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Let's hope that this perverted geezer finally makes his appearance in Dragon Ball FighterZ and lets us all enjoy his antics. Master Roshi is an absolute slam dunk of a character choice - to the point where it's honestly kind of awkward that he isn't already in. He basically checks every single box you can imagine - he's an OG Dragon Ball character who's been with us from practically the very beginning, he's a beloved character that a lot of people recognize and appreciate, he has relationships with a lot of the characters in the roster and he's even got current relevance due to Dragon Ball Super opting to give him more screentime in the final arc (for now) of the anime. The only other reason you could give is his relative weak power level compared to others in the game, but given that fighters like Nappa (who was strong at the time of his introduction but has been massively overshadowed by all foes since) and Krillin are in the roster just fine, that's not a viable reason either. Given that Dragon Ball FighterZ is still a heavily ground-based game, at least animationwise, with characters mostly doing combos in the air which are fully within the realm of possibility for someone like Master Roshi, it feels like much too weak of a reason to keep him out of the game.
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The only real drawback you could list for him is that he can't actually fly, and with super dashes being a part of the game it might look awkward but given how high he's been shown to jump and the fact that he has full control over ki itself as evidenced by the gigantic Kamehameha he lets loose the first time we see the technique, I don't think it's much of a stretch for him to do a ki dash even if he can't actually fly. The originator of the Kamehameha technique and one of the most enduring presences in the series, Roshi even got a upsurge in screentime with Dragon Ball Super where he was included as one of the warriors fighting for Universe 7's survival in the Tournament of Power. Probably one of the most requested characters in the game at this point, Master Roshi has huge significance to Dragon Ball as a whole as he was the first on-screen master we saw train Goku (though he had been trained off-screen by his grandfather Son Gohan before) and he also later went on to train Krillin and Yamcha.