Pure Saiyans (Category)

Pure Saiyans is a surprisingly good team, both defensively and offensively; you wouldn’t think that a team with a 130% ATK boost from the Leader Skill would be the 6th team in terms of average ATK per turn, ranking even higher than Resurrected Warriors, a category team with a 170% ATK Leader Skill. It’s easy to say that the main reason why this team is so strong is the rotation with [Golden Fist] SS3 Goku and Beyond the Ferocious Flash Majin Vegeta, but it should also be considered just how vast the category actually is: Pure Saiyans is the category with the most units in the game, there are an incredible amount of options when it comes to team building and a lot of them are top-tier units.

• [L]: Leader Skill
• [S]: Super Attack
• [P]: Passive Skill

Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta is a very good unit, but he doesn’t link well with the two hardest hitters on the team, [Golden Fist] SS3 Goku and Beyond the Ferocious Flash Majin Vegeta; the situation with this team will look somewhat similar to the on Resurrected Warriors.

Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta’s built-in Additionals do add up and generate a decent amount of damage, even though he doesn’t compare to the hardest hitters in his category; it is possible to build a team focused on units with Prepared for Battle.

Just by having Super Saiyan and Fierce Battle active on the rotation with LSS Broly, Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta can still generate, in his normal form, this amount of ATK:

If Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta transforms, his average ATK increases very quickly thanks to his built-in Additionals and built-in Criticals; already during the first turn, his ATK would look like this:

On an hypothetical second turn, his ATK would increase even more:

As you can see, Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta can potentially be a good unit to build this team around, if you lack options.

If you are interested, these are the individual numbers for Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta (Evolution)’s average ATK calculations:

The first numbers of each line are the Super Attack and all of the additional attacks, whereas at the bottom you can find those same numbers with the different chances to perform a critical.

If Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta transforms, he actually loses potential in terms of defensive capability; his Passive would normally give him a boost in two different moments, adding a total of 172% DEF after 10 attacks; since the enemies become progressively stronger during a fight, he would actually be tankier when it actually matters.
A Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta at 100% would have an average of 119.731 DEF on this team, since the average boost he would get from his Passive, not factoring the transformation, is 135,6% DEF.

Since Super Saiyan 3 Goku is the hardest hitter in the category, you should build the team around him: any unit that doesn’t provide him with Ki and/or an ATK boost, should not go on the team.

In order to understand just how important it is to incorporate units that can support Super Saiyan 3 Goku into the team, I am going to show you what’s the difference between his 12-17 Ki and the 18+ Ki Super Attack.

-The first rotation I am going to look at is the one with Beyond the Ferocious Flash Majin Vegeta and [Saiyans Proof of Power] SS3 Bardock as a floater; Super Saiyan 3 Goku will reach an average of 20 Ki on this rotation.

The rotation’s values are pretty insane, even for a category team; Super Saiyan 3 Bardock provides Ki support and, when the HP are at 70% or below, a 40% ATK boost.

-On the next rotation [Accepted Pride] Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta will be on rotation as a floater instead of Super Saiyan 3 Bardock; Super Saiyan 3 Goku will reach an average of 17 Ki in this case.

As you can see, the DPT dropped dramatically, despite the fact that Majin Vegeta’s values are untouched and Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta can actually output more than Super Saiyan 3 Bardock, even when not in his “Evolved” state.

Super Saiyan 3 Goku can link incredibly well with Majin Vegeta, that’s the reason why I decided to put them on rotation together; they share both Over in a Flash and Shattering the Limit, meaning they will both start at 11 Ki. You could also pair Super Saiyan 3 Goku with Super Saiyan 3 Bardock or even with a support unit like Inklings of Ultimate Power Super Saiyan 3 Goku (GT) (Golden Giant Ape) to take advantage of the fact that the 180% ATK boost he receives from his Passive is factored after the Ki multiplier and not at start of turn.

When Super Saiyan 3 Goku launches his 18+ Ki Super Attack, he loses 70% of his current boosted DEF, but, even at 55% in the Potential System, that really doesn’t matter too much: his DEF is still going to be at 31.691 after the Super Attack and taking damage is actually beneficial since we want Super Saiyan 3 Bardock’s Passive to activate.

There are at least two units that I would list as being worth running on rotation with Majin Vegeta, if you don’t have [Golden Fist] SS3 Goku , and one of them has actually the same name.

Unfortunately Super Saiyan 3 Goku EZA doesn’t compare to the LR version, even at 100% in the Potential System, but he is still an amazing unit and an incredibly hard hitter and obtaining him is far easier, since the can be exchanged for your Red Dragon Stone. Super Saiyan 3 Goku EZA shares only Over in a Flash with Majin Vegeta, but he needs less Ki to function properly compared to the LR, so that shouldn’t be much of an issue.

I am now going to compare a Super Saiyan 3 Goku EZA at 100% in the Potential System with his LR counterpart at 55% in order to demonstrate that the latter outdamages him regardless.

This is Super Saiyan 3 Goku EZA at 100% on rotation with Majin Vegeta and Super Saiyan 3 Bardock:

This is the same rotation with LR Super Saiyan 3 Goku at 55%:

(Majin Vegeta and SS3 Bardock are at 55% in the Potential System in both examples)

As you can see, the LR is a superior unit in terms of damage output by enough to even make up for the dead rotation with Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta.

Super Saiyan 3 Goku EZA will show similar numbers to the ones he displays on Majin Buu Saga, as the boost from Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta’s Leader Skill is the same as the one from [Limitless Radiance] Super Vegito’s, but he will be a lot easier to manage here in terms of Ki.

Super Saiyan 3 Goku (Angel) is the third best unit you can pair with Majin Vegeta; the two units are already a staple rotation on Resurrected Warriors, so their performance will be rather similar. Super Saiyan 3 Goku (Angel) relies on rainbow Ki spheres in order to boost his ATK and, even though similar mechanics are pretty inconsistent, as testing with [Super Powered Fusion] SS Goku & SS Vegeta and [Fusion of Two Powers] SS Goku (Angel) & SS Vegeta (Angel) has shown, he should still be able to collect an average of 2 per turn.

Super Saiyan 3 Goku (Angel) is very close to Super Saiyan 3 Bardock in terms of damage output, but he is a slightly better choice on rotation with Majin Vegeta; this is Super Saiyan 3 Goku (Angel)’s average ATK when [Explosive Evolution] Turles on rotation as a floater:

Super Saiyan 3 Bardock would actually surpass him in this situation, since he benefits a lot more from the additional boost at start of turn, but Turles can transform and lose his support Passive, making his ATK drop; additionally, when Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta is on rotation, Super Saiyan 3 Bardock can only use his own Passive to boost his ATK, making Super Saiyan 3 Goku (Angel) the definite superior choice.

This is Super Saiyan 3 Goku (Angel)’s average ATK when Super Saiyan God SS Vegeta is on rotation as a floater:

This would be Super Saiyan 3 Bardock’s average ATK in the same situation: