DBZ CCG GBA Run Guide

FOLLOW THIS THOROUGHLY! NEED TO TEST NEW STRATS

JUST RESET AFTER 1 DUEL IF YOU DONT GET MASTERY. NEED TO PRACTICE BUILDING FIRST DECK, BUFFERING INPUTS, HOLDING A AT THE PRECISE MOMENTS.

- During a run, when you're dueling as Frieza, try to put down a split right after beating someone, as long as it's consistent every time you run it should be fine.
- If you get multiple Goku's Physical Attack, Blue Round Throw, or other good cards, it's possible to have a Freestyle Goku run.
OpenEmu:left 189, top 206.5, right 420, bottom 293.5
VBA: 189, 206.5, 299, 213
DN: 189, 206.5, 312, 109

Press Start.
Press up, click on Options.
Press up twice, click on Erase Data. Run starts when you confirm. Start Tracker at -2 seconds, so that you can perfectly start the game?
Press up, click on Deck Building.
Choose Gohan, choose to edit Custom 1. Build deck for Krillin.
- Press down 3 times, left, down, left twice.
- Press R, right 1 time, up, left, down 3 times, left 3 times.
- Press R, left twice, up 5 times, left twice.
- Press R, right 3 times, up, right 3 times. Press down 3 times, left 3 times, down twice, left 3 times, down twice, left.
- Press R, down twice, left twice.
- Press R, right 3 times, down, right 3 times, up twice, right 3 times, up, right 3 times, up, right 3 times.
- Hold R until you see Gohan's Ready. Press down, left twice. Press Enter, hold A.

After editing the deck and saving, press up and click on Play, 1 Player, then New Game. Time holding A perfectly, so that you save and enter menu, then start a new game as Gohan as fast as possible.
Choose Gohan, then press down and choose Custom 1. After New Game is selected, you can hold right arrow while the game loads characters and stuff. That should make it a bit faster select Gohan, press A as soon as you can.
Choose Krillin to duel. You can simply hold A while the characters load up. You want to be between 25-30 secs into the run by this point, practice.

After beating him, you get 10 cards. The goal here is to get Red Style Mastery. Put down a split after going through all your drops and seeing it.
- Note: It's faster to hold the right arrow to go through your drops. The ideal would be to see the Mastery, then right after pressing B or whatever and seeing the game save, use that time to put down a split.
Reset if you don't get the Mastery after dueling Krillin once.

When you get Red Style Mastery, the goal will be to make a Red Style Frieza deck. I feel like it'll be faster than a Red Style Goku deck. Goku might be worth it if you get multiple Goku's Physical Attack.

After getting Red Style Mastery as a drop, go to the Main Menu.
Click on Deck Building, and choose Frieza. Choose Custom 1, and make the Initial Red Style deck. Make sure to take out all cards that start out with a color different then Red. Take note of good drops and add them in when you see them.
019 Vegeta's Jolting (2)
048 Gohan's Energy (3)
063 Hidden Power Level (3)
073 Battle Pausing (3)
083 Burning Rage! (3)
092 Gohan's Physical (3)
103 Red Knee Strike (3)
116 Red Reverse Punch (3)
123 Red Knife Hand (3)
124 Red Palm Heel Strike (3)
175 Red Energy Shield (2)
200 Captain Ginyu's Energy Attack (1)
215 Red Face Upheaval (3)
223 Red Power Rush (3)
224 Red Lightning Slash (3)
225 Red Energy Blast (3)
226 Red Eye Laser Assault (3)
231 Trunks High Strike (3)
250 Red Style Mastery (1)
3 Personality Cards
Total: 54+
- Prolly not necessary, but here are step by step notes on what to do generally:
- Press left, down twice, press right 2-3 times for Jolting. Take out all the other cards on the first page. DON'T press R, press DOWN to move on.
- On the 2nd page, press down twice, right twice.
- Press R, right 3 times, down, right 3 times, down, right 3 times, down 3 times, right 3 times. Press DOWN.
- Press left 3 times, press L, NOT R, then right 3 times, THEN press R.
- Press down, right 3 times, down, right 3 times, down 3 times, left 3 times.
- Press R, then scroll up and take out all copies of the Black cards.
- Press R, take out those 2 Black cards, then scroll up and take out 3 of the Blue card.
- Press R, right 3 times, up, left, down twice, right 3 times.
- Press DOWN, NOT R, add in all copies of the 3 Red cards. Take out Slash, add 3 High Strike, then take out Energy Sphere.
- Press R twice, take out the Blue card and Gohan's Ready. Press L 2-3 times, take out the Orange card and add in Red Style Mastery.
Press Enter to save. The game will ask if you want to declare Red as your Tokui Waza, press A to confirm.

