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Normal Attacks

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There are two primary normal attack buttons in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, A.png and B.png. A.png attacks are primarily weak but fast, while B.png attacks are stronger but slower. Everyone's Template:2C.png is a sweep that will knock opponents down on hit.

Normal attacks can usually cancel into one another, generally following the order A.png > B.png > C.png. However, this is not a steadfast rule. Consult the Revolver Action section of your character's frame data for exact details.

Under Night In-Birth characters are capable of canceling almost any normal into any other normal once per string as an homage to their game series mechanic Passing Link, commonly referred to as Reverse Beat in reference to its predecessor, Melty Blood.

Smart Combo

Each character has autocombos which are started by Template:5A.png or Template:5B.png and repeating the input to continue the autocombo. Most characters also have an autocombo on J.gifA.png, and some even have it on J.gifB.png and Template:4A.png! Check each character's page to see what autocombos they have.

Most autocombos have unique attacks that can not be accessed any other way.

Cross Raid

Swap characters mid-combo and 1500 unburstable damage to boot!

Press A.png after the last hit of your A.png Smart Combo to activate Cross Raid. You will switch characters, dealing 500 damage, then do a combo ender dealing another 1000 damage that also places you in the powered up state after Active Change. Cross Raid can only be used if your partner is available, and uses up all of your Cross Gauge (though you can use it even at 0%).

The 1500 damage is unaffected by damage scaling, meaning it can be a great way to end a combo with a big chunk of damage!

Clash Assault

Universal Overhead

By pressing C.png while standing, your character will perform a Clash Assault. A Clash Assault is a universal overhead that has a special follow-up sequence on ground hit where your two characters will perform a combination attack on the opponent. The entire sequence does a good amount of damage on its own and is one of the few options available to all characters to break an opponent's guard so it can be useful. However, most Clash Assaults also send the opponent a fullscreen away, resetting the situation back to neutral.

Press A.png or B.png right when "Crash!" appears for bonus damage.

When the Clash Assault animation occurs, a notification will appear with "Crash!", indicating that you can input A.png or B.png for bonus damage and Skill Gauge gain. The indication of timing can be given with "Good!", "Excellent!!", and "Marvelous!!" which increases the damage done with Clash Assault. A helpful visual cue is to press A.png right as the opponent begins to fall.


Note: If your partner has died or is already on screen due to an existing partner action, your partner will not join you for the follow-up sequence, resulting in decreased damage.

Extra Assault

Press C.png to spend 1 Skill Gauge for even more bonus damage! Only available during a 2 character Clash Assault

You can also press C.png to spend 1 Skill Gauge for an Extra Assault, which does much more damage, but is only available when your partner is available. The timing for this is much easier than the other followups, and you'll enter the powered up Active Change state afterwards too!

Clash Assault Damage
Participants Initial Hit Follow-Up Sequence Good Excellent Marvelous Extra Assault
Solo 800 640, 640 960 (3040 total) 1200 (3280 total) 1440 (3520 total) -
Pair 800 640, 320, 640, 320 960+800 (4480total) 1200+800 (4720 total) 1440+800 (4960 total) 1920+1920 (6560 total)


Skills

Skills are usually performed by doing a motion plus a button (such as Template:236A.png) and typically have special properties compared to normal attacks. Skills have properties that may vary depending on which attack button was used. Each character has unique skills, check out each character's wiki page to learn more about how to use them.

Extra Skills

Extra Skills don't give the opponent any recoverable life

In addition to normal skills, characters also have powered-up skills called Extra Skills that are performed by doing a motion plus the C Button (such as Template:236C.png). Many of these Extra Skills are variations of the skill attached to the same motion, but there are also Extra Skills that are their own unique special move. Extra Skills cost 1 Skill Gauge and create a light blue silhouette behind the character. Damage dealt by an Extra Skill does not convert to recoverable life. These can be very powerful and useful for turning the tides of a match so be sure to consult your character's overview page to find out what their Extra Skills do and how they can help you in battle.

Partner Skills

Your partner will glow red (P1) or blue (P2)

Press GGP.png to call out your partner to help you by performing an action. Each partner has 3 different Partner Skills that can be used by inputting Template:5GGP.png, Template:6GGP.png or Template:4GGP.png. Consult your character's overview page to learn what Partner Skills they have and decide how best to use them. Partner Skills ignore hitstun decay on hit. Also, after performing their Partner Skill, your partner will remain on the screen for a bit of time, essentially locking you out from using them again for a small period of time.

Active Partner Skills

Performing a Partner Skill while your character is already in the middle of an action results in an Active Partner Skill, a Partner Skill that costs 50% of the Cross Gauge and can only be used once per combo. As well as extending combos, Active Partner Skills can also be used to cover your character after performing an unsafe action. Be sure to use Active Partner Skills at the most strategic times to make the most of them.

Active Partner Skills can not be used during certain actions, such as during a successful throw animation, Distortion, or ukemi.

