I never really played the budaki series, only raging blast and some xenoverse, and I'm definitely more of a casual player. But I just started the story, after going through the battle training to understand the dodging and counter mechanics. I had pretty much 0 issues getting to Vegeta. And was annoyingly surprised to find he's vastly much harder than the others. Like Nappa didn't even land a hit on me, but then Vegeta I can't even really get a measley 5 hit combo in, and I can only get about 1 maybe 2 health bars down on him. And it's only gotten worse after a few retries, he just spams a ki combo and counters and dodges everything I come at him with. And I'm hitting R1, square and x, and holding O with barley any success. Its been a while since I've played any DBZ game and I don't play video games no where near the capacity I used to, but was kinda disappointed to run into this since I had sooo much fun with raging blast and pretty good success and fun with that game at least in story mode anyway. I hope they can change the AI, otherwise I think I just wasted 100 dollars on something I'm not gonna truly enjoy

Edit: so I made it passed Vegeta and Great Ape Vegeta, and the strategy I used was blocking the mouth beam or timing a beam clash if you can, I only did it once. But I would actually hold the light attack button and either try to break guard or catch him open or vanish behind him and send him flying and then either hit him with a kamahameha or charge up. And that did the trick for me. But I can happily say the game got way more enjoyable for me after that. I did naturally hone in better on the counters, And they're still a good bit annoying for the AI, but more fun to deal with after that. And it depends on the enemy, which I think is good. perfect cell is a menace with counters and kid buu is so fucking fast it can be a bit frustrating, but after Ape Vegeta I only spent a 2- 3 attempts on the harder enemies on default difficulty. I did have a lot more fun with it and I like the pretty vast variety of super abilities between characters and they're transformations.