DBFZ/Janemba

Janemba
Play-style	Zoning, Footsies
Team Role	Point

Overview

"Gu heh heh heh!"

Born from the body of a worker in the Other-World being possessed by escaped souls from the Soul Cleansing machine, Janemba is a heartless demon with a similar personality to Kid Buu, as well as similar powers. Janemba's base form (a large, yellow creature which appears in his intro sequence) is similar to Majin Buu, as a childish yet Godly powerful warrior. Janemba has the ability to bend reality to his will, as he did with Hell, and in his super form (the form he takes in FighterZ), he can change a small rock into a giant pillar, or a small toy into a sword. He is also capable of changing his body at will, such as change into cubes to teleport, or create portals for individual parts of his body. Janemba was defeated by Super Gogeta, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta, and was only defeated due to Gogeta's overwhelming power, allowing the Other-World workers to restore Hell to its normal state.

In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Janemba is an unorthodox zoner-like character, who has very strong pressure and long ranged tools to manipulate the match to his will, and make the opponent guess several times of where he might show up next to hit them.

Strengths/Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Incredibly strong keepaway game, can easily beat out ki blasts with 236X and has many strong tools for long range play. Very powerful range with his normals and specials, while they can be a bit slow they are very easy to use due to the disjoints on his sword moves. His other normals are very strong as well. 214S/236S are very strong options for escaping pressure - while they can be beaten out easily, they are still strong for escaping pressure and whiff punishing them can be difficult. Can get SKD off of Superdash with j.2M. This gives Janemba a lot of momentum. 236HS automatically drags the opponent to the corner, giving Janemba a great way to start corner pressure. j.214x series allows for lots of oki setups. Teleports, through either autocombo or 214S/236S, allow Janemba to set up a lot of tricky mixups on snapped opponents, especially with the right assists. His assist can enable a lot of characters to get big damage or air Dragon Rush, due to it tracking. 22S forces opponents to stop using projectiles and assists during neutral, as on successful counter can either get a combo or start pressure

Huge hitbox, allows him to get hit by certain moves much easier. Assist A is very mediocre, and while it does open up a lot for characters to get SKD, it also is hard to use in pressure due to it being ki blasts and for general neutral play, making it exclusively a combo assist. Somewhat slow in terms of his moves, making it hard for him to get set up sometimes. His escape option in teleports, while good, can get a bit predictable after a while, and can easily be beaten out by superdash. This makes it hard for Janemba to get out of some pressure situations, as it can be very easy for the opponent to simply beat out his escape option and start it all over again.

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Normal Moves

5L

5L Knock on teh skull eSports normal *teleports behind u*

Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 5L 400 All - 6 - - -3 - Just a jab 5LL 700 All - 11 - - -8 - Ground bounces like Bardock Also boasts an incredibly large, Bardock-like hitbox Looks like a Bardock attack Feels like a Bardock attack Is pretty much Bardock's attack 5LLL 850 / 600*2 All U3+ 36 - - -11 - Teleports forward. Only hits if he crosses over. Switches sides on hit. The online special.

5M

5M A normal football kick.	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 700 All - 13 - - -5 - Good range, moves Janemba forward. Good for staggers, always spaces perfectly for 2L to connect on block.

5H

5H SLASH 'EM	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 850 All U1 17 - - -12 - Deflects Ki blasts like other sword normals. Any normal > 5H is NOT a true blockstring.

5S

5S Ls aren't the only thing being handed out

Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 300*4 All - 22 - - -21 - 5S, 2S, j.S are similar and has some limited tracking. Hold or mash S to shoot all 4 Ki blasts. Can controls where he shoots with Without inputs, the order is 5316. 5 and 6 ground bounces airborne opponent. Last Ki blast ground bounces even grounded opponent if it's 5 or 6, pops up grounded opponent if it's 1 or 3.

2L

2L	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 400 All - 7 - - -3 - Basically Cooler's 2L, exchanges the low property for huge range. Really good for staggers due to its reach. Longer range than 5L, therefore more common after a teleport.

