Overview
Or, how to make good chains in Astral Breakers. Most similar to the various ways of chaining in Puyo Puyo.
The Basics Of Chaining
So how badly do you want to know how to chain the right way? If you really want to know, then this guide is the guide for you.
First thing you should know is what a chain is. A chain in puzzle game descriptions is a reaction of setting one thing off to set off another thing. Most players of fighting puzzle games use this to make trouble for their opponents. It is very handy in most, if not all, cases.
What you see above this is a pile of magenta spheres being cleared out of the way in order for the red spheres to be cleared, a la chaining.
A big difference between no chain and a chain is that with no chain, your AP (attack power) is at a standard. With chains, your AP can be doubled, tripled, however the fighting puzzle game sets your AP in.
Be careful when using big chains, however. The image below this depicts a chain going out of hand, with little to no space to clear it out.
How to Chain
When starting a new battle, you want to match color with color in a certain way that will make the super sphere (pentagon sphere) drop to meet set requirements. An easy way of doing this is by certainly putting matched spheres underneath a new (and clean) sphere pile.
The above two photos is one of the most common ways to create chains, the Scrap method. If the pile of red spheres were cleared, the magenta SS (super sphere(s)) would fall onto the pile of magenta spheres, and clear those out, matching the yellow spheres together. (The yellow spheres wouldn’t be cleared out because there is no yellow SS.)
Another way of creating a chain is known as the Elevation method. In this method (shown below), you create horizontal lines of matching spheres, alternating color when going vertically. In order to clear this method, the spheres in the very middle must be cleared. After that, the spheres below will be cleared. Please note that big chains require many SS.
How to Chain: Bigger and Easier
Now that we’ve gone through the basic gist of chains, it’s time we launch the Hype Star. A Hype Star is a 4 or more chain of cleared spheres. What you see below you is known as the Staircase method. This can be done in both directions. This method of chaining is one of the easier methods, however also easy to mess up.
Another method is known as the Keyhole method. This is a variation of the Staircase method, however one of the middle rows will be shoved aside one column. Be sure to save space, as unlike the Staircase method, it’s actally even easier to mess this one up. Despite that, the Keyhole method is also an easy method. (Spheres not part of the chain were dummied out to avoid confusion.)
That’s all I can tell you about chains. You’ll have to learn more by yourself.
