FighterZ Party Battle (Raid) Player Stereotypes

This is a guide that describes the people you will meet in the Raid/Party Battle gamemode, based on what character they play.
DISCLAIMER: This guide is solely meant to joke upon the stereotypes that are made based on experience and character usage. Please, don't take these seriously. Stereotypes don't mean everyone, but there's a good chance reason exists behind them.

Introduction

I think we've always wondered how people will play once we see them in the setup screen of a Party Battle against AI.


However, now there's no more need to think twice;
This totally serious and definitely not ironic guide will tell you all about the players you'll meet based on just one thing:

The Character They Use

Because that's very definitely a good way to judge people.



Without further a do, let's get into the guide.

Goku (SSJ)

Ah yes, the elusive Super Saiyan Goku.




Now, because there's a lot of them, you should judge them based on their threat-level color instead.
But follow this general mindset when figuring out how your SSJ Goku teamate will play:

Is he anything below orange square?

He's 100% going to spam the autocombos, and maybe throw in a special move now and then. I mean, he's literally Super-Saiyan Goku. Who wouldn't use him when they literally just installed?

Is he orange or higher?

In this case, he's going to be a good sport who will play cooperatively and will most likely throw the "Perfect" win just to mess about, which is something you don't see very often.
Now do note; it's very likely he's also a literal god at the game who will not take a single hit, and when he's almost done he'll find the most epic out-of-this-world way to tag you in, and you'll be sitting there with your mouth wide-open trying to figure out what just happened to you.
And he's definitely going to spam "Nice!" the entire time.

Goku (SSGSS)

The almighty Goku Blue who everyone pays for because they can't win arcade mode with an S on hard.


The only difference is that the only people playing Goku Blue are most definitely experienced players, so prepare to have a surprisingly good time with them!

They're most likely going to farm for that level 5 though, so you may end up getting them to solo a few rounds whilst getting careless with damage.

Oh, and just a note;
Tag them in for a level 3 with 2 more bars left, trust me on this, you'll be getting a new follower right after the set.

Goku

This is one of my personal favourites. The infamous Level 3 Spammer, also known as Base Goku.




I don't think i need to go into much detail, but there's only two types of Base Goku players:

The Teamplayer Goku

Who may or may not stay at the back and wait for his friends to die so he can spam kaioken later.
Nah, in all fairness some Base Gokus manage to be great people who play very aggressively and always get some really great tag-ins. You may want to set up a spirit bomb combo with them, i'm sure they'll enjoy that level of coordination.


But then, there's also the...

The Islamic Bomber Goku

>Spams both assists on round start
>Charges spirit bomb
>Charges Ki
>Throws small spirit bomb to combo into level 3 spirit bomb
>Repeats
>Dies a few rounds later and disconnects, proceeds to leave a bad review on the game

Vegeta (SSJ)

Literally the biggest bro you'll meet in this game.


They are scarce for sure, but they acknowledge the power of their assist and prefer to stay at the back supporting you with an occassional "Nice!", or better yet using the perfect skills for every fight and coming in just when you need him to help you regenerate your HP.
Of course, this doesn't mean they're perfect players at all- in fact they most likely do get hit by obvious things, however most of them are actually really nice.

Vegeta (SSGSS)

And now we're going to be talking about......

Hmm....

*looks at roster*

Hold on.

*looks again*

Vegeta (SSGSS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
i'm not saying Blue Vegeta is bad but seriously you guys, show him some love nobody wants to play him on raid

Vegeta

This one is really straightforward.

Gohan (Adult)

Adult Gohans can range from....

DBFighter

>Just installed
>Doesn't know what game he's playing
>Somehow manages to kill a bot before dying

*Generic Non-threatening name*

>Doesn't miss a single leg-loop
>Knows all about his combos
>Solo's the whole fight without taking a single hit
>Says nothing in the chat

Gohan (Teen)

Okay, so,



For some reason all the Teen Gohans you'll see in a raid are pink, and you don't see them often at all.



But the good thing is they're not complete a**holes like someone else we'll be talking about, and put their skills to good use hitting every bomb loop they can and rarely actually getting low on HP.

Did i mention: they're also very silent most of the time, which is extremely intimidating.

