’s a multiplier depending of the user’s normal form. Trunks has increased the power of his normal form for his Super Saiyan 2 to be able to be as strong as Gokuh’s Super Saiyan 3.
Trunks’s Super Saiyan 2 is still Super Saiyan 2. Gokuh shows this in his battle against Toppo.
God and Super Saiyan 2 are on different levels of power. Steven Bloodriver wrote:Since Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Super showed it was possible to fully-master Super Saiyan 2, would it have surpassed Super Saiyan God, if let us say Goku had been able to have completely mastered his Super Saiyan 3 form in a similar fashion to Future Trunks?Īlso, if by some chance, you had ran into some trouble like Ribrianne, which of the 2 forms of Super Saiyan would you have chosen to confront the anathema with?