His Enlightenment led to his Ascension, and his Ascension looks GOOD. The second of many Legends to Ascend– Ascended Wu Shang’s Mythic Skin, Trail Effect, KO Effect, Animated Sidekick, and Emoji Skin show that inner peace can bring balance to the battlefield as effectively as any other source of power. With the addition of Ascended Wu Shang we’ve also added a Trail Effects selector to the podium! On top of all of that, be sure to log in during the first week of the Wu Shang’s Ascension Event to claim the “Spirit Cultivator” in-game Title! 

Also, get ready to dominate the game like Damian Lillard with the new official adidas Red Raptor collab Skin!

It’s time to Skirmish once more! This time you must decide between earning Influence for the Light 🌕 or Shadow 🌑 faction. You’ll have two weeks from today to put your Influence where your choice is, and earn Titles that show off how much you care. 

RGB Colors are also (finally) available now in Mallhalla! Roll for your favorite Legends or unlock the All Legends Color Scheme all at once! 

Tune into our Dev Streams on Twitch or YouTube nearly every Tuesday and Friday, at 1pm ET, and follow us on Discord, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook to keep up with all the latest news!

The Traveler has found his ultimate belonging. With his ascension into Valhalla, Wu Shang has achieved true enlightenment. This Mythic Skin shows what that enlightenment looks like. With the ability to wield Gauntlets without touching them, and with his Fu Dog spirits protecting him, there is no challenge he can’t face.

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.

As a Mythic Skin, Ascended Wu Shang includes custom qi infused visual FX on his Skin & Weapon Skins, visual FX and sound swaps for his Light and Signature Attack kit, a custom lock-in animation, and a roster portrait swap featuring his new splash art. As another bonus, when Wu Shang equips his Gauntlets, his qi allows him to wield them without touching them. His lack of physical attachment extends not only to his Gauntlests, but to the ground as well. While equipped with Gauntlets, Ascended Wu Shang floats when he Dash runs.

But wait, there’s even more! Ascended Wu Shang also includes a Trail Effect: Echoes of Balance, and completing the kit for the Traveler’s homecoming are his loyal Fu Dog Guardians: Jinyin (Sidekick), Yunyun’s Protection (KO Effect), and a new animated Emoji Skin: Ascended Wait. And yes, you can also pet Jinyin. 

Wu Shang is the second ever Ascended Legend, but many more Legends will get this treatment in the future. 

Ascended Wu Shang Includes:

• Ascended Wu Shang– Mythic Skin
• Echoes of Balance – Trail Effect
• Yunyun’s Protection – KO Effect
• Jinyin  – Animated Sidekick
• Ascended Wait – Emoji Skin

Over the next 2 weeks: seek balance in the new Skirmish: Light vs. Shadow.

Choose your Faction and hop into another brawl of epic proportions!

• 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 of Light/Shadow – 5000 Influence
    • Hero – 50000 Influence
    • Legend – 150000 Influence
    • Benevolent/Malevolent – 300000 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 Light vs. Shadow Skirmish began immediately on July 30, 2025 at 5am ET/9am UTC and runs until August 13, 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.

Dominate the game like Damian Lillard with this new official adidas Red Raptor collab Skin! Featuring an exclusive Dame X Battle Boots Weapon Skin and a basketball Orb skin.

Plus, b-ball in style with previous Valhallan Edition Brawlhalla x adidas collab items. All are available now in Mallhalla!

New Skin

adidas Raptor – “Nothin’ but net.”

•     Featuring the exclusive Dame X Battle Boots Weapon Skin and the Alley-oop Orb Skin.

Also Available

 Forum Mid – “B-ballin’ in style.”

•     Battle Boots Weapon Skin

 adidas Avatar – “Three Stripes, Three Stocks.”

RGB Colors

The heavily teased & much anticipated RGB Colors are now available in Mallhalla! Try your luck with a random roll or claim the All-Legends Color Scheme. The choice is yours! 

New Companions and Trail Effects

Introducing a new tab in Mallhalla: Accessories! For now, this includes the adorable Domo Jr. and Star-Drifter Butterscotch Companions along with two new Trail Effects: Surt’s Wrath and Flames of podiumMuspelheim! With these new Trail Effects, we’ve added the much requested ability to swap between any of your Trail Effects while locking in your drip on the Podium. No longer is Soul Blast only available to be used on Ascended Nix! 

