DBFZ/Bardock

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Overview

Overview

Bardock likes to get in the opponent's face and rough them up, and is very good at both. His special moves are spectacular, and its accompanied by excellent buttons to add icing on the cake. Even neutral is an abstract Bardock has never had to fiddle with; Rebellion Spear, and the black hole that is his 5LL, ignore having to play it entirely. After he's won neutral, Bardock has extremely solid pressure with frame data as top-notch as you can ask for, and a pressure reset with Tyrant Lancer that can double as a devastating combo starter. Bardock's assists are also first-class, and combined with DBFZ's universal mechanics, he fits like a glove anywhere on the team. Aside all these good factors however, Bardock's simple gameplan can make him predictable to block without having to utilize assist-specific mix-ups, or universal 50/50s that also use assists.

Bardock is DBFZ's version of a swiss-army knife. Any new tech or maneuver in the game, he can do it all. You can approach this character with solid fundamentals and excel, or even play him "unga bunga" and still excel. Bardock will be the man.

"It's up to me now...I'm...I'm gonna change the future!"
Lore:	The biological father of Kakarot. A low class Saiyan warrior, however the head of a team colloquially named the "Bardock Squad". After travelling to planet Kanassa, home of clairvoyant aliens that he had been hired by Frieza to kill, his team was killed by Dodoria, and Bardock was granted clairvoyance by the last remaining Kanassan. With this power, he discovered that Frieza planned to eradicate the entire Saiyan race and made a bold last stand. In the end, he was completely overpowered and destroyed, along with Planet Vegeta and the near entirety of his people. He died happy, however, after receiving a vision that his son, Kakarot, would defeat the tyrant and avenge his fallen race...
Voice:	Japanese: Masako Nozawa English: Sonny Strait

 Bardock  Bardock is a brawler character who excels in the neutral game with his combination of fast and far-reaching attacks.

Pros

Cons

• Easy: Incredibly low execution for his universal BnB's.
• Brawny Buttons: Extremely solid moves boasting ridiculous hitboxes. 5LL infamously brings opponents down for easy hit-confirms and assist extensions.
• Commanding Neutral: Very oppressive neutral game, enforced by his vacuum normals and tremendously quick lariat, Rebellion Spear.
• Strong Staggers: Excellent stagger capabilities, with every normal outside of his heavies being safe on block.
• Absurd Assists: A is a long-range fast strike, useful in neutral and combos. B has an incredibly high amount of hitstun and blockstun while also hitting full-screen.

• Assist Reliant: Only has straightforward mix-ups without assists.
• Difficult Left/Right: Cross-ups can be difficult due to the nature of his j.M.
• Post-Super Okizeme: Unremarkable knockdown after Revenge Assault, only receiving a safe jump afterwards.

Bardock

Normal Moves

5L

5L Certified eSports

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ 5L Deceptively long range for a jab. When combined with 5LL this is a great button for contesting the opponent's pressure or as an anti-air against IAD or stuffing Vanish. 5LL Ground bounces on hit. Infamously large hitbox and its ability to bring down airborne opponents along with the ground bounce property gives Bardock a very easy conversion. He can "unga bunga" mash in scrambles to great effect, and to great reward being an unscaled starter. This is also a very important enabler for Bardock's more complex combos like Sparking! and Sparkless loops as well as for optimal corner routes. 5LLL Stays grounded. Just like the other two attacks in his auto combo, this move also has a massive hitbox that can snipe airborne opponents. Though the reward from this isn't as severe.

5M

5M	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Decent range 5M. Can be used aggressively in neutral and leads to solid damage.

5H

5H	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Disjointed hitbox swing. Mostly blockstring filler.

5S

5S	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Launches on hit. One of the stronger 5S in the game when used in pressure, and in neutral can confirm into 236H at any range.

2L

2L	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Integral part of Bardock's pressure/mixup in conjunction with 5L since it can stagger into itself and gatling into other normals.

2M

2M	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Another surprisingly good stagger tool.

2H

2H	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Go to anti-air. Privileged hitbox, can sometimes even anti air a vanish regardless of the opponent's vanish placing themselves behind Bardock.

6M

6M File:DBFZ Bardock 6M.png Honest mixup tool for an honest character	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Universal overhead.

j.L

j.L	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Hits very low thus can be used for IAD overheads and cross-ups.

j.M

j.M	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Arguably one of Bardock's stronger air buttons. Fast and has disjointed hitbox at the tip of the kick.

j.H

j.H	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ 5LLLLLLL Smash hit can wall bounce. j.H Smash hit causes a sliding knockdown. Prime jump-in overhead.

j.S

j.S	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Pauses his air momentum during the shot.

j.2H

j.2H	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Mostly a combo filler.

