Evasive Skills or Evasives are a class of attack in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. They are divided in four categories, just like Super Skills, Strike Skills, Ki Blast Skills, Power Up (Buff) and Other, although their category isn't as important and shouldn't be taken into consideration over their actual evasive capabilities. All Evasive skills cost up to 200-300 stamina.
As the name indicates, they are designed with avoiding damage in mind by escaping from enemy combos or skills by moving user out of the way, knocking opponent back, staggering them or attacking them, or any combination of these, utilizing invincibility frames to keep the user safe. They can be activated at any time that user has sufficient stamina and is not in a middle of a grab animation, or when hit by dual ultimates.
Despite CaCs having a large selection of avaliable Evasive Skills to choose from, there are some unobtainable and exclusive to Cast Characters.
There is a total of 14 Strike Evasives avaliable for CaCs, 12 of which can be obtained through the base game and 2 are locked behind their respective DLC's.
"Move upward while spinning like a top. Attack while giving yourself distance! Or use [↑] to close distance with your opponent instead. Your trajectory while spinning can be changed with [Control Stick]."
"Teleport in front of an opponent and attack! If you use this after knocking back an opponent, you'll move ahead of them to where they're about to land, then attack."
"Release a shockwave around yourself! Rapidly press the button to charge longer and increase the shockwave's power! When in danger, charging it up all the way will break your opponent's guard!"
Ki Blast Skills[]
There is a total of 18 Ki Blast Evasives avaliable for CaCs, 17 of which are obtainable in the base game and 1 of which is locked behind it's respective DLC.
"Fires a powerful timespace-bending Ki Wave from your mouth that sends any opponent in front of you flying! Hit the opponent while they're blocking to break their guard!"
"Create a barrier! Providing an additional input will make the barrier bigger, and holding the button will maintain this bigger barrier while using up Ki."
"Wrap yourself in an overwhelming Aura and repel all attacks."
Cast Exclusive Skills[]
This category covers all Evasives not obtainable for CaC's. Some of which are actually Super Attacks repurposed into an Evasive for a specific character.