Heavenly Restriction builds in Jujutsu Zero, explained

Heavenly Restriction is one of the biggest power spikes in Jujutsu Zero, but it is also one of the most punishing choices you can make for a build. You gain huge permanent stat boosts and a clear identity, and in return you lock yourself out of an entire damage system.

What Heavenly Restriction is in Jujutsu Zero

In Jujutsu Zero, Heavenly Restriction functions as a permanent, account-side “binding vow” style upgrade. Once applied, it restructures your stats around a single combat style and disables a core part of your kit:

• Physical Heavenly Restriction pushes you into a pure weapon build. Your weapon damage and survivability jump up, but you lose access to cursed techniques entirely.
• Sorcery Heavenly Restriction does the opposite. Your cursed techniques become dramatically stronger and more spam‑able, but you can no longer use weapons, and your health drops.

Both versions are crafted items. When you use one on your character, the effect is permanent until you explicitly remove it through an NPC, and removing it destroys the item. Swapping later means crafting the restriction again from scratch.

Physical vs. Sorcery Heavenly Restriction (stat changes)

The restrictions are not simple damage buffs. They reframe your entire stat profile and how you’re expected to play.

Physical restriction leans into upgraded and ascended weapons. Because weapon damage scales with upgrades and ascensions, the flat attack and crit damage bonuses stack on top of already strong numbers. The extra health makes aggressive play in raids much safer.

Sorcery restriction turns your kit into a high-output ability engine. Shorter cooldowns and a massive cursed energy pool let you cycle techniques constantly, and the crit bonuses mean each hit lands harder. The cost is survivability and any access to weapon-based damage.

How Heavenly Restriction fits the Jujutsu Kaisen concept

Heavenly Restriction in Jujutsu Kaisen canon is a binding vow placed on someone’s body at birth. One aspect of the body is limited, so another can be pushed beyond normal limits.

Typical cases in the manga fall into two broad patterns:

• Near-zero or zero cursed energy, superhuman body — Toji Fushiguro and, later, Maki Zenin end up with essentially no cursed energy at all and “body of steel” level physical abilities. They trade techniques for raw speed, power, and senses.
• Frail body, overwhelming cursed energy — Kokichi Muta (Mechamaru) is born without limbs and in constant pain, but can project immense cursed energy over vast distances to operate puppets.

Jujutsu Zero mirrors this design: either you strip away weapons to become a pure technique specialist, or you strip away techniques to become a weapon-focused monster. The game leans into that hard specialization to justify the extreme stat lines.

How to unlock Physical Heavenly Restriction (quest route)

Physical Heavenly Restriction is tied to a specific trainer NPC known as the physical heavenly restrictor.

Step 1: Use the map teleport to travel to the physical heavenly restrictor location. From the teleporter, follow the route up to the area where the NPC stands; once you are close enough, interact to open their quest menu.

Step 2: Accept the first endurance-style capture quest. You are placed in a capture zone where NPC enemies funnel into a control circle. You earn points by keeping enemies inside the area and defeating them while they remain in the circle.

Step 3: Farm points until you hit the target total for that quest. The first quest commonly requires 2,500 points. Enemies in this arena hit hard, so you are expected to use cursed techniques and movement to thin waves while staying within the capture zone.

Completing an endurance quest at this trainer does more than progress the unlock. Each clear awards Heavenly Fragments and strengthen crates, which can contain items like Attack Vow and the physical binding needed for the craft version of physical restriction.

In some cases, interacting with the trainer again after finishing the first mission can immediately present the option to take Physical Heavenly Restriction rather than forcing every follow-up quest, but the consistent pattern is: endurance quests feed you the core materials required for the restriction itself.

How to unlock Sorcery Heavenly Restriction (quest route)

Sorcery Heavenly Restriction is handled by a different NPC, the sorcery heavenly restrictor, in another region of the map.

Step 1: Teleport to the sorcery heavenly restrictor’s location through the map menu. Move along the shown path until you reach the NPC and interact to view the quest list.

Step 2: Work through a set of four quests. The first three are endurance-style capture missions similar to the physical trainer’s quests, but with higher point requirements: 2,500, then 5,000, then 7,000 points. Each run demands you keep enemies inside the capture circle and finish them there to build points.

Step 3: After clearing the three endurance quests, accept the final materials quest. This last step asks you to bring specific items: five Attack Vow 3, five Heavenly Fragments, and one sorcery binding.

These materials do not drop directly from the sorcery trainer. Instead, they come from high-rarity chests:

• Special grade chests and new jolly chests.
• Raid boss chests, particularly from the Toji “sorcerer killer” raid on hard or nightmare for the sorcery binding.

Once you hand in the materials, you can claim Sorcery Heavenly Restriction and apply it to your character.

Crafting Heavenly Restriction from raid materials

Both restrictions can also be crafted straight from raid loot rather than purely relying on the trainer route. In practice, players blend the two approaches: endurance quests to get starter fragments and crates, then heavy raid farming to finish the recipe.

To farm efficiently, the key is consistency rather than raw difficulty. Run Toji raid at the highest difficulty you can clear comfortably without dying out of runs. That maximizes the number of strengthen crates you open over time, which in turn feeds you Attack Vows, Heavenly Fragments, and the rare binding items.

