Monster Strike Beginner Guide
By Ewing Leung on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 9:47pm
Well Monster Strike finally came to US!! Here is a quick guide for people!

I assume you know how to actually play the game and just dont know the raising and tricks lol

The Monster
Each monster has 3 stats, HP, ATK, SPD. They increase as you level up a monster or add + monsters to it.

Each monster has 0 - 2 Abilities and some monster have a gauge ability. Gauge abilities only activate with you do a "Fantastic" when you move them.

Luck (clover) is the percent chance of you getting an extra drop at the end dungeon. The number is the actual percent chance. You increase your luck by fusing the same monster (or preevo/evo versions)

A monster will have a special skill called "Strike Shot" Note that you can not decrease the number of turns for them.
There is a Sync version which only triggers when you are at below 33% HP and have the right monsters in your team.

Last is the Bump Combo. They activate when another monster on your team hits it.

Creating Your Team
You will only have 3 monsters on your team with an addition to 1 friend totaling to 4. The first monster is your "leader" monster which friends can use. The Luck chance only pertains to your leader monster. Order of moving your monster depends on the order of your team. There is NO set team to defeat a specific dungeon. It all depends on the set of abilities your monsters have and how well it works in the dungeon. Its more like a certain bump combo works well with another one, not a certain monster works with another one

Multiplayer
You can play with up to 3 friends in a close proximately of you (bluetooth range). The stamina used will be from the Host but he will be the only one to get the dungeon EXP. However, all members that play will get drops and coins. Be careful since each player will have 15 seconds to move or else their turn will skip. There are also multiplayer only dungeons.

Evolution / Ascend
Evolution uses catalysts that you get during dungeons. There is no real max to the amount you can carry (probably 999 but chances are you wont go that far). The hardest to get is the Divine one which you can only get during Daily dungeons. Even so, they are very low drop %. There are events that x3 the drop rate in JP.

Ascend only happens to some monsters. They use boss drops of a specific luck that comes from event dungeons. Boss drops always come with a Luck of 1.

Event Dungeons
There will be numerous even dungeons that you can go into. All of them are a material for some ascenable monster. All boss drops are 4star

Descend Dungeons
These are the harder level dungeons. Some of them are materials for ascenable monsters. If you 0-stone the hardest level, you will ALWAYS get a boss drop. Boss drops are 5stars and are very viable in teams

Bosses
Each dungeon has a Boss monster. There will be a set speed clear count for you. If you beat the monster within that number of turns, you will get an extra treasure box. Also, each boss has a specific number of bars it has:

Dark Blue: 4
Light Blue: 3
Green: 2
Yellow: 1

NOTE: EACH BAR DOES NOT ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME HP

---If there is anything else, feel free to ask. There is going to be a Tips and Tricks Doc---

Monster Strike Co-op Guide
By Ewing Leung on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 12:19pm
One of the best things about Monster Strike is to play with friends!

How to Set Up/Join a Game
1. Go to Quest -> Recruit a Team
2. Search Friends is for finding people around your physical location
3. Invite Friends is for people that is not around your location (rest of the tutorial is if you select this option)
4. Select the quest you want to run
5. Choose your team
6. Select which SNS app you want to send your invite
7. After posting your link, YOU HAVE TO GO INTO THE LINK AS WELL
8. People joining have to go to the link
9. Once everyone is in, the host press OK and you are off!

*If you are joining a game with people around your physical location, go to Quest -> Join a Team*

The Reception distance is a few hundred meters

The Co-op Dungeon Experience
Each member has 15 seconds to make their move. If they don't make their move, their turn is skipped. When a turn is skipped, Strike Shot cooldowns WILL NOT decrease and items WILL NOT grow/appear. Note that you don't have to move if you don't want to. It is a strategy of not taking extra damage from damage walls or if you are in line for an enemy attack. If someone gets disconnected from the game, the host will take over that person's monster.

The Rewards
There are a lot of benefits of playing Co-op. Note that stamina will be deducted from the host only.