Active Change

CHANGE! Linne is now on point, notice green circle?

By pressing GGD.png during a Partner Skill, your partner will strike a pose, after which control will switch over to them. Your character will gain a red/blue aura after changing, indicating a temporary boost in Skill Gauge gain and the speed that your Partner heals recoverable health. Active Change does not occur until the GGD.png button is released, which will help prevent players from doing an accidental Cross Combo or Reversal Action when they intend to do a fast Partner Skill > Active Change.

  • Partner becomes tangible on 18F and can change on 19F
  • Changes who is point character on 3F
  • Active Change immediately cancels attack for the incoming character
  • Change takes 30F
    • If the character is airborne, then they are in recovery until landing as well
  • Can not Active Change during the following situations
    • If you or your partner are getting hit/blocking
    • While performing Reversal Action
    • If your partner is already in the taunt animation of their recovery

Advanced Application

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Since this changes who is point character immediately, you can create left/right mixups with Active Change by sandwiching the opponent between you and your partner. Do an attack with your point character, then immediately Active Change - the opponent now needs to block in the other direction!

By positioning your two characters correctly, you can also make some mixups safe against Reversal Actions by having your point character do a high/low/throw, then immediately Active Change - if the opponent Reversal Actions, then your former point character will get hit, but your new point character is out of range and can punish!

Cross Combo

I hope you practiced some team mixups/combos

By pressing GGP.png+GGD.png during a Partner Skill, you activate a Cross Combo, allowing your partner to remain in-play and use additional Partner Skills. This requires at least 50% of your Cross Gauge and will act as a timer for Cross Combo. Getting hit ends Cross Combo immediately. Cross Combo has startup/recovery of 0+0.

While Cross Combo is active, any attacks you make will cause your partner will execute their Partner Skill corresponding to the direction you are holding; for example, inputting Template:5A.png causes your partner to use their Template:5GGP.png; inputting Template:1B.png causes your partner to use their Template:4GGP.png. Partners are fully invincible so long as they are not attacking.

The above makes coordinated team attacks difficult to execute, but there is a simple way around this. Holding down GGP.png keeps your partner from attacking, and releasing GGP.png will cause your partner to attack (holding left/right will determine which assist attack is done as usual). Thus you can do a combo with your main character while holding GGP.png, then release GGP.png to have your partner hit the opponent to extend the combo. You can also press GGD.png at any point to do an Active Change and change who the "main" character is during Cross Combo, allowing lots of versatility for creating mix-ups and combos.

Cross Combo also buffs your team in more subtle ways; during Cross Combo hitstun decay is ignored, damage dealt will be unrecoverable (no red health), and Distortion Skill will be the powered up Resonance version! Do note that using a Distortion immediately ends Cross Combo, though following up with a Distortion Skill Duo will have the other incoming Distortion Skill be the enhanced version as well in that case.



Distortion Skills

Ragna doing Carnage Scissors.

Distortion Skills are powerful attacks that costs 2 Skill Gauge to use, performed by pressing Template:236B.png+C.png or Template:214B.png+C.png. Typically, a Distortion Skill is a powerful attack that deals a lot of damage and have Minimum Damage, perfect for ending combos to maximize the damage you'll do to an opponent. Most Distortion Skills have invincible frames on startup.

However, there are a few Distortion Skills that can be used for other purposes. For example, Distortion Skills like Chie's Agneyastra are perfect for limiting an opponent's options so you can close the gap between you and your opponent more easily. Platinum's Miracle Jeanne powers her other attacks up instead of being an attack in itself.

Distortion Skills can normally only be canceled into from normals and throws, but during Resonance Blaze you'll be able to cancel into Distortion Skills from Skills as well.

Note that some Distortion Skills will not hit your opponent's sub character(or only the first few hits will land).

Distortion Skill Duo

Press GGP.png during a Distortion Skill to make your partner come out and follow-up with a Distortion Skill Duo, switching control over to them as you bring them in and doing some additional damage.

Distortion Skill Duo costs 2 Skill Gauges and is only available after the opponent gets hit/blocks your initial Distortion and your partner must be in a usable state (ie: not on cooldown from Partner Skills or dead).

All Distortion Skill Duos have start-up 1+1 and deal 100% minimum damage. Some Distortion Skill Duos will not hit your opponent's sub character (or only the first few hits will land).

Enhanced Distortion Skills

During Resonance Blaze and Cross Combo, Distortion Skills will be enhanced, and have different animations that deal more/bigger hits. The end result is a significant damage increase. Note that this also applies to Distortion Skill Duos performed during Cross Combo, resulting in an additional 500 damage.

