Board Thread:Game News and Announcements/@comment-26239911-20200116120612/@comment-28113666-20200209223103

NegativeSymptom wrote: Base Goku is one of those characters that seemed terrible at first. When he came out, everyone was saying he was bottom 10, or even bottom 5. He didnt have much combos (but his more crazy combos were just unknown at the time) and his lv3 was impossible to combo into without an extremely specific setup thats completely unrealistic to pull off online.

But then a player named Wawa showed up in tournament 6 months ago and showed everyone that Base Goku is actually a monster in the right hands. He showed that plenty of the assists in the game can help combo into Goku's Spirit Bomb, and some assists that just directly combo into SB by themselves.

Base Goku has an extremely good assists, good normals, great damage if you have allies missing, and his lv3 is one of if not the single strongest move in the game, although its very slow. But having all these ways to combo into it gives you absurd damage that just melts healthbars.

Of course he has cons too. His damage only really starts to shine once you've lost an ally. But that also leaves you with 1 less assist to help combo into the spirit bomb. But for the most part, he's an extremely solid character overall. I would say his special SB is also a con since it's nearly unusable and that his forward special is more towards the bottom, slow and the light version is pretty much a light without follow-up.