ComicBook has published a new ranking of the three most powerful techniques in Dragon Ball — the moves so decisive that, in the site's framing, no opponent can win against them.

It's fertile ground for a list. Across decades of serialization, Akira Toriyama's franchise introduced an arsenal of signature attacks and transformations that became shorthand for the entire battle-shonen genre, from energy techniques that define climactic fights to forms that reset the series' power scaling every time they appear. The new piece narrows that sprawling catalog down to the three that function as genuine trump cards.

The framing speaks to Dragon Ball's staying power more broadly. Years after its debut — and with the franchise still producing new anime, manga and merchandise — ComicBook argues its legacy remains unmatched by any other series in the genre. Technique rankings like this one keep doing numbers for a simple reason: Dragon Ball's power system is the one every subsequent shonen gets measured against, and fans never tire of relitigating which moves sit at the top of it.