Piccolo

What is there to say about Piccolo that you don't already know?



You don't meet Piccolo players often in a party battle, but when you do there's a good chance he's a very tag-in heavy player who isn't afraid to let others do the job for him for a round or two.

That is until he's the last person remaining where he taps into his Ultra Instinct and completely destroys the AI, punishing every move he can and only taking a few hits.

Cell

Oh boy, here comes the obligatory "Perfect" joke.




Cell players are perfectly normal, they're not usually gods at the game but they know excactly what their plan is. It's perfectly normal to see Orange cell players, whose loops are pretty much perfect and they enjoy being team-players.

However once they die, they will spam
"I made a mistake."
"Sorry."
And other similar messages in the chat, as if they're not allowed to lose every now and then.

Android 18

I'd make some sort of joke on there not being enough 18 players, but they're nothing to mess around with. If you play C18, i honestly can't say i don't respect you and i think you should play her more in Party battles.








That is, unless you see the endangered

Green Threat Level 18

Who has absolutely no clue how to play the game and will spam supers 24/7, but may also at least congratulate you on your gameplay.

Android 17

Android 16

16 players, as usual, are split into two categories:

The not-so-good player who is a great sport.

'Nough said.

The Level 99 Dunk-Master

Who never misses a command grab and ALWAYS tags you in to finish a round for him after his near-Touch of Death combo he just pulled off in front of you.

Android 21

Hey, hey you.



You want to play a fighting game, but have the audio of some messed up pervy ero?
Yeah, don't lie to me, i know why you're playing 21 in a raid battle.




All jokes aside, there's a few really scary 21 players, but you seldom get to play with them.
So, just be prepared for someone who drops half of his combos instead.

Frieza

There used to be quite a few frieza players back in the day and it was hard to distinguish a bad one from a good one, but generally be prepared to see the same combo over and over and over again from them.



Recently i have noticed though, there's many Orange Frieza players doing justice to the character and pulling off some of the flashiest Golden Frieza sparking combos out there, so if you're one of them, hat's off to you.

Cooler

Go grab a carrot cake to eat, and a beer to drink, you're not going to be playing the game for a looooong time if they're host.

If they're not however, they're most likely a yellow/green threat level cooler who manages to miss every single one of his supers, then gives up and tags you in afterwards.

Tien

I honestly can't even say i see many, if any Tien players around the Party Battles.

But i did personally use him in my team at on point due to his comeback potential and his assist, so if you're a tien player, well more power to you i guess.

Krillin

Nobody plays Krillin on Raids.

Yamcha

A few players do use Yamcha, and most of them who use him now are pretty competent players who can easily land his level 3 after his level 1. (Which by the way guys, the damage isn't worth it stop doing it everytime you have 4 bars jesus christ)



Literally not much to add other than that.
That's all.

Captain Ginyu

What's a captain ginyu? Is he an upcoming character or something? No seriously, does he exist?












Now i know there's going to be a die-hard Ginyu player and fan who will comment "omgosh Ginyu is the absolute best character but you just cant play him so stfu ginyu tokusentai" or whatever, and to be honest i'm not saying Ginyu is bad but... I think there's only like 12 people who use him anymore.

Nappa

Wait, people play Nappa too?








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4

Trunks

Amazing player and great friend.

No need to go into detail, either he's green, yellow, orange, or pink he just knows what he's doing and will definitely give you some sort of compliment after a fight.
Okay, maybe Trunks players are a bit overly attached to their level 3 but i can't say i blame them.

Goku Black

I'm a bit biased because him and Zamasu in general are my favourite characters both in the series and in the game, however it's not like there's much of a stereotype for them to be had.


He's either the

Really edgy and dark name who is pink

and will go for some very flashy combos, but will complain that the AI is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (which is definitely true to some extent) whenever he gets hit. Will also never tag out, and thinks he can solo everything by himself.



or...

Amazingly Supportive Black Player

Who isn't really that great at the game, but will for sure say great things in the chat such as;
"Let's do this together!"
"That was a good fight!"
etc. etc.

Zamasu (Fused)

While he's not a common choice, Zamasu is a character that has so many flashy, damaging and awesome combos to the point where people will absolutely follow the ♥♥♥♥ out of you if you prove to be a good teamate and player to them with him.



