1. Version History [HIST]
2. Character List [CH4R]
3. Floor List [FL0R]
A. Floor 1 [FLR1]
B. Floor 2 [FLR2]
C. Floor 3 [FLR3]
D. Floor 4 [FLR4]
E. Floor 5 [FLR5]
F. Floor 6 [FLR6]
G. Floor 7 [FLR7]
4. Ziku Radar [Z1KU]
5. Tips and Tricks [T1PS]
6. Special Thanks [SPEC]
7. Usage on Other Sites [LEGL]
Version History [HIST]
1.0: -Info compiled into a list and uploaded
1.1: -Info upgraded, by floor category added
-Warning about info: Rift Locations may be incorrect
1.2: -New locations for: Meta Cooler, Magetta, Botamo,
Great Saiyaman 2, SSJ Kid Gohan
-Improved the Sub Quest needed tags
-Fixed typo where I gave the wrong event for Jaco
-Added in Future Goshanks, mainly for those who want to see him
1.3: -New locations for: Bardock, Videl
-Added a small section about the Ziku Radar
1.4: -New detail on recruiting Demon King Piccolo
-Additional details added to the Ziku Radar section
1.5: -Removed the Post Game note from King Piccolo, SE:55 can be gotten
before you fight Ultra-Pinich
1.6: -Janemba is now called Super Janemba
1.7: -Added warnings about possible errors in rift locations
1.8: -Cabbe added to Floor 7 S Rank Rift list, thanks to an anonymous tip,
message me if you want to be named
-Fixed up a few errors with the floor based listings and lightly
tweaked the Version History
-New Character Locations!
-SSJ Kid Gohan can be found in Floor 1 S Rank Rifts
-Majin Buu: Pure can be found in Floor 5 G Rank Rifts
-Started noting which characters appear with other recruitable canon
characters in Rifts and Crown Groups
-Started resorting the By Floor listing to show seperate teams better,
characters without a number or spacing before their name right now
are likely waiting until I get to them, in the future unconfirmed
characters will be grouped together after the last team
-Started a process of testing out rift encounters
-If an encounter has been comfirmed by this, the entry on the list
will have a note saying it's confirmed
-Unconfirmed Rifts will be noted too, these may or may not work, if
there's a confirmed Rift location, use that instead
-So far nothing is marked as unconfirmed yet
-Crown Group Recruits are always accurate, just know that certain
characters don't show up until the post game (Like Frieza and SSJ
Kid Gohan)
-If there's no note I've not tested that enough yet
1.9: -Further work on confirming locations; nearly every character has
a confirmed rift or appears in a Crown Group
-Added a tips section
-Expanded the section about Ryokuji in the Special Thanks
-Reordered the Special Thanks section
1.10: -More info on rift groups
-Golden Frieza can appear with Frost on Floor 2
-SSJ Kid Gohan and SSJ Goku (GT) can appear together on Floor 7
-More confirmed
-SSJ Kid Gohan, S Rank Rift on Floor 7 confirmed
1.11: -New info, thanks to TrueAzaroth
1.12: -Definite Location for SSJ Goku (Super), thanks to PokemasterAsh
1.13: -Second confirmation for the location added in 1.12, thanks to
ssj4jeremy
-Changed the names used for Gohan
-(SSJ) Kid Gohan = (SSJ) Cell Saga Gohan
-(SSJ) Teen Gohan = (SSJ) Buu Saga Gohan
1.14: -Goku (GT) and his SSJ and SSJ3 form can be gotten before the post
game
-SSJ3 Goku (GT) on Floor 5 confirmed
-Thanks to eclipseline for pointing these facts out
1.15: -Very minor typo fix, added in a missing number
-Buu Saga Gohan Floor 4 Location confirmed, thanks to TrueAzaroth
1.16: -Updated the steps on save scumming rifts in the Tips and Tricks
Section, thanks to iSharingan for the info
Character List [Ch4R]
Warning: Info might be inaccurate for rift encounters
No. 002: Pinich
Story Event
No. 003: SSJ Pinich
Story Event
No. 004: Goku (Super)
Floor 3 S Rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Vegeta (Super)
Floor 4 S Rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Raditz
No. 005: SSJ Goku (Super)
Floor 1 S rank Rift (Post Game)
Floor 2 S rank Rift (Post Game)
Floor 3 S rank Rift (Post Game)
Floor 4 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: 5: SSJ Buu Saga Gohan, SSJ Bardock
No. 006: SSJ3 Goku (Super)
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: SSJ3 Goku (GT), SSJ3 Vegeta, LSSJ3 Broly
No. 007: SSJ4 Goku
Floor 5 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: SSJ4 Vegeta
Floor 6 S rank Rift (Post Game)
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Post Game)
No. 008: SSG Goku
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: ???
