>>537607978
>the fact Z 18 and Videl made it in over Caulifla and Kale is straight-up Z bias.it's just made significantly worse by the fact they're both fraud boyfriend summoners.
18 is still among the most popular characters though, so of course she's making it in over other females...

Most of the game is Z bias too. Even though characters are in their super era, for the most part they take after Z first, with some Super moves sprinkled in. The only "pure" Super characters in base roster are Blue Goku/Vegeta, Hit and Black, and even if we were to count others with Super influence, it's just Freeza (Level 3 after being knocked down, and Golden Freeza as a transformation), and Tien (His design straightup from Super).

DLCs did even things out more, out of the 20 characters, 8 of them were from Super, 7 from Z, 3 from GT, 1 from OG (He dresses like his Super version, but most of the moveset is from OG, with Super sprinkled in), and 1 from Arcsys itself.

>so i don't know if we'd even seen 17's shield yet.
He used the shield back in Z, but only once. Tournament of Power greatly expanded how he uses it.

>>537609291
>despite 17 and 18's coordination being their second biggest threat besides infinite energy.
17 and 18 only really worked together once in the manga (When everyone attacked them), whenever they had a serious fight, they fought alone, even when it made little sense (18 never tried to help out 17 against Cell, nor did 16 and 17 fight Cell together, once 16 started fighting, 17 was on the sidelines).