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

68 moves across the five types: 20 normal, 14 power, 13 swim, 12 fly, 9 run. Each has its own power, energy cost, accuracy, priority and scaling stat, and moves unlock as a chao develops.

Move	Type	Power	Accuracy	Energy	Scales off	Notes
👊 Chao Punch	Normal	30	100%	0	Power	A plucky little punch. Never lets you down.
🗯️ Squeak	Normal		100%	3		An indignant squeak. The foe feels bad, Attack falls.
💤 Rest	Normal		100%	0		A quick snooze: heals a quarter HP and restores energy.
🫧 Bubble Shot	Swim	45	95%	8	Swim	A stream of popping bubbles. May Soak the foe.
💦 Water Jet	Swim	68	90%	14	Swim	A spinning waterspout hurled across the arena.
🌊 Tide Blast	Swim	90	85%	22	Swim	A crashing wave. Often leaves the foe Soaked.
💨 Gale Shot	Fly	45	95%	8	Fly	A wing-whipped squall. May leave the foe Dizzy.
🦅 Talon Strike	Fly	70	85%	14	Fly	A raking talon blow. High critical-hit chance.
🌪️ Cyclone	Fly	88	80%	22	Fly	A battering whirlwind. Often leaves the foe Dizzy.
⚡ Quick Jab	Run	40	100%	6	Run	Blink-fast. Always strikes first.
🌀 Spin Dash	Run	38	90%	14	Run	A rolling double-hit charge.
💨 Sonic Rush	Run	72	95%	22	Run	A full-sprint slam that always strikes first.
🔨 Heavy Swing	Power	55	85%	8	Power	A big wind-up wallop.
🪨 Boulder Press	Power	75	80%	14	Power	A crushing blow. May leave the foe Dizzy.
💥 Megaton Slam	Power	100	75%	24	Power	Everything the little body has. Devastating when it lands.
🛡️ Endure	Normal		100%	6		Braces up early, Defense rises.
💚 Second Wind	Normal		100%	18		Digs deep and recovers a big chunk of HP.
🧱 Bulwark	Normal		100%	16		Sets its stance in stone: Defense up plus a small heal.
🌀 Riptide	Swim	80	90%	16	Swim	The swim-type's signature undertow. Usually Soaks.
🕊️ Tempest Talon	Fly	80	90%	16	Fly	The fly-type's signature talon blow. Loves a critical.
✖️ Blur Cross	Run	62	100%	16	Run	The run-type's signature: a criss-cross blur that never misses first.
✊ Seismic Fist	Power	85	85%	16	Power	The power-type's signature quake-punch.
✨ Chao Spirit	Normal	65	100%	14	Stamina	The normal-type's signature: heart over horsepower. Fires itself up.
😇 Halo Ascent	Normal	72	95%	14	Stamina	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	Grasping shadows. Extra-harsh on hero chao; may spook Attack down.
🧘 Steady Focus	Normal		100%	0		The neutral path: breathe, center, sharpen. Attack and energy rise.
🌟 Chaos Impact	Normal	110	90%	30	Stamina	The immortal one's answer to everything.
🌊 Vortex Blast	Swim	110	85%	26	Swim	Pure swim mastery: the arena becomes a drowning spiral.
☄️ Stratos Crush	Fly	110	85%	26	Fly	Pure fly mastery: a blow with the whole sky behind it.
⚡ Lightspeed Barrage	Run	58	90%	26	Run	Pure run mastery: two blows land before anyone sees one.
🏋️ Gigaton Breaker	Power	125	70%	28	Power	Pure power mastery: when it connects, the stadium remembers.
🌬️ Typhoon Wing	Fly	100	85%	26	Fly	Swim × Fly: a storm-front of rain-heavy wings.
🏄 Riptide Rush	Swim	82	95%	26	Swim	Swim × Run: rides its own wave in, first every time.
🐋 Depth Charge	Swim	108	80%	26	Swim	Swim × Power: a depth-born hammerblow.
🛩️ Slipstream Slash	Fly	98	95%	26	Fly	Fly × Run: a slash too fast to track.
