To successfully progress through Bleach: Immortal Soul it is essential that you build a strong team that is able to deal with the foes that they will meet during their journey to restore oder to the Soul Society. Check out our How to Build a Strong Team guide to get help putting together a team.
Play through story Mode stages as much as you can regardless if you finish them with 1, 2, or 3 stars. You have the option to come back anytime and re-play a stage to finish it with 3 stars. Playing Story Mode will enable you to get Uryu Ishida, Chad, and 2 more forms of Ichigo. These are all good characters that you can use until you get some stronger ones.
There are several ways you can obtain more characters in Bleach: Immortal Soul. One of these is summoning them using the Summon option which can be found in the bottom left corner of the main game interface. When you select this feature you will be presented with two optons: Soul Jade Summon and Gold Summon. Other ways of unlocking characters is earning character shards which you can earn by completing Missions and Participating in Events. Check out our How to Summon Guide to find out everything you need to know about summoning characters in Bleach: Immortal Soul.
Try to complete your list of daily tasks in order to get the free loot you recieve from them as it will help you to improve your characters. The daily tasks can be found at the bottom right side of the main game interface above the 'Fight' button and will refresh every 24 hours.
When putting together your team you should try not to have more than 3 attackers (the red sword icon) on your team as these characters tend to be squishy and need to be placed in the back row so they are protected. Tank characters (yellow shield) should be placed in the front row due to their ability to soak up damage while your skill characters (blue shoe) can be placed wherever, which will be determined on how your lineup works.
Below is a list of characters that are not UR that can be particuarly effective in Bleach: Immortal Soul. You may want to consider adding these characters to your team if you manage to unlock them.
Ichigo (R)
An upgradable attacker. Your are given Ichigo at the start of the game and you will get the materials needed to upgrade his Spirit Relic which will enable you to upgrade his rarity to UR before the end of the current story content.
Matsumoto (SSR)
The best crowd control character in the game, her skills in this field are better than any of the UR characters.
Soi Fon (SSR)
An attacker that focuses on single-target damage. The best damage SSR character in the game.
Tessai (SSR)
A strong tank, especially at higher levels since he brings some damage along with some crowd control.
Unohana (SSR)
A support skill character that is able to generate Rage for her team. The best healer in the game.
Komamura (SSR)
The strongest tank in the game that is able to deal a good amount of damage and has a decent set of buffs.
Yachiru (SSR)
A good crowd control orientated skill character. Her effectiveness depends on how many female characters you have in the team, the more you have the better Yachiru is.
Mayuri (SSR)
A balanced skill character that has CC, damage and survivability which allows him to fit onto most teams.
Toshiro (SSR)
A useful character whose abilities allow him to effectively deal with tanks.
Jushiro (SSR)
A balanced skill character equally adapt in offense and defense who gets better the longer the battle drags on.
Gin (SSR)
A bleed-focused attacker that ties all the bleed units together so they can increase their damage event more.
Tosen (SSR)
A bleed-focused attacker that is a good option if you need more solid damage for your back row.
Renji (SSR)
A crowd control character that is the best SSR character in the game when it comes to taking damage.
Check out our Tier List guide to find out how all the different characters in Bleach: Immortal Soul rank against each other.
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