Season 1

Overview
As always, there are 15 characters who come with Season 1, making the total amount of characters when Season 1 was released up to 30 total characters. With the regular 6 modes, 3 new modes were introduced. 15 new maps were also introduced with those characters.

Bomber (M)
Bomber is a blocker. Bomber can throw out bombs to block opponents, and can zone them out. If the opponent get close, you can throw out a recoil bomb to blast them back. Bomber is a pretty difficult character, because they have to detonate the bombs manually, making him have both, a higher skill floor, and a higher skill ceiling.

Chainsaw (M)
Chainsaw is a brawler. Chainsaw heavily relies off his chainsaw to do damage, and to hit the opponent. If he gets close, he can slam them to do major damage. Although Chainsaw has low mobility, if he gets in, he will do major damage to the opponent. Overall, Chainsaw is easier, because you don’t have to manage anything, and he is pretty forgiving combos-wise.

Cyber (M)
Cyber is a Zoner. Cyber has two projectiles in his kit. A boomerang, and a finger gun, as well as he has a combo tool, and the ability to change himself to the opponent, making him one of the most difficult characters in the game. On command, you can change into the opponent or revert, but you go through a transition, so get ready to be punished if you use it incorrectly.

Dagger (F)
Dagger is a hit and run character, having great mobility, but terrible range. Dagger has a limited amount of daggers (4). You can lose daggers by the following ways: Rapid firing them, throwing them, or using them too much. You can recharge them up, but it takes time, so unless the opponent is down, you don’t want to. Overall, Dagger is about medium difficulty, since they are really simple for a character who manages something.

Looper (M)
Looper is a hit and run character. Looper is a lot like Shadow, because they are heavily mobility reliant, however there are some differences. Looper has a lot less range, and a lot more power. Looper is more campy, because of the portal and the backwards dash. Looper also has a meter, and each of their specials takes part of it, so you have to be careful. However, it does recharge automatically. Overall, Looper is easier than Shadow, but still really difficult.

Overview
Along with the 7 modes in place already: Arcade, Online, Versus, Challenge, Training, and the Tournament mode, there have been 3 modes that were added. Those 3 modes are the 3v3, dual, and the Arena mode.

3v3
The 3v3 mode starts with you picking 3 characters. For an example: I will say I am picking my mains Apollo, Captain, and Grim. Let’s say the opponent picked Sin, King, and R702. Once we get matched up, the game will pick randomly out of each of the 3 characters for both of us. Let’s say it picked Grim for me, and Sin for them. We will fight against each other until of course I win. When the match it finished, it will put Grim for me, and Sin for them off to the side. It will count Grim as a win, and Sin as a loss. We will then fight the next two battles. Once you go to your next round, you cannot get characters you have already played, which means that I can’t get Grim, and the opponent can’t get Sin until we both have played with all of our characters. Let’s say the next match is Apollo vs R702, then Captain vs King. Let’s say I lost both of those battles. That means I won with Grim, and the opponent won with R702 and King. The game will take the characters we both lost with, and it will do the same thing again until one person has won one battle with each of their characters.

Arena
The arena mode is the place to go for casual matches, because they don’t count towards your ranked score. You can either create or join an arena. When you create an arena, you can add a password, or you can make your arena public, as well as you can add commands like “Winner stays”, and you can assign a max player count. You can also change the modes between 3v3, regular, or dual modes. When you join an arena, you can fight, spectate, choose your character, or you can wait in line. You can also fight if you created the arena, don’t worry.

Dual
The dual mode is simple. You and a friend each choose a character, and go online. You will matchmake to another team of two. Both of you will fight against a different player. And unless both of the opponents won, or both of you won, the two winners will fight against each other to determine which team is victorious.