Battle Chest

For BTDB Mobile Battle Chests, see Clans.

One Great Chest with two chests left, and an exclusive VIP slot

Battle Chests are lootbox items that rewards currency upon collection. There are three tiers of Battle Chests obtainable via every 3 Battle Arena wins: Battle Chest, Great Chest, and Mighty Chests; these all require a certain number of Battle Points to open up. The types of Hero Points earned from collection is randomized. Players can have up to 3 stored chests at a time, 4 with VIP; once reaching max chests stored, previous chests will need to be opened or the new chest discarded, and otherwise prevents players from navigating other menus (i.e. Monkeys, Heroes, Social, Bling and Shop) until storage conditions are met.

Daily Chests are special Battle Chests added in Version 1.5.0, obtained by watching ads (Mobile only) or spending 1 Token (Steam only). They refresh every 4 hours. The cooldown for the next chest begins after collection of the chest (i.e. collecting a chest borderline after the time thresholds equates to collecting the next chest instead of the previous, which is unfavorable).

Ninja Kiwi had announced on 21st April 2023 that they will retire Battle Chests coming into Season 13, as shown on r/battles2 post "Battles 2 Roadmap Announcement!". By the end of Season 12, Battle Chests from Ranked Battle can no longer be earned, and starting from Version 2.0 all chests in queue will be automatically opened after pressing the Battle Chest button in the main menu, and then the Battle Chest menu will disappear forever. Daily Chests were not affected.

Chests

Four types of chest existed: Daily Chest, Battle Chest, Great Chest, and Mighty Chest. Daily Chests are exclusive to the Shop menu, and are the only remaining chests.

Costs to Open

• Daily Chest: Watch an ad (Mobile only) or 1 Token (Steam only, one can be obtained for free daily), cooldown of 4 hours in server time.
• Battle Chest: 35
• Great Chest: 100
• Mighty Chest: 200

Drop Chances

Does not include Daily Chests, which are not based on Battle Arena wins.

• Battle Chest: 75%
• Great Chest: 20%
• Mighty Chest: 5%

These chances are the same no matter which arena you are in.

Rewards

Sample Golden Chest reward (pre-1.2.0)

Note: Monkey Money quantities may vary from player to player, and there is evidence that there is deviation for Monkey Money rewards. The same applies to the durations of obtained reward boosts. You cannot get another reward boost if one is currently active.

• Daily Chest: 100, 150 Hero XP for 1 Hero.
• Battle Chest: 150-250, 400 Hero XP for 1 Hero.
• Great Chest: 400-600, 800 Hero XP for 2 Heroes.
• Mighty Chest: 1500-2500, 1200 Hero XP for 4 Heroes.

Strategy

Summary (legacy)

Opening chests gives bonus rewards, but there is strategy to using Battle Chests. One can intentionally fill up chests to then discard "bad" chests; this can be done by stockpiling Battle Points and then open up chests to "win" a desired chest. In addition, there is strategy to optimizing chests for purposes of maximizing use of the reward boosters gained from chests.

Tips (legacy)

• If you have a reward booster that is about to run out, and you have a Great or Mighty chest next in your inventory, you should wait until the reward booster is no longer in effect as it cannot be refreshed or overridden by another chest.
• In terms of gain of Monkey Money, a chest has two different values: the base Monkey Money reward, and the Reward Boost that increases rewards by +100%. Expect a Ranked Mode match to last between 5-10 minutes; a one-hour session with all wins allows the Reward Boost to typically net between 150-300. The rest is just a straightforward Monkey Money gain, which means that opening more chests may possibly be better than trying to wait for another Reward Boost.

Version History

Initial release

• Released

1.0.2

• Increased Monkey Money, Hero Points and Tower XP given from Battle Chests
  • All appears to be 2x for Tower XP, Hero XP, and Monkey Money.
• Increased duration and drop chance of Reward Boosts from chests. (Higher tier chests can now have it lasting 2 hours)
• Increased Battle Point costs to open Battle Chests.
  • Battle Chest: 25 → 30
  • Great Chest: 60 → 80
  • Mighty Chest: 100 → 150

1.0.4

• Increased Hero Points and Tower XP given from Battle Chests even more
  • Battle Chest: 200 Tower and Hero XP → 500 Tower XP and 400 Hero XP
  • Great Chest: 200 Tower and Hero XP → 1000 Tower XP and 800 Hero XP
  • Mighty Chest: 200 Tower and Hero XP → 1500 Tower XP and 1200 Hero XP
• Further increased drop chance of Reward Boosts from chests. (Now guaranteed in higher tier chests)
• Further increased Battle Point costs to open Battle Chests
  • Battle Chest: 30 → 35
  • Great Chest: 80 → 100
  • Mighty Chest: 150 → 200

1.0.6

• Fixed exploit that allowed more than 3 (or 4 for VIP) chests to be stored
• Game will prevent player from playing battles until all new chests overflowing capacity have been emptied.

1.1

• Game will prevent player from navigating any other menus until all new chests overflowing capacity have been emptied.

1.2

• Added Universal XP into all chests

1.5 (?)

• Added Daily Chest

1.9.4

• Removed Universal XP from all Battle Chests (actually in Version 1.9.3 on 21st April 2023)
• After Season 12 ends, Battle Chests can no longer be earned due to closing off Ranked Mode permanently until updating to v2.0

2.0

• Pressing the Battle Chest button or collecting the Daily Chest will automatically open all chests in queue and no longer make Battle Chests accessible.
• Tower XP and Reward boosts removed from chests

2.1.2

• Daily Chests cooldown now changed from cooldowns resetting every 4 hours starting from 12:00pm NZST (i.e. NZST: 12pm, 4pm, 8pm, 12am, 4am, 8am) to every 4 hours from when the chest was opened.

Quotes

“	Without Tower XP and Universal XP, Battle Chests now also lack purpose. Therefore, Chests and Battle Points will be retired when Season 13 begins. For the remainder of Season 12, Chests can still be earned and opened as before (they won’t contain Universal XP). When Season 13 begins, all chests in your queue will open automatically for free. We realize that, while most of the contents of chests were redundant, they were still a valuable source of Monkey Money which will no longer be available. To compensate, we will be increasing the Monkey Money earned from playing games to 50MM for a win and 20MM for a loss or a draw, with bonuses of 20MM for a No Lives Lost win and 10MM for getting First Blood. We will also be adding Monkey Money rewards to casual mode. These would be 50% of their ranked equivalent.	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi, r/battles2 "Battles 2 Roadmap Announcement!"

Gallery

Option to discard chests.

A Mighty Chest waiting to be opened

Battle Chest menu with VIP active

Opened Great Chest with a low amount of Monkey Money rewards (1.0.2)

Opened Great Chest with high amount of Monkey Money rewards (1.0.2)

Opening Great Chest plus XP Booster (1.0.5)

The contents of a mighty chest (1.0.4)

Option to discard chests by navigating to other menus. (1.1)

2000 Universal XP from Great Chest (1.2)

End-of-game match with an incoming Mighty Chest as reward

A strange unexplainable Battle Chest bug

Chests

Great Chest

Mighty Chest

Get Daily Chest button in v2.0

Normal Battle Chests

Opening a normal chest

Mighty Chests

Closed Mighty Chest

Triggered Mighty Chest

Opened Mighty Chest, before showing its contents

Mighty Chest escaping before all contents are to be fully shown