Mastering the Dark Fruit in Blox Fruits: A Comprehensive Guide to Awakening and Beyond

The Dark Fruit in Blox Fruits is a powerful and versatile Devil Fruit, known for its ability to manipulate gravity and inflict devastating damage. However, its true potential is unlocked only after awakening. This comprehensive guide will walk you through everything you need to know about the Dark Fruit, from its initial abilities to the complete awakening process and beyond, including tips, strategies, and build suggestions.

Understanding the Dark Fruit: Core Abilities and Playstyle

Before diving into awakening, let’s understand what the Dark Fruit brings to the table. This fruit is classified as a Logia-type, meaning users can turn their bodies into the element of darkness, making them immune to non-Haki attacks. Here’s a breakdown of its core abilities:

Unawakened Dark Fruit Abilities:

• Dark Ball: Fires a projectile of concentrated darkness. It’s a basic attack, but can be used to poke and harass enemies from afar. Its range is decent, and it is relatively easy to aim.
• Black Hole: Creates a small, temporary black hole that sucks in nearby enemies, dealing initial damage, and following up with tick damage while they are in the hole. This move is excellent for crowd control and setting up other attacks. The initial damage isn’t massive, but the tick damage is decent for its area of effect, and most importantly, the black hole allows you to combo attacks easily.
• Dark Step: A mobility move where the user dashes forward with dark energy. Can be used for quick escapes or engaging enemies. It’s not an extremely fast movement ability, but it’s reliable and doesn’t have a long cooldown.
• Dark Flight: Allows the user to briefly fly using dark energy. Essential for reaching high places and gaining a tactical advantage in battles. The flight is not sustained indefinitely, so proper timing is needed to fly across longer gaps.

Playstyle Considerations for Unawakened Dark Fruit:

The unawakened Dark Fruit offers a balanced playstyle, with a good mix of damage, crowd control, and mobility. You’ll want to utilize the Dark Ball for consistent damage, the Black Hole for setting up combos, and Dark Step and Dark Flight for movement and escapes. It’s not a fruit designed for a pure damage focused playstyle initially, instead utilizing a more strategic approach. It shines by setting up enemies for future attacks or team-mates to deal more damage.

The Awakening Process: A Step-by-Step Guide

Awakening the Dark Fruit significantly enhances its power and unlocks new abilities. Here’s a detailed guide on how to awaken it:

Step 1: Reaching the Second Sea

Before you can awaken any fruit, you must first reach the Second Sea. This requires you to be at least level 700 and complete the quest given by the Military Detective in the First Sea’s Prison. Once you’ve completed the quest you will be transported to the Second Sea. The second sea is a new and improved hub with access to all of the raid locations. As you progress in the second sea, continue to level up your character as you will require the strength and stats.

Step 2: Obtaining the Fragments for Awakening

Awakening fruits requires special items known as fragments. You can earn fragments in a few ways:

• Raids: The primary way to get fragments is by participating in and completing raids. Raids are special dungeons with a boss that you can challenge with your crew or a group of online players. Specific raids will grant you different amounts of fragments, with higher level raids often granting more.
• Pirate Raids: Pirate raids are also a great way to earn fragments. These are random events that occur throughout the seas in which a ship of NPC’s will spawn and attempt to attack players. After a period of time they will begin to spawn raid bosses, which will grant fragments upon defeat.
• Seabeasts: Defeating seabeasts also offers a good alternative if raids are proving to be too difficult. Defeating these large and powerful creatures will give you a chance at receiving fragments, although the amount will be much less than that from raids.
• Trading: Trading with other players is always an option if raids aren’t an option. Trade with other players who are willing to part with their fragments for items or another form of currency. Be careful and mindful when trading online with other players as they might not always be trustworthy.

Step 3: Finding the Dark Fruit Awakening NPC

The Dark Fruit Awakening NPC is found on the Floating Turtle island in the Second Sea. Specifically, look for him inside a cave near the center of the island. He will have a speech bubble above his head, making him easy to spot. This NPC will only awaken fruits for players who meet the requirements which are enough fragments and game currency.

Step 4: Awakening Abilities

Once you’ve collected enough fragments and currency for the Dark Fruit awakening, speak to the NPC. He will present you with the list of the Dark Fruit skills you can awaken. Each ability requires a certain amount of Fragments and Beli(in-game currency). You will have to awaken each move individually.

The awakened abilities are:

• Gravity Ball: Similar to the unawakened Dark Ball, but it does increased damage, is larger, and has a much greater gravity pull, slowing and dragging enemies hit by it.
• Black Hole: It now sucks enemies more aggressively, lasting longer, and deals significantly more damage overall. It also has a larger radius and pulls enemies from a greater distance.
• Dark Step: Now dashes with more range and speed, and has a very short cooldown. This can be used to deal small amounts of damage to an enemy when dashing through them as well, which makes it an effective tool for repositioning as well as dealing extra damage.
• Dark Flight: Has slightly extended flight time, and greater flight speed overall.
• Gravity Control: This is the new ability that is exclusive to the awakening of this fruit. The user will emit a large gravity radius around themselves, slowing and pulling enemies closer. This can also be combined with other moves for devastating combos.

The cost of awakening each move is listed below:

• Gravity Ball: 1000 Fragments
• Black Hole: 2500 Fragments
• Dark Step: 1500 Fragments
• Dark Flight: 1000 Fragments
• Gravity Control: 3000 Fragments

You will also need around 60,000 Beli to fully awaken all of the Dark Fruit’s moves. It is worth noting that you can choose to only awaken some of the moves if you do not have the fragments to awaken all of them, but it is recommended to fully awaken every move for the greatest experience.

