Guide with all the hidden secrets of Dragon Ball FighterZ Review

With our Dragon Ball FighterZ guide you will learn to unlock the secret characters, to create Dramatic Scenes, and what the different ranks and colors of the online mean.

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Update October 14, 2025

We’ve updated the guide to include the new characters from the FighterZ Pass 2, such as Jiren, Videl, and Goku GT.

Original Guide

Welcome to this comprehensive guide to the secrets of the amazing Dragon Ball FighterZ, the new game from Arc System Works and Bandai Namco based on the most famous manga and anime of all time. In this guide, we’ll show you how to unlock all the playable characters, the different combinations to recreate dramatic scenes in the style of the series, and finally, discover the purpose of the famous color chart next to your name in the lobby and the different online multiplayer ranks.

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Secret Characters

There are a total of three hidden characters in the game. These characters could also be unlocked by pre-ordering the game, but if you didn’t have the opportunity, we’ll give you several ways to unlock Super Saiyan Blue Son Goku and Vegeta, and Majin Android 21, a character designed by Akira Toriyama himself.

Son Goku Super Saiyan Blue (SSB)

There are four ways to unlock Son Goku in Super Saiyan Blue state:

1. By pre-ordering Dragon Ball FighterZ before its release.
2. By earning a total of 500,000 Zenis throughout the game, which will unlock the character without having to go through the lobby store. You won’t lose the earned Zenis, you just need to have earned or spent them.
3. By completing the Hyperbolic Time Chamber path (seven fights) in hard mode with a rank of A or higher. It’s a challenging task.
4. In Story Mode, by reaching level 40 with Super Saiyan Son Goku, the Super Saiyan Blue version will be unlocked for you to continue the story with that character. This only unlocks for Story Mode, you won’t be able to play in online or offline combat.

Vegeta Super Saiyan Blue (SSB)

Like his eternal rival, there are also four ways to unlock Vegeta in Super Saiyan Blue:

1. By pre-ordering Dragon Ball FighterZ before its release, just like Goku.
2. By earning a total of 300,000 Zenis throughout the game, which will unlock the character. Like with Goku, you won’t lose the earned Zenis, you just need to have earned or spent them.
3. By completing the Extreme Gravity Spaceship path in hard mode (five fights) with a rank of A or higher. It’s a bit more accessible than the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, but still a challenge.
4. In Story Mode, by reaching level 40 with Super Saiyan Vegeta, Vegeta Super Saiyan Blue will be unlocked. Like with Goku, this only unlocks for Story Mode, you won’t be able to play in online or offline combat.

Majin Android 21

Unlike the previous two secret characters, there’s only one way to unlock Majin Android 21: by completing the three main story arcs of the game. The story mode is quite long and sometimes boring, it took us around ten hours to complete it, not counting the side missions.

Golden Freezer

We know, we know! Golden Freezer is not a secret character, it’s a temporary transformation of the base Freezer character. The Emperor of Evil has a golden transformation as his ultimate attack, which consumes three Ki bars, can only be used once in combat, and lasts for only 20 seconds. But few people know what this transformation is really for, and we’ll tell you.

Golden Freezer has increased speed, deals 20% more damage, and can use a Double Air Dash (in the air). The transformation makes Freezer one of the fastest and most lethal characters in the game, but it only lasts for 20 seconds, and when it ends, we’ll fall to the ground completely unprotected. That’s where Sorbet comes in. Just like in the Dragon Ball Z movie “The Resurrection of F” and Dragon Ball Super, Sorbet, Freezer’s henchman, will shoot our opponent if we press RB once we’re on the ground after using the transformation.

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Dramatic Scenes | Final Spectacular

One of the reasons for the success of Dragon Ball FighterZ is the care and attention to detail that Arc System Works has put into it, as seen in the inclusion of Dramatic Scenes and Final Spectacular. These scenes and endings consist of recreating epic moments from the Dragon Ball series, and we’ll show you the combinations you need to make to experience these moments:

Dramatic Scenes

Krillin vs Nappa

• Krillin and Nappa must be the first fighters, respectively.
• Scene: Rocky Field.

Son Goku Super Saiyan vs Freezer

• Son Goku Super Saiyan and Freezer must be the first fighters, respectively.
• Scene: Namek.
• Krillin cannot be in any team.

Son Gohan Young vs Perfect Cell

• Son Gohan Young and Perfect Cell must be the first fighters, respectively.
• Scene: Cell Game.
• Android 16 cannot be in any team.

Final Spectacular

To create the Final Spectacular (also known as Dramatic Finish), you need to be in a specific scene with two specific characters. You must win against your opponent with a B attack, and if you do it correctly, you’ll see different scenes from the anime. Here are the combinations you need to make:

Nappa wins against Yamcha

• Scene: Rocky Field.

Yamcha wins against Nappa (exclusive game ending)

• Scene: Rocky Field.

Son Goku Super Saiyan wins against Freezer

• Scene: Destroyed Namek (to do this, you must first perform an ultimate attack in Namek).

