This guide is for helping new players with the basics of a Bleach Tactics battle

Once you have selected your 3 characters and have equipped all your skills you are ready to begin a match. To start a match click on the Ranked Battle or Free Battle tab on the left side of your window

After you find a match you should come to this screen:

1. Active Battle bar

On the far left it shows you how much time you have left for your turn. You have 90 seconds to make your move and if you fail to make a move in the 90 seconds your turn will be skipped.

Right next to the time meter is the BF Points. BF is used to make your moves and each skill has there own amount of BF required to use them.

Note: You do not have to use all of your BF in one turn, if you do not use all of your BF it will be saved for the next turn.

2. Your characters

These are your characters health points (HP) and reiatsu points (RS). The HP bar is the amount of health that character has. Once the characters health has depleted to 0 that character will be KO’d for the remainder of the match. The RS bar is the amount of Reiatsu that character has. Some moves require RS points to use. RS points regenerate over time.

Clicking on the character portrait allows you to bring up the available character moves.

3. Your statistics

This is your player information. Your level, wins, losses, streak, rank points and your clan name and position.

4. Sound Options, Surrender and End Turn

End Turn allows you to swtich turn early once you've selected your choosen moves. Your attacks will only be applied once you've choosen to end turn and selected your attack order.

Surrender allows you to end the battle early by withdrawing from battle. This will count as a loss.

Sound Options, surprisingly, allows you to turn the sound on and off.

5. Battle Log

Once you've ended your turn you can review the out come of your turn in the battle log. Due to the accuracy of moves and the defence of the opponent, damage applied will be variable. Use the battle log to keep track of moves damage. The Battle log will be updated every time you or your opponent ends the turn.

6. Opponent statistics and characters.

This is information about your opponent's statistics and characters. It contains all the information about your opponent except for their moves.

After clicking on a character portrait, that characters available moves are shown.

On top of every skill it will say AP: x/x. AP or Attack points states the number of times you can use that move within battle. Once the AP for a move gets to 0 you are unable to use that move for the remainder of the battle.

To use a move select the skill you wish to use and the click on the character you wish to apply it to. Available targets will flash red. Note that with some moves you can target your own team. An example of this is a healing move that you might use to increase an ally`s HP.

Once you`ve selected your moves for that turn click on the End Turn button below the battle log on the right and you are given a chance to order your attacks. The advantage of being able to order your attacks means that, for example, you could possibly lower the opponent character`s defense before doing damage to him in an effort to increase the amount of damage done.

Once you`ve decided on the move order and selected Yes, I`m sure your turn will switch and you can see what happened by looking at the Battle Log.

This covers the basics of battle. The winner is the one who KO`s the opponent`s three characters first. If you have any additional questions or queries please post in our forum or ask a fellow player in the chat room.