Heavenly Fragments also exist in Flame crates, often obtained from volcano-style raids, so fragment grinding can be split between Toji and fire-themed content. The true bottlenecks tend to be the sorcery binding and physical binding, which drop only from specific raid chests and may require dozens of crate openings.

How to remove or swap Heavenly Restriction

Once a restriction is active, it does not expire, but it can be removed.

Step 1: Travel to the sorcerer doctor NPC located near spawn. This NPC specifically handles restriction removal.

Step 2: Interact and select the option to remove your current Heavenly Restriction. Confirm the choice. Your character returns to a normal state, regaining access to both cursed techniques and weapons, with baseline stats restored.

Removal destroys the applied restriction item. If you decide later that you want that same restriction again, you must repeat the full material grind and craft it anew. Restrictions are not treated as a toggle; they are one-time consumables.

Because of that, they should be treated like serious build commitments rather than experiments you casually flip on and off.

Glitch farming in endurance quests (capture-the-circle)

The endurance quests used to unlock and feed Heavenly Restrictions can be slow, especially if your current build struggles to kill the training NPCs inside the capture area. One widely used exploit allows you to AFK these quests by abusing a “floating” state that makes your character unreachable.

Step 1: Equip a cursed technique or weapon that has a hold move, such as a chargeable reversal Red from Limitless. This move must keep you suspended in the air while charging.

Step 2: Inside the capture zone, jump once or twice, then hold your charge move to enter the suspended state. While still holding it, press a blank hotbar slot key (for example, the number associated with an empty toolbar slot). The game keeps you frozen in that hovering animation.

In this state, capture NPCs cannot reach you, but the capture circle continues to tick up points as long as you remain in the area. You can leave your character there and accumulate points passively, only returning occasionally to prevent AFK disconnects.

Using this exploit, the 2,500‑point requirement for early physical restriction quests becomes a matter of idle time rather than active fighting. If you have the damage and survivability to kill the NPCs comfortably, active clearing is still faster because each kill awards bonus points on top of the passive gain.

Which Heavenly Restriction is better for your build

There is no single “best” restriction in Jujutsu Zero. The right choice depends on what you run most and what gear you already own.

Physical Heavenly Restriction (weapon-focused builds)

Physical restriction tends to deliver the fastest Toji raid clear times and smoother high-difficulty farming in general. The reasons are straightforward:

• Weapon damage scales twice — once from weapon upgrades/ascensions, and again from the restriction’s attack and crit damage bonuses.
• The large HP boost lets you stay in melee range longer and recover from mistakes without instantly dying.
• Cooldown reduction still matters for weapon skills and movement, making the build feel active rather than auto-attacking.

Physical restriction makes the most sense if:

• You already own strong weapons such as Inverted Spear of Heaven or Festering Life Sword.
• You spend a lot of time in raids farming crates, and pushing harder content.
• You prefer a durable DPS style over positioning-heavy glass cannon play.

Sorcery Heavenly Restriction (technique-focused builds)

Sorcery restriction favors players who want their cursed techniques to define everything about their gameplay. The cooldown and cursed energy bonuses mean your bar almost never runs dry, and your skills come back rapidly.

The upsides are clear:

• High-frequency ability usage with big crit numbers.
• Very fast quest clears and general mob farming when you can chain abilities over large groups.
• Excellent synergy with top-tier cursed techniques and complementary gamepasses.

The downsides are just as sharp. You cannot equip weapons at all, and losing half your HP makes raids more punishing. You are forced to play cleaner: dodging more, avoiding greedy casts, and respecting boss mechanics.

Sorcery restriction fits best if:

• You have a special grade cursed technique you already enjoy and have invested into.
• Your main focus is quests and general farming rather than long raid marathons.
• You are comfortable playing a low-HP build that relies on movement and positioning.

Heavenly Restriction and Toji-style builds

Physical Heavenly Restriction is also the backbone of Toji-style weapon builds in Jujutsu Zero. A common route is:

• Farm Toji and Jogo/volcano raids for cursed iron, Heavenly Fragments, and inverted fragments.
• Use the forger NPC (reached via a platforming route up to their ledge) to craft the Inverted Spear of Heaven. The recipe typically requires cursed iron, Heavenly Fragments, regular iron, and inverted fragments at level 300.
• Unlock Physical Heavenly Restriction from the physical restrictor after clearing endurance quests, then apply it to switch into a pure weapon profile.
• Upgrade and ascend the Inverted Spear to push its base stats higher, stacking with your restriction bonuses.

Once this setup is complete, Toji-style builds can solo high-health bosses and nightmare raids quickly, even without extreme binding vow stacking. Showcase runs demonstrate nightmare Jogo raid solos where the Inverted Spear deletes large chunks of a 100,000 HP bar per rotation.

Heavenly Restriction in Jujutsu Zero is less about chasing the biggest raw stat text and more about picking a lane and committing. If you enjoy weapons and already invest in raid loot, Physical Heavenly Restriction is a straightforward upgrade that accelerates everything you do. If cursed techniques are the reason you play, Sorcery Heavenly Restriction lets you lean fully into that fantasy at the cost of comfort and safety. Either way, expect the grind for bindings and fragments to be the real price of entry.