Emoji Battle - iMessage Game
Emoji Strategy Combo Battler
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Send your emoji into battle! Type beats type, combos turn the tide, and you can challenge friends right in iMessage. Easy to learn, hard to master.
Build a team of emoji and send them into battle. Your front emoji clashes with your opponent's front, the winner stays, and the last emoji standing wins. Easy to learn, hard to master.
HOW IT PLAYS
Pick up to 3 emoji, then send your team. Type beats type, like rock paper scissors with 15 elements arranged in a ring, so every type beats some and loses to others. If types are even, the higher power level wins. If power ties too, both fighters are knocked out.
DEEP STRATEGY
Over 1,900 emoji fighters, each with its own types, a power level from 0 to 11, and many with special abilities. Certain teams trigger combos for huge effects: spread wildfire, freeze the enemy front, summon reinforcements, steal a fighter, or flip the rules entirely. Read your rival, pick the perfect counter, and watch the tide turn.
GAME CHANGING SPECIALS
Reverse the whole type ring, force sudden death, jackpot the entire board, hex a foe into a frog, drain their power, revive your fallen, douse fire, dispel buffs, and far more. There is always a counter if you know where to look.
PLAY YOUR WAY
• Versus Computer with four difficulty levels, from a gentle Novice to a ruthless Grandmaster that drafts, predicts your move, and counters.
• Pass and Play on one device with a friend.
• Play friends over iMessage: send your team, they send theirs, and the battle plays out right in the conversation. The opponent's pick stays hidden until you commit.
ACCUMULATE AND ADAPT
Survivors carry into the next round, and each round you add up to 3 more emoji to your growing team. Win a best of 1, 3, or 5 match to take the crown.
LEARN AS YOU GO
A friendly walkthrough teaches the rules by playing through a real round. A built in wiki lets you browse every fighter, filter and sort by type, and study every combo and special so you can plan your perfect lineup.
POLISHED AND FUN
An iMessage style chat interface, juicy spring animations, special effect flourishes, and haptics make every clash feel great.
Download Emoji Battle and find out which emoji truly rules them all.
more Version 1.3.0
ASK SIRI
"What beats the dragon?" now has an answer without opening the game, which matters because it is usually asked mid-match in Messages. Siri reads the live type chart, so it can never drift from what the battle engine actually does. You can also look up any fighter's types and power by name.
GROUP BATTLES IN iMESSAGE
Battle up to 8 friends in a group chat. Everyone picks a team, every pairing resolves, and the winner takes the thread. New in this update: a dedicated Group Battle option in the app menu, the host chooses the player count, and any joined player can start the battle early instead of waiting on stragglers.
MATCH HISTORY
Every match you play is now saved with its full battle log. Reopen any past game from the new history screen and replay the whole thing, round by round. Group matches are recorded too. History is opt in and syncs with iCloud.
ALL NEW WIKI
The Wiki has been rebuilt around one fighter at a time. Swipe through the roster, see each fighter's pool ladder, teammates, counters, and similar fighters, and search across every catalog from anywhere. Tap any ability to see every fighter that carries it. Prefer the old look? The classic Wiki is still available in Settings.
FIXES AND POLISH
Group games no longer fall back to a plain 1v1 in group chats.
Your XP and unlocks can no longer be clobbered when the app and the Messages extension write at the same time.
The round recap now credits the true winner when chaos coin, mirror, assassin, or overheat flips a clash.
Pending moves and trades stay safe until iMessage confirms the send.
Typing dots now appear only on your opponent's side.
Dozens of strings that showed in English now appear in your language.
Plus many more stability and correctness fixes across the app.
1.3.0 Sep 23
What's New in Emoji Battle 1.2.2
NEW CONTENT: UNDERDOGS AND COUNTERS
Over 110 new combos and 10 new special abilities, starring emoji that never had a moment: the clock faces, the zodiac signs, the card suits, the moon phases, trains, athletes, doctors, detectives, families, and more. Counter play arrives too. New specials strike at specific threats (a dragon-slaying lancer, holy ground that banishes the undead, an officer who confiscates enemy abilities), and for the first time there are combos that counter other combos, including a counterspell that shuts down the enemy's combos for the whole round.
