Love allows the user to conjure and manipulate pink, heart-shaped elements depicted as "Love" into attacks that can not only damage enemies, but also significantly reduce their attacking power. The user can also summon a "Besto Friendo" that will fight for them, or ride a pink flamingo and hover in the air.
Love is good in Bounty/Honor hunting for its ability to apply debuffs to enemies through its passive effects, stuns, instinct-breaks, and ability to run away from losing battles. Love emphasizes AoE damage moves and also offers utility through its support capabilities. Love includes a flight move that allows players to carry an ally, adding strategic flexibility.
Love's [F] Flamingo Ride move allows the user to use attacks while hovering in the air without consuming or inhibiting energy regeneration, unlike Phoenix, and has low cooldown, making Love an insanely good fruit for carrying Raids and grinding. Overall, Love has huge amounts of range, decent damage, fast and less Instinct-trickable combos, and is generally an amazing fruit for everything.
If an enemy is hit by Love's [Z] Heart Shot or [C] Irresistible Attraction move, it will "charm" the enemy with the user, temporarily decreasing their damage against the user by 25% (33% against NPCs) for 6 seconds. At the same time, it fills the enemy's screen with pink hearts, causing their screen to pulse like a heartbeat, and highly distorting the enemy's screen.
Heart Shot
1 Mastery
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The user shoots a heart-shaped arrow towards the cursor, which grabs any enemies in its way when released and explodes upon contact, or when the maximum range is reached. It leaves a small trail behind if shot close to the ground.
Heart Shot
1 Mastery
The user shoots a heart-shaped arrow towards the cursor, which grabs any enemies in its way when released and explodes upon contact, or when the maximum range is reached. It leaves a small trail behind if shot close to the ground.
Cupid's Zone
50 Mastery
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The user shoots an arching pink arrow of perfume into the air aimed towards the cursor. The arrow then explodes into a cloud of perfume with a shining heart on top, while heart arrows rain down for the duration. This creates a tick-damage type move that deals damage to all enemies inside the "Zone" and lasts for 3 seconds, dealing roughly 1 tick of damage every 0.2 seconds. Additionally, all enemies within the zone will be unable to dash, Air Jump, and use their Flash Step.
Cupid's Zone
50 Mastery
The user shoots an arching pink arrow of perfume into the air aimed towards the cursor. The arrow then explodes into a cloud of perfume with a shining heart on top, while heart arrows rain down for the duration. This creates a tick-damage type move that deals damage to all enemies inside the "Zone" and lasts for 3 seconds, dealing roughly 1 tick of damage every 0.2 seconds. Additionally, all enemies within the zone will be unable to dash, Air Jump, and use their Flash Step.
Irresistible Attraction
150 Mastery
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The user kneels down and creates a pink beating heart above them, while simultaneously creating a large pink circle area around them. Once the key is released, the heart explodes and the user spins around, pulling any enemies within the circle towards the user and briefly stunning them. This move can be held down to make the circle bigger and increase its damage. This move can be held for 1 second to fully charge.
Irresistible Attraction
150 Mastery
The user kneels down and creates a pink beating heart above them, while simultaneously creating a large pink circle area around them. Once the key is released, the heart explodes and the user spins around, pulling any enemies within the circle towards the user and briefly stunning them. This move can be held down to make the circle bigger and increase its damage. This move can be held for 1 second to fully charge.
Besto Friendo
200 Mastery
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The user shoots a heart-shaped arrow which explodes into a large heart explosion, dealing decent damage. The explosion creates a "Friend", a friendly NPC wielding the Canvander sword. They can jump, dash, attack, and swim. The damage dealt by this NPC and its health scales off the user's level.
The NPC will always resemble someone in the user's friends list. Four friends are randomly selected for this role per server, so only four friends will spawn per server.
The summoned NPC can damage Blade users, but not Elemental users.
The user can prevent the spawned NPC from attacking others by having no Fighting Style, Fruit, Sword or Gun selected. This means the Besto Friendo won't attack players or enemies even when the user takes damage.
Besto Friendo
200 Mastery
The user shoots a heart-shaped arrow which explodes into a large heart explosion, dealing decent damage. The explosion creates a "Friend", a friendly NPC wielding the Canvander sword. They can jump, dash, attack, and swim. The damage dealt by this NPC and its health scales off the user's level.
The NPC will always resemble someone in the user's friends list. Four friends are randomly selected for this role per server, so only four friends will spawn per server.
The summoned NPC can damage Blade users, but not Elemental users.
The user can prevent the spawned NPC from attacking others by having no Fighting Style, Fruit, Sword or Gun selected. This means the Besto Friendo won't attack players or enemies even when the user takes damage.
Flamingo Ride
100 Mastery
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The user creates a flying flamingo to ride on, allowing them to fly freely in any direction. All of the Love's moves can be used without freezing up while riding on the flamingo, but not other weapons' moves.
If activated near an ally/hostile enemy or a "friend", they will be picked up as a passenger on the flamingo. This does not work on Bosses, Raid enemies and Sea Event enemies.
The user can hold moves while flying, but it will make the flight slower.
Flamingo Ride
100 Mastery
The user creates a flying flamingo to ride on, allowing them to fly freely in any direction. All of the Love's moves can be used without freezing up while riding on the flamingo, but not other weapons' moves.
If activated near an ally/hostile enemy or a "friend", they will be picked up as a passenger on the flamingo. This does not work on Bosses, Raid enemies and Sea Event enemies.
The user can hold moves while flying, but it will make the flight slower.
