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With your favorite characters from Clash Royale and Brawl Stars,Squad Bustersbrings a ton of fun and a unique battle royale experience. you’re able to play solo or with your friends, and beat nine other players to create the strongest squad and collect the most gems to win.
While the mechanics of this game are quite simple, becoming good at Squad Busters takes more than that. Being a beginner, it can be quite overwhelming to know which strategies work and how to get first place in your lobby every time. To help you with that, here’s a beginner’s guide with all the tips and tricks that you should know.
Always Create Balanced Teams
When you start any match in Squad Busters,you need to choose characters that you may recruit from chests to create your squad. To make a strong squad, you need to pay close attention to your overall team composition. Characters in Squad Busters fitone of three roles: Melee, Ranged, and Support.
Some characters might fall into more than a single role. For example, theHog Rider is essentially a melee character, but his passive skill provides a boost to movement speed,which also makes him a support unit.
Choose Your Characters Carefully
Now that you know which kind of team you should be aiming for, you should also be mindful of the characters you’re choosing to make that team.The characters in Squad Busters aren’t created equal and have various rarities. But, that’s not all. Their level of evolution also affects their overall usability.
A unit’s evolution level is more important in Squad Buster than their rarity. The abilities of atwo-star common rarity character are better than a one-star rare raritycharacter, andeven some epic rarity ones.
When choosing characters from the chest, you shouldfirst prefer units that you can fuse. If none of them are duplicates, thenprioritize getting units of the highest evolution level. Finally, all the characters in your options have the same evolution level,then choose based on their rarity.
Be Sure To Collect Portal Energy
Portal Energy is a kind of resource thatyou can acquire from evolving characters in Squad Busters. Every time you evolve a one-star unit,you are rewarded with 100 Portal energy. The amount of portal energy you can acquire from evolutionincreases by 100 for every star.
The best way tomaximize your Portal energy gains is by evolving multiple one-star charactersrather than trying to get three-star or higher characters. you’re able to collect duplicates from the Shop,prioritizing the easiest evolution over higher star levels.
You can acquirenew characters, chests and even chest ticketsby upgrading your level in the ‘Squad Journey’ by collecting Portal Energy. If you collect sufficient Portal energy,you can travel to new worlds and unlock new characters.
Finish The Beginner Challenge
When you first start playing Squad Busters as a beginner,you’ll get an option to complete the ‘Beginner Challenge’. You’ll get nine queststhat you need to complete by playing matches,andyou’ll be rewarded with gold, chests and much more.
While these quests might seem a bit lengthy,they are quite easy to complete and are extremely rewarding. Be sure to finish all the quests regularly toget a new set of rewards when you log in the next day.
Make Sure To Complete Evolutions
Evolutions play an essential role in Squad Busters.you’re able to evolve every character if you collect ten copies of them, and use it to unlock a higher-star version of that character. Evolved characters havenew and better abilities than their devolved counterparts.Here are thebest ways through which you can get characters in Squad Busters:
You can only get one-star characters from chests or shops. Upon collecting ten copies of them,you can get one copy of a two-star version of that card. You need to collectten copies of that to unlock the three-star versionand repeat the same to get thefour-star version, which is the highest evolution level.
Know Which Game Mode You’re Playing
Every match in Squad Busters has two components that you need to know about. Thefirst part is the ‘Map’ and the second is the ‘Battle Mod’. As you can guess from the name, themap part decides the kind of map on which the match will take place.
‘Battle Mods’, on the other hand, areunique modifiers that are selected randomlybefore every game and put a twist to every match. These modifiers can be effects like’Double characters acquired from the chest', ‘Increased Spell Drop’ and much more.
There are more than22 Battle Mods in Squad Busters right now, each having a different effect on your gameplay. Here are all the battle mods in Squad Busters, and what effects that might have on your gameplay:
Beach
Vines grow faster.
Try to stay at the center of the Map to avoid vines.
Pick characters with great baby abilities, like Greg and Mavis.
Royal
Fake chests spawn across the map.
Be wary of ‘Chest Importer’ and ‘Chest Menace’, which spawn occasionally.
Desert
Every character in your Squad changes to your last-bought character.
attempt to get the Goblin as much as possible, especially if you’re 1 character away from a Fusion.
In the late-game, try to pick the Witch as she becomes great and spawns a large number of skeletons.
Double Trouble
Green
Every character picked from a chest will give you double the characters.
attempt to get the best characters, since getting fusions is quite easy.
Fusion Start
Your first chest will give you 3 times the character you chose
Try getting characters with strong fusion abilities, like Mavis, Greg, and Goblin.
Everything drops gems.
Try getting Mavis as she gives 1–2 gems for every carrot.
Try to kill them and get tons of gems easily.
Grab as much loot as possible and buy more chests.
Try to get strong pets like Baby Dragon or Golem.
Piñatas spawn across the map and drop loot when busted.
Ring Grab
The Gem Mine gets replaced by a pedestal that spawns a Gem Ring.
Speedsters like Chicken or Hog Rider can be useful to run to the pedestal as fast as possible.
Spells spawn across the map.
Collect and use spells more often.
attempt to get stronger spells like Heal and Rage for your Squad.
The Gem Mine is bigger, and spawns more gems.
Run to the center at the beginning of the game to be the first to get 60 Gems for free.
Gem-filled trees spawn across the map.
Recruits High DPS troops like Bo, as the Tree Giants have high HP.
Turbo Boots spawn across the map.
Try to get as many Turbo Boots as possible, and use them more often.
Mega and Mini Moles spawn across the map.
Avoid them in the early game, but be sure to bust them in the late game as they drop lots of gems.
Try To Maintain A Win Streak
After every match, your placement is noted andevery time you place in the top five, you can consider it a victory. Based on your placement, you are rewarded withsome ‘Power Up’ points which are then used when you open chests.
The best way to consistently rank in the top five would be toprioritize farming characters for the first few minutes of the game. Once the Gem Mine opens,rush to the center and engage Squads to gather more gemsas well ascollect them from the Gem Mine.
If you can consistently place in the top five and maintain a winning streak,you’ll be rewarded with additional ‘Power Up’ points. Using these points,you can upgrade the rarity as well as the number of characters you acquire from a chest, which makes your chests more valuable.
Learn How Chests Work
One more aspect that you should learn about is the chests in Squad Busters.The lowest rarity chest in Squad Busters is ‘Common’, followed by ‘Rare’ and finally ‘Epic.‘Apart from rarity, there is also a component of size involved.
Free chests regularly spawn on the home screen, which can be seen as a jumping red chest.Be sure to collect it every eight hours, since there is no notification or message about it spawning.
The smallest size of a chest is the initial size, followed by ‘Big’ and then ‘Very Big’.The bigger the chest, the more characters you get as a reward from it. You need to use morepower-up points to increase both the size and the rarity of the chest.