2M

2M Janemba breaks it down	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 700 Low - 11 - - -11 - Janemba's only low. Janemba's core mixup doesn't really revolve around his 2M because it's so slow. Your main mixups are with teleports, but 2M will almost always be your most damaging starter.

2H

2H	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 850 All U1+ 14 - - -18 - Anti-air. Deflects Ki blasts. Huge vertical range, it's as tall as the screen is. Horizontal range is absolutely pathetic. Bad in combos because of the low horizontal range.

2S

2S 6DD > 2DD	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 300*4 All - 26 - - - - Slightly floats off the ground. Cancellable from 5S. Unlike 5S and j.S, can't control the first Ki blast's direction. No input order is 1536. Can be cancelled into 2M for a sliding knockdown.

6M

6M Almost a poke	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 850 High - 24 6 10 0 - Sword normal overhead. Deflects Ki blasts.

j.L

j.L Sock it to 'em	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 400 High - 7 - - - - Good range for a j.L. Has enough priority to beat superdashes. Slightly slower than average.

j.M

j.M The true demon is my IAD crossup	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 700 High - 11 - - - - Your most common jump-in. j.M is forced to take the spotlight because of how bad j.H is. All things accounted for, it still has strong frame advantage if your opponent blocks it and it is really good for crossups.

j.H

j.H Charlotte's j.H

Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 850 / 1000 High D1+ 15 - - - - Deflects Ki blasts. Halts momentum and ground bounces grounded opponent. Use j.L or j.M for IAD overhead instead. Huge hitbox. Despite it being like Hit's j.H it still has uses, especially in 2H Smash combos, as it is easier to set up j.214x oki with this move due to being able to special cancel it. It's not the best in neutral but it can be somewhat useful in the corner to keep your opponent in place, although this is tricky.

j.S

j.S j.5DD > j.6DD	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 300*4 All - 22 - - - - 5S but in the air. Freezes momentum.

j.2H

j.2H Kokonoe rang, she wants her j.C back	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 850 All U1 11 - - - - Gigantic wall bounce. Deflects Ki blasts. Moves Janemba backwards

Special Moves

Shadow Kick

Shadow Kick j.2M Footdive without the diving.	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 900 High D1 25 - - - - Tracking overhead that causes sliding knockdown on Smash hit. Janemba teleports to the ground on hit. This makes frame advantage the same regardless of where you use it.

Demonic Blade

Demonic Blade 236L/M/H (Air OK) Michael Sword!

Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul Ridiculous range, deflects Ki blasts. Ground L 1100 All - 15 - - -9 - Air L 1100 All - 15 - - - - Reaches about half screen, no step forward. Faster AND safer than a beam. Ground M 1200 All U1+ 19 - - -9 - Air M 1200 All U1+ 19 - - - - Wall bounces. Ground version takes a step forward before attacking. Ground H 1300 All U1+ 16 - - -9 - Air H 1300 All U1+ 15 - - - - Bigger wall bounce. Range inbetween 236L and 236M

Mystical Arm

Mystical Arm 214L/M/H Thanks for the command grab, Piccolo	Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul L 1200 Throw U1 25 - - - - Always causes sliding knockdown. M 1250 Throw U1 28 - - - - Wall bounces on Smash hit, SKD on non-Smash. In the corner, can be followed up with 2M. H 1300 Throw U1 25 - - - - Big wall bounces on Smash hit, SKD on non-Smash. Can be followed up even midscreen.

Hell Gate

Hell Gate j.214L/M/H

Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul L 350*3 All - - - - - - M 350*3 All - - - - - - H 350*6 All - - - - - - Shoots an electric ball with no hitbox that slowly travels along the ground, bouncing off walls. Only one ball can be on screen at a time. Ball detonates itself after a while. Hold up during startup to make the ball floats higher up. Pressing L while j.214L ball is still out will detonate it early instead of giving you L normals, same with j.214M, j.214H and their respective buttons.

