Perfected Ultra Instinct

This article is about the completed state. For its predecessor, see Ultra Instinct Sign. For the ability, see Autonomous Ultra Instinct (ability). For other uses, see Ultra Instinct (disambiguation).

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"Look at that brilliant form... There can be no doubt! This is the true power, complete in all its majesty! This is... Autonomous Ultra Instinct!" — Beerus filled with overflowing joy as he comments on Goku completing Autonomous Ultra Instinct in "A Transcendent Limit Break! Autonomous Ultra Instinct Mastered!"

Autonomous Ultra Instinct
身み勝がっ手ての極ごく意い
Migatte no Goku'i
Alternate names	Completed Ultra Instinct Perfected Ultra Instinct Selfish Doctrine Ultra Instinct Perfected
Debut	Anime: "A Transcendent Limit Break! Autonomous Ultra Instinct Mastered!" Manga: "Ultra Instinct" Game: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
Users	Goku
Color	(hair, eyes, and eyebrows),       (purple aura), &       (blue aura), &       (magenta aura with sparkling particles)
Class	Transformation
Similar Techniques	Super Full Power Perfected Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken

Autonomous Ultra Instinct (身み勝がっ手ての極ごく意い, Migatte no Goku'i, lit. "Secret of selfishness") is an extremely powerful transformation that is obtained through the completion of Autonomous Ultra Instinct, far surpassing the Ultra Instinct Sign form.

Overview

Appearance

Toriyama's art of Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku

This form is essentially identical to the initial state of Ultra Instinct Sign, albeit with the user's hair becoming silver in color. The hairstyle is slightly wilder and more solid than normal, having no loose strands. The eyes take on a more stern, defined shape, sporting silver-colored irises, and visible pupils. Also, in the manga, the user generally has a focused but calm expression.

In the anime, the user gains a complex silver and blue aura consisting of rippling, fire-like energy, complete with sparkling particles of a magenta color. 

In the manga, the user gains the complex silver and blue aura consisting of rippling, fire-like energy without the sparking particles of the magenta color.

Also, in the anime, the user's muscles remain virtually the same mass and definition. while in the manga, the user's musculature becomes slimmed down like Super Saiyan God.

Upon the user's first successful transformation into Autonomous Ultra Instinct, a "shell" of black and bright white covers the body before crumbling away as the hair fades from glowing white to gray. A similar effect has been seen in Super Saiyan Blue. In the anime, the transformation's extreme energy rips away the user's clothing on their torso while in the manga, their clothing remains unaffected. In Toriyama's artwork and Super Dragon Ball Heroes (both the game and manga), the form possesses Goku's Super Saiyan God hair and eyes albeit silver.

In the anime, while dodging or evading, Goku's movements in this form leave afterimages. His voice also remains deeper and rougher like the previous state, though he still speaks his own tongue. 

Usage and Power

In this state, Goku's power skyrockets above what it was previously, making him the strongest he has ever been in history, ranking among the most powerful entities in the multiverse. It is also stated to surpass the gods. In promotional material for the anime Goku (in either Ultra Instinct Sign's final usage or in this complete state) it is recognized by even Beerus to be possibly superior to him in power. In the manga, this form allows Goku to match full power Jiren thanks to it exploiting openings in his guard - causing him to refer to it as not being true strength like he has. Later, Merus comments that when Goku dominate this capacity, no enemy (mortal or divine) is able to overcome him in combat, making him essentially unbeatable.

Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku cloaked in a black and white aura

In the anime, the intensity of Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku's power was so great that his shirt was completely shredded when activated. In addition to this form's vast levels of power, it retains its strengthening effect on Goku's Saiyan Power ability, allowing his speed, power, general efficiency, and ki to increase as he continues to fight an equally or even more powerful opponent. Its most notable trait is that it grants Goku complete mastery over Autonomous Ultra Instinct, making all of his moves automatic and able to both defend and counterattack with ease without being hindered by the thoughts that previously made Goku's use of Autonomous Ultra Instinct imperfect, as Goku had let go of all of his doubts and live in the moment to fully understand Whis' teachings; thus allowing him to access the full potential of his fighting ability. Despite being a form that acts on neutral impulse, it can still channel his rage to amplify its power to staggering new levels, as shown when Goku's initial stalemate against the limit-breaking Jiren became a crushing assault that quickly pummeled Jiren into submission after Goku's fury at Jiren's shameless attack on the spectators. He also displayed such vast Ki control that he could calmly repel and contain any energy assault thrown at him.

Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku during his battle with Jiren

Once attaining Autonomous Ultra Instinct, Goku was able to completely negate Jiren's fully powered Power Impact, as he caught the attack in his hand, crushed it into a smaller orb, then calmly disintegrated it by just flicking his hand. He was also able to dispel Jiren's Infinity Rush with a simple wave of his hand. He was so fast that he was even able to dodge Jiren's punch and counterattack simultaneously in one flowing movement with such speed, it was impossible to see what Goku actually did. When Jiren angrily charged at him, Goku calmly dodged the attack and then bombarded him again with a rapid flurry of punches, before knocking him down from the pillar, leaving all the grand deities in the universe in awe of his might, with all the Gods of Destruction standing up and even Beerus praising and showing envy at Goku for his newfound power and completion of Autonomous Ultra Instinct.

Upon facing a fully-powered Jiren, Goku was able to move so fast that not only did he leave a cut on Jiren's cheek, but also produced delayed shockwaves from the sheer force of his speed. During the battle, Goku calmly dominated Jiren, as he effortlessly blocked, dodged, and countered all of Jiren's attacks, along with being able to effortlessly blast through Jiren's Power Impact with his own Energy Blast, and swiftly pummeled him to the point of leaving the Pride Trooper visibly injured and tired.

When Jiren unlocked his hidden power and prepared to fight Goku, Goku was still able to fight on par against him in hand-to-hand combat. However, Goku became somewhat overwhelmed by Jiren's raw power as the battle progressed, as he was sent flying when Jiren used his energy upon blocking Jiren's punch and was injured by a powerful Power Impact, which overpowered his Supreme Kamehameha. Despite this, Goku was able to quickly recover without being hindered at all by the damage he sustained and faced Jiren once again, but with even greater speed and power than before as he continuously either evaded or blocked most of Jiren's assaults and after a long standstill, eventually landed blows so powerful that he left Jiren temporarily unable to fight.

Goku achieves the complete Autonomous Ultra Instinct

After deflecting Jiren's Power Impact when he attacked Goku's friends, Goku's rage increased the power of his Autonomous Ultra Instinct form even further. From then on, Goku was able to decisively overpower Jiren, landing solid blows and effectively evading and countering all of Jiren's attacks such as his multiple Power Impacts, Invisible Strikes, and rapid punches before finally blasting him away with a Supreme Kamehameha and leaves him weakened in a crater, causing the mighty Pride Trooper to admit defeat.

As Goku prepared to finish Jiren off, the great power of Ultra Instinct took a toll on Goku, causing his body to endure tremendous pain and revert him to his base form.

In the manga, Goku achieves this form when Jiren starts using a lot of his power, with this state Goku easily outmaneuvers and overwhelms the non-fully-powered Jiren, however Jiren powers up to his maximum the two battle evenly, with Goku's Autonomous Ultra Instinct form eventually wearing out and putting him at a disadvantage until Vegeta comes to assist him.

During the climax of the final battle against Moro, Merus tells Goku that, thanks to the training he spent with the angel, he is one step closer to fully dominating the Autonomous Ultra Instinct's state. Once he is inspired by Merus' sacrifice, Goku manages to activate the state at will to the point of being able to shake the entire planet. He was then able to overpower Moro in such a way that his power had been praised by Beerus as having at last achieved the style of the gods.

Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku in Super Dragon Ball Heroes

In Super Dragon Ball Heroes, Goku took on the Autonomous Ultra Instinct state once more. In the manga, Goku took the form when Xeno Vegito was in trouble because of Super Saiyan 3 Cumber and proceeded to take Xeno Vegito's place in fighting, though he and Cumber never finished their battle. In the anime, Goku took the form when Xeno Goku and Xeno Vegeta were about to be mowed down by Cumber's Désastre Eraser. He nullified the attack and proceeded to batter down the ancient Saiyan, much to his counterpart's awe. After firing a Supreme Kamehameha that took Cumber out from the count, Goku reverts to his base form, emerging seemingly unscathed and fine from Autonomous Ultra Instinct's limitations. A similar occurrence took place later on, Goku re-enters the form again when fighting against Kamioren in their Ultimate form and after firing a Kamehameha and following up with a punch that shattered the merged Machine Mutant to pieces, Goku reverts to his base form exhausted. Goku afterward seemed to believe that using Ultra Instinct he could have stood up to Hearts in his Ultimate Godslayer form, but seeing as he didn't know when he would be able to use it again he opted to fuse with Vegeta instead.

Limitations

In spite of the form's incredible levels of power, it has its faults. This form has a drawback of costing high stamina, making each exertion very stressful. It is also noted by Whis and Belmod that this problem can be overcome with enough proper training, making it impractical for users after just obtaining it.

