<p>While Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks fought Super Buu, Piccolo stated that if a single ball was destroyed the entire set became useless.</p>

<p>It makes sense to think that the set just stays there looking like pretty trinkets. The balls turn to stone because (I assume) their magic was used up, but breaking a ball doesn't affect the magic of other balls.</p>

<p>This only applies to the Namekian copy balls. For the planet sized super dragon balls, we don't really have enough information</p>

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Bryan Tan
<p>I guess they'd be unsuable but would a new set need to be made then? Would the past set simply vanish or turn to stone?</p>

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Can a single dragon ball be destroyed? What would happen to the rest of them?
# Can a single dragon ball be destroyed? What would happen to the rest of them?
Posted by: username_0 on 2017-12-26
I guess they'd be unsuable but would a new set need to be made then? Would the past set simply vanish or turn to stone?
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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-26. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
While Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks fought Super Buu, Piccolo stated that if a single ball was destroyed the entire set became useless.

It makes sense to think that the set just stays there looking like pretty trinkets. The balls turn to stone because (I assume) their magic was used up, but breaking a ball doesn't affect the magic of other balls.

This only applies to the Namekian copy balls. For the planet sized super dragon balls, we don't really have enough information
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