Jump Force Tips & Tricks
Make Sure to Keep Your Ability Gauge Charged and Use Awakening
While you have plenty of basic attacks and throws to use, the bread and butter of Jump Force’s combat comes with abilities. Each character comes with four abilities mapped to R2 plus the face buttons. These abilities cause serious damage, and if you effectively combo them with your other attacks, you can really hurt your opponent.
However, if you want to use a lot of abilities you need to make sure you’re managing your ability gauge. By holding down R2 you’ll charge the gauge at a fast rate, and each ability has a gauge requirement in order to use. Most of them require at least one charge in your gauge, but some will require two charges.
Make sure you’re taking time to charge up your gauge if the enemy is across the battlefield, or even while they’re recovering from one of your attacks. Similarly, you’ll want to keep your Awakening Gauge in mind as well.
The Awakening Gauge is wrapped around your character portrait in the top left, and it charges a little bit as you attack, and a lot as you take damage. When the gauge is at least 50 percent full, you can enter Awakening by clicking R3, or you can use it to unleash your 4th, most powerful, ability.
The better idea, however, is to always use your gauge to enter Awakening, as this will increase your power and ability damage temporarily as the gauge drains. Instead of just wasting the gauge on your ability, enter Awakening and use it, then when the gauge is almost depleted, launch your 4th ability. By doing this you’ll be able to maximize your damage output.