Now, this applies to the experienced Zamasu players (who are honestly very rare to see), because there's also the edgelord in the corner who spams the light autocombo and has no clue how to use his Blades of Judgement level 1.


He's a very assist-dependant character though, so if you see a Zamasu play with very basic tools, just remember that you're the one picking Goku Blue and telling your friend to play 18.

Gotenks

He doesn't exist in the Party battle, just forget he's a character. You'll never see him. Ever.

Vegito (SSGSS)

Is your Vegito orange or pink?
Does he spam "Tag me in" all the time?
Does he ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ his way out of every situation without actually doing any optimal combos with him?
Does he solo every fight and spam to be the first place in your team without considering to use his assist buttons?



Yeah, that's a vegito player on raid, alright?


Instead of going into detail about Vegito, i'll use one of my memes instead.

Bardock

There's a very special place in hell with your name on it. If you play Bardock, you're that one kid in school who never picks up on any clues that he needs to be stopped and keeps on talking about how great he is at FighterZ. Listen here, you Bardock player. Dare you say "Tag me in" one more time and i will unleash the hounds of hell to drag you back in there, from where you rose. I will find you. And i will ultimately kill you.



Maybe that's a bit over-the-top, but where i'm trying to get at is that Bardock players tend to believe the world revolves around them, and they take everything way too darn seriously. We get it, you can solo a braindead bot a few times without our help. In fact, anyone with at least 200 hours of experience could do that. Please, we don't care about your maximum optimized combo, people are trying to have fun playing this raid mode, we do not need to see you spam light autocombo over and over only to inevitably make up for your 15 frames.


However, quickly press F to pay respects to the Bardock players who are good sports and will back you up when you eat that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ level 3 from the last bot.

Jiren

Videl

Videl hasn't even been out for too long but people are already playing frighteningly well with her.
Other than that, there are some exceptions with these green videls who just installed and bought all the DLC without second thought, but i'm sure we all know what the first thought in our mind is when we see a new videl player:


So looking back at that months later, Videl is just kind of there.
They're not good, (they absolutely only know three combos) but they're not that bad either. I don't know, Videl is just... ugh, why is Videl in this game?!


















Almost as extinct as Yamcha is nowadays.

Broly

Is either that one Japanese dude who plays on US servers just to have that 19 frame delay, and ultimately spams the autocombo non-stop,




or...






Is an absolute god at the game who never drops a combo and covers every option the bots have, only plays raid to impress peasants like us and hands out presents 24/7, dominating the set without saying a single word or sending a single z-stamp.

Kid Buu

unga

Majin Buu

unga









or Touch of Death jesus

Beerus

Most new players don't even play him on Party Battles anymore, so if you see a Beerus player (usually ranked at orange threat level) get ready for a combo video.
And the generic "is a good sport, great teamplayer" text goes here because beerus players deserve such description.

Hit

Green Hit Players

Misses everything, always attempts to go for the level 3 to hear "this is the stance" and tags you in after a single combo.

Yellow Hit Players

Misses everything, always attempts to go for the level 3 to hear "this is the stance" and tags you in after a single combo.

Orange Hit Players

Misses everything, always attempts to go for the level 3 to hear "this is the stance" and tags you in after a single combo.

Pink Hit Players

Misses everything, always attempts to go for the level 3 to hear "this is the stance" and tags you in after a single combo.

Goku (GT)

GT Gokus seem to get worse the higher threat level they are.
Probably because the higher the threat level, the more likely that person is to go online and search for combo videos.





Now, there's no problem with this, except for the fact that you have to go into training mode first.

Seriously, you aren't actually Goku. You can't just watch a Clayton Chapman video and go "hey that looks cool, i should totally try this". No. 9/10 times you're going to drop it miserably and embarrass yourself in front of your invite-level god* teammates. Don't lie to yourself, you know who you are.






*you're probably still going to somehow outplay your teammates with GT Goku even whilst dropping everything, because that's how balanced this gamemode is. Remember folks, it's never a drop. It's a tactical reset.

Janemba

For some reason not everyone has religiously jumped on his overuse-wagon making him a "depends" case, something even I did not see coming.


