Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Clash Guide

[Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Clash Guide]

Every Blast 2 in the game, even ones that pierce through others, has a clash advantage.
Rushes have it too; however, it is never used, because all rushes add 6 hits to the player's hit counter during a melee clash.

Upon the exchange of two Blast 2's, the game divides their respective clash advantages by 20 and leaves the decimal part out (if any).
This gives us the initial clash points of each Blast 2. I have provided lists of them, from biggest to smallest, at the end of this post.
If you see repeated Blast 2 names, just know there can be variations of the same move.

From that point, both players have 3.5 seconds of control throughout the Beam Struggle.
Each movement of the analog stick will increase the player's clash points by 1, the same way it would increase the hit counter for a melee clash.

As for the damage at the end, the game only takes these factors into account:
1. Total damage of each Blast 2;
2. Boosts (a boost is a 10% damage increase), if any;
3. Modifiers (from Z-Items, Blast 1's, MAX Power Mode, or the Blast 2 itself), if any;
4. The winner of the clash;
5. The loser of the clash.

Said damage is calculated using this formula: ResultantDamage = WinnerBlastDamage + 0.5*LoserBlastDamage.
Afterwards, the game rounds up the damage to the nearest multiple of 10, which the game does with nearly all means of damage.

For this example, these random Blast 2's will collide:
1. Raditz's "Begone!", which has 550 clash advantage, 27 initial clash points, and 12730 damage;
2. Goku (Mid)'s Spirit Bomb, which has 850 clash advantage, 42 initial clash points, and 14550 damage.

If Goku wins the Beam Struggle, which is more likely to happen, then Raditz will receive 14550 + 0.5*12730 = 14550 + 6365 = 20915 ~ 20920 damage.
However, if Raditz wins instead, Goku will receive 12730 + 0.5*14550 = 12730 + 7275 = 20005 ~ 20010 damage.

Even if the Ultimates were unable to clash, the Spirit Bomb would have priority and harm Raditz anyway.
That is how Unclashable Blast 2's work. They only make use of the clash advantage, not the initial clash points.

Lastly, since I mentioned Z-Items as one of the modifiers, here are 3 of them that affect both melee and beam clashes:
1. Unleash Ki, which increases the initial clash points by 3, and the hit counter by 5.
2. Power of Rage, which increases the initial clash points by 6, and the hit counter by 8.
3. Dragon Power, which increases the initial clash points by 10, and the hit counter by 16.

The effects of these Z-Items become more noticeable when neither player touches their analog sticks during the 2.5 second interval for melee clashes.
Without items, the hit counter for both players remains equal, up until the game randomly picks the winner and adds one last hit to their counter.
Same goes for Beam Struggles, except the winner is picked randomly if the clash points match.

[List of Blast 2's, sorted by descending initial clash points]
Super Spirit Bomb -> 45
Spirit Bomb -> 42
Death Ball -> 40
Destroy The Planet! -> 40
Planet Burst -> 40
Revenge Death Ball -> 40
Revenge Death Ball Final -> 40
Supernova -> 40
Big Bang Kamehameha -> 38
Bros. Kamehameha -> 38
Father-Son Kamehameha -> 38
Final Kamehameha -> 38
Final Shine Attack -> 38
Grand Smasher -> 38
Minus Energy Power Ball -> 38
Omega Blaster -> 38
S.S. Deadly Bomber -> 38
Shocking Death Ball -> 38
Solar Kamehameha -> 38
X 100 Big Bang Kamehameha -> 38
10x Kamehameha -> 31
Angry Kamehameha -> 31
Babidi's Ultimate Power -> 31
Big Bang Attack -> 31
Big Bang Crash -> 31
Big Tree Cannon -> 31
Burst Attack -> 31
Eraser Cannon -> 31
Evil Impulse -> 31
Final Flash -> 31
Final Impact -> 31
Finish Buster -> 31
Galactic Buster -> 31
Gekiretsu Madan -> 31
Gekiretsu Shin'ou'hou -> 31
Grand Smasher -> 31
Maximum Flasher -> 31
Photon Flash -> 31
Planet Geyser -> 31
Shin Gekiretsu Shin'ou'hou -> 31
Super Kamehameha -> 31
Super Masenko -> 31
You Will Die By My Hand! -> 31
Begone! -> 27
Brave Cannon -> 27
Burning Attack -> 27
Chou Makouhou -> 27
Crusher Ball -> 27
Darkness Blaster -> 27
Elegant Blaster -> 27
Energy's Last -> 27
Execution Beam -> 27
Explosive Demon Wave -> 27
Final Spirit Cannon -> 27
Finish Buster -> 27
Full Power Energy Ball -> 27
Full Power Energy Wave -> 27
Galick Gun -> 27
Here's a present! -> 27
Kamehameha -> 27
Kapa -> 27
Light Grenade -> 27
Masenko -> 27
MAX POWER Kamehameha -> 27
Punishing Blaster -> 27
Recoome Eraser Gun -> 27
Shoot Blaster -> 27
Super Galick Gun -> 27
The Original Kamehameha -> 27
x20 Kaiken Kamehameha -> 27
Full Power Death Beam -> 25
Super Dodon Wave -> 25
Energy Wave -> 22
Energy Wave -> 20

