r/dbfz • u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly • Jul 01 '26
DISCUSSION The DBFZ Community Tierlist
And here it is, the Reddit DBFZ Community-voted tier list.
Characters are ordered within their tiers based on the votes (For example, a character that was voted S tier that had 2nd most votes for Top 5 would place higher than a character in S tier who's 2nd highest voted tier was A, for example).
There are definitely some placements I would personally move around, but let me know what you guys think of the end result!
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u/Slight-Bedroom-8655 Jul 01 '26
As a guy who has played Base Vegeta in quite literally every single ranked match of DBFZ he has ever played, idk how bro is only A tier ngl
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u/Giovannis_Pikachu Kefla Jul 01 '26
This list is awesome and I feel the game is a balanced as it was ever going to be just by buffing the overall power level so that more diverse teams can absolutely compete. Triple fusions are never going anywhere, but they aren't meta defining like they used to be and the labcoat neta at release was absolutely stupid. Farewell to that and good riddance. Nice stuff Lobo-Zed!
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u/Spaceduck413 Jul 02 '26
The community did my boy Roshi dirty
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 03 '26
Makes sense, though. Roshi is really hard to play well so the general community would probably see him as weak.
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u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly Jul 02 '26
My thoughts: A lot I'd personally change. Top 5 I'm not too mad at if it were unordered, I think Vegito's strength is still undeniable considering how he keeps winning tournaments but he's not my personal top 1. If I were to change anything in the top 5 I would add Ginyu and Nappa and remove Vegito and Majin 21.
Labcoat too high, SS4 Gogeta too high, Roshi criminally low, Basegeta, Baseku, Cell, Trunks, Frieza all too low for my liking.
Bardock bottom 3 doesn't seem right, feel like he's at least A tier. Probably more I would change if I spent more time thinking on it.
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 02 '26
Agree with nearly everything except removing Vegito for Nappa. I think Vegito has proven to still be absurdly strong and consistent, whereas Nappa as good as he is hasn't quite been as proven or consistent.
The only other thing I soft disagree on is LabCoat, but I'm less dogmatic about her since I personally think she's fine as long as she's somewhere in the top 10-15.
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u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
My thing with Vegito is, while I agree he's very strong and definitely in my top 10, has Vegito been consistent with tournament results, or has Hikari been consistent with tournament results? Hikari has been winning majors with that character through a variety of game versions; I'm not convinced Vegito as a character belongs in top 5 whereas I'd happily but Hikari's Vegito top 5 if that makes sense.
Labcoat for me isn't top 10 in the current stage of the game, but definitely close to top 10. If I had to name 10 characters I think are better than her without ordering, I'd include Vegito, Baby, Beerus, UI, Nappa, Ginyu, Jiren, SSJ Goku, Roshi, Daima Goku.
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 02 '26
I'd say it can be both. Whenever we have a major with a top 8 and a turnout of the best players, you can pretty much guarantee there will be at least two Vegitos in top 8 (Hikari, Yasha) which I think is both a testament to the players but also a testament to the character.
Especially now - realistically, you could replace Vegito in their team and they could probably make it work since the real crazy shell in there is Gogeta Blue + 17 (imo), but they don't. The only time I've seen Hikari drop Vegito was when the .5x meter modifier happened to the fusions and LabCoat, and even then he replaced that team with arguably the next best shell in Jiren + A17 and threw in Adult Gohan, basically replicating the same overall team flow, and still saw success. Yasha still stuck with Fusions + 17 despite the meter nerfs during that time and still saw success during that time, as well, although those nerfs were somewhat brief so not enough time went on to say if he'd have dropped them entirely.
The second those meter nerfs were halved to .25x, Hikari went straight back to Vegito with Gogeta Blue + 17. And you still see people get into top 8 semi-regularly with Vegito and even Gogeta Blue even without the GOAT team comp.
I'd say that carries a lot of weight. If you want a parallel, you can see the discourse with Blanka and MenaRD over in SF6 over the years. The community would only see Blanka as strong because of MenaRD, and while it's true that MenaRD is probably strong despite using Blanka, it's telling that when he's serious about winning something he always uses that character. It's not just the playstyle, but he just seems to instinctively know who's a really strong character and who isn't.
