Battle Tutorial

PvE Battle Tutorial
We'll go over some basics for PvE combat in this section.

Elemental Advantage
Certain elements gain an advantage against another element. This is very important for later Story Stages because if you aren't using your Elemental Advantage you are almost guaranteed to die. Due note that Elemental Advantage is 50% Boost to damage against the weaker element and 50% less damage taken from the weaker element. In PvP this advantage is lowered to 25%. The elemental advantages are as follows:
 * Water.png is strong against Fire.png
 * Fire.png is strong against Wind.png
 * Wind.png is strong against Lightning.png Lightning
 * Lightning.pngning is strong against Water.png Water

Basic Attack
In order to do damage with a basic attack with your characters you have to connect 3+ Elemental Runes of the same element of your Characters. In other words, if you have a full Lightning Element Team and you clear Water Element Runes, you will not get any attack power added to your Characters. If you clear Lightning Runes instead, attack power will be added. You have 3 turns to add as much Attack Power as possible before your characters attack the enemy.

Each elemental Rune you clear, will add 33.33% Attack Power to your Characters, for the first three Elemental Runes, and 15% for every Elemental Rune after those three. So if you clear for example 7 Elemental Runes in one go, each Character with the corresponding Element will get 3 * 33.33% + 4 * 15% = 160% of their Attack Power added.

Spell Runes
Spells Runes are generally created when you connect 4+ Elemental Runes of the same element. Each Spell Runes has different abilities.
 * BombRune.png Bomb Rune - This will clear Runes adjacent to it.
 * SlashRune.png Slash Rune - This will clear all runes in a diagonal slash. It will always choose the longer path for maximum effect.
 * CrossSlashRune.png Cross Slash Rune - This is like the Slash Rune except it will slash in both diagonal directions (an X pattern).
 * BoltRune.png Bolt Rune - This will clear any Spell Rune within two spaces of it, as well as a certain amount of random runes on the board.
 * DualBoltRune.png Dual Bolt Rune - This is an upgraded version of the Bolt Rune. It will clear a Spell Rune up to 3 spaces away along with more random runes on the board.
 * HealingRune.png Healing Rune - The Healing Rune will heal your team for a certain amount of HP. This amount is determined by your teams total Recovery RecoveryIcon.png

Chain Combos
Chain Combos are achieved with help of Spell Runes. When a Spell Rune hits another Spell Rune it will cause a Chain Combo. This is used to increase your Characters Attack Power in each turn. Also, there are some requirements on stages to achieve a certain combo to get a Star for that stage, or combos may be needed in order to damage certain enemies.

Combos increase your attack power same as talked about in Basic Attack, just that each new combo counts as it's own Basic Attack and gets multiplied by a combo-multiplier, which increases by 0.25 for every combo done. Meaning if you activate one Spell Rune and thus achieve a 2 combo, you get the usual Bonus for the Elemental Runes you cleared, multiplied by 1.25. If that Spellrune activated another spellrune, the Elemental Runes that second Spellrune cleared will give you the usual Bonus for the Elemental Runes it cleared, multiplied by 1.5 and so on.

Character Skills
Each Character has their own skill that can be used in battle. In the top right corner of each characters portrait you can see a number. This number is how many rounds (your attack & enemies attack) until you can activate the skill. Once that number reaches zero, their portrait will glow to signify their skill can be used. If you long press the character's portrait you will be able to see what the skill does, along with other stats of the character.

Attack Order
You can choose what enemies to attack first. If you tap on the enemy it will place a crosshair target icon on the enemy. This will force your characters all to attack that enemy till it is dead. You can also do this if there are multiple enemies. Tapping each one in succession will tell your characters in which order to attack the enemy.

Enemy Skills
Certain Enemies (Usually Bosses but not always) will have a special skill or special passive skills. Usually enemies with a Special Skill will have a number that counts down next to their Chibi. Once that number hits zero they will activate their skill. This next part is important. If you wish to see what Special Skills or Passive Skills an enemy might have Long Press the enemies chibi characters on the battle screen. It will eventually bring up a screen showing any skills and their Attack, HP, and Recovery.