The BLUE LOCK PWC Resources Guide explains how to get Blue Gems, Blue Lock Coins, character Training materials, Memory Balls, Pieces, Support Equipment resources, and other important upgrade items. Learn which resources are most valuable, where to get them, and how to avoid wasting materials on unnecessary upgrades.
Blue Gems are BLUE LOCK PWC's primary premium currency.
Their most important use is obtaining new characters and Support Cards through gacha.
At the standard rate, one pull costs 300 Blue Gems, while an 11-pull costs 3,000 Blue Gems. Current resource guidance places character banners among the highest-priority uses because additional characters and duplicate Pieces improve both Training potential and long-term Ability Liberation.
Blue Gems can also recover attempts or stamina in certain modes, but this is normally a much weaker use of the currency.
Current recurring Blue Gem sources include:
Story-event reward gachas
Event missions
Character Trust rewards
Rivalry/event match first-clear rewards
Event exchange shops
Regular missions
Login and campaign rewards
Occasional special distributions
Current Game8 resource data rates story-event reward gachas and event missions among the strongest repeatable or recurring sources of Blue Gems.
Temporary campaigns can occasionally distribute enormous Gem amounts, but those rewards should be treated as bonuses rather than guaranteed permanent income.
Increasing a player's Trust can award Blue Gems through the Player Encyclopedia.
Trust grows when that character participates as the player being trained or as a support during Training.
Current reward data shows that a character can provide a total of 3,000 Blue Gems across the relevant Trust milestones.
This makes unused characters more valuable than they initially appear.
Even when you do not plan to use a character competitively, increasing Trust can still contribute to your long-term Gem supply.
Certain Rivalry and event matches provide Blue Gems when clearing difficulties for the first time.
Current guidance lists approximately 100 Blue Gems per applicable difficulty as a common first-clear reward, although exact event rewards can change.
Do not ignore easier difficulties just because your team vastly outpowers them.
A collection of small first-clear rewards can become another full gacha pull surprisingly quickly.
BLUE LOCK PWC regularly attaches Gems and upgrade materials to missions.
The exact missions and rewards change with events, but they commonly involve activities you would already be completing, such as:
Training players
Completing matches
Reaching Training evaluation targets
Developing specified stats
Participating in event content
That makes missions one of the most efficient ways to obtain resources because you can progress several account systems simultaneously.
Regular mission rewards currently include Blue Gems alongside character enhancement materials and Coins.
The most important rule is simple:
Do not spend Blue Gems simply because you have them.
A premium currency becomes far more valuable when you have a clear objective.
Characters are generally the safest long-term Gem investment.
A strong character can function as:
A Training Player
A support player
A future Skill Connect piece
A Match Skill component
A source of new Training Cards
A foundation for future team compositions
Duplicates also provide Pieces for Ability Liberation.
Current resource guidance therefore recommends character gacha as one of the primary Blue Gem uses.
Support Cards can dramatically improve Training, especially with modern LR and LREX cards.
However, obtaining a Support Card is only one part of the investment.
You also need enough:
Memory Balls
Coins
Pieces
Compatible characters
Appropriate Training formations
to take advantage of it.
Current guidance notes that Memory Balls can become a major bottleneck, so players who are still developing their core characters may sometimes gain more immediate value from character pulls.
Blue Gems can restore attempts for content such as Training, Rivalry Battles, and Rank Match.
Normally, this is poor value because those attempts can recover naturally or through dedicated recovery items.
Current guidance specifically recommends preserving Blue Gems instead of routinely spending them on attempt recovery.
Your Gems are usually much harder to replace than an Energy Drink or Protein Bar.
Memorial Gems are another gacha-related currency.
They can substitute for Blue Gems in supported gacha situations, allowing you to preserve your normal premium Gem balance.
Current item documentation describes Memorial Gems as an alternative currency that can be consumed in place of Blue Gems for gacha.
When you receive them, treat them as part of your overall pull budget rather than another generic upgrade material.
Blue Lock Coins are the game's general enhancement currency.
They are used when leveling characters and Support Cards, meaning their consumption rises rapidly once you start investing into several high-level units.
