Talk:The Future's Last Hope Super Saiyan Trunks (Future)/@comment-28403591-20170523145311/@comment-5067531-20170525202058

Original SSJ is unlocked through rage, SSJ2 is unlocked by literally being strong enough as a SSJ, which is how both Goku and Vegeta achieved it

The only reason the first transformation into SSJ2 was caused by rage was because Gohan had trouble tapping into his full potential unless he was in a state of rage, which essentially suppressed his insecurities to allow him go all out(just think of it as him being too angry to care), which just happened to tip him over to SSJ2 territory by the time he fought Cell.

As for Rage being the "true" SSJ3... eh, I prefer to imagine that SSJ can "branch" off into different transformations after a point(if you think about it, Bluper Saiyan branches off their base form with Saiyan Beyond God), and that Super Saiyan Rage is simply a different "branch" from SSJ2, as for power... it IS worth remembering that Trunks could fight off Rosé Black and Zamasu on his own thanks to it, even if he was losing and sustaining injuries, he was still lasting, when before he had trouble fighting off base form Black with his SSJ2, granted, power scaling in Super is all over the place, but that is still to keep in mind