Team

The teams in the Change Order menu.

The party setup in Torna ~ The Golden Country is similar to that of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 functionally, but with several important differences. The party consists of three teams, each consisting of one Driver and two Blades:

Team Lora, which consists of Lora, Jin, and Haze;
Team Addam, which consists of Addam, Mythra, and Minoth;
Team Hugo, which consists of Hugo, Brighid, and Aegaeon.

Story circumstances may mean that not every member of every team (or possibly that not every team) are available. Besides these circumstances, all three full teams are typically in the party at once, and all may participate in combat.

Active Blade[edit]

Only one of the two Blades may be active (visible on the field) at once. Which one this is can be switched at any time using a Blade Switch: in the overworld (including in combat) this is done using D-pad left, whereas in the character menu it is done with R. Switching Blades in combat has a cooldown of around 10 seconds.

Vanguard and Rear Guard[edit]

Either the active Blade or the Driver takes the position of the Vanguard (equivalent to the Driver in the main game), with the other taking the position of Rear Guard (equivalent to the Blade in the main game). Characters in the Vanguard use Vanguard Arts (the equivalent of Driver Arts), whereas those in the Rear Guard use Rear Guard Arts (the equivalent of Blade Arts). The character in the Vanguard can be switched using a Vanguard Switch, done using D-pad up (or Y in the character menu). Similarly to Blade Switching, this has a cooldown when done in combat; this cooldown is independent of that for the Blade Switch.

During a Vanguard Switch, the character being switched into the Vanguard performs a Switch Art unique to that character. These are attacks which deal damage and inflict a stage of the Driver Combo.

Unlike in the main game, Specials are performed by the character in the Vanguard.

List of Switch Arts[edit]

Art	Character	Weapon	Description
Touch-Me-Not	Lora	Battle Braid	Launch
Illustrious Slash	Addam	Greatsword	AOE / Topple
Sword Strike	Hugo	Arming Sword	Smash
Thin Ice	Jin	Nodachi	Topple
Stormy Skies	Haze	Crosier	Smash
Blinding Flash	Mythra	Aegis Sword	Smash
Sierpe	Minoth	Gunknives	Break / Evasion
Leaping Blaze	Brighid	Whipswords	Break
Rushing Tide	Aegaeon	Chroma Katana	Launch / Evasion

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The editor who added this tag elaborates: Vanguard, Rear Guard, and Switch Art