Blox Fruits fighting styles are the melee side of your build. They decide your close-combat style, sit on the Melee stat path, and become a long unlock chain once mastery, fragments, teachers, and materials start stacking up.
Combat is the starter style, but the real progression starts when you learn styles from teacher NPCs. Dark Step, Electric, Water Kung Fu, and Dragon Breath are early building blocks. Later styles turn those older choices into requirements for Death Step, Sharkman Karate, Electric Claw, Dragon Talon, Superhuman, Godhuman, and Sanguine Art.
type
Starter style
Combat
- Type
- Starter style
- price
- -
- requirements
- -
- money cost
- -
type
Dark Step Teacher
Dark Step
- Type
- Dark Step Teacher
- price
- 150,000
- requirements
- -
- money cost
- 150,000
type
Mad Scientist
Electric
- Type
- Mad Scientist
- price
- 500,000
- requirements
- -
- money cost
- 500,000
type
Water Kung Fu Teacher
Water Kung Fu
- Type
- Water Kung Fu Teacher
- price
- 750,000
- requirements
- -
- money cost
- 750,000
type
Sabi
Dragon Breath
- Type
- Sabi
- price
- 1,500
- requirements
- -
- money cost
- -
type
Martial Arts Master
Superhuman
- Type
- Martial Arts Master
- price
- 3,000,000
- requirements
- Mastery 300 Dark StepMastery 300 ElectricMastery 300 Water Kung FuMastery 300 Dragon Breath
- money cost
- 3,000,000
type
Phoeyu, the Reformed
Death Step
- Type
- Phoeyu, the Reformed
- price
- 2,500,000 | 5,000
- requirements
- Mastery 400 Dark Step
- money cost
- 2,500,000
type
Sharkman Teacher
Sharkman Karate
- Type
- Sharkman Teacher
- price
- 2,500,000 | 5,000
- requirements
- Mastery 400 Water Kung FuGiving Water Key to Sharkman Teacher
- money cost
- 2,500,000
type
Previous Hero
Electric Claw
- Type
- Previous Hero
- price
- 3,000,000 | 5,000
- requirements
- Mastery 400 ElectricCompleted Previous Hero's Timed Quest
- money cost
- 3,000,000
type
Uzoth
Dragon Talon
- Type
- Uzoth
- price
- 3,000,000 | 5,000
- requirements
- Mastery 400 Dragon BreathGiving Fire Essence to Uzoth
- money cost
- 3,000,000
type
Ancient Monk
Godhuman
- Type
- Ancient Monk
- price
- 20 20 10 10 5,000,000 | 5,000
- requirements
- Mastery 400 Death StepMastery 400 Electric ClawMastery 400 Sharkman KarateMastery 400 Dragon TalonMastery 400 Superhuman
- money cost
- 5,000,000
type
Shafi
Sanguine Art
- Type
- Shafi
- price
- 2 20 20 5,000,000 | 5,000
- requirements
- Leviathan Heart
- money cost
- 5,000,000
type
Secrets Master
Advanced Combat
- Type
- Secrets Master
- price
- -
- requirements
- Finish all First Sea Island Secrets, remove your Blox Fruit, and pay 50,000 Money at the Remove Blox Fruit NPC at Prison for Combat, then defeat one of each First Sea Awakened Boss using only Combat
- money cost
- -
Fighting styles are a melee progression path
A fighting style is the hand-to-hand combat style your character uses in Blox Fruits. You begin with Combat for free, then replace it by learning another style from a teacher. Combat is the odd one out. You can get it back for 50,000 Money from the Remove Blox Fruit NPC at Prison, but only after you finish the First Sea Island Secrets and remove your Blox Fruit. Once you have Advanced Combat, the Secrets Master can also swap you back to Combat.
Most fighting styles are learned by paying a teacher, but the cost changes as you move through the seas. First Sea styles are mostly simple money purchases. Second Sea and Third Sea styles add fragments, mastery gates, keys, timed quests, materials, and special items.
How the main unlock chains work
| Unlock path | What the chain means |
|---|---|
| Combat | Starter melee style. It is automatic, free, and replaced once another style is learned. |
| Dark Step -> Death Step | Dark Step is an early style. Death Step later needs 400 Dark Step mastery, the Library Key route, money, and fragments. |
| Electric -> Electric Claw | Electric starts as a First Sea style. Electric Claw needs 400 Electric mastery, Previous Hero's timed quest, money, and fragments. |
| Water Kung Fu -> Sharkman Karate | Water Kung Fu leads into Sharkman Karate, which needs 400 Water Kung Fu mastery, Water Key, money, and fragments. |
| Dragon Breath -> Dragon Talon | Dragon Breath is fragment-only. Dragon Talon later needs 400 Dragon Breath mastery, Fire Essence, money, and fragments. |
| Four base styles -> Superhuman | Superhuman asks for 300 mastery on Dark Step, Electric, Water Kung Fu, and Dragon Breath. |
| Five upgraded styles -> Godhuman | Godhuman is the larger endgame chain. It needs 400 mastery on Superhuman, Death Step, Electric Claw, Sharkman Karate, and Dragon Talon, plus money, fragments, and materials. |
| Leviathan Heart route -> Sanguine Art | Sanguine Art follows a separate Third Sea path through Shafi, Leviathan Heart, materials, money, and fragments. |
Mastery stays with the style
Switching fighting styles does not wipe the mastery you already earned on that style. That makes the grind less punishing than it looks at first. You can work on Dark Step mastery, switch to another style, and still keep that Dark Step progress for Death Step later.
This is why early styles matter even after you outgrow them in normal combat. They are part of the unlock ladder. A player chasing Godhuman needs to plan several mastery grinds instead of only saving money for the final purchase.
Costs need to be read as currencies and items
Blox Fruits fighting style costs are easy to misread when every number is shown together. A style can ask for money, fragments, materials, or a special unlock item. Dragon Breath uses fragments instead of money. Godhuman needs money, fragments, and materials. Sanguine Art needs Leviathan Heart before the rest of the cost even matters.
Treat the cost as an unlock checklist: reach the right sea, find the teacher, meet the mastery gate, bring any key or material, then pay the listed currencies.
FAQ
What are fighting styles in Blox Fruits?
Fighting styles are melee combat styles learned from teacher NPCs. They control your close-combat moves and connect to the Melee stat path.
Do fighting styles lose mastery when you switch?
No. A fighting style keeps its mastery after you switch away from it, so earlier mastery grinds still count when you need that style for a later unlock.
Can Combat be learned again after replacing it?
Yes, but only after you finish the First Sea Island Secrets. Remove your Blox Fruit, then pay 50,000 Money to the Remove Blox Fruit NPC at Prison to get Combat back. Once you have Advanced Combat, the Secrets Master can also swap you back to Combat.
Why do early fighting styles matter later?
Several late styles require mastery on earlier styles. Dark Step, Electric, Water Kung Fu, and Dragon Breath all feed into later unlock paths, and Superhuman becomes part of the Godhuman chain.
Why do some fighting style costs include fragments or materials?
Later Blox Fruits fighting styles are built as progression checks. Money is only one part of the cost; styles such as Death Step, Sharkman Karate, Electric Claw, Dragon Talon, Godhuman, and Sanguine Art can also involve fragments, mastery gates, keys, quests, materials, or special items.