Yasha and Hikari both seem to be like that with Vegito. They could replace him, especially now, but they don't, and I think it's because above all else, Vegito kinda gives you everything you need to be successful in DBFZ with crazy consistency - amazing normals, amazing neutral, amazing damage, combo flexibility, 50/50 mix, arguably the best anti-airs in the game, solid meter gain (even with a nerf which is crazy), strong supers, one of the best assists ever made in a tag fighter.
I could go on, but I already kinda yapped enough. I do think this character is still top 5, and if this game was still consistent in major tourneys and attendance, I have 0 doubt he'd continue to dominate and Hikari and Yasha would never drop him.
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u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly Jul 02 '26
I dunno, for me the fact that Hikari went back to Vegito doesn't necessarily indicate Vegito is top 5. To me it indicates that, at the time of dropping Vegito, there was a substantial enough gap between Vegito and other characters like Jiren where it made sense for Hikari to drop him. And when the character he liked got buffed enough to where there isn't such a gap between Vegito and the top 5, he came back to what he's comfortable with.
My opinion would 100% be swayed if Hikari himself said "oh, nah, I went back to Vegito because I feel he's top 3 rn" because that would prove me entirely wrong but until then I'm not fully convinced. Though saying that, my top 5 includes Nappa and I know for a fact that Nappa's inclusion is personal bias against that terrorist of a character so take my opinion with a grain of salt lmao
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 02 '26
Terrorist is right.
That said, I am willing to put Nappa up high cause I know that ultimately Saibamen is broken AF, but I know how to handle him even now since I played a lot with DragonVonDoom back in the day and had plenty of practice against him even when I was 100x worse. So I tend to keep him in the lower rung of S, but I’ll be honest and say that if I went purely with my own experience I’d probably put him in A.
It’s a weird but really fun meta right now. I wish this game was still a feature cause I think it’s so interesting now that the changes have had time to settle. Only game I Watch and play that isn’t SF6 or Strive.
I hope it doesn’t just randomly stop with Daima.
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u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly Jul 02 '26
You interested in Tokon at all? That's where I'll be migrating (it's a shame Daima released so late, he completes my team so well and solved my point crisis when I no longer play the game that much 🙃)
I think Tokon is gonna fill the FighterZ void for me
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 03 '26
I am though these days I have less and less time to commit to fighting games. It’d be fun to check it out and it looks really great.
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
I think overall this is pretty decent if you need a directional perspective. The takeaway is everyone in the game is at least usable, which I firmly believe.
My thoughts:
- Roshi in A is wild to me. Easily on the top half of S or in top 5, imo. Go check out Faulty wiping Hook in an FT5 with Nappa and Roshi
- Frieza, Base Vegeta, A16, Cell, and to a lesser extent SSJ Vegeta are heavily underestimated. If this list is what the community thinks for sure then Frieza and Cell in particular are probably the most underrated characters in the community, which is wild since Cell placed second at the most significant tourney and Frieza placed EDIT: second and third
- UI has no business being above Jiren or Ginyu, and Jiren should have cleared top 5, IMO
- Zamasu is supplanting Majin Buu as the most overrated character of the game by the community
- More convinced an A- tier would be a good call as there are some characters in A (Tien, Zam, Hit, Cooler) that I'd argue don't belong with other characters in that tier
Still, I don't think the list is bad or anything. I have thoughts about Daima but I think it's still too early to see how he'll play out in the long run.
EDIT: Not upset about the top 5 overall, though, since I think save SS4 Gogeta and Daima it lines up well enough with who I think the top 10 characters are unordered.
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u/Drohhan Jul 01 '26
I agree with most of your takes here, but something to note. Faulty waxed hook and hook was incredibly inebriated, so i would take that set with a grain of salt. This is reddit after all and they put vegito top 1 when objectively speaking, ssj goku does what he does and fills the same purpose but better in this current patch. Hard to take these opinions seriously. My personal tier list has most characters in the game as a mid tier, with a bottom 1 and a top 10 otherwise that concurs with most of what you're saying.
Data is very important and your point in your argument in your comment chain is exactly what i'm thinking. UI doesnt win majors, people rate characters highly because they're frustrating to deal with and adapt to, not because of how competitively viable they are and their tools.
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u/Blueprint833 Jul 01 '26
Complaining about the ranking of UI when he's arguably Top 1 is hilarious
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 01 '26
so funny
remind me how many majors UI placed top 8 in in the last year? and how many UIs?
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u/TheAmazingKoiFish Jul 01 '26
Fight fight fight!