Companions:

• Domo Jr
• Star-Drifter Butterscotch 

Trail Effects

• Surt’s Wrath – red-orange flames
• Flames of Muspelheim – blue flames

Eagle-eyed brawlers may have caught an early version in Patch 9.09 – but Patch 9.10 officially adds the World’s End Kung Foot Map! Return to the chilling Jotunn Winter for a freezing match of Kung Foot in front of Jormungandr itself.

To celebrate Wu Shang’s Ascension, all of his other Skins are on sale! Rotating each day of this week (7/30-8/5). Alongside Wu Shang we’ve featured his Teacher, Lin Fei, in these Daily Sales!

Daily Sales 

• 7/30/2025, Perfect Wu Shang, Zhulong Lin Fei, Sweet Magi Dream Spear, Clamshell Grasp, Come At Me, Paloma
• 7/31/2025, Wu Shang Kong, Alpine Kaya, Hardlight Spear, RGB Gauntlets, Shadowboxing, Sardines
• 8/1/2025, Wu Shang the Breaker, Harlequin Caspian, Tiburon’s Teeth, Hardlight Gauntlers, Avatar Flag, Malefic Grasp
• 8/2/2025, Seeker Wu Shang, Xianxia Lin Fei, RGB Spear, Ghoulish Clutches, The Flex, Terry
• 8/3/2025, Djinn Wu Shang, Snow Stalker Kaya, Toxic Ranseur, Nightmare Knuckles, Mammoth Ride, Dander Sidekick
• 8/4/2025, Ranno Wu Shang, Jiro the Specialist, Nightmare Spine, Helios’ Gems, The Reads, Butterscotch
• 8/5/2025, Perfect Wu Shang, Wenqing Lin Fei, Nightmare Incisor, Hardlight Bow, This Guy, Sniffles

Come back next week for daily rotating Brawl of the Week modes!

Double Gold and Double XP Weekends!

We’re giving each and every Brawler the Midas Touch 🪙 Loot Gold like Thatch and XP like Ransom for the next two weekends. Let us know on socials when you hit those prestigious Legend Level milestones!

Choose 3 fighters and brawl in this 1v1, 8-minute match. New fighters tag in when your health bar is depleted. First to 3 KO’s wins!

Swappable Trail Effects

Now that we’ve added Ascended Wu Shang, Surt’s Wrath, and Flames of Muspelheim, you can now customize the trail Effects of ALL Legends & Skins! 

• Available in the Legend Select Screen

• New customization option between the Companion and Stance selector.
• Yes, this means the “Soul Blast” Trail Effect introduced with Ascended Nix is now equipable on any Legend & Skin.

Event Center

• We’ve added a tab to the Event Center to track Skirmish progress! 
• This means if a Skirmish is running at the same time as a Seasonal Event, you can switch between the two tabs.

Equip Button

Another long requested feature! You can now equip the following Items from the pop-up right after acquiring them:

• Avatars
• Titles
• Podiums
• Sidekicks 
• Emoji Skins 

This button is a ‘Favorite’ button (which adds the Item to the list of favorites for that Item type) for:

• Loading Frames
• Nameplates
• KO Effects

This round of balance narrows the range between the highest and lowest expected rate of damage between most weapons. Some attacks have received adjustments to their threat coverage or Recover time to allow for easier interruptions during team gameplay. A number of Legends have also received increases or decreases to the reward of specific Signatures to bring them closer in line with other similar options. This patch also contains Ransom’s first set of balance changes, marking him legal for use in official tournaments.

Axe

We have decreased the Force at the beginning of Axe Recovery to bring its knockout power to a more appropriate level when used in team combos. We have also decreased the movement allowed during Axe Down Air to provide a wider avenue of counterplay against this versatile attack.

• Axe Recovery: Decreased Force from a range of 75~50 Fixed/53~22 Variable to a range of 70~50 Fixed/50~22 Variable.
• Axe Down Air: Decreased the maximum speed and amount of allowed acceleration during the attack, especially in the backwards direction.

Battle Boots

We have increased the Damage of Battle Boots Neutral Light and Neutral Air to bring this weapon’s expected rate of damage closer to the middle of the pack. We have also decreased the threat coverage and increased the Recover time on miss for Battle Boots Side Light to allow for easier interruptions and punishment.

