I started playing this game not long after its launch and after hitting a snag, I stopped playing for a bit. I remember I had to login for 8 consecutive days to get a free character skin but somehow I missed a day! Gawdammit!!! And it so happened I hit a wall and my interest kinda just died along with my free skin. Few months later, I got back to playing the game and this time I did some research and it was a revelation! Chinese is not my first language, I can read the easy words and guess a couple but for the most part I struggle to make sense of the in-game text.
Not knowing what your character can do or how it synergizes with other characters is a real problem when trying to clear the later stages.
The lack of English guides for this game is also a problem for many people who want to play the game effectively. This game really isn't a grab-all-SSRs-and-I-win-you-all kind... Each character's skill, requirements, energy and type all come into play when forming an effective team.
I hope this guide would point you in the right direction and make you enjoy the game even further!
Characters List with Ratings:
SSR
安娜 Anna - 9 Best/Rarest healer in-game
鳳凰月華 Phoenix - 9 Invincibility to 3 allies for 2 turns. Revives once per battle.
瑟琳娜 Selena - 9 Best tank in game, heals leader
美雪 Miyuki- 9 AOE dmg with rage reduction. Slows rate in which characters unleash their limit breaks
上泉螢 Uezumi Aya - 8 Chance of multi attacks/High chance of stun/Dmg vertical column
東文真希 Maki Tobun - 8.5 Chance of multi attacks/High single dmg
黛安娜 Diana (reminds me of Diene from Epic7) - 8 Needs to be 6 Stars to be called 2nd best healer in game. Really decent at 4-5 Stars nonetheless.
艾絲維亞 Esvia - 5 (Rating would be higher when facing mage heavy teams)
巴萊納斯 Ballenas - 7 (Mostly used with Astaroth to activate her ability)
葉菲 Ye Fei - 7 (I really like her, but I can't seem to draw her to star up)
黑木雅樂 Kuroki Masahiro - 7 (One of the better summoners but as a summoner I find them hard to use)
琪拉雅 Taira - 7 (Really decent tank, shields the characters behind)
卡米爾 Camille - 6 (High cost and reflect dmg doesn't do much right now)
妮可拉 Nicola - 5 (Good at lower levels but at high levels, dmg just doesn't cut it. Only hits 2 random enemies)
惠惠 Hui Hui - 6 (Single dmg and can act as a semi-tank, but high cost)
芙倫蒂法 Frontifa - 7 (Good dmg and can spawn 3 clones on death, but these clones tend to choke up the board)
菲妮貝絲 Phinebes - 7 (Good for pvp, anti heals unit, needs a bit of work to deal decent damage)
石虎 Stone Tiger - 5 (I prefer the SR Chiyo)
赫茜 Akane - 7 (8-9 if facing mages)
羅塔妮安 Rotanian - 6 (AOE, High cost)
Angela - 7 (Situational, provokes the entire board to focus attacks on her. Can prove pivotal if timing is right)
Astaroth -
安 Anne - 9 Good dmg and pseudo tanker (spawns 2 puppets)
麗姬雅 Reggie? - 8.5 (aoe dmg and debuff)
潘 Pan - 9 One Shot killer (Great for opening attack in PVP)
茉莉 (Molly but her name means Jasmine) - 8 Healer with good synergy with beginner team
碧翠絲 Beatrix - 9 AOE dmg/stun, dmg+hp boost based on enemy type and numbers, cross attack.
米倉千代 Yonekura Chiyo - 8 Good dmg to enemies in a horizontal line
琪琪 KiKi - 8 if you don't have Maki, you'll need her to activate one of your second leader class skill.
R
小夜 Murasaki Saya - 9 Best free character who can promote to SSR and carry you quite a bit, can bypass invincible characters and dmg them. OP.
柏蕾 Kashiwa Tsubomi- 8 Easy to get/use/levelup healer
愛麗絲 Alice - 8 Good dmg and boost to specific group of characters on death
夏目里繪 Natsume Rin- 8.5 Dmg+Stun to 3 random enemies. Berserk mode, when you see a red sword instead of blue, she does more dmg but hp is reduced to 1. Able to survive one deathblow each battle.
香緹 Shanti - 8 Invincible tank (for 10 secs), dmg is pretty decent too
How to unlock Protagonist passive skills
Do remember to level your protagonist and as you clear stages you can get shards to unlock the different class types. You start with the Swordsman, Demon Hunter then Paladin, Necromancer and lastly Healer.
