Battledome

The Battledome is the place where a user's Neopet can fight against other Neopets and other opponents. Only pets with at least one hit point and that are not hungry or sick may battle. Fights may be one-player - against challengers that are unlocked as Random Events - or two-player - against the pets of other players.

Battling is a very popular activity on the Neopets site, and the most powerful battle equipment can cost millions of Neopoints to purchase. There is a full NeoBoard section dedicated to the past time, and it is a common theme for Guilds. Frequently, plots require participation via the Battledome - although less so in recent years - and it is not uncommon for two similarly trained Neopets to act as battledome partners, being used by the two owners to try out different weapons and techniques.

Overview

Battledoming as a turn-by-turn based affair, where in each round both players may use up to two items and choose a stance or ability - with the exception of a Neopet running out of weapons, power to use abilities, or being frozen.

After both players have made their move - in two player matches, there is often a delay while one user waits for the other to complete - details of the round are shown, illustrating the weapons each player used and their effects, their abilities, and the total damage performed to and healed from either pet.

Attack damage is gauged in 'icons': a more powerful attack is indicated by a greater number of icons. Icons come in seven varieties - Air, Darkness, Earth, Fire, Light, Physical, and Water - each represented by a different symbol. Certain armaments may also defend against specific types of icons should they be used during a turn it is used in. Certain weapons may also reflect a portion of the icons used against you back at the opponent.

Certain items may also have additional effects to damage and defence, such as being able to generate specific items within the battle, steal an opponents weapon for the duration of the match, heal the user - or in rare cases, the opponent - inflict an illness, or be usable only by a select species. There are a few extremely rare items that can permanently remove statistics, alter an opponent's Petpet, delete weapons permanently, or change the opponents species, colour, or gender. Some weapons will defend against 100% of a type of icon used against you, instead of a specific number of icons.

Many weapons have a variable attack, where a few additional icons may be inflicted. Defence is often variable also, with the number of icons of the types defended depending on the relationship between the user's defence and the opponents attack statistics ([http://idb.finalhit.org/?searchtype=page