Combat Readiness Guide [+Relationship with Speed]
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Table of Contents
Overview
Welcome to the combat readiness (CR in short) guide for beginners! In this post, we will go over what that is and why you will need to pay attention to it. CR allows you to change the tide of the battle and it is especially important in the arena and certain PvE content such as Wyvern or Abyss Tower.
How Combat Readiness(CR) Works
Combat readiness is a mechanic that can change the turn order in a battle phase. It is one of the best or worst things that determines the tide of a battle. You can either increase or decrease combat readiness of you or the enemy.
Righteous Thief Roozid gives increased combat readiness to the team, allowing Rose to jump ahead of the turn queue to further boost her team with more combat readiness and allow them to attack.
The key thing to pay attention to is that increasing your own or your team’s combat readiness is always effective. Decreasing combat readiness of your enemy/enemies can be resisted, so it does not always work.
As you can see above, Shadow Rose was able to push her team forward with the increase combat readiness, but her decrease combat readiness on the Wyvern failed as he is immune to combat readiness decrease.
So if you have characters that boost combat readiness, it is always the better option. We will be going over various units that can manipulate turns via increase/decrease combat readiness in a later section.
Now do keep in mind that speed and combat readiness works differently.
Speed determines who gets to go first when everyone starts at the beginning of the starting line. The faster the speed of your character, the better the odds they get to move first. If you character has very high speed (200+), sometimes they can still move first even if a slower unit has gained some combat readiness to jump the queue. So speed is still very vital!
For example, if your character has 150 speed, then another character that has between 145 to 155 speed can either go before or after you. The 20 speed variance will always be there. So sometimes you will see some of your slower units going first.
Update: The range is +/- 5%
In order to avoid this, you will want to make sure that your fastest character always has 10+ more speed than your second fastest character. This will ensure that he/she will always be first to move. However, once in a blue moon, the speed RNG factor will still make your slowest unit go first. I have had that happen before, but very rarely.
How Important is Combat Readiness?
Combat readiness is extremely important, particularly in PvP arena. In the current meta, whoever goes first will usually win the match. Until the meta switches to a tank meta, speed and increase/decrease combat readiness will always reign supreme.
Who Are The Best Characters That Boost Combat Readiness?
As the current time of writing, there are a few that are really good. Some of them are F2P friendly characters that you can get, so don’t worry about not being able to compete! Below is an example of a list of characters that also offers increase/decrease combat readiness.
| Name | Stars | Speed | Skill | Element |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celeste | 3★ | 128 | 50% chance to decrease combat readiness by 20 %. | Light |
| A. Cidd | 4★ | 128 | 100% Silence and decrease combat readiness by 30 %. | Dark |
| Righteous Thief Roozid | 3★ | 118 | +20%(25%) team combat readiness + speed buff | Earth |
| Judith | 3★ | 117 | +20(30)% team combat readiness (and potential for a turn 2 stun) | Fire |
| F Kluri | 3★ | 117 | Gives +10% combat readiness to a random ally when she uses her first skill | Earth |
| Schuri | 4★ | 110 | +15(25)% team combat readiness except for himself when he deals critical hit damage and -30% combat readiness to all enemies if he has 3+ focus | Fire |
| Shadow Rose | 4★ | 107 | +25% team combat readiness and -25% enemy team combat readiness | Dark |
| Rose | 4★ | 97 | +15(25%) team combat readiness + attack buff | Ice |
| Lots | 4★ | 97 | +10(20%) team combat readiness + regen | Earth |
All of the above units are quite common to find in the arena, especially on offense. Judith is a bit of an underrated one as not too many people know much about her greatness just yet. I highly recommend you check out YDCB and TKGallant’s Master/Challenger arena videos as they explain to you how the battle works and are very informative.
For example, YDCB’s team comp of Rose(CR increase), Sez (Full DPS), C. Dominiel (CR increase + buffer) and Requiemroar (Defense breaker):
And we can also check out TKGallant’s free to play specialty change team, which I found quite refreshing. Hazel(Attack buffer), RT Roozid (CR increase), C Lorina (Full DPS) and F Kluri (Defense breaker/dispel):
Hopefully, this will give you a good idea on how to build your team and utilise combat readiness in the game!
References
- TKGallant Arena Vids
- Perodactyl’s Arena Strategy: