Uses for the Split Form Technique

I could see an argument that Piccolo and Tien's amazing Split Form Technique is actually fairly useless; I mean, come on, it only divides your power into different bodies! (Note: this article also works for spells like Doppelganger in Rifts and such).

However, under creative analysis, this argument does not stand up. Even within the context of the show, uses show up. For one, Piccolo uses Split Form Technique to train against himself within the Hyperbolic Time Room.

Of course, the small selection of characters in DBZ who know the technique (Piccolo, Tien, Cell) are obviously not the only people who could use it. And each individual character obviously has different uses. I won't list all or even many of them; for one, my feeble imagination :=) could not think of all of them, and I want to let players innovate. One excellent example, however, is what Dark Fred calls Divide & Conquer. When using this combination of moves, he splits up and lets his enemy annihilate one of his bodies. He then nails them with their own energy from 3 DF's using Strife & Skirmish!

However, I will list a few generic uses.

• One of the fairly obvious uses is the ability to be multiple places at once. This even holds true in combat. Take this scenario: Tien, pumped with power, hunts down a main enemy that needs to be tracked down before he escapes. Without Split Form, he could be held off by weaker enemies long enough for him to escape (we see some forms of this, such as Cell using Solar Flare to escape from the combined might of Gohan, Kamicollo and Krillin, despite their obvious superiority). But with Split Form, he could have 2 or 3 bodies handle some defenders while a fourth handles the escaping enemy.
• Another usage is to fight multiple people. This is simple: even if you could handle each enemy individually with great ease, all of them attacking at once could lead to your defeat. With Split Form, a powerful combatant can handle 4 enemies at one time without having to worry about all of their attacks.
• A great usage is to do things that don't require a level of power. The Divide & Conquer example is perfect: S&S changes little with power. Another good one is curing. You could have a level 1 using Elixirs, and he would be just as useful as a level 99 using Elixirs. This leads to people using Split Form to heal party members quickly.