• Battle Boots Neutral Light: Increased Damage from 12 to 13.
• Battle Boots Side Light: Slightly decreased threat coverage at the forward edge of the attack; Increased total Recover time on miss from 6 Fixed/15 Variable to 9 Fixed/15 Variable.
• Battle Boots Neutral Air: Increased Damage from 11 to 12.

Blasters

Blasters Side Light now has slightly less Stun to open a minimal Dodge Window between follow-up attacks, but slightly increased Damage to offset this loss.

• Blasters Side Light: Decreased Stun from a range of 24~18 to a range of 23~17; Increased Damage from 10 to 12.

Bow

Bow Neutral Light now has slightly greater Damage to bring this weapon closer in line with the new narrower range of overall weapon damage. We have slightly decreased the threat coverage of the on-hit arrow shots of Side Light, Neutral Air, and Ground Pound to allow for easier interruptions during team gameplay. The Down Light now has slightly greater threat coverage on the ground splash to allow for more reliable use after setup attacks like the Side Light.

• Bow Neutral Light: Increased Damage from 14 to 15.
• Bow Side Light: Slightly decreased vertical threat coverage of the arrow shot on hit.
• Bow Down Light: Slightly increased threat coverage at the ground splash.
• Bow Neutral Air: Slightly decreased horizontal threat coverage.
• Bow Ground Pound: Decreased threat coverage of the arrow shot on hit.

Cannon

We have decreased the Damage of Cannon Down Light to bring this weapon closer in line with other combo starters and the new narrower range of overall weapon damage. We have also increased the Force of Cannon Neutral Air to bring the knockout power of this weapon to a more reasonable level on tall maps, and to offset some of the lost power the Down Light provided towards a knockout.

• Cannon Down Light: Decreased Damage from 13 to 11.
• Cannon Neutral Air: Increased Force from 35 Fixed/53 Variable to 38 Fixed/54 Variable.

Chakram

The Chakram Split Neutral Air and Down Air now have greater Stun to provide tighter Dodge Windows for more reliable follow-up attacks.

• Chakram Split Neutral Air: Increased Stun from a range of 20~16 to a range of 22~18.
• Chakram Split Down Air: Increased Stun of the aerial version from a range of 14~13 to a range of 16~15; Increased Stun of the far grounded version from a range of 19~17 to a range of 21~19.

Hammer

We have decreased the Damage of Hammer Side Light, Neutral Air, and Side Air to bring this weapon closer in line with the new narrower range of overall weapon damage.

• Hammer Side Light: Decreased Damage from a range of 19~17 to a range of 18~16.
• Hammer Neutral Air: Decreased Damage from 22 to 20.
• Hammer Side Air: Decreased Damage from a range of 22~20 to a range of 20~18.

Katars

We have increased the Damage of Katars Neutral Light and Down Light to bring this weapon closer in line with the new narrower range of overall weapon damage.

• Katars Neutral Light: Increased Damage from 11 to 12.
• Katars Down Light: Increased Damage from 9 to 11.

Orb

We have decreased the Hit Window and increased the Recover time on miss of Orb Neutral Light to allow for easier interruptions and punishment. We have also increased the Recover time of Orb Down Light to allow for easier punishes on this mobile attack.

• Orb Neutral Light: Decreased Hit Window of the first swing from 6 to 5; Decreased Hit Window of the second swing from 6 to 5; Increased total Recover time on miss from 3 Fixed/15 Variable to 6 Fixed/15 Variable.
• Orb Down Light: Increased total Recover time on miss from 3 Fixed/18 Variable to 5 Fixed/18 Variable.

Rocket Lance

Rocket Lance Neutral Air now has slightly greater Stun during the end of the attack to allow for tighter Dodge Windows between follow-up attacks and even some rare niche combos at early and mid damage ranges.

• Rocket Lance Neutral Air: Increased Stun at the end of the Hit Window from a range of 27~24 to a range of 29~26.

Scythe

We have increased the Recover time on miss of Scythe Neutral Light to allow for easier punishes on this versatile attack. We have also decreased the Damage of Active Input Side Light, Down Light, Neutral Air, and Down Air to bring this weapon’s expected rate of damage closer in line with the new narrower range of overall weapon damage.

