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指南How to play Ninja Fighters
Cut down an enemy's health or knock them off the stage to take a life. The last fighter (or team) with lives left wins. Here are the controls, rules, items and modes.
Controls
| Action | Keyboard | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Move left | A | Stick or d-pad |
| Move right | D | Stick or d-pad |
| Jump | W | A |
| Crouch / drop | S | Stick down |
| Attack | J | X |
| Heavy attack | K | Double-tap X |
| Special | L | B |
| Defend | U | Bumpers or triggers |
| Dash | I | Double-tap a direction |
Tap attack for a light hit and double-tap it for a heavy. Hold up or down while attacking to aim. Double-tap a direction to dash, once per air-time. Every key can be rebound in Settings. On phones and tablets, an on-screen touch controller appears automatically.
Rules
- Lives: each fighter has a set number of lives (stocks). Lose all your health or fall off the stage and you lose one.
- Mana: landing hits refills mana. Specials and most defenses spend it.
- Ledges: fall near a stage's edge to grab it. Press toward the stage to climb, jump to spring up, or down to let go.
- Defense: every fighter's defend button does something different: a parry, a dodge, a shield or a reflector. Read yours on the fighter pages.
- Weapons: pick any of the 10 weapons for any fighter in the Fighter Bay.
Items
Item boxes drop onto the stage during a match. Break one to get a weapon item or a power-up.
| Item | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Shuriken Storm 手裏剣 | Weapon | 12 throws |
| Kunai Bombs 爆 | Weapon | 4 throws |
| Raijin Spear 雷 | Weapon | 6 throws |
| Invincible 無敵 | Power-up | Lasts 6 seconds |
| Lava Blade 炎 | Power-up | Lasts 8 seconds |
| Frost Blade 氷 | Power-up | Lasts 8 seconds |
| Haste 迅 | Power-up | Lasts 8 seconds |
| Rage 怒 | Power-up | Lasts 7 seconds |
| Reptilian Power 竜 | Power-up | Lasts 15 seconds · only from the relic in the Shogun Throne Room: 50% bigger sprite, reach and hitbox |
Game modes
- Online: play people anywhere in the world. Use Quick Match or make a private room and share the link. Up to four players, with CPUs in any empty spot.
- Free-for-all: up to four fighters, every fighter for themselves.
- Teams: Red Lotus against Black Dragon, two against two or any split.
- Tournament: all ten fighters in the Shogun Throne Room, free-for-all or five against five, with a leaderboard. See the tournament guide.
Any empty slot can be filled with a CPU at three levels: Drone (easy), Sentinel and Overmind (hard). Want to fight your friends? Read how to play online with friends.