Dar's YaoLing Guide

Dar's guide to YaoLing

A guide covering endgame breeding loops, a list of Talents, and general tips/advice which I hope other people may find useful.

~(Last updated in game version: ea 0.95e) Added a new section addressing added features so I can file them away later. Fixed Breeding Guide after testing Inheritance Rules.

Latest Updates

Latest Update - 0.95e

As the game is being frequently updated I'm adding this section here in order to record the latest major changes. This update was full of minor QoL changes, such as the ability to view Evolution levels and bugfixes, but a few significant features were added.

-13 Sep 2024: Huge update made massive changes. Won't have time to update the guide until perhaps the weekend, sorry. TLDR: There's a new game mode, some gameplay rebalances, Eternica got massively nerfed and Charity abuse with WuKong has been reined in to no longer break the game with cumulative cost increasing YaoLing.

Update notes are at.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2816950/view/4610085845253512381

-4 Aug 2024: Noticed that the Help section updates have clarified a lot of the mechanics, updated the guide with the exact details. Check out the new DEF vs Damage Reduction graph!
-3 Aug 2024: Breeding talent inheritance rules cleaned up. Some of it was incorrect.
-2 Aug 2024: Mini YaoLing Scroll added.

Important features added:

Difficulty Settings

- Found at the School of Blades, located here on your map.

Consists of granting all enemies a permanent buff in battle, and grants increased rewards as follows:

Perception	+0%	+0%	+0%	None	+0%	None
Enlightenment	+100%	+80%	+50%	minute	+50%	Blue
Testament	+160%	+150%	+100%	small	+100%	Blue/Purple
Union	+320%	+280%	+220%	moderate	+200%	Blue/Purple/Yellow

Notably, this adds an infinite source of Legendary Yellow Spirit Jades, although the probability for obtaining them is extremely low. More importantly, Harder modes give enemy Yaoling better talents and stats, making it easier to hunt for Legendary talents, but it does decreases your talisman catch rate.

As you can see, the jump from Testament to Union difficulty is very large and it requires very specialised parties and strategies to defeat Demons, for example: heavy crowd-control or use of Reflect.

Marks

A function to the right of the Rename option in each unit which adds an icon to your unit so that you can find important units more easily in your box.

Blessing animation skipping

Now you can get rid of your Heart Crystals ten times faster.

YaoLing Types and Stats

YaoLing may have up to 3 additional types, which may all co-exist.

• Elite YaoLings
  

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  These are easy to identify as they have a crown icon on their portrait in the inn. Elite YaoLing have a noticeably larger model. This does not appear to affect their Size, nor Strength, but it does seem to affect their hurtbox and collision.
  
  The game states they have better growth potentials than normal YaoLing, but this just means they have at least one stat which has 5-6 diamonds ♦♦♦♦♦♦ in growth potential. Elite YaoLings are hostile on the map regardless of level, and will always spawn in the same locations.
  
  Note that currently, the four story boss YaoLing do not appear to have Elite spawn locations, therefore, they cannot be caught in Elite form. However, there is a 1% chance that breeding may result in a YaoLing randomly becoming Elite.
  
  
• Rare Colour

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  These YaoLing have a different palette and are uncommon. Breeding YaoLing has a 1% chance of them becoming a Rare Colour. All Wild YaoLing which are Rare Coloured have at least 3 growth potentials in every stat.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Shiny YaoLing

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  Shiny YaoLing are the rarest of the three alternate types and can easily be identified from the unit list thanks to their rainbow-coloured border.
  
  Shiny YaoLing have a sparkling star effect around them, at least two stats which are maxed out in growth potential (♦♦♦♦♦♦) and come with one random SE Talent - a talent which is a direct upgrade of another in terms of power and has a rainbow border which shifts its colour over time.
  
  In general (as of now), SE Talents are not very good and are rather weak. However, the growth potential guarantee is significant.
  
  
  
  Here is a picture of how all the borders look.
  
