Auspicious Clouds

BASIC GAMEPLAY

Simple and intuitive: pick 3 out of 15 unique characters to form your team. During battle, special "card-like" items – Five‑Element Auspicious Clouds – spawn on the field. Assign these Clouds to your characters, choose a target, and the battle phase begins automatically. Watch the action unfold, then make your next strategic decision. Repeat until you defeat your opponent.

CORE FEATURE – FIVE‑ELEMENT SKILL ACTIVATION

Each Auspicious Cloud carries one of the five elements: Metal（金）, Wood（木）, Water（水）, Fire（火）, or Earth（土）. No mana, no energy, no card cost – just match the right combination of elements, and every single turn you can unleash your character's powerful exclusive skill!

For example, assign Fire（火） + Wood（木） + Earth（土） (order doesn't matter) to the Panda Taoist, and he will cast “Rune Spell” – after the spell, he still gets a normal attack, giving you a double strike!

FULL CUSTOMIZATION

Before battle, you can freely reconfigure the elemental trigger conditions for each skill. Want to change the requirement for “Rune Spell” from Fire+Wood+Earth to Fire+Fire+Fire? Go ahead – build your own unique combat style. Each character can learn up to 15 skills, and you can equip up to 10 skills with different trigger conditions for each battle.

THE THREE STATS OF AUSPICIOUS CLOUDS

Every turn, 6 Auspicious Clouds appear. Besides their element, each Cloud also has three basic stats:

• ATK – Affects the damage multiplier for normal attacks and skills.

• DEF – Reduces incoming damage; also boosts the healing amount of certain buffs (health and armor recovery).

• AGI – Determines turn order; also affects the success/failure chance of certain buffs. For example, a character with Numbness has a chance to be locked out of action – higher AGI lowers that chance. Likewise, a character with Dodge can completely dodge an attack – higher AGI increases the dodge rate.

POSITION SYSTEM

The team is divided into front row and back row. Back‑row characters are protected by front‑row units. If enemies attempt to directly target back‑row characters while front‑row allies are still alive, they will receive one physical counterattack from the front‑row character.

CHARACTER STATS

• Health & Armor – Damage is applied to Armor first. When Armor reaches zero, Health is reduced. When Health hits zero, the character falls.

• Physical Attack – Base damage of normal attacks.

• Skill Attack – Base damage for offensive spells and healing spells.

• Critical Rate / Critical Damage – Chance to deal bonus damage.

• Tough – Reduces damage taken when the character receives the 3rd or subsequent hit in a single turn.

• Suppression – When your attacking character still has Armor, they deal extra damage.

SKILL VARIETIES

The game offers a rich array of skills. Here are some examples:

• Attack Skills – Direct damage – the most common type.

• Healing Skills – Restore Health and Armor.

• Revive Skills – Bring a fallen ally back to life; some characters can even revive themselves after being defeated.

Character Effect Skills (examples):

• Burn – Deals damage at the end of each turn; extra damage if the target still has Armor.

• Healing – Restores Health at turn end; scales with Cloud DEF.

• Fear – If the attacker's Cloud ATK is lower than the target's Cloud DEF, the target cannot attack.

• Double-hit – When Cloud AGI is above 3, the character can perform 2 normal attacks.

• Spatter – Normal attacks also deal damage to 2 additional targets; scales with Cloud ATK.

• Serenity – Immune to all negative effects.

Weapon Effects (examples):

• Envenom – Normal attacks deal extra damage (scales with Skill Attack) and apply Poison to the target.

• Earth – Normal attacks deal extra damage (scales with Skill Attack) and heal the attacker.

Cloud Effects (examples):

• Fog – Hides your Clouds' ATK/DEF/AGI stats from the enemy during the preparation phase.

• Doom – Forces at least one of the enemy's Cloud stats to be the minimum value (1).

• Mend– Restores Health and Armor; the amount scales with the sum of ATK, DEF, and AGI.

CULTIVATION BOARD

Once you have at least 3 max‑level characters, the Cultivation Board unlocks. Treasure chests will then start dropping Training Beads. Embed these Beads into the board to strengthen your entire team.

Four Orb Types:

• Blue Beads. – Boost core stats. Build a high‑crit rush team, or a tanky high‑health/high‑armor squad.

• Gold Beads. (limited to 1 each) & Green Orbs (limited to 1 each) – Provide moderate enhancements.

• Red Beads. (limited to 1 each) – Offer powerful, game‑changing bonuses – each one can completely shift your tactical strategy.

GAME MODES

Both PvP and PvE are fully supported:

PvP:

• Casual Match – Fair battles against real players.

• Ranked Match – Earn points, climb the ladder, and unlock titles.

• Arena – Challenge other players' best teams – win and swap rankings with them.

PvE:

• Stage Mode – Over 60 hand‑crafted levels to conquer.

• AI Battle – Practice and master your strategies against computer opponents.

• Hardcore Challenge – Fight high‑level enemies under stacking negative effects. After each victory, pick one of three new debuffs to add – see how many wins you can chain together!

• Survival Challenge – Choose 6 characters and face powerful AI foes. Fallen characters are sidelined; if you win the match, you can revive them. Climb the survival leaderboard and prove your endurance!