Special Moves

Rebellion Spear

Rebellion Spear 236L/M/H (Air OK) Ground Air

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Ground L Air L Attacks straight ahead. Keeps the opponent in place on grounded hit. Sends opponent flying horizontally on air hit. Probably one of Bardock's strongest weapons, if not his best. Travels incredibly far and incredibly fast, allowing it to be used as an ability to dominate neutral. When combined with an assist, can be used to instantly start pressure and turn the blocked attack into his favor, if it hits, Bardock can get a full combo afterwards. If the opponent anticipates 236L, they can stuff it with their own buttons, potentially with their best unscaled starters. Don't spam it. Ground M or 236H > L/M/H on hit Air M or j.236H > L/M/H on hit Damage depends on distance. Aerial version ground bounces on Smash hit, spiking the opponent back up. Ground version is a very fast anti-air but with low reward in mid-screen. While relatively minor, its speed is one of the reasons why Bardock's stagger is so strong: after a blocked 6M and forcing a clash sequence (against characters with a 6f button), he can do 5L > 4L > 236M and there's next to no offensive answer against this string. Both ground and air versions are the cornerstones of Bardock's corner combos. Ground H Air H Damage depends on distance: midscreen → midscreen to almost fullscreen → exactly fullscreen. Moves straight ahead, crosses up on hit or block. On hit, can followup with an additional attack by pressing L/M/H. This attack is identical to 236M/j.236M and doesn't cost Ki. Mostly handy as a potential full-screen conversion off of 5S. Tk.236H + assist can setup for a high/low/crossup in the corner.

Raging Meteor

Raging Meteor 214L/M/H (Air OK) "RUNNIN YA FADE WITH STYLE"

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Smash on the last overhead. Ground L Air L Smash hit causes a very short sliding knockdown. Grants next to no oki from midscreen, but is a decent combo ender in the corner. Ground M Air M Smash hit causes a ground bounce SKD. j.S > j.214M is Bardock's preferred corner combo ender at low hitstun decay, as the ground bounce gives lots of time for easy extensions, supers, or simply more oki. Some players also prefer ending combos with ground 214M over j.214L due to having better oki, though at the cost of damage and meter. Ground H Air H Smash hit causes a ground bounce SKD. j.S > j.214H works from midsceen with all the pros of corner j.214M. Aside from being a combo ender, it's a great air-to-air option with very fast start-up and relatively little recovery.

Tyrant Lancer

Tyrant Lancer 236S "Too slow." "Get out of here!"

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Uncharged Wall bounces, can only followup without resources in the corner. Cannot true string from any normals. Jails into Vanish. Commonly used as a reset tool in blockstrings, as it grants plus frames on block. This is also Bardock's best combo starter in the corner, if one can manage to frametrap with it. Charged Wall bounces that can be followed up anywhere. Use this to scare them from Reflecting uncharged 236S.

Z Assists

Assist A

Rebellion Spear Assist A LARIAT

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Same deal as his point 236L. Bardock A is very solid, and is always a good choice if you're looking for something that can quickly get a hit in during the mid range. It's pretty good in blockstrings as well due to it's speed, as you can throw it into a blockstring very easily without fear of it being reflected or wake-up DP'd. You can't go wrong with this option, even with how good assist B is, so really just pick based on what your team/playstyle is looking for.

Assist B

Tyrant Lancer Assist B Top Tier DLC privilege baby.

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Somewhat slow, but high blockstun. On hit, opponent floats in place for a total of a full second, allowing for ridiculously easy followups. Virtually a C assist but with less startup and recovery. Bardock comes out and performs Tyrant Lancer. Does not do the followup on hit or block and instead deals 60 frames of hitstun, allowing even conversions off beams or ki blasts from maximum distance. Extremely useful by not only tracking the opponent on the ground for full screen hit-confirms, but also has incredibly high blockstun, allowing for all kinds set-ups should you so choose. While you give up the fast, strong tool of A, the benefits that B offers is titanic, acting as a screen-wide gut punch that grants plenty of time to start a combo, and automatically enables mix-up pressure on block.

Assist C

Rebellion Combination Assist C

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Teleports to the opponent and performs a two-hit combo. Causes groundbounce sliding knockdown on hit. Tracks anywhere on the screen Not really worth it. While Assist C can be good in it's own right for many characters, Bardock's other two options are just much too good to really give up. It does track anywhere on the screen - even in the air, so it does have some utility there, but even then it's hard to give up the options of assist A's fast reach and versatility, or assist B's incredibly high blockstun and easy long-range confirms on hit. Your other characters probably have better Assist C options than Bardock does, anyway.

Super Moves

Riot Javelin

Riot Javelin 236L+M (Air OK) "This will change everything!" YEET

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Ground Air Hold up or down to aim the ground version upwards, and air version downwards. Downward version causes a ground bounce. Normal version has minimum damage of 814, downward is 748. As Saiyan Spirit follow-up, only does half the damage. If you Ultimate Z-Change into this move in the corner, Bardock will be pushed out of the corner, seemingly to allow you to aim it easily.

Saiyan Spirit

Saiyan Spirit 236H+S (Air OK) "No!" "None of that!"

Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Ground Air Minimum damage: 395, 318. Goes just over half screen, only does 1590 if hits at the tip. Can be followed up with Riot Javelin by pressing L/M/H/S on hit. This version can also be directed up or down. Although invincible on start-up, opponents can Vanish on reaction to the super flash, making it a near-useless reversal against normals. The vanish does whiff, however.

Revenge Assault

Revenge Assault 214L+M or 214H+S (Air OK) "Oh no, I won't let you get away with what you've done!" "PREPARE TO DIE!"	Template:AttackDataHeader-DBFZ Ground Air Charges straight forward. On hit in midscreen, Bardock is left a full screen away from the opponent. Minimum damage: 1718. Easy Super for solo combos or to DHC into.

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