KJ Test Controls

The KJ Test description prints a control block and then never explains it. Here it is in language you can fight with. Keep the cheatsheet for a screenshot; this page is the why.

Official PC list:

• G — ultimate mode (awakening).
• F — block.
• Q — dash.
• Double-tap W — run.
• Left click — punch (M1).
• B — emote wheel.

That is the whole public manual. Everything else is battlegrounds literacy you bring from TSB-style games, including this wiki’s getting started hour.

Punch, block, dash — the triangle

M1 is your auto. Four hits is the usual string in this genre; the fourth often launches or lets you dash into a wall combo. Do not M1 from across the map. Walk or run in, then click.

F-block eats M1s and some skill startups. It does not eat a committed Ravage or a dropkick cinematic. Blocking forever is how you get grab-checked. Block in bursts.

Q-dash is movement, mix, and evasive depending on timing. Dash through an M1, not away from a grab you already ate. If dash feels like teleport, either you have high ping or someone nearby is running a moveset script with TpDash on.

Using KJ in a battlegrounds clone — movement and kit feel

Run and camera

Double-tap W starts the run. On some builds you hold W after the tap; on others a second tap cancels. Lab it in an empty corner before you lab combos. Running is for rotating to a wall or fleeing a full 20 Series, not for looping the map until someone with Invincible flies into you.

Shift-lock (PC) is not in the official six-line block. Turn it on anyway. Without it, dash direction follows camera drift and you will Q into pits. Console: left trigger lock is the usual cousin. Mobile: look for the lock / strafe toggle.

Ultimate is G, not 5

New players mash 4 and wonder why Stoic Bomb never comes out. Slot 4 is Spiraling Storm on KJ, a base move. Awakening is G. The bar has to fill from damage. The how to awaken page covers spend order. The short version: do not G as a greeting.

The ragdoll Q question

Sister KJ Test games print a seventh line: Q while ragdolled — ragdoll cancel / evasive. This place’s public description omits it. Test it. If you get a burst of i-frames or a stand-up dash, keep it — it is the difference between eating a wall pin and living. If nothing happens, do not sit on the floor waiting for a TSB muscle memory that this file never mapped. Report what you find by playing, not by arguing with a wiki. We will match the cheatsheet to the live build.

Skills 1–4 on KJ

Once you can move, the numbers mean:

1. Ravage — grab barrage. Your best confirm. See KJ.
2. Swift Sweep — chase / anti-run.
3. Collateral Ruin — launcher into air routes.
4. Spiraling Storm — the slot people forget; treat it as a mix, not a panic.

Other fighters remap the same slots. Red Mist is slashes. Invincible is rusher tools. Learn the six universal binds first or every remap feels like a new game.

The video below is a KJ clone session that shows how dash, M1, and awakening feel when the kit is actually connected. Use it as motion reference, then bind your own hands.

Mobile and console specifics

Mobile: punch is on-screen; dash is a separate button; block is a hold. Put dash on a zone you will not fat-thumb while pressing punch. If your default layout overlaps them, you will “randomly” dash during M1s and swear the game is broken.

Console: punch on B (Xbox naming in sister descriptions), dash on Y, block on X, ultimate on D-pad up. If your overlay differs, believe the in-game prompt, not a TSB Reddit post.

Emote wheel on console is usually the right stick click. Do not open it mid-string.

Drills (ten minutes)

1. Dash three times in a triangle without M1.
2. Block a training friend’s first two punches, then dash out.
3. Run, stop, Ravage. Running Ravage whiffs more than walking Ravage.
4. Fill a bar and do not press G. Survive with a full meter. That discipline is a rank-up.
5. Die near a wall on purpose. Notice whether they Q-dash into a pin. Then go to wall combo.

When the binds disappear from your thinking, you are ready for combos and how to beat KJ. Until then, every death is a controls death even if it looked like a power gap.