SMARTER COMBOS
Combos now check their members at the moment they fire. If an enemy transforms one of your fighters before your combo goes off, the combo fizzles, so transformation effects are finally a real answer to combo teams. Your own shapeshifters still keep their combos, and fighters that go down swinging still set off their explosive payoffs.
FOUR MAIN TYPES
The 15 elemental types are now organized under four main types: Ember (heat and energy), Tide (fluid and cold), Terra (matter and life), and Aether (the unseen). Browse, filter, and learn the type chart through the new grouped pickers and the redesigned ring page in the wiki.
QUICK PEEK
Press and hold any fighter on the emoji keyboard to instantly peek at its power, type, copies, and special ability, complete with a playful spin. The full wiki page is still one tap away.
BETTER iMESSAGE BATTLES
Play Again: rematch straight from the result screen, in its own fresh bubble.
Draft Next Turn: after watching your round play out, pick your next team right away and send both in a single message. Every message now advances a full round.
Trade screen: drag the divider between the two emoji grids to give either list more room. Double tap to reset.
POLISH
The typing dots now behave like real iMessage typing, appearing only before an opponent's message, with a suspenseful pause before the final pick of a close match. The How to Play captions are now localized in all 13 languages, and the wiki is tidier with Specials merged into the Types tab.
1.2.2 Aug 9
Emoji Battle 1.2.1
WHAT'S NEW
See what actually happened
Tap any combo or special in the battle log and you now get a full receipt: every emoji it touched, its power before and after, the statuses it applied or cleared, who joined the fight or was knocked out, and both teams before and after when the lineup changed.
Live team bar in iMessage
Your iMessage battles now show both lineups in their current formation while the fight plays out, stepping in time with the replay. Tap any fighter to check its power, types and statuses, or collapse the bar to give the transcript more room.
Tap any fighter in solo battles too
The same receipt is now one tap away in bot battles and Pass and Play.
Skip the animation
A new Skip button in iMessage jumps straight to the finished battle and the result.
My Collection
A trophy room on the home screen showing only the fighters you own: your star fighter, your collection stats, and a wall of every emoji you have earned, grouped by type.
An interactive How to Play
Pick a fighter and watch that fighter's round play out, with every example built from the real type ring, real power levels and a real combo it can form.
Learn the rules in the Wiki
A new Order tab lays out exactly what resolves when, from round start to the final clash, including which side is processed first. The Types tab now explains type combos too.
BALANCE
Abilities now resolve before combos at the start of a round, so a combo lands on the board your fighters' abilities left behind.
Three fighters that removed enemies for free at round start now pay a price. The bomb goes up with its own blast, the sinkhole can swallow its own side, and the abductor leaves the field with its catch.
FIXES
The battle log now says whose special fired, not just what it did.
The team bar no longer drifts out of step after a shuffle, a steal or a transform.
Fighters taken out by an effect are now narrated instead of quietly vanishing.
The typing dots build suspense before a result and never linger after one.
The fighter sort control in the iMessage picker is translated again.
1.2.1 Aug 2
ELEMENTS ALIGN
Every emoji now has a type that actually fits it. We retyped nearly 1,000 fighters, so fire things burn, spooky things haunt, storms crackle with Electric, and the meme legends finally get the typing they deserve.
NEW: TYPE COMBOS
• Field three fighters of the same type to unleash that element's triad, like Overload for triple Electric.
• Play a themed type sequence in order, light into shadow for Total Eclipse, to bend an entire round.
• 24 new combos in all, and they stack with everything already in your collection.
THE WIKI KNOWS
• Combo cards now spell out exactly how to trigger each type combo, in order or any order.
• Every fighter's page lists the type combos its typing can help you form.
IMESSAGE BATTLES
• The full detailed battle log arrived. Tap any clash to see which emoji caused what, and why it won.
• Sort the team picker by Type, Power, or Name, alongside search and type filters.
• Combo names and effect removals are now narrated in your language, matching the main app word for word.
• Trades got a search box and filters on the "You give" side too, not just "You want".
BATTLE SCREEN GLOW UP
• Your team now sits on your side of the tray, with fronts facing each other.
