HOW IT ALL WORKS

Battle Shapes is an auto-battler you bet on. AI-built shapes fight to the knockout while you wager Shards (◈) on who survives. This guide covers every system in the arena.

Betting & Payouts

Every match opens with a 14-second betting window. Pick a fighter and lock in a wager before the window closes — once the bout goes live, betting is closed and the button greys out.

Each fighter shows odds (e.g. 2.40×). Payout if they win is your wager × odds, rounded.
Your wager is deducted the instant you place the bet.
Odds are derived from the fighters' stats — stronger fighters have lower odds (smaller payout), underdogs pay more.
Even a heavy favorite can lose: every fight keeps at least a ~10% upset chance on both sides, so underdog bets stay alive.
A full match cycle (betting + battle) runs about 44 seconds.

Shards & Prestige

Shards (◈) are your betting currency. Everyone starts with ◈1,000.

Win a bet to grow your stack; lose and the wager is gone.
If you hit ◈0 with no pending bets, you go bankrupt and are auto-prestiged: your balance resets to ◈1,000 and your prestige count goes up by one.
Prestige is a badge of how many times you've climbed back from nothing — it's shown on the leaderboard.
Going all-in is safe from a false bankruptcy: dropping to ◈0 while a bet is still live won't trigger prestige until that bet resolves.

Fighters & Combat Roles

The roster holds 160+ AI fighters. Each has a shape, rarity, five stats, and a signature ability. A fighter's shape decides its combat role:

Ranged

Keep their distance and fire projectiles — bullets and lasers — while strafing.

circle · star · rhombus

Melee

Charge in and lunge, dealing damage on body-slam contact.

square · triangle · hexagon

The five stats

HP — health; also makes the shape bigger and tankier.
Speed — movement and how fast they close in or reposition.
Aggression — raw damage output.
Armor — reduces incoming damage.
Intel — overall combat smarts factored into their rating.

Rarity (Common → Rare → Epic → Legendary) boosts a fighter's rolled stats.

Rebirth — the (#) beside a name

When a fighter loses 4 bouts in a row, it is reborn as a fresh iteration. You'll see a number grow beside its name — Vex (2), then Vex (3), and so on.

On rebirth, the fighter starts completely clean:

Win/loss record resets to 0–0.
Stats and rarity are re-rolled.
It earns a brand-new ability appropriate to its role.
It drops any belt it was holding.
Its name, shape, and color carry over so the lineage stays recognizable.

Abilities

Every fighter has one signature ability that triggers periodically mid-fight with its own on-screen animation. Abilities are locked to combat role — a ranged shape never gets a melee-only technique, and vice-versa.

Universal

Can appear on any fighter.

Overclock

Temporarily boosts speed, weaving through strikes with ease.

Phase Dash

Briefly becomes intangible, dodging the next attack entirely.

Berserk Mode

Attack power rises as health drops below 50%.

Time Slip

Randomly rewinds a few frames to erase a fatal blow.

Burnout

Sacrifices speed for massive aggression bursts in short windows.

Last Stand

Armor doubles when health dips under 25%.

Ghost Step

Flickers in and out of sight, making targeting unpredictable.

Iron Will

Immune to stuns and slows while above half health.

Glass Cannon

Massive damage output, but extra fragile.

Adrenaline Surge

Speed and aggression spike when struck hard.

Quantum Lock

Freezes the enemy in place for a fraction of a second.

Lunar Veil

Cloak of moonlight grants temporary damage resistance.

Stone Skin

Briefly turns to stone, ignoring most damage.

Blood Pact

Sacrifices health to deal extra damage.

Soul Drain

Steals stats from the opponent over time.

Melee only

Squares, triangles, hexagons.

Shield Spike

Retaliates with bonus damage after absorbing an incoming hit.

Critical Bloom

Flower-shaped energy spikes deal bonus damage at random intervals.

Vampiric Edge

Steals health equal to a fraction of damage dealt on each hit.

Singularity

Pulls the opponent inward, forcing close-quarters brawling.

Mirror Strike

Counters the opponent's last move with a perfect copy.

Magnet Pull

Draws the enemy in tight and then explodes outward with force.

Static Field

Discharges an aura that drains nearby opponents over time.

Counter-Spin

Spins deflecting damage back at the attacker.

Pyro Burst

Detonates a ring of fire, scorching nearby enemies.

Thunder Clap

A shockwave stuns the opponent for a critical moment.

Echo Strike

Each hit reverberates for a second smaller hit.

Pulse Wave

Periodic shockwaves push enemies away.

Ranged only

Circles, stars, rhombuses.

Frost Lance

Hurls icy spears that briefly slow the target on impact.

Void Rift

Opens a tear that pulls projectiles into oblivion.

Solar Flare

Blinding flash reduces enemy accuracy briefly.

Spectral Chain

Ghostly chains tether the enemy, restricting movement.

Photon Beam

Charged beam pierces through armor.

Gravity Well

Creates a sinkhole that slows nearby foes.

Razor Wind

Slashing gusts hit from unexpected angles.

Mind Spike

Disrupts targeting, causing missed attacks.

Tournaments & the Neon Belt

Matches are arranged into rolling 8-fighter brackets; winners advance round by round.
About every 2 hours a Neon Belt title bout is staged. Title bouts are a best-of-3 series — the first fighter to win 2 games takes the belt and carries it until they're beaten in another series. You can bet on each game.
About every 3 hours a giant 32-fighter Mega Tournament takes over the arena — a much larger bracket than the usual run.

Streaks & Daily Bonus

Winning bets back-to-back builds a streak. Your best streak ever is tracked and ranked on the leaderboard.
A losing bet resets your current streak to zero.
Claim a daily bonus of Shards once every ~22 hours — keep the habit going to grow your daily streak.

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