No. 009: SSB Goku
Floor 1 G rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 010: Goku (GT)
Floor 6 S rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Super Uub, Nuova Shenron
Floor 7 S rank Rift
No. 011: SSJ Goku (GT)
Floor 7 S rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: SSJ Cell Saga Gohan
No. 012: SSJ3 Goku (GT)
Floor 5 S rank Rift {Confirmed}
Floor 6 S rank Rift
Floor 7 S rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: SSJ3 Goku (Super), SSJ3 Vegeta, LSSJ3 Broly
No. 013: Kid Goku
Story Event
No. 014: Goku (DBZ)
Floor 3 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: ???
No. 015: SSJ Goku (DBZ)
Floor 1 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 016: SSJ3 Goku (DBZ)
Floor 1 S rank Rift (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 017: Cell Saga Gohan
Sub Event: 18: Family Gathering
No. 018: SSJ Cell Saga Gohan
Floor 1 Crown Group (Sub Event 18 needed) (Post Game)
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 1 S rank Rift (Sub Event 18 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 2 A rank Rift (Sub Event 18 needed)
Floor 3 A rank Rift (Sub Event 18 needed)
Floor 4 A rank Rift (Sub Event 18 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Sub Event 18 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: SSJ Goku (GT)
No. 019: Buu Saga Gohan
Floor 4 S Rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Bardock (Included for a fusion requirement)
Floor 5 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Videl
No. 042: Piccolo
Sub Event: 17: Teach Me, Piccolo!
No. 043: Krillin
Sub Event: 23: An Old Rivalry
No. 045: Yamcha
Sub Event: 25: Woe is Puar
No. 046: Tien
Sub Event: 24: Multi-Form Technique
No. 048: Chiaotzu
Sub Event: 24: Multi-Form Technique
No. 049: Hercule
Floor 5 Crown Group (Post Game)
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 5 S Rank Rift (Post Game)
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Post Game)
Note: No confirmed rifts yet, try using the Crown Group instead
No. 050: Videl
Floor 5 A Rank Rift (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 5 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Buu Saga Gohan
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Sub Event 32 needed)
No. 051: Great Saiyaman 2
Floor 1 Crown Group (Sub Event 32 needed)
-Appears with: Great Saiyaman 1
Floor 1 S rank Rift (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Great Saiyaman 1
Floor 3 A rank Rift (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 052: Pan
Story Event
No. 053: Bulla
Sub Event: 14: My Darling!
No. 054: Uub
Sub Event: 12: Justice's Little Ally
No. 055: Super Uub
Floor 5 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 12 needed)
Floor 6 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 12 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Goku (GT), Nuova Shenron
No. 056: Demon King Piccolo
Floor 3 A rank Rift (Sub Event 55 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 072: Golden Frieza
Floor 2 S rank Rift (Sub Event 62 needed) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Frost
No. 073: Bardock
Sub Event: 34: Father's Fist
Floor 2 A Rank Rift (Included because of a fusion requirement)
(Not recruitable by rift) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 2 S Rank Rift (Included because of a fusion requirement)
(Not recruitable by rift) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 4 S Rank Rift (Included because of a fusion requirement)
(Not recruitable by rift) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Buu Saga Gohan
No. 074: SSJ Bardock
Floor 4 Crown Group (Sub Event 33 needed)
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 4 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 33 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: 5: SSJ Goku (Super), SSJ Buu Saga Gohan
No. 085: Majin Buu: Good
Sub Event: 44: Majin's Playground
No. 086: Majin Buu: Pure
Floor 5 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 56 needed) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: ???
