Brawlhalla Fest 2025 is here! Celebrate 125 Million Brawlers and our upcoming graphic novel, Brawlhalla Tales: Nix, with free rewards, the all-new Ascended Nix, and a new lava hazard Map: Old Ivaldi Mine. ☠️👻

During this Event, there is something new every week! All Legends are on the free rotation for this first week, then daily rotating Mallhalla sales and “Brawl of the Day” modes in the following weeks. Then we’re closing out the festivities with a new Skirmish: Speed vs. Strength! 💪👟

If that wasn’t enough, there’s also a Balance pass, rebalanced daily missions, bug fixes, and game improvements in this update.

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Get ready for Brawlhalla Fest’s biggest year yet! With a celebration lasting 4 weeks long, we’re giving away free rewards, introducing the first ever Ascended Legend: Nix, and having more discounts and rotating events than ever before. 

Check out our full breakdown of the festivities.

Complete Missions to Earn Free Rewards 

Brawlhalla Fest 2025 introduces a whole lot of free Event Items!

Complete rotating Event Daily Missions in matchmade online games to earn a new currency: Tickets! Use those Tickets to unlock the Event Items in the BH Fest ‘25 tab in Mallhalla. Unlock all 6 Event Items to claim the first ever FREE Companion, Lil’ Reaper.

Check out the full list of free Event Items and our step-by-step breakdown for how to unlock them below!

Free Event Items

• Brawlcade Cabinet – Buddy Emote featuring 11 random variations!
• Caspian Sweat – Emoji Skin
• Caster Thor Wow – Emoji Skin
• Caster Kor Thumbs Up – Emoji Skin
• Brynn Facepalm – Emoji Skin
• Death’s Shepherd – the first teal Event Title!

Grand Prize 

• Lil’ Reaper – Companion. Reacts to the Events of the brawl while also having a mind of its own!

How to Earn Tickets & Unlock Rewards

1. Click the “Brawlhalla Fest ‘25” Tab at the top left of the Main Menu to open the BH Fest Interface
2. Check out the Event Daily Missions at the bottom right of the Interface Screen.
   • The amount of Tickets you’ll earn is shown on the right side of the Mission.
   •  If a Mission has a Chest icon, it’ll grant you a random free reward of Gold or a Cosmetic. (These Chest rewards are separate from the Event Items.)
3. Play Matchmade Online Games to complete the objectives described in the Event Daily Missions to earn Tickets or Unlock Event Chests.
4. Once you earn enough Tickets, go to the “BH Fest ‘25” Tab in Mallhalla to exchange Tickets for one of the 6 free Event Items.
5. Unlock all 6 Free Event Items using Tickets to claim the Grand Prize: Lil’ Reaper, the first free Companion!

All 6 Event Items and the additional Grand Prize Lil’ Reaper Companion are all earnable completely for free by completing Event Daily Missions. 

Tickets are earnable from today, May 14th through Tuesday, June 3rd. A countdown clock will display in the Brawlhalla Fest interface for specifics.

The BH Fest ‘25 tab in Mallhalla will be open 1 more week Wednesday, June 4th to Tuesday, June 10th for you to use Tickets to unlock Event Items.  

For those who’d like to unlock Event Items faster, Tickets are also purchasable with Mammoth Coins. 

Free Art Deco Colors

There’s another free reward which is a staple of Brawlhalla Fest and the 100 Million Brawlers Celebration: a Color Scheme Timed Event Mission! This year we’re keeping it elegant with the new Black and Gold Art Deco Colors. 

The rules are the same as always – win Matchmade Online Games with a Legend to unlock the Art Deco Colors for them. Win with each of the 65 Legends to unlock the Art Deco Colors for all future Legends!

Track your progress toward the Art Deco All Legends Colors in the top right of the Brawlhalla Fest ‘25 Event Center.

Ascended Nix

In addition to the free rewards, we’re introducing the first of many of a new kind of Brawlhalla offering: Ascended Legends. Of course we had to kick it off with Nix to celebrate her starring role in the graphic novel!

Ascended Legends are their final forms, the ultimate embodiment of their archetypes as history’s greatest warriors, with everything you need to embody this ascended form.

Ascended Nix includes the first ever non-crossover Mythic tier Skin. Nix wears armor inspired by her trusty steed, the Skele-Dragon-Horse Lucy. This means she’s got custom animated hair, cape, & Weapon Skins, Visual FX and Sound swaps for her Light and Signature Attacks, a custom lock-in animation, and a roster portrait swap featuring her splash art.

