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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zerofeatures a few challenging battles that may require a lot more effort than the others. These battles require you to not only study the patterns and strengths of your enemies but also to go in with a solid strategy to come out victorious.
The consecutive battles against the Ginyu Force can be exceptionally tough, even at lower difficulty, as you’re tasked with fighting against each member of the Ginyu Force without being able to heal yourself. However, once you’ve figured out the correct strategy, it only becomes a matter of time before you’re able to overwhelm them and claim your win.
How To Begin The Consecutive Battle With The Ginyu Force
If you’re following the main story route in Goku’s Character Episode, you’ll likely encounter the members of theGinyu Force in pairs on Planet Namek, which are quite easy to defeat. However, if you take thealternate Side by Side route, you’ll encounter a consecutive battle against the Ginyu Force, where you’ll have to fight all the membersone by one.
To trigger the consecutive battle, you’ll have to choose to fight Raditz alone instead of working with Piccolo and wear down Raditz to his last health bar in the Raditz vs. The Turtle School node. This will begin a chain of events that will eventually lead Vegeta to be able to escape the Earth in a Saiyan Pod. After some time, Vegeta will return and propose to ally with Goku and his friends to fight against Frieza.
As Frieza invades planet Earth during thealternate story route, you’ll be tasked with fighting against Zarbon and Dodoria. Defeating the duo willprompt the Ginyu Force to take charge, and you’ll have to face off against Guldo, the weakest member of the squad.
After you’ve defeated Guldo, Vegeta would suggest to the Ginyu Force that fighting against Goku one by one takes a lot of time, so Goku should just fight the entire Ginyu Force at once. Goku and the members of the Ginyu Force agree to the proposal, resulting inGoku taking on the five-man squad.
How To Fight Against The Ginyu Force
The main strategy of your battle against the Ginyu Force revolves around creating space tocharge your Ki, utilizing the Sparking Mode, and throwing as many Spirit Bombsas you can. However, each member of the Ginyu Force is dealt with differently, and you’ll have tolearn how to approach each character.
Guldo
Guldo is fairly easy to fight against as you can easily lock onto him with a rush combo and then proceed to do aKaioken x20 Kamehameha as the enemy is flying toward the ground. If you repeat this process a couple of times, you’ll be able to defeat this enemy easily.
However,you may’t afford to lose any health during your fight against Guldoto prepare for everything you’ll be facing after it. If you do lose a lot of health, consider simply retry and attempt to end this fight with minimal damage taken, because the upcoming fights are a lot more difficult, and you need as much health as possible.
Try to charge your Ki to the maximum before dealing a finishing blow to Guldo so you can quickly switch to the Sparking Mode as soon as your fight against the next opponent begins.
Recoome
After you’ve beaten Guldo, your next opponent will be Recoome. This fight is quite challenging asRecoome can cast a defensive buff, which makes it challenging to lock onto him with a regular rush attack combo.
This opponent will also frequentlyteleport behind you to throw a kick at your back. You have to be careful of this while trying to approach Recoome. However, if you’re in Sparking Mode, and you’re able to catch him off guard with a rush attack combo, you can quickly shoot a Spirit Bomb at him to annihilate his HP before he recovers.
Burter
Compared to Recoome,Burter is a lot more aggressiveand will try to repeatedly teleport around you while raining down melee attacks.Burter also uses counterattacks a lot, so you’ll have to be careful with your attacks. Burter is one opponent where you can risk losing some HP, as he’s fairly stronger than the rest of the Ginyu Force members that you have faced so far.
Avoid throwing raw Spirit Bombs at the members of the Ginyu Force because they can easily avoid this attack. Using a Spirit Bomb also kicks you out of the Sparking Mode, so it’s best to use it only after you’ve knocked the enemy down with a melee combo.
The strategy to deal with him is similar to how you dealt with Recoome. Charge into Sparking Mode, do a rush combo to knock him down, and then throw a Spirit Bomb at him. If you have several Skill Points available, you can also use the “Give Me Your Energy” Skill up to three times, which willdrastically boost the damage of your Spirit Bomb.
Make sure that you haveat least one Skill Point availableafter casting the “Give Me Your Energy” skill so you’re able to safely switch to Sparking Mode if you’re not already in it to cast the Spirit Bomb.
Jeice
Jeice is quick on his feet anduses tons of long-range Ki attacks. Fortunately, his melee attacks are quite easy to avoid. You have to focus on catching him off guard during his melee attack combos and then retaliate with a combo of your own.
If you are getting rushed down by Jeice’s melee attacks, wait for him to teleport around you and quickly hit the block button, which will allow you to teleport to his back, allowing you to take charge of the offense.
Do a rush attack combo on Jeice toknock him down and do a Kaioken 20x Kamehameha unless you’re in Sparking Mode. If you’re in Sparking Mode, you will have to rely on the Spirit Bomb again, as it deals a considerable amount of damage and can quickly take out the Ginyu Squad Member.
Commander Ginyu
CommanderGinyu has a strong defense,but if you switch to Sparking Mode and take charge of the offense, you may quickly bring him downwith a couple of well-placed Spirit Bombs. However, since he is the last opponent, you also have to be very careful because youmight not have a lot of HP leftat this point.
If you feel like you might not be able to defeat Commander Ginyu, the best way to turn the tables is to Dragon Dash away to create some distance and then charge your Ki to switch to the Sparking Mode.Once Goku is in Sparking Mode, you can easily overwhelm Commander Ginyuwith a rush attack combo and then throw a Spirit Bomb at him.
After you’ve successfully defeated Commander Ginyu, the battle against Ginyu Force will end, and you will be able to progress further into Goku’s alternate story.
