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Short for "combination attack." A combo is a sequence of moves that string together. Generally these show up in [[Fighting Game
'''Combos''' will often give points or help fill up a [[Mana Meter]] when completed properly, but they most often allow the player to access powerful special moves. In fighting games, each character will usually have his own unique set of combinations and special moves.
For instance, in the [[Third-Person Shooter]] ''[[Oni]]'', the combination punch, punch, kick causes the main character to execute a spinning kick instead of her usual round-house.
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** In ''[[Pump It Up]]'' and ''[[In the Groove]]'', you can get a combo of ''missed notes'', shown in an embarassing red font color in the former. If the combo is high enough (30 in ITG or 51 in PIU), you get a [[Game Over]].
* In ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', reaching combo benchmarks is one of the conditions that ups your "special" experience multiplier.
* In ''Mugen no Frontier: [[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga'', the important part of the game isn't comboing, but ''[[
* Exists in the game ''[[Fable (video game)|Fable I]]'' under the name "Combat Multiplier" and the higher it is, the more experience obtained when you beat an enemy. However, getting hit rounds it down to the next-lowest 5.
** The [[Mana Shield]] spell turns this into a [[Game Breaker]] in that it allows you to take blows without penalty to your combo. Find an area with unlimited monster spawn (eg Grey House), activate the shield, and it's not too difficult to get the meter above 300 or so (at about which time you might as well stop, 'cause your experience counter just maxed out...).
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* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' is an example. While all classes have a few skills that can only be used after the enemy has been given a status effect from another skill, most of the time the term combo is used it's simply referring to a set of skills that work well in quick succession. The Assassin class however has a build your own combo system that uses the technical definition. Except for lead attacks, which are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what they sound like]], every strike must follow a certain type of strike and often also requires some kind of status effect to be on the enemy which is generally provided by the preceding strikes.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games allow you to string attacks together (abilities let you extend the combos to a preset number), after which you can pull off a finishing move which does extra damage.
** In the sequel, Combo Finishers are one of the only ways to finish off bosses. (The other ways being [[Limit Break
*** It should also be noted that Sora himself has a fairly lengthy hitstun, and is thus easy to combo; thankfully, few enemies take advantage of this. Also, on boss characters, if you choose to temporarily forgo your finishing move (meaning you now have an infinite combo attack), they will always block/teleport after a little while, to avoid allowing a completely cheap win. Works perfectly on non-bosses, though.
* The PSP ''[[Star Ocean]]'' games, [[Star Ocean 1|First Departure]] and [[Star Ocean the Second Story|Second Evolution]], automatically string attacks in a set of three; if the first hits, the rest can't be blocked. However, you're more vulnerable after a combo than after a single attack.
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* ''[[Ninety-Nine Nights]]'' has a system where the higher your number of combos, the more likely a Mook will drop a rare(r) item (i.e. dropping a lvl 4 item instead of a level 1 item). And just to make things easier for you, each character has at least one stage where you will face a very large number (getting close and probably surpassing the 1000 range) of Mooks at once.
* ''[[Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'' actually encourages smaller combos due to its damage scaling (which triggers pretty quickly). Expect to hear "YES!" (the game's call-out to three-or-four-hit combos) a lot.
* The ''[[Exalted]]'' [[Tabletop RPG]] has a combat limitation saying that an Exalt can only use one
* Juggle combos. Love them? Hate them? Either way, ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' is their progenitor. Juggle-centric games like ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' have this series to thank.
* The ''[[Disgaea]]'' series (and ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'') counts a series of consecutive attacks on the same target(s) in a single turn as a Combo. Each successive attack gains a stacking bonus to hit and to the damage of the attack, allowing a low-level character to kill an enemy far above it's weight class if you can chain a long enough combo together.
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