Chao Stadium · Chao Garden: Evolved

Stadium is the battle mode, and the only one where you make the decisions. Race and Karate run themselves; Stadium is turn-based and you choose every action. Open it from the garden panel.

You bring a team of three and can switch between them mid-fight.

How a battle works

Each turn you pick an action, the whole turn resolves at once, and it plays out as theatre.

Every chao brings two resources:

Resource	Source
HP	60, plus 6 per level of stamina
Energy	40, plus a little per point of care. Regenerates 3 a turn

Moves cost energy, so a battle is paced. You cannot open with your biggest attack every turn, and a chao that has been looked after has more room to act.

Stat	In battle
Stamina	HP
Run	Initiative, who acts first
Fly	Dodge chance
Swim	Guard, blocking and countering
Power / run / fly / swim	Scale the moves of their own type

Crit chance rides happiness. A chao you have looked after crits more often than one you drilled.

Grades do not appear here. They are growth-rate genetics, and Stadium cares about what a chao is now.

Guard and dodge

Guard blocks 55% of incoming damage at swim 0, rising to 80% at swim 100, and counters for damage that scales with swim. It costs 10 energy.

Dodge starts at 4% and is capped at 32% however much fly you stack. Fly makes a chao hard to pin down rather than untouchable.

Statuses

Status	Effect
💦 Soaked	Cannot dodge, slowed
💫 Dizzy	May stumble
💤 Sleepy	Asleep until hit

Sleepy is awkward to rely on, since the thing that wakes them is you hitting them.

The type wheel

Every move has a type, and the wheel is a four-way cycle: power beats swim, swim beats fly, fly beats run, run beats power. Normal beats nothing and is beaten by nothing.

Multiplier	When
×1.5	Super effective
×0.67	Resisted
×1.25	The move’s type matches the user’s type
×1.5	Alignment bonus

The wheel is why a team of three matters more than three strong chao. A single maxed power chao walks through swimmers and is picked apart by runners, and switching is the answer rather than out-levelling it.

Moves

114 moves. Each has its own power, energy cost, accuracy, priority and scaling stat, and they arrive by three different routes:

Route	Count	How it unlocks
Stat moves	59	Raising a chao — 20 normal, 11 swim, 10 fly, 9 run, 9 power
Elemental arts	36	Being that element: four per element, plus fire’s four stat-gated extras
Weapon arts	19	Carrying the weapon, and — for all but the Bastion — being the matching element

Since 1.4.6 a chao’s evolution type counts as an element too, so the elemental and weapon arts are reachable without the rite for a chao of the matching type.

