Survival

In Survival mode you play against single opponents until you finally lose. Your balls carry over every match but you can fill empty slots by getting Bonus balls. If you beat an opponent within a certain time you get up to 3 Bonus balls. Opponents start with one ball (meaning that you only have to score once to beat them) but every ten levels they get one more. This goes on endlessly so theoretically you could get to the point where opponents have unlimited balls. Every 10th match is a Rank match, if you win it you go up a rank. Each opponent in Survival spawns with a random costume. The guidelines to these costumes is that the rank of the costume has to be equal to or less than the rank you are currently at. Ranks start a F and go up every time you win a rank match, but dont go past SS. The first opponent you beat awards you 50 points, every next opponent is +30 points (50, 80, 110, 140, ...). Every character has it's own record.

Glitch


There is also a glitch where you can play in stage 0 against the Cyborg. Give up any survival game (not the first one) close the game using multitasking, open it up again and go to any other game mode. When you want to continue the Survival, you will be in stage 0 with just one ball. Note that it is a rank match so you can unlock Costumes with this glitch.