  

  Attributes

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  There are six attributes in the game and they all have growth potentials, shown to the right of them. Mousing over each potential will let you see the numbers for how much they will grow with every level.
  
  Note that there appears to be rounding for some of these stats, especially ones with low growth rate.
  
  There is no need to go through each attribute, since the descriptions state exactly what they do and abilities usually tell you exactly how they scale. The current maximum level for YaoLing is 70, but the developers have announced their intent to increase this cap to 99 in the future.
  
  With this in mind, note that it's not always necessary to be obsessive and go for 6 stars in all stats.
  
  Generally, HP, ATK and MAG will always be good to maximise, but some YaoLing have such abysmal growth in a specific stat that there is no practical difference between 1 diamond or 6.
  
  Take note that DEF often has very poor growth. Many back-line YaoLing such as your starter healer, Lume, will find it difficult to get significant amounts of DEF, even at level 70.
  
  (DEF is not directly subtractive to ATK, it reduces non-fixed damage by a percentage, calculated by (1-1/(1+2%DEF)
  
  
  Additionally, WP is of limited use to units which are fragile because they will usually die before it makes any difference. 30 WP would mean the unit will gain 30 mana from taking damage as it goes from 100% to 0% HP. (The normal rate of mana gain is 10 mana per second)
  
  Finally, there is one hidden statistic, called LUCK. LUCK primarily affects the activation probability of abilities and talents. 50 Luck appears to correspond with a talent triggering approximately 50% more often.

Elements and Ailments

There are nine different elements in YaoLing: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Poison, Darkness, Pierce, Concussion and Slash.

Whenever a YaoLing does non-true damage with an attack or ability, they will inflict colour-coded damage of that type and cause a small amount of elemental buildup on the target. This bar is not entirely accurate in real time, but when it fills up, an elemental debuff will be inflicted on the target.

Buildup seems to naturally decay in real time and can be prevented entirely by Talents such as Consecrated. Unlike Monster Hunter, the cap does not seem to increase each time a debuff is inflicted.


This is the list of the various damage types and the ailments directly related to them:

Ailment List

 Pierce, Concussion and Slash are considered PHYSICAL elements.
 Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Poison, Darkness are considered ELEMENTAL.

This is mostly relevant to some specific talents.

12/9/2024 Updated effects of Ailments (translated directly from the Chinese notes):

• Bleeding: Take extra Pierce damage equal to a percentage of lost HP (10% from Normal attacks and 25% from abilities) for 7 seconds. (Originally just 5% of lost HP)
  
• Burn: Every second, take 26 points of Defence-ignoring Fire damage. Scales by 4 damage per level (Originally 80-1580 damage, now 130-2130 damage)
  
• Frozen: ASPD -50%, MOV -70% (Originally ATK/MOV -50%)
  
• Poisoned: ATK/MAG - 30% for 8s (Originally -20% for 10s)
  
• Paralysis: Chance to become paralysed every second, also receiving 2-12% of current HP in Lightning damage. Lasts 8s. (Originally: Chance to become paralysed when attacking, stopping actions, Duration: 12 seconds)

Every YaoLing does a specific damage type with their auto-attacks, which may not necessarily be the same as their ability. You can view this damage type in the Party List or the YaoLing Scroll as shown:

Debuffs get more difficult to inflict consistently the higher level the target is. 


A diverse team will have great difficulty keeping up debuffs consistently on Demon bosses, so it is recommended to focus on specific damage types if you wish to prioritise a debuff. Fortunately, talents which convert a portion of your default attack damage type are relatively common.

Map: Rare YaoLing and Where to Find them

This is a small map showing roughly where to find the 3 starter YaoLing and the 4 current story boss starters.

YaoLing Breeding Guide Part 1: Getting components

A large portion of the endgame will focus around Breeding YaoLing. I shall walk you through how I do it.

Because of UI Limitations, it is very difficult to breed efficiently as it is difficult to see at a glance if a YaoLing is an Alternate Colour or not. Fortunately, there are many things you can do to mitigate this.

I recommend only breeding 1 to 2 YaoLing families at once. This streamlines things a lot and declutters your YaoLing inventory, which is very difficult to organise once it gets cluttered. Working on 2 at once gives you the advantage of being able to alternate between the two when gathering ingredients.

Step 1: Locate the YaoLing you want to breed.

Refer to the previous map for the unique YaoLing Locations. Starter YaoLing have 3 spawns, one of which is guaranteed to have an Elite. Boss YaoLing have only 1 spawn and no Elites, as far as I know, it is not possible to get an Elite Boss YaoLing.

Step 2: Capture breeding components

You will need the following. Feel free to omit as many steps as you wish, but my current project is focused on breeding an alternate-coloured-shiny YaoLing. There are valid reasons why you may not want your YaoLing to be any of these, however, so leaving steps out saves a lot of time and Spirit Gems.

1. 1 Shiny YaoLing
   
2. 1 Alternate Colour YaoLing
   
3. 1 Elite YaoLing (optional)
   
4. As many useful Legendary Traits as you want.

You can use certain food to increase the rate of Shiny and Alternate-Coloured YaoLing, but this is not efficient for the Rare YaoLing, because the best method for those is the Save and Load tactic and Food Buffs are removed when you Load a Game.

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The Save and Load tactic

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Step 1:

Go to where a Rare YaoLing is and bring a large stack of Tier 1 damage charms and capture charms.

• Save the game.
  
• Now hit the YaoLing with a damage charm (RMB) to start a battle.

Step 2:

When battle starts, press TAB. This shows you a list of all enemy units in battle.Check if there are any YaoLing with good traits you wish to capture and you can left click on any single one to tag it.

If there are no YaoLing you want and they are all trash, hit the Escape key and Space to Escape from the battle. Note this only works if you surprise the enemy, so always try to ambush them.

Step 3:

When you find a YaoLing you want, capture it, then Save the game.

• Now load the game you just saved (Esc > Load Game > Highlight > F) and repeat from Step 2 until you have all the components you want.

On average, I estimate it takes around perhaps a hundred tries to get a Shiny. Fortunately, you only really need one per breeding type.

Shinies from the Heart Stone gacha

Lastly, one of the most reliable ways of getting non-Boss and Starter Shinies is just to breed lots of eggs and use the Heart Stone gacha. Every time you delete an egg, you get heart crystals, and any eggs you pull from the Jade Tree's blessing is guaranteed to be a Shiny one. This saves you a lot of time rather than fiddling around with food, although it does not address the Elite or Alternate Colour problem.

Username @Dylan pointed out that unlike breeding, talents for these gacha YaoLing seem to be randomly generated when clicking on the Hatch button - hence if you don't like what you get, it is possible to save-scum their talents. If you can't tell them apart from your breeding projects, note that they will be marked as "Source: Wild" under the egg description.

Interlude: Egg Names and what they mean

Before we start the next part, I need to go over the importance of Egg names and how to read them.

Every Egg has a name, which can be divided in to 3 different parts:

1. Size
   
2. Talents
   
3. Element

Element just indicates the element type of the YaoLing, as such, it is mostly irrelevant for breeding.

Size:

Size is a determination of how many potentials the YaoLing has. YaoLing may have anywhere from 6 to 36 potential points. I estimate they are as follows (not confirmed):

Points	Size
6	Tiny
7-11	Small
12-17	Medium
18-23	Large
24-29	Huge
30-35	Giant
36	Colossal

The cost of hatching an egg increases dramatically the more potential points the YaoLing has, capping out at about 2200 for a Colossal egg.

Quality:

The second part of the egg name. This determines the types of talents the YaoLing has. Since only Legendary Traits cannot be bought in endgame, we can just break this down into "Number of Legendaries as follows".