• In a close bot match you might catch your opponent "typing" while the tension builds.
• The end of match XP receipt is easier to read, with no bubbles bleeding through.
COMPOSER AND PALETTE
• Swipe up to expand the fighter palette and see far more of your roster at once.
• Grids now adapt to your screen, roomier on iPad and Pro Max, tighter on smaller phones, and they ease off as your text size grows.
• Combos show a plain language "How it works" badge instead of a generic sparkle.
SMALLER THINGS THAT MATTER
• Withdrawing a trade offer now asks first. No more accidental take backs.
• Your daily free fighter bows out gracefully once your collection is truly complete, and comes back if you trade someone away.
• Hundreds more combo names translated, so all 13 languages read the same everywhere.
• Purchases, trades, and earned XP survive interruptions, reinstalls, and second devices far more reliably.
• Faster pickers, smoother effects, and a long list of VoiceOver and stability fixes.
Draft your team. Find your combo. Last emoji standing wins.
1.2 Jul 26
Emoji Battle 1.1.8
What's New
Online battles in Messages got a big tune up:
• Your opponent's move now shows up live while the game is open. No more closing and reopening the conversation to see their turn.
• Fixed a bug where opening a game in one conversation could briefly show a battle from another chat.
• Every round's battle replay now plays out beat by beat, with effects and haptics, not just the first one.
• Match results and the Send Move button appear right when the fight ends. No more long pause after the final round.
• If a move can't be staged in Messages, you now get a clear alert instead of the move quietly disappearing.
• Games started on a newer app version now explain that an update is needed instead of showing an empty menu.
Also in this update:
• Purchases that were interrupted or waiting for approval (Ask to Buy) now deliver automatically once they complete.
• Vibration effects work again after returning from another app.
• Bug reports and combo suggestions now require a message before sending.
• Fully localized in 13 languages, plus stability and performance improvements throughout.
Thanks for playing! Spot a broken combo or have an idea for a new one? Tell us in Settings > Feedback.
1.1.8 Jul 12
Emoji Battle 1.1.7
What's New
Collect your emojis
Every battle now builds a collection. Win emojis, stack up copies, and watch your roster grow the more you play.
Emoji packs
Want a head start? Brand-new emoji packs let you grab bundles of fighters in one tap, with options for every kind of player, from a quick boost to the whole set.
Level up
Earn XP and climb the ranks as you battle. Progression is smoother and more rewarding now, with a bonus for your first win each day and tougher opponents that scale as you grow.
Better in Messages
Battling right inside Messages is smoother than ever. We fixed a blank screen some players saw on the very first open, and playback now runs cleanly from the first tap.
Your collection, everywhere
Your emojis follow you. Collections now sync across your devices through iCloud, so your roster is always with you.
Privacy, spelled out
A clear, plain-language privacy policy is now built right into the app.
Smoother and steadier
We squashed the rare mid-battle freezes, proved every special and combo fires the way it should, and made a pile of quiet improvements under the hood for better speed and reliability.
Thanks for playing Emoji Battle. Keep those emojis fighting!
1.1.7 Jul 8
WHAT'S NEW IN EMOJI BATTLE
EMOJI PACKS
Collect up to 3 copies of the same emoji and send it into battle up to 3 times in one turn. Grab a pack (3 copies) of any fighter, or unlock every pack at once with the new top bundle. Unlock Everything still gets you 1 copy of all 1,896 fighters.
LEVEL UP
Every battle now earns XP, win or lose (wins pay way more). Each level up unlocks a free fighter, and every 5th level drops a full emoji pack. Check your level, XP bar and upcoming rewards on the new Level & Rewards screen right from the home menu.
NEW UNLOCK CELEBRATION
Freshly unlocked emoji now twirl in with a full 3D spin, grow from the center, and keep reacting as you tilt your phone.
PASS & PLAY, NOW WITH SECRETS
Your picks stay hidden behind monkey coving eyes emoji until both players are in. Pass the phone, lock in your teams, then hit Reveal and watch the battle together. You can turn this off in Settings.
BETTER iMESSAGE BATTLES
Watch the battle play out the moment your move ends the round, before you even send it. Your level and XP now show right in the game header.
