Although there’s over 180 playable fighters to pick from in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero at launch, many players will naturally gravitate towards their favorites and strongest characters on the roster like Gogeta and Whis — but they won’t always be the best choice to bring into battle.
Instead of crafting a massive tier list with all of those combatants in the game, Soul Kings recently put together rankings for what he believes to be the top 20 secretly overpowered and underrated characters in Sparking Zero.
To be part of this list, fighters are generally on the least expensive side of DP cost, so they’re great to add to limited teams for their utility and skills that allow them to face off against the most physically powerful transformations, fusions and gods.
That’s why to kick off the list with B tier, Soul Kings has Yamcha up there as his first pick at just 3 DP, and he can get a lot done with that small cost because of his Afterimage and “Power Up to the Very Limit” skills alongside good melee combos and specials.
Anyone who’s run into players that like to troll others online probably won’t be too surprised to see Captain Ginyu up there in A tier too because of his body change ability to essentially “steal” one of the opponent’s best characters.
Sure, he can’t use the new character’s skills, but they can’t use Ginyu’s either — so it’s probably best to know how the character generally works just in case you get stuck with him.
While he doesn’t think Dragon Ball Daimga’s Goku is good, Soul Kings does think Goku (Teen) is good enough to get the job done as a 3 DP character that has Afterimage Strike as well as a pretty standard Kamehameha to rack up damage quickly.
If a low-cost character has Afterimage or Afterimage Strike, there’s a good chance they’re going to be on this list somewhere.
One who doesn’t have those speed skills, however, is Dr. Gero, but he still makes the ranks because of his life draining grabs that can be fairly simple to set up.
Moving on to S tier, we’ve got another small Goku with his base GT version not because that form is all that special, but he can transform into Super Saiyan 4 Goku pretty easily for like half of the DP cost.
That’s another trend among these ranks with okay fighters than can transform into much better versions of themselves like base Teen Gohan and Base Z Broly.
And then among the god tier, you’ve got the secret top fighter and fastest in the universe, Burter.
Plus, there’s no forgetting Yajirobe either, but it seems he’s about to get nerfed in Sparking Zero’s upcoming patch.
You can check out Soul Kings’ full tier list below as well as his video going over the picks though be warned there is some language present in there. And let us know what busted low-cost strategies you’ve found in the comments.
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