# of Legendary Traits	Description
0	Tapered, etc
1	Perfect
2	Pristine
3	Dazzling
*	Shiny

Note:

• Shiny indicates the presence of a Shiny SE Trait and overrides ALL other desciptions.
  
• The cost to hatch the edge will also increase accordingly, but less so than egg size.
  
• There is probably a name for having 4 Legendary traits, but I am not crazy enough to find out what that is.

YaoLing Breeding Guide Part 2: Egg and Unit management

In this section, I'll walk you through a worked example of breeding. My goal is to make a Colourful Shiny Tifur with the legendary Traits: Perfection and Elite Heritage.

Wild Tifurs do not come in Elite forms, so this makes things significantly easier.

Talents or Potentials first?

Potentials greatly determine how expensive an egg is to hatch. However, talents are the biggest single contributing factor to how long an egg takes to hatch (potentials contribute only 6 min per perfect stat). There is a tradeoff as even 1 Legendary talent will result in the egg taking 27 minutes longer to hatch (before Breeding Hut reductions). Generally, it can be faster to breed Potentials before you breed in Talents, but since the Shiny inheritance rate from 1 parent is only 10%, it is difficult to breed in Talents to a Shiny YaoLing later.

The importance of Naming

As of the latest patch, breeding has been improved. It is still a good idea to rename breeding units, but now it's better to focus on Legendary talents they have as the parent names will appear on eggs.

Names are NOT unique, so don't worry about renaming a whole batch of YaoLing the same thing.


Here is my personal naming scheme, you can create your own as it is just a guideline:

Component Breeding Names

<Type Letters> - E for Elite, S for Shiny, and C for Alternate Colour. I will call these ESC for short. No longer necessary as the UI was fixed.
<Name of YaoLing> - Keep this short. For use on eggs.
<YaoLing Type/Sex> - I use M for Yang and F for Yin because this is easier to type.
<Legendary Talents> - Useful when you are storing different Legendary talents to try out.

So in the example picture above, I would name the unit "STifurM".
You can now also add marks to your YaoLing, so you can conveniently label all your current breeding pairs with an egg mark .

Step 1: Talent Breeding Rules

Your goal here is to combine the legendary talents you want. These rules govern talent inheritance:

1. When you breed two YaoLing, ONE talent and ONE of the highest stat potentials are chosen at random from each parent to be passed down to the offspring.
   
2. Rarer Talents are prioritised for inheritance. Legendary talents will ALWAYS be chosen over Elite, which will be chosen over Rare talents, for example.
   
3. Shiny Talents occupy a talent slot. Hence, the maximum Legendary talents on Shinies is 3 Legendaries (Dazzling).
   
4. Unlike other good Talents, Shiny Talents are randomised every time you breed YaoLing.
   
5. Once bred, Empty slots may be filled by random talents, including negative ones. Random talents may be Legendary, resulting in 3 Legendary talents. This creates a Dazzling egg.
   
6. This means Dazzling eggs are still incredibly rare and breeding one should not be counted on as the talent will be random. It is probably more sensible to use a precious Legendary Talent Jade if you need 3 or more Legendary Talents on a single unit.

We do Talent breeding first because Shiny overrides all other descriptors - there is no way to tell how many Legendary Talents we have once we start breeding Shinies. Doing this first lets us use Pristine/Dazzling to determine if an egg is worth hatching.

Colour does not have an effect on stat potentials for YaoLing breeding, so it is safe and a great idea to start mixing in Colour at this stage. My goal is to get a few CTifur(M/F) with both Legandaries. This shouldn't take that long.

For Elites and Rare Colours, there is a 50% chance of inheriting this from each parent, otherwise an egg will have a 1% chance to become Elite/Rare coloured.

For Shinies, the probability is 50% if both parents are Shiny. Otherwise, it is 10% if only one parent is Shiny. This means combining Elite/Colour and a non-EC-Shiny has a 1 in 20 chance.