Janemba is a lot like John Cena, when it comes to Party Battles.

You can't see him.

Gogeta (SSGSS)

WHAT IS A COMBO?!

I THOUGHT I WAS PLAYING XENOVERSE ALL ALONG!

mispelled on purpose






That is, until you find a good Gogeta player named some sort of Jojo character. Oh boy. We don't talk about that one.

Broly (DBS)

ZBroly's grabs are pretty annoying, but at least he's the only real armored grappler character, so it's not like they could make another one that's got even more grabs and weird, huge-hitbox zoning moves.
Relax, Broly isn't real, he can't hur-

Wait, what? An update? Hmm...








Hmmmmmmmmmmm.............


hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...



The unga time is back and it's worse than you could have ever imagined.

Also get ready to watch the same 50-minute BnB over, and over, and over again online.

Kefla

So this person can fall under two categories.


-The person who appreciates a simpler character, and will do okay with her, backing out whenever there's too much trouble.




But then....

oh yes, you know where this is going...

Here i come, rougher than the rest of them, the best of 'em, tougher than leather. You can call me Kefla, unlike Vegito i don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my combos.

See, this stereotype would be applicable if any of those really dedicated kefla players would actually hit some of these insane links and sparking loops.


Unforunately frame delay exists and...

Ultra Instinct Goku

Oh boy...




Is it the one? Is this the Goku everyone crazes over? Are we seriously talking ♥♥♥-

Yes we are...










This guy. What is there to say about him that you don't already know, or expect for that matter?

He's got the power of Ultra instinct. Literally.

The players though, they clearly don't. Not yet.

Admit it, at this point it's as if you're essentially trying to get hit by him just because he's [was, at the time of writing] new and he's Ultra Instinct Goku.

Literally, it's just that he hasn't settled in yet and everyone abuses his counters.


Anyway, this guide is about the party battle. I was getting carried away there.

ehem..

Oh wait no i wasn't because literally the only thing these guys do in party battle is religiously press 6H, trying to counter the bots despite knowing well they have frame perfect input and blatant input reading, resulting in them getting constantly slam-dunked and dying by a touch of death M autocombo.

They also drop all of their combos, but i will let that slide because while I'm writing this he hasn't been out for too long.






Did i mention that even when they do get a successful counter they STILL end up dying to a DP or something else?




I don't mean to sound biased, but, every time I see an ultra instinct Goku player as of now, I can only think of one image in my head...

Master Roshi

Alas...

Before this guy was even out for any significant length of time, I had said the following:

Most likely is going to be release GT Goku all over again. "Oh I saw a combo video, why am I dying!?!"


And I am COMPLETELY spot on, look at that! Haha! Yes!











Ehrm, I would be until.... I realized that literally nobody is playing master roshi in the mater roshi party battle.

Why?

Because, nobody wants to put in the effort required to play him well in an online delay-infested scenario.

No, you're just terrible at the game and you can't open up a bot so you go and complain about the character when you drop afterwards. You're not good you salty SSG, go back to touching trees instead!


All in all, I can see history repeating itself in due time here.

Remember when the party battles were popular, by the way?

Super Baby Vegeta 2

More DBFZ DLC releases.... the world is in chaos...


....



....




....






Guess who's back, back..


back again～



Hou hou, it has been a long time, hasn't it?
Just when you thought, you THOUGHT that this was curtains for this guide.

No. You're mistaken.

Without further a do, let's get riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......






I will admit, I have laid dormant for too long and I have just barely missed the last major party battle event, so I had to use my impeccable information providers™ tryhard subordinate people who I forgot I had in my friends list to evaluate what happened in the party battle.

But do not worry however, I've got this down, spot on.

Who is this menace?

Yes indeed, the.. obligatory GT villain nobody knows about is-

ちょちょちょちょーちょっとまってっ！

People voted for this?

...


Well,

♥♥♥♥.

I don't know who this guy is. Am I meant to watch GT? Eh, whatever. That's not important.
Clearly; the origins of a character don't matter in an ArcSys game. Any game published by Bamco is sure to have no joke characters, or characters that completely offset the balance of the game and render the cast useless ! [



this is still the worst PC port from this publisher



SORRY! Sorry, I get it, we need to get back on track. Let's move on with the baby stereotype now, yes.