• Scythe Neutral Light: Increased total Recover time on miss from 6 Fixed/20 Variable to 8 Fixed/20 Variable.
• Scythe Side Light: Decreased Damage of the Active Input version from 15 to 13.
• Scythe Down Light: Decreased Damage of the normal version from 15 to 13; Decreased Damage of the Active Input version from 16 to 14.
• Scythe Neutral Air: Decreased Damage of all versions from 14 to 13.
• Scythe Down Air: Decreased Damage of all versions from 14 to 13.

Unarmed

We have decreased the Damage of Unarmed Neutral Light and Down Air to create more of a separation between the new range of weapon damage and Unarmed’s expected rate of damage.

• Unarmed Neutral Light: Decreased Damage from 14 to 12.
• Unarmed Down Air: Decreased maximum Damage from 16 to 10.

Azoth

Azoth’s Down Bow now has less Minimum Charge time for more reliable use as a reactionary option or as a punish.

• Azoth Down Bow: Decreased Minimum Charge time from 16 to 13.

Kaya

We have decreased the Force of Kaya’s Side Bow and Down Bow to bring their knockout power closer in line with similar options on other Legends. We have also increased the Minimum Charge time of Kaya’s Side Bow to allow for easier interruptions or evasion against this Signature.

• Kaya Side Bow: Decreased Force from 70 Fixed/55 Variable to 62 Fixed/51 Variable; Increased Minimum Charge time from 8 to 11.
• Kaya Down Bow: Decreased Force from 70 Fixed/50 Variable to 60 Fixed/47 Variable.

Ragnir

Ragnir’s Down Axe now has slightly greater Force to bring its knockout power up to par with other similar options.

• Ragnir Down Axe: Increased Force from 75 Fixed/58 Variable to 78 Fixed/59 Variable.

Ransom

Ransom’s Neutral Chakram would often do relatively low Damage when connecting from a distance, so we have focused more of the Damage into the final explosion and slightly increased the total value to align with other similar anti-air Signatures. Ransom’s Side Chakram now has significantly less Force and greater Recover time to bring both the risk and reward to more appropriate levels for its utility.

• Ransom Neutral Chakram: Increased maximum total Damage from 25 to 27 and focused more of the Damage into the final explosion.
• Ransom Side Chakram: Decreased Force from 55 Fixed/47 Variable to 50 Fixed/43 Variable; Increased total Recover time from 20 to 22.

Red Raptor

Red Raptor’s Neutral Battle Boots now has less Force to bring its knockout power to a more reasonable level for the distance it carries opponents on hit.

• Red Raptor Neutral Boots: Decreased Force from 50 Fixed/49 Variable to 50 Fixed/47 Variable.

Reno

Reno’s Down Blasters and the aerial version of Down Orb now have much greater Force to better match their required precision and overall risk.

• Reno Down Blasters: Increased Force from 55 Fixed/44 Variable to 60 Fixed/49 Variable.
• Reno Down Orb: Increased Force of the aerial version from 58 Fixed/46 Variable to 58 Fixed/48 Variable.

Teros

We have decreased the Force and increased the Recover time for Teros’ Neutral Axe aerial version, Teros’ Side Axe, and Teros’ Down Axe to bring the knockout power closer in line with similar options on other Legends, while providing wider opportunities to punish these Signatures.

• Teros Neutral Axe: Decreased Force of the aerial version from 55 Fixed/45 Variable to 55 Fixed/43 Variable; Increased total Recover time of the aerial version from 17 to 21.
• Teros Side Axe: Decreased Force from 66 Fixed/64 Variable to 62 Fixed/56 Variable; Increased total Recover time from 24 to 26.
• Teros Down Axe: Decreased Force from a range of 70~60 Fixed/55~45 Variable to a range of 70~60 Fixed/50~45 Variable; Increased total Recover time from 26 to 28.

Vector

Vector’s Neutral Bow would often do low Damage when hitting from a distance, so we have increased the Damage and focused most of it into the final hit to bring the minimum Damage to a more reasonable level. We have also increased the Force for better knockout power on this anti-air attack.

• Vector Neutral Bow: Increased Force from 54 Fixed/50 Variable to 54 Fixed/52 Variable; Increased Damage from 24 to 25 and focused most of the Damage into the final hit.