Trunks wins against Freezer

• Scene: Rocky Field.

Son Gohan Young wins against Perfect Cell

• Scene: Desert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JslvC-M5IEg

Son Goku Super Saiyan wins against Kid Buu

• Scene: Kaioshin World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHuyjKxLiM

Beerus wins against Goku Black (with ultimate attack)

There’s another small scene that recreates the anime, in this case, Dragon Ball Super. To do this, you must eliminate Goku Black with Beerus’ ultimate attack, which will activate the Hakai (Destruction). Beerus only uses this ending with Goku Black, it’s a small variation of the anime, as Beerus, the God of Destruction of the seventh universe, eliminates Zamasu from the present.

Beerus wins against Son Goku Super Saiyan

DLC 1 | FighterZ Pass (Bardock & Broly)

Son Goku Super Saiyan wins against Broly

• Scene: Space.

Son Gohan Adult wins against Broly

• Scene: Desert.

Freezer wins against Bardock

• Scene: Space.

Bardock wins against Freezer

• Scene: Space.

DLC 2 | FighterZ Pass (Vegetto Blue & Zamasu Fusionado)

Vegetto Blue wins against Zamasu Fusionado

• Scene: West City (destroyed).

Trunk wins against Zamasu Fusionado

• Scene: West City (destroyed).

DLC 3 | FighterZ Pass (Son Goku base & Vegeta base)

Son Goku base wins against Vegeta base

• Scene: Rocky Field.

Son Goku base wins against Freezer

• Scene: Namek.

There are other scenes that Arc System Works has introduced in the game, which all Dragon Ball fans will appreciate. Here are a few:

• If we have Gohan Adult and Super Saiyan Son Goku in our team, when we perform the ultimate attack, Gohan will do a triple Kame Hame Ha with Son Goku and Son Goten.
• If we have Android 18 and Krillin in our team, Android 18’s ultimate attack won’t be with Android 17, but with Krillin.
• If we have Gotenks Super Saiyan 3 and Piccolo in our team, when we perform the ultimate attack, Piccolo will help us with a great volleyball move.

DLC 4 | FighterZ Pass (Cooler & Android 17) + Free Halloween Update

Last September, Dragon Ball FighterZ ended its season pass with the fourth DLC, which includes Android 17 and Cooler, who unfortunately don’t have any Dramatic Finishers, and a free update for Halloween. They’ve added new colors to alternate costumes of the characters, with colors like black, orange, white, and purple, reminiscent of the American holiday. They’ve also added new titles like Super Saiyan Rose, Ultra Instinct, or Super Saiyan Blue Evolved, and some characters will dress up for the occasion in the game’s lobby.

New Scene: Galactic Arena

With the new update (completely free), Arc System Works and Bandai Namco have added a new scene that many will remember from the Guilty Gear saga. In it, we can see the secondary characters of our team and special attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbD9o52TpgQ&t=29s

DLC 1 | FighterZ Pass 2 (Jiren & Videl)

On January 31, the second season pass for Dragon Ball FighterZ arrived, called FighterZ Pass 2. The pass includes six characters, all of which have been revealed except for one that hasn’t been officially confirmed by Bandai Namco. On the same day, Jiren, the most powerful warrior of the eleventh universe, and Videl, Son Gohan’s wife and Mr. Satan’s daughter, were available for anyone who purchased the FighterZ Pass 2. Unfortunately, neither of the two characters has a Dramatic Finisher, but Videl has a unique feature that sets her apart from all other characters: an alternate costume.

Videl’s Hair Change

• To unlock Videl’s appearance with pigtails, before her training with Son Gohan, simply press LB in the game’s roster.

DLC 2 | FighterZ Pass 2 (Goku GT)

On May 9, Goku’s day, Bandai Namco released the third character of the second season of Dragon Ball FighterZ, and it’s the first time a character has been released solo without a companion DLC. Goku GT is the first character from Dragon Ball GT to appear in Dragon Ball FighterZ, and what stands out about this new character is his size, which reminds us not only of Dragon Ball GT but also of the early episodes of Akira Toriyama’s series. That’s why Arc System Works designed the character with the iconic red stick that accompanied Son Goku in the first part of his adventure. Goku GT doesn’t have a Dramatic Finisher, but he has some other secrets, like the ability to transform into Super Saiyan 4.

Goku GT’s Transformation into Super Saiyan 4

• Unfortunately for many, the transformation into Super Saiyan 4 is quite short and can only be achieved with a specific condition: you must perform the Dragon Fist Explosion attack with a character from your team eliminated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Tv3y295sc

Goku GT’s Transformation into Super Saiyan 3

• When performing the Super Kame Hame Ha with a character from your team eliminated, Son Goku GT will perform the Kame Hame Ha transformed into Super Saiyan 3.

Son Goku from the Original Dragon Ball

• Another characteristic of the character is that his second costume is identical to the one we saw in the early adventures of Son Goku.

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