Battle

## **How to Battle**

* Connect 3 or more beads of the same colour to create chains for increasing your team's damage, fever    gauge points and historical figures' skill gauges.
	+ When long chains of 4 or more beads are connected, a bomb will be created at the spot of the bead you moved. Activate the bomb by swiping it with other beads of it's colour as you would a normal chain and the bomb will burst all beads surrounding it. If you have two bombs next to each other you can also swap them (regardless of colour) to create an even bigger explosion.
	+ The fever gauge slowly fills as you erase beads. Once it's full the fever gauge enables beads to be burst in clusters, creating a large number of chains and increasing the historical figures' damage. You have 5 seconds to tap as much as you can.

* Hearts are created randomly during the game and serve as one of the ways to heal    the damage suffered by your team. A team with high recovery points will enjoy high heal values from these hearts. Activate them by erasing the gem they are attached to as normal.
* Each turn you get 3 moves only so choose your connections carefully for the best success rates.
* At the final stage of each turn when you reach the boss shikigami, a giant flower    shaped jewel will be placed randomly on the top of your panel. Clear beads away to drop the jewel to the bottom of your panel to activate it. It will cause a large amount of damage to the boss.

## **Battle Sequence**

1. The battle begins with the activation of leader skills as well as some enemy skills if the enemy has any. Some enemies may use skills at the beginning of each round.
2. Your turn comes at the top of a round. Use your 3 moves wisely and connect your beads efficiently to erase as many as you can. Skills and fever time does not count against your moves so using them can help you do a lot of damage in one round.
3. After you have used your 3 moves your figures will attack the enemies. You can target a specific enemy by tapping on them. If no enemy is chosen your figures will attack them based on how close they are to them.
4. Finally the enemies will attack you.

## **Activating Skills**

Each of your historical figures has a battle skill which can be activated after erasing a certain number of gems. The number is different for each figure and is indicated in a small bubble next to their sprite on the battlefield.

When the count reaches 0 the number will change to the word Skill (スキル) which can then be tapped. This opens a window telling you the name of the figure's skill and what it will do (in Japanese) and gives you the option of using it now or not. Tap the button to the right to activate the skill.

## **Buffs/Debuffs**

The skill window can be opened at any time, regardless of whether the skill is ready to be used or not. Here you can also see the character's current buffs or debuffs. These are indicated under the image of the character where you can see their attributes and then a list of buffs. The standard buffs/debuffs are HP, ATK and RP, a red up arrow or a blue down arrow indicating whether it is a buff or a debuff.

Buffs and debuffs are usually acquired either through leader skills or enemy skills. There is one type of 'enemy' which does not harm you but instead self destructs at the end of the first round, giving your team buffs. These enemies come in all the colours and will buff either members with certain attributes or those of certain countries, however they always look like the one in the image to the right. Note, there is a similar looking enemy who shows up occasionally as a boss during events so be careful not to confuse the two. The boss enemy usually shows up alone in the final round whereas the buff enemy shows up in the first round along with other enemies.

There is one more way to attain buffs, which is that an enemy can create glass panes in front of your gems. Matching and erasing gems in the panes will crack and eventually break them, giving your whole team a large ATK buff.

## **Choosing your team**

Your selection of historical figures to begin a battle is shown at the start of the battle with the option of changing your team. Your set-up consists of five of your own figures, and a support figure from your friend list or any random player. Some quests will tell you which attributes are good for defeating them more easily, in which case it is a good idea to have figures with those attributes in your team.

### **Support figures**

Depending on the event, there will be event figures who will provide additional benefits for that particular event. You will be able to enjoy the leader skill effect from the support figure.