| Button or Combination | Usage
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 | Angle dragon. Up tilts the dragon upwards, down tilts downards, left turns left, right turns right.
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 | Breath fire. Hold the Square button and move the crosshairs over enemies to charge up multiple homing shots. The number of shots able to be fired is determined by the dragon's evolution.
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 | Auto-pilot the dragon to turn towards the currently assigned target. Targets are to to manually change, but often will lock on to the closest enemy.
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 + | Do a U-turn - the dragon will abruptly turn around in place, rather than a maneuver like Starfox.
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 | Pause
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