A mysterious new Android who is somehow connected to Android 16. In her default form, she's a young woman with long, bushy hair, who wears glasses and is supposedly as smart as Dr. Gero, perhaps even more so.
In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Android 21 is unique for her ability to copy abilities from her opponents with her command grab, Connoisseur Cut. Outside of her power-copying techniques, she also boasts a strong long-range game, using a combination of copied attacks and her own projectiles to wear down her enemies from a distance.
Ability Absorption
Android 21 has a unique ability where she can use her Connoisseur Cut specials to absorb the energy of an opponent and use one of their abilities.
There are 4 slots above Android 21's bar of meter. Each one of these slots corresponds to a version of Connoisseur Cut. From left to right, the slots are for:
- Connoisseur Cut (236S)
- Air Connoisseur Cut (j.236S)
- Aerial Connoisseur Cut (214S)
- Air Aerial Connoisseur Cut (j.214S)
After absorbing an opponent's energy with one of the above versions of Connoisseur Cut, the slot will fill up with the move that you absorbed. After this, if you use the same input that you used to absorb the move, you'll do the special move that you absorbed instead of the Connoisseur Cut.
Furthermore, Android 21 can chain the copied abilities by pressing the S button while using one of them (e.g. Kamehameha > Solar Flare > Kamaehameha). Using the H version of Total Detonation Ball makes Android 21 discard all her currently copied abilities, but in return, the move becomes stronger in proportion to how many abilities had been copied at that point.
Absorbed abilities are separated into 4 colors/categories. Using Connoisseur Cut on a character belonging to one of these categories will give you a predetermined move based on this category. The move absorbed is different depending on whether you used Connoisseur Cut (236S/j.236S) or Aerial Connoisseur Cut (214S/j.214S).
The breakdown of which character belongs to which color/category is as follows:
- Blue: Super Saiyan Goku, SSGSS Goku, Goku Black, Teen Gohan, Adult Gohan, Krillin, Tien, Yamcha
- Green: Android 16, Android 18, Android 21, Cell
- Orange: Super Saiyan Vegeta, SSGSS Vegeta, Trunks, Gotenks, Nappa
- Purple: Piccolo, Frieza, Ginyu, Majin Buu, Kid Buu, Hit, Beerus