Bleach: Soul Resonance Beginner’s Guide

While Bleach: Soul Resonance is an incredibly fun game with a fast-paced combat system that took me on a nostalgic journey, reminding me why I'm a fan of the franchise, it can also be a very overwhelming experience when you're starting. There are different banners to choose from, lots of ways to upgrade your characters, and various game modes with specific rewards. It's easy to get lost, so that's why we prepared this Bleach: Soul Resonance beginner's guide to help you get started on your journey!

What's the Best Banner to Pull On?

You unlock the gacha system as soon as you reach level three on your account. Here, you can pull for playable characters or their specific weapon stamps. You do this by spending gacha tickets to pull on your desired banner. How many of these tickets you need to use pretty much depends on your luck, but there is a hard-pity system that guarantees you'll get your character after 80 pulls or your weapon stamp after 40 pulls. The banners you can pull on are:

• Limited Character Banner - This is where all the newest SSR characters will be released, with the current one being Ichigo Kurosaki - Bankai. They are limited characters, because you can only get them when their banner is active.
• Limited Stamp Banner - With every new limited character comes their own limited weapon stamp, which has special effects when equipped by them and is their best option.
• Standard Character Banner - This banner is permanent and always available. Here, you can pull for the standard SSR characters, and it's great when you're starting, because it guarantees an SSR character in your first 50 pulls, while also giving you a discount. After the initial 50 pulls, it goes back to following regular banner rules, with a hard-pity of 80 pulls.
• Standard Character Select Banner - This banner also features the standard SSR units, but instead of getting a random one from a pool of six, you get to choose which one will drop. After you get the selected SSR, the banner will become unavailable.
• Standard Stamp Select Banner - Works the same as the previous one, but for weapon stamps, and it doesn't go away after getting your specified stamp. I suggest you choose the one that goes with an SSR you already have and plan on investing in.

When it comes to what banner you should pull on, I suggest focusing on the Standard Character Banner until you get your first SSR, since it will be a big help when clearing the story mode. You get a lot of Gacha Tickets at the start of the game, so spend those whenever you have them. However, after that, you should be focusing on the Limited Character Banner and only ever spending your Spiritual Jade currency for buying Limited Gacha Tickets.

Limited banners are where the stronger SSR characters will be released, with the first one, Ichigo Kurosaki - Bankai, being the best DPS unit in the game by far. While the standard SSR units are great, you will get them all over time without needing to spend any Spiritual Jade for their banners.

How to Farm Gacha Tickets

Bleach: Soul Resonance is pretty generous with the free rewards you can get, whether it's by playing the story mode, participating in events, or finishing your daily activities. You'll either be getting gacha tickets directly, or more often, you'll receive Spiritual Jade, a currency that you can spend on different gacha tickets. Each one costs 160 Spiritual Jade, and those are:

• Limited Gacha Ticket - Used for the limited character banner. These should be your biggest priority.
• Limited Stamp Gacha Ticket - Used for the limited weapon stamp banner.
• Gacha Ticket - Used for the standard character banner. Not worth buying, because you'll be getting these as rewards throughout the game.
• Stamp Gacha Ticket - Used for the standard weapon stamp banner.

As long as you're an active player and log in daily, there are a lot of ways to obtain pulls in this game, mainly in the form of Spiritual Jade, with some events and story milestones awarding Gacha Tickets as well, with Limited Gacha Tickets being very rare, only rewarded from big celebration events. In order to get as many pulls as possible, you need to:

• Log in to the game every day and complete your Daily Activity missions. These will be your most consistent source of Spiritual Jades, even once you exhaust all others. You get 60 jades every day when you complete them, which adds up to a bit more than 11 pulls over the course of a month.
• Play through the Story Mode and claim the gacha ticket rewards after completing each chapter.
• Make sure you clear every stage across all the different game modes, because you get rewarded for your first clear with spiritual jades.
• Check the Ticket Stub Exchange store that resets each month. There, you can spend your Ticket Stubs, which you earn every time you pull on a banner, and purchase limited and standard gacha tickets.
• Pay attention to events; they are always worth completing fully and are generous with their rewards. There are currently many launch events active, so make sure you check them out.
• Check for redemption codes that give various rewards, with spiritual jades being the most common.

