I made a spreadsheet with the Ki-charge speed of every character in the game.

Except androids since they can't charge ki the normal way.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UoRV3RfZ9uKEzhKmm04KPMsT3orbRb-SxvH7sLrQZwQ/edit?usp=sharing

My reasoning for doing this was slight frustration that everywhere I looked I either couldn't find the Ki charge speed stats or if they had them the number was just wrong. It feels like such an important statistic to not be easily accessible.

The way I calculated ki charge speed is I started from 2 bars, charged to full and then put it in my video editing software, isolated the start and finish of the charging and then counted the frames. I was then able to get a decently accurate number of bars/second. Of course I might be off by a frame or two here or there since the process was entirely manual but the numbers should be fairly representative of the characters charge speed. I did not count the first 2 bars as they auto regenerate and have accelerated charge speed. The final number ends up not being useful because it's not really representative of how fast you charge ki since 90% of the time you're charging at the slower speed. I don't want anyone thinking they charge 2 bars/s only to take the character into an actual match and it's not even close

I also decided to record their damage using the 3x rush string combo versus a standard defense target and their max hp. I then compared it to some notables about the character that might make them exceptional or worse compared to their stats to get a final "DP value". Essentially, how good is the character in DP mode (to me). As a result you might notice some really good characters be considered average or bad value but that's because they're probably too expensive relative to their power while some low DP characters might have really good value because they can transform. There are a LOT of characters so it's possible I over or under valued some characters just due to my lack of experience with them.

I did try to highlight notable stats such as the fastest charge speeds or most rush damage since they're just fun to know. I don't have the ability to actually data-mine the game so there's only so many stats I can gather manually but I'm down to explore other stats if there's interest