If you noticed, there are 6 skills that you can activate. And you do so by fulfilling certain requirements like: No more than 2 allies with the same the energy cost
I shall list the skills and activation requirements for Swordsman, and you can figure the rest out.
Swordsman Passives
1. When an ally enters the battlefield +15% to attack for 2 turns
Requirements: No more than 2 allies with the same the energy cost
2. When an ally is attacked, 50% chance to increase damage reduction by 30%
Requirements:
Have 小夜, 妮娜, 維多利亞, 安, 茉莉 at least 2 of them in your party.
3. +6%Attack, +6%Health to all alliesRequirements: Have 1 of each class in your squad (Attacker (red), Defender (orange), Mage (blue), Healer (green) , Angel (white), Witch (purple), Summoner (yellow))
4. +6%Attack, +6%Critical chance to all allies
Requirements: Have at least a total of 7: Defenders, Attackers and Mages
5. +12%Attack to all allies
Requirements: Have 鳳凰月華 (Does not have to be in party, WTF?!)
6. +12%Health to all allies
Requirements: Have at least 5 SSRs in the squad
Team Setup
Looking at the requirements, it should be starting to creep into your mind the complexities of the game. Everyone and everything seems to be connected to one another and getting them all to fit seems like a giant jigsaw puzzle, and this is where the fun lies!
I'll get you started with: What's a good team to start out with, followed by the team I'm using now to clear stages and PVP.
Starting team:
I can't remember how many characters you can start out with but here's what I recommend
小夜, 夏目里繪, 柏蕾, 愛麗絲, 香緹, 石虎 (free SSR?)
Other 3 characters I recommend would be:
Any SR in my list above or any SSR(if not in my list above, no need to put too much resources in developing them)
Starting SSR character to re-roll for:
美雪,東文真希,芙倫蒂法
After clearing stages, leveling, doing daily quests etc. you should have amassed enough crystals to summon a few. Don't waste crystals on weapons unless you a whale. You can farm them through the Trial stages. After summoning a few times, you might be able to get some SRs to 5Stars. Hopefully these are the ones mentioned in my list.
My Swordsman team:
I built my team around 鳳凰月華 (Phoenix Yuehua).
The requirements to activate her battle skill (noted by a brown(active) or grey(inactive) circular sword icon above the class icon) is to have at least 5 Angel or Healer types in your party.
When Phoenix enters the battlefield, 3 Random allies gain invincibility for 2 turns!
It doesn't seem very fantastic until you see it in action. I also managed to activate 5 out of 6 passive skills for Swordsman. (Did not activate the 4. passive, see abv)
The 10 characters in my squad are:
愛麗絲(Angel)Cost 10
小夜(Attacker)Cost 10
茉莉(Healer)Cost 11,battle skill activated:After taking action, Heals ally with lowest health by 20% of Max HP
麗姬雅(Witch)Cost 12
夏目里繪(Mage)Cost 13
安(Summoner)Cost 14,battle skill activated:Increase puppets HP by 60%!!!
黛安娜(Healer)Cost 14
鳳凰月華(Angel)Cost 15,battle skill activated:Invincibility to 3 random allies for 2 turns.
瑟琳娜(Defender)Cost 15,battle skill not activated
惠惠(Angel)Cost 17
Summary:I have 5 swordsman passives activated, 3 character's battle skills activated, average cost of team: 13.1
My Demon Hunter team:
Saya, Aya, KiKi, Beatrix, Rin, Anne, Pan, Diana, Selena, 葉菲 or other SSR mage.
Unlocks 5 out of 6 skills. Avg cost of team: 12.7
My Paladin Team:
My Necromancer Team:
Saya, Anna, YeFei, Phinebes, Phoenix, Mary, Nina, Reggie, Rin, Miyuki
Unlocks 5 out of 6 skills. Avg cost of team: 13.3
More tips:
So to build a good team, synergy is very important. Do not neglect the buffs you can get from your Leader passives and character skills. Do increase your characters' affection as that also increases their stats making them stronger. I've managed to clear up to hard mode stage 10 using this team and I'm starting to level my characters from 60 to 80. The resource requirements in terms of exp bottles, gold, crystals(not the paid ones) starts to get fairly steep from here on, so it's best to be prudent.
Don't go wild and load your squad with base SSRs, they will get steam-rolled by max starred SRs.
Do level your equipment and limit break them as often as you can as it makes a huge difference.