Floor 5 G Rank Rift (Sub Event 56 needed) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Majin Buu: Pure
No. 087: Supreme Kai
Floor 5 A Rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: ???
No. 088: Kibito Kai
Floor 6 A Rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: ???
No. 089: Dabura
Floor 6 Crown Group
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 6 A Rank Rift
Note: No confirmed rifts yet, try using the Crown Group instead
No. 102: Botamo
Floor 6 G Rank Rift (Sub Event 65 needed) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Cabbe, Frost, Hit, Magetta
Floor 7 S rank Rift (Sub Event 65 needed) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 103: Turles
Floor 4 A Rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 5 A Rank Rift
No. 104: Cooler
Sub Event: 21: Frieza Clan Saga: Brotherly Love
No. 105: Meta-Cooler
Floor 2 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 21 needed)
Floor 3 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 21 needed) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: Super 17
Floor 4 Crown Group (Sub Event 21 needed)
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 106: LSSJ Broly
Floor 4 S Rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
No. 107: LSSJ3 Broly
Floor 4 S Rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
Floor 7 S rank Rift {Confirmed}
-Appears with: SSJ3 Goku (Super), SSJ3 Goku (GT), SSJ3 Vegeta
No. 108: Super Janemba
Floor 4 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 56 needed) (Post Game)
Floor 6 S Rank Rift (Sub Event 56 needed) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: ???
No. 109: Towa
Sub Event: 38: A Special Sparring Partner
No. 110: Mira
Sub Event: 38: A Special Sparring Partner
No. 111: Arale
Sub Event: 45: Arale Runs Wild!
QR No. 004: Future Goshanks
Floor 3 S Rank Rift (unrecruitable) {Confirmed}
-Appears with: No Other Canon Recruits in this group
100 Man Fight Team CL (unrecruitable)
-Appears with: N/A, scouting not possible in the 100 Man Fight
Floor List [FL0R]
Floor 1 [FLR1]
Warning: Info might be inaccurate for rift encounters
Crown Groups
1: SSJ Cell Saga Gohan (Sub Event 18 needed) (Post Game)
2: Great Saiyaman 1 (Sub Event 32 needed)
Great Saiyaman 2 (Sub Event 32 needed)
A Rank Rifts
NONE
S Rank Rifts
1: Great Saiyaman 1 (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
Great Saiyaman 2 (Sub Event 32 needed) {Confirmed}
2: SSJ Cell Saga Gohan (Sub Event 18 needed) {Confirmed}
3: SSJ Goku (DBZ) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
4: SSJ3 Goku (DBZ) (Post Game) {Confirmed}
SSJ Goku (Super) (Post Game)
Vegeta (Super) (Post Game)
Cell Jr. (Sub Event 29 needed)
G Rank Rifts
1: SSB Goku (Post Game) {Confirmed}
2: SSB Vegeta (Post Game) {Confirmed}
Sub Events
1: Saibaman (SE: 4)
2: Jaco (SE: 7)
Floor 2 [FLR2]
Warning: Info might be inaccurate for rift encounters
This is a method which can give you any character, for it to work for
canon characters, try to find a star symbol floating around. Find
and open the star rift and 5 unrecruited characters will appear. For
characters that need a Sub Event completed before recruiting them, you
still need to do the Sub Event before you can get the character.
If you fail to get a Star Rift after you see one, reset the game without
fighting whatever you got instead and try again, this won't waste any of
your 3 uses. If after many uses you don't find a Star Rift, it might be
your area, what rifts show up is based on router settings, I for example
never get any Saiyan Rifts at home.
Tips and Tricks [T1PS]
1. Rift Save Scum Method
There is a way to save scum rifts, the process for this is as follows.
1. Fight your enemies and open the rifts with X.
2. Stop, instead of going to the rift to open it with A, go to a map
location and save. You must get to the location before the rift
closes on its own. If you want to warp, you can, just don't warp to
another floor.
3. Save the game.
4. Check out the rift, if it's what you want, congrats, if not, see 5.
5. Reset the game without saving and retry the rift, you might get
something different.
6. If you feel like you're just getting the same set of teams, beat
the next team and restart from 1.
It's usually recommended you restart the attempt after about 3-5
restarts, but if you want to push things, go ahead, it can pay off.
2. Pre-Patch Rift Exploit
Before the patch, it was easier to do rifts, mainly due to how higher
ranked rifts worked. Before the rifts, if you opened a G Rank Rift and
fought or escaped from the enemy, you'd only use up 1 of the 3 rifts
used in the G Rank Rift, enabling you to open up a S Rank Rift
afterwards, and an A Rank after the S Rank. After the patch, a G Rank
Rift got rid of all 3 rifts used, along with S Rank Rifts getting rid
of both used rifts.
3. Health Tip
Most of the times, Crown Groups will have more health than Rift Groups,
most Rift Groups (and Generic Groups) have their total health divided
by 4, other stats are normal. A few rifts don't have the divided
health, for example, SSJ3 Future Trunks' rift on Floor 3 does not have
divided health, that combined with SSJ3 Trunks' Skills and his having
a very damaging attack can make this SSJ3 Trunks a potential threat to
a careless player. I was careless on my first attempt to recruit him
and he nearly KO'd one of my characters with a single attack.
4. Try to Avoid Focusing Too Much
If you're failing to get a specific character, move onto another, you
might have better luck later. This goes double if frustration is
getting you angry or stressed.
5. Recruit Attempts can Fail
When facing a S or G Rank character, there's a sizable chance your
recruit attempt can fail. If you fail on every recruit attempt battle
and you're using the Save Scumming method, reset and hope the team pops
back up. A and B Rank characters can also fail to be recruited, but
this chance is lower than that of the S and G Ranks. It is even
possible for an attempt on a C Rank to fail, but this is a very low
chance, I've only had it happen to me once and I've not heard about
anyone else having it happen.
6. Recruitment Tips
1. More damage done can influence the chances of a recruitment
succeeding, but this has its limits, it will only help so far.
2. Enemy blocking is very bad, it will drastically reduce your damage
output, use Knockback to avoid an accidental KO.
3. Each Zenkai Attack can only recruit one character, KOing multiple
characters will not get multiple recruits, you will only recruit
the character you targeted when you chose the Zenkai Attack option.
4. Think about what moves you use if you're trying to recruit a whole
team of 5 characters in a single battle. Using a Galick Gun or
Kamehameha like move could accidentally lead to accidental KOs.
5. Buff yourself up with positive Status Effects to do more damage
7. Ultra Gauge Building Tips
1. Speed Boost, Power Boost, and Guard Boost are good gauge building
moves; You can use them every turn with their low Ki Orb cost.
2. Shout moves and the upgraded versions of the three Boost moves
mentioned in 1 are also good, they will give you more gauge if they
affect more characters.
3. Targeting multiple enemies with a Special Move helps to build the
Ultra Gauge.
4. If you are going after Rift Characters, make sure you max out the
Ultra Gauge before opening rifts. If you are using the save scum
method, avoid Capsule Corp on Floor 1, King Kai's Planet on Floor 2,
and the Spaceship on all Floors. Entering any of these will heal
you, which also resets your Ultra Gauge back to 0.
5. If one of your characters can't use a support move to build the
Gauge up and you don't want to attack, use the charge energy option
to waste their turn.
8. Notes on Costumes
If you're trying to collect every costume, most transformations of
characters won't give you anything. For example, recruiting SSJ Vegeta
won't unlock Vegeta (Super)'s outfit, you need Vegeta (Super) for that.
The exceptions to this rule are: SSG Goku and Golden Frieza.
Meta-Cooler, Vegito, Kibito Kai, and Super 17 are also exceptions if you
want to consider them as being transformations of other characters.
SSJ4 Goku and Vegeta don't unlock outfits despite them having unique
clothes. Same for the outfit Fusion Dance characters wear, you can't
get that either.
