Arknights: Endfield blends strategy, timing, and elemental synergies into fast-paced combat. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to optimize your team, understanding how to chain attacks, trigger elemental reactions, and use skills effectively is key to dominating every battle.

This guide breaks down combat basics, physical attacks, elemental reactions, and team strategies so you can master Endfield’s battlefield mechanics.

Combat Fundamentals

🗡️ Attacks and Skill Points

Every attack contributes to Skill Points (SP). Building SP allows operators to unleash powerful skills. The key is to finish combos and time attacks carefully, as SP gain increases when you land a Final Strike.

👣 Positioning Matters

Operators are locked during attack animations, so positioning is critical. Plan your movements in advance to avoid damage and line up attacks for combos and reactions.

⚡ Perfect Dodge and Parry

• Perfect Dodge: Avoid enemy attacks with precise timing and regain SP.
• Parry: Interrupt enemies and stagger them, leaving them vulnerable for follow-up attacks.

🔁 Combo Skills

Some skills trigger automatically when certain conditions are met, such as landing a specific sequence of elemental attacks. Mastering these combos is essential for maximum damage output.

Physical Combat Mechanics

Physical attacks focus on status effects and finishers rather than elements.

🔹 Building Status Chains

1. Apply Vulnerable with a control skill.
2. Follow up with a second control skill to trigger a physical reaction, like knockdown or launch.

💥 Finishing Moves

Once the enemy has enough status stacks, use a finisher skill to deal massive damage. This combination is especially effective against high-defense enemies.

Arts and Elemental Combat

Endfield’s elemental system is built around Arts Inflictions and Reactions. Each operator specializes in certain elements:

• Heat (Fire)
• Cryo (Ice)
• Electric (Lightning)
• Nature (Earth)
• Physical (non-elemental)

🔹 Arts Inflictions and Bursts

• Landing an elemental attack applies an Arts Infliction.
• Applying the same element twice triggers an Arts Burst, dealing extra elemental damage.

🔹 Combining Elements: Arts Reactions

Mixing different elements can create powerful reactions:

Tips for Reactions

Corrosion – softens tanks, making them easier to kill over time.

Solidification – Against bosses, use to freeze and then a Physical Shatter can disrupt attacks and open big damage windows.

Electrification – makes enemies more fragile to Arts damage—great for magic damage teams.

Team and Strategy Tips

🔹Balanced Team

• Mix Physical controllers (to lock and control enemies) with Arts dealers (to trigger reactions).
• Support operators can add buffs, heals, or debuffs to enhance your primary damage dealers.

🔹Element Combos

• Plan your squad so elements complement each other. For example:
  • Cryo + Heat → Combustion
  • Electric + Nature → Electrification plus defense shred (depending on sequence)

🔹Rotation Strategy

• Lead with an opener (e.g., Cryo application), follow with a different element mid‑combo, then finish with Physical to Shatter if frozen.

Advanced Tips

• Animation canceling: Use dodge or skill after heavy attacks to skip recovery frames and maintain DPS.
• Off‑field casting: You can cast skills from inactive operators without swapping—use this to layer elemental inflictions quickly.
• Know enemy weaknesses: Some enemies resist certain elements—switch your reaction approach accordingly.

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