Move
Cooldown (In seconds)
Energy
[Z] Heart Shot
9
20
[X] Cupid's Zone
12
40
[C] Irresistible Attraction
15
60
[V] Besto Friendo
22.5
100
[F] Flamingo Ride
2
10
Instinct Chart
Move
Breaks Instinct
Instinct-Trickable
Notes
[Z] Heart Shot
✅
✅
The grab breaks Instinct. Can be dodged at the explosion or on the edge.
[X] Cupid's Zone
✅
✅
Can be dodged on the edge.
[C] Irresistible Attraction
✅
✅
Can be dodged on the edge.
[V] Besto Friendo
✅
✅
Initial startup breaks Instinct. Besto Friendo's moves can also break Instinct. Check Canvander for more details.
Besto Friendo works as an independent entity, so its damage does not scale with the user's fruit stats. This is amazing for gun/sword mains that want to utilize Love.
It uses the Canvander sword, a sword who's attacks are famously known to completely drain instinct.
Besto Friendo also can be an excellent way for fruit mains to grind sword mastery.
The opponent takes immediate damage from Canvander's [Z] or [X] move if they are close to the NPC, as they have perfect aim, making it very useful if chasing enemies in the air.
Can deal a large amount of extra damage when using stun moves like Godhuman or Sanguine Art, making one-shot combos easier. (On the ground)
The Besto Friendo can be very useful for breaking enemy's combos or cancelling their abilities, like Dough's [V].
The Friendo is programmed to always go in front of the user, often making it great at tanking moves, or even interrupting enemies.
The opponent can attack the Besto Friendo instead, possibly leaving an opening for the user to attack the opponent.
Can carry NPCs, preventing them from doing damage, though users cannot attack the NPCs either. This is most likely a bug that will get patches in the future.
Cons
General
Overall damage is quite low.
[Z] Heart Shot
High and sometimes unpredictable knockback, making it unreliable in grinding.
[X] Cupid's Zone
Low stun, making this move only really dangerous because of its ability to break Instinct.
Easy to dodge.
Extremely hard to aim/deal damage in aerial combat.
[C] Irresistible Attraction
Small hitbox, so the user needs to get close to enemies. (This can be a hindrance because enemies can attack when getting too close)
[V] Besto Friendo
Aside from the ability to use Canvander's [Z] and [X] move while in the air, Love's NPCs are almost useless when fighting in the air due to the difficulty of them reaching enemy players to use the M1 attack.
Unfortunately, due to Besto Friendo not using Aura, Elemental users are completely immune.
[F] Flamingo Ride
While using this move, the user is unable to attack with any weapon other than this fruit, making their choice in attacks much more limited.
Disabling screen shake cannot stop the Lovestruck effect.
Trivia
Love previously was not very rare but had exceptionally high combo potential if used correctly.
Love is one of the few fruits that have abilities that resemble Transformation. While the user doesn't technically "transform" into the respective thing the fruit is named after, [F] Flamingo Ride disables all weapons except for the fruit, similar to many other transformations. The other fruit that can "transform" is Ghost.
While Ghost indeed does transform into the respective thing, the transformation is only triggered by death, as the [V] Besto Friendo move doesn’t really count.
Love's [X] Cupid Zone had the longest range in the game (even more than the Pre-Reworked Pain) if the user aimed it correctly at another player's body (this did not apply to NPCs). Unfortunately, this was patched in Update 24.
Love is widely considered to be one of the most annoying and difficult fruits to fight against, mainly due to its Lovestruck passive, high range, and sky camping capabilities.
The NPC spawned from [V] Besto Friendo can sometimes trick exploit scripts and make exploiters follow the NPC in an attempt to kill it but won't deal any damage if their PvP is off, effectively rendering the script useless, unless the exploiter is online while farming, but it is very unlikely.
If the user has spawned a Friend from Love's [V] Besto Friendo and dies, the Friend will die as well.
The Friend's health and damage scale off the user's current level. Their health is user's level multiplied by 2, and their M1 damage is user's level divided by roughly 1.65 (ex. user's level is 2650, so the Friend's health will be 5300 HP, and their M1 will deal around 1609 damage.)
Love's [X] Cupid Zone and [C] Irresistible Attraction can only be held for 7.5 seconds.
There's a bug/glitch where, if the user uses Love's [F] Flamingo Ride move and has console mode active, the user is able to use their Fighting Style, Sword, and Gun while riding on the flamingo. This is most likely patched.
Love's flight ability is one of the only fruits that allows the player to stop moving in mid-air and heal naturally while in flight. The other fruits that can do this are Eagle, Phoenix, Gravity and Dragon.
Love's [F] Flamingo Ride previously was able to fly in boats.
The former Lv. 1675 boss (Island Empress) used the Z, X, and V moves of the old Love fruit.
There is a glitch/bug that allows more than four players in the same raid at a time by using Love's [F] Flamingo Ride and having an allied player on the flamingo and both in the raid tube at the same time. However, mounted players cannot deal damage in raids, and they don't get rewards. This can also be done with Kitsune, by having an allied player mount on the Kitsune user while transformed.
Love is the only fruit that uses an In-game friend's avatar.
There is a glitch where if someone uses Love's [V] Besto Friendo, perfectly on a chair like in Mansion or Café (the ones utilized for Trading), other players will not be able to sit on that chair for the rest of the duration of the server.
This can be used for trolling people, by using [V] Besto Friendo on a chair on each pair of chairs, making trading impossible.
The flamingo on [F] Flamingo Ride wears the Heart Shades accessory.
Love is the first ever fruit to be able to carry other players (on the flamingo).
The [V] Besto Friendo can be used to attack Ice Admiral after leaving first sea.