Heart Damage

Each player starts with 3 hearts. Players are eliminated from the game when they run out of hearts.

Damaging a heart will either crack it or empty it. Cracked hearts may be healed, but emptied hearts are permanent.

Heart damage is determined by the results of each fight:

• If you lose:
  • If the opponent has 2 or fewer characters left, you crack one heart. Already-cracked hearts are emptied.
    • If the opponent has 3 or more characters left, your heart is emptied, regardless of whether is started full or cracked.
  • In the finals, when only 2 players remain, each loss always empties a heart.
• If you win a fight while you have a cracked heart, it is healed to full.
• Some effects give bonus hearts, such as Lich King's Heart.