🎴 Battle Network · Chips & Viruses

Hit a virus inside the first moments of its wind-up and you paralyse it and enter Full Synchro: your next chip does double. Two numbers govern it, and getting either wrong quietly deletes the whole skill layer. Window too long and a held buster counters everything by accident; minimum damage at or below the buster and the same thing happens. This panel shows whether that is currently true.

How often time stops and everyone draws. Eight to ten seconds is the original's pace. Pick seconds is the co-op clock: it is what stops one player holding the whole room.

The buster is meant to be weak — chips are the damage, the buster is what keeps you alive between customs. Push it past ten and the game stops being about your folder.

Telegraph is the load-bearing column: it is how long the ❗ warning shows before the attack lands, and therefore whether a player can read and beat it. Shorten it below the counter window and that virus becomes uncounterable — the table says so in red.

Damage, wind-up and folder limit. Shape is how it covers the grid and is not editable here — it is the chip's identity. The right-hand column shows what the damage actually buys: how many of this chip it takes to delete a Mettaur, a Swordy and a Jelly at wave 1.

The thirty chips a battle is fought out of. A folder whose codes do not agree deals you five chips and lets you play one — this is the count of every code across the folder, so you can see at a glance whether a hand will combine.