Phantom Shift

Phantom Shift 236S or 214S (Air OK) Boy you SEEN them teleports?!

Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 236S - - - - - Total 36 - - 214S - - - - - Total 36 - - Teleports a set distance. Invulnerable from frame 4, making it a very strong escape option. After inputting either versions, holding any of the 8 directions will still make him teleport to that direction anyway. Default is for 236S and for 214S. Grounded stays in place, and teleports slightly closer than and . All 5 off these versions keep Janemba grounded. Air versions can only be performed once until landing, can also teleport back to the ground. Both ground and air versions don't consume air options, they also keep super jump's momentum control. Janemba's main mixup tool. You can teleport to either side of the opponent, air or ground. From there it's up to you if you want to just go low or mix in an airdash to create some really nasty setups.

Dimensional Hole

Dimensional Hole 22S (Air OK) P L U S 2 2

Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul Catch - - - - - - - - Attack 600 All - - - - +22 - Absorbs non-Super projectiles. Considers ALL assists as projectiles. After absorbing, shoots a tracking projectile from behind the opponent. He is able to act almost immediately after doing so When absorbing a projectile, Janemba is completely invincible to anything and everything until he counters back (including Lv. 3s) Virtually unpunishable on successful counter

Z Assists

Assist A

Phantom Assault Assist A SS Vegeta, but now it tracks.

Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 450*4 All - 47 - - - - 5S but shoots from four times. Fourth Ki blasts ground bounces. Fullscreen tracking, enable extensions even at high up. The ultimate double edged sword, Janemba's assist is both really strong and not that good. While it does enable a lot of characters to have unique setups into high-up combos, or even enable characters to get Dragon Rush in the air mid screen or in the corner without spending a meter, it also does not have too much use outside of that. As a pressure tool it is almost impossible to use - while Janemba is hard to hit himself during the assist so it will not be interrupted, it is simply four ki blasts and they can be easily reflected or superdashed through. This can be used for baits, but it is still hard to effectively use this properly. In neutral, it is hard to use for the same reason - it's tracking helps a lot, but it is simply four ki blasts and can be easily dealt with by most characters. He can use it similarly to Gotenks assist, and as such setups with Gotenks usually work with Janemba (although a bit worse) and in the air it is much better than it is on ground, but you still might not get a lot off of this. It's not the worst assist in the game, but it's not amazing either. This assist really emphasizes Janemba's spot on the team as a point character, sometimes a mid - it can open up a lot, but you won't lose much if he dies and you can't use it.

Assist B

Demonic Blade Assist B	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul - - - - - - - -

Assist C

Hellblade Flurry Assist C Why couldn't this have been as cool looking as trunks' one?	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul - - - - - - - -

Super Moves

Rakshasa's Claw

Rakshasa's Claw 236L+M (Air OK) Dat one move of his from the Budoukai games in the form of MISUTO FAINAA

Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul Ground 2415 All UDV 9+4 - - -18 - Air 2415 All UDV 9+4 - - - - Minimum damage: 815 Causes sliding knockdown. Teleports back to the ground on hit. Cinematic Super, cutting it early by DHC does slightly less damage without any benefit. Is Janemba's DHC Super. Always leaves you +4 on hit, no matter the height you started at before the super

Savage Skewer

Savage Skewer 236H+S First I dab with the rock... Then I stab with the rock	Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul 1995 All UDV 9+4 - - -17 - Minimum damage: 799 Corner carries. Also a cinematic Super, cutting it early ruins the corner carries AND does slightly less damage. Doing j.236H+S will get Rakshasa's Claw. Unscaled damage is the year that his movie came out.

Needle Light Shower

Needle Light Shower 214L+M or 214H+S (Air OK) Hold on let me get my Mix tape started LET IT OUUUUUUUUUUUUUT...	Version Damage Guard Smash Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv. Invul Ground 220*19, 360 All UDV 12+3 - - -33 - Air 220*19, 360 All UDV 12+3 - - - - Minimum damage: 1672 Air version will always teleport Janemba back to the ground afterward.

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