Indivisible

Indivisible

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Quick battle tutorial
By Skwyni
Indivisible just got released today and many people are getting confused about battles controls and mechanics.
This quick guide will attempt to explain everything that is needed to win your battles, while people get used to the game in the first days.
Do note that I am not yet that far into the game : there may me some mechanics that I didn't discover yet, and I may make mistakes. Feel free to tell me and help me make a great and concise guide in the future in order to help the futur new players ! :)
   
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Introduction
So I see a lot of people getting confused about some combat controls and mechanics and creating a lot of thread about it. I played for some hours now, so I will try and put here a tutorial to help you all.

But first, even if you won't admit it, everything you need to know is explain sometime in the game, even how to use Iddhi bars. So please, stop criticizing the lack of tutorial, it wasn't an issue for me, it shouldn't be for you, this game is a lot of fun and the developers did an amazing job.
Attacking
So you have 4 characters in your party, with each one being assigned to a button. Once your character's attack bar is full, you press it's button to attack. By using a combination of attack + up or attack + down, you will use different moves. Usually, up attack will launch the enemy or attack aerial enemies, while down attacks will attack on the ground even against aerial enemies. But some characters will have special moves assigned to these combinations, those can be seen when unlocking a character or when pressing Y on him in the menu.

To choose which enemy you want to focus, just press left or right.
Super attacks
Most of the characters will have kind of Super Attack, which costs you Iddhi meter to use, the energy bar in the top left corner. You can stock up to 3 bars. To use your super, just press RB + your character's button.
On your character's help screen, if you see a rainbow with a number in it, it means it is a super, the number is the number of meter it will cost you.

Ajna can use a special reviving skill by pressing RB + LB. This costs all of your meter, one bar at the beginning, three later in the game. You can use it whenever someone in your party is down. You have to press the buttons at the same time, not holding RB then pressing LB.
Blocking
When an enemy is attacking one of your characters, you can hold it's button to guard. This will consume your Iddhi meter. By pressing the button on the exact moment when you are getting hit, you will make a perfect block & gain meter instead. Perfect blocking will reduce taken damages even more and you won't die if you have one hp left.
By pressing LB, you can use the Party Block, making everyone in your party block at the same time. This follows the same rules as individual block : everyone will use meter, and for every perfect block you will gain meter instead.
Guard breaking
Your enemies can guard too. To break their guard, you have to make a mix-up of up attacks and down attacks. If you fail to break their guard, don't panic, just wait for your attack bar to fill up and try again.
About Ajna's combos
Ajna has weird combos when you get all of her weapons. I don't know how it works, it seems to be quite random, depending on her and the enemies positions. I can't help you for that, but it isn't as much of an issue as it can seem to be.
Outside of battles
You can fight outside of battles too : press LB to guard and X to attack. If you manage to hit your enemy before engaging combat, you will have an advantage. And by blocking it's attack, you can avoid the combat engaging.

If you get hit outside of battle, two situations can occur : either you are getting engaged in battle, or you are launched by the attack's knockback. If you are getting launched, by pressing any button you can make a recovery. If you are getting hit in the air, you can recover while airborne, so you won't drop all the way to the floor. This can be helpful in platforming sequences when you have to wall jump a lot and are getting attacked.
Useful tips
When holding RB, the super button, time slows down a lot. This can help you breath a little and think about your situation. Do not hesitate to do so when you are having a hard time !
End
I hope this guide will help some people.
Thank you for reading, have fun playing this awesome game, and good job to the developers for making such a great game. :)
8 Comments
Skwyni  [author] 13 Oct, 2019 @ 1:43pm 
@Ixis Thank you for your feedback !
Yes, a was a little salty and mean, mainly because I spent two hours lurking on the Steam forums to help people, answering again and again to the same questions about basic mechanics which were in the tutorials, but I will remove this paragraph now.

I hope that Ajna's combos will be patched (or maybe they already are, I was absent for the last days and didn't look at the patch-note yet), it was just to answer to people who thought it was due to bugs or things like that.

I know for the training room but I wasn't there yet when I wrote my guide, and didn't think it would be necessary in this guide, but I will add a line to talk about it.

I didn't know about super-canceling, I will try it out then add it !

Thanks a lot. :steamhappy:
Drachnon 10 Oct, 2019 @ 12:26pm 
Or you can just mash buttons semi-randomly which has worked for me so far :steamhappy:
Ixis 10 Oct, 2019 @ 8:36am 
Oh, one last thing (for real this time). Specials cancel the current attack animation of the character performing the special. So if you're in the middle of an animation, you can cancel it to do a special. This is ONLY for the character performing the special, i.e., another character can use their special to continue your combo without cancelling the animation, OR you can animation cancel to help perfect your juggle.
Ixis 10 Oct, 2019 @ 8:34am 
Last point: there is an NPC you can meet that acts as a training room. It's important to get him because you can miss him if you just follow the story. Training rooms are useful in 2D fighters so you can practice your moves and learn how the game works (because, again, the game does NOT tell you everything.)

To unlock him (without major spoilers), when you reach the first big city in the game progress the plot as normal. Before leaving the city, look for a man with a missing leg and talk to him. You can find him in your inner mind. Talk to him to access the training room.
Ixis 10 Oct, 2019 @ 8:34am 
>"Ajna has weird combos when you get all of her weapons. I don't know how it works, it seems to be quite random, depending on her and the enemies positions. I can't help you for that, but it isn't as much of an issue as it can seem to be."

Ajna's combos will probably be patched at some point. Her wonky moveset is discussed everywhere as of the time of writing. For the most part, attack+up > attack > attack+down or attack+up > attack > attack are the safest combos.
Ixis 10 Oct, 2019 @ 8:34am 
>"By using a combination of attack + up or attack + down, you will use different moves."

Should be "You can press attack, attack+up, or attack+down to use different moves."

>"Most of the characters will have kind of Super Attack, which costs you Iddhi meter to use, the energy bar in the top left corner. You can stock up to 3 bars. To use your super, just press RB + your character's button."

Should be "In the upper-left corner of the screen is your Iddhi meter. It starts with 1 bar, but eventually you will gain 3 bars. To use a super, press RB+a character button. The character you pick determines what special you'll use. If you press the button multiple times, you will use multiple bars of iddhi, which makes the special more powerful."
Ixis 10 Oct, 2019 @ 8:33am 
A nice guide, but here's a few pointers:

>"But first, even if you won't admit it, everything you need to know is explain sometime in the game, even how to use Iddhi bars. So please, stop criticizing the lack of tutorial, it wasn't an issue for me, it shouldn't be for you, this game is a lot of fun and the developers did an amazing job."

You should remove that paragraph entirely. First, you come off really defensive and salty. Second, many of the things mentioned in this guide *aren't* explained in the game. Instead, you have to either read about it online, or learn about it through trial and error. Third, while the game is great and Lab-Zero did a good job, it doesn't mean they did a good job at explaining the mechanics, which they didn't. It's especially sad because their previous title (Skullgirls) is INCREDIBLY helpful when it came to teaching the mechanics.
bugc VETERANSMONTH 10 Oct, 2019 @ 3:56am 
rip pc