Awakened Dark Fruit Abilities: Unleashing the Potential

After awakening, the Dark Fruit becomes a completely different beast. Here’s how its abilities are enhanced and what new ones are introduced:

Enhanced Abilities:

• Gravity Ball: A much more potent projectile. It deals more damage, has a larger hitbox, and inflicts a brief gravitational pull, making it excellent for crowd control and damage. It also travels at a much higher speed, making it harder to dodge by moving.
• Black Hole: Now acts as a much more powerful crowd control move with a significantly larger radius, stronger pull, and increased damage output. Enemies caught in it will have a much harder time escaping, and taking more tick damage than the previous version.
• Dark Step: Increased dash speed and distance, providing vastly improved mobility for repositioning or engaging in combat. Can be used as a very short range damaging move.
• Dark Flight: Extends the duration of the flight and increases its speed, giving you greater freedom of movement and aerial maneuverability. It’s crucial for repositioning and escaping tricky situations.

New Ability:

• Gravity Control: This new skill allows the user to emit a field of gravity that slows and pulls enemies towards the player. This move is designed for pulling enemies together and setting them up for devastating combos.

Post-Awakening Strategies and Builds

With the awakened Dark Fruit, your playstyle will become much more aggressive and combo-focused. Here are some strategies and build ideas:

Strategies:

• Gravity Control Initiates: Start combat with Gravity Control to pull enemies closer, then follow up with Black Hole to keep them trapped and damage them over time.
• Gravity Ball Combos: Chain Gravity Balls with other attacks while enemies are trapped inside the Black Hole. Use Gravity Step to close gaps and initiate combos, and flight to escape when needed.
• Crowd Control and Combo Playstyle: The Dark Fruit shines when used to control groups of enemies, setting them up for powerful combos and area of effect attacks.
• Aggressive Playstyle: Use Dark Step to aggressively engage opponents, followed up with Dark Ball, and Gravity Control to keep them trapped and taking damage.

Build Suggestions:

While stats vary depending on level, here are a few suggestions.

• Fruit Main Build: Focus primarily on your fruit stats, which will increase the power of your dark abilities. Add a few into defence and health to ensure you can sustain in battles.
• Hybrid Build: A balanced build that incorporates equal stats into fruit, melee, health and defense. This build offers a more all-rounded play style and allows you to use both fruit and melee effectively.
• Sword Build: This is a more unorthodox build, but players could still focus on swords in conjunction with the Dark Fruit. Focus on health, defence and swords stats, while incorporating some of the utility that the Dark Fruit brings.

Recommended Items:

• Accessories: Focus on items that increase the damage of your Devil Fruit abilities. Examples include items that grant +fruit damage, or health, or speed.
• Swords: Select swords that offer extra utility if you are not a primary melee user. An example would be a sword that can extend your range.
• Fighting Styles: Choose a fighting style that you are comfortable with. Any fighting style will do, so long as you have a comfortable grasp on it, but it is recommended to try and find one with increased area of effect or range.

Tips for Mastering the Dark Fruit

Here are some tips to help you become a Dark Fruit master:

• Practice Combos: Spend time practicing combos using Gravity Control, Black Hole, and Gravity Ball. The synergy between these abilities is key to maximizing damage output. Try and perfect the timing of each move so that you can perform combos flawlessly.
• Mobility: Get comfortable with using Dark Step and Dark Flight for movement and repositioning. Proper mobility is essential for both engaging and escaping battles. These moves are very short, and mastering these will be key to surviving combat.
• Positioning: Try and position yourself effectively to make use of your crowd control abilities. Position your black holes at choke points, and use the increased speed from dark step to reposition if needed.
• Experiment with Builds: Don’t be afraid to experiment with different stats and accessories. Find a combination that suits your preferred playstyle. Remember that you can always reset your stats, so feel free to experiment when you have enough in game currency.
• Fight Different Opponents: Fight a variety of different opponents to learn how best to use each of your abilities. This will give you the experience and allow you to come to a better understanding on how to effectively utilize each move.
• Teamwork: When playing with friends or a crew, communicate and coordinate your attacks. The Dark Fruit’s crowd control abilities are invaluable for setting up team combos.

The Third Sea and Beyond

Once you reach the third sea, the Dark Fruit continues to be a powerful contender. Keep upgrading your skills and stats as you progress further in the game. The fruit will require more strategic planning as you progress and will only get more difficult to use in the Third Sea, so learning to effectively control the gravity pull and other moves will be very beneficial.

Consider obtaining the Soul Guitar item, which synergizes incredibly well with the Dark Fruit. The Soul Guitar is obtained from the Castle on the Sea in the Third Sea, and is well known for being an incredible companion item with the Dark Fruit. Try to get the Soul Guitar as early as possible into the third sea.

Conclusion

The Dark Fruit is one of the most versatile and powerful Devil Fruits in Blox Fruits, offering a fantastic mix of mobility, damage, and crowd control. Whether you are a seasoned player or new to the game, the Dark Fruit will bring both fun and rewarding gameplay. This guide has provided you with all of the necessary information to make your way to awakening your dark fruit, so with the information provided, it is up to you to master the dark. With patience, practice, and the right approach, you’ll become an unstoppable force on the seas!