Move	Type	Power	Accuracy	Energy	Scales off	How to learn it	Notes
👊 Chao Punch	Normal	30	100%	0	Power	Known from the start	A plucky little punch. Never lets you down.
🗯️ Squeak	Normal		100%	3		Known from the start	An indignant squeak. The foe feels bad, Attack falls.
💤 Rest	Normal		100%	0		Known from the start	A quick snooze: heals a quarter HP and restores energy.
🫧 Bubble Shot	Swim	45	95%	8	Swim	Swim 20	A stream of popping bubbles. May Soak the foe.
💦 Water Jet	Swim	68	90%	14	Swim	Swim 50	A spinning waterspout hurled across the arena.
🌊 Tide Blast	Swim	90	85%	22	Swim	Swim 80	A crashing wave. Often leaves the foe Soaked.
💨 Gale Shot	Fly	45	95%	8	Fly	Fly 20	A wing-whipped squall. May leave the foe Dizzy.
🦅 Talon Strike	Fly	70	85%	14	Fly	Fly 50	A raking talon blow. High critical-hit chance.
🌪️ Cyclone	Fly	88	80%	22	Fly	Fly 80	A battering whirlwind. Often leaves the foe Dizzy.
⚡ Quick Jab	Run	40	100%	6	Run	Run 20	Blink-fast. Always strikes first.
🌀 Spin Dash	Run	38	90%	14	Run	Run 50	A rolling double-hit charge.
💨 Sonic Rush	Run	72	95%	22	Run	Run 80	A full-sprint slam that always strikes first.
🔨 Heavy Swing	Power	55	85%	8	Power	Power 20	A big wind-up wallop.
🪨 Boulder Press	Power	75	80%	14	Power	Power 50	A crushing blow. May leave the foe Dizzy.
💥 Megaton Slam	Power	100	75%	24	Power	Power 80	Everything the little body has. Devastating when it lands.
🛡️ Endure	Normal		100%	6		Stamina 20	Braces up early, Defense rises.
💚 Second Wind	Normal		100%	18		Stamina 50	Digs deep and recovers a big chunk of HP.
🧱 Bulwark	Normal		100%	16		Stamina 80	Sets its stance in stone: Defense up plus a small heal.
🌀 Riptide	Swim	80	90%	16	Swim	Swim adult	The swim-type's signature undertow. Usually Soaks.
🕊️ Tempest Talon	Fly	80	90%	16	Fly	Fly adult	The fly-type's signature talon blow. Loves a critical.
✖️ Blur Cross	Run	62	100%	16	Run	Run adult	The run-type's signature: a criss-cross blur that never misses first.
✊ Seismic Fist	Power	85	85%	16	Power	Power adult	The power-type's signature quake-punch.
✨ Chao Spirit	Normal	65	100%	14	Stamina	Normal adult	The normal-type's signature: heart over horsepower. Fires itself up.
😇 Halo Ascent	Normal	72	95%	14	Stamina	Hero alignment	A rising shaft of halo-light that carries the caster up. Extra-harsh on dark chao; soothes the caster.
😈 Shadow Snare	Normal	72	95%	14	Stamina	Dark alignment	Grasping shadows. Extra-harsh on hero chao; may spook Attack down.
🧘 Steady Focus	Normal		100%	0		Neutral alignment	The neutral path: breathe, center, sharpen. Attack and energy rise.
🌟 Chaos Impact	Normal	110	90%	30	Stamina	Chaos Chao	The immortal one's answer to everything.
🌊 Vortex Blast	Swim	110	85%	26	Swim	Swim second evolution	Pure swim mastery: the arena becomes a drowning spiral.
☄️ Stratos Crush	Fly	110	85%	26	Fly	Fly second evolution	Pure fly mastery: a blow with the whole sky behind it.
⚡ Lightspeed Barrage	Run	58	90%	26	Run	Run second evolution	Pure run mastery: two blows land before anyone sees one.
🏋️ Gigaton Breaker	Power	125	70%	28	Power	Power second evolution	Pure power mastery: when it connects, the stadium remembers.
🌬️ Typhoon Wing	Fly	100	85%	26	Fly	Swim and Fly evolution	Swim × Fly: a storm-front of rain-heavy wings.
🏄 Riptide Rush	Swim	82	95%	26	Swim	Swim and Run evolution	Swim × Run: rides its own wave in, first every time.
🐋 Depth Charge	Swim	108	80%	26	Swim	Swim and Power evolution	Swim × Power: a depth-born hammerblow.
🛩️ Slipstream Slash	Fly	98	95%	26	Fly	Fly and Run evolution	Fly × Run: a slash too fast to track.
☄️ Meteor Drop	Power	115	80%	28	Power	Fly and Power evolution	Fly × Power: goes up a chao, comes down a meteor.
🏔️ Landslide	Run	105	85%	26	Run	Run and Power evolution	Run × Power: momentum with a mountain behind it.
🐟 Torpedo	Swim	58	95%	10	Swim	Swim 35	Tucks in and drives forward. The longer the wind-up, the further it goes.
🌀 Undertow	Swim	72	90%	14	Swim	Swim 65	A low current that sweeps the legs. Often Soaks.
❄️ Frost Bite	Swim	86	90%	18	Swim	Swim 95	Close-range and freezing. What is left of the pool when the pool runs out.
🌊 Wave Crest	Swim	76	90%	16	Swim	Swim 95	Rides a rising swell upward, carrying whatever it catches.
🪶 Feather Volley	Fly	55	95%	10	Fly	Fly 35	A slow curtain of driven air. Hard to walk through, easy to outrun.
🕊️ Wing Rush	Fly	68	90%	14	Fly	Fly 65	Beats once and climbs across. Goes over what a dash would go through.
🌬️ Storm Break	Fly	84	85%	18	Fly	Fly 95	A flat, screaming crossing. First every time.
⚡ Static Shot	Run	52	95%	10	Run	Run 35	A flicked spark. No travel time worth measuring.
🦵 Trip Kick	Run	62	100%	12	Run	Run 65	Takes the legs out from under. Always strikes first.
🔆 Arc Flash	Run	88	90%	18	Run	Run 95	Holds the charge until the air gives way. May leave the foe Dizzy.
🐗 Shoulder Charge	Power	60	90%	12	Power	Power 35	Drops a shoulder and goes. Slow to start, hard to stop.
🪨 Rolling Boulder	Power	70	85%	16	Power	Power 65	Tucks and rolls, gathering weight. Hits everything on the way past.
⛰️ Rising Crag	Power	82	90%	18	Power	Power 95	Punches the ground up under itself and rides it. Takes you with it.
🔮 Spirit Orb	Normal	50	95%	10	Stamina	Stamina 35	A drifting mote of will. Slow, patient, and hard to argue with.
💫 Chao Charge	Normal	64	95%	12	Stamina	Stamina 65	Head down, straight across. Nothing clever about it.
🌟 Chao Beam	Normal	80	90%	18	Stamina	Stamina 80	Gathers, holds, and lets go in a straight line.
✨ Spirit Lunge	Normal	86	90%	18	Stamina	Stamina 95	Steps through its own light. The longer the hold, the further the step.
⚔️ Iai Slash	Power	65	100%	10	Power	The Dojo Katana	Katana art: a draw-cut faster than the eye. Strikes first, loves a critical.
🌙 Moonlight Cleave	Power	105	85%	24	Power	The Dojo Katana	Katana art: one perfect arc under the stadium lights.
🪵 Bokken Blitz	Power	50	100%	7	Power	The Bokken	Bokken art: a wooden lunge drilled ten thousand times. Strikes first.
🔱 Tide Lance	Swim	70	95%	12	Swim	The Coral Trident	Trident art: a three-pronged thrust riding its own wave. May Soak.
🌊 Whirl Impale	Swim	95	85%	20	Swim	The Coral Trident	Trident art: spun overhead into a drowning spiral. Usually Soaks.
