

While the Body Change gives Ginyu an advantage over powerful opponents by effectively swapping power levels from their new bodies, this is shown to have one drawback: any host changing bodies must take time to get used to their new body before they can use its full power. Later in Dragon Ball Super, it was shown that this technique can alternatively be activated by an opponent by writing "Change" in the ground in the alien language and tricking his opponent into saying it, as Ginyu did on Tagoma.

In the anime, he does not need to use actually speak through vocal cords as Bulma's Universal Translator allowed him to change bodies with her. This technique appears to require the spoken component in order to work as shown he became trapped in a Namekian Frog. In preparation for this technique, Ginyu usually begins by injuring himself in order to give a damaged body to his opponent. The individuals are shown to retain their own respective voices in their new bodies, making it harder for a person to impersonate the person they swapped with. When it is finished, Ginyu is in the opponent's body, while they are in his own body. Once shouting "Change, now!" with his arms outstretched, Ginyu fires an energy wave from his mouth into the opponent's mouth.
