JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (ASBR) | |
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| Developers |
CyberConnect2 |
| Publishers |
Bandai Namco Entertainment |
| Systems |
Steam |
| Official Websites | |
| Online Play |
Delay-based |
| Quick Match, Custom Match, Ranked Match | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is a 3D assist-based fighting game with a cast of over 50 JoJo characters, acting as a successor to the original All-Star Battle from 2013. Developed by CyberConnect2, creators of the Naruto Storm and Demon Slayer arena fighters, and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, it was released on September 1st, 2022 for Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch. All-Star Battle R includes a multitude of new changes from the original game, including an overhauled combat system, new gameplay modes, and a massive rebalancing of the entire cast.
Dynamic assists: All-Star Battle R's combat system has been revamped, now allowing you to choose one main character and one non-playable assist to summon in combat. Assists can cover a multitude of use cases and are all uniquely different, from projectile assists to help zoners cover more ground, or assists that strike as overheads and lows to open up your opponent in blockstrings. Assists also allow you to break your opponent's combo or true blockstring by calling them while being hit, allowing for momentum to smoothly flow back and forth over the course of a game.
Four-button fighter: All-Star Battle R uses four main buttons in combat, and as such, all combos on the wiki will use LMH notation for the purposes of combo guides. Your four main buttons are a light, medium, and heavy attack, as well as a Style button (commonly notated as S). The Style button causes a unique mechanic for each character, such as calling forth a Stand for Stand characters and altering their moveset, activating a special install for Mode characters, or mounting their horse for Mounted characters.
Stylish Dodge/Guard: Unique to All-Star Battle and its sequel is the mechanic of Stylish Dodging, which allows you to invincibly sidestep any move if you press back (4 or 1) within a few frames of the move landing. With All-Star Battle R's release, however, a new mechanic has been introduced called Stylish Guard, which allows you to perform the same invincible sidestep as before, only with a moderately different input (2 + light + rotate). This essentially functions as a version of Third Strike's parry, although the differences between the two systems are very noticeable as Stylish Guard is a much more punishable technique. Stylish Guard is the main way to get out of high pressure situations, and is one of the centerpieces of ASBR's neutral game.