Vivi

Vivi’s Neutral Boots now has less threat coverage at the rear of the attack, no longer hitting grounded opponents during the initial rear lift. We have also increased the Recover time for Vivi’s Down Boots to allow for easier punishes against its variable duration and direction.

• Vivi Neutral Boots: Decreased threat coverage at the rear of the attack.
• Vivi Down Boots: Increased total Recover time from 22 to 26.

Wu Shang

We have increased the Force and Damage of Wu Shang’s Neutral Spear and Side Spear to bring them closer in line with similar options on other Legends.

• Wu Shang Neutral Spear: Increased Force from 60 Fixed/45 Variable to 60 Fixed/46 Variable; Increased Damage from 22 to 24.
• Wu Shang Side Spear: Increased Force from 55 Fixed/46 Variable to 58 Fixed/47 Variable; Increased Damage from 23 to 24.

Yumiko

Yumiko’s Neutral Hammer now has significantly less Stun to open a Dodge Window between follow-up attacks in most cases, including most niche cases around platform corners.

• Yumiko Neutral Hammer: Decreased Stun from 24 to 18.

UI

• Non-refundable Items no longer display a “refund” button in their store popups.

UX

• Re-added the “Show Timer” FFA preference setting for PC, Mac, and Console.

Gameplay

• Improved bot pathing on the Batavia Map.

Art & Animation

• Seven Side Spear: Fixed a case where the target could be dropped when struck by the front edge on certain frames. (Credit: Alcyon)

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where Companions would disappear when changing settings in Training Mode

UX

• Fixed an occasional bug causing a softlock when buying an Event Center’s Grand Prize bundle, requiring a client restart to get out of it.
• Fixed a bug where joining a lobby while inside the Event Center would keep the Event Center screen pulled up.
• Fixed a bug in Mallhalla where the base Legend and base Weapon filters were erroneously filtering out too many items.
• Fixed a crash during the end of match summary where you couldn’t get past the Skirmish rewards.
• Fixed bug with Gadget Mayhem where the last Gadget among the available options would never spawn. 
• Debugged Account Linking on Android.
• Fixed a rare crash when coming back to the store from “Try it.”
• Fixed an issue where the client would crash when entering Gadget Mayhem with all Gadgets disabled.
• Increased max in FFA score to 300 and increment length to 10.

UI 

• While viewing the Weekly Missions in the Battle Pass screen, Missions that require you to use a certain Weapon that have not yet been completed will now show an icon for the relevant Weapon.
• Fixed an issue with the text for the Battle Pass Mission Progress resizing when gaining progress.
• Fixed Nintendo Switch bug where the replay menu was partially cut off in Handheld mode.
• Fixed a typo of “sorcerers” in Mako’s lore.

The free-to-play Legend rotation for this week features: Ragnir, Scarlet, Petra, Jiro, Xull, Mako, Kaya, Yumiko, and Red Raptor!

• Ragnir – This apex predator, whose home is in the Fangwild, now ventures outward using his Katars and Axe to take on the rest of the Legends in Valhalla!
• Scarlet – A former women’s boxing champion from England and head of the Royal Airship Navy, Scarlet used her ingenuity and knowledge of steam powered machines to build her own Rocket Lance and Hammer to take into battle.
• Petra – Having been set free from Terminus, Petra sets her eyes on Valhalla with her Orb, Gauntlets, and Darkheart powers.
• Jiro – Trained as a child by a powerful and secret shinobi family, Jiro comes into the arena with not only Scythe and Sword but shadow clones as well!
• Xull – With legendary physical strength, this Axe and Cannon wielding Orc Warlord is ready to challenge everyone and everything in Valhalla!
• Mako – The ultimate apex predator from The Sea, Mako, with her Greatsword and Katars, aims to make fish meat out of her opponents in the Grand Tournament.
• Kaya – Using her bow, spear and spirit animals, she is ready to try her luck in the Grand Tournament!
• Yumiko – Holding the appearance of a blind seamstress, this centuries old fox spirit has been brought into battle wielding her Magical Hammer and Bow!
• Red Raptor – Armed with Garuda’s Core Orb and Squadron Strikers Battle Boots, The Last Sentai fights in the Grand Tournament, but hopes for a chance to save the souls of his lost teammates.