
They turn red, and their Ki slowly decreases, as they lose the ability to block.
Hyper Mode – By pressing (p+k+g+e) or L2, a character enters Hyper Mode. This move can only be performed when you don’t have any usable items in your skill tray. This will cause them to lose one full bar of Ki. Taunt – By holding the guard button and double-tapping the down directional button, you can taunt your opponent. To use an item skill in a battle, hold the guard button and double-tap the down directional button. If a character is interrupted while trying to use an item, the item is lost. Items can only be used once, and have various effects ranging from increasing health to granting temporary Ki blast immunity. Items – Item capsules can be equipped and used in battle. If you attempt to use a Pursue in Hyper Mode, instead, it will initiate a Dragon Rush. This delivers three extra hits to the opponent, but can be teleport countered. Pursue – By pressing circle after knocking a character away, you can begin a Pursue attack. Teleport Counters – Before any attack connects, a character can teleport behind the attacking character and counter-attack at the cost of 3 ki bars. Dodging – By pressing guard just before being attacked, the character will dodge the attack completely, at the cost of a little ki. It’s most important during an ultimate attack, but if fatigue is maxed out, a character will become exhausted if knocked down with less than one Ki gauge full. Fatigue – A new fatigue meter is added to the HUD, it increases during battle. Although, if two beam attacks collide at close-range, the beams will instantly cancel each other out and cause damage to both players. The two characters rotate control sticks in order to push the two beams to one character or the other. Beam Struggle – If two beam attacks collide, instead of canceling each other out, a beam struggle is activated. Additionally, some transformations (like Cell, Broly and Frieza’s) are irreversible. In Budokai 3, a transformation will instead increase the base ki level, and is only reverted if a character is hit with less than one ki gauge, or if they allow hyper mode to run out.
Transformation – In the previous two games, a transformation gradually drained ki, and being knocked down with less than the ki level needed to transform would revert the transformation. Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan in Budokai 3