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Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3 System/Character FAQ
Written By: Alfred “Gen2000” Lynaum
Last Updated: 8/17/05
Version: 1.9
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You should also take note that Safe Fall gains the charka boost as well when
your character has around 10% or less critical health damage.
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2.3 Guard Break
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New to the Naruto: GNT series is the Guard Break. This helps prevents your
opponent from turtling like it’s going out of style and encourages them to
take offense. As you attack a guarding opponent you should noticed the blue
spark that comes from the blocked hit. If you continue to attack a blocking
opponent the color of the spark will change colors indicating how close they
are to having their guard broken. There is an invisible guard defense gauge in
the background of the game that is constantly active but the only way to tell
how close your opponent is to being guard broken is through the three
different colors:
Blue   = Good amount of defense left
Yellow = Bad
Red    = Critical, your opponent is about to be guard broken in a few more
hits.
When Guard Break takes place the opponent’s guard will “burst”, with glass
shattering sound effects to go along with it, and be left open to any attack
as well as losing around 95% or more chakra. If the attack that cause guard
break launched your opponent into the air or they were guard broken in the air
they will have option of using safe fall once they touch the ground.
The guard defense gauge slowly refills as long as you’re not taking guard
damage so it’s wise to try to mix up offense AND defense in your gameplay.
Only taijustu (hand-to hand combat/physical) attacks have an effect in guard
damage. Some characters are better at guard breaking than others and some
characters can take more or less guard damage punishment than others.
Here is a guard defense ranking list from board member “BrandoSerge”:
86.3%
Kankuro | Sakura |Haku | Tenten | Ino |Hinata
90.9%
Sandaime | Temari | Anko | Kiba | Shino
95.4%
Neji | Tsunade
100%
Naruto (Normal and Kyuubi version) | Sasuke (Normal and Sharingan version) |
Mizuki
104.5%
Orochimaru | Lee (both opened gate versions as well) | Kakashi (Normal and
Sharingan version) | Chouji | Gai | Zabuza | Itachi |Iruka
113.6%
Jiraiya
Anyone below the “100%” ranks has below average to bad guard damage defense
and anyone above has above average to great guard defense. Gaara and Shikamaru
aren’t in the list cause their special defense against certain attacks makes
it very hard for them to be guard broken so basically they are excused from
Guard Break.
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2.4 Combo System
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