About the game

Black Clover Mobile: Rise of the Wizard King (also known as Black Clover Mobile: The Opening of Fate in the JPN region) is an upcoming turn-based gacha game developed by Vic Game Studios. The studio was created in 2021 by Jae-Young Choi who was the lead developer for Seven Deadly Sins Grand Cross. Garena will be the Global publisher for the game.

Overall the game takes a lot of inspirations from Epic Seven, but puts its own twist to some of the system and introduces quality of life improvements to make them more modern. The further sections of this guide go into more detail about them.

Important links

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Gameplay

The gameplay in Black Clover Mobile is split into two modes:

Overworld
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In the overworld you can roam around the map and visit various locations known from the manga and anime. You can also enter some of them and then the view changes into third-perspective one - you can run around the location, find hidden chests etc.

Combat
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The combat is turn based, but what makes is stand out compared to most turn based gacha games is the partner system - seems that some of the skills the characters posses can only be used when their partner is also present on the field. This adds an interesting aspect to team building!

Also, the game uses a Special Point system and some of the character skills can't be used if you don't have enough of them - so you can't just spam your strongest skills every turn.

All battles in the game are 4 vs 4, which means you are able to take create teams with 4 characters only.

Game modes

Here's the list of game modes available in the game (that we are aware of):

Story
  • The bread and butter of every gacha game. Progressing through the story will unlock the other modes and features.
  • In the Closed Beta, only the first 3 chapters were available, but it seems this was extended to 5 chapters (based on the promotional event that was available last month).
  • What's interesting is that to tackle the story stages you need Story Tickets - they recharge slowly over time, similar to stamina.
Normal Challenge
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  • The normal challenge mode contains stages where you can use your stamina to farm character EXP, Gear, Skill Upgrade materials etc.
  • The stamina you use is separate from the Story Tickets, so you don't have to worry about saving it to progress through the game,
  • Each stage is split into sub-stages that require higher team power level, but also give better rewards,
  • While there's no sweep feature, you can use the Repeatable Battle feature to automatically attack the stage without forcing you to do it manually every time you clear it.
Limited Challenge
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  • The Limited Challenge mode contains stages that you can tackle only a limited number of times per day,
  • The stages available here rotate every day/every week,
  • Some of the stages here require you to use multiple teams, not just your main one,
  • You can obtain similar rewards to the normal challenge, but they are more specialized (for example the gear will you specific stats).
Arena
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  • A PVP mode is what most gacha games need, so you can compare yourself to other players,
  • Only AI vs AI battles were available in the Closed Beta,
  • You get weekly and seasonal rewards based on the league you've reached.

Characters

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Around 50 characters will be available on the release of the game.

Rarity

There are 3 base rarities available in the game: R, SR and SSR, but any R and SR character can be raised to SSR (and above).

Types

Each character belongs to one of the three types - and they work like elements you know from other games:

  • Proficiency
  • Wisdom
  • Tenacity

The usual paper-scissor-rock applies here, so Red beats Green, Green beats Blue and Blue beats Red.

Currently there are no Light/Dark faction equivalents in the game.

Classes

Each character belongs to one of the five classes, each specializing in different style of combat:

  • Attacker
  • Defender
  • Debuffer
  • Healer
  • Support

Skill Pages

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Characters can equip Skill Pages that give them additional passives and also upgrade one of their skills (but this works only on specific characters). Also keep in mind that Skill Pages have class restriction, so to get their full benefits, you need to match their class to the character's class.

Gear

The gear section is work in progress and will be updated soon!

Gacha rates

Here are the gacha rates based on Closed Beta:

  • Mage - 60%
    • SSR (Rate Up character) - 1.5%
    • SSR (Normal character) - 1.5%
    • SSR (Seasonal) - 0.19%
    • SR - 12.82%
    • R - 43.98%
  • Skill Page - 40%
    • SSR (Rate Up Skill Page) - 1%
    • SSR (Normal Skill Page) - 1.7%
    • SSR (Seasonal) - 0.09%
    • SR - 9.20%
    • R - 28%

You can learn more about Seasonal SSR characters in Gateway of Destiny section below.

Mage Path

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Mage Path is the equivalent of the beginner missions from other games. It basically introduces the new game features you unlock as you progress and rewards you with gear, summoning currency, and other things.

Gateway of Destiny

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Gateway of Destiny is a very interesting system that allows you to obtain one of the special seasonal characters for free. In the Closed Beta you could choose between three characters: Asta, Yuno and Mimosa - those are special variants for the normal characters you obtain though the story that have unique skills.

The seasonal characters were actually really strong in the Closed Beta, sometimes even stronger than normal SSR, so the opportunity to obtain one of them for free is really good! And to do so, you need to finish a set of missions.

The seasonal characters can also be pulled from any banner, but the chance for that is pretty low.

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Other features

Here's a list of other information we managed to find:

  • There's a high chance we will get an in-built reroll banner that unlocks during the tutorial,
  • Guilds (called Knights here) will be available on the release.

Source

A lot of the information and images used in this game came from this video: