Well here's something that we weren't expecting. Fresh out of New York Comic Con 2025, we got our first peek at Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (working title), an upcoming one-on-one fighter heading to Switch 2 in Summer 2026.
We don't know all that much about what this one will have in store just yet — heck, the title will almost certainly change in the next 12 months — but the pre-alpha footage is looking pretty sweet.
Avatar Legends will see a roster of fighters from the immensely popular Last Airbender and Legend of Korra series face off in the ring. We can expect a good bit of elemental combat to keep things feeling fresh, and there's set to be a line-up of support characters for an extra pinch of customisation.
Throw in a single player campaign for good measure, and wrap it all up in a hand-drawn visual style reminiscent of the original anime, and we've got a pretty interesting looking fighter on our hands.
Here's a rundown of the game's key features and a handful of screenshots from its Steam page:
- 12 Playable Characters at launch, with many more released via Season Model
- Selectable support characters influence your fighting style and grant special moves
- Unique “Flow System” w/Movement Centric Gameplay
- Single Player Campaign w/Original Narrative
- Combo TrialsGallery Mode
- Best in Class Net Code and Cross Play
There's still a lot more for us to learn about this one in the coming months, but the promise of a Switch 2 release has us intrigued.
What do you make of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game? Let us know in the comments below.





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As much as I love Avatar: TLA and Korra, this looks weirdly cheap.
In general, the A:TLA games have been pretty ropey.
I've got pretty low expectations from this sadly.
Yeah because that last Airbender game was really great. lol
I hope you're right about them changing the title. Also, does "via Season Model" means battle pass or paid DLC?
Fingers crossed it will be good (personally, it looks overall promising to me) for those interested in it - potentially me included although I should finally watch Avatar first and foremost!
I have some mixed feelings about the visuals. It looks faithful to the animated series yet cheap and the same time, YET animated series didn't look cheap. I guess that visual style did not translate well to video game world. Looks more like those online flash games.
Visuals aside, I don't see this making much of a splash on a fighting games scene. I could be wrong, I hope I am wrong, but judging by this trailer and couple of screenshot (admittedly this is judging book by it's covers) I am not feeling it.
Is Avatar even a popular IP among the youngsters, AKA people who actually have time to play video games? Ah, we will see.
I'm very surprised to see this, because for those that don't know fighting games, this was supposed to be published by Maximum Entertainment, and to try and work on this game they decided to gut one of their other fighting games, Them's Fighting Herds, and its devs and left the game in an awful state. They then released Diesel Legacy which just kinda came and went, and somehow, this game got cancelled alongside that, making the entire situation pointless. Now, the company that revived this project also got the rights to TFH and Diesel Legacy, and it seems the Diesel Legacy team is the one that's working on this, so I'm hopeful this game is good but I'm really hopeful they bring back Mane6 to finish TFH's story mode, because that would make me so happy.
@Bobb Believe they mean via season pass doc models like most fighters.
Anyone remember that Avatar Flash fighting game from back in the day? Good times.
I like the animations and general movement well enough (one of the most important parts of a fighting game imo), but yeah, the actual visuals could use some work. That alongside the fact that I have no attachment or even much knowledge of Avatar means I’ll probably skip it, but I am curious to see if it turns out to be any good, so I might check some videos once it comes out.
Looks like the equivalent of a Nickelodeon racing game, so a fighter for kids maybe? Not everything needs to be for the 18-25 crowd.
Of course a paid season pass means it's probably not that, but maybe it should be. Don't think it will fair we'll against that upcoming Marvel Tokon fighting game that looks incredible.
The deck has my pun sense tingling, but I've got nothing...
Really hoping this will be good. Avatar is a series that definitely deserves a good game for once.
Interesting. I hope this gets dlc playable characters
Is no one going to mention that it looks/feels jarring to have the young adult version of Korra beating the snot out of kid Aang?
I mean, yes a lot of the original series was this gang of kids showing they could go toe to toe with adults, but put the control of the adult into a player’s hands and suddenly it feels more personal, like we’re bullying kids, especially if a guy good at fighters gets good with an adult character. Do you see what I mean? It starts to get a bit messed up?
Right now it doesn't look like something that's less than a year from release, even with only 12 characters. I can't imagine a lot of people are looking to spend any real money on a game with such a small cast before being expecting to shell out more
Someone who knows how to post images post the Tumblr meme about the Boulder…
Also, the Boulder had better be in the game eventually.
@ChessboardMan Nobody's thinking about it that hard, man. Do you also feel bad in smash when Bowser beats down Jigglypuff? It's just a game lol.
Also yes they should absolutely add the Boulder eventually
Yo, I'm super down for this. I think it looks smooth. I don't love how fighting games launch with a tiny lil roster and then fill it out for over a few seasons for some big $$$, though...
Will probably launch for 50-70 bucks for 12 characters. To get the full roster you’ll have to pay 100. - Probably that kind of game.
AVATAR DESERVES A GOOD GAME FOR ONCE! - Weird it’s only for Switch 2 btw! Those visuals aren’t that great…
"Appa Cut" is brilliant lol
It's crazy how good you folks are at article sub-headings (or whatever the technical term is)
@Fighting_Game_Loser That's the first I've heard of an Exodus from Mane6 prior to this Infogrames at home situation. I assumed they just took the My Little Pony team, and told them to work on Avatar instead. And then somehow Diesel happened. Maximum/Modus always listed them as being the same studio. I am very confused
Hmmm, I'm definitely nervous about this as a lot of the animations feel pretty stiff at this current stage, but I'm glad Avatar is getting another crack at it! A lot of people will be happy to see this
Just 12 characters, most of those slots are just filled by both Team Avatar's*, then you have Azula and 1 more character. I'd guess the final slot goes to a boss like Ozai, Zaheer or Kuvira, or more likely Uncle Iroh.
*Aang, Katara, Zoka, Toph, Suki, Zuko, Korra, Asami, Bolin and Mako.
@Zeebor15 Mane6 was a completely different team from the Diesel Legacy, considering both of them had stuff being developed at around the same time. Mane6 got gutted before Diesel got released and as they announced Avatar, and the animation style is much more in line with Diesel than TFH, so I'm more so just assuming that the same team that worked on Diesel is working on this. It's why I'm hoping that TFH could get their story mode finished because I don't think the same team would be working on this after they said they were laid off by Maximum/Modus, unless they were able to get the Mane6 crew back to help on this game after the new publisher got the rights.
Incoming flop
Better title 😉
Avatar legends: the rocking game
Not sure I understand the comments about it looking cheap. Obviously it's not TV-level animation but it's only pre-alpha footage, and even then it captures the style of the cartoon better than any other Avatar game I've seen. I'm not the biggest fan of fighting games (and the DLC release model for many of them doesn't help) but I'd probably be up for giving this a go.
This looks really well made!
@Dogorilla Seconded. I think it looks pretty solid thus far, promising at the very least. It's an Avatar game that actually looks like it has charm and care put into it, and I feel like if this game does well, it could even lead to a whole new era of Avatar games that are of (hopefully) similar high quality.
I love Avatar, this is not the one for me, hope others enjoy it. I don’t like the cheap animation movement.
Impressed they actually achieved making these look kinda like actual tv show and cheap at the same time.
All I want is Old Man Zuko
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