KJ Test Awakening Rankings

Base kits have a character ranking. Awakenings need a second axis because a mid fighter with a nuke still wins clumps. This page ranks G spends the way public KJ Test servers use them. How to fill the bar and when to press G is how to awaken. This is only which button after G.

S — deletes groups

Stoic Bomb. The official thumbnail literally paints STOIC BOMB [G] on KJ’s face. Jump, crash, everyone in the cylinder has a bad time. Best when two or more bodies are already overlapping from a wall combo or a trashcan pile. Worst as a 1v1 opener against a player who can see the sky. If you only learn one spend, learn this.

20-20-20 Dropkick. Skillshot cinema. Highest clip rate, highest miss rate. S when you already have a knockdown. C when you use it as a greeting. The how to awaken page embeds the dropkick showcase; this ranking assumes you watched it and still missed twice last night. That is the move working as designed — it is greedy.

A — strong, slower

Five Seasons. Anti-group from above. A if you can see a clump. B if you throw it at a lone runner. Easy to “look like TSB” and hit nobody.

Unlimited Flex Works. Charged, long, greedy. A as a finisher when evasive is gone. D if you start it in a 1v3. You will wake up in the menu.

Kit-specific G

Red Mist awakening slashes. Live in A/S on mobile because they are readable and wide. Less lab time than Dropkick. See Red Mist.

Invincible awakening. Treat as A until the player base agrees on a confirm. New kits always look S in the trailer and A in your replay. Invincible.

Cosmic Form spend. Flashy, interruptible, A only if you still know where Q is. Cosmic Form.

What we refuse to rank

Script-only “infinite awakening” and InfiniteKJ flags from moveset scripts. Those are not part of the game. Ranking them would be ranking bans.

TSB-only second-awakening memes. If this place file does not put the tool on your bar, it is not on this list. Check Updates before you comment that we “forgot 21 Series.”

How to pick a spend in the moment

• 2+ bodies overlapping → Stoic Bomb.
• One ragdoll, camera clean, you are not being pinched → Dropkick.
• You are already in the air from a launcher → Five Seasons if they are still grouped.
• You are greedy and they have no dash → Flex Works.
• You are on mobile and the names look like soup → the widest slash your kit has. Do not Dropkick-thumb.

If none of those apply, do not awaken yet. Holding the bar is a rank. Wasting it is a clip for them.

Practice that changes your personal tier

Your S is the spend you hit. If Dropkick is 2/10 for you, it is not S in your hands. Lab Stoic Bomb until it is boring, then add Dropkick as a luxury. The combos page already told you to use G as an ender. This page tells you which ender.

When a patch renames a slot, we will reshuffle with the Invincible & Red Mist article, not in a vacuum. Until then: Bomb for piles, Dropkick for murders, everything else for pride.

Pair this with how to beat KJ so you know what it looks like when someone else has the bar. The best counter to an S spend is not being in the cylinder.