How battles work

Battles are quick, automatic showdowns between two teams of three moments (your cards). Each moment brings pressure, HP, and Speed into the fight. When one side’s moments have all Out, the other team wins. The fun is watching your lineup’s personality collide with someone else’s — clutch holds, big swings, and “how did *that* turn just happen?” — without having to micromanage every beat.

• 3-card lineups — You pick three moments. They fight together as a team; there’s no bench in this version.
• Auto-resolved battles — You don’t tap moves in real time. The system runs the fight for you, moment by moment, in a fair order.
• Moments apply pressure — When it’s a moment’s turn, it pushes pressure onto an opposing moment, wearing down that moment’s HP. Pressure usually focuses on whoever’s lowest on HP, but not every single time, so the fight stays readable and one moment doesn’t always eat every hit.
• One turn, simply — In each cycle, every moment still standing gets one go, in order; a moment acts, applies pressure, HP drops, then the next in line does the same until the round is done.
• Moments Out when HP reaches 0 — When HP hits zero, that moment fades: it stops acting for the rest of the fight — think spotlight off, not a play-by-play of “defeat.”
• Last team standing wins — If your team still has at least one moment in the fight and the other team has none left, you win. If the fight runs long, tie-breakers favor whoever still has the most HP in play.

• Attack — How much pressure a moment applies when it acts. Higher Attack means each swing counts for more when it lands on someone’s HP.
• HP — How long a moment lasts in the fight. It’s the pool that pressure chips away at; more HP means more screen time before that moment fades.
• Speed — How early a moment tends to act each cycle, and how much it can steer the tempo. Higher Speed means you’re more often up front shaping the pace — whether that’s landing pressure first, breaking a rhythm, or trying to lock in an advantage before the other side settles.

• Higher rarity generally means stronger battle potential — Rare and Legendary cards usually have more room for stats and flashier moves, so they can feel weightier in a fight.
• Rarity gives more stat/move budget — Think of it as a bigger toy box: more points to spend on Attack, HP, Speed, and the move template the moment brings.
• Legendary is stronger, but not unbeatable — A great lineup of commons and rares can still outplay a sloppy Legendary team. Rarity tilts the odds; it doesn’t auto-win.
• Synergy still matters — Higher rarity never replaces a lineup that actually fits together; three moments that cover each other beat three stars who don’t.

• AI can personalize move names and flavor — You might see a custom move title or a little line of flavor that fits your card’s story. That layer is flavor only: it doesn’t change Attack, HP, Speed, your move template, or who wins the fight.
• Code controls stats, balance, and battle rules — Attack, HP, Speed, which move template you have, and how fights resolve are all authored and validated in the system. Outcomes come from those rules and the battle state — never from the wording the AI helped write.

• Cards are sanity-checked during generation — Before a new card’s battle stats are saved, the system can run it through small test battles against a fixed bench to catch wild outliers (moments that win way too much or fold way too easily in those checks).
• Extreme outliers can be rerolled or adjusted — If a roll looks unfair in those checks, generation may try again so normal play stays fun.
• Battle performance may be monitored — Over time, aggregate results can inform balance patches (tweaks to pacing, generation, or templates). The goal is fairness and variety, not perfect 50/50 every card every time.
• What you get from that — You’re less likely to run into a freshly minted moment that feels randomly broken compared to the rest of the field.

• HP that holds long enough for your team to keep acting while theirs fades.
• Pressure at the right tempo — Attack and Speed lining up with what your move wants to do.
• A lineup that actually fits — three moments whose strengths cover each other’s gaps beat three solo acts who don’t mesh.
• Room for a close fight to swing — stats and rarity set the stage; they don’t write the whole script.