Limbus Company Combat System Explained For All Beginners

Welcome to the world of Limbus Company, a mobile game that takes place in a massive dystopian metropolis following the collapse of Lobotomy Corporation. As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, you'll lead a group of 12 Sinners through 26 complex districts, each with its own unique technology and culture. Your goal is to salvage what remains and destroy any abnormalities left behind.

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But you won't be alone in your quest. Other scavengers and abnormalities stand in your way, and it's up to you to fight your way through them to achieve your goal. With a combination of turn-based RPG and real-time brawl, combat plays a critical role in the game, and it's essential to have a solid understanding of the mechanics before diving in.

Through this guide, you'll learn all there is to know about combat in Limbus Company. You'll discover how to create diverse strategies using Identities and E.G.O., how to connect skill icons to chain attacks, and how to win Clashes to shut down your opponents' skills. If you love playing games on a bigger screen with high-quality graphics, play Limbus Company on PC. with LDPlayer. Let's start.

Overview of the Combat system of Limbus Company

In the Limbus Company, you will be leading a group of 12 sinners; they all have different skills and different elements that they belong to. For a battle, you can choose a maximum of seven sinners, and the rest will have to stay out of the battle, but they help their team with their passive skills. Once you select the sinners you want to include in the battle, you will be able to see what are the passive skills sinners that did not pick to battle provide. 

Each of these sinners also has something called identities. Identities are different versions of the sinners that live in another parallel world. If your sinners are not powerful enough, you can change their identity to increase their power. Since the passive skills also change when you change the identity of a sinner, you have to choose the identity for all 12 sinners before starting a battle. 

Once you have selected the sinners, you will be taken to the combat map; here, you will see a grid with various skills on it at the bottom of the screen, and you will also see two chain windlasses at each end. In order to start the combat, first you have to click on the left side windlass and drag the chain through all the skills you want to use, and connect the chain to the right side windlass, and the press starts to begin the battle. 

If you don't want to select the skills manually, you can use the auto skill button to do it for you and edit it to your liking. In Limbus Company, you will have to select the skill for every sinner before the combat starts; once you start the battle, your enemies and your sinner's speed are compared, and combat turns will be allocated according to the speed of each character. 

Once a turn ends, the skills you chained will disappear and increase your elemental resources (we will explain this later). Just like in Match three games, a set of skills that lay above the used skill will come down to fill its spot, and at the end of each turn, a new skill column will be added to random sinner up to 12 times. Even though the selection of who gets the skill column is decided randomly, If one sinner gets a column first, he will get one again after everyone else gets their extra skill column. 

Basic Mechanics That Affect the Outcome of the Battle

The above section covers the most basic combat overview of Limbus Company, but before we dig deeper into the combat, it would be easier if we learn the basics mechanics that affect the outcome of the battle. So through this section, we will explain to you what they are.

Things to Know About Skill

Each sinner in the Limbus Company has a set of skills that they can use during combat. These skills fall under one of three damage types: slash, blunt, and pierce. All of your sinners and enemies have a type of resistance, so before the start of the battle, it is important to check the resistance of your enemies and the damage type they deal before determining who should be included in your team.

The next thing you need to know about skills is that each of your sinners' skills belongs to one element. The Limbus Company has a total of seven elements, and each element has a unique color. Using these colors, you can identify the skills that belong to each element:

• Envy: Purple thorns

• Gloom: Sky blue waves

• Wrath: Red flames

• Lust: Orange D.N.A.

• Pride: Indigo swords

• Sloth: Yellow rocks

• Gluttony: Green leaves

While you are chaining skills, if you manage to chain two skills that fall under the same color, you will be able to activate a resonating effect and increase the output of the skill. If you manage to chain three or more skills like this, it activates an absolute resonating effect. The absolute resonating effect is more powerful than the normal one, so going for the absolute one is the most advisable thing to do.

Skill Coins

Next in line are the skill coins. If you look closely at each skill when it is used, you will see one or more coins on them. These coins have basic power and coin bonuses. There are two types of bonus coins in the Limbus Company: coins that give positive effects are known as plus coins, and coins that provide negative effects are known as minus coins. 

When one of your Limbus Company sinners uses a skill, these coins will be flipped, and if they land on heads, the coin effect will be applied. If one skill has more than one coin, the outcome of the coin that goes first will affect the outcome of the second coin.

