HeartofSword's In-Depth Battling Guide

HeartofSword Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 50 Joined on: July 1, 2006

#1 This is a guide to Naruto-Arena battles. Hopefully it will be helpful to everyone. I would also like to credit correojon for his contributions in this guide. I included the Team Building Guide before the Battling Guide to make it more convenient for you to read. This is to save you the trouble of clicking Back/Forward or opening another browswer to read the Team Building Guide. [I double posted because of this error message: "Your topic is too big. Please shorten it to max. 10000 characters."] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the links to my other guides: 1. HeartofSword's Team Building Guide 2. HeartofSword's Character Type Database 3. HeartofSword's In-Depth Battling Guide 4. HeartofSword's Guide to Attack Effects --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of Contents: === Section 1: Building Your Team === - 1.1 Chakra Balance - 1.2 Complementary Attacks - 1.3 General Team Types === Section 2: Winning the Battle === - 2.1 Before the Battle: Planning Strategies Ahead - 2.2 During the Battle: Making the Best Choice - 2.3 After the Battle: Reflections ___________________________________________________________________________ === Section 1: Building Your Team === In order to play well in Naruto-Arena, your team needs to be built well. In other words, the characters you choose must be able to work well in terms of chakra and attack effects. Read on to find out more on them. ------------------------- - 1.1 Chakra Balance An important aspect of the game is to always be able to do something with your characters; either attack or defend. During the start of every turn, you will receive one chakra for each character on your team that is still alive. There are 4 chakra types and the chance of getting each of them is random. You may receive 3 different types of chakra, 2 chakra of the same kind with 1 different chakra OR 3 chakra of the same kind. If your entire team is only able to use 2 types of chakra and you keep receiving the other 2 types of chakra, you are screwed. Hence, it is advisable to make sure that your team will be able to use at least 3 or 4 different types of chakra. In other words, your team must be balanced in terms of chakra. Here's are some examples of teams that are not well balanced in terms of chakra usage: Gaara, Temari, Kabuto and Haku, Kidoumaru, Shino By making your team well-balanced in chakra usage, no matter what chakra your team receives, your characters will be able to attack or defend most of the time since they will be able to make use of the chakra given most of the time. The reason i mentioned "most of the time" is because the chakra system is based on luck and sometimes you may just be extremely unlucky... eg. You receive 3 chakra of the type that none of your characters use eg. You never received any white chakra during the entire game and one of your characters only uses white chakra. ------------------------- - 1.2 Complementary Attacks Another area that you need to consider when forming a team are the similarities in the attacks of the characters in your team. In other words, teams built around a certain theme and specialise in it. Your team tends to be able to work more effectively when they specialise in something. For example, a CDT (read Section 1.3 for its meaning) will be able to remove/drain chakra more effectively than a team with one character that can remove/drain chakra. Hence, I've categorised the characters according to their abilities and effects so that you will be able to tell which characters have common abilities. This is the old list i created a while ago. I will create an updated list asap. ------------------------- - 1.3 General Team Types These are some of the more commonly used types of teams, where there is specialisation in a particular area. To consider a team to be specialised in an area, at least 2 characters with that type skill must be in the team. For example, an AOE team must have at least two characters that can deal AOE damage. Here are of those teams: ~> Damage-reduction Team: Your characters only receive a fraction of the total damage that opponents deal to them, making it as if they have more hp than the other team because it takes more damage to kill your character. Your team can tank lots of hits and its difficult to kill off your character. Examples of characters that have damage-reduction abilities: Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, etc ~> Area-of-Effect Team (AOE Team): Your characters deal damage to the whole of the opponent's team and usually kills all of them at once. Examples of characters that deal AOE damage: Tenten, Temari, etc ~> High-damage Team: Your characters can deal high damage and take out individual opponent characters fast. Examples of characters that deal high damage: Sasuke, Lee, Kidoumaru, Kimmimaro, etc ~> Chakra-drain Team (CDT): Your characters are there to remove and drain chakra from your opponents so that the opponent team has no chakra to use and is unable to do anything at all. When that happens, you will bring them to a slow death. Examples of characters that can remove/drain chakra: Neji, Shino, etc ~> 1HKO Team: Your team can kill individual opponent characters in one hit, without the need to deal any damage to your target at all. Examples of characters that can kill in one hit: Gaara, Kakashi, Orochimaru, Sandaime Hokage, etc ~> Wall Team: Your characters can make your entire team invunerable so that your opponent cannot touch your team at all while you slowly take them out. Examples of characters that can make the team invunerable: Shino, Temari, Jiroubou, etc ~> Poison Team: Your characters deal damage over a number of turns. Though the damage dealt each turn may seem little, it is very difficult to defend against the damage, as your opponent cannot possibly be defending his characters every turn. Moreover, some of the poison damage is undefendable once inflicted. Examples of characters that use poison: Kankuro, Shizune, etc ~> Heal Team: Your characters are able to heal each other to prevent you from losing your characters. Sometimes, a character that loses health easily (Lee, Kimmimaro, etc) is used as the third member of the team. Examples of characters that can heal: Sakura, Shizune ~> Perma-stun Team: Your characters can stun the opponent's entire team, causing your opponent to be unable to do anything while you kill off his characters. Examples of characters that have AOE stun: Haku, Tayuya, etc ~> Single-stun Team: Your characters can stun individual opponent characters. This allows you to be able to prevent your opponent's key characters from doing anything while you kill off his characters. Examples of characters that can stun individual opponents: Sakura, Ino, Kidoumaru ~> Mixed Team: Characters with a variety of abilities are used to complement each other. Visit the Kusanagi clan thread today! Fight coporate tyranny. Help the poor children who are oppressed by that tyrant. Fight Odex. DONT ever buy any anime from Odex!

