40 Fun Facts About Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle

By August 2021, players worldwide had spent more than how much on the free-to-play Dokkan Battle?

$3 billion fell just six and a half years after launch, putting a free download among the highest-earning mobile games ever. The last billion took only 20 months to arrive.

Dokkan Battle adds a new unit every March 18 because 3/18 sounds like which word in Japanese?

Saiyan is roughly how the digits 3-1-8 read aloud in Japanese, so fans treat March 18 as a holiday. The game has honoured the pun every year since 2017 with a fresh warrior of that race.

Statues of which Dragon Ball character exist in Dokkan Battle purely to be sold for in-game money?

Hercule statues come in grades from bronze up to diamond and cannot fight at all. The game describes each one simply as a character for selling, worth as much as five million.

Which Dragon Ball character runs the Dokkan Battle shop where unwanted cards are traded for points?

Baba, the fortune-telling witch who is Master Roshi's older sister, takes spare cards, medals and items in return for trade points. Her shelf of goods refreshes every 20 minutes.

Dokkan Battle's 2017 April Fools' joke was a fake spin-off game about raising which green creatures?

Saibamen, the disposable soldiers grown from planted seeds, starred in the fake game Saibai Battle. Players really did receive a gag card whose attack ends with the whole squad self-destructing.

Which fighter investigates the era-merging distortion in Dokkan Battle's original Quest story?

Trunks, in his time-travelling future form, teams up with the player once dimensions begin to merge. The trouble starts when a mysterious figure asks the eternal dragon who is the strongest of all time.

Dokkan Battle is a gacha game, a genre named after which Japanese arcade fixture?

A toy vending machine, the gashapon, drops a random capsule for each coin, and gacha games copy that gamble. Dokkan's summons work the same way, with rare characters as the prize.

By 2021, which European country was Dokkan Battle's third-biggest market for player spending?

France sat third for lifetime revenue, the only European country in the top three. Japan dominated the table, supplying about 60 percent of everything players had spent.

What do Dokkan Battle characters who cannot fly, such as Red Ribbon soldiers, use to stay airborne?

A jetpack keeps grounded fighters level with opponents who fly under their own power. Frieza, meanwhile, can fight from the seat of his hover pod.

On Dokkan Battle's quest maps, what carries the team between two spaces that are not connected?

The Flying Nimbus, Goku's childhood cloud, ferries the party across gaps in the path. Other spaces hide items, traps, fights or a shopkeeper selling goods mid-stage.

Which fighter's banner sparked a rigged-rates scandal on Dokkan Battle's Japanese servers in 2017?

Kefla was missing from the list of possible pulls that some players were shown, so fans suspected rigged odds. The developer called it a display error, paused summoning and compensated every player in Japan.

Which premium currency do Dokkan Battle players spend on summons, at five for a single pull?

Dragon Stones buy summons, refill stamina and revive a beaten team, and they are the one currency sold for real money. A ten-character multi-summon costs 50 of them.

Dokkan Battle's quest stages, with numbered moves and spaces for traps and fights, play like what?

A board game is the model: players pick one of three numbers and advance that many spaces toward the boss. Battles themselves switch to a puzzle of matching coloured orbs.

Which character is fed to any Dokkan Battle card to guarantee a higher Super Attack level?

Elder Kai works on every card, whereas similar training items succeed only on a matching type. In the anime the same old god is freed from a sword that snaps during Gohan's training.

Which dragon's Dragon Balls can be collected only during special Dokkan Battle celebrations?

Porunga hands out three wishes in one sitting, just as in the anime, from a different menu than Earth's dragon offers. His Namekian Dragon Balls are also gathered differently from the regular set.

Good guys like Goku are Super class in Dokkan Battle; villains such as Frieza belong to which class?

Extreme class is assigned when a villain's card is Z-Awakened, just as good-hearted fighters become Super class. Either class is stronger against cards that have not been awakened yet.

In Dokkan Battle's type wheel, which blue type deals super-effective damage to red STR characters?

AGL, short for Agility, beats STR and in turn loses to TEQ. The five types chase one another in a single loop, so every type has exactly one it bullies and one it fears.

Which Dokkan Battle ability activates only when two characters who share it attack side by side?

Link Skills reward pairing related fighters, such as Goku beside Gohan, with extra Ki, attack or defence. Two cards carrying the identical character name cannot trigger them together.

Which Dokkan Battle support item restores the team's entire HP and clears every status effect?

Senzu Bean is the game's full heal, echoing the magic beans that instantly mend fighters in the anime. It is also one of the few goods the daily shop sells for ordinary coins.

What is a Dokkan Battle account's level called, which lifts team cost and friend limits as it grows?

Rank also gates content: a major stat-upgrade system stays locked until an account reaches 50. Every new one widens the friend list and lets stronger cards fit into a team.

