How to Play Dragon Ball Super Divers: Mechanics, Cards, and Modes Guide

Dragon Ball Super Divers is a digital card arcade game where players engage in battles rendered on an extra-large cabinet screen. To play, you build a deck centered around a single player-representative card alongside up to seven character cards, using action skills and speed-disrupting tactics to defeat opponents.

Official announcements regarding Japan's 10th set update, titled "Furious Attack", provide confirmed details on team setup, card rarities, skill mechanics, and game modes.

How to Set Up a Match and Team Deck

Setting up a match in Dragon Ball Super Divers requires organizing your physical or digital cards into specific roles on the cabinet interface.

Team Structure Rules

Every team configuration follows a strict composition model:

• 1 Avatar Card: Serves as your personal representative on the field (your "Diver").
• Up to 7 Battle Cards: Character cards featuring iconic fighters from across the franchise, including Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball: GT, and original movie releases.

By positioning these eight total cards during match preparation, you determine your offensive options, defensive coverage, and available skill triggers for each round.

Card Rarities and Skill Mechanics

Card performance in Dragon Ball Super Divers depends heavily on rarity tiers and special action skills that alter character stats or trigger mid-battle cinematic attacks.

Special Action Skill Breakdown

• Awaken: Allows select character cards like Gohan: SH to undergo an in-battle transformation, changing their visual form and significantly raising their offensive output.
• Gigantification: Triggers a transformation into a giant entity, such as Goku: GT entering Golden Great Ape form, boosting physical battle presence.
• Strike Battle Speed Disruption: Skill effects attached to strategic cards like Fusion Android 13 alter the timing indicators during Strike Battles, forcing opponents to adjust their input speed.
• Charge Crush: Activated during card action phases. Successfully completing the card motion unleashes a large energy blast (Kidan) that delivers massive single-target damage along with secondary combat debuffs.

Alt-Art versions designated as GDR★ exist for select God Rare cards (such as five out of the eight GDR cards in the 10th set), featuring unique dramatic illustrations without altering the core skill parameters.

Game Modes and Limited Campaign Events

Dragon Ball Super Divers features multiple play modes on the arcade cabinet, offering both standard gameplay and item collection opportunities.

Play Modes

• Dive Into Games Mode: The primary gameplay mode where players scan their team and participate in full-screen animated battles against digital opponents or other players.
• Purchase Cards Mode: A standalone cabinet mode allowing players to acquire new physical card drops directly from the machine.

Jackpot Fishing Campaign System

During special set releases, cabinets run limited-time drop campaigns accessible via normal play or with a Trial Diver Passport.

When playing in Dive Into Games mode or Purchase Cards mode, a special fishing animation may trigger on screen:

1. Triggering the Animation: Completing a session or card purchase initiates the fishing sequence.
2. Hitting the Jackpot: If the animation results in a jackpot win, the machine dispenses a limited campaign card.
3. Campaign Participation Limits: Players are limited to winning a maximum of one campaign card per game session. Multiple campaign card wins within a single match or purchase sequence are strictly restricted.

Campaign Card Examples

• Movie Poster Cards: Special promotional cards designed after official theatrical release posters from various Dragon Ball films.
• Special GDR Cards: Limited-edition variants, such as the GDR "Goku: GT" card featuring artwork inspired by the ending sequence of Dragon Ball: GT.

Competitive Play and Esports

For competitive players, official rankings and physical events run alongside cabinet set launches. Online qualifiers lead directly into regional and national events, such as the 2026 Championship, to determine top-ranked Divers based on win consistency and overall match points.

Unconfirmed Features and Platform Specifications

Specific hardware control components (such as physical button layouts, touch interface dimensions, or specific cabinet pin configurations), internal drop percentage tables for SEC cards, and global release dates outside of Japan are not independently confirmed by official documentation and remain unverified.