Combat

Sdorica's **combat system** is puzzle-based, with a variety of attacks, status effects and character combinations.

## General Combat

### Combat Positions

During combat, all characters stand in a group formation as seen above.
Groups are divided into 3 rows: **Front, Middle and Back**. Only **Front and Back Rows** are distinguished in skill descriptions.
A group of enemies can have at most 5 enemies, with the first enemy as the front row and the last enemy as the back row.

Player characters are organized into a group of three, consisting of one White, Black and Gold orb character.

* Gold orb characters mainly fulfill the role of front line tank.
* Black orb characters mainly fulfill the role of damage dealer.
* White orb characters mainly fulfill the role of healer and support.

## Combat Interface

### Turn Counter

The counter in the top-left corner indicates how many actions the player has made throughout the fight and the number of waves in the fight. Tapping on the counter will show a detailed record of the battle like total damage dealt, number of skill cast of each type, etc.

In Exploration Mode, the counter instead indicates the number of days the player has survived, as well as two icons showing the player's current Stamina and Vitality level.

### Health Bars

1. **Enemy's skill**: Displays how many effects an enemy's skill has.
Each yellow diamond represents one effect.
*(Does not always display on all enemies)*
2. **Turn Count**: States the number of actions a player has before the enemy's turn.
3. **Armor**: The total amount of Armor.
4. **Health**: The total amount of hit points.
5. **Character Position**: The position of player character

### Combat Panel

Sdorica's combat panel (referred to in-game as **command zone**) consists of a 7 x 2 board with colored orbs, which players can interact with to form different orb combos and cast skills, and two slots for advisor skills.

### Advisors

On top of skills, players are given access to two advisors in most battles. One advisor comes from the player's roster and the other from their guild. Characters are selected from within the roster as advisors to assist in combat through various means. There are two types of advisors: **active** and **passive**.

Advisor: Angelia
*Grant front row ally ( x 0.72) Armor. [CD: 1]*

* Active advisors have to be activated in order to be used in combat. They do not consume a turn, but have a cooldown after usage.

Advisor: Dagger
*Increase black character's skill ratio by 30%.*

* Passive advisors do not have to be activated. Instead their advisor skill is present throughout the entire battle.

### Blessings/Curses

In certain stages in the game, there are encounter events (commonly taking the form a chest or a pedestal) that can grant the player additional Advisor effects, which can be either beneficial and harmful.

Players can have up to 3 extra effects, which are located to the right of the command zone. If the player already has 3 of them, encountering another one will give the player the option to replace one of the existing effects with the newly-acquired one.

### Resurrection Orbs

Resurrection orbs refer to orbs used to revive fallen allies. They're distinguished from normal orbs by their red tint. It should be noted that resurrection orbs, like normal orbs, can only be connected in the three combo patterns detailed below.

Each character type requires a different number of orbs to be cleared for their revival.

## Skills

Players can match orbs in one of three types of combos to perform a character skill. Every character has 3 **orb skills**, a **Passive Skill** and **Advisor Skill** (mentioned above).

### Orb Combo

There are 9 possible types of orb combinations. Main characters will usually have **1-orb**, **2-orb** and **4-orb square** as their 3 main skills, while other combinations can be found in Skillbooks and Special Characters.

  3 Orb, I Shaped
  4 Orb, I Shaped

### Skill Types

Currently there are 9 skill types in the game.

 Armor Penetrating Damage
 True Damage
 Healing Skill
 Armor Skill
 Orb Clearing Skill
 Orb Conversion Skill
 Buff Skill
 Debuff Skill