Summoners War: Beginners Paradigm

Kaitlyn Brock
12 min readSep 2, 2020

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Summoners Wars is a free-to-play turn-based fantasy MMORPG for Android and iOs platforms. It is a great game to immerse in a fantasy and magical world filled with power. It is no wonder the game has over 90 million players and counting. Players are to collect monsters and enter an RPG real-time combat, which gives the game a strategic and interactive appeal. Players can build a collection of nearly thousands of monsters; each monster in the game embeds unique skills and properties that allow players to take various combat roles such as tank, support, attack, and combination. The game is all about building a perfectly balanced team to eradicate monsters in the realm.

Summoners War: Mythical Creatures

There are thousands of monsters to summon in the Summoners War. Different factors differ from one monster from another. Players can summon monsters from different elements; Light, Dark, Fire, Water, and Wind. They also vary in various classes such as Attack, Defense, Support, and Health Points. Each monster summoned comes in their star grade. Early in the game, new players will be able to summon monsters that range from 3 stars to 4 stars. Each monster has its unique abilities and can be useful in different ways and different stages of the game.

Summoning the Mythical Creatures

This game was one of the first ones to use the Gacha mechanics, which means it is an RNG or Random Number Generated based game. There is no certainty of what monster you will get to summon. Being able to pull a high star grade unit will be determined by the sheer luck of a player. This method gives each player their unique set of units they have to work with. However, there are specific ways you can obtain higher star grade monsters without relying on your luck. For example, you can get great beasts directly just from farming.

Fodders

It’s an in-game term that means leveling up or doing repeated action to obtain a particular thing. To level up monsters, you need to use another beast as a food to feed for the monster you are trying to power up. These monsters are called fodders, monsters that won’t get you far enough in the game, which is not worth the massive investment. Most of these monsters will perform well initially or early in the game but will eventually fall off as you progress. Feeding a specific monster to another beast with the same type or class will give more added experience.

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Fusion Hexagram

A fusion of certain star grade monsters will require a player to sacrifice a significant lower starred monster. There are recipes you can follow to attain certain higher starred monsters. You can fuse 4 star and 5-star monsters by using lower grade ones. Monsters that will get used for fusion must get awakened. Awakened monster or awakening is a process when a beast is transformed; it often increases stats or even access to a new skill. Only those with gold stars undergo this process. Monsters with purple stars are already awakened, and those with silver stars cannot be awakened.

Locking

This thing is probably one of the gameplay features that new players tend to miss. However, it is a useful one — committing such a mistake of sacrificing the wrong monster or using an absolute beast for powering up puts through newbies on the verge of frustration and cursing the whole game system. Change is irreversible in every game. Locking monsters is a great way to avoid the mishap of sacrificing those five stars or higher monsters or leveling up the fodder monsters. It is an excellent rule of thumb to lock monsters with natural 4 star or higher grades.

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Cairos Dungeon in Summoners War

This area is where players can fight with other players for special rewards. Different sections exist in this dungeon; the Hall of Magic, Hall of Elements, Giant’s Keep, and Dragon’s Lair. There are also dungeons that are only available once a month; the Angel Garden, Rainbow Garden, and Devilmon Cave. Also, a cell that only opens by chance in Hall of Elements, and through events, it is called Secret Dungeon. SD opens for an exact hour as a random stage. This dungeon consists of ten steps. Players will be rewarded for defeating waves of one specific monster.

Summoners War: Trial of Ascension

Trial of Ascension or ToA is a PvE feature in the game that contains 70 Floors and resets every month. This area can be unlocked as you reach level 15. You must try to farm in ToA and do your best to go as far as you can to clear stages, for they yield surprising rewards. Each floor’s difficulty will increase as you progress to the top. Some of it might have a boss in its last wave, so knowing what type and which monster to use is beneficial, and a good strategy is a must; it’ll give you a better chance of clearing a stage.

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In World Boss, you must defeat a massive boss in a battle. You may use up to 20 monsters for your team for each action. You must keep in mind that once you have used a specific monster in one of your attempts to defeat the World Boss, you won’t be able to use them again on your next day. Once the World Boss is defeated, it respawns after 6 hours. At the end of the battle, each player will be graded depending on the accumulated damage dealt, and corresponding rewards for each grade will get served.

Upon successful completion of World Boss, Rifts of World will get unlocked. Players can participate in raid battles in this rift to simultaneously fight massive raid bosses. These raid battles require a party of 3 summoners. You must take note that there are six raid bosses in this area, five of which you must defeat individually, and only by then, you will be able to fight among your fellow summoners to defeat the last head of Khi’zar Kha’jul. Participants will get ranked according to specific criteria, and rewards will be given corresponding to the score and damage contribution during battle.

Game Features

Summoners Wars’ Strategic Gameplay Features

If you haven’t played a game with a turn-based system, mechanics can be quite confusing. Each team will get to attack after the other; both get their turns in attacking. Each monster in the game has their skillset and will be better performing a specific role than the other. You must know your monster’s capabilities and choose which monster will suit you within a particular job during battles. You must create an efficient team with complementary skill sets. Establish your strategies, attack smartly, and become the best summoner in the game as you participate in PvPs and PvE.

Summoners War: Different Missions and Rewards

Daily Missions

There are a set of daily missions you must complete to maximize your rewards. Completing each of the everyday purposes gives you ten crystals and a fair amount of XP. Here’s a list of Daily Missions with corresponding rewards.

  • Log in — daily login rewards are 3 Dimensional Rifts and 50XP
  • Clearing All Daily Mission — You’ll get seven crystals and 200XP upon successfully making all missions.
  • Summoning — summoning monsters three times will reward you with 300 mana and 50 XP.
  • Fighting — have a match with a friend who will give you 300 mana and 50XP reward.
  • Send Social Points — Sending social points to a friend five times will reward you with 3 Arena passes and 50XP
  • Arena — competing in fields three times will reward you with ten energy and 50XP, whether you win or lose.
  • Dungeons — Clearing the Dungeon of Giants, Daily Dungeons and Dungeon of Magic will give the rewards 750 mana and 100XP
  • Spend Up Energy — Using 20 energy gives three crystals and 50XP as a reward.
  • Power Up — powering a monster up three times and powering up a rune will give you 500 mana and 50XP

Regular Missions and Achievements

These missions are limited-time quests that can only be completed once in the game. Several of these missions are harder to achieve than daily missions; however, they give better and much more generous rewards. You will come across a lot of this kind of task early in the game. It would start easy, but as you progress, they will be harder to complete as they require experience, strategy, and skills. Most achievement missions even include rare scrolls in the rewards, so it is very much worth achieving certain milestones.

World Arena in Summoners War

Also known as Real-Time Arena or RTA. Players from level 35 to level 50 can engage in real-time battles with other players worldwide. Pick your team of four monsters and wipe out the opposing team to win. Get a chance to pick and ban monsters from your opponent’s side and experience this fantastic PvP battle to earn Victory Points. These points will obtain each player’s grade upon season reset. Gain medals based on your class or rank, get rewarded with seasonal items that you won’t get anywhere else and shop exceptional items such as Mystic Scroll and Elemental Scroll from the World Arena Shop!

Guides

Summoners War: Guild Battles

A weekly PvP battles where guilds with similar ranks compete with each other in a series of one-on-one battles. In guild battles, one guild will stand as the offense, and the other will defend against the attacks. Attacking guilds must defeat the other team during a specific given time, or the defending guild will attain the victory for failing to do so. Be able to join a community of millions of summoners around the world or build your guild with 10 to 25 summoners and participate in intense combat and fight your way to be the best guild.