A LIVELIER WIKI
Tap any combo to see a little animated demo of how it works. Spin any fighter a full 360 with your finger. The type ring now blooms in and draws its matchups live. Sort fighters to see your unlocked collection first.
FIXES AND POLISH
The Emoji Battle icon now appears correctly in the Messages app list. Long fighter names display in full everywhere. Grandmaster difficulty no longer gets cut off. Team lineups and reaction bars stay fully on screen.
1.1.6 Jul 7
Emoji Battle 1.1.4
What's New
- Stability improvements + Bug Fixes
Thanks for playing!
1.1.3 Jun 29
What's New in 1.1.2
• Locked fighters now stand out. In the fighter keyboard, fighters you haven't unlocked yet get a soft highlight, so it's easy to see what's in your roster at a glance.
• Tap to learn in friend battles. In iMessage matches, tap any combo or special yn the play-by-play to see exactly what it does the same explainers the solo game has.
• Combo variety tuning. A few combos were rebalanced for more interesting, less repetitive battles.
• Stability and polish.
1.1.2 Jun 26
What's New in Version 1.1.1
500+ New Combos
We added over 500 brand-new emoji combos to discover. Mix food, animals, weather, sports, memes and more to trigger powerful effects. Tap any combo during a battle to see exactly what it does.
Tap to Understand Every Move
Curious why a clash went the way it did? Tap any battle bubble to get the breakdown. Clashes, combos and special abilities are now explained in a quick, easy detail card.
Smoother Battles
Fixed a freeze that could interrupt a match after the first round. Battles now play through cleanly, every round, every time.
Polish and Fixes
Improved the reaction bar so it never gets stuck.
Stability and performance improvements across the board.
Thanks for playing Emoji Battle!
1.1.1 Jun 22
Emoji Battle 1.1.0 - What's New
Emoji Wiki, now in Messages
- Browse every fighter, every combo, every special, and the full type chart right inside the iMessage app.
- Open it from the book icon in a battle, or the Emoji Wiki button while you pick your team. No need to leave the conversation.
Smoother battles
- Fixed a freeze that could stop a battle from continuing after certain effects and combos. Rounds now always play out and move on.
- Wild, chaotic rounds resolve quickly instead of dragging on.
A stronger start
- Your free starter emoji now always include at least one ready-to-use combo, so you can pull off a special move from your very first match.
Polish and reliability
- Faster, steadier effects and animations.
- Lots of small fixes and refinements across the app.
1.1.0 Jun 17
Emoji Battle 1.0.5
Our biggest content update yet, plus clearer battles and a smarter team picker.
New in this version:
- 150+ new emoji combos to discover, across fresh themes like sports, music, travel, ocean, love, mythical creatures, and plenty of silly ones. Over 270 combos in all.
- New special abilities, with many more fighters now bringing their own tricks to the field, including counters to popular strategies.
- 300+ new battle effects and animations. Every combo and special now gets its own distinct flourish.
Clearer battles, without the clutter:
- "Super effective!" callouts when a type matchup really lands.
- Combos now show their recipe, like (fire emoji) + (tree emoji) = Wildfire.
- A live lineup bar shows each fighter's power, status, and who just got knocked out.
- A quick recap card at the end of every round.
- Tap any clash to see exactly why it went the way it did.
Smarter team picking:
- Scout the fighters your opponent kept and see which types counter them.
- Preview the combos your team will trigger before you hit send.
More languages:
- Now fully translated into 12 languages, including every combo and special name and description.
Under the hood:
- Performance improvements for smoother battles and a snappier team picker and collection.
Thanks for playing. Have feedback? We would love to hear it.
1.0.5 Jun 11
What's New in 1.0.4
Daily reward reminders. Turn on a friendly daily notification so you never miss your free fighter. You can enable it during the welcome flow or any time from the new Settings screen (tap the gear on the home screen).
Your collection now syncs with iCloud. Unlock an emoji on one device and it shows up on your others, and a fresh install or new phone restores everything you have earned.
Smarter online battles. Surviving fighters now carry into the next round in head to head matches, just like solo play, so winning a round gives you a real edge.