Dokkan Battle launched in Japan in January 2015 on which platform, weeks ahead of its main rival?

Android got the game on January 30, 2015, with the iPhone version following in mid-February. The worldwide launch on both app stores came that July.

In April 2017, Dokkan Battle hit No. 1 on the iPhone top-grossing chart of which Western country?

United States players sent the game to the top of the iPhone revenue chart, spending nearly 18 dollars each on average. Close to 1.5 million downloads there fed the surge.

Which pint-sized would-be emperor lends his name to the Trove, Dokkan Battle's real-money pack shop?

Pilaf, the blue imp who hunts the Dragon Balls so he can rule the world, fronts the shop where packs of orbs and summon tickets are sold. The Trove is a feature of the Global version.

Which Dokkan Battle category gathers merged fighters such as Vegito?

Potara earrings merge two wearers into one being, which is how Goku and Vegeta become Vegito. The category collects every card whose character wears them, gods included.

In Dokkan Battle, the category reserved for high-spirited female characters is called Peppy what?

Gals is the word the English game chose, giving its roster of spirited women one of the cheeriest category names. Like any category, it matters when a leader skill boosts its members.

Dolly Battle, Dokkan Battle's fake new mode for April Fools' Day 2018, parodied which genre?

A dating sim was the promise: players would chat with the women of Dragon Ball and win them over with gifts. It never existed, but everyone received a commemorative card instead.

Each November until 2024, Dokkan Battle ran a crossover event with which other game?

Dragon Ball Heroes crossovers were timed to each new card set in the arcades. The 2024 event was the last, because the arcade game was being retired in favour of a successor.

From 2018, Dokkan Battle's Japanese version held a summer campaign themed on which Japanese festival?

Tanabata, when wishes are written on paper strips, inspired a campaign held around the end of June. The Global version ran a Thank You Celebration in late autumn instead.

Which Dokkan Battle mode pits a player against other players' teams controlled by the computer?

World Tournament is the closest this single-player game comes to versus play, with prizes handed out by global and local standing. Its name echoes the martial arts contest at the heart of Dragon Ball.

Which Japanese studio, not the publisher itself, developed Dokkan Battle for its 2015 launch?

Akatsuki built the game for its publisher, and the result was an instant hit. It passed 15 million downloads in Japan within three months of release.

Which pair of sidekicks are Dokkan Battle support items that change the colour of Ki Spheres?

Oolong and Puar both attended a shape-shifting school in the manga, so the game has them transform the spheres instead. Each version turns one colour into another, setting up long single-colour chains.

Which Dokkan Battle upgrade system for UR cards and above is fully opened by feeding in duplicates?

Hidden Potential adds stats beyond a card's normal maximum by spending coloured orbs on a branching map of boosts. Four extra copies are needed to open every route.

Which Other World figure is a Dokkan Battle support item that delays all enemy attacks for one turn?

Ghost Usher buys a free turn by pushing back every incoming attack. King Yemma, the judge of the dead, is an item too, halving the damage taken for one turn.

In Pettan Battle, Dokkan Battle's idle side mode, players send what collectible items into fights?

Stickers bearing chibi art of existing characters do the fighting on their own, even while the app is closed. The harder the battle a player picks, the better the rewards for winning it.

Which Dokkan Battle feature reopens closed event stages on demand, using keys instead of stamina?

Portal of Memories opens any story, growth or challenge stage outside its normal schedule. The price of that freedom is a key per run, plus the loss of the usual rewards boost.

Dokkan of the Dead, a zombie-shooter April Fools' joke from 2021, drew on which Dragon Ball Z film?

Fusion Reborn is the film in which past villains escape from hell and the dead roam city streets. The fake first-person shooter cast Frieza as its final boss.

Which assassin turns out to be hunting famous martial arts masters in Dokkan Battle's Quest story?

Mercenary Tao turns out to be the culprit, yet the story treats him as a small fish. Beating him leads the party straight to Raditz, who is scouring Earth for Kakarot.

Which everyday currency do Dokkan Battle players earn in quests and spend on awakening their cards?

Zeni piles up from quests, missions and the sale of unwanted cards. A small daily shop also accepts it for healing items and a few awakening medals.

In Dokkan Battle, a Dokkan Awakened UR card becomes a TUR; what does the T stand for?

Transcended Ultra Rare is the tier a UR reaches through Dokkan Awakening, lifting its level cap from 100 to 120. Only the Legendary Rare tier sits above it, at 150.

Which Japanese publisher took Dokkan Battle to Western app stores in July 2015?

Bandai Namco opened the game to the Americas, Europe and Australia in one go. By mid-2017 it was live in around 50 countries and had topped App Store sales charts in 16 countries and regions.