Ready Phase

When loaded into the game successfully, you will see a Carousel of items on units/ champions. Now you can control your pet freely by right clicking to anywhere you want. This carousel lasts 10 seconds for you to decide to pick a champion you want by moving your character over top of them. When the time runs down and you haven't picked yet, don't worry, you will be given a random champion remain from the carousel.

These carousel rounds will happen periodically throughout the game. These rounds act as a sort of comeback mechanic later into the game where players with the lowest health will be able to choose first at the carousel.

With experience, you’ll have a better idea of which champions or items will be more useful than others and will be able to use the carousel round to fit your strategy, but don’t worry too much about that for now.

After that, you are taken to a screen where you can place the champion you just got onto the field of battle, we call it Game Board.

This board contains many grids and is divided into 4 lines, as you see. The top 2 lines are called Frontline and the bottom 2 are called Backline.

Now place your champion anywhere on Game Board to start.

After the two minions are defeated, they will drop Items in the form of some Question Mark Blue Circles.

You can pick up these items by moving your pet over them. They can contain champions, items, or gold.

Shortly after that you will see 5 cards appear at the bottom of the screen, this area is called The Shop, which contains the champions you can pick from and other gameplay buttons.

Only five cards will appear at any one time, and like a bag of Scrabble tiles, only a finite number of each champion exist in the shop. These champions come from a single pool, which we call Champion Pool, as it’s shared between all eight players.

For cards or anything in The Shop, you can see their cost, synergies, and a description of their ability if you hover them.

Before each battle commences, you have a short amount of time to prepare your board (as represented by the countdown). In this time, you can drag your units around your board to better position for the upcoming battle.

Before combat, you can learn more about any of your units by right-clicking on them at any time to see the unit’s synergies, health and mana, cost, rank, ability information, and items.

By left clicking them you can add them to The Bench, the area right above The Shop. Pick some and add them to the field of battle.

They will fight to defeat the minions. Once again collect anything that are dropped.

Continue to add champions to The Board up to the level you are on the bottom right. At level 3 you can have 3 champions up to the maximum level 9. There is one item (Force of Nature made by two Spatulas) that allows you to add an extra champion but it is very very rare.

Try to collect 3 of a kind to level up the champion to level 2, to make them stronger.

Collect 3 same champion of level 2 will group them to a level 3 champion, the ultimate form of that champion, and boost your board strength significantly.

So now you have finished the three minion rounds and are ready to face off real people. Try to equip items you have collected on to the champions. Some items are better than others for certain teams but let’s not over complicate it have fun it's just your first few games.