Best character to use on average?

[Captain Cadaver]

Simply put, which character would you say tends to be top tier in most DB games? For fairness, we'll exclude both versions of Gogeta, since he's overpowered in any game he's in and will only be talking about the main console games from Budokai to FighterZ.

On average, I'd probably say Piccolo tends to be amongst the best. He had incredible range in the Budokai games and was still able to execute hard hitting combos in the Tenkaichi games, with his abilities in the Raging Blast games also being fairly overpowered when it came to ruining someone's combo. In Xenoverse and FighterZ, he was fairly mediocre, though otherwise has a great track record. Pure Boo is up there too, though his moveset in BT1 was very mediocre compared to the other two Tenkaichi games.

 

[Papasmurf]

In Budokai 3, I always liked using Oob because spamming his ki cannon attack was an easy way to win on Z2 and Z3 difficulty. Can't say I really had any preference for characters otherwise, although on Supersonic Warriors I always loved going through Piccolo's story mode and merging with Piccolo Daimao (which I still think should've happened in Super).

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Piccolo had great reach for sure. You'd think on paper it'd sound good to use Captain-Ginyu, you know switch when you're in trouble but not all that.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Piccolo had great reach for sure. You'd think on paper it'd sound good to use Captain-Ginyu, you know switch when you're in trouble but not all that.

Body Change was an effective strategy in the Budokai games, Tenkaichi 1, Burst Limit and Xenoverse, though that's all Ginyu had going for him and you could just equip it to a better custom character in XV.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Piccolo had great reach for sure. You'd think on paper it'd sound good to use Captain-Ginyu, you know switch when you're in trouble but not all that.

Body Change was an effective strategy in the Budokai games, Tenkaichi 1, Burst Limit and Xenoverse, though that's all Ginyu had going for him and you could just equip it to a better custom character in XV.

It was in a way I guess if you were to play Player vs Player. Burst-Limit also had him being able to inflict self-damage but other-wise his move-set was kind-of hard to use for me I think IIRC.

 

[Keedounan]

Kid Boo consistently seems to be a beast in video games. Looks like being the final villain of DBZ encourages the developers to purposely make him overpowered.

 

[SSJ2]

Definitely Akkuman.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Definitely Krillin.

 

[Pocket-God]

"Best character to use on average?"

Gogeta of course.

"For fairness, we'll exclude both versions of Gogeta"



I agree with Keedounan, Kid Buu is usually pretty good.

Perfect Cell as well. I'd also say Janemba but he isn't in the games consistently which is sad.