Sanity Level

The sanity level of your character is one of the things that affect how well you do in the match. A sanity level above 45 is considered positive, and below 45 is considered dangerous, and once a character reaches 0 sanity level, it becomes uncontrollable. Other than the losing controls, sanity also affects the overall performance of the sinner since it affects the activation of negative effects of coins, flipping the tale of positive effects, and more. 

If one of your team members manages to kill an enemy, or when you manage to win a combat. If one of your sinners dies during the battle, the sanity level of all the team members will go down. One other way of losing sanity is using the G.E.O. skills, but we will talk about it in the next topic. 

Staggering Enemies

When an attack manages to lower an enemy or an Abnormality body part below the yellow threshold of the H.P. bar, it staggers the enemies or your characters. Once an enemy is staggered, they get incapacitated for one turn and become vulnerable to all attack types.

Elements Resources, Passive Skills, E.G.O.

When you use your skills during the battles, they disappear from the grid and fill up the elemental resources counter. You can see how many elemental resources you have through the counter in the screen's upper right corner. When you use enough skills, you will see that according to the amount you have, the passive skills of the characters get activated and provide you with many bones. 

Same to the passive skill, one other thing that uses Elements Resources is the E.G.O. skills. Unlike passive skills, when you use E.G.O., it consumes the elements' resources, and you will lose the benefits you get from the passive skills. But E.G.O. skills provide a huge boost to a few selected stats that will change the tide of the battle in your favor and provide one type of element resistant to the character. 

Even though E.G.O. is very powerful, when you use that, it lowers the sanity of your character. If the sanity level of your sinner reaches below 0, the character will go into the E.G.O. corrosion stat. When a character is in this state, it can deal very high damage and attack with precision, but you will no longer have control over it. That means it will start attacking the nearest person regardless of friend or foe.

What is Skill Clash in Limbus Company?

When will your Limbus Company characters get to use their attack, dependent on each sinner's speed? Before the combat starts, all of the enemies' and sinners' speeds will be compared and listed from highest to lowest speed. The speed of the sinner depends on the sinner's identity. You will get to collect many identities through the Limbus Company gacha system, and if you want to go first, you have to get the best there is.

When it is a first-row character’s chance to attack, they will choose to attack the closest enemy by default. If the sinners and enemies have the same speed, a clash will happen. In such a situation, to determine who goes first, the game will check the skill coin. If your enemy wins the coin, their attack will go through and deal damage. If you win, the opposite will happen. In a case where you both get equal coin results, then the next coin will be tested, and if all the results are the same, this will cancel the attack.

If you did not get the best identities, or if you want to have the best there is from the start, one thing you should do is rerolling. If you are new to gacha games, rerolling means logging into the game as a guest and progressing a little further until you get enough summoning chances and see if you get the best heroes. Then if you are not lucky, you will clear the game data and do it again until you get the best heroes. But doing this over and over is a good way to get bored of the game before you even play it. 

The solution for this is to use the LDPlayer Multi-Instance Manager to create and run multiple instances of the Limbus Company game at the same time. The Multi-instance Sync will help you to progress in all of the instances while you only play the game in one instance. This way, you can do multiple rerolls at once by only playing the game once. Then, you can choose the account with the best identities and link it to your email. 

Fighting Abnormalities

Above is how you fight normal enemies in Limbus Company. When you are fighting abnormalities, the mechanics are a little different. When fighting abnormalities, the speed is compared between the skills of the Abnormality. When you want to attack the Abnormality, you drag your skill chain directly from the grid and attach it to the skill of the Abnormality. If you manage to align a sinner with the skill, the Abnormality is going to attack, and the sinner with a clash will occur and go through, as we explained above.

The next thing you should know is that Abnormality's body parts have different physical damage resistance, but they also have elemental resistance. If you want to fight them, you have to learn what element they have resistance against and use characters that have other skills that the Abnormality does not have resistance to.

Lastly, you should know that some body parts of the abnormalities grow back when you destroy them. The Limbus Company tip we have for this is that you should never kill that body part. Instead, stagger them, and when they wake up, stagger them again until you're lower and kill off the part that does not grow back, or you will have to lower the H.P. of one body part over and over, lowering your success rate.

Conclusion

With this guide, we have shown you almost all the combat information you should know as a Limbus Company beginner. Now you have to experiment and learn them yourself. We are going to end this guide here, have a nice day.