Beginner’s Guide: Essential Tips for Mastering Tribe Nine

Tribe Nine is a fantastic live-service RPG that incorporates a nostalgic art style for its open world while adopting a classic anime look during battles. This gacha game offers a diverse range of unique characters that players can recruit and utilize in combat.

The game boasts numerous mechanics for both exploration and combat, but understanding them all can be tricky without proper advice. These tips are designed to help newcomers quickly get up to speed and ensure that you don’t overlook anything important.

Explore Every Interactive Element

As you progress, you’ll notice various chests and interactive elements that may contain items useful for crafting. Always make it a point to check out anything that stands out in the environment.

You may find trash cans and chests early on; simply approach these and use the investigate option to receive items. These collected items can be utilized in crafting by selecting the craft option in the menu.

Use Characters With Ranged Attacks

Your journey often starts with the main character, who uses melee combat. If you strike an enemy before they see you, you can start the battle with increased tension for all your allies.

Some characters excel with area attacks or even ranged strikes, making it advantageous to choose a ranged character in the open world, like Yutaka Gotanda or Tsuki Iroha. Ranged attacks allow you to hit first while keeping out of the enemy’s line of sight, giving you an advantage.

Leverage Each Party Member’s Special Skills

Every character in combat has a distinct special skill, such as healing or temporarily boosting attack power. You can activate these skills by switching between characters in battle. It’s important to learn each character’s skill to maximize its effectiveness.

For example, Koishi Kohinata has a skill that allows for healing allies during a fight, but it can only be activated after hitting enemies to build at least five stacks. In contrast, Yo Kuronaka’s skill can only be triggered after using his secondary skill first, and it helps to weaken enemies’ defenses.

You can view each character’s special skill in the character details section of the party menu. Understanding how to use these skills effectively will enable you to take down tougher opponents with ease.

Focus on Counter-Attacking Instead of Evading

Most enemies can be countered to deal more damage while avoiding harm, and you can even chain several special attacks if your tension meter is full. In contrast, evading only minimizes your damage received without increasing your offensive efficiency against foes.

Typically, you should focus on countering enemy melee attacks while dodging ranged ones. Keep in mind that successfully countering requires precise timing, but you’ll find it gets easier with practice as enemies often display clear signs before attacking.

Try Different Party Compositions

Evaluate your characters based on their attack, break, or support abilities. Those with stronger attack skills are ideal damage dealers, while characters excelling in break abilities can stagger foes more effectively.

A party consisting of Yo Kuronaka, Koishi Kohinata, and Yutaka Gotanda can be very effective early in the game, as Yo can stagger enemies with his counterattacks, Yutaka can deliver high-range damage, and Koishi can provide healing to the team with his strategy skill.

Support characters are primarily responsible for absorbing damage and providing healing and enhancements to your team. Always aim to have at least one support character in your group.

Make Use of Your Tension Cards in Battle

Tension Cards are items you can equip that offer passive advantages to you and your team. These cards activate automatically when specific conditions are met. Some cards work during Tension Phase One and Two, while others only come into play when your allies’ tension is maxed out.

It’s wise to equip different tension cards for each tension phase to continuously improve your power as tension rises in battles. Also, make sure to check which cards provide the most beneficial bonuses and when they can be activated during fights.

Once your tension hits a certain point, you can use an ultimate attack or keep building it to enhance the benefits from your tension cards. Using an ultimate attack will drain all your tension and temporarily negate the effect of your tension cards until you replenish your tension back to the appropriate level.

Absorb Souls from Fallen Allies to Restore Health

Although you can always rest to fully recover health, this might not always be feasible since resting will also respawn all enemies you’ve defeated. In such cases, using health-restoring items becomes essential.

Before battling a powerful foe, look for corpse markings on the ground, which indicate where other players have fallen. Here, you can find a glowing green flame at each marking, which will slightly restore your health when approached.

Restart or Retreat When Things Get Difficult

The game allows you to retreat from a fight or even restart it, which can be a lifesaver when up against powerful opponents or when battles turn overwhelming.

Choosing to retreat will return you to the last respite you visited, though it also respawns all previously defeated enemies. To retreat or restart a battle, pause the game during combat to access these options on the pause screen.