Summoners War Gameplay Battle Tips

Prioritize Completing Scenarios and Creature Leveling

Why should every new summoner prioritize completing game scenarios and monster leveling? Completing scenes in normal mode will unlock different game content for you to explore and farm. Clearing each stage or zone will give you rewards, which will be useful in powering up and summoning monsters. Setting 4 star Energy Rune on Aiden and 5 star Blade Rune for Chikura will make them a great tank, enough to clear Giant’s Keep, Basement 10, or GB10

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World Arena in Summoners War

Also known as Real-Time Arena or RTA. Players from level 35 to level 50 can engage in real-time battles with other players worldwide. Pick your team of four monsters and wipe out the opposing team to win. Get a chance to pick and ban monsters from your opponent’s side and experience this fantastic PvP battle to earn Victory Points. These points will obtain each player’s grade upon season reset. Gain medals based on your class or rank, get rewarded with seasonal items that you won’t get anywhere else and shop exceptional items such as Mystic Scroll and Elemental Scroll from the World Arena Shop!

Summoners War: Guild Battles

A weekly PvP battles where guilds with similar ranks compete with each other in a series of one-on-one battles. In guild battles, one guild will stand as the offense, and the other will defend against the attacks. Attacking guilds must defeat the other team during a specific given time, or the defending guild will attain the victory for failing to do so. Be able to join a community of millions of summoners around the world or build your guild with 10 to 25 summoners and participate in intense combat and fight your way to be the best guild.

Summoners War Gameplay Battle Tips

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Prioritize Completing Scenarios and Creature Leveling

Why should every new summoner prioritize completing game scenarios and monster leveling? Completing scenes in normal mode will unlock different game content for you to explore and farm. Clearing each stage or zone will give you rewards, which will be useful in powering up and summoning monsters. Setting 4 star Energy Rune on Aiden and 5 star Blade Rune for Chikura will make them a great tank, enough to clear Giant’s Keep, Basement 10, or GB10. If you are struggling in a particular stage, you can make use of your friends’ rep monster for help.

Focus on Your Mythical Core Creature

While getting started in the game, it can be confusing and challenging to pick which monster you should focus on. Having different beasts with different types and abilities can be quite overwhelming. You must determine what monster you will need to go through the scenarios and which monsters are best to invest. Do not make the mistake of spreading out runes and XP to different monsters. Maximize your resources by building versatile monsters that can be used, not just in one place. Some monsters would seem useless at the beginning but will later be useful for power-ups and buffing.

Obtain More Summoning Scroll

Honestly speaking, it is hard to obtain summoning scrolls; you must complete dragging missions and quests to get them. But of course, there is a much faster way of securing scroll, and you must work for it; this is through Arena Battles. For every match you win in an arena battle, you will receive medals as a reward. These medals can be traded off in Arena Shop and turn them into summoning scrolls. Another thing is that you won’t only find decorations in the arena battles. If you’re lucky enough, you might be able to get Devilmon monsters here too.

Efficient Farming

Because of the RNG system that Summoner Wars has, it drops off random items or monsters. If there is a particular monster that you are after, it will require you to do specific missions repeatedly to get what you desire. Farming can be frustrating, especially if you are farming at the wrong place for that monster or item. Using the “Drop Info” menu, you will have an overview of the loot table of a specific mission. Simple as that. This thing will help you understand which place you should focus on farming. It will also be easier to complete your rune set.

Rune Level Up

Runes are special stone attachments that are the lifeblood of every summoner. Runes have their default stats; however, you can still add secondary stats to improve each rune. The amount of stat that will be added or increased will depend entirely on how rare the rune stone is. Legendary Runes are usually orange in color. Hero Runes are Purple. Rare ones are Blue. Magic Runes are green and Common Runes are white. The stat numbers can be increased from 0 to 4 by using mana stones. Leveling up provides a significant increase and additional stat on the runes up to their maximum level.

The stat numbers can be increased from 0 to 4 by using mana stones. Leveling up provides a significant increase and additional stat on the runes up to their maximum level.

Runes are used to upgrade the monster’s stats and allow your monsters to evolve further. There are benefits of leveling up your rune. Leveled up runes will grant you more XP, farm safer, and with added map dropped monsters as you farm. There are different rune sections for each monster that you can use in mixed or various battles. You can customize each monster and runes to synchronize them among your team further. Each rune has a similar set effect when applied. It is essential to know what rune is most beneficial for your monster otherwise; your monster and rune are useless, even how strong and rare they are.

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