J-Stars Victory VS+ has an impressive roster of characters for players to choose from. The thing is, you only start with a handful and the rest must be purchased. On top of that, you must unlock extra slots so that you can actually hold those characters. This is done by leveling up the Friendship Gauge (blue meter on the top right-hand corner), which can be a slow process if you don’t know what you’re doing. Luckily, we’ve put together a list of quick, easy tips to get you rolling in new characters in no time.
J-Stars Victory VS+ has a neat story mode (J-Adventure) taking you to several locations from your favorite animes as you face combatants and show them who’s boss. While this is fun in its own right, it is also quite useful when it comes to leveling up the Friendship Gauge. After completing any missions your Friendship Gauge will fill up just a bit. By the time you complete all of the story arcs, you should have already leveled up a few times and increased your roster size accordingly.
Use The Friendship Character Type
When choosing characters in J-Stars Victory VS+, you will have multiple character types to choose from that can effect how that fighter is used in battle. Make sure to choose the Friendship type of you want to focus on leveling up that Friendship Gauge. Using characters in this style provides a bonus to the amount of bar that is filled up, so don’t forget.
Team Up
This should be a given. Since you’re trying to quickly level up your Friendship Gauge so that you can acquire every single character out there, it would only make sense that you have to use the power of friendship to some extent, right? Teaming up with the other characters on your team, rather than just fighting alongside them, will help to really get that Friendship Gauge filling up.
Using tag-team attacks and volleys are how this is done. Of course, this is something that you would probably be doing anyway. Filling up the Friendship Gauge may be important, but so is victory. Using your team to its fullest potential is usually the best way to dominate a match, so this is sort of like killing two birds with one stone.
Keep Your Teammates Alive
This is another point that should go without saying. In J-Stars Victory VS+ being victorious and avoiding being KO’d is your top priority. While you don’t need your teammates to be alive as long as you can dominate the battlefield, that won’t exactly expedite the whole leveling up your Friendship Gauge. Live teammates equate to that bar filling up a whole lot quicker.
While it may sometimes be a bit frustrating, especially during more difficult battles, make sure to keep tabs on your allies at all times. If they’re in trouble, go and help them out, once they’re in the clear return your focus to whatever it was that you were doing.
Make Use of Your Support Character
In many games that allow players to use a support character, that extra helping hand tends to go unused. It’s not that players don’t like nor care for those characters, it’s just that in the heat of battle it’s easy to solely focus on getting that next combo out. In J-Stars Victory VS+ putting your support to use actually helps you out in the long run, even outside of battle.
Each time you use your support character in battle you get a bit of a bonus to your Friendship Gauge. So it would probably be a good idea to not choose your support character randomly. Put someone useful in that spot, instead.
