Jump Ultimate Stars/Building teams

In order to fight in Jump Ultimate Stars, you'll need to build a team. Teams consist of multiple koma (panels), with at least one battle character, one support character, and one help character.

Battle characters
Battle characters are characters that can participate in the battle. They occupy four or more koma. There is a limit to how many you may have in a team. The maximum amount of battle characters in a single team is four characters, each being 4 koma.

Support characters
Support characters are 2-3 koma characters that come out to help the battle character out, usually by using a special attack.

Help characters
Help characters are 1 koma characters that give special abilities to the battle character they are assigned to.

Health bonuses
When selecting a battle character, press the Y button to view their various stats, including health, specials, special innate abilities, and their "friend characters". Friend Characters are characters that, when placed near the character, increase the battle character's health by a set amount. Whether the friend character in question is a support, helper, or battle character has no influence over the amount of health gained.

Also, leader characters gain a slight health boost as well.