Host: Clear status, dungeon EXP, coins, drops
Other Players: coins, drops

Also, you can increase the chances of getting boxes through everyone's monster's Luck

Affinity Meter
When you play Co-op with friends, the affinity meter with that friend goes up. The amount differs between dungeon difficulty and rank difference. When the meter fills up, both players will get either a EXP turtle or Morling at the highest tier. You can only fill the meter with that friend once per day and it resets when the day resets. You can check which reward you will get next with that friend by checking the details in your friend list

Monster Strike Advance Guide
By Ewing Leung on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 4:52pm
Here is an advance guide for players who want to know the ins and outs of the game

Morings (Pluses)
These guys drop very frequently throughout dungeons. There are 3 types to max the 3 stats for a monster. Each monster has a different limit of each stat. Therefore, when you are reviewing your fusion, check to see if the the plus value will be Yellow/Gold. The game will also give you notice that you might went overboard with the pluses.

You can stack the pluses with each other as well to save up space. Here are the min and max of all the pluses in the game:

--HP--
Normal: 25 - 95
S: 50 - 190
X: 250 - 390
---ATK---
Normal: 5 - 85
S: 10 - 170
X: 50 - 210
---SPD---
Normal: 0.17 - 3.23
S: 0.34 - 4.42
X: 1.7 - 5.78

You can farm them when it is x1.5 drop on normal dungeons. Tuesday for ATK, Wednesday for SPD, Thursday for HP

Daily Dungeons
There are daily dungeons in the game and they give you stones and sharls to evolve your monsters as well as a coin dungeon

Monday: Light+Dark
Tuesday: Fire
Wednesday: Water
Thursday: Wood
Friday: Gold Turtles
Saturday: Fire+Water+Light
Sunday: Wood+Dark

All daily dungeons besides Friday can drop a divine sharl. However, drop/appearance rates are very low.

Abilities
Most monsters have abilities. Here is a list of them so far (that I have found in NA)

Null Damage Wall: Won't take damage from damage walls
Null Gravity Barrier: Speed will not decrease when in contact with an enemy barrier
Flight: Monster won't be affected by mines and warp zones
Shield Breaker: Destroys shields
OO Slayer: Deals x1.5 more damage to the enemy monster if they are OO
OO Slayer L: Deals x2.5 more damage to the enemy monster if they are OO
OO Slayer XL: Deals x3 more damage to the enemy monster if they are OO

Raise that Luck!!
Luck can be raise by fusing dupes with each other. The luck will be the sum of the two monster's luck. The max for each star is:

4 Stars: 72
5 Stars: 90
6 Stars: 99

Only the luck of the first monster of your team is counted. When luck is at 99, you will ALWAYS get 2 reward boxes.

Making a Luck 90 Starter
This is how you work towards a Luck 90 Starter. People choose the Fire one because of the bump combo being Blast. Stats are medicore so they are just there for reward drops.

Places to Farm (Fire Starter)
Mt. Hotfoot - Volcanic Drake
Blazing Menagerie - Blazing Dragonlord

All you have to do is fuse them together and raise the rank. You only need to go up to 75 and there will be a +15 when you are at that level, totaling to 90

Making a Luck 99 Descend Monster
You can make a luck 99 monster with descend drops. Same way of creating as the starter but it takes more stamina and effort to create but it is rewarding. Which one is best? It all depends on you. People go for easier descend dungeons like Dark Dragon but you can just make one out of love.

Note that they don't 100% drop, even on the highest level. You can get 100% drop on Extreme level if you 0-orb it.

Plusing Efficiently when Luck Raising
When you are making your high level luck monster, there is a way to efficiently plus max the monster.

1. Plus one of the materials
2. Select another material (without pluses) as the base and the one with plus as the material
3. Fuse and hope for a Mega Fusion
4. Repeat the process

Since mega fusions are common, you can max plus your monster for free if you are lucky enough. Do this with all 3 stats at once