Arena Guides
The rules teach you how to fight. These scrolls teach you how to win. Written for fighters at every rank, from first login to the Hall of Champions.
Start here, new fighter
A step by step walk through the Forge: where the King lives, how to build the pawn wall, a starter formation that holds, and the mistakes that lose duels before move one.
How to build an army that fights the way you do, where to hide your King, and the forging mistakes that lose duels before the first move.
Placement matches decide where your journey begins. Walk in prepared: which mode to start in, what layout to bring, and why the clock is your real first opponent.
The rules of war
Three minutes, no increment, no way to earn time back. Where the seconds actually go, the pacing habits that save them, and how to turn a clock lead into a weapon.
Stalemate is a loss for the fighter who caused it. That one rule rewrites endgames, kills perpetual check as an escape, and turns simplification into a trap.
The ladders and the ranks
Every opponent on the ladder, tier by tier: who they are, how they fight, and how to take them down. Plus the eight playstyles of the Arena and the counter to each one.
A fresh AI warrior every match, a rating entirely separate from your Arena standing, five placement battles, and a climb into the Hall of Trials.
Every badge from Rookie to Arena Legend, the rating each one costs, the four divisions inside them, and what the fighting actually feels like at every band.
Reference
The Forge, first strike, placement, ET Rating, share codes, the three different things fighters mean by tier, and the eight playstyles. Every term in one place.
Start with the complete How to Play guide. It covers the Forge, the rules of battle, all four modes, and the full rank ladder.
The Arena Chronicle records every change that shaped this place, from the first stone to the newest scroll.