Current resource guidance identifies several Coin sources:
Missions
Rivalry Battles
Event rewards
Login rewards
Transferring unused Trained Players
Exchange shops
Friend-related systems
Paid packs
Coins are important, but they also have more acquisition sources than several rarer upgrade materials.
That means spending valuable exchange currency on Coins is not always efficient.
Current resource recommendations specifically warn that food materials can become more restrictive and that exchange points may be better saved for those rarer resources.
Use exchange shops for Coins when you actually have a shortage.
Do not automatically buy every Coin bundle just because it is available.
Character leveling requires Blue Lock Coins plus several food-based enhancement materials.
The major food resources include:
Natto
Salad
Gyoza
Curry
Steak
Ego's Yakisoba
Higher character levels require increasingly valuable food materials.
Current level-up documentation confirms that Coins and these food items are consumed as characters advance, with rarer foods becoming increasingly important at higher levels.
Natto is one of the most common character-leveling resources.
You will need a large quantity because it is used throughout character progression rather than only near the end.
Current sources include:
Missions
Event rewards
Login bonuses
Exchange shops
Friend Point exchanges
Various campaign rewards
Current enhancement guidance recommends missions and event rewards as major sources for food materials generally.
Rare materials attract more attention, but massive amounts of basic food are required when leveling multiple players.
That means an account with plenty of Steak but no Natto can still become stuck.
Collect common materials even when you do not currently need them.
Salad is another character-leveling material that becomes increasingly important as levels rise.
Like Natto, it appears through missions, exchanges, events, and login rewards.
When exchange shops contain both Coins and food, food can often be the better long-term purchase if your Coin balance is already healthy.
Gyoza is a more restrictive leveling resource than Natto or Salad.
It appears in missions, events, exchanges, and other reward systems.
Current regular mission data also includes Gyoza among the obtainable character enhancement rewards.
Because Gyoza requirements increase as you push more characters into higher level brackets, blindly leveling every character can quickly drain your stockpile.
Curry becomes relevant deeper into character progression.
It is less plentiful than the basic food materials, which makes it increasingly important to reserve for characters you actually use.
Current character-upgrade data shows Curry appearing in the higher-level enhancement requirements alongside increasingly large amounts of the more common food materials.
Do not spend valuable Curry merely to increase the level of a character that has no place in your Training or match setups.
Steak is one of the more valuable character-leveling resources.
It becomes important for high-level character development and is considerably less common than basic foods.
Current sources can include:
Event missions
Event rewards
Login campaigns
Rivalry Battle reward pools
Exchange shops
Rank Match-related exchanges
Paid bundles
Steak can occasionally drop from applicable Rivalry event matches, although current guidance describes its drop chance as low enough that it should not be considered a dependable primary farming method.
That makes guaranteed event or exchange rewards particularly valuable.
Ego's Yakisoba is a high-end character enhancement material associated with advanced leveling.
As the game expanded its character progression to higher levels, this became part of the material requirements for pushing characters toward the modern upper end of progression.
Current 2026 campaigns continue to distribute Ego's Yakisoba as a valuable enhancement reward, and level-150 character material bundles include it alongside Steak, Curry, Gyoza, Salad, Natto, and Coins.
Treat it as a premium leveling material.
Use it on characters you expect to keep using.
Modern BLUE LOCK PWC progression extends well beyond the older level-100 baseline seen in early versions of the game.
Current 2026 content includes characters reaching Level 150, and recent official-style campaign reward documentation has repeatedly provided material bundles specifically described as enough to raise players to Level 150.
That has an important consequence:
Leveling everyone is extremely expensive.
You should decide which characters matter before spending your best enhancement materials.
Prioritize characters that function as:
Important Training Players
Core support players
Main match-team members
Skill Connect pieces
Long-term meta investments
Character and Support Card Pieces are used for Ability Liberation.
This is separate from normal leveling.
Leveling improves the character using food, Coins, or Support Card enhancement materials.
Ability Liberation uses duplicate-specific Pieces to unlock higher limits and additional progression.
Current Piece documentation confirms that Pieces raise Ability Liberation levels and unlock higher level caps.
