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The Energy Clash is a situation in which two energy-based techniques collide and compete to consume one another and proceed to their targets.

Overview[]

Energy Clashes appear in the Dragon Ball franchise. It debuted in the chapter "The Kamehameha" and its anime episode counterpart "The Grand Finals". The first game to ever have an energy wave struggle is Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2. For example, the user will utilize the Kamehameha technique while the other user will use a similar energy wave attack, and they proceed to fire their beams on opposite sides. The energy waves will eventually collide with each other and begin clashing. The power is relative, as the user begins to power up their energy, their attack will eventually overwhelm and overpower their opponent.

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Super Saiyan Bardock and Chilled's Energy Clash in the Episode of Bardock

In the Budokai Tenkaichi series, when two users utilize energy-based techniques against each other, they will collide in an energy struggle and only the loser will take a large portion of damage from the opponent's energy attack, with the additional force of their own technique. If Tien Shinhan uses his Tri-Beam against an energy beam such as Goku's Kamehameha, the Kamehameha will go through the Tri-Beam and the Tri-Beam will go around the Kamehameha, neither canceling out, thus damaging both users.

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Z Fighters struggle against Hatchiyack's Revenger Cannon

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and Tenkaichi Tag Team, however, this is fixed so that even if the attacks are not of the same shape or type, they can still collide into each other. The force and damage it inflict to the loser varies greatly. For example, if the full powered Spirit Bomb was unable to overpower the 10x Kamehameha, the loser who used the Spirit Bomb will suffer an enormous amount of damage from both the Spirit Bomb and the 10x Kamehameha. Also, certain energy beams cannot clash and will instead cancel out each other (like the Special Beam Cannon, Death Beam, and Dodon Ray). Garlic Jr.'s Death Impact and Dead Zone are different from the others since it cancels out any attack that it collides with.

Variations[]

  • Kamehameha Clash - An Energy Clash variation in Dragon Ball Heroes and World Mission where both teams activate the Kamehameha Mode CAA Special Ability after both teams' Attack Phases during the same round which causes their respective Kamehamehas to clash.

List of Energy Clashes[]

Pre-Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball
Explosive Demon Wave and Super Kamehameha clash

Goku's and Piccolo's Energy Clash at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament

Dragon Ball Z
Energy Struggle.

Ultimate Gohan's Electric Kamehameha struggles with Super Buu's Calamity Blaster

Dragon Ball Super
Super Dragon Ball Heroes
Dragon Ball GT
Films
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Bojack's Galactic Buster vs. Gohan's Super Kamehameha

OVAs

Video Game Appearances[]

In the Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game, it is named Energy Deflection.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, it is named Beam Struggle.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, It was named Energy Clash. In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 it is named Energy Crash. It can be used for the "Armor Break" of characters.

In Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2, Energy Clashes are where both players have to activate their special attacks at the same time (or the split-second right after the other activates a special attack).

In Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit, attacks can only collide if they are both energy beams. If an energy wave or energy sphere collides with an energy sphere, both attacks will be canceled out.

In the Raging Blast series and Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team, it is named Shot Exchange. In Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, it is possible to have a tie in an energy struggle. Both attacks will explode, leaving a huge cloud of smoke where the two attacks collided.

In Dragon Ball Heroes, Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X, and Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, a Kamehameha Clash occurs when both teams activate Kamehameha Mode at the end of their Attack Phases.

In Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden, it is named Ultimate Counter.

In Dragon Ball Fusions, it is not directly named but appears as a minor mechanic when a character is targeted by a blast Super Attack. If they have enough ki built up to respond with a blast Super Attack of their own, they can choose to counterattack and repeatedly tap a button to win the ensuing Energy Clash, potentially preventing huge amounts of incoming damage.

In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, it is named Energy Wave Clash.

In Fortnite x Dragon Ball Super, when two Kamehameha Mythic Weapons collide, they can actually form an unintentional Energy Clash.

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