But that’s not all! Ascended Nix also includes a Trail Effect: Soul Blast. This new effect will show a bunch of wayward souls any time Ascended Nix deals enough damage to leave what usually would display as a smoke trail.

Completing the kit for the ultimate reaper is a new KO Effect: No Escape, animated Sidekick: Lucy, and Emoji Skin: Nix Nervous Laugh inspired by a panel from Brawlhalla Tales: Nix.

Nix is the Ascended Legend being released as part of Brawlhalla Fest 2025, but many more Legends will get the Ascended treatment in the future. 

Ascended Nix Includes:

• Ascended Nix – Mythic Skin
• Soul Blast – Trail Effect
• No Escape – KO Effect
• Lucy – Animated Sidekick
• Nix Nervous Laugh – Emoji Skin

Choose Your Destiny Bundle

Will Nix join Brynn’s noble cause, or make a fateful deal with Cross? While we wait to see which path she takes, we’re giving the biggest ever bundle discount on these Brynn and Cross cosmetics.

Choose Your Destiny Bundle Includes:

• Fallen Brynn – Skin
• Devil Cross – Skin
• Brynnadoodle – Avatar
• Crossadoodle – Avatar
• Brynn BRB – Emoji Skin

Introducing a new Lava Hazard Map also seen in the Graphic Novel: the Old Ivaldi Mine! Brawl atop a single platform of an old mine cart track and avoid falling into the lava below. This will be the backdrop of the new Brawl of the Week – Dwarven Duel! ⛏️💎

This Map is also available in the Experimental 1v1 queue and Custom Lobbies.

Prove you can withstand the harsh conditions of the Fighting Pit built inside the old mine! The Ivaldi’s dice roll will determine the hazard in this 3 minute 1v1 match. Score 2 points for every KO and lose 1 point for being KO’d. The brawler with the most points wins! 

• New Map: Old Ivaldi Mine
• Dice & Destruction Mode
• 1v1
• 3 Minute Timer
• Score the most points to win!

On top of these new items and offers, Brawlhalla Fest 2025 brings in-game Special Events for every week of the celebration!

Double XP & Gold Weekends All Brawlhalla Fest Long!

• Friday, May 16 – Sunday, May 18
• Friday, May 23 – Sunday, May 25
• Friday, May 30 – Sunday, June 1
• Friday, June 6 – Sunday, June 9

The Double XP & Gold bonus begins each Friday at 5am Eastern/9am Universal and runs until the following Monday at 4:59am Eastern/8:59am Universal.

Week of 5/14: All Legends on the Free Rotation

You read that right, ALL 65 Legends are available to play, right now, FOR FREE, all week long. Can you earn the Art Deco Colors for all current and future Legends in just one week? Hop in a queue and find out!

Week of 5/21: Daily Themed Sales 

For the second week, we’ll be hosting daily themed sales which include the Epic Skins. This is the only time in the year they ever go on sale, including the first-ever sale on Void Zenith Artemis, so it’s definitely worth a virtual trip to Mallhalla to stock up! 🛍️🛒 

• Wednesday, May 21 – Deep Space:  Void Zenith Artemis (Epic Skin), Dark Matter Vraxx (Skin), Galaxy X Nai (Skin), Atomic Orion (Skin), Star Guardian Ember (Skin), Zoid (Sidekick).
• Thursday, May 22 – Cyber Virus: Shin Sekai Koji (Epic Skin), Hardsuit Val (Skin), Fatal Error Ada (Skin), Cyber Bödvar (Skin), Sourcecode Petra (Skin), Cryptomage Diana (Skin).
• Friday, May 23 – Ancient Spirits: Inari Yumiko (Epic Skin), Muerto Azoth (Skin), Gatekeeper Teros (Skin), Sobek Ragnir (Skin), Exoshell Imugi (Skin), and Necromancer Azoth (Skin).
• Saturday, May 24 – Rapture: Apocalypse Mirage & Soul Crush (Epic Skin & Emote Bundle), Nemesis Barraza (Skin), Tinyfigure Seven (Skin), Fallen Raptor (Skin), Chrometooth Gnash (Skin), Dunewalker Mordex (Skin)
• Sunday, May 25 – Occult: Arcane Loki (Skin), Soulbound Onyx (Skin), Dark Arts Fait (Skin), Huntsman Volkov (Skin), Capra Thor (Skin), Oni no Hattori (Skin)
• Monday, May 26 – Experiments: Mad Genius Scarlet & Cheddar (Epic Skin & Sidekick Bundle), THNX Researcher Loki, Grueling Terror (Hammer Weapon Skin), Malefic Grasp (Sidekick), Sniffles (Sidekick)
• Tuesday, May 27 – Brawlhalla Tales: Nix –  Grim Reaper Nix (Skin), Boss Cross (Skin), Aesir-Forged Brynn (Skin), Harlequin Caspian (Skin), Jurassic Gnash (Skin), The Shade (Sidekick)