Throws

Normal throws ignore Reject Guard's pushback effect

Throws are a special type of attack that are unblockable, but they have other restrictions in place:

  • Unlike in Blazblue or in UNIST, Throws cannot hit characters who are in blockstun or hitstun (or 4 frames immediately after either).
    • Some command throws can hit characters who are in hitstun, such as Waldstein's Drehen Durchbohren and Tager's EX Air Driver.
  • Ground throws can not hit airborne opponents or opponents who are in jump start-up.
  • You cannot throw opponent's sub character.

Normal Throws

Throws are a key part of your offense to stop opponents who simply block and refuse to do anything else! Press B.png+C.png while on the ground to perform a forward throw or Template:4B.png+C.png while on the ground to perform a back throw. If you are far away from the opponent, then your character will run forward a bit before executing a throw.

Normal throws also play a part in overcoming Reject Guard - they are immune to the pushback effect, and Reject Guard leaves the defender in Throw Reject Miss state, meaning they can not break any throw if they stand still after Reject Guarding.

Command Throws

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Command throws are a special type of throw (usually a Skill) that can not be escaped by inputting B.png+C.png to break the throw. In order to escape these type of throws, you must either:

  • Jump if it's a ground command throw
  • Not be in the space that they hit if it's a command throw that hits in the air
    • Note that some command throws can be dodged by crouching

Command throws are more powerful than throws at breaking the guard of opponents who simply block but they usually pay the price by having more recovery when they miss, making them easier to punish.

Priority of Strike vs Throw vs Command Throw

When two strikes hit each other, either a clash happens or both characters are hit, but what happens when throws are added to the mix?

  • Throw vs Strike: The throw will always win.
  • Normal Throw vs. Normal Throw: A Throw Escape occurs.
  • Normal Throw vs. Command Throw: The Command Throw will always win.
  • Command Throw vs. Command Throw: Both throws whiff for that one frame, meaning the Command Throw with more active frames will win in the end.



Resonance Blaze

You can also hold GGP.png to enter Resonance as soon as possible

When one of your characters die, your remaining character will have the option to enter Resonance Blaze by pressing GGP.png when in a neutral state. Resonance Blaze can not be canceled into.

  • Resonance Blaze activation is fully invincible and has startup 3+37 on the ground and 3+until landing in the air (suspended in the air until 36F)
    • This makes it useful as a reversal, although there is a long start-up period after the super freeze
    • You cannot perform Resonance Blaze while in blockstun
  • The timer is paused while Resonance Blaze is active
  • During Resonance Blaze, your character will have the following benefits for the next 15 seconds ※1:
    • Red health regenerates slowly over time
    • Skill Gauge increases rapidly over time
    • Maximum Skill Gauge increases to 5 + Resonance Level
    • Normals deal chip damage
    • Chip damage increases
    • Skills can be canceled into Distortion Skills and Astral Heat
    • Distortion Skills gain enhanced properties during Resonance Blaze
    • Opponent cannot Cross Burst

※1: Actions performed by a character in Resonance Blaze that would freeze the in-game timer outside of Resonance Blaze, such as Distortion Skills, Astral Heats and the follow-up sequence on a successful ground hit Clash Assault, also freeze that character's individual Resonance Blaze timer until said character has fully recovered from the action.

Resonance Blaze level also determines the rate of Skill Gauge gain, the rate of red health regeneration and how much chip damage attacks deal.

See Resonance Gauge for how to level up your Resonance Gauge.

Once you run out of Resonance Blaze, your maximum Skill Gauge will return to 5 and your Cross Gauge will disappear for the remainder of the match.

Resonance Level

Resonance Level is denoted by number of mini-diamonds

Depends on how much you filled the Resonance Gauge, you will get the corresponding level of that Resonance Blaze. The following list out the difference between each levels:

Resonance Benefits Based on Level
Level Skill Units Gained Per Frame Time to Gain 1 Skill Red Health Gained Per Frame Bonus Chip Damage (%) Chip for Normals Bonus Skill Gauge Gain (%)
Level 1 11 455F 1.5 +200% 10% +20%
Level 2 22 228F 3 +400% 20% +50%
Level 3 33 152F 4.5 +600% 30% +80%
Level 4 44 114F 6 +800% 40% +110%


Astral Heat

Make your opponent go home with their meter
The gold trim means you can Astral

During Level 4 Resonance Blaze, reaching the maximum of 9 Skill Gauges when your opponent is down to one character will cause the Skill Gauge to glow gold. At this point, pressing Template:2Template:2Template:2B.png+C.png will activate your character's Astral Heat. Successfully landing an Astral Heat will result in an Astral Finish, winning the match for you automatically regardless of the opponent's remaining health.

Astral Heats are very easy to combo into; they are considered Distortion Skills so you can cancel normal Skills into Astrals. Basically combo into just about anything, then cancel into Astral.


Powered Up State

When you have this buff, your character will have a silhouette (red for P1, blue for P2)

After an Active Change or Cross Raid, your team will enter a powered up state where you gain a few passive buffs:

  • Skill gain rate increased by 50%
  • Red health recovery rate increased by 100%