Editing Battle System

The battle system features real-time tower defense gameplay.  

Refer to [[FAQ]] and  [[Tips and Tricks]] for supplementary info. 
<br>This is part of [[Getting started]].

== Entering Combat ==
You enter the battle by selecting a Battle Quest node from the Quest selection screen. Before the start of combat, you will be taken to the Party selection screen, where you can choose what party to use, as well as edit/build them.

=== Support Unit ===
You are able to build a team of up to 12 characters you own and can opt to include an extra character in the support slot. This grabs from a pool of support characters from your Friends list and other players.

You can refresh this selection by entering and exiting, but it will typically loop through a few sets of pools and require you to complete a stage before it fully resets.

The unit will then be set to a cooldown timer before they can be used again.

''Note: It is ideal to find friends to play with since there are a lot of accounts that do not have any useful support characters.''

== User Interface ==
[[File:Mapexample.png|thumb|450x450px|The basis of Another Eidos is [[wikipedia:Tower_defense|tower defense]]. Select a character to place it on a hex. They will auto-attack when an enemy gets in range of it. When the bar under a character is filled, tap it to use their Skill. ]]

=== Upper Portion ===

* The upper portion of the battle screen shows how much life you have and the current status of how many enemies have spawned on the map.
* On the left, you have the option to quit the battle, which effectively admits a loss, while on the right, you have buttons for pausing or toggling gameplay speed between 1x and 2x.

=== Lower Portion ===

* On the lower right side, you can monitor how much cost you currently accumulated. 
* You will be able to see the units you brought into the fight, arranged from highest to lowest cost. They display their class and cost on the top section of their icon. 
** When you select a unit that is ready to be deployed, you will be able to view their stats and slow down the game.
** You deploy the unit by dropping their sprite on the map and choosing a direction for them to face.

=== Bases ===

* Red bases are enemy spawn points. Most enemies come out this way, but some stages may have gimmicks that subvert this rule.
* Blue bases are your bases, which you need to prevent enemies from passing towards.

=== Map Tiles ===

* There are two tile types: high-ground and low-ground tiles.
* Most enemies will be moving through low-ground tiles and are blocked by low-ground units.
* There are enemies who fly, move across any type of tiles, and cannot be blocked by any unit unless stated otherwise by a unit's capabilities.

=== Character ===

* [[Character|Characters]] are the playable units that you put in a party. They have varying niches they fill and are useful in different stages of the battle; these are defined by their [[Character Stats|stats, traits, natures, skills]], and [[Character Progression|progression]].

* Characters will have an indicator of block count in the form of shield icons, as well as a bar indicating their HP and SP.
* Selecting a deployed character will show their details and slow down the game speed. 
* While selecting a character, there buttons to withdraw the unit, as well as one for activating their skill.

=== Enemies ===

* When a wave of enemies is about to spawn, they will indicate their intended pathing across the map beforehand.
* Enemies have a bar indicating their HP.
* Boss enemies will have a red indicator on where they stand.

==Flow of Battle==
=== Generating Cost ===
Cost is the resource used to deploy your units, which is gained at a rate of one per second. [[Vanguard]] class units are typically cheap enough to be deployed early and can generate cost in one way or another.

=== Enemies Spawning and Deploying Units ===
An enemy is expected to spawn when a line appears for a brief moment on the map. This is the path the enemy will take from their spawn point to your base and is usually your basis for where to deploy characters and in which direction to face them. 

Enemies move with varying movement speeds while your characters stay on their deployed tiles. 

=== Dealing with Enemies ===
[[File:Skillexample.png|thumb|237x237px|The blue box circled in red is an example of a Skill. It is currently generated 8 SP out of a max of 20 SP. ]]There are two tile types: high-ground and low-ground tiles. 

Most enemies will be moving through low-ground tiles and are blocked by low-ground units, in which both your unit and the blocked enemy will begin dealing damage to each other. 

There are enemies who fly, move across any type of tiles, and cannot be blocked by any unit unless stated otherwise by a unit's capabilities. 

Enemies with ranged attacks will prioritize the most recently deployed character that is within their range. 

=== Sustaining Allies ===
Besides dealing damage, there are also characters capable of healing your allies instead of hurting enemies. These are typically Healers, though there are characters with different ways of also performing healing or sustain for others or themselves on their kits.

=== Withdrawing Allies ===
Characters can be killed by enemies who are withdrawn from the battle, which will return them to the pool of deployable characters but with a cooldown reposition timer. You can manually perform this for the sake of strategy or to prevent a fallen ally from reducing your fight's star rating.

=== Using Skills ===
Skills are special abilities that characters can use to change the tide of battle. Skills cost SP to use, but as explained above, SP is tied to each Skill, not the character. The general SP progress of a skill can be seen by either looking at the blue bar that grows beneath a character or by tapping on that character and examining the square box that pops up below the character. Characters gain SP at a rate of 1 SP per second and can trigger skills, either automatically or manually. The SP bar will turn yellow when full. Once full, for manually activated skills, simply tap the Skill icon to use it. For automatically activated skills, they simply will wait until their conditions are met.  [[File:SkillExample2.png|thumb|237x237px|In general, a Skills SP bar must be full to use a Skill, but there are exceptions.]]
=== Win/Lose Condition ===
When enemies go through your base, your life would be deducted a point, and reaching zero leads to a game over. Successfully beating all enemies and maintaining at least 1 life would lead to a victory. Depending on your performance on keeping characters alive and enemies away from the base would determine your star rating, which may determine some of the drops you will get. Beating a stage with 3 stars unlocks their 4-star challenge and the ability to use skip tickets to bypass playing the stage for farming purposes. Characters you bring along in a stage will gain a bond at the end, regardless of whether they were used or not.

== Status Ailments ==
Enemies and allied units are capable of inflicting ailments which do various effects. For more information, refer to [[Status Ailments]].

== Stage Effects ==
Certain stages will have map-wide indefinite effects placed on your units. For more information, refer to [[Stage Effects]].

==Character Stats and Information==

See [[Character Stats]].
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