All-Star Battle R/Kars

"Only one can stand at the top! (頂点に立つ者は常にひとり！)"

Kars (カーズ) was confirmed for during the game's initial announcement trailer.

His moveset is fundamentally the same as his from, with a few tweaks being made to both balance the character and fit him into the overall gameplay tweaks that All-Star Battle R brought.

Kars's voice actor, Kazuhiko Inoue reprises his role from the Battle Tendency anime adaptations and. As with the majority of the game's roster, voicelines for Kars were either added or re-recorded.

Gameplay
Kars has 850 health and uses the Light Mode Battle Style. During a fight, he can use various attacks and abilities featured in Battle Tendency.

Dialogue
Outside of, Kars has unique interaction dialog for both his match entrances and victories when facing certain characters.

All-Star Battle Mode
All missions in starring Kars as either the Player or Enemy, in order of appearance.

Music
Kars's theme is Light Mode (光の流法), and can be unlocked in-game by landing the "Snake Muffler" skill as  in 's Lisa Lisa vs Kars Normal Battle.

Its name is taken from the name of Kars's Battle Mode, Light Mode.

Commemorative Giveaway
In commemoration of the release of Stroheim as the 2nd paid DLC character for ASBR, the Japanese ASBR Twitter account hosted a giveaway of 20 sets of 3 ASBR Battle Tendency badges, although only to be delivered to addresses in Japan. The badges in question contain the ASBR render images of, , and Kars respectively.

The campaign started on February 3, 2023, and lasted until February 19 at 11:59pm JST. To enter the giveaway lottery, users only had to:
 * 1) Follow the @jojo_games_jp Twitter account.
 * 2) Retweet the tweet that announced the giveaway in the first place.

However, Twitter accounts set to private were illegible for the giveaway. Unfollowing the ASBR Twitter account before the end of the giveaway also deemed users illegible. Furthermore, attempting to join the giveaway with multiple accounts would have caused all of those accounts to lose their eligiblity to win.

The giveaway was directly implemented by Bandai Namco themselves, with no third party involvement, and the winners of the giveaway were notified via Twitter DMs. Said winners are planned to be announced sometime in early March, 2023.

1.1.2

 * "The power of supreme genes!" skill
 * Increased recovery time.

1.3.0

 * Hurtboxes
 * Hurtboxes adjusted to more accurately match Kars' model.
 * Crouching Heavy Attack
 * Increased how high opponent is launched.
 * "Light Mode" special
 * Sped up move.
 * Damage scaling has been adjusted so hits are not scaled as much.
 * "Brilliant Bone Blades" special
 * Damage scaling has been adjusted so hits are not scaled as much.
 * "Sabers from the feet!!" special
 * Decreased speed of start-up.
 * Increased damage.
 * Decreased pushback amount.
 * "Cruel and beautiful violence!" skill
 * Decreased active frames.
 * Increased recovery time.
 * Adjusted angle opponent is launched.
 * Increased knockback.
 * "Behold, frozen brilliance!" skill
 * Increased speed of start-up.
 * Decreased recovery time.
 * Increased knockback.
 * Flight while Ultimate Thing
 * Changed internal processing to fix the issue where Kars's victory pose would be inverted.

1.4.0

 * "Sabers from my feet!" special
 * Adjusted the command input time.
 * "Shatter against the wall!" skill
 * Fixed so that if the same skill hits 3 times or more, the opponent now gets downed. (unintended bug)
 * "Feast your eyes on my Ripple!" skill [Ultimate Thing]
 * Fixed so that if the same skill hits 3 times or more, the opponent now gets downed. (unintended bug)