{"id":136652,"date":"2026-03-29T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-199234"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:45:00","slug":"avatar-legends-the-fighting-game-hits-switch-1-2-this-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game-hits-switch-1-2-this-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Hits Switch 1 &amp; 2 This July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/02442958631d2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/02442958631d2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"NSPaqSNHupo\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSPaqSNHupo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game\">Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game<\/a> was announced last year and it&#8217;s now been confirmed it will be coming to the Switch 1 &amp; 2 on <strong>2nd July 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It includes a single-player story mode, 900+ hand-drawn frames per fighter, a 12-fighter roster, rollback netcode and crossplay support. The standard edition will set you back <strong>$29.99<\/strong> (<em>or your regional equivalent<\/em>). There&#8217;s also a deluxe edition and pre-order bonuses, which you can see in the trailer above.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"cf8b200de7c4e\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Avatar Legends: The Fighting Games\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cf8b200de7c4e\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-games.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cf8b200de7c4e\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-games.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Avatar Legends: The Fighting Games\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If this is your first time hearing about this title, it&#8217;s described as a &#8220;fast-paced 1v1 fighter where you battle as your favourite characters from the Avatar franchise&#8221;. You can find out more about this upcoming release in our previous post here on Nintendo Life:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:192471 @ 1774848872 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Will you be checking this one out on release? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game was announced last year and it&#8217;s now been confirmed it will be coming to the Switch 1 &amp; 2 on 2nd July 2026. It includes a single-player story mode, 900+ hand-drawn frames per fighter, a 12-fighter roster, rollback netcode and crossplay support. The standard edition will set you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}