Combat Arts

Combat Arts are special moves that players of CrossWorlds can use. There are four types of Combat Arts, aligned with the four basic combat actions: Melee Arts, Throw Arts, Dash Arts and Guard Arts. What you are doing while starting a combat art (standing, aiming, dashing, or guarding) determines the type of combat art performed. For example, if you use your combat art while guarding you will use a Guard Art, or if you use your combat art while dashing you will use a Dash Art. There are three levels of combat arts, and once unlocked the higher-level arts can be used by holding the Special key for longer, causing Lea to charge up. Higher level arts are more powerful but cost more to use.

Each element has its own set of combat arts, that can only be used while in that elemental mode. For every combination of type, level and element, there are between zero and two combat arts available. In the case where there are two, only one may be active at a time, exchanged in the Circuits menu. You can select which combat arts you like best or specialize around your current situation, but you cannot swap in the middle of combat since you can't access the main menu. Lea has a total of 92 combat arts - 16 neutral and 19 for each element.

In CrossWorlds, each class has a unique pool of combat arts, making a total of 460 combat arts. In practice, however, only a few select combat arts from the non-Spheromancer pools will be seen in-game.

Using a combat art uses SP (Special Points), with higher-level combat arts costing more: 1 SP for level 1, 3 SP for level 2, and 6 SP for level 3. Generally the total impact (damage, knockback, duration, etc.) of higher-level combat arts scales linearly with SP spent. Blue SP recharges automatically, faster outside combat, thereafter you must attack enemies to charge purple SP. This means level 1 combat arts are always available, but for most of the game higher levels are only available during combat where you are actively engaged.

Spheromancer Combat Arts

Element	Level	Dash Arts	Guard Arts	Melee Arts	Throw Arts
Neutral	1	Azure Strike First Cut	Proximity Blast Guard Sphere	Spin Dance Sphere Saw	Ball of Steel Bullet Rain
	2	Azure Surge Final Showdown	Vortex Blast Blade Sphere	Spiral Dance Sphere Storm	Ball of Boomerang Bullet Inferno
Heat	1	Crimson Strike Ashen Mine	Recoil Trumpet Ring of Fire	Fire Whirl Flame Jab	Burn!
	2	Crimson Stream Mine Valley	Kindling Fanfare Burning Pulse	Calamity Trigger Blazing Dragon	Flare Burn!
	3	Scarlet Rain	Ignite Embers Ancient Sun	Ragnarök Vermillion Echo
Cold	1	Indigo Strike	Frozen Stance Brisk Barrier	Ice Twirl Frozen Star	Snow Flawke Hail Flurry
	2	Indigo Rush	Freeze Frame Icy Bastion	Ice Tornado Blizzard Hawk	Frigid Flawke Hail Storm
	3		Crystal Keeper Fimbulvetr	Polar Pirouette Eternal Winter	Gatling Arctillery
Shock	1	Amber Strike Thunder Dart	Clock Block	Tesla Twist Plasma Spike	Diving Spark Homing Wisp
	2	Amber Breaker Storm Walker	Glitch Time	Tesla Waltz Battery Assault	Chain Blitz Radiant Swarm
	3	Flickering Stars Lightning Prophecy		Song of Storms	Mjölnir Celestial Legion
Wave	1	Verdant Strike Warp Decoy	Pain Grip Guarding Gale	Ki Thrust	Fae Round Essence Drain
	2	Verdant Stream Toxic Revenant	Circle of Valor Poltergeist	Spirit Blast	Elven Orb Vital Pulse
	3	Vortex Tide Gungnir	Karma Scale		Ether Snipe Wave Motion Beam

Other Classes

The known combat arts used by other classes are listed here.

As the full details aren't known for every combat art here, there is some conjecture in their placement in these tables. Any uncertainty that exists is noted below.

Triblader Combat Arts

Used by Schneider, Luke and Wervyn.

Element	Level	Dash Arts	Melee Arts
Neutral	1	Erstschlag	Wirbelschlitzer
Heat	1	Feuersprint	Flammenwirbler
Cold	1	Eisbahn	Kältewirbler
Shock	1	Donnerpfeil	Schockwirbler
Wave	1	Wellenritt	Wellenwirbler
	2	Wervyn's combat art<ref name="wervyn" />

Quadroguard Combat Arts

Used by Joern.

Element	Level	Guard Arts	Melee Arts
Neutral	1	Kinetic Shield	Gravity Taunt<ref name="joern" />
Heat	1	Heatshield	Heat Taunt<ref name="joern" />
Cold	1	Coldshield	Cold Taunt<ref name="joern" />
Shock	1	Shockshield	Shock Taunt<ref name="joern" />
Wave	1	Waveshield	Wave Taunt<ref name="joern" />

Pentafist Combat Arts

Used by Emilie.

Element	Level	Dash Arts	Melee Arts	Throw Arts
Neutral	1	Azure Strike	Beatdown	Ball of Fist
Heat	1	Crimson Strike	Faucon Poing
Cold	1		Frozen Cage	Freeze Nails
Shock	1	Amber Thrust	Pummeling Strike
Wave	1		Palm Basher	Fae Stream

Hexacast Combat Arts

Used by C'tron and Lily.

Element	Level	Guard Arts	Throw Arts
Neutral	1		MAGIC MISSILE BUFF H3X!<ref name="hex" />
Heat	1		Heat Missile
Cold	1	Lily's ice wall<ref name="lily" />	Cold Missile
	2		Lily's ice blast<ref name="lily" />
	3	Lily's snowflake shield<ref name="lily" />
Shock	1		Shock Missile Lily's lightning bolt<ref name="lily" />
	2		Lily's slow lightning orb<ref name="lily" />
	3	Lily's lightning bolt shield<ref name="lily" />	Lily's chain lightning orb<ref name="lily" />
Wave	1		Wave Missile Lily's bubble attack<ref name="lily" />
	2	Lily's wave explosion<ref name="lily" />
	3	Lily's wave explosion aura<ref name="lily" />	Lily's tornado attack<ref name="lily" />

<references> <ref name="wervyn">As Wervyn's combat art is only seen in a cutscene, no actual details are known about it. Its classification here as a level 2 wave dash art is based solely on its appearance.</ref> <ref name="joern">Joern's taunts are actually classified as both melee and throw arts in the code, so that he will use them against any enemy regardless of that enemy's effective strategies. They are listed as melee arts here since they do not involve projectiles.</ref> <ref name="hex">BUFF H3X! is a combat art for C'tron which was featured in promotional materials and is fully coded, but was never actually used.</ref> <ref name="lily">As Lily only appears as an enemy, the types of her combat arts are not confirmed. They are all classified as throw and guard arts here based on their effects.</ref> </references>