The Best Character Upgrades for Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons on Nintendo Switch

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Combo Mastery - $1050

This upgrade improves combos, making them more efficient and increasing their attack damage by 50%. It’s best for brawlers. 

While players can take a running leap into a skirmish before bolting back to safety, repeating this strategy can take too long. It’s easiest to just dive headfirst into conflicts and reply on strong combos. The stronger a combo becomes, the more powerful the player’s party will be.

This upgrade is best when applied to Billy and Jimmy Lee.

Action Mastery - $350

This game has three different attacks, and every character has a basic attack, which is essentially just punching. The only character this differs for is Marian, who shoots with a gun. The areas where characters really differ and, therefore, shine as individuals are their special attacks (for which they use SP) and Actions.

Billy can grapple with enemies and pummel them until they break free. Marian will dodge roll, and attack with a baton. This upgrade improves the efficiency of Actions and increases their damage by 50%.

SP Conserver - $700

This upgrade enables characters to use their special attacks more frequently, reducing their cost by 25%. The other great thing about this upgrade is that it can be stacked multiple times, increasing its effectiveness.

Move Specialist - $700

Your SP gauge can be recovered by recharging or healing with crystals that your enemies drop. This upgrade will increase the auto-generation rate of SP by 25%, and it is stackable, which increases its effectiveness.

SP-charged attacks can lead to knockout attacks that will grant you food to heal, so you should get this upgrade as early as possible.

SP Proficiency - $1050

SP moves are based on directional buttons and the SP button. This upgrade increases the damage of an SP attack by 50%. Remember that each character has a different SP attack, so this upgrade will be named according to the character rather than just “SP Proficiency.” For example, Marian fires a rock for her SP attack, so her SP Proficiency is called “Rocket Launcher Mastery.”

Pick your favorite special attack and use this upgrade on that character.

Tag Out Force - $350

This game features a two-player co-op. Even if you’re playing alone, you can take two characters into a campaign (a good combo is Billy and Marian). Characters will retain their upgrade trees and health, so swapping out characters when a partner is in danger is good practice. This is where Tag Out Force comes in handy.

Using it will knock back nearby enemies to give your tag partner a safe entry.

Healthy Lifestyle - $700

This upgrade is great for beginners and hardcore brawler players. It increases your health by 25 points and can be stacked. While there are armor upgrades you can purchase to reduce damage, this upgrade is the only way to increase health permanently.

Sacrificed - $350

This upgrade is great because it allows you to push your characters towards victory, even when you’ve been gunned down. If you die, the other character will be fully healed upon a switch out, and all the enemies around you will get knocked down, giving you a major advantage.

If both characters die, you can use money or tokens to revive them on the spot.