Launch Event - Assembly Operation 300 Free Pulls

Yes, you're not seeing things; you can get 300 pulls in the form of gacha tickets and stamp gacha tickets. All you need to do is interact with the generous launch event and enjoy your rewards. The event is split into five sections:

• New Soul Reaper Rewards - As a celebration for achieving the pre-registration milestones, as soon as you reach level three, check your mailbox and claim the 20 gacha tickets waiting for you.
• Seireitei 14-day Check-In - You can get 15 gacha tickets and 10 stamp gacha tickets just by logging into the game for 14 days.
• Rookie Training - A set of missions that unlock over the first seven days. There are 35 of them in total, and you need to complete 30 of them in order to get the main prize, 30 gacha tickets, and 10 stamp gacha tickets. You finish the missions by playing and completing different stages, spending energy, and upgrading your characters.
• Battlefront Recruit - You get rewarded with 80 gacha tickets and 40 stamp gacha tickets just for completing the story chapters, which is something you're going to want to do anyway in order to level up and unlock all of the game features.
• Trial Award - You get rewarded with 55 gacha tickets and 40 stamp gacha tickets for clearing all the stages in the Trial Tower mode, which you unlock at level 24 and is used to collect material for upgrading certain aspects of your characters.

This event ends on December 21, after which the Seireitei 14-day Check-In and Rookie Training parts of this event won't be available anymore. However, you can take your time with Battlefront Recruit and Trial Award because they're permanent.

How to Upgrade Your Characters

As you progress through the game, you'll need to upgrade your characters so they can keep up with the increasing difficulty. Your characters can be improved in various ways, with each boosting different aspects of their loadout. You can upgrade them by investing in their:

• Character level and Ascension - Increasing their level directly affects their main stats: attack, defense, and HP. While they earn experience points every time you clear a stage, you can also use materials to speed up this process, which you will have to do after the early levels. Every 10 levels, you have to ascend them in order for their level cap to unlock, with level 100 being the maximum.
  • You can give them EXP with Member's Insight and its higher quality equivalents by farming the Patrol of the World stages. For ascending, you'll need their damage type Escences, which you can farm in the Karakura Defense stages.
• Weapon level and Ascension - Just like your characters, your weapons have their own stats, which are increased by leveling them up, with every 10 levels also requiring you to ascend them, increasing their level cap, with level 100 being the maximum.
  • You can give them EXP with Tamahagane I-IV, which you get by farming the Hollow Hunt stages. For ascending, you'll need Smith Hammers that match their damage type, which you can get by farming the Court Guard Practice stages.
• Weapon Stamps - They can be attached to your weapons and come in two forms. General weapon stamps that can be equipped to any character, mostly boosting your stats, or they can be character-specific weapon stamps, which can only be equipped on the specified unit and give boosts that utilize the character's skillset to the fullest. Always use the latter when you're able.
  • Can be obtained while pulling on the limited or standard gacha banners.
• Skills - Each character has their own unique set of skills that you have to upgrade separately, with each of your active skills upgradable to level eight. You can also enhance your passive skill by unlocking its additional effects.
  • For upgrading the active skills, you'll need to spend materials matching their damage type, so Art of Slash, for example, which you get by farming the Academy Training stages. For the passive skill, you'll have to spend Marks that match their class, so Tactic, Support, or Full Assault, which you can get by defeating specific Hollow bosses in the Hollow Elimination trial stages.
• Boundary Ascension - Boundaries are ways to further increase your character's potential by unlocking new passive additions to their kit, that either boost their existing effects, or unlock completely new parts of their skills that can change the way you play them. The third and fifth ones always raise the levels of their skills, while the other four are the ones that give new effects.
  • You can unlock these boundaries by spending character-specific relics that you get any time you pull a unit you already own from the gacha banners.
• Character Stamps - These stamps are basically different pieces of gear that you can equip to your characters. They come in two forms: as Set Stamps, which come in sets of three, and increase your character's stats by themselves, but unlock new effects when used together with other stamps of the same set, and as Core Stamps that can either be character-specific or universal, providing major buffs to your units.
  • You can get Set Stamps by farming the special Fall of Grace trial stages and the Core Stamps by farming the special Stamp Corridor trial stages, with higher levels of difficulty rewarding you with higher rarities.