9. Crown Group Spawning
Crown Groups vary in their spawn conditions, some require you to beat
specific Generic Groups, like all three Crown Groups on Floor 1 (Note:
The Cooler group is post game only, I've never seen the needed groups
all being present before the levels increased), these groups will block
their needed Generic Groups from respawning until you beat them. This
type of crown group stick around until you beat them. Other Crown
Groups will randomly spawn after a battle. The despawn after the next
fight whether you fight them or not, so watch out for generic groups if
you're hunting for a specific group. An example of this is the Dodoria
and Zarbon group on Floor 2. And finally, rarely, a Crown Group will
spawn after you beat another crown group. I've only seen this happen
on Floor 3, with the 17 and 18 group spawning after you beat the 20 and
19 group.
10. Why you Should Lock-on with Y
After the rift spawns, the camera will be pointed at it. Try locking
onto the rift with Y before dashing over to it, while locked on you
can't pass through it and have to turn around to open it. This is
especially helpful if you have someone chasing you.
11. Rifts on the First Three Floors
When you arrive on Floors 4-7 you'll be able to start opening rifts
right away. But, for Floors 1-3, you need to wait until you've talked
to King Yemma on Floor 6, this triggers something that causes rifts to
start spawning after battles on the first three floors.
12. Future Goshanks
You can encounter him in Floor 3 S Rank rifts and in the 100 Man Fight.
But he cannot be gotten outside of Japanese only QR codes. But I have
a theory that he was intended to be playable regularly, they might have
been planning to put Future Gohan in the game or have Future Trunks
fuse with Buu Saga Gohan. Buu Saga Gohan has been used in place of
Future Gohan before, like in Budokai Tenkaichi 2. The main reasons I
suspect Future Goshanks was planned to be a regular character lies in a
handful of facts. They are...
1. He appears in battles in-game, no other QR character does this.
2. He has a big moveset, the other QR characters only have 4 or 3 moves
in their movesets.
3. He has Body Change Block, a skill all Fusion Dance characters get
prevent Body Change from making the game glitch out when the fused
character defuses, this makes me believe he had this skill not to
match other Fusion Dance characters but to prevent a Body Change
glitch from happening if he had became playable. As for the QR
version of him not defusing, he likely has whatever the devs used
for enemy Fusion Dance characters allowing his fusion to last
forever.
4. He also has his own Sub Event, no other QR character has this.
5. A minor fact, but unlike the other three QR characters, he is a
Fusion Dance character, not a EX Fusion character. The others
being EX Fusions and having so few Special Moves and Skills is also
strange, usually EX Fusions have their skillset and moveset made by
combining those of the two fusees, this isn't done for the EX
Fusion QR characters.
Special Thanks [SPEC]
Ryokuji - For making a location google document that had most of these
locations, due to it getting vandalized by a troll, I made this
so there would be a more secure information resource available.
This guy's document was very useful back before I started making
guides. I used it when I was recruiting all of the Canon
Characters for the first time.
iKami - Further location of characters
Envoy - For making a copy of Ryokuji's document after it got vandalized
Beerusfangirlic - Info on Demon King Piccolo recruitment requirements
KarnLionar - Meta Cooler Floor 2, S Rift location
AlchemySol - Magetta and Botamo location on Floor 7
TrueAzaroth - Bardock and Buu Saga Gohan Location on Floor 4
PokemasterAsh - SSJ Goku (Super), SSJ Bardock, and SSJ Buu Saga Gohan
Location on Floor 4
ssj4jeremy - Confirmation of PokemasterAsh's find
eclipseline - Goku (GT), SSJ Goku (GT), and SSJ3 Goku (GT) location info
TrueAzaroth - Buu Saga Gohan location info
iSharingan - Mentioned that you can warp to a location while save scumming
Usage on Other Sites [LEGL]
I'm a simple person, so I'll keep this short and free of legal
mumbo jumbo
Feel free to use this on other sites, just keep to three rules
1. Don't pass it off as your own work
2. Keep the info free
3. Ask me first
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