Alongside the incredible addition that the healing ability is, I wanted to propose another "support" special move for the game. As the title says I'm talking about an special barrier. My prime examples of this move would be 17's Android barrier and Cocotte's barrier.

What would it add to the game?
You know how normal defense doesn't cancel Ki damage entirely? Even less when it comes to special attacks? This barrier would protect you completely from any kind of attack, at the cost of losing one bar from the "special meter". It's a good way to ensure you don't get hit by a devastating attack but with a great cost.

How would it work in the game?
I'm thinking it could be activated by pressing down + attack. I'm thinking of two ways this could work:

• As said, it would cost one enitre level of the special bar, and if you want to keep the barrier up, your Ki or "special gauge" would run down as long as you keep pressing the buttons. So it would go for as long as you want but it will end once the bar runs out of Ki/special.
• A simpler way to use the barrier would be to once you activate it by using one special bar the bar would last for a determined couple of seconds. It's a less fun way to use it but it's realisticly the simplest and more intuitive way.

Sprites
The sprites for the fighters themselves are already uploaded to the Fighters forum. The sprites for the barrier itself were made by Zaza's:

He made it as an animation. The frames are in the order they should go, but for reference it should look like this:

In case you're interested in implementing this, I and other devs prepared some remakes for Android 17 and a few more fighters with this ability that you'll see in their respective topics on the dev forum. Thanks for your time, I hope you like the idea and if there's any way I could help you implement it let me know. Have a good one.  😉

Great idea. And it's been in my to-do list forever. But for 17, 18 and Broly 😀
The implementation with the barrier running for an amount of time is effectively simpler to program, simpler to do, and simpler to understand. I think I'll go with that. The only thing that I'm not super confident with, is the use of attack button to defend. But it's a detail 😀

Oh right, we thought about Broly too but I completely forgot 18 could do the barrier as well. Though I think she uses it in some games.

And yeah, ideally the command should be something with the defense button (I guess Left/Right + Defense so it doesn't get mixed up with the transformation) but I thought you had problems programming that same command for the healing ability.

I'm thinking Attack + Defense like the old self destruction could work wonders too. What do you think?

Cell has it too btw

But bigger than the rest

Goku did it in the Turles movie too, and Jiren had an invisible barrier when he meditated. UI Sign Goku made one with his Kamehameha. 18 has never made one on her own I’m pretty sure except for in video games. In the manga, SS1 Goku Black does a barrier too. That’s all I can think of on the spot.