Jojo stardust shooters

okay I haven’t seen a real extensive English guide so here we go. Image heavy so people don’t get confused.

First of all you need to have a Japanese Itunes account guide here

there’s a way to make one without any payment information. When it asks for credit card scroll down until you see something that says “none”

someone told me you can get it on android “ through something called qooapp”

alright with that out of the way you download the game. The game itself is a basic freemium game. The game play is like beyblades but with jojo. It follows the anime so it has characters from parts 1-3. They’re going to include part 4 eventually they already sent out teaser units.

The main home screen looks like this

You’ll be prompted to make a name choose your starter unit and given a basic tutorial. Strength is all around the same for the starter units just pick the one you like. I’m gonna talk about the taps up top.

the first one that says mission will take you here:

yours will have a lot more missions listed since i finished most of them. Just check there from time to time when you complete them you’ll get items. You have to manually click and accept them and then get them out of your mail box.

The little mail icon is where you get items from the game server and what not. When you first start you get all the previous 50 of so items sent so you’ll get a shitload of items and sr cards. the i tab just takes you to news and information. the green and yellow icon is your friend list

this is the friend list screen, middle tab. that number there is your id code you can find friends by. the box below is where you enter a friends number to find them. The far left tab is what friends you have. the far right is any pending friend requests. The blue button on the pending friend requests screen is how you accept.

Next i’ll explain the bottom buttons and the unit screen.

the far left one with the hearts will take you back to the main menu, or ‘page’ screen. The one with the coins takes you to your unit page. Units are the characters you have in the game. When you start you can hold onto 50 units and you can use the games freemium currency to buy more slots, that’s the little diamonds.

when you get to the unit screen you’ll see this,minus the blue one. The blue one will go away it’s just part of a limited time event. It’ll make the limited event units stronger.

Units have rankings and rankings affect how strong they can get. They go from “normal (n) -> rare ® super rare (sr) -> supper super rare (ssr)”

the first tab will show you whose in your team and let you add more members

In the game you get three units to take with you + a guest. The standby is a unit that will replace a fallen one. The top says “team 1/7″ you can make other teams if you want with different members. The skill or ability section under the unit’s heart number is “ will let you equip other unit’s abilities of the same color (that have already had their level 15 rank up) that will activate in battle and give you a huge advantage (this is why collecting all the characters you can is important). The first slot opens at 30, the second at 50, and the third at 80.” Thanks to labmember_001 on reddit for telling me this information.

You can click one a member to replace them or click the first button that shows up to remove them from the list. this one here:

i’m sure you’ve noticed like many free to play games there’s a team ‘costs’ higher ranked units costs more than lower level ones. You can check how much a unit costs i’ll go over that later.

on the previous item screen there’s a way to level up units by feeding them other ones. There’s a ‘type’ system thats explained to you early on in the tutorial and will stay on the early maps to remind you about type advantages and whatnot. That’s what the colors are for, and so naturally, if you ‘feed’ a unit another unit with a similar color it gives more exp. There’s also the frog units. They’re not useful in battle and they give a lot of extra exp.

it costs gold to feed units but you’ll probably never run out of gold since that’s the only use for gold in the game.

now the next button on the unit menu

this is for when your units reach max level you sort of ‘unlock’ the next rank with items. You get items randomly throughout maps.

this just sorts your units by their ability and @springoflife told me it allows you to upgrade your ability equip slots to be able to take a percentage of the unit’s hp and atk you are equipping and add it to the unit you equipped to.

this unlocks any skills your unit may have locked. It costs really rare items usually.

the first one says “item box” so you can check how much of what item you have. the second one says unit box and you can check your units and information there. tap a unit and you’ll be brought to a screen like this:

you can hit the picture to see a close up of the art. the first tab at the bottom says “skill” it’ll tell you what your unit’s skill is and what level it is. Next tab is the unit’s ability. The third tab is the unit’s profile and it’ll tell you shit you already know from the manga. The underlined part is the unit’s costs. Here is where you can check how much a unit costs. If you notice my kars unit has a +5 next to it. If you get a unit you already have, you don’t get two it just makes the original unit stronger.

the last of those three buttons is where you can sell units you don’t want. Some frog units don’t give much exp but are to be sold for cash money.

now let’s get to the gameplay:

the globe icon will take you to this screen:

again yours will look slightly different because i’m more ahead in the game. You click on one of the character icons and you’ll get to a screen like this:

This is where you pick the ‘guest’ unit. the pt. 5 is how many friend points you get. I’ll explain that when we get to the tv tab.

