The guide to Yamcha ( DBFZ guide )

THE best* guide to playing Yamcha
*Source: I made it up
Music used:
Combat - Warhammer
Bao Babel Nose - Guilty Gear Xrd
Macho Ultimatum - Granblue Fantasy VS
Wolf Hurricane - Dragonball
Ai wo torimodose - Hokuto no ken (Both a background version and a movie version)
Honestly I spent a lot of time on this and I'm happy even if you just read this description, I want to thank some people for supporting or inspiring me during me learning how to edit, write an almost 2000 word script and putting this whole thing together.
First, my personal friends and family, you know who you are and I love all of you. You support me even at my cringiest.
Second, ‪@jens2524‬ for helping me through the whole proccess and being a good friend.
Third, ‪@cantstopmashing‬ For letting me use some of his combos, and being just a generally good Yamcha player, inspiring me and others to play him.
And last but not least ‪@TinyTorgue‬ who makes these kinds of guides in the first place, and the inspiration for this entire guide.
Solo Yamcha Limit break sparking loops tod 0 bar
236L ~ 6M - Spark - 2M5M - jMj2H - (( (dl)66 jL(dl)M - Land - 9 - jLLj2H ))x3 IAD - jL(dl)M - Land 2H - SD - jMjcjMj2H - 236L ~ LL - Spirit ball 8 4 8 4 3 - Lvl 3
Yamcha Krillin Baseku Spark bait TOD with spirit bomb 3 bar
H2H - Spark - 2M5M - jMj2H - (( (dl)66 jL(dl)M - 9 jLLj2H ))x2 (dl)66 jL(dl)M - Land 2H - SD - jMjcMj2H - 236L ~ LL - A2 - 214M - A1(hold) - DR - Level 1 (3) - Level 1 8 4 8 4 7 - Level 3
Find me at:
Twitter: Merc_Mal
Twitch: twitch.tv/mercurymallow
And in the Tinytorgue or Yamcha discords respectively!
00:00 Intro
00:44 Buttons
03:17 Specials
04:30 Supers
06:48 Blockstrings
08:39 Okizeme
Combos
09:15 Midscreen BnB
09:25 Vanish extension
09:38 Midscreen to corner BnB
09:53 Corner BnB simple/2H confirm corner
10:08 Corner advanced
10:24 236L/M ~ H Confirm midscreen simple
10:33 236L/M ~ H Confirm midscreen advanced
10:43 236L ~ H Confirm corner
10:55 236M ~ H Confirm corner
11:08 EX rekka extension
11:19 Superdash Confirm no meter
11:26 Superdash Confirm metered
11:38 Superdash Confirm sideswitch
11:49 Superdash Confirm corner
12:05 2H/DR confirm midscreen
12:16 Spark bait combo
12:41 Spirit ball setups
13:08 Sparking loops
13:52 Assist extension 1 Piccolo B/Tien A
14:06 Assist extension 2 Krillin B/Baseku A
15:42 ToD

[@doot4870]

Info about the new patch:
Yamcha's 5m is invulnerable to any attack during the startup, this property doesn't do much to help him unfortunately and is kinda niche. There's probably some spark reads you can do with it but not much else..
5h got the same buff for the entirety of his backflips which is weird but more useful than the last one, still niche but some attacks like vegito 5m suffer against it.
Universal buff to beams is kind of cool, opens up easier corner loops and j2h or jh rejumps but combo damage wasn't really yam's biggest issue. Go check out @rauofthedawn on twitter he's got some nutty combos and optimizations
Assist buffs, just some quality of life stuff, A is still the best.
Thanks for reading, at least i don't have to remake this :) (Until they patch the game again, damn you bandai)

[@McDoubleFunny]

I disagree, I think the buff is better than people think it is. It definitely is very situational, and match up specific, but it has been doing wonders for me. People have to respect Yamcha's solo mix now and it works fantastically against defensive options like guard cancel and dp's all while being safe.

[@LucasIVYT]

Fantastic guide! Yamcha's corner lv3 is still very scary in the corner and good ol' WFF rekka still gets people online looking for that crossup. Here's to the wolf fang fist master!

[@nick9115]

nice touch using his song from dragon ball in the combo part, underrated guide

[@D4Bandit]

Damn bro, this seriously is TinyTorgue level
I have a few nitpicks with some of the transitions being too long or some gags/cutscenes lasting a little too much, but damn, that use of the Mumen Rider speech and the actual guide itself is top notch.
Great work, dude

[@doot4870]

I'm definitely not as good at every little detail and smoothness as he is but for my first real editing project I'm really proud!

[@natgel17]

Nice guide man ! Thanks !

[@PAPES-xt1qs]

Low tiers are the BEST, any game I play I always looks at low tiers or least played. Not only will you impress people but there’s sooooo much you can do you can even get creative with them too. Take Roshi for an example this man has a lot of variety in his kit and an option for almost everything and even though he doesn’t have a super dash, he has a lot of good buttons and specials, it’s all about the lab-ing and practice with low tiers!

[@starbutter2730]

This video is really well put together

[@bentonwanker]

As a yamcha main in current year i really appreciate this video. Older guides are just filled with holes these days and it took me forever to figure out how to lvl1 into spirit bomb because of that. Thanks for the comprehensive updated guide.

[@doot4870]

Thanks man! Hearing that it helped at all is more than enough to me, even though i think there are a couple holes in this guide I'm happy with it.

[@bentonwanker]

@@doot4870 it'll definitely give me a lot to incorporate into my game. Not quite at the level of a lot of the stuff in this but that probably makes it more helpful tbh

[@Zimmer8000Gaming]

You should definitely make more guides man, this is great

[@doot4870]

I'm thinking of making other videos but I'm not sure exactly what I should do, something fighting game related probably

[@thelilnoob5815]

Yamaha Speakers is one of my favorite characters in DB. Maybe I'll pick him up

[@MechFung]

Amazing

[@DZL22409]

This is one of the best guide vids ive seen, im suprised its 1 for the best character in db Yamcha, and 2 from such a small channel, great work you are really skilled and talented good luck in the future 👍

[@GhalebZeitouni]

It’s crazy because I maimed yamcha even before the patch and I had no problem kicking ass wit him

[@ik0la]

good shit

[@subzero200]

Great guide would love to see a latest patch one if you ever get round to it :)

[@defmagica9139]

I, for one, desire more in depth break downs on kits like this. Its almost everything youd need to get into a character, minus specific MU tech

[@uzumakiblade9695]

Re-watching the video always helps me with Yamcha questions.
Btw, Do you intend to do more guides? If so, can you do one on Majin Buu?

[@doot4870]

I was definitely considering doing more guides, but unfortunately Yamcha's the only character I'm truly competent with.
Though if you want to learn Majin Buu I'd highly recommend checking out his page on dustloop.com
I think it has some links to a guy called Shadowsavant0 who does a lot of individual videos on how to play him.

[@hermansterdal3587]

Fire music

[@uzumakiblade9695]

You made me a Yamcha player, thank you

[@doot4870]

All in a day's work

[@HumbleShelf]

0:26 should've 5m'd.....

[@xross_cnr9905]

How do u only have 24 subs

[@doot4870]

I can give many reasons but I'll take that as a compliment, thanks man!

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

4:55

[@moonboy2k185]

Too much work for getting no views sadly

[@doot4870]

It's not about the views batman
It's about sending a message

[@eliasvaage7690]

second...

[@duel2803]

why don’t you voice it over you have a mic

[@quirkygoblin9039]

First