Click on Play, 1 Player, then New Game.
Choose Frieza, then press down and choose Custom 1.
Defeat Krillin. Pay close attention to the cards you get as drops.
Make these changes to the deck:
+ 3 030 Yamcha's Skillful
+ 1 050 Nappa's Physical Resistance
After, press Continue, choose Custom 1, and defeat Nail. Look at your drops.

Make these fixes:
+ 2 028 Frieza Smiles
- 3 048 Gohan's Energy
+ 3 125 Mother's Touch, and any other good drops.
Press Enter to save. Defeat Guldo. Hopefully, you get at least 1 or 2 good drops from him for Stage 2.

Edit the deck for good drops. Take out 2 Frieza Smiles and 3 copies of Yamcha's Skillful. When you go to the opponent's screen, simply use the down arrow to move on to the Level 2 opponents.
Duel Piccolo first. Look at notes for Piccolo here.
Look at your drops, add any good cards. Next duel Garlic Jr. Look at notes for Garlic Jr. here. Look at your drops after the duel.

Next is Gohan. Edit the deck accordingly:
- any 049 Nappa's Energy Aura
- 3 125 Mother's Touch
- 2 175 Red Energy Shield
+ all copies of 183 Frieza's Finger Tip
+ all copies of 230 Trunks Slash
+ 2 233 Trunks Energy Sphere
+ 2 332 Gohan's Ready.
Duel Gohan. Look at your drops.

Add in 2 Frieza Smiles and 3 Yamcha's Skillful, and any other good drops. Then move to Level 3.
Duel VEGETA FIRST. He can be kinda hard, look closely at your notes on him. Look at your drops.
NEXT: Edit your deck:
+ 2 200 Captain Ginyu's Energy Attack
- all copies of 230 Trunks Slash
- all copies of 231 Trunks High Strike
- all copies of 332 Gohan's Ready
Duel TRUNKS LAST. Be patient, and don't play your cards until he has 1 card left in hand. Look at your drops.

Next is Level 4, which can be the most frustrating duels in the game. You duel Goku and King Cold; Goku uses Red Mastery like you, and King Cold uses Blue Mastery, which is anti-anger. Your defensive cards have little use here, so make the following changes to your deck:
- 2 Frieza Smiles
- 3 Yamcha's Skillful
- Any Jeice's Style, Energy Aura, Physical Resistance

NEW STRATS: Duel KING COLD FIRST. Do your best to win by MPP. Look at your drops, add any good cards.
AFTER, edit the deck for Goku. Add all copies of Frieza's Finger Tip, Trunks' Slash and Gohan's Ready.
Duel Goku. You could very well lose a few times, since this is a Red Style mirror and his deck is better than yours. Win or lose, it'll be a quick duel lol. Look at your drops, add any good cards.

Edit the deck. Put back in Aura, Nappa's Physical, Mother's Touch, Red Energy Shield, etc. however you want. Take out out 2 copies of Captain Ginyu's Energy Attack. Take out all copies of Trunks' Slash and Gohan's Ready.

Duel Cell last. He has every Tokui-Waza; you could lose here. Run ends when the game says "You have defeated Cell!"