Combat Teleportation vs After Image Fight Mechanics

[Vad]

It irks you that the ability to detect people ruins the "run and hide plan"? That's... pretty much the point of detection.

It irked me because I felt he was shooting down my want to question it just because it could be stopped. I am fully aware of it being countered. That doesn't mean I'm going to drop it and call it quits.

It absolutely was used in the show. Hell, in the very first fight with Raditzu it's used. Or the scene where it looks like someone is shooting beams through Goku. Or the fight with Cell.

While Josh's post was largely irrelevant to the central point of the thread, that doesn't make it wrong. Quite the opposite. Pure speed is exactly what After Image is.

While I would love to talk show with you I don't really feel it would help this thread. I chalk this to my ADD ability to contradict myself...that or me forgetting something. Which happens.

In the description of the Technique, using the boost of ki to increase speed is what creates the After Image. It's not like it's some image made out of ki.

That's what I'm implying. I was trying to say that I could flee with it. Or can't I?

Again, yes. The "delay" however, isn't part of Combat Teleportation. It's a part of the thought process of whoever is doing the chasing. If you're trying to run from someone who had both Ki Sense and Combat Teleportation, for example, you'd stand virtually no chance. Throw in as much fancy zig-zaging as you want, but they're still going to know where you went and they're still going to be move from point A to point B in zero seconds.

Looking at it from an OOC stand point, yeah. There is no chance of it working with Ki Sense and CT, but in a fight Vad would use it anyway. And being him, if it didn't work he would not use it again.