Major sources include:
Character gacha
Duplicate pulls
Limited exchange shops
Event rewards
Character-specific exchanges
Current gacha data awards Pieces even when pulling characters, with characters of 3★ and above providing 25 Pieces per applicable pull.
Current Ability Liberation requirements list:
1★: 94 Pieces
2★: 184 Pieces
3★–5★: 300 Pieces
for full liberation through the standard ten Ability Liberation levels.
That demonstrates why duplicates matter so much.
Obtaining the character is only the beginning of their long-term progression.
Ability Liberation can:
Increase level caps
Improve Training performance
Unlock additional Training Abilities
Increase the strength of existing Training Abilities
Improve starting stats
Current maximum-liberation guidance identifies higher initial stats and stronger/unlocked Training Abilities among the major benefits.
Full Ability Liberation is powerful.
It is also expensive.
A better approach is to concentrate duplicate investment on characters that remain useful in several situations.
For example, a strong character that serves as both:
a major Training support + a strong match option
provides more account-wide value than a specialized character you rarely use.
The newest 5★ characters can be especially powerful, but that does not mean every 5★ must immediately become a maximum-investment project.
Once an applicable character or Support Card has reached maximum Ability Liberation, additional Pieces can convert into Memory Balls.
Current data lists examples such as 3★ character or SSR Support Card Pieces converting at a higher rate than lower-rarity Pieces.
This means duplicate pulls do not necessarily become completely useless once a unit is maxed.
They can begin feeding another important upgrade economy.
Memory Balls are the primary resource used for leveling Support Cards.
They are one of the most important bottleneck materials for serious Training progression.
Current sources include:
Missions
Event missions
Login rewards
Character gacha
Support Card gacha
Conversion from excess max-liberation Pieces
Support Cards become substantially stronger as they are leveled.
Their Training Abilities can improve, which directly affects future Trained Players.
That means Memory Balls do not merely make one card look stronger.
They can indirectly improve every future Training run that uses that card.
Current guidance specifically warns that Support Card leveling consumes large quantities of Memory Balls and recommends investing in cards you expect to use for a long time.
This is especially important for newer players.
A common mistake is:
Pull a card.
Level it immediately.
Replace it soon afterward.
Run out of Memory Balls when a genuinely important card appears.
Build a smaller high-quality support collection first.
EX Memory Balls belong to the EX Support Card progression system.
Current acquisition methods include:
EX Support Card gacha
Event mission rewards
Selected exchange shops
Current enhancement guidance identifies EX Support Card gacha as the most consistent direct source, while event rewards and exchanges provide additional opportunities.
Because EX Memory Ball availability can be more restrictive, avoid spending EX-related resources without knowing which EX Support Cards you actually intend to develop.
Support Cards also use Pieces for Ability Liberation.
This means Support Card progression has two separate resource requirements:
Memory Balls + Coins for levels.
Card-specific Pieces for Ability Liberation.
Improving both can significantly strengthen Training Abilities.
Do not confuse these systems.
Having enough Memory Balls does not mean you can fully liberate a Support Card.
And having duplicate Pieces does not automatically mean you can afford to level every card.
Support Equipment adds another layer of progression to modern Training.
Equipment can provide Training Abilities, while its sub-abilities can be rerolled.
Current equipment includes stronger tiers such as BLACK Support Equipment, which can provide powerful effects and exclusive Gold Skills.
The primary acquisition method is the dedicated Support Equipment gacha.
Standard equipment pulls currently use the same basic premium-currency structure of 300 Gems for one pull or 3,000 for eleven, although special tickets and event distributions can provide alternative acquisition routes.
Because characters and Support Cards also compete for premium resources, carefully consider whether equipment is actually your account's largest weakness before using Blue Gems there.
Support Equipment sub-abilities can be rerolled.
Rerolls require specific tickets, and modern equipment systems also include BOOST reroll tickets.
Current documentation explains that BOOST tickets can be exchanged using corresponding reroll tickets and increase your chances of obtaining certain desirable ability categories.
Do not burn reroll tickets on low-value equipment simply because you have them.
Save serious reroll investment for equipment that already fits a Training build you plan to use.