Faster emoji trading. The trade screen has a search box and filters by element type and category, so finding the emoji you want is quick instead of endless scrolling.
Stability and polish. Hardened the iMessage game against startup crashes and fixed turn handling, plus assorted fixes.
1.0.4 Jun 8
What's New in 1.0.3
• Trading just got easier! When making an emoji trade, you can now SEARCH the full emoji collection by name to instantly find the one you want.
• New filter bar lets you narrow the list by element type (Fire, Water, Nature…) or by category (Animal, Food, Face, and more).
• Various stability and polish fixes.
1.0.3 Jun 7
Emoji Battle 1.0.2
Play your friends right inside Messages, trade fighters, and enjoy a fresh new look.
New
- Battle a friend over iMessage. Pick your team, send your move, and watch the clash play out for both players, round by round.
- Trade emojis with friends. Offer a fighter you own for one you want, then accept or redact the deal, all inside Messages.
- Daily free fighter. A live countdown on the home screen shows when your next free unlock lands, with a satisfying reveal and haptics.
- Dark Mode support across the whole app and the Messages experience.
Improved
- A redesigned in app guide with a modern dex, 3D spin entry cards, and clearer type matchups.
- Spinnable crossed swords on the home screen with touch, drag, and haptic feedback.
- New chaos specials and combos that can flip a match on its head, balanced for real strategy.
- Smoother animations and faster load times throughout.
Fixed
- Online battles now hand the turn to the right player, show the correct result to each side, and continue cleanly past round one.
- The individual fighter screen now shows every type it beats and loses to.
- Many smaller polish and stability fixes.
Thanks for playing. Tell a friend, start a battle, and may the best emoji win.
1.0.2 Jun 5
What's New in Version 1.0.1
A brand new Emoji Wiki
- Browse every fighter in a colorful card grid with entry numbers, with a special glow for legendaries.
- Tap any fighter to open its entry page, split into Info, Battle, and Combos sections.
- See exactly what each fighter beats and loses to, shown as color coded type badges.
- The new Combo Codex shows every combo as a color coded card. Tap a combo's emoji to jump straight to that fighter.
- Abilities are now grouped by when they trigger, so they are easier to learn.
- The 15 type ring is now an interactive diagram. Tap a type to see its matchups.
Play with your fighters in 3D.
- On a fighter's page, drag the big emoji to spin it around in 3D.
- Let go and it springs smoothly back to center, then gently teeters on its own.
Quality of life.
- Faster to search, filter, and sort the full roster.
- New Surprise Me button for when you want a random fighter to check out.
1.0.1 Jun 2
Version 1.3.0
ASK SIRI
"What beats the dragon?" now has an answer without opening the game, which matters because it is usually asked mid-match in Messages. Siri reads the live type chart, so it can never drift from what the battle engine actually does. You can also look up any fighter's types and power by name.
GROUP BATTLES IN iMESSAGE
Battle up to 8 friends in a group chat. Everyone picks a team, every pairing resolves, and the winner takes the thread. New in this update: a dedicated Group Battle option in the app menu, the host chooses the player count, and any joined player can start the battle early instead of waiting on stragglers.
MATCH HISTORY
Every match you play is now saved with its full battle log. Reopen any past game from the new history screen and replay the whole thing, round by round. Group matches are recorded too. History is opt in and syncs with iCloud.
ALL NEW WIKI
The Wiki has been rebuilt around one fighter at a time. Swipe through the roster, see each fighter's pool ladder, teammates, counters, and similar fighters, and search across every catalog from anywhere. Tap any ability to see every fighter that carries it. Prefer the old look? The classic Wiki is still available in Settings.
FIXES AND POLISH
Group games no longer fall back to a plain 1v1 in group chats.
Your XP and unlocks can no longer be clobbered when the app and the Messages extension write at the same time.
The round recap now credits the true winner when chaos coin, mirror, assassin, or overheat flips a clash.
Pending moves and trades stay safe until iMessage confirms the send.
Typing dots now appear only on your opponent's side.
Dozens of strings that showed in English now appear in your language.
Plus many more stability and correctness fixes across the app.
more Version 1.3.0 Sep 23
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