Marvel Snap Friendly Battle FAQ — how to play against friends

YYou can send your friends playing Ms. Marvel stickers now Marvel SnapThanks to the newly added matchmaking feature, it is now possible. Friendly Battle, which was released in January 31, allows friends to compete in a series of rounds. Snap matches.

Friendly Battle, except for your best friends, is relatively risk-free and allows you to test decks out before you bring them into the main multiplayer mode. But it’s still a blast, and is poised to radically upend Marvel Snap’s ever-evolving meta. Here’s everything you need to know.

How do I start a match of Marvel Snap’s battle mode?

The right side of Marvel Snap’s main page, where the season pass tab used to be, you’ll see an icon shaped like a joystick. The season pass menu can be accessed in the upper left corner. Click on that, then select the giant “Friendly Battle” button — currently the only option on that tab.

You can then create or join Friendly Battle matches. If you create a match, you’ll be given a five-digit numeric code. You can send this code to anyone you wish to play with; they will be able to punch it in to join your game.

Is it possible to have matches with Marvel Snap Friendly Battle for as long as a year?

Games of Marvel Snap’s battle mode lasts a bit longer than standard games, since each one plays out over multiple matches. Players have health instead of cubes. After every match, the amount of cubes you’d win is actually the amount of health your opponent will lose, and vice versa — but you can’t deal more damage than the amount of health you have left. When one player drops to 0 health, it’s game over. You also can’t switch decks between rounds.

It creates a unique wrinkle. Marvel Snap’s underlying game of bluffs. Both players play the same decks, even though locations can be changed between matches. Success is contingent on memorizing which cards your opponent plays (and clocking, for instance, that your opponent has a Rogue in her deck, meaning your Wong card isn’t just practically useless but is in fact an enormous risk factor).

An entire Friendly Battle game can take anywhere between 20 and 30 minutes.

Are you able to earn progression from Friendly Battle

Nope. Matches of Friendly Battle don’t reward you with boosters (used to level up your cards) or cubes (which increase your seasonal rank). Bragging rights are the best prize you could get.

Since Marvel Snap’s Friendly Battle doesn’t influence your progress over the course of a season, it’s a good place to test out decks whose efficacy you’re not yet sure of.

What is Friendly Battle?

Unfortunately, not at this time. You’ll still have to rely on Marvel Snap’s rudimentary but pointedly nontoxic communication system — sending Bitmojis of five popular characters — to convey feelings of “dammit!” and “screw you!” Or you could just pop into a Discord server.

Why doesn’t my app show Friendly Battle?

Probably because you haven’t updated your app! You may have to go to the App store to update your iPhone. Marvel Snap. Your app must be running version 11.18.1+0 in order to enable Friendly Battle. This information is at the bottom of Marvel Snap’s settings menu.)

Are there any decks that are better for Marvel Snap Friendly Battle than others?

This mode was released, like, 3 hours ago. We’ll let you know!