Energy Drinks restore Training stamina.
Training consumes stamina, and Energy Drinks allow additional Training attempts without using Blue Gems.
The Training system documentation confirms that Training stamina can recover naturally or be restored through Energy Drinks or Blue Gems.
That creates a simple spending rule:
Use dedicated recovery items before premium Gems whenever practical.
Energy Drinks frequently appear in events, exchanges, and special reward distributions.
Protein Bars restore attempts for Rivalry Battles.
They are valuable when an event contains desirable:
Pieces
Coins
Food materials
Event currency
First-clear rewards
Exchange-shop items
Friend Point and Rank Match exchanges can offer Protein Bars, and current exchange guidance treats them as useful because additional Rivalry attempts can translate directly into more event rewards.
Like Energy Drinks, they help you preserve Blue Gems.
Friend Points are easy to overlook because they are not a premium currency.
However, they can be converted into useful progression resources through the exchange shop.
Current Friend Point exchange options can include:
Coins
Natto
Salad
Gyoza
Energy Drinks
Protein Bars
The best exchange depends on your current bottleneck.
If you already have plenty of Coins but constantly run out of Rivalry attempts, Protein Bars may be more valuable.
If character leveling is blocked by food, buy food.
Treat Friend Points as a flexible resource for fixing smaller account shortages.
Rank Match can provide currencies that feed another exchange economy.
Depending on the available exchange lineup, these medals can provide:
Character-related rewards
Support Card resources
Enhancement materials
Recovery items
Current Rank Match Medal guidance particularly values rewards such as guaranteed character tickets and Protein Bars because those can improve Ability Liberation or create additional farming attempts.
Exchange inventories can change, so judge the current shop rather than relying on one permanent shopping list.
Many BLUE LOCK PWC events use their own exchange currency.
These shops can contain:
Character Pieces
Support Card Pieces
Blue Gems
Memory Balls
EX Memory Balls
Food materials
Recovery items
Equipment-related resources
The exact rewards change from event to event.
That makes prioritization important.
When available, consider prioritizing:
Limited character or Support Card Pieces
These may be difficult or impossible to obtain efficiently later.
Rare enhancement resources
Such as high-level foods or EX-related materials.
Blue Gems
Premium currency generally has strong long-term value.
Memory Balls
Especially when your support collection is underdeveloped.
Recovery items
Useful when they allow you to obtain even more valuable event resources.
Coins and common food
Still valuable, but usually easier to replace.
The correct order can change if your account has a severe bottleneck.
BLUE LOCK PWC often rewards players for performing activities that improve multiple systems at once.
For example, completing Training can simultaneously:
Progress event missions
Increase character Trust
Generate event points
Produce a new Trained Player
Help satisfy mission requirements
Unlock additional rewards
Rivalry content can similarly produce:
Coins
Event currency
Materials
First-clear Gems
Exchange-shop progress
That means efficient resource farming is less about repeatedly farming one generic stage and more about choosing content where several reward systems overlap.
When resources are limited, use a clear order.
Support characters used repeatedly during Training should receive priority because improving them can affect many future Trained Players.
Develop characters you actually intend to train into match-team members.
Characters used in your best team deserve investment when additional permanent levels or unlocked abilities improve their final Training potential.
Some characters may not be individually top tier but become valuable because they enable Training, Collection, or Match Skill connections.
Do not consume rare high-level foods merely because an unused character is sitting below the rest of your roster.
Support Cards should be judged even more carefully because Memory Balls can become restrictive.
Prioritize cards that:
Fit several Training formations
Have strong Training Bonus
Have Special Lecture Bonus
Provide strong Constant Stat effects
Generate FLOW
Enable useful Skill Connect effects
Supply valuable Training menu cards
Remain useful at high investment
Avoid heavily upgrading a card merely because it is currently your highest rarity.
The best investment is the card that improves Training you actually perform.
Blue Gems disappear much faster than they are earned.
Have a reason for each pull.
Dedicated recovery items normally exist for this purpose.
Save premium currency when possible.
High-level food requirements become expensive.
Build a core roster first.
Memory Balls are too important to spread across cards you will soon replace.
