Gakuran Controls

On PC, Gakuran's fight kit lives on a small cluster of keys: light attacks (M1) are Left Click and chain into the 4-hit combo, the heavy attack (M2) is R, and F does double duty — hold it to block, click it to parry. Q is your dash. If you searched "how to fight in Gakuran on PC", that's the whole answer — Left Click pressure, R for unblockable damage, and a clicked F at exactly the right moment turns an incoming hit into a parry that takes zero damage and stuns the attacker.

The utility binds trip up more players than the combat ones. Left Alt opens your phone (the game's menu hub), T equips or unequips your fighting style, E interacts, and — the one nobody finds on their own — Backspace drops whatever you're holding. When another player is downed, V carries them and B executes or grips them. Ctrl toggles shift-lock, Shift sprints, Shift + P opens free cam, G opens the emote wheel, and Tab swaps your point of view. The full 19-bind table below comes straight from the official Trello Controls card.

Jump is Space on PC and A / Cross on console. This is worth spelling out because it changed twice: Gakuran launched without a jump, the official Controls card spent weeks stating "Jump: You cannot jump", and update v2.679 (2026-08-01) added jumping and falling animations back. The Controls card was rewritten to match on 2026-08-04. If another guide still tells you Gakuran has no jump, it simply hasn't been updated since July.

One consequence from the same patch notes is worth knowing before you try it: jumping too far down while carrying another player will ragdoll you. Carrying is otherwise unaffected — V to pick someone up on PC, D-Pad Up on console.

The console map was rebuilt in the same 2026-08-04 card rewrite, so muscle memory from July is now wrong. Light attacks are still Right Trigger (RT / R2), but the heavy attack moved to Right Bumper (RB / R1), sprint moved to holding Left Trigger (LT / L2), block is now X / Square, and the phone opens with D-Pad Right. Dash stays on B / Circle, equipping your fighting style is a single Left Bumper (LB / L1) press instead of the old settings detour, and shift-lock is a left-stick click (L3).

The headline console change: there is finally an official Drop/Place Item bind — D-Pad Up — after months of the card listing none. The v7.856 update renamed that bind from "Drop Item" on both control maps, because you can now place an item down deliberately rather than only drop it; the keys themselves didn't move. Two quirks in the card are real and reproduced in the table below rather than smoothed over: Block and Interact are both mapped to X / Square, and Carry Downed Player and Drop/Place Item are both D-Pad Up, so context decides which one fires. Carrying and executing are now plain D-Pad presses (Up to carry, Down to execute or grip) instead of the old bumper combos.

The developers have never published a mobile keybind table, and there isn't a hidden one this page is leaving out — on mobile, Gakuran is played entirely through on-screen HUD buttons for attacking, blocking, dashing, and interacting. Those buttons are real and even adjustable: the v7.203 patch notes fixed a bug where mobile HUD button layouts weren't saving, which is the developers themselves confirming the HUD layout system. If an official mobile control sheet ever ships, it will be added here; until then, treat any site listing exact mobile binds with suspicion.

Gakuran ships four chat commands that work on every platform. /Me wraps your message in asterisks for roleplay actions — and typing an asterisk before and after any message also highlights it in pink. /S sends a shouted, emphasized version of your message. /ooc sends your message cleanly with no effects or speaking lines, for talking out of character. The newest one, /w, is a proximity whisper: italic light-grey text that only players within 3 metres can read, while everyone further away sees *unintelligible* instead. Those four are the only commands listed on the official card — any other "command list" you see is invented.