During Dragon Ball Super, especially in the Tournament of Power arc, fans get to see that power level isn't everything.
RELATED: 10 Awesome Dragon Ball FighterZ Character Mods You Need To Check OutĪll that said, there is one way that FighterZ can keep all these characters together, and that's by subscribing to Dragon Ball Super's take on power levels. For this reason, power levels are thrown out the window from a development standpoint. The game would be reduced to a Dragon Ball Super fighting game with a significantly smaller roster, and even then certain characters would dominate others. With that in mind, there'd be no point in including them in the first place. If Dragon Ball FighterZ tried to represent how strong characters actually are, then no one would play as Krillin, Nappa, or any early Dragon Ball Z character. The obvious answer is that balance supersedes canonical power levels in fighting games. The same holds true for Beerus, an actual God of Destruction, yet he is consistently ranked towards the bottom of most Dragon Ball FighterZ tier lists. That's only seven out of 43 currently playable characters that would be able to keep up with this powerhouse, so what about the other 36? How can Dragon Ball FighterZ justify any of these other characters like Nappa, Base Vegeta, Ginyu, or Videl fighting alongside or even against them? Although it is difficult to say, it's likely that Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta could take on most of these members of the cast singlehandedly, but again this is nothing new. Among these powerful characters, it's easy to say the only ones that might challenge Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta are Beerus, Fused Zamasu, Broly, Jiren, Ultra Instinct Goku, and the SSB fusion characters.
These include Beerus, Golden Frieza, Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta, Goku Black, Fused Zamasu, Broly, Android 17, Hit, Jiren, Ultra Instinct Goku, Kefla, and Super Saiyan Blue Vegito and Gogeta. Things get a bit more complicated when it comes to characters from Dragon Ball Super, however. That means that any character on the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster, from Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball: GT should be considered canonically weaker than Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. The only character in Dragon Ball: GT that was ever able to stand up to Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta was Omega Shenron, and even this is being too generous. Regardless, there are a few things that are clear in terms of power. There's no official guide to state whether or not Super Saiyan 4 is stronger than Super Saiyan Blue, and Dragon Ball FighterZ even pokes fun at that with Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta's Dramatic Finish against his Super Saiyan Blue counterpart. In terms of raw power level, it can be difficult to enumerate just how strong these characters are. RELATED: 10 Awesome Dragon Ball FighterZ Arena Mods You Need To Check Out As more and more powerful DLC characters are added to the game, the issue simultaneously becomes more apparent but also starts to matter less and less. All the while, players still have the option to pick human characters such as Krillin or Yamcha despite the obvious gap in their power levels. For a long time, players have had access to the likes of Broly, Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta, and even other fusion characters like Vegito and Kefla. It should be said that this issue in Dragon Ball FighterZis nothing new. Balance in fighting games is extremely important, but these characters are canonically anything but balanced.
Recently, Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta was added as a new playable character, and while fans are loving his design and moveset, it does make one classic Dragon Ball fighting game problem clearer. Not only are the visuals crisp, but the gameplay is some of the best to come out of the fighting game genre as a whole in a while. Dragon Ball FighterZ is the most recent entry in that genre, and fans are loving it for a lot of reasons.
Few things are constant, but it seems that there will always be Dragon Ball fighting games.