Natto and Salad look easy to obtain until you attempt to develop several characters simultaneously.
Steak and Ego's Yakisoba should primarily support characters with long-term value.
Coins have many acquisition sources.
Check whether the same exchange currency can buy rarer materials first.
Training unused characters can still create meaningful Blue Gem income through Trust progression.
Always inspect new event difficulties for Blue Gems and valuable one-time items.
Save serious reroll investment for equipment you realistically expect to use.
Maximum Ability Liberation requires substantial duplicate investment.
Focus on characters and cards with real long-term value.
Free-to-play progression benefits greatly from patience.
You do not need to maximize every system simultaneously.
Your biggest advantage is making each resource improve multiple areas of the account.
For example:
Investing food and Coins into a powerful support character improves future Training.
Better Training produces stronger Trained Players.
Stronger players allow you to clear harder Rivalry and event content.
That content gives more Gems, Pieces, Coins, and materials.
Those resources then strengthen the next part of your Training core.
That is a much healthier progression cycle than continuously pulling new characters while leaving every character and Support Card underdeveloped.
Save when you do not currently have a clear upgrade target.
There is nothing wrong with holding:
Blue Gems
Memory Balls
Rare foods
Character Pieces
Equipment reroll tickets
Recovery items
until they provide obvious value.
Resources do not lose effectiveness because they remain unused in your inventory.
Spending them on a temporary upgrade can be much worse than waiting for an important character, Support Card, or equipment piece.
Spend when the upgrade clearly unlocks progress.
Good examples include:
Leveling a core support enough to unlock an important Training Ability
Raising a main character enough to improve future Training significantly
Completing Ability Liberation on a character central to several formations
Upgrading a high-value Support Card used across multiple builds
Using recovery items when they allow access to valuable event rewards
Rerolling strong Support Equipment whose sub-abilities are holding it back
The question should always be:
What does this upgrade unlock for my account?
If the answer is unclear, saving is usually safer.
Current major sources include story-event reward gachas, event missions, player Trust rewards, Rivalry/event first-clear rewards, regular missions, exchange shops, and campaign distributions.
A standard 11-pull costs 3,000 Blue Gems, while one pull costs 300.
Usually not. Training and other attempt systems can recover naturally or through dedicated items, making premium Gems more valuable for gacha.
Coins are used for leveling characters and Support Cards.
They are character-leveling materials. Different combinations and quantities are required as characters progress to higher levels.
Ego's Yakisoba is a high-level character enhancement material associated with advanced character progression, including modern Level 150 development.
Memory Balls are used to level Support Cards. They can be obtained from missions, events, gacha, and excess Pieces after applicable units reach maximum Ability Liberation.
EX Memory Balls are associated with EX Support Card progression and can be obtained primarily through EX Support Card gacha, event missions, and selected exchange shops.
Character and Support Card Pieces are used for Ability Liberation, which raises level caps and improves long-term development.
Current Ability Liberation data lists 300 Pieces as the total requirement for characters starting at 3★ or higher.
Energy Drinks restore Training stamina, allowing more Training without spending Blue Gems.
Protein Bars restore Rivalry Battle attempts and can be particularly useful while farming event rewards.
No. Memory Balls are heavily consumed by Support Card progression, so prioritize cards you expect to use long term.
Resource management in BLUE LOCK PWC becomes much easier once every currency has a specific purpose.
Blue Gems expand your roster.
Pieces improve Ability Liberation.
Coins and food increase character levels.
Memory Balls develop Support Cards.
EX Memory Balls support EX-card progression.
Energy Drinks and Protein Bars create additional gameplay attempts without sacrificing premium Gems.
Reroll tickets improve Support Equipment.
The biggest mistake is treating all resources as something that should be spent immediately.
Strong accounts are built by concentrating resources.
Develop the characters you repeatedly use.
Level the Support Cards that improve several Training formations.
Save rare foods for long-term players.
Preserve Blue Gems until a banner meaningfully improves your roster.
And whenever possible, choose content where Training, missions, Trust, event rewards, and match rewards progress together.
The best resource strategy is not simply collecting more.
It is making every resource improve the account in more than one way.
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