Ninja Turtles: Legends Story Mode: How to Get 3 Stars

To earn a three-star clear on any story campaign stage in Ninja Turtles: Legends, you must finish the final wave with all five squad members alive. Losing even one character drops your rating to two stars, while losing two or more reduces it to one star.

Achieving zero deaths requires preserving squad health across multiple waves. Character health pools do not automatically replenish between waves in a stage, meaning any chip damage taken early carries directly into later rounds and boss encounters.

Manage Action Gauges and Ability Cooldowns

Multi-wave survival depends on entering each encounter with your key abilities ready to fire. Spending high-impact area-of-effect (AoE) specials or team shields to finish off an almost-dead enemy wastes resources you need for the next wave.

• Recharge skills with basic attacks: When a wave is down to one low-health opponent, stop using special abilities. Use standard basic attacks to finish the foe, allowing your cooldowns to tick down while building action gauges.
• Target the next active opponent: Check the action meters located under enemy health bars. Prioritize enemies whose turn meters are nearly full to eliminate them before they can deal damage.
• Conserve temporary buffs: Do not activate multi-turn defense or attack buffs right before clearing the final enemy of a wave. The active turn timers on those buffs will expire as your squad transitions into the next encounter.

Target Burst Damage Threats First

Enemy waves typically feature a mix of frontline bruisers, ranged damage dealers, and utility casters. Attacking targets at random leaves your team exposed to repeated high-damage strikes. Use this kill order to minimize incoming damage:

1. High-damage ranged units: Focus single-target damage on Kraang armed with plasma blasters and multi-target explosives. These enemies deal team-wide burst damage that rapidly drains the entire squad.
2. Disablers and support units: Neutralize enemies that cast defense reductions, stuns, or continuous healing. Leaving debuffers alive allows them to weaken your heroes right before heavier enemy strikes land.
3. High-defense tanks: Leave resilient, low-damage frontliners for last. Their low damage output gives you a safe window to rotate basic attacks and reset your cooldowns before clearing the wave.

Rotate Defensive Skills and Healing

Zero-casualty clears require keeping health pools high enough to absorb unexpected critical hits. Waiting until a hero is critically injured before healing creates an immediate risk of a knockout.

• Heal before wave transitions: Cast healing abilities when core heroes drop below 70% health, especially toward the end of an active wave. This ensures the entire squad enters the next fight above lethal thresholds if enemy turn order allows them to strike first.
• Pair taunts with damage mitigation: If your team uses a protector with a taunt skill, activate taunt only when defense boosts or shields are active. An unshielded taunting unit absorbs all incoming fire and can collapse within a single turn.
• Disable elite targets: Use Leonardo and allied crowd control skills—such as stuns, attack debuffs, or action meter reduction—on dangerous foes that cannot be eliminated before their turn begins.

Boss Wave Execution

The final wave of a story stage features a reinforced Kraang elite or named boss. Bosses typically possess high health pools and multi-hit attacks, often directing heavy single-target skills at fragile allies or characters suffering from elemental class disadvantages.

When the boss wave starts, evaluate any accompanying minions. If the adds are low-health burst damage dealers, eliminate them immediately to remove extra incoming attacks. If the adds are high-defense tanks, direct all single-target burst damage directly at the boss. Cleanse dangerous debuffs like defense down or bleed as soon as they appear to ensure all five heroes survive the encounter and unlock the three-star clear.