Week of 5/28: Brawl of the Day

For the third week, we’re hosting a new “Brawl of the Week” mode EVERY SINGLE DAY. This means every day of this week, there’s a new 300 Gold reward!

• Wednesday, May 28 – Dwarven Duel
• Thursday, May 29 – 2v2 Showdown
• Friday, May 30 – Bounty Hunting
• Saturday, May 31 – Horde
• Sunday, June 1 – Switchcraft 2v2
• Sunday, June 2 – Stay Frosty!
• Monday, June 3 – Ghost Brawl!
• Tuesday, June 4 – Kung Foot

5/28 – 6/10: Skirmish: Speed vs. Strength

Also beginning the third week but running until the end of BH Fest, it’s a Battle of the Stats! 

Which is the real game-maker: Speed or Strength? Choose your Faction and get ready for two weeks of another brawl of epic proportions!

Earn 300,000 Influence for your Faction to get the new prestige Title: “The Fastest” or “The Strongest”

• Choose your Faction based on your personal preference. There is no wrong choice!
• Factions compete against each other by playing online matchmaking games.
• When you play any Game Mode online, you earn Influence for your Faction.
• The Faction with the most Influence when the Skirmish ends is the winner.
• Special “Skirmish Battles” take place when you get matched with a member of the opposing Faction in Ranked. A random Influence multiplier is applied to a Skirmish Battle, which can be seen on the loading screen before the match.
• Some rewards are granted when you choose your Faction, and extra rewards are granted when the Skirmish ends.
  • Faction Title awarded based on your total personal contribution to your Faction at the end of the Skirmish.
    • Adept – 5,000 Influence
    • Hero – 50,000 Influence
    • Legend – 150,000 Influence
    • The Fastest/The Strongest – 300,000 Influence
• Each member of the winning Faction will earn an animated version of their Faction’s Avatar. Additionally, any Titles that have been earned from your personal contribution to your Faction’s Influence will be yellow.
• Titles that have been earned by members of the losing Faction will be white.
• You can check the status of the ongoing Skirmish, including when the Skirmish ends, in the notifications tab of the Player Menu.

The Speed vs. Strength Skirmish begins on May 28, 2025 at 5am ET/9am UTC and runs until June 10, 2025 at 5:00am ET/9am UTC. Immediately after the Skirmish ends, Titles will be awarded to everyone who earned them, and the animated Avatar will be given to the members of the winning Faction.

As part of Brawlhalla Fest, we’re featuring all 65 Legends on the free rotation ALL WEEK LONG! 

Play as your favorite Legend or try a new one! Visit our Meet the Legends page to learn about the whole roster.

We will return to the usual 9 Legend rotation next week on May 21st. Can you earn the Art Deco Colors for all current and future Legends in just one week?

We’ve rebalanced some Daily missions. If you were already over the new requirement, you will still need one more to complete them.

• All “Damage” Missions have been reduced from 7500 to 4000 
• The amount of Neutral Signature KOs needed has been reduced from 8 to 5
• “Side Signature KOs” reduced from 10 to 8
• “Down Signature KOs” reduced from 7 to 4

Gameplay

• We’ve released an update for Steam that improves in-match performance after you have played several games. This is available on the default Steam branch.
• Performance improvements for Rocket Lance.

UX

• Increased the time to vote on a map from 10 seconds to 20 seconds.

Art & Animation

• Fixed a bug where the Skin icon for the Fell Empress Nai Epic Skin partially covered the points score or stocks of other players.
• Fixed a visual bug in which the Wu Shang, the Seeker Progression Skin’s back waist bone wouldn’t swap properly.
• Fixed a visual bug on Skele-Dance Party Emote.

