A good conclusion to a fight is paramount, but knowing how to properly pace one out and get to that ending is sometimes even more important. Dragon Ball Super understands that and “The God With The Invulnerable Body ” is not only a great, suspenseful episode of the series, but it also moves the larger battle against Goku Black along impressively.

The heroes take a pounding this week, but in the process it feels like the first phase of this fight is over and the gang is ready to learn some new tricks and knock everything up a notch; something that wouldn’t be possible if the good guys mopped the floor with Zamasu and Black here.

Vegeta fans don’t have a lot to get excited about this week as the Prince of Saiyans is still on the mend from that nasty impaling courtesy of Goku Black’s ki sword. He’s unconscious and sits the first half of the episode out while Goku is pushed into the battlefield to avenge his friend and get the job done now that Zamasu has joined the party.

Zamasu does the whole evil tyrant thing and waxes on about how his new world that’s void of mortals will be so much better than the currently flawed universe. Goku has no patience for such megalomaniacal pipe dreams and he wants to cut to the chase here.

There’s a brief altercation between Goku and Goku Black where it feels like Black is the one that leads the battle and is in control. Goku doesn’t seem to be overwhelmed, but he’s certainly on the defensive. That being said, Black still shows enough of an advantage that when a bitter Zamasu (“my body has the desire to fight him and I don’t know if I can stop it”) teams up with him, Goku is officially in over his head. In a rather thrilling moment, Future Trunks jumps in, sword in tow, to support Goku and suddenly this turns into a very interesting two-on-two assault.