“My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero” Mobile Game Reintroduces Hawks and Reveals New Tag Team Battle Mode

On the heels of its One Year Anniversary celebration, hit mobile RPG My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero is excited to unveil two updates sure to delight players! My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero is reintroducing popular character Hawks, and adding a new battle mode for two players to play against another team.

Collect and Play as Hawks for a Limited Time: The carefree but ever vigilant #2 Pro Hero in Honei returns to My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero for a limited time to take control of the skies with his Fierce Wings quirk and destroy opponents with aerial superiority. This speedy character can easily evade most attacks while sending his feathers from afar to dominate any battle he is in! Hawks is unlockable for a limited time from September 14-27 alongside his set EX Passive cards that maximize his skills and abilities.

Tag Team Battles Mode: The game is also launching Tag Team Battles Mode allowing a player to team up with a friend to play against other players. With the new Tag Team Battles Mode, the co-op gaming experience is more intimate and the stakes are higher as the player duos climb the ranks together. Check out details in the new Tag Team Battles Mode:

• Play with a friend against other players
  
• Two players team up, each with a team of four chosen characters against two other players and battle in Ranked matches for exclusive rewards.
  
• Tag Team Battles Mode will reset rankings and players have a chance to begin all over and race to the top!
  
• As Tag Teams move up the rankings, they unlock exclusive rewards.

The game, which has been downloaded more than 13 million times globally, is based on the smash-hit anime My Hero Academia. The mobile MMORPG launched in 2021 to huge fan excitement, becoming the number one overall App in the United States for the week of launch.

My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero is published by Crunchyroll Games, the interactive division of the global anime brand. The game transports players into the world of Midoriya and friends, with more than 20 playable characters from the anime. When the game launched in 2021, it became the number one overall app in the United States for a week and drove more than 600% growth for mobile MMORPGs within six months.

My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero is available to players in English across North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Caribbean, and Scandinavia. Fans can download the game now by visiting https://got.cr/mhatsh_crpr.

My Hero Academia is the smash-hit anime series based on the manga by Kōhei Horikoshi, telling the story of young Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a universe where superpowers -- or “Quirks” -- have become commonplace. Midoriya dreams of being a hero, although he was born without Quirks. Through the help of friends, family, and heroes, Midoriya is admitted into the prestigious high school for heroes in training where his journey begins. My Hero Academia is animated by bones inc. and the full catalog is available now on Crunchyroll.

The game is available on iOS and Android. For more information about the game visit.

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