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5. Familiarize yourself with the switch combo system. If you switch a character after a regular attack, you get the other characters running attack animation. If you switch a character after a charge attack (meaning: any triangle ender attack), you get moves that can launch and juggle opponents and gives you invincibility. Webm related. This will help immensely with crowd control and killing officers.

6. Your R1 attacks vary in power, but most of them have full invincibility frames throughout their entire duration and are useful for getting yourself out of trouble.

7. Your main focus should be clearing story missions. Then you should unlock the special gear. Then you can choose to do DLC missions or go into gauntlet mode, which is a whole 'nother can of worms, but it offers tons of unique equipment (like that strafe dodge cancel I mentioned earlier).

8. For your weapons, don't worry about getting perfect 5-star gear, because the game has an awesome gear system that strengthens underpowered 1-2 star weapons and makes them viable for endgame.

9. If you block an attack and then immediately press square, you can get a deflect animation that dizzies the enemy, opening them up for a combo or juggle. Very useful for crowd control, because your deflect affects other nearby enemies as well.

Here is a link to how you can get the special gear: https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Treasure_Guide