☄️ Meteor Drop	Power	115	80%	28	Power	Fly × Power: goes up a chao, comes down a meteor.
🏔️ Landslide	Run	105	85%	26	Run	Run × Power: momentum with a mountain behind it.
🐟 Torpedo	Swim	58	95%	10	Swim	Tucks in and drives forward. The longer the wind-up, the further it goes.
🌀 Undertow	Swim	72	90%	14	Swim	A low current that sweeps the legs. Often Soaks.
❄️ Frost Bite	Swim	86	90%	18	Swim	Close-range and freezing. What is left of the pool when the pool runs out.
🌊 Wave Crest	Swim	76	90%	16	Swim	Rides a rising swell upward, carrying whatever it catches.
🪶 Feather Volley	Fly	55	95%	10	Fly	A slow curtain of driven air. Hard to walk through, easy to outrun.
🕊️ Wing Rush	Fly	68	90%	14	Fly	Beats once and climbs across. Goes over what a dash would go through.
🌬️ Storm Break	Fly	84	85%	18	Fly	A flat, screaming crossing. First every time.
⚡ Static Shot	Run	52	95%	10	Run	A flicked spark. No travel time worth measuring.
🦵 Trip Kick	Run	62	100%	12	Run	Takes the legs out from under. Always strikes first.
🔆 Arc Flash	Run	88	90%	18	Run	Holds the charge until the air gives way. May leave the foe Dizzy.
🐗 Shoulder Charge	Power	60	90%	12	Power	Drops a shoulder and goes. Slow to start, hard to stop.
🪨 Rolling Boulder	Power	70	85%	16	Power	Tucks and rolls, gathering weight. Hits everything on the way past.
⛰️ Rising Crag	Power	82	90%	18	Power	Punches the ground up under itself and rides it. Takes you with it.
🔮 Spirit Orb	Normal	50	95%	10	Stamina	A drifting mote of will. Slow, patient, and hard to argue with.
💫 Chao Charge	Normal	64	95%	12	Stamina	Head down, straight across. Nothing clever about it.
🌟 Chao Beam	Normal	80	90%	18	Stamina	Gathers, holds, and lets go in a straight line.
✨ Spirit Lunge	Normal	86	90%	18	Stamina	Steps through its own light. The longer the hold, the further the step.
⚔️ Iai Slash	Power	65	100%	10	Power	Katana art: a draw-cut faster than the eye. Strikes first, loves a critical.
🌙 Moonlight Cleave	Power	105	85%	24	Power	Katana art: one perfect arc under the stadium lights.
🪵 Bokken Blitz	Power	50	100%	7	Power	Bokken art: a wooden lunge drilled ten thousand times. Strikes first.
🔱 Tide Lance	Swim	70	95%	12	Swim	Trident art: a three-pronged thrust riding its own wave. May Soak.
🌊 Whirl Impale	Swim	95	85%	20	Swim	Trident art: spun overhead into a drowning spiral. Usually Soaks.
🪭 Fan Veil	Fly		100%	8		Fan art: a curtain of wind-blurred paper, suddenly hard to hit, and refreshing.
🌬️ Tempest Cut	Fly	85	90%	16	Fly	Fan art: one snap of the fan, one blade of storm. May leave the foe Dizzy.
💚 Chaos Edge	Power	75	100%	12	Power	Saber art: an emerald draw-cut that bends the queue of time. Strikes first.
✳️ Emerald Requiem	Power	115	85%	26	Power	Saber art: the arena's summit, sung in green light.
🎺 Recital	Normal		90%	10		Performs its classroom instrument. The foe may drift off.
🎤 Lullaby	Normal		85%	14		The song it learned at school, sung soft. Usually puts the foe to sleep.
💃 Dazzle	Normal		100%	8		Breaks into its classroom dance, suddenly much harder to hit.
🤸 Warm-Up	Normal		100%	8		Classroom calisthenics, Attack rises.
🖍️ Decoy Doodle	Normal		100%	12		Draws a chao so convincing the next hit lands on the drawing.

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.