HeartofSword Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 50 Joined on: July 1, 2006

#2 ___________________________________________________________________________ === Section 2: Winning the Battle === Winning the battle takes more than just a good team. Having a good team is only half the battle won. The other half to it, is playing the battle well by making the best choice available. These are some of the things that you can do to help you win the battle. ------------------------- - 2.1 Before the Battle: Planning Strategies Ahead It is advisable to plan the strategies that you can use with your team before you click on the "Start Ladder Game" or "Start Private Game" button. Other than having a main strategy in mind, you should also have backup plans in case the main strategy doesnt work. This can happen and will happen because sometimes: ~ you meet an opponent team that is a counter for your team. ~ you have bad chakra luck. ~ the key character in your main strategy is stunned and unable to perform any skill. ~ the key character in your main strategy is killed. The more prepared you are, the higher your chances of winning. If you only start formulating possible strategies in game, it will take away precious time that you could have otherwise used to make a better choice of action. It will also be helpful if you open the Characters and Skills menu in the Naruto-Arena website before starting the game, especially if you are new to the game. This will help you to better understand what your opponent can do and have done, which will be talked about in detail in Section 2.2. (Game Manual -> Characters and Skills) ------------------------- - 2.2 During the Battle: Making the Best Choice Here are some tips to help you make the best choices in game. #1. Think about your opponent's possible strategies during the first minute. During the first turn you see your opponent's team, think about what your opponent may do next and prepare for it. Also use this one minute to identify your opponent's key character and make him/her as the first target. #2. Try to focus on killing one opponent character at one time. Instead of attacking randomly, choose a target and try to kill him first. This will allow you to be able to kill him sooner and cause your opponent to get less chakra sooner since the chakra your opponent receives depends on the number of characters he has alive. #3. When you have the chance to kill an opponent character, do it. By killing an opponent character, your opponent will receive less chakra and be able to do less damage to your team. However, sometimes you should follow #4 instead. #4. Try not to lose your key character. Sometimes... #3 doesn't apply. Sometimes, you have to choose between killing an opponent's character and risking your character getting killed OR keeping your character alive. These are some of the situations where I would choose to keep my characters alive when: ~ the character I'm risking is my key character ~ I will definitely lose if I lose this character. (eg Shino and Naruto. I will definitely lose if i only have Shino left.) ~ I have two characters while my opponent has three and I dont exactly have lots of chakra ~ I will still have the chance to kill that character the next turn if I protect my character this turn. #5. Always check what your opponent has done. Make sure you know what your opponent has done, either to your characters to his characters so that you know what is going on and can make the best choice to deal with your opponent. #6 Estimate how much chakra your opponent will have in the next turn. You need to make a smart estimate/guess on how much chakra your opponent has left based on the skills he used. Then you will be able to predict what your opponent may do next. #7 Take note of your opponent's skills cooldown. If you know what skills your opponent cannot use against you in the next turn, you will be able to make a better choice for your turn. If your opponent has just used Sasuke's Chidori, he can't use it again in the next turn. Hence if your character has 60hp, you don't need to worry about Chidori this turn and only prepare to counter Chidori the next turn. #8 Try to predict what your opponent will do next. If you try to predict what your opponent will do next, you will be able to prepare for it and if possible counter it. #9 Always think of the worse when predicting. But be reasonable. By estimating how much chakra your opponent has left, assume that he will use the skill you fear most in the next turn. For example if your opponent has Gaara and you estimate that he has 5 chakra left, assume that he will be able to use Desert coffin and then Desert Graveyard. However, you need to use some logic when thinking of the worse. If your opponent has just attacked you with Kakashi's Raikiri (costs 2 Ninjutsu chakra), it is very unlikely that he will be able to use Gaara's Desert Coffin and Desert Graveyard in the next two turns (unless he is very lucky). #10 Pray for luck. Luck does come in sometimes... especially with the chakra distribution. If you get bad chakra distribution, you are screwed. ------------------------- - 2.3 After the Battle: Reflections After the battle, reflect on the mistakes you made and try not to repeat them. In addition, if you win, don't be so arrogant that you send messages, like "PWNED YOU NOOB" to the loser. If you lose, never be a sore loser and flame/spam the person who defeated you. If you had a good game with your opponent, you could send a message to him/her telling that it was a good game. You may even make friends that way. Visit the Kusanagi clan thread today! Fight coporate tyranny. Help the poor children who are oppressed by that tyrant. Fight Odex. DONT ever buy any anime from Odex!

