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All characters have 2H as their universal Anti-Air. As opposed to that, they also have universal head property attacks as j.L, j.M, j.H, and Super Dash.
All characters have 2H as their universal Anti-Air. As opposed to that, they also have universal head property attacks as j.L, j.M, j.H, and Super Dash.


The general rule is any move that puts the character in an airborne state will have head property, but this isn't always the case. The universal overhead, 6M, '''do not''' have head property. The easiest way to test if a move has head property is simply try to 2H them. And the easiest way to test if a move has Anti-Air property is to try punishing a j.M.
The general rule is any move that puts the character in an airborne state will have head property, but this isn't always the case. The universal overhead, 6M, '''do not''' have head property. The easiest way to test if a move has head property is simply try to 2H them. And the easiest way to test if a move has Anti-Air property is to try punishing a j.H.


===Wall Bounce===
===Wall Bounce===

Revision as of 15:48, 5 December 2018

Attack Attributes

Each attack in the game has an attribute. Attributes are broken up in a few broad categories: strike, projectile, throw. These attributes interact with each other to trigger certain effects like invincibility and guard point.

Strike Attribute
Strike attributes are broken up into two groups: airborne and ground. As a rule of thumb, attacks performed while standing/crouching are ground, and jumping strikes are airborne, but there are exceptions.
Strike attacks are the most common in the game and can clash with each other.
Projectile Attribute
There are various types of projectiles in the game, but they can be broken up into 3 general levels of durability.
Level 1 (Small Ki Blasts)
Most S Normal attacks fall into this category, but some specials do as well, such as Piccolo's Homing Energy Blast.
These can be Super Dashed through
Level 2 (Beams)
Most special attack projectiles fall into this category, like Goku's Kamehameha, Gohan's Masenko, and Tien's Dodon Ray
These will go through projectiles of lower level without losing any hits
Level 2 projectiles can not be Super Dashed through
Level 3 (Super Beams)
Most super attack projectiles fall into this category, like Goku's Super Kamehameha, Vegeta's Big Bang Attack, and Trunks' Burning Attack
These will go through projectiles of lower level without losing any hits
Level 3 projectiles can not be Super Dashed through
Throw Attribute
Throws cannot be blocked or Z Reflected, but they will not work against opponents who are in blockstun.

Attribute Invincibility

Some moves are invulnerable or automatically guard against certain attributes during certain times. For example, most 2H attacks have invincibility against airborne strikes starting from frame 4 through all the active frames.

Other moves automatically guard against attacks with certain attributes, such as Super Dash and Trunks' Change the Future guarding against Level 1 Projectiles and Nappa's Too Bad guarding against strikes, or armor through against attacks with certain attributes, such as Android 16's 5H absorbing attacks that can be blocked high.

These properties will be listed in the frame data as they are discovered.

Counter Hit

A Counter Hit occurs when you hit an opponent out of the startup of their attack. On hit, both the attacker and defender suffer additional hitstop so generally, there is no additional benefit to counter hits compared to normal hits. However when counter hit by a projectile, this additional hitstop does not apply to the attacker - only the defender and the projectile suffer additional hitstop, giving the attacker a little bit of extra time to land a hit and start a combo.

Hitting Two Opponents With the Same Attack

Yamcha and Krillin getting hit by Cell's 5M

One attack can hit multiple targets assuming they are within range. For example one attack can hit BOTH the opponent and an assist.

Normally, when an attack touches the opponent, the remaining active frames are converted into recovery frames. However, if there is a second hittable character, then the remaining active frames can still hit him!

This leads to visually strange situations like Cell's 2M (the slide) hitting Nappa's Saibaman, then a moment later, Nappa gets hit by the remaining active frames of the slide.

This also applies to projectiles like Goku's Kamehameha and Piccolo's Homing Energy Blast, but the later case is more difficult to take advantage of since the projectile will shatter the instant it touches an opponent.

Hit Effects

Smash!

A lot of moves in Dragon Ball FighterZ have a "Smash!" version, usually with stronger properties and higher damage. Not all of them will trigger the "Smash!" prompt, but the way to tell if a Smash move has been used is the short cinematic that plays out on hit.

The condition to trigger the Smash version is different with every move. Some require an "upward Smash" to be used prior in the combo, some require no Smash moves to be used before, and some will always use its Smash, unless it has used up its own Smash in the combo. To an extend, Super moves with cinematic might also be considered Smash moves as they can hit assists for different amount of damage than they would be otherwise, and most of them do "consume" the Smash of a combo.

More information on this is described in the Combo System section, and on individual character pages.

Dynamic!

A worse version of Smash. Every character has a j.H that has this property. This version can be triggered by successfully landing a 5LLL, in a combo that hasn't used Smash!, then mash L to perform a Super Dash, followed by j.L, j.M and j.H. Manually inputting Super Dash (H+S) won't work, manual j.M and j.H won't work, any delay or attempting to do any other move and it won't work.

A "Dynamic!" j.H will consume Smash and hit the opponent to the ground into a soft knockdown, regardless of what a normal j.H would do. Dynamic j.H will also give the player a Dragon Ball. More information on this is described in the Dragon Balls section.

Some Dynamic j.H can cause a wall bounce. This wall bounce can be used midscreen by tagging in another character, which then can continue the combo. This means the player can guarantee a Dragon Ball without sacrificing too much damage.

Anti-Air!

Moves with "Anti-Air!" property will have invulnerability against head property attacks. If a head property attack passes through the character's body while they're doing an Anti-Air attack, a blue bubble can be seen flashing out from them and the prompt "Anti-Air!" will show up.

Not to be confused with the verb anti-air, as some attacks without any invulnerability can also be great at anti-airing.

All characters have 2H as their universal Anti-Air. As opposed to that, they also have universal head property attacks as j.L, j.M, j.H, and Super Dash.

The general rule is any move that puts the character in an airborne state will have head property, but this isn't always the case. The universal overhead, 6M, do not have head property. The easiest way to test if a move has head property is simply try to 2H them. And the easiest way to test if a move has Anti-Air property is to try punishing a j.H.

Wall Bounce

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Ground Slide

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Attack Level

Each attack in the game does standardized amounts of hitstun, blockstun, etc. depending on their Attack Level. Note that some moves override these default values, which will be noted in the frame data. In addition to these exceptions, some attacks knock the enemy into the air, wallbounce, etc. As a general rule attacks with the same Attack Level share the same sound effects and graphical effects.

Lvl 0 Lvl 1 Lvl 2 Lvl 3 Lvl 4
Hitstun (Ground Hit) 14 16 18 20 22
Untechable (Air Hit) 14 16 18 20 22
Blockstun (Ground) 11 11 15 15 15
Blockstun (Air) 17 17 21 21 21
Hitstop 6 8 11 14 16
Hitstop (Counter Hit)

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