Heroes, Villains & Renegades
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Browse real powers and equipment from the live game, or learn how HVR's major systems fit together before creating your character.

Field manual

How Heroes, Villains, and Renegades fits together

Your hero is never reduced to a single number. Progress comes from the interaction between your Power Deck, equipment, skills, activity choices, allies, and the strategies you bring into battle.

01 / Character Progression

Build an identity, then keep refining it

You begin with a custom character and a small collection. Experience raises your level; new levels expand the number of Power cards that contribute to your base stats and award skill points for further customization.

Equipment slots unlock over time, opening new decisions about damage types, resistances, status effects, regeneration, initiative, and other specialized bonuses.

02 / Combat

Stats establish the matchup; effects change it

Attack contributes damage and accuracy. Defense helps reduce incoming damage and contributes to evasion. Movement affects accuracy, evasion, and who is likely to act first.

Your equipment can add typed damage, protection, auras, critical hits, stuns, drains, poisons, regeneration, lifesteal, and many other effects. The right build depends on the opponent and the rules of the current battlefield.

03 / Patrols, Missions & Raids

Choose how to spend your heroic career

Patrol locations contain encounters, rewards, bosses, and Gyms. Missions advance your character through PvE challenges, while Raids ask multiple players to confront a powerful shared enemy.

Daily quests and milestone goals give structure to short sessions without forcing every player into the same activity.

04 / Leagues

Super-teams are communities, not just bonuses

Leagues give players a shared identity, communication space, headquarters, cooperative objectives, and access to League competitions. Veterans can help new recruits understand the game while every member contributes to team goals.

05 / Arenas & Live Events

The rules keep changing

Ranked Arenas, League Wars, seasonal towns, limited-time currencies, world threats, and special battle formats create reasons to revisit your collection and try different strategies.

Events are designed as part of the persistent world: characters advance, collections remain, rivalries continue, and the results become part of each player's history.

Ready to experiment?

There is no single correct way to be super.