Some things just never change, is all... You actually didn't know this, but I, Yuki, am a time traveler. I've predicted the future of this game's party battles for a long time now. Don't believe me?



Now all I have to do is just...

Ctrl + Shift + I..



And..




....


They called me crazy, they did..! These idiots.... if only they'd seen me now!









AH BUT YOU SEE~!

This is the point where I would sprinkle my joke about how trash 90% of the party battle players are, but I've used that too much here, and this game is literally a certified hood classic now.


Literally.





I am not sorry


However,
let's be truthful for a second:

Baby is a super complex character with a lot of depth and execution, and they have a lot of potential so it's only natural someone beginning with them will have a steep climb up to get to a point where the ratio of them knowi


No, I'm not going to explain anything. You already know it.

Yadda yadda ~ people overestimating their ability to do well ~ yadda yadda
*insert witty joke about how everyone is clueless*

and that would have been the stereotype before.


But maybe the reason I've dragged this out is that I'm trying to say that, it feels like everytime they release a new character for this game now, they throw away the "less is more" design philosophy and try to create a new Archetype with a lot more command normals. 分かる人が分かる（メルブラ人集めろー）

Seriously, what even is this anymore? If you take a genuine, unbiased look at the character designs from UI Goku up until now, you will notice each character is getting more and more in-depth and complex to play, with more normals and unique interactions and execution and what have you.

There's not much more to poke fun at anymore, literally all that party battle has devolved to is people either playing the main cast or picking the latest DLC character and being utterly clueless, not because the character is new; that's a shaky excuse. Rather, because they simply lack the execution to recreate what they see in guides or videos, which unfortunately, means that they get bopped by input reading AI.

I'll say this right now before SSJ4 Gogeta releases:
it's going to be the exact same story told over again .



tl;dr

You're trash.

Gogeta (SSJ4)

No, yes, what I said in baby's section is not surprisingly- exactly how last raid went. You don't want to hear me bash on clueless people losing to AI, so instead I had this ready beforehand and now I can finally! bring this tale to an end with it.



Hello, hello ladies and gentlemen.


Today, I bring to you, my four-step-program to becoming a clown SSJ4 Gogeta player professional!

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

Ahhh a-ahhh~ DP one me some more~
Every Gogeta player is the same.

Except for like, maybe, two actually good players.


Oh come on, you're playing DragonTriangleZ, stop lying to yourself.

In closing

Hopefully this will help you judge the people you meet based on what character they play.


UPDATE:
This has been quite the adventure, and with the end of this season being a thing (and probably the end of this game hopefully ), I am not really upset to announce that this will be all the stereotypes for this game until DBFZ 2 comes out. Or, until Bamco milks some more money out of this game maybe. I'll see you people in the Melty Remake. Oh wait, it's a PS4 exclusive. Hgnhgnhg　これでなんで痛くさせられたのかぁーー！！！！
Thanks to everyone who has supported this guide and made it popular. You're all awesome. Even you, Yellow-square DBFighter who plays SSJ Goku!

And as always....


On a serious note, play whoever you want, as long as you're not being a fool online.

[yuu]

Don't worry, as a baby player myself, it comes from a place of love

[Davy Jones (Punk Hazard Arc)]

the only people i get are ass at the game and have 18 frame delay. plus i play baby and im not very happy

[Dingus]

"On a serious note, play whoever you want, as long as you're not being a dingus online"

This is a personal attack.

[yuu]

Someone made DBFZ Character stereotypes on youtube and that blew up、now everyone who has been here since the beginning of this guide has absolute permission to flaunt their 「first come」tickets

[Stark]

as a gogeta blue player, yes. Just yes

[Afraid Kaz!?]

*me playing krillin in Jiren raid*
yeah. who tf mains krillin.

[Meight]

As a Bardock main that has only started playing a few days ago and never touched online, I can confirm this guide is accurate (dont know about the rest tho idk how to play them)

[yuu]

And in today's episode of spot the [insert hot take character] main....

[Char Aznable]

author sucks with Jiren and it shows

[TigerCub]

What I got from this is that my team is going extinct and I don't exist anymore.(I play Videl)