Audio

• Fixed a sound bug where the Ojousama Laugh Emote would continue to play its sound if the player stopped Emote-ing within a highly specific timing window. 

UI

• Fixed a bug where the mission status on the final post-match reward screen would sometimes not correctly display rewards for Battle Pass upgrade missions while there is no current Battle Pass.

UX

• Fixed a rare bug where Map sound effects could be played after leaving the game.

This patch contains adjustments for the Chakram in the lead-up to the Mid Season Championship at CEO. These changes further widen gaps in follow-up attacks for the Split mode, leaving the weapon to rely on its maneuverability on hit to mix-up opponents rather than any actual frame advantage. We have also reined in certain attacks that allowed a large degree of movement that would contribute to early vertical knockouts.

The Chakram Fused Down Light now has greater Recover time on miss for greater risk when attempting to switch to the Split mode during the neutral game.

The Chakram Split Neutral Air now has less Stun, resulting in neutral frame advantage on hit where the user and target become actionable at the same exact time. This creates a significantly larger opportunity in which the target can evade or retaliate.

The Chakram Fused Down Air now has less allowed acceleration in the backwards direction for easier retaliation against this attack. The far grounded version now descends to the ground on hit and miss to allow a greater opportunity to punish this attack, with greater Recover time on hit to provide the required time for this movement and to widen the Dodge Window at low damage.

We have increased the Time to Hit for the Chakram Split Down Air to allow more attacks to contest this option in neutral situations. We have also reduced the amount of allowed acceleration for easier opportunities to evade or punish this attack. The final Stun has been decreased and Recover time on hit has been increased for the aerial version, resulting in neutral frame advantage on hit. The far grounded version now descends to the ground on hit and miss, with greater Recover time in both cases to provide the required time for this movement and to significantly widen the following Dodge Window. The close grounded version also has slightly greater Recover time on miss for more appropriate risk across this attack.

The Chakram Fused Recovery now has less acceleration in the backwards direction for easier opportunities to evade or punish this attack.

The Chakram Split Recovery now has greater Time to Hit to allow more attacks to contest this option in neutral situations. We have decreased the amount of allowed acceleration to make this attack easier to evade or punish. We have reduced the travel distance which decreases the knockout power of this attack and also makes it easier to evade or punish. It also now has less threat coverage, making it easier to evade or contest this attack. We have decreased the Stun, resulting in neutral frame advantage on hit at low damage, providing greater opportunity to evade or contest follow-up attacks. We have also increased the Recover time on miss for an even greater opportunity to punish reckless use of this attack.

• Chakram Fused Down Light: Increased total Recover time on miss from 11 Fixed/10 Variable to 15 Fixed/14 Variable.
• Chakram Split Neutral Air: Decreased final Stun from a range of 23~19 to a range of 16~12.
• Chakram Fused Down Air: Slightly decreased the amount of allowed acceleration in the backwards direction; Descends to the ground during Recover time on hit and miss for the far grounded version; Increased total Recover time on hit for the far grounded version from 8 Fixed/7 Variable to 12 Fixed/7 Variable.
• Chakram Split Down Air: Increased Time to Hit from 12 to 13; Decreased the amount of allowed acceleration, especially in the backwards direction; Decreased final Stun of the aerial version from a range of 17~16 to a range of 14~13; Increased total Recover time on hit for the aerial version from 3 Fixed/11 Variable to 6 Fixed/11 Variable; Increased total Recover time on hit for the far grounded version from 4 Fixed/11 Variable to 9 Fixed/11 Variable; Increased total Recover time on miss for the aerial version from 3 Fixed/11 Variable to 11 Fixed/11 Variable; Increased total Recover time on miss for the far grounded version from 4 Fixed/11 Variable to 10 Fixed/11 Variable; Increased total Recover time on miss for the close grounded version from 8 Fixed/11 Variable to 10 Fixed/11 Variable.
• Chakram Fused Recovery: Decreased the amount of allowed acceleration in the backwards direction.
• Chakram Split Recovery: Increased Time to Hit from 11 to 13; Significantly reduced the amount of allowed acceleration in the backwards direction; Greatly reduced travel distance; Significantly decreased threat coverage at the rear of the attack and decreased threat coverage at the other edges of the attack; Decreased final Stun from 21 to 17; Increased total Recover time on miss from 5 Fixed/15 Variable to 8 Fixed/15 Variable.