Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27996636-20170814181056/@comment-28063230-20170903191812

Shame, I was expecting a Gohan+Piccolo episode.

I knew there were gonna be lots of characters being eliminated easily, 10 warriors each participating universe was just too much.

While I wouldn't say this episode was bad, it was more of the same, Goku taking more screen time than needed. We know he's gonna faced Jiren, so he'll get his screen time and (underwhelming) new form anyway, so letting the other characters have more time than Goku right now, would be the right choice.

Darthhue wrote: maybe to make it more logical, make it mandatory  to do something that goku is too innocent to know about. This way it makes sense that he didn't become a SSG Before. Well, in the manga he didn't took long to use it, it was in the U6 Vs U7 Tournament, so the "why he never used it before?" wasn't an issue.

Still, for those that love defending the anime with their head-canon, you could say Goku just trained to be able to do it at will, REMEMBER he already turned SSG without the ritual in BoG, he just didn't knew how.