🪭 Fan Veil	Fly		100%	8		The Tempest Fan	Fan art: a curtain of wind-blurred paper, suddenly hard to hit, and refreshing.
🌬️ Tempest Cut	Fly	85	90%	16	Fly	The Tempest Fan	Fan art: one snap of the fan, one blade of storm. May leave the foe Dizzy.
💚 Chaos Edge	Power	75	100%	12	Power	The Chaos Saber	Saber art: an emerald draw-cut that bends the queue of time. Strikes first.
✳️ Emerald Requiem	Power	115	85%	26	Power	The Chaos Saber	Saber art: the arena's summit, sung in green light.
🎺 Recital	Normal		90%	10		Any Instrument class	Performs its classroom instrument. The foe may drift off.
🎤 Lullaby	Normal		85%	14		Song class	The song it learned at school, sung soft. Usually puts the foe to sleep.
💃 Dazzle	Normal		100%	8		Any Dance class	Breaks into its classroom dance, suddenly much harder to hit.
🤸 Warm-Up	Normal		100%	8		Exercise class	Classroom calisthenics, Attack rises.
🖍️ Decoy Doodle	Normal		100%	12		Drawing class	Draws a chao so convincing the next hit lands on the drawing.
🔥 Cinder Spit	Power	72	95%	14	Power	Fire element	Coughs up an ember that arcs, lands, and keeps burning.
🔥 Flashover	Power	80	90%	18	Power	Fire element	Crosses the gap before the air it left has finished catching.
🔥 Updraft Flare	Power	60	100%	12	Power	Fire element	Rides its own heat upward. Hot enough that nobody follows.
🔥 Pyre Stomp	Power	98	90%	22	Power	Fire element	Brings the whole fire down at once, through the floor.
🔥 Backdraft	Run	88	95%	18	Run	Fire element and Run 35	The air comes back for what the fire took, and takes the chao up with it.
🔥 Firestride	Power	100	90%	22	Power	Fire element and Power 50	Crosses the arena and leaves the floor burning the whole way over.
🔥 Sunspot	Run	112	85%	26	Run	Fire element and Run 80	A knot of star pulled loose and thrown. It is still burning when it lands.
🔥 Firestorm	Power	125	85%	32	Power	Fire element and Power 95	Every fire the chao has ever lit, arriving at once, from above.
❄️ Hail Shot	Swim	70	95%	13	Swim	Ice element	One hailstone, thrown properly. May leave the foe Soaked.
❄️ Glacier Slide	Swim	78	90%	17	Swim	Ice element	Puts ice under itself and stops being in charge of where it goes.
❄️ Frost Pillar	Swim	58	100%	12	Swim	Ice element	Freezes a column out of the damp air and rides it up.
❄️ Shatterpoint	Swim	96	85%	22	Swim	Ice element	Finds the one flaw in the ice and hits precisely that.
⚡ Arc Lance	Run	74	95%	14	Run	Lightning element	A drawn-out spark that goes where it is pointed. Strikes early.
⚡ Thunder Run	Run	82	90%	18	Run	Lightning element	Takes the shortest path, which is rarely a straight one. May leave the foe Dizzy.
⚡ Skyhook	Run	60	100%	12	Run	Lightning element	Throws a line at the sky and is pulled up it.
⚡ Ground Current	Run	94	90%	21	Run	Lightning element	Sends it through the floor instead of the air. The floor conducts.
🌬️ Gale Dart	Fly	68	100%	13	Fly	Wind element	A sliver of moving air. Never misses; there is nothing to dodge.
🌬️ Jetstream	Fly	78	90%	17	Fly	Wind element	Finds the fast air and stops arguing with it.
🌬️ Thermal Climb	Fly	56	100%	11	Fly	Wind element	Circles up a warm column without a single wingbeat.
🌬️ Pressure Burst	Fly	92	90%	20	Fly	Wind element	Lets go of all of it at once, outward, from nothing.
💧 Spout Shot	Swim	70	95%	13	Swim	Water element	A held mouthful, delivered with intent. May leave the foe Soaked.
💧 Surge Charge	Swim	78	90%	17	Swim	Water element	Gathers behind itself and arrives as one weight.
💧 Geyser Lift	Swim	58	100%	12	Swim	Water element	Opens a vent underfoot and steps onto it.
💧 Maelstrom	Swim	96	85%	22	Swim	Water element	Turns the water until the water is doing the work.
🪨 Fault Line	Power	98	90%	22	Power	Earth element	Leans on the ground until it gives, then follows the crack over.
🪨 Tremor Charge	Power	80	90%	18	Power	Earth element	Arrives a moment after the shaking that announced it.
🪨 Upthrust	Power	58	100%	12	Power	Earth element	Puts a slab under itself on the way up and leaves it there.
🪨 Crag Hammer	Power	88	90%	19	Power	Earth element	Swings a piece of the garden it did not ask permission for.
✨ Prism Lance	Normal	72	95%	14	Stamina	Light element	Splits the light, keeps the sharp part.
✨ Lightstep	Normal	78	90%	17	Stamina	Light element	Goes the way light goes, and gets there first.
✨ Radiant Rise	Normal	60	100%	12	Stamina	Light element	Stands up into a column of it. Briefly hard to look at.
✨ Corona Break	Normal	96	90%	22	Stamina	Light element	Everything it was holding in, released in one ring.
🌑 Umbral Bolt	Normal	72	95%	14	Stamina	Shadow element	A piece of the dark, sent on ahead.
🌑 Nightstep	Normal	78	90%	17	Stamina	Shadow element	Leaves by one shadow and arrives out of another.
🌑 Voidstep	Normal	58	100%	12	Stamina	Shadow element	Steps off nothing, which turns out to hold.
🌑 Eclipse Grip	Normal	94	85%	21	Stamina	Shadow element	Closes a hand around the light and holds it shut. May leave the foe Sleepy.
🔥 Cinderwake	Power	92	95%	18	Power	Fire element and The Emberbrand	Draws across the gap and leaves the air burning where it passed.
❄️ Killing Frost	Swim	78	100%	15	Swim	Ice element and The Rimefang	One thrust, placed rather than swung. Whatever it touches stops.
⚡ Levinbolt	Run	88	90%	19	Run	Lightning element and The Stormfork	The fork throws the strike ahead of itself, and the chao after it.
🌊 Riptide Draw	Swim	84	95%	17	Swim	Water element and The Undertow	Cuts on the way in and drags on the way out.
🌪️ Sickle Gale	Fly	76	100%	14	Fly	Wind element and The Zephyr Loop	Goes out on the wind, comes back on it, and lifts as it returns.
🪨 Faultline	Power	112	85%	26	Power	Earth element and The Cairnbreaker	Brought down once. The ground does the rest of the work.
☀️ Sunshot	Normal	86	95%	18	Stamina	Light element and The Dawnpiercer	Loosed rather than swung. It does not care what is in the way.
🌑 Last Harvest	Power	104	90%	23	Power	Shadow element and The Nightreap	Reaps at arm's length and a little further than that.
⚙️ Ironrend	Power	118	80%	28	Power	The Bastion	No trick to it. Enough steel, brought down hard enough.
💎 Shard Volley	Normal	96	90%	21	Stamina	Chaos element and The Emerald Rift	The emerald sheds pieces of itself, and every piece finds something.

