Gakuran Fighting Styles, Rerolls, Combat, and PvP Tips

Gakuran is built around social school spaces that can turn into fights fast, so the best players treat character size, fighting style, posture, and movement as one system. The New Courtyard update makes that loop busier with a larger courtyard, basketball mechanics, phone features, and more obvious places to meet players for PvP or chilling.

New Courtyard access and setup

Before anything else, your Roblox account needs to be in the official Gakuran Roblox group or the game will not let you play. You also need five friends on the account, so handle that before worrying about rerolls or fighting styles.

The New Courtyard update expands the school’s social space and gives players more reasons to hang around outside fights. The big additions to know are the bigger courtyard, basketball mechanics, phone features, and fresh gathering spots where PvP starts naturally.

For now, treat the courtyard as the main hub: players cluster around the basketball court, music room, look shops, and the 7-Eleven gas station. Exact safe pockets and spawn behavior can shift with patches, so learn the current map by watching where players actually stop fighting and where they immediately square up.

Character creation and height choices

Character creation uses ethnicity rolls, with a 95% chance for a Japanese character and a 5% combined chance for foreign ethnicities such as European, African, Middle Eastern, Latin, or Indian. Ethnicity affects generation and play style flavor, but height is the part that directly changes how your fights feel.

Tall builds hit harder, have more HP, and reach farther, but they move and attack slower. Short builds trade raw stats for faster attacks, quicker recovery, and smaller hitboxes, which is why shorter characters are so annoying in close-range PvP.

Combat controls and fight systems

Press T to enter fighting stance; without stance, you are not really participating in combat. Your core pressure comes from M1 light attacks, which chain up to four hits, with the final hit ending in a heavier knockback kick.

Heavy attacks are your answer to players hiding behind guard. The heavy or guard-break input is listed as R in current combat footage, while some control references use Right Click/M2, so check your in-game keybinds after updates. Either way, the role is the same: heavies hit much harder than lights and force blockers to parry, dodge, or eat the guard break.

Parry is the skill that decides most serious fights. Tap block just before a hit lands while facing your opponent, and a clean perfect block gives you zero damage, zero posture loss, and a stun on the attacker, which turns defense into a full punish.

Your posture bar is shield stamina. Blocking and parrying interact with it, and if posture hits zero while you are guarding, you suffer a guard break and become defenseless for about two seconds. Styles also have chip damage values from about 10% to 25%, which decides how much pressure still gets through a block.

If both fighters attack at the same time, the hits can clash and turn into a grab. The player who swung slightly earlier wins the clinch, shoves the other player back, and reduces incoming damage by 50%; your chance to escape a losing grab depends on the style’s resilience stat.

How to use the side dash cycle in Gakuran

This pressure pattern keeps you from overcommitting while forcing the defender to turn, block, and guess under pressure.

Start beside the opponent

Stand on either side of the target so their camera and guard have to track you.

Throw two light attacks

Use two Left Click hits, then stop before the full four-hit string locks you in.

Dash to the other side

Press Q to side-switch with i-frames and make the opponent reorient their guard.

Add two more lights

Hit twice again from the opposite side while they are turning to face you.

Keep alternating sides

Repeat the two-hit pattern and Q-dash out instead of standing still after pressure.

Avoid panic-clicking four hits

Spamming the full light chain makes your last hit easy to block, bait, and punish.

Use heavy into guard

When the opponent sits behind block, throw the heavy so they must parry, dodge, or take the guard break.

Chase evasive movement

If they dodge out after reading the heavy, close the gap immediately and restart pressure.

Punish the guard break

If they do nothing, the guard break leaves them stunned for about two seconds.

Fighting styles by tier and use

Gakuran currently has eight fighting styles: Basic, Slugger, Muay Thai, Karate, Boxing, Hakari/Hakari, Capoeira, and Wrestling. The listed 30%, 10%, and 1% figures are best read as rarity-bucket odds, because multiple styles share those same buckets rather than each having that exact individual rate.

Do not reroll only because a style is Legendary. Boxing is Epic and still sits at the top for general PvP, while Capoeira is Legendary but demands much cleaner spacing to get value.

Boxing PvP build

Boxing is the strongest overall fighting style right now and the easiest S-tier recommendation. Its heavy attacks have i-frames, so you can push offense without being interrupted during that heavy animation.

The style gets even nastier when you can parry. Landing a perfect block reduces your heavy cooldown, and because Boxing also builds meaningful chip pressure, the opponent cannot sit comfortably in guard forever.

Boxing pairs especially well with shorter builds. A smaller hitbox, faster pressure, and safer heavy timing make it excellent for players who like the two-hit dash cycle and can turn parries into immediate counter-combos.

