Versus

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Assemble your squad of musical Monsters and battle your way to the top Tier and beyond in the prestigious Champions’ Guild!

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Versus Challenge

At the start of each challenge, you begin at tier 10. Each tier has a number of stars to earn. Every time you win a versus battle, you earn a star on your tier; however, if you win a versus battle and won the previous battle as well, you will earn two stars on your tier as a bonus. If you get all the stars on a tier, you go to the next tier. If you get to tier 1, you get the tier 1 reward on the end of the tournament, and advance to the Champions’ Guild.

Players fight with another player's team of Monsters, which a computer then uses to play against you. You are not actually battling another player in real time. However, what differentiates Versus mode from standard quests is the computer is able to swap out monsters just like the player can.

Players have 5 battles before they undergo a cooldown of up to 24 hours. This timer always resets on 00:00 UTC regardless of which timezone the player currently resides on and regardless of daylight savings conditions.

All Versus challenges begin Friday at 19:00 UTC, as of September 2021 - that's 12pm Pacific Daylight Time, or 9pm Central European Summer Time. Exact timing will be different as daylight saving / summer time ends.

Versus Mode is unlocked after beating Three's a Crowd.

List of current Versus Challenges

Versus Challenge	Monster Reward	Requirements	Beds available	Monster Slots	Rewards	Trophy
Mammalian Maestros		Single-Element Naturals	3	3	1,500 700 100 2 4 1
Sticky Wicket		Earth-Element Naturals	7	3	1,400 700 100 6 1 1
Drum Circle		Double-Element Naturals	4	2	1,500 700 100 2 1 3
Spa Day		Riff	7	3	1,500 700 600 2 1 1
Tenacious Key		Air-Element Monsters	6	3	1,500 1,700 100 2 1 1
Dribble Alliance		Triple-Element Monsters	9	3	1,500 700 100 6 1 1
Marine Melodists		Water Island Monsters	7	2	1,500 700 100 2 4 1
Them Apples		Oaktopus	8	3	5,500 700 100 2 1 2
Vegetal Virtuosos		Plant-Element Monsters	6	3	1,500 700 100 2 4 1
Over the Toupée		Cold Island Monsters	9	3	1,500 1,200 600 2 1 1

Champions’ Guild

See Champions' Guild.

Strategy

Because the set of opponents is unknown before a Versus Battle begins, there is no specific strategy to picking the Monsters to play with based on the opponents' set of Monsters. However, some observations have been made with regard to classes of Monsters and the matchmaking in Versus:

• A single high-Level low-Element Monster (such as a Level 20 Tweedle) will often be matched against lower-Level set of Monsters.
  • Even if the opponent has 3 Monsters in their set, they are so low level that moves against them will often result in each being dispatched with just 1 move, while the moves made against you do very little damage.
  • In the less frequent case where your Monster is matched against a similar one (such as another level 20 Tweedle), you still are likely to win as you always make the first move.
• Seasonal Monsters, when they can be picked, tend to have good Battle statistics in almost any scenario. This is because they have the power of a Triple-Elemental, but the matchmaking system treats them as Single-Element monsters, so it will match you against teams of weak monsters which your Seasonal can then dispatch quickly.
• Single-Element Ethereal Monsters: There is no confirmed strategy of how Ethereal Monsters work yet; however, it seems to be a mix of mostly lower level and unlikely higher level double, triple, or quad element monsters and on occasion, a Seasonal monster. Single Element Ethereals will be able to be used on the following versus modes Marine Melodists (Jeeode Only), Them Apples (Any Single-Element Ethereal), and Over the Toupée (Grumpyre Only).
  • Another thing to note: bring a Seasonal monster; it may help your Ethereal Monster get easier matches. However, there still is the possibility of being matched against higher level opponents.
• Double-Element Ethereal Monsters cannot be used in Versus Mode because they take up 10 beds, and there are no quests that have more than 10 beds available.

Notes

• Versus did not release with The Colossingum itself, releasing on December 4th, 2020.
  • From the release of The Colossingum up until Rare Kayna's release, Versus was marked "Coming Soon".
  • On November 25th, 2020, the same day Rare Kayna was released, the "Coming Soon" text was changed to "Coming very soon".
  • On November 30th, 2020, the "Coming very soon" text was changed to "Starts Friday".
  • On December 4th, 2020, the "Starts Friday" text was changed to "Locked", and became available just hours later.
• Trying to leave a match will count as a defeat or failure, unlike normal Quests or Friendly Matches.
• Upon the initial release of Versus, there was a bug where every opposing player had the Furcorn avatar, regardless of the one they actually have chosen. This occurred for 10 days until it has been fixed on December 14, 2020.
  • This means after December 14, 2020, any opposing playeres will now have their actual avatars shown and there is a small chance one can still face a player with a chosen Furcorn avatar.
• Unlike in quest battles, the computer in Versus mode can swap monsters. The computer will usually swap so that the monster with the highest amount of stamina is active.
• In a very few cases, the player may lose up to five consecutive times such as in Tenacious Key; where selecting a Deedge regardless of level will cause them to be automatically outnumbered by a Level 20 Deedge.
  • However, if a Level 20 Deedge is faced with another Deedge close to or at Level 20, the player is still likely to win as they always make the first move.
  • Additionally, attempting to find a match in a situation like this will cause the player to automatically lose constantly without warning, even at lower Tier levels, such as using a Level 18 Entbrat against a Level 20 Entbrat as always, not if the Level 18 Entbrat was subsequently trained to Level 20.
    • This means in the late game, the player will automatically lose in Versus Match whenever the player attempts to achieve the criteria for the Champions' Guild due to the following reasons. Take an example, like Them Apples; even if the player has an already trained Quad-Element Natural and somehow managed to defeat an Oaktopus regardless of level, they will easily be outnumbered by either an Ethereal, a higher-level Quad, or a Seasonal.
• On the Spa Day challenge between December 25th 2020 to January 1st 2021, making a new match automatically unequips all monsters except the first highest level Riff. The same applies to the January 22nd to 29th 2021 challenge "Them Apples", except for the first highest level Oaktopus.