Strengthening Monsters

Monsters can be made more effective through various improvements to the monster itself, or through improving equipment and insignia.

Battle Power
Battle Power (BP) is a metric of overall investment in a monster. It takes into account monster level, monster advancement, equipment level, and number and level of attached insignia. The current Battle Power for individual monsters is displayed on the monster page. Total Battle Power for teams is displayed during team selection, calculated as the summed Battle Power of the selected monsters.

Battle Power is also displayed for opponent teams in PvE areas and in the Arena, and can be used to roughly gauge the difficulty of a particular battle. However, careful consideration of team composition and the choice of stats to boost with insignia can allow a player to defeat opponents with much higher BP. Thus, relative BP should be interpreted with caution.

Monster Level
Monster level is increased with experience, which can be gained from battles or through the use of Mytho Essence. Monster level is capped at the player level.

Monster Advancement
Monsters are always summoned at level 1 white, but can be advanced though 6 color grades, white (1 star), green (2 stars), blue (3 stars), purple (4 stars), orange (5 stars), and red. Monsters can be advanced within a color grade using Sage’s Ink, and advanced to the next color grade using Books of Transformation. In addition, starting at purple grade, each advancement requires either duplicate monsters of the same type or Monster Spirits of the appropriate level. The available degree of advancement depends on the monster level.

Ability Level
Monster Abilities can be leveled up by spending Coins and Ability Points. The max skill level is capped at the monster level. Some abilities cannot be leveled up. The pool of unspent Ability Points refills with time, 1 every 6 minutes up to a maximum of 20.

Awakening
Monsters can be awakened using Stardust from the Star Maze mode. Awakening requires both generic Stardust and elemental Stardust of the monster’s element, in a quantity and grade dictated by the monster’s class ranking. Awakened monsters receive a signature name, an updated appearance, increases to basic stats, and a modification to their abilities, usually either an upgrade to an existing ability or addition of a Leader Skill.