once you hit okay to start the battle it’ll use some stamina. It’ll tell you how much stamina a battle costs before you start. Your units are randomly placed on the field and you have to hold, target by aiming, and let go to attack enemy units. You can shoot them in any order but only once per ‘turn’ a ‘turn’ is up once you used all of your units. you get a bonus shot for killing an enemy unit and can move the unit you used once more, but after that you can’t get another ‘bonus’ that turn.

this here is the ‘skill bar’ you build up skill points by hitting other units. A unit will flash when you have enough skill points in the bar to use it. This is where that one William A Zepeili unit is super helpful. He’ll give you a lot of skill points at the start of every round. Most battles last 3 rounds. it’ll tell you how many rounds it lasts at the beginning before you start one.

this here will tell you what items you get during the battle. The first silver one is units and the hand icon is items.

When you’re about to start a battle the red is the stamina needed. The sword icon is how many rounds it will last and the character icon is the boss for the final round. When you level up your stamina is replenished. it is a freemium game so you either wait for your stamina to be replenished or use your diamonds. It’s best to just wait. The chest icon is a battle quest. You need to get five certain character unit drops from within the battles to get it to open. In the main game stardust adventure they usually aren’t anything too special. The timer says how long until you get one more stamina point. On this screen the translation is “about 7 min and 10 sec”

Battle screens have about 5 until you finish the set. the last battle has from 4-5 rounds. after you finish a battle you get 1 diamond. Naturally, if you die and all your units break it’s game over. It’ll ask if you want to use a diamond to revive yourself hit no, which is red I believe, and then it’ll ask if you’re sure and hit yeah.

also your characters can heal themselves in battle, but you can only use it so many times in a day so choose wisely. to heal click the character’s icon on the bottom bar and then click hp.

The mode select tab will take you here. There’s three modes: Star dust adventure, jojo chronicles , and special. Special is where you can get sr cards from completing the missions. The lower level missions give you diamonds sometimes when you first complete them. What I want to draw attention to are the bottom four special modes: This is where you get the items you need to unlock the next rank for a fully leveled unit. They change ever day. That timer there says “16 hours remaining” until it switches. Each ‘day’ is a different character and will give you a different set of items. I’m a fucking idiot for not noticing until just now, but it says what color of items it will drop. The first kanji here says red and it drops red items.

the third mode is jojo chronicles:

there’s nothing really noteworthy about it. It’ll download more data and show you clips from the manga. They show up in stardust adventure when they’re open so you really don’t need to go to this tab. The one thing noteworthy is that they give you two diamond at the end instead of just one.

Now onto the tv tab:

This is where i suggest spending diamonds. The tv is a place to get new units. The first one is the diamond ‘gatcha’ 5 diamonds for one turn. I’d suggest only spending them when the sr and ssr rate is at X2 the normal chance, like it is for the moment. After you spend 7 the normal diamond gatcha will give you an extra for free. Sometimes for a limited time if you spend 35 diamonds at once it’ll give you two extra. The diamond gatcha is guaranteed at least a rare ranked unit. The tv will show you different units that could come up or if there’s a unit type specific event the untis that have a higher chance to show up. (There was a dio event and a jotaro, polnareff, and kakyoin event a while ago.)

under that is where friend points come to play. You can use friend points for a free chance. Naturally like any freemium game the chances of getting rare and above are much smaller than diamond. You’ll mostly get normal ranked. I have gotten r and sr from there. It’s probably possible to get an ssr for a normal gatcha but I haven’t gotten one yet.

slightly under those gatchas are these:

I honestly have no idea how to get the wham rings. Someone told me he’ll show up at some specific time on the special menu.

the second one , which is currently jotaro, is the normal ring menu. You get them by unlocking a unit’s level. You can spend them to get sr units or items. The unit changes last time was like baby polnareff and they cost 100 rings.

the last tab that looks like a hand says “menu” click on it and you’ll get here

The first tab is news. The second is the shop. Unless you live in japan/ have a japanese credit card you can’t use the store with those BUT you can buy a japanese itunes gift card.

Third one says “profile” and will take you here:

The first button will change your nick name the second button will change your comment.

another important thing on the menu is here:

it’s where you get your your export ID+Password. This is very important if you need to change devices or something. more info about that here

there’s a reddit faq thread here that might cover something else I forgot.

if I didn’t explain something it’s probably because I didn’t know what it does. I hope this guide was helpful! My Japanese isn’t very strong i’m still a beginner. If you have any questions you can ask me if your’d rather. If I don’t know someone on the sub reddit will probably know.