
You can activate it as soon as you reach 50%, and if you wait until you’re at 100%, some characters will even transform to something else entirely and let off a huge attack. You can press R3 (click the right analog stick in) to activate your Awakening, giving you more powerful attacks and higher damage numbers. It’ll fill up over the course of the match as you take damage and land attacks, and it’ll turn red once ready. It’s a little bit hard to see, but there’s a thin bar surrounding your character’s portrait. Use your awakening to turn the fight around. You don’t always want to use a passive play style, but beginners especially would benefit from working on well-timed counter attacks instead of trying to button mash their way to victory. See what your opponent is doing and try to react to their actions. Instead of going all out with flurries of attacks that have the potential to leave you open, sit back and be patient.

That changes the way you have to play the game.

Because a team of fighters share all the same resources and health bars in Jump Force, the team-based gameplay isn’t necessarily about managing multiple health and energy bars. Offensive, defensive, really doesn’t matter, milk your assists for all they are worth.

They come out instantly and immediately start attacking and can deal immense damage or keep your opponent on block. Assists are very, very good in this game. In fact, if your opponent whiffs one of these massive moves at you, that is your chance you get in a major punish. In fact, it will negate everything but throws and smash attacks, yes even the flashiest of energy blasts. It will prevent you from taking damage from most of your opponent’s attacks.

If you aren’t doing anything else, block. This is perhaps the most basic fighting game tip of them all, but it’s easy to forget stuff like this among the energy blasts and flashy super moves.
