#aocf tips

Posting this list to have a quick reference when needed.

Reimu & Kasen: Marisa & Koishi - Mamizou & Mokou - Miko & Byakuren - Yukari

Marisa & Koishi: Ichirin & Futo - Nitori & Kokoro - Reimu & Kasen - Yukari - Jyoon & Shion

Nitori & Kokoro: Futo & Reimu - Ichirin & Marisa - Shinmyoumaru & Mamizou - Sumireko & Doremy - Tenshi & Shinmyoumaru

Mamizou & Mokou: Marisa & Reimu - Byakuren & Ichirin - Reisen & Shinmyoumaru - Yukari - Jyoon & Shion

Miko & Byakuren: Koishi & Ichirin - Kokoro & Futo - Tenshi & Shinmyoumaru - Yukari - Jyoon & Shion

Futo & Ichirin: Shinmyoumaru & Koishi - Mokou & Reisen - Doremy & Sumireko - Kasen & Reimu - Byakuren & Miko

Reisen & Doremy: Reimu & Marisa - Byakuren & Ichirin - Miko & Futo - Mokou & Reimu

Sumireko & Doremy: Reimu & Doremy - Marisa & Doremy - Doremy & Tenshi - Yukari - Sumireko & Sumireko

Tenshi & Shinmyoumaru: Ichirin & Nitori - Kokoro & Doremy - Shinmyoumaru & Sumireko - Kasen & Mamizou - Yukari & Reimu

Yukari & Reimu: Jyoon & Shion - Shion & Yukari (while Jyoon becomes Reimu's slave)

Urban legends are triggered by pressing Z+X while having the slave portrait coloured. However, if you do not have any dream orbs, Doremy’s urban legend will just open a portal to the dream world but it won’t harm the enemy.

Some attacks generate those pink spheres that you can collect. Collecting enough of them would give you a dream orb.

If you do not collect enough spheres you will not get a dream orb.

You can have maximum 4 orbs. Please note that, for some reasons, in ver 1.00 of Antinomy of Common Flowers these orbs do not appear. But the mechanics are still the same.

The more dream orbs you have. the bigger the portal will be. Activating the urban legend will consume 1 orb.

Around the portal, some purple gems will appear. Those will deal damage to the enemy. Also, when creating a new portal while still having one or more orbs around you, it will make other existing portals generate those gems around them.

It has 3 main appearances: gray+crossed out, gray, coloured. 

When the meter is gray+crossed out, you cannot switch between characters, you cannot activate the urban legend, you cannot activate the last word. 

When the meter is not crossed out, but still gray, it means you can switch between characters, but cannot chain combos and can’t activate urban legends or last words. 

When the meter is coloured but not full, it means you can switch between characters, activate urban legends, chain combos, but still cannot use last words. In order to use the last word, the meter must be entirely full (+other requirements).

The meter fills itself automatically until it’s half full, then it stops. At this point, it becomes coloured.

After it reaches half of it, the meter won’t fill up automatically anymore. You need to attack the enemy in order to reach a max meter.

Activating the urban legend (Z+X buttons) or last word (A+C buttons) will make your meter gray+crossed out.

When the meter is coloured, but not necessarily full, you can do an assist attack, meaning you switch between characters while you attack in order to chain combos.

For a brief period, both the master and slave are on screen.

Usually when you switch between characters, there is only one of them on screen. You switch by pressing literally the A key on your keyboard! Not the key for the A attack (not the Z button). The meter will start blinking, but it won’t deplete itself if you don’t get hurt. You can switch back to the main character by pressing the A key again. The slave meter will become gray+crossed out.

If you get hurt during the possesion, the slave meter will deplete.

I noticed that if the bar gets empty while you are being hit by spellcard bullets, you don’t change back to the main character.

But if the enemy hits you during nonspells and empties your slave bar, you switch back to the main character.

Until ver. 1.04, the meter was not divided.

In ver. 0.01 the slave meter would automatically deplete its health. It was changed in ver. 0.02.

I want to thank to reddit users Narudd and ErinEvie for explaining to me about the assist attacks and urban legends.

In ver. 1.00 she didn’t have the plates meter. It was added in ver. 1.01.

It is related to the urban legend. Usually, to activate the urban legend you need to press Z+X buttons (or A+B attack, but not A+B keys on keyboard) and not to have the slave portrait gray. But Mononobe no Futo cannot perform her urban legend so simply. If she hasn’t smashed any plates, she will just look at a plate and not activate the urban legend.

You smash plates by pressing X (B attack) or C (almost all C attacks, see this post for reference: /post/173485942459/).

In ver. 1.00 the plates meter did not exist, but Futo needed the same requirements to activate her urban legend. So you needed to smash at least one plate in that version as well.

Once you smashed some plates, have the slave meter with colours, press Z+X and activate the urban legend. 

Reddit user LillianGoulston told me that if you smash 9 plates “ the urban legend will do a large amount of extra damage and additional hitstun”. I’m not quite sure what that additional hitstun is, so please, if you have any knowledge of this, reply to this post or add your comments in a reblog.