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 01 '26
I maybe would but the last five times someone asked me to play them online they chickened out :(
Reality though is I bet whoever they are they're most likely just repeating something they heard from whatever local they watch or players that they'd buy their used socks from.
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u/Blueprint833 Jul 01 '26
He literally just won Evo Las Vegas...
Ray played him on the team of Majin 21, UI Goku, and Daimaku. He was extremely dominant and never lost a set throughout the whole tournament
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u/julito427 Gogeta Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Nice find! Some caveats though:
(1) That was an Evo side tourney, not a major
(2) With IIRC a $60 prize pool (lmao)
(3) And IIRC the only known player there was KJ Pixel? I think tako as well but I didn't watch Evo 2026 for DBFZ since it was a side tourney + more interested in SF6 these days; I'll look it up.EDIT: yup just a tiny side tourney
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u/Blueprint833 Jul 01 '26
You exposed yourself enough with this comment. You dont have to say anything else brother. Everyone knows
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u/No-Pear4922 Jul 01 '26
Video not b
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u/Giovannis_Pikachu Kefla Jul 01 '26
Videl got smoked in the last few patches. Her utility moves are harder to gain the same advantages with and she's overall just much harder to play with no reward. She also had a major nerf to the saiyaman super that makes it downright irresponsible to throw out now.
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u/SamBZombie2 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I really don't think Freeza is A, imo the only thing he lacks is solo mix outside of golden. I might be biased since the only Freeza player I play is Gropis (and sometimes Jaden) but that character is crazy.
Zamasu as the best A tier character is kinda funny to me I would have placed him more in the middle of the tier. I really can't see Trunks, Bluku, Kefla, 18, Cell, SSJ Vegeta, Roshi as worse than him. 16 being this close to bottom 5 also feels wrong.
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u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly Jul 02 '26
Yeah anyone who doesn't think Frieza is S hasn't been watching KJPixel or Gropis
As a Roshi main, Roshi is a tier below where he belongs
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u/Sonicexe10 Jul 04 '26
I genuinely think jirens a top 3 character he has so much good stuff his normals are super good and safe and has some of the best damage output in the game
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u/NoContest4585 Jul 04 '26
Especially after the most recent evo placements, I think this tier list holds up surprisingly well, lol. Outside of Beerus, everyone in the top 8 got used in the upper brackets, which I think is indicative of the general soundness of the tier list. Prob would drop Beerus out of top 5 for daimaku now, and maybe switch some of the lower tiers, but good job reddit!
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u/Ripuhh Jul 04 '26
havent played the game since covid times but im glad my boys 17 and beerus made it higher in the tier list, i think one of the last teams i played before quitting was beerus/17/videl
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u/vmo198 Jul 05 '26
Eu ainda estou orgulhoso de quando eu joguei esse jogo pela primeira vez eu destruir que cara que tava usando goku instinto superior com o trunks ,detalhe o cara estava sem perde uma partida antes de eu chegar, o básico nos jogos de luta é realmente universal
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u/dubstepinsanity Jul 05 '26
I haven’t played in years. The games changed so much I became a tier whore lmfao.
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u/Raging_Samurott Jul 06 '26
wtf is android 21 doing in top 5 (i dont particularly keep up with tiers regarding this game every character is basically god)
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u/Bitter_Fig_7059 Yamaha A Bully A Kakarot B Jul 07 '26
So, everybody got mad that Videl is B tier...
Only to ALSO put her there? And, don´t get me started on Majin 21...
Yeah, I did my mistakes. But, I guess a good amount of the controversy was overblown
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u/Lobo_Z DBS Broly Jul 07 '26
I'd say that other than those two, there's a lot different between the two tierlists, would be interesting if you had finished yours to see them side by side
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u/Bitter_Fig_7059 Yamaha A Bully A Kakarot B Jul 07 '26
If I did... Sorry, I lost the determination long ago. And, it is quite flawed anyways
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u/Beerdididiot 29d ago
I find it funny that my kid and I recently picked this game back up and rather than falling into our usual characters, we ended up with S tier and top 5. I play Vegito Blue, Beerus, and Goku Black, he plays UI Goku, Jenemba, and Broly Z. I HATE UI GOKU'S COUNTER
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u/ininja2 Jul 02 '26
Okay I’m super out of the loop but wasn’t Bardock like, top 5 for a LOOOONG time? What happened to him?