When farming these stages for the materials you need, you'll have to spend Spiritual Power to access them, which regenerates over time. Make sure you spend it all every day so none of it goes to waste. Also, be aware of your character's class and damage type, so you don't farm the wrong materials by accident.

Best Characters in Bleach: Soul Resonance

The best character in this game is Kisuke Urahara without a doubt. He's an amazing support that isn't tied to any specific damage type, but instead increases your team's overall damage with no restrictions. Because he's such a flexible unit, you can put him into any team and it will instantly become better because of the buffs her provides, while not having to stay on-field for more than a few seconds each time. Every premium team currently in the game uses him as their support of choice, so you can't go wrong with pulling for him.

As far as DPS units that can carry you through the whole game, Ichigo Kurosaki - Bankai is the first limited character, and he stands at the top when it comes to pure damage. While the standard SSR units are all great and viable, Ichigo's Bankai form stands in a different league. He pairs extremely well with Kisuke Urahara, but he also has amazing SR team options, making him the ultimate Full Assault unit that you can clear the whole game with ease.

Best SR Teammates for Your First SSR Unit

You'll get your first SSR unit pretty early into your Bleach Soul Resonance journey, and the best thing you can do in order to progress in the game is to make a team around them. Each of them has its own premium squad, filled with other SSR characters, but the SR characters are much easier to obtain, some of them even being completely free, and will do a great job when paired with the right SSR unit.

• Kisuke Urahara works great with any team, but the two units that shine the most under him are Ichigo Kurosaki - Shikai as the main DPS, and Uryu Ishida as the team's battlefield skill user.
• Kaname Tosen works best with Renji Abarai as the main DPS, but he's mostly here because he'll be triggering Tosen's combo attacks all the time, and Orihime Inoue as the defensive healer.
• Byakuya Kuchiki is an amazing off-field damage dealer that works best with other Slash damage units like Ichigo Kurosaki - Shikai as the on-field DPS, and Yachiru Kusajishi as an amazing slash damage support.
• Ikkaku Madarame is the best DPS unit after the limited Ichigo, and he works best with units that let him stay on the field as long as possible, while buffing his damage and survivability, like Uryu Ishida and Orihime Inoue.
• Yoruichi Shihoin is a great DPS unit, but unfortunately, the Strike damage type doesn't have a great SR support option, so her best partners are Uryu Ishida for his battlefield skill and damage buffs, and Nemu Kurotsuchi with her strike damage buffs.
• Sajin Komamura really wants to be paired with Yoruichi Shihoin, but since we're using only SR units here, his best options are Yasutora Sado, who can trigger Sajin's battlefield skill often, and Nemu Kurotsuchi as the only Strike damage support currently in the game. These two units aren't that great; they are here only because of their damage type.

Those were the best SR team options for each SSR character, but if you're curious to see their premium teams, make sure to check out our Bleach: Soul Resonance Best Teams Guide.

Bleach: Soul Resonance Beginner's Guide FAQ

We hope our Bleach: Soul Resonance Beginner's Guide helped you kickstart your journey through this fun and action-packed retelling of the Bleach anime and manga story. If you're looking for a more detailed description of all the units in this game, check out our Bleach Soul Resonance Tier List.