[List of Unclashable Blast 2's, sorted descending by clash advantage]
Perfect Barrier -> 1000
Final Explosion -> 950
Revenge Death Bomber -> 950
Angry Explosion -> 750
Recoome Fighting Bomber -> 750
Super Explosive Wave -> 750
Eighter's Anger -> 710
Super Explosive Wave -> 710
Blazing Storm -> 700
Death Storm -> 700
Gigantic Blaze -> 700
Volcano Explosion -> 700
Special Beam Cannon -> 670
Evil Flame -> 660
Flame Shower Breath -> 660
Gigantic Flame -> 660
Super Explosive Madan -> 660
Thunder Flash -> 660
Burning Tornado -> 640
Hyper Tornado -> 640
Nova Strike -> 640
Neo Tri-Beam -> 610
Dead Zone -> 600
Hell's Impact -> 600
Ki Blast Cannon  -> 600
Lock-On Buster -> 600
Death Impact -> 550
Explosive Madan -> 550
Full Power Energy Ball -> 550
Instant Kamehameha -> 550
Maximum Buster -> 550
Kill Driver -> 540
Devilmite Beam -> 500
Brave Slash -> 450
Death Saucer -> 450
Destructo Disc -> 450
Fissure Slash -> 450
Ka-Blam Slicer -> 450
Lightning Sword Slash -> 450
Barrage Death Beam -> 440
Death Beam -> 440
Dodon Ray -> 440
Double Buster -> 440
Finger Beam -> 440
Soumasen -> 440
The Original Dodon-Pa -> 440
Burning Storm -> 400
Chou Makouhou Barrage -> 400
Crazy Finger Beam -> 400
DIE DIE Missile Barrage -> 400
Finger Blitz Barrage -> 400
Full Power Energy Barrage Wave -> 400
Full Power Energy Blast Volley -> 400
Galaxy Dynamite -> 400
Gatling Gun -> 400
Gekiretsu Madan -> 400
Giga Meteor Storm -> 400
Hell's Storm -> 400
Infinity Bullet -> 400
Lighting Shower Rain -> 400
Photon Strike -> 400
Recoome Renegade Bomber -> 400
Scatter Finger Beam -> 400
Shooting Star Arrow -> 400
Super Energy Wave Volley -> 400
Trap Shooter -> 400
Bionic Punisher -> 350
Chou Makousen -> 350
Darkness Eye Beam -> 350
That Won't Work -> 350
Fork Attack -> 300
Gigant Rock Throw -> 300
I Might Die This Time. -> 300
I'll Shoot You! -> 300
Launch Missiles! -> 300
Psychic Rock Throw -> 300
Stay Away From Me! -> 300
Woohoo! -> 300
Galactic Donut Volley -> 270
Galactic Donuts -> 260
Mankoku Kyoutenshou -> 260
Berserker Crash -> 250
Cross Arm Attack -> 250
Dodoria Head Breaker -> 250
Eighter Attack -> 250
Gigantic Bomber -> 250
Life-Risking Blow! -> 250
Ping! -> 250
Rolling Smash -> 250
Chocolate Beam -> 200
Guldo Special -> 200
Present Bomb -> 200
Skewer! -> 200
Soukidan -> 200
Blaster Meteor -> 190
Energy Ballet -> 190
Expanding Energy Wave -> 190
Genocide Blast  -> 190
Hellzone Grenade -> 190
Lightning Arrow -> 190
Rapid Cannon -> 190
Super Ghost Buu Attack -> 1
Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack -> 1