I_am_Hokage Rank: member Forum Rank: Kage Posts: 3621 Joined on: June 2, 2007

#3 Wow You memorized all that Heart and Wow Fast Typer@! -Will change everything.

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#4 whats a good team for neji made by dracoman300

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HeartofSword Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 50 Joined on: July 1, 2006

#6 bump... Visit the Kusanagi clan thread today! Fight coporate tyranny. Help the poor children who are oppressed by that tyrant. Fight Odex. DONT ever buy any anime from Odex!

HeartofSword Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 50 Joined on: July 1, 2006

#7 bump and waiting for petley to resticky the guides and oops, can u please move this thread to the tips and tricks section? Visit the Kusanagi clan thread today! Fight coporate tyranny. Help the poor children who are oppressed by that tyrant. Fight Odex. DONT ever buy any anime from Odex!

bayushi Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 68 Joined on: July 23, 2007

#8 very helpful

kulo Rank: member Forum Rank: Chuunin Posts: 631 Joined on: June 2, 2007

#9 yea Heart that is help full 4 the begginners... KULO-IS -CLANLESS

syracuse916 Rank: member Forum Rank: Jounin Posts: 1148 Joined on: June 2, 2007

#10 Quote by kulo yea Heart that is help full 4 the begginners... yeah this is a good beginners guide RASENGAN POWER

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#11 Thats very good... Fenrir Update: August 31, 2008 Latest Create-a-Character: Yugito Nii

malfactor Rank: member Forum Rank: Academy Student Posts: 3 Joined on: August 16, 2007

#12 Thx, heartofsword..never knew alot of things, very useful!

Ishimaru21 Rank: member Forum Rank: Genin Posts: 94 Joined on: June 17, 2007

#13 Thanks alot

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#14 heya boss you gettin back into n-a? cause i think kusanagi is basically over..... ..::Grace::.. ..::R.I.P Kusanagi & Envious::.. My Showcases: Part 2 Part 1 ||| Smash Arena Sig by Ichi ||| Ptag by Ses ||| Avvy by Me ||| B-Day Gift from Sawah ||GFX Battle Record = Wins:10 Ties:2 Losses:6 :: "If your not first your last" - Ricky Bobby ||

Royy616 Rank: member Forum Rank: Academy Student Posts: 11 Joined on: November 3, 2007

#15 Thank you! Thanks to you and all of your guides, I've been able to build a team of supreme abilities. I've combined all of the stats and made the best team I could think of. (1 Wall, 2 Power Houses.) :D I have Kiba and Kankuro and power-houses and combos and Temari for the wall and deal a decent amount of damage. I beat this guy that has 12 wins and 0 losses!

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