Blood erupts from Goku's body from over-exceeding his limits

Goku enduring intense pain

In the anime, similar to the reckless over-usage of Kaio-ken, the user can only sustain the sheer power of the form for a minute or so before their body breaks down from pushing so far beyond their natural limits. The time limit ending is shown from blood rupturing from the user's body as well as dark-black ki with purple electrical shocks that will cause severe pain and eventually force them into unconsciousness. Whis also noted it could potentially kill the user.

In the manga, initially the form simply runs out after a relatively short period of time, leaving Goku without even enough energy to become a Super Saiyan. Compared to the anime the decline in performance is more subtle and gradual, becoming more obvious with the growing signs of fatigue before finally dropping out of the form completely.

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Goku's Ultra Instinct runs out

Moreover, Goku apparently attained Autonomous Ultra Instinct purely by accident, as the next time he discussed it with Vegeta, Goku replied that he is unable to tap into its power at will, meaning that the form can only appear if Goku is in extreme danger.

Through training, Goku developed the ability to utilize the Ultra Instinct Sign at will. Merus points out that at that point, Goku was just one step away from achieving this and when he does, he will be able to access it whenever he wants and thanks to having become stronger he will be able to keep it stable. Goku now is able to access it following Merus' erasure.

Using the Autonomous Ultra Instinct requires proper control of one's emotions.

Video Game Appearances

• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
• Super Dragon Ball Heroes
• Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
• Dragon Ball FighterZ

Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku card for Super Dragon Ball Heroes

Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku appears in Xenoverse 2 as part of the Extra Pack 2 DLC. His voice also has an echo added to it in this form.

During the DLC 11 update, Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku gets a new variation of the Kamehameha called Divine Kamehameha as another skill set variation.

In Super Dragon Ball Heroes Universe Mission 5, Goku regained the state after having been beaten down by Super Saiyan 3 Cumber, and eventually defeated him with it.

Ultra Instinct appears as a transformation for the UR version Ultra Instinct Sign Goku in Dokkan Battle, released just a few hours after his fight against Jiren that is unlocked after your HP falls below a certain threshold. In this state, he becomes stronger, has a chance to evade enemy attacks, and will the enemy's guard. However, he loses the defense boost from his Sign state, turning him into a "Glass Cannon" once he transforms.

Ultra Instinct Goku appears in FighterZ as part of its Season 3 DLC.

Trivia

• Autonomous Ultra Instinct was designed by Akira Toriyama, but it underwent several changes in the anime and video game versions. The hair spikes are more sluggish; which is more similar to Ultra Instinct Sign while the original design closely resembles Super Saiyan God.
• The idea of silver hair may have come from the fact that Akira Toriyama originally wanted Super Saiyan Blue to have white hair. However, he decided against it because it would clash with "the next villain" (at the time this was stated, the Universe 6 Saga was ongoing).

Goku appears similar to Autonomous Ultra Instinct for a moment

• In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Goku appears to take on Autonomous Ultra Instinct for an instant while transforming from Super Saiyan God into Super Saiyan Blue to combat Broly.
  • However, the hairstyle is similar to the regular Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan Blue.
• When first assuming the Autonomous Ultra Instinct, Goku is covered in a bright white sheen, while his features are painted black and blue. In this state, Goku's hairstyle also appears similar to his Super Saiyan form.
• Unlike the incomplete state, Goku loses his dual-voice when he grunts, yells or screams in the original Japanese version, while in the Funimation dub, he retains it. The former version even applies this in the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime.

Gallery

Art of the form Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku V-Jump scan Toriyama art of Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku Goku achieving Autonomous Ultra Instinct and creating a galaxy-like aura Full body shot of Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku in Dragon Ball Super Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku's face close-up in Dragon Ball Super Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku's eye close-up Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku standing in front of Jiren Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku dodging Jiren's punch Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku without an aura. Goku achieves Autonomous Ultra Instinct to fight with Moro Goku tearing away his gi Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku in the UM1 trailer for Super Dragon Ball Heroes Goku achieves Autonomous Ultra Instinct to fight Cumber Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku facing Cumber Super Saiyan 3 Cumber manages to grab Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku in Super Dragon Ball Heroes UM5 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku upper body shot Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku vs. Kamioren Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku performing the Kamehameha Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku after he transforms in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku as he appears in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku preparing a Kamehameha in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku powering up in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku preparing his attack in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku launching his attack in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku dodging an attack from Jiren in Xenoverse 2 Full body view of Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku in Xenoverse 2 Autonomous Ultra Instinct Goku in FighterZ