The Titan Challenge

Version 1.7.28 introduced the Titan Challenge, a competitive event with its own leaderboards, where players compete in groups of roughly 50 players for rewards for Rank (how high you place within your group) and Tier (placing high enough to be promoted to a new level). Players challenge the Titan, a massive, indestructible enemy, for a score that increases the more damage you inflict to the Titan before dying.

The challenge has two phases: The Battle phase, that lasts for 1 minute and 10 seconds, where the Titan attacks the player using various cannons that shoot small and large round pellets. At the end of the timer, the Titan switches to Frenzy mode, where it shoots large circular blasts that cover the entire screen, with no way to dodge them, and it becomes just a matter of time until the player dies, based on their defences.

There are several new concepts introduced for the Titan Challenge:

**Seasons**

A Tier Challenge season lasts 12 weeks and is divided into 12 week-long rounds. The first Titan Challenge season started on August 8th, but after two weeks of system errors, promotions not working and rewards not being awarded properly, the challenge was reset on August 22nd and everyone started again in Bronze tier.

**Rounds**

Each week-long round of the Titan Challenge stars on Mondays at 9:00 PST (same time globally), after an hour when the challenge is inaccessible while the system gives out rewards and assigns players to new tiers (the "tally"). At the end of the tally, the next round opens and rewards as sent to players via in-game emails.

**Tiers**

Each player is placed in a group of 50 (or so) players who are in the same Tier. The lowest level tier, where everyone starts, is Bronze and then players can advance to Silver, Gold, Platinum, etc. all the way to Legend. There are 7 Tiers in total, with the higher tiers offering more rewards. At the end of each round, the highest-ranked players (typically the top 20 or top 10, it varies by tier) advance to the next higher tier, whereas players in the lowest rankings (typically the bottom 15 or 25) get demoted to the lower tier.

**Challenge Tickets**

While the Titan Challenge is running, a player can challenge the Titan twice each day. The daily limit is enforced via Challenge Tickets, two of which are awarded to each player at 9:00 AM US Pacific Time each day. Once the tickets are awarded, the player has 24 hours to use them, and unused tickets are forfeited. A round with the Titan also costs 5 Energy points (as of version 1.7.31, 10 points in earlier versions)

**Rewards**

At the end of each round players can receive one or two types of rewards: The Tier reward is awarded to players that advanced to a new tier, only the first time that tier is reached during a season. Rank tiers are awarded to all players depending on how high they placed in their current tier. The rewards consist of Stars and Challenge Points.

**The Titan Shop**

The Titan Shop, which can be accessed from the bottom of the challenge screen, is where the Challenge Points can be redeemed. Players can purchase Conqueror gear, Alloy Plates and Stars. There is a limited supply for each item, which replenishes when a new season starts.

**Strategy**

Players have found several ways to battle the titan, but a few things have stood out:

* The Evasion green gems are very valuable by increasing the possibility of a miss in the blast waves during Frenzy mode.
* There are three different bosses that are weak to each type of the three gear sets(Conqueror, Thor, Kraken). Using the required set deals double damage as well as helping negate some attacks and abilities it uses.
* When just starting the game you won't have the required sets, so using your best gear will be better then buying the whole and leveling another.
* Using titan form at the very start of the fight might just give you enough time to use it again right when it starts blasting (I've done it with a 5★ Conqueror Fighter and Purple 2★ Armour on the Kraken) giving you more time to stack some damage.
* The Titan only has a single vulnerable spot at the center, so it's better to use weapons that do large concentrated damage rather than those that cover a larger area. Seeking weapons also have an advantage. Blast Shotgun, Batarang, Lightning Missile, Conqueror Missile, Prism Winggun and Conqueror Winggun are among the best weapons to use.
* Titan negates the effects of some fighters that are normally great to use - Rattlesnake's Enhanced Missile and Syren's healing mode have no effect against the Titan.
* Good fighters to use against Titan: Inferno (for the missile boost) or, even better, Flash with Lightning missile, Phantom (extra damage when mirrored), Conqueror (150% damage when transformed), Killer Horned (really? yes really the drones do some extra damage), Nightwing if you use batarang, Rock if you use blast shotgun.
* Play the Titan Challenge after completing all the daily grind, so you can fight in your best state of the day.
* Browse the pinned messages and other content in the #titan-challenge and #faq messages on Discord for more great tips

**References and Links**

First ever video of Titan Challenge gameplay made by BlasterZ

Announcement of Titan Challenge by MINIGAME on the Discord: