José Madrid Salsa Battle Arena

Versus CPU · arcade · online brawls · ranked · team tournaments

Eight warriors, one blood-moon coliseum. Punch, kick, dodge, cast your spells and unleash your special until only one fighter, or one team, is left standing.

Sign in to fight

Every fighter signs in with a José Madrid Salsa account. Sign in, or make a free account, to fight, climb the leaderboards and battle for your fundraising group.

Fundraiser members only

To fight online or in tournaments you must be enrolled in a José Madrid Salsa fundraising group. Enter the fundraiser code your organizer gave you; it works on any device. In tournaments your group is your team. Fight versus the CPU is open to everyone.

Fundraiser code

↑↓ choose · Enter select · ←→ change · Esc back · controllers and touch screens work too

D-pad choose · A select · ◀ ▶ change · B back · Start pause

Tap to choose · tap ‹ › to change · in a fight, the left thumb moves and the right thumb fights

Versus CPU

Choose your fighter

Rules

Combatants

Choose your fighter

Drag to turn

Keyboard · controllers · touch

Controls

Select a key and press a new one to rebind it. Up to four people can share one keyboard, and each can use a game controller instead.

Game controllers

Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro and most USB or Bluetooth pads work. Left stick moves, X punch, Y kick, B special, A jump, LT block, RT dodge and sprint, flick the right stick up, left or right for skills 1 to 3, RB fires your gun or spell, LB picks the next slot and the D-pad fires slots 1 to 4. Select a button below and press a new one to change it.

Touch screens and rumble

On a phone or tablet, put your left thumb anywhere on the left side to move. Tap or slide across the buttons on the right to fight; hold Block and Dodge. Tap a slot on your item bar to fire it.

Punch, punch, punch three-hit combo ending in a hook

Punch, kick jab into a front kick

Kick, kick roundhouse that knocks down

Jump, then kick diving kick

Hold block stops hits from the front; too many and your guard breaks

Special costs half the blue mana bar, which fills as you fight

Skills 1, 2 and 3 every fighter has three of their own, matched to their class: Warriors strike up close, Ranged fighters shoot, Mages cast spells from afar. Each costs mana and then cools down

Default keys for P1 move with W A S D, punch J, kick K, special I, block H, jump Space, dodge Left Shift, skills = - 0

Stamina the green bar; attacks, blocks, dodges and sprinting drain it. Run dry and you are slow and weak until it refills

Tap dodge rolls out of harm's way; hold it while moving to sprint

Backstab hits from behind deal 60% more damage and cannot be blocked: flank, cloak, or teleport behind

Parry raise your block just as a punch or kick lands to stop it dead and stagger the attacker

Power-ups walk through a floating gem: health, shield, rage, haste, mana, cloak or vampire

Formation stay within a few steps of a teammate and you both take 15% less damage

Tournaments friendly fire is on (careful with your area attacks), and a downed teammate can be revived by standing over them

Sudden death a ring of fire closes in and burns anyone outside it

Esc or P pauses the match; so does Start on a controller or the pause button on a touch screen

Some keyboards cannot register many keys at once. If a move does not fire while several people are holding keys, rebind to keys further apart.

Training

Learn to fight

The tutorial walks you through every move, block, skill and piece of gear against a training dummy, one lesson at a time. The practice room lets you try anything you like on the same dummy.

Tutorial complete

Ready for the arena

You know every move now. Keep sharpening it in the practice room, or take on the CPU.

Arcade

Climb the ladder

Online · 2 to 8 browsers

Fight online

Pick a queue: everyone who joins the same one within 30 seconds drops into one battle, with CPU fighters filling out small ones. Ranked 1v1 waits for a real opponent and counts toward your rating. Or open a private room that only the people you invite can join.

Your name

Queues

Invited?

Invite code

Private room

Pick the rules and invite your friends. Nobody else gets in.

Tournament · team against team

Fundraiser tournament

Teams are fundraising groups. The admin opens the tournament room at the agreed time; teams join with the tournament code and fight a knockout bracket on the Badlands, with friendly fire on. Anyone can watch live and chat.

Your name

Join

Tournament code

Host (admin)

Tournament Starts Prize

Fundraiser codes

Tournament

Teams

Bracket

Room code

Rules

Combatants

Online match

The fight goes on

Online matches never pause. Your fighter stands still while this menu is open.

Paused

Catch your breath

Fundraiser season

Season pass

Daily challenges

Weekly challenges

Your group's goal

Fighter levels

Your fighter

Profile

Fighter name

Name on the boards

Fundraising group

Record

Recent matches

When	Mode	Fighter	Result	Rounds	KOs	Damage

Your José Madrid Salsa account

Friends

Add a friend by their fighter name

José Madrid Salsa Battle Arena

Leaderboards

Fighter

Recent matches

When	Mode	Fighter	Result	KOs

Champion of the arena

Fighter	Played by	Rounds	KOs	Damage