For PVP you just need a 5Star SR 潘 and she will almost one shot your opponent's Leader (until lv60ish). Follow up with whatever to clean up. Good till the 90K power range and it becomes less effective. I'll post more when I cross that hurdle.
Equipment advice
Prioritise quality over quantity. What this means is, you should always try to limit break your equipment. Having one limit broken lvl30SSR is better than 2 lv20 SSR. You never know when you'll get the same copy of equipment so when i get two i'd limit break it.
It's a lot easier to limit break SR equips and a lv30 SR still beats a lv20 SSR. So remember to limit break equips to get stronger.
Level your Leader
Many people forget about this but it is really important. This game is about killing the King (respective leaders) to win, if your King is weaker chances are you'd lose.
Level a wide assortment of characters if you can
This game feels more fun when you have more characters to work with. It's really fun to mix and match and build the perfect team for each scenario. But.. it takes a lot of resources and time to be able to do so. So what i suggest would be to focus on a core team and when you have spare resources, level the next character that would synergize with your core team. This really becomes a struggle when your characters hit lv120 and your leader
Building:
Do not neglect to upgrade your building! It's generating your resources and it also unlocks extra character slots to use in battle!
Check regularly for free affection points when you stroke their hair or give gifts.
Don't forget to assign characters to each room. 維納斯陷阱 (Venus Trap) characters gain extra affection points when assigned.
Resources
You need lots of resources, period. The one thing I regretted was not spending my stamina on farming resources. I cleared the 2 daily for extra rewards and left the other 8 alone. At that point my consumption was less than my production. All this changes once your characters hit lv80+. The resouces required starts to spike and you'll find your consumption far outstrips your production. For p2w players or players looking to quickly power up, do not neglect your resources. Farm them or spend diamonds to get them daily. Or wait while your buildings produce them. It will start to become a bottleneck at lv100.
Be patient if you are a f2p player, spend wisely if you really like the game or go nuts if you're a whale but just enjoy the game!
More tips:
So to build a good team, synergy is very important. Do not neglect the buffs you can get from your Leader passives and character skills. Do increase your characters' affection as that also increases their stats making them stronger. I've managed to clear up to hard mode stage 10 using this team and I'm starting to level my characters from 60 to 80. The resource requirements in terms of exp bottles, gold, crystals(not the paid ones) starts to get fairly steep from here on, so it's best to be prudent.
Don't go wild and load your squad with base SSRs, they will get steam-rolled by max starred SRs.
Do level your equipment and limit break them as often as you can as it makes a huge difference.
For PVP you just need a 5Star SR 潘 and she will almost one shot your opponent's Leader (until lv60ish). Follow up with whatever to clean up. Good till the 90K power range and it becomes less effective. I'll post more when I cross that hurdle.
Equipment advice
Prioritise quality over quantity. What this means is, you should always try to limit break your equipment. Having one limit broken lvl30SSR is better than 2 lv20 SSR. You never know when you'll get the same copy of equipment so when i get two i'd limit break it.
It's a lot easier to limit break SR equips and a lv30 SR still beats a lv20 SSR. So remember to limit break equips to get stronger.
Level your Leader
Many people forget about this but it is really important. This game is about killing the King (respective leaders) to win, if your King is weaker chances are you'd lose.
Level a wide assortment of characters if you can
This game feels more fun when you have more characters to work with. It's really fun to mix and match and build the perfect team for each scenario. But.. it takes a lot of resources and time to be able to do so. So what i suggest would be to focus on a core team and when you have spare resources, level the next character that would synergize with your core team. This really becomes a struggle when your characters hit lv120 and your leader
Building:
Do not neglect to upgrade your building! It's generating your resources and it also unlocks extra character slots to use in battle!
Check regularly for free affection points when you stroke their hair or give gifts.
Don't forget to assign characters to each room. 維納斯陷阱 (Venus Trap) characters gain extra affection points when assigned.
Resources
You need lots of resources, period. The one thing I regretted was not spending my stamina on farming resources. I cleared the 2 daily for extra rewards and left the other 8 alone. At that point my consumption was less than my production. All this changes once your characters hit lv80+. The resouces required starts to spike and you'll find your consumption far outstrips your production. For p2w players or players looking to quickly power up, do not neglect your resources. Farm them or spend diamonds to get them daily. Or wait while your buildings produce them. It will start to become a bottleneck at lv100.
Be patient if you are a f2p player, spend wisely if you really like the game or go nuts if you're a whale but just enjoy the game!
