Learn how to activate your character’s strongest abilities and decimate enemies.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a live-service looter shooter through and through, but that doesn’t mean developer Rocksteady has completely forgotten its roots. Combos were the bread and butter of the Arkham series, and they return in Suicide Squad, helping you judge your combat proficiency and mastery of the game’s systems.
Building your combo doesn’t work the way it did in the Batman games, but it’s still an invaluable skill to learn and master. They form the bedrock of the Squad’s combat prowess, and understanding how they work is essential to getting the most out of your character’s builds.
What Is A Combat Combo?
Put most simply, your combat combo is the number on the left side of your screen under the giant cross. In the Arkham games, your combo would build simply by landing hits on your opponents, but in Suicide Squad, you need to kill enemies to increase the counter.
Additionally, as you unlock more and more talents in your character’s talent tree, your combo may be increased by other factors, such as performing specific attacks or traversal moves. The max combo you can achieve at one time is 50.
Your combo is not automatically broken by taking damage, but it will decrease. As you take shots from enemies, a combo breaker bar will appear beneath the number. If that bar is filled up, your combo will be dropped by one. However, you can directly combat the breaker gauge by continuing to do damage and netting kills.
How Combat Combos Work
Combos are how you activate a character’s abilities in combat. When your character levels up, some talents you purchase will have effects gated behind a combat combo of a particular number. The higher the required combo, the more powerful the ability.
For example, Harley Quinn’s “Untouchable” ability requires a combat combo of five and improves shield capacity by 20 percent as well as shield harvest chance by 25 percent. Her “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” ability, however, requires a combo of 50 and doubles grenade damage while multiplying gun damage by two and a half times.
Killing enemies and avoiding damage will activate your villain’s most powerful abilities and unleash your squad’s full destructive potential.
