DRAGON BALL LEGENDS Son Family Defensive Strategy Guide

To maximize team survivability in DRAGON BALL LEGENDS, build a Son Family core focused on defensive longevity, revival mechanics, and damage reduction. Your immediate goal is to absorb high-damage attacks like Rising Rushes and heavy combos, forcing opponents into long matches where they deplete their primary offensive tools.

Bench Setup and Z-Ability Support

Building a high-survivability Son Family team requires combining passive defensive passives with bench units that increase total health and defensive stats.

Select Defensive Z-Abilities: Filter bench options for units that offer strike defense, blast defense, and maximum health buffs for the Son Family tag. Choose bench characters that provide support across at least two defensive categories.
Health Pool Synergy: Stacking health Z-Abilities directly increases the effectiveness of in-battle damage reduction passives, giving active combatants larger effective health pools to absorb single-rotation burst damage.
Passive Support: Maintain passive defensive support across your active lineup so incoming switch-in fighters remain durable when substituting out your main damage dealer.

Managing Revival Mechanics

Revival units act as your primary safety net against devastating attacks. Forcing an opponent to trigger your revival wastes their momentum and neutralizes their highest-damage ultimate abilities.

Baiting Rising Rushes: Keep your revival unit active or ready to switch when anticipating an opponent's Rising Rush or ultimate attack to save your core damage dealers.
Vanish Gauge Recovery: Use the extra life granted by revival to buy time while waiting for your vanish gauge to recharge or enemy buff durations to expire.
Post-Revival Swaps: Swap out immediately after a revival triggers to preserve the unit's remaining health pool and maintain team balance.
Ability Timing: Hold main abilities immediately after a revival unit transforms; activate main abilities only after securing vanish control or field priority.

Rotation Tactics and Counter-Play

Defensive play must be balanced with calculated counter-attacks to prevent opponents from freely farming Rising Rush dragon balls.

Distribute Incoming Damage: Rotate frequently between active combatants to prevent any single character from taking concentrated combo damage.
Reclaim Priority with Strike Cancels: After absorbing a combo or baiting an enemy vanish, use strike-cancel maneuvers to reset field control and start your own combo sequences.
Adjust Against Anti-Revival Meta Teams: When facing units with anti-revival passives or endurance nullification, play more cautiously. Conserve your vanish gauge and avoid unnecessary damage trades, as your main defensive fallback will be bypassed.