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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by Quebaz » Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:31 pm

Budokai 1: Super Saiyan Goku (has the highest stats in the game)
Budokai 3: Either Kid Buu or Omega Shenron (Kid Buu for being short and really fast and his supers do really high damage, Omega Shenron mostly for his Dragon Thunder exploits in combos)
Tenkaichi series: SSJ4 Gogeta or Kid Buu (Both are extremely fast and have annoiyng rush attacks)
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:09 pm

Super DBZ sounds like fun!

I'm surprised that it sounds like Whis and Bills aren't more powerful in their games.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:51 am

I think in the DBZ SNES RPG that it's possible to use "body switch" with Ginyu. Ie, he can use it on Freeza's first form but in the next battle he goes back to being Ginyu. (note- I think you can "recruit" him by having him possess a character and then killing the character he possessed)

Ginyu can also do a body switch in the Genesis fighting game but, it's very difficult to pull if. If properly mastered it would make for the toughest spam in any DBZ game.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:32 pm

GT Final Bout was originally planned and expected to be the final DBZ game of all time cause, hey- why would there still be interest in making DBZ games long after the series has ended? :P

SSJ 4 Goku was thus designed to be the strongest DB gaming character of all time.... well, at least for his time. As a result he's tremendously OP. I actually avoided playing him for that reason since he essentially could just slap the enemy down with little effort.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:47 pm

Based on responses I've heard....


1. Final Bosses
2. Vegetto/Gogeta
3. Anyone who is SSJ 3/4.
4. Tough, short characters (SSJ chibi Trunks)

Seem to be the respective "gods" of their games. This tend to be the pattern, although occasionally some random characters will break through this pattern.

After all, in order for certain characters to shine brightly, others simply can't stand out as much. Whether "fair" or not, the games would be dull if all characters were equally strong and these differences are able to offer more variety as well as unique and individual challenges to players.

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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:35 am

Pure Buu is too damn overpowered. In pretty much every game he appears in. The main problem tends to be that he's just too goddamn fast, with tons of spammable moves. This is especially annoying given that in the actual source material he's one of the weakest forms of Majin Buu.

Aside from him, I'd nominate Super Buu in Budokai 2/3, Captain Ginyu in any game that doesn't nerf his Body Change move to the point of uselessness, and Android 20 in Budokai 2.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:02 am

I think it makes sense he's the strongest- he's the absolute final enemy in the entire game, the guy standing between you and total victory.

Sure he's cheap and annoying but that just makes beating him all the more satisfying. :)


(I am disappointed that Bills and Whis don't seem to be god-like given that, well, they are kinda god-like in the canon....)
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by KentalSSJ6 » Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:04 pm

A easy way to find the most OP in Budokai 3 is set the difficulty to Z3 mode then have the computer fight itself with the games best characters. Just have them go first to 10.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by Luso Saiyan » Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:57 pm

KentalSSJ6 wrote:A easy way to find the most OP in Budokai 3 is set the difficulty to Z3 mode then have the computer fight itself with the games best characters. Just have them go first to 10.
Z1, Z2 and Z3 are not difficulty levels, but AI stat boosts that only apply to the story mode. Z3 = Very Hard as far as AI difficulty goes.

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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:33 pm

Luso Saiyan wrote:
KentalSSJ6 wrote:A easy way to find the most OP in Budokai 3 is set the difficulty to Z3 mode then have the computer fight itself with the games best characters. Just have them go first to 10.
Z1, Z2 and Z3 are not difficulty levels, but AI stat boosts that only apply to the story mode. Z3 = Very Hard as far as AI difficulty goes.
Would it be that hard to hack the game to have the A.I. fight themselves over and over?

Not just for this but other DBZ games as well?
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by Luso Saiyan » Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:17 am

GS7X7 wrote:Would it be that hard to hack the game to have the A.I. fight themselves over and over?
You don't need to hack, Budokai 3 has that option already.

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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by GS7X7 » Mon Sep 08, 2014 2:18 pm

Luso Saiyan wrote:
GS7X7 wrote:Would it be that hard to hack the game to have the A.I. fight themselves over and over?
You don't need to hack, Budokai 3 has that option already.
I meant for other games like Budokai 1 and 2.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by TheOverlyMadHatter » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:17 pm

For players:
(This will mostly include characters that are unbalanced when compared to the rest of the roster. With skill, almost any character can be good.)
-Gogeta SSJ4: Laughably powerful in most of his incarnations.
-Kid Boo in the RB series: I swear, half the people online always used this guy. It's a good thing that after playing against so many times that he becomes predictable, but still. >.>
-Super Yi Xinglong in B3: 7 ki bars from the get-go shouldn't be a thing...

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-Gotenks (B3's Dragon Universe): Giving a character infinite Ki when the Highest difficulty has him teleport after 90% of your hits and spams Hyper Mode is a cocktail for disaster.
-Most of the BT3 characters you're not supposed to win against in Story Mode: Yes, I actually bothered with this to see what would happen.

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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:53 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:Pure Buu is too damn overpowered. In pretty much every game he appears in. The main problem tends to be that he's just too goddamn fast, with tons of spammable moves. This is especially annoying given that in the actual source material he's one of the weakest forms of Majin Buu.

Aside from him, I'd nominate Super Buu in Budokai 2/3, Captain Ginyu in any game that doesn't nerf his Body Change move to the point of uselessness, and Android 20 in Budokai 2.
Only during Dragon World is Super Buu ever remotely a challenge in Budokai 2 (mainly because he'll absorb Gotenks or Gohan if he ever beats them). Otherwise, he's actually one of the worst characters in the game. He's definitely no pushover in Budokai 3 though.

I'd also have to say SSJ4 Gogeta. In Budokai 3/Infinite World, his attack percentage is 180%. Big Bang Kamehameha and x100 Big Bang Kamehameha are extremely lethal, and on top of that, he has infinite ki. Even considering his timer he can still slaughter someone in one go. In the Tenkaichi games, he attacks super fast (not so much in the first one though) and his strength is way up there. He has no weakness at all, only strengths.
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Post by Lord Beerus » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:56 pm

It's a toss between Kid Buu in... well... any Dragon Ball game and Omega Shenron in Infinite World.

Kid Buu was insanely fast and spammed that bullshit Vanishing Ball constantly. And the worst part is that it could hit you while you were down. Which is an incredibly cheap gimmick in my opinion when it comes to fighting games. But once you found the right rhythm you could beat kind of easily, going back to Budokai 2 every now and then I can kick Buu's ass easily.

Omega Shenron... *shudders* Just broken and cheap in every way. And it doesn't help that the AI on just the regular setting is very hard. Like pushing Z-Difficulty in Budokai 3 hard. And seven bars of heath. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea!? :x I know Omega Shenron is hax powerful, but, damn...

Omega Shenron takes it for me as the most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time.

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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by MajinMan » Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:50 am

SSJ4 Gogeta is an obvious choice. I personally love using kid buu in budokai 3 because of his insane combos and because he starts with 6 ki bars. I made all my world tournament money with him.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by mcdonough88 » Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:05 pm

Goku in Hyper Dimension, he's just....extremely broken!

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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

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GS7X7 wrote:I'm surprised that it sounds like Whis and Bills aren't more powerful in their games.
Well, so far they've only been in one game that people who aren't in Japan can play (Battle of Z), and it's very easy to get sick of said game before you get anywhere near unlocking those two.
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Re: Most overpowered videogame DBZ character of all time

Post by mysticboy » Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:05 am

For some reason, when I fight Piccolo in a star mission on RB1, I catch hell.

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