Wrestling grab pressure

Wrestling is a strong Legendary style and one of the best picks for tall builds. When you land a grab, you get 1.5x damage and hyper armor, meaning opponents cannot simply interrupt the grab once it is active.

The catch is that Wrestling cannot be played by blindly forcing grabs into every exchange. Good players will dodge, parry, and punish predictable entries, so you need to bait their escape first, then grab when their timing is committed.

Use Wrestling when you want to control space with height, HP, and reach, then cash out hard when a clinch lands. It is powerful, but it asks for patience.

Basic starter style

Basic is free, common, and much better than a throwaway starter style. It is a strong training style because it rewards clean perfect blocks with +5 counter damage, faster posture regeneration, and chip-to-guard value.

That makes Basic a good way to learn Gakuran’s real PvP rhythm. Instead of leaning on rare passives, you learn when to block, when to parry, and when to stop your M1 chain before getting punished.

It works on any height, but it usually feels best on shorter builds because faster pressure makes those counter windows easier to use.

Muay Thai pressure

Muay Thai sits around A-tier and is built around pressure and damage. It suits players who want to stay active, keep the opponent defending, and punish hesitation with steady offense.

The style can feel strong on larger builds when the damage starts stacking, but it still has to respect smart opponents. Players who bait your approach, fade your timing, or answer with Wrestling grabs can slow it down.

Pick Muay Thai if you want a direct brawling style without relying on Legendary odds, but keep your strings disciplined. Raw pressure only works when you are not feeding easy parries.

Hakari or Hakari listing

Hakari, also written by some players as Hakari, is part of the current eight-style set and appears in the Epic rarity bucket. Its exact naming and detailed passives are less settled than Boxing, Wrestling, and Capoeira.

Because of that, do not reroll away a strong known style purely to chase Hakari/Hakari unless you are experimenting. Treat it as a style to test in live fights rather than a locked-in meta recommendation.

Karate defensive pick

Karate is the reliable defensive option. It is beginner-friendly, good for blocking, and light on obvious weaknesses, which makes it comfortable while you are still learning posture, parry timing, and when to stop attacking.

It is not the style you pick for the highest ceiling. Karate is useful because it avoids getting you punished for every small mistake, not because it overwhelms skilled opponents by itself.

Use Karate if you want a steady Uncommon style while you learn PvP fundamentals. Once your parries and movement improve, Boxing, Wrestling, or a more aggressive pressure style may give you more room to win hard matchups.

Capoeira mobility style

Capoeira is a Legendary mobility style, but rarity alone does not make it the best fighting style. Its dash cooldown drops by 25%, letting even bigger builds move around faster than opponents expect.

The tradeoff is real: Capoeira has mediocre damage, short range, and no heavy i-frames or hyper armor. You win by spacing cleanly, baiting whiffs, and using movement to make the other player miss before you answer.

This is a technical style for patient players. If you want simple power, Boxing or Wrestling will usually feel stronger faster.

Slugger damage risk

Slugger is the risky damage style, and it is not recommended against good players. Its tradeoff is simple: you deal extra damage, but you also take extra damage, and that downside adds up quickly in real PvP.

The style can punish careless opponents, especially if they trade into you without thinking. Strong players will not give you those trades for free; they will bait your swings, block the obvious string, and hit you during the recovery.

Skip Slugger if your goal is consistent wins. It asks you to take risks in a combat system where clean parries and guard breaks already punish mistakes hard.

Rerolls, codes, and gifting

Rerolls is the main way to change fighting styles, but every reroll is random and can make your style worse. Spend rerolls only after you understand what your current style does, especially if you already have Boxing, Wrestling, or another style that fits your height.

Robux rerolls are the fastest route through the Stats screen. Free rerolls can also come from codes, and the New Courtyard update adds the ability to gift rerolls to other players. A future in-game currency system is planned so players can earn rerolls by playing, but it is not live yet.

Open the side menu

Click the button on the side of the screen to bring up the main menu.

Go to Stats

Open Stats so you can see your current Fight Style.

Use the circular arrow

Press the circular arrow beside Fight Style to reroll.

Accept the random result

Each reroll swaps your style with no guarantee that the new one is better.

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Check the current in-game code menu or official community channels before publishing or spending around code rewards.

Video help

Basketball, phone, and hotspots

The New Courtyard update makes basketball one of the easiest ways to meet players without instantly starting a fight. Shooting gets harder the farther you are from the basket, and you need the opponent in the green area for a short window with accurate timing.

The phone gives you extra downtime features, including a camera, apps, and mini-games such as Flappy Bird. Phone input is currently listed as Alt in active play, while some control references mention O, so check which bind your client shows after updates.

If you want fights, start with the basketball court. If you want to find players without immediately committing to a duel, check the music room, look shops, and 7-Eleven gas station.