1v1.LOL Modes Explained: Practice, 1v1, Box Fight and Battle Royale

1v1.LOL opens on a mode menu and the names are mostly self-explanatory, but the modes reward different things and it helps to know which is which.

Practice is a solo arena with no timer, no enemy and infinite materials. It is where you learn the keys, test a keybind change and run building drills. Nothing you do there counts for anything, which is the point. 1v1 is the main event: you and one other player, a rifle and a shotgun each, an arena with a few platforms, first to a set number of kills. The queue finds a match in seconds at busy hours.

Box Fight puts both players inside a small enclosed box with no room to build a big structure. It is all edits and shotguns, and it is the fastest way to find out whether your editing is good enough. Battle Royale drops a lobby of players onto a map with a shrinking zone; it takes longer, it has more luck in it, and it is the mode to play when you want a change from duels.

All of the multiplayer modes also have private rooms — share the code with a friend and you can duel or box-fight without the queue. If you have five minutes, play a box fight; if you have fifteen, a couple of 1v1s; if you have an hour, the battle royale.