Knock Out

Knock Out is one of the battle mode competitions in Sonic Rivals 2 played in Act 2 of every zone. During the story of all characters, it is the most common battle mode competition played against the player's rival.

Overview
Each character starts with only 3 Rings. The player's objective is to first attack his/her rival (using attacks, power-ups or falling into obstacles to knock off their Rings and then attack them again (whether by attacks, power-ups or obstacles to win the round. Note that the player's rival will be attempting to do the same and as such, the rival character will mainly try to pursue the player's character in order to attack them. The winner of this competition is the character who can win a specific number of rounds first. (In Free Play, the number of winning rounds can be set by the player to one, three or five.)