The cups

Four cups in a strict chain: a cup opens only once you have won a trophy in the one before it.

Cup	Opponent levels	Cup prize	Spar prize	Notes
Leaf Cup	16 to 34	400	80	The neighborhood bracket. Every legend bruised a knee here first.
Tide Cup	36 to 58	1,000	200	Seasoned contestants with real training behind them.
Sky Cup	60 to 84	2,500	450	Masters of their types. Bring a plan, not just a chao.
Chaos Cup	84 to 99	6,000	900	The summit. An immortal is said to wait in the final.

A cup is a four-fight bracket against generated contestants, all of them second-evolution adults. HP carries between fights, and a chao that fainted returns for the next round at a third of its health.

That makes the bracket a resource problem. Winning the first fight with one chao barely standing is often worse than winning it with two chao lightly hurt, and the third team member exists for the point where that stops being hypothetical.

Spar is the single-fight version at a chosen cup’s level, for a smaller prize and no bracket.

Cup wins also award weapons. See the weapons reference.

Where Stadium fits

Stadium pays the best in the game. The Chaos Cup’s 6,000 rings is more than three times the best single Board prize, and it is gated hard enough to earn it: Chaos Cup contestants are levels 84 to 99.

It is also the only mode where a plan beats a stat line. A well-chosen team of three ordinary chao will take a cup that one very strong chao cannot.