Dragon Ball Z Kakarot: Tips & Tricks For Beginners

Use All of Your Options in Combat

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Tips & Tricks

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot uses a combat system similar to past games, where it’s basically a third-person brawler. There are a ton of options the game gives you, however, and if you want to keep up in the tougher battles you’ll need to use everything at your disposal.

Of course you have your melee attacks and Ki blasts, but there’s also Super Attacks mapped to LB+face buttons. You’ll want to keep your Ki charged up constantly during battle, not just so you can use Super Attacks, but also so you can use instant dodges to counterattack enemies.

On top of that, if you have a party in battle you can use RB+face buttons to use Super Attack Assists, which have their own cooldowns. Then later on you’ll unlock transformations, and you always have your Surge gauge to use.

There are plentiful options so make sure to go through the game’s tutorials and be familiar with everything.

Don’t Forget to Shop

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Tips & Tricks

Kakarot doesn’t really take time to explain shopping and making money until later, but it’s important to do so. This is primarily because of the healing items you can buy, and then use in combat.

Villages can be found dotted around the world of Kakarot, and they generally have a helping of shops like the Grocer, Material Shop, Cook, and Item Shop.

The most important thing to buy are healing items like Vitadrinks, so you don’t get caught in battle without a way to heal. With that, the best way to make money is by selling “Exchange Materials” that you find from exploring the world or hunting animals and dinosaurs.

Use Your Z-Orbs

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Tips & Tricks

Another aspect that the game kind of glazes over is using Z-Orbs to buy skills. These colored orbs are littered everywhere in the game and you’ll constantly be picking them up as you run or fly around.

To use these you need to open the character menu in the main menu, then select a specific character. On the character page press Y to go to the super attack skill tree. This is where you’ll spend those plentiful Z-Orbs to get new Super Attacks. You can also purchase skills to increase attributes, like increasing your stun damage.

If you’re looking to purchase a specific skill land don’t have enough orbs just look near environments of the same color. So if you need blue orbs look near water, or if you need red orbs look near canyons and rocks.

Make Sure to Place Soul Emblems

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Tips & Tricks

Soul Emblems are tokens that you gain by meeting or helping characters, either in the main story or through sub-stories. On their own they don’t do anything, but you can slot the emblems into your Community Boards to get a ton of different enhancements.

During the Saiyan Saga, you’ll unlock all these boards, like the cooking board that enhances the bonuses from food, or the training board that increases the experience you get among other things.

Each Soul Emblem has their own levels for each board, and you can increase these levels by using gifts. You get a lot of emblems so make sure you’re taking the time to go in and place them, and reap the benefits.

You won’t unlock all the boards immediately, so feel free to place everything then go back and change it later.

Do Sub-Stories When They’re Available

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot Tips & Tricks

The main story in Kakarot follows the exact events of DBZ, but sub-stories are where things start to diverge a little bit. These are optional quests you can undertake that, more often than not, involve side characters or ones you haven’t seen in a while, like Launch or Yajirobi.

Past little story moments sub-stories are always worth doing purely for the rewards. Each one will give you a variety of gifts and items, but more importantly a Soul Emblem.

Many of the Soul Emblems in the game can only be gained through sub-stories so it’s important to nab them. Sub-stories appear as blue exclamation points on your map, so always keep an eye out as you’re advancing the story to see if one pops up.

That does it for our tips and tricks, but if you need any other help make sure to check out our Dragon Ball Z Kakarot guide wiki. You can also see our interview with the producer, if you want to learn even more about Kakarot.