• Until you combine Shiny/Colour/Elite, try to prioritise hatching the LOWEST Potential eggs as you can as this is faster as well as dramatically cheaper. Hatching Huge eggs is around half to 2/3 the cost of Giant eggs.
  
• If Soul Crystals are scarce, delete all non-Shiny eggs which are too expensive or only Perfect. Only hatch Pristine or Dazzling eggs as this indicates successful inheritance of Legendary traits.

Step 2: Breeding in Types

This is the time you start breeding in Shinies. Hopefully, you have a bunch of cheap Coloured 2-Trait Legendaries. Breed them with your Shinies and hatch the shiny eggs.

• Don't hatch every single egg, you'll just delete all your soul crystals. ONLY hatch Shiny eggs.
  
• Use the Inn to delete all unwanted units and sell all unwanted eggs. Only keep Shiny Coloured (SC) units.

At this point, I do not need to name every single unit as I only keep SC units - I am going to start the most expensive part, which is breeding in potentials.

Fortunately, a recent patch has made obtaining Colossal eggs a lot easier.

• Prioritise eggs with 6 stars in the potentials you want as 2 of the highest potentials are inherited, one from each parent.
  
• At this point, I just rename them Tifur<sex><number> now, e.g.: "TifurM33". Breeding higher potential units increases the probability of the offspring having higher potentials.

A perfect unit isn't actually necessary. You should isolate the useful stats.

Description

ATK is important on all units, even healers as it affects status buildup.

DEF can be dumped on units with low DEF growth and backliners. However, it is always good.

HP has one of the more observable variances, but at a level cap of 70, this only works out to around 140-ish HP for every diamond at the level cap.

WP is only really good for your frontline and has poor growth variance. It can be dumped.

MAG determines how your abilities scale, and is one of the most important stats.

Crit will usually make a small difference of about 3-4% at level 70, it's worth maxing because the difference in growth is usually between 0.2% to 0.4% per level.

More importantly, if you are breeding a Shiny, the Talent will randomise itself. Getting a good talent is completely RNG, so cross your fingers and pray.

I'll gradually switch up my production line until I have 3 sets of SC x SC breeding pairs and use the remaining 3 slots to start my next breeding project. My final production line will look like this:


At this point, I just follow the guidelines:

• Only Hatch Shiny and Dazzling Eggs and delete all else.
  
• Delete all eggs which take fewer than ~1600 Soul Crystals to hatch. These eggs won't have good potentials and aren't worth the time and crystals to hatch.

This is about the right time to start a new breeding project or level up some new units while farming Soul Crystals on a boss rush. Getting a good SC YaoLing is just a matter of time at this point. Temper your expectations.


At this point, I stop production and save 4-6 of my breeding pairs, deleting all the rest so that my YaoLing list stays organised. This is when it is a good idea to mark all your breeding pairs with an Egg mark so you can resume where you left off if you ever want to revisit the YaoLing again, for example if you want to breed in a new Legendary Talent.

Crafts and recommended YaoLing

YaoLing all have Craft skills, which may be viewed under their Crafting tab.


There is very large variance to these crafts. All these three Level 1 Bunbows have dramatically different Crafting skills, for example.

Each YaoLing species has a predisposition towards certain Crafts, which can be approximately measured by a rating of 1 to 10 on the YaoLing scroll.


I originally had a huge Excel Sheet with all of this information, but I realised it was kind of useless because most people would just be interested in the top YaoLing for each Craft.

Training has no 10/10 YaoLing, the best YaoLing for it is the Tifur family at 9/10, and it doesn't appear to be important since it's just experience, so I am leaving it out.

• Due to this variance, 9s may actually have higher values than 10s.
  
• Demons usually have much worse Crafting stats, so check first before you try the Demon form.

9	10
147 - Elixishell	215 - Nocturoam
187 - Domisun
243 - Wardendure

9	10
255 - Celesprita	235 - Sealighten

9	10
039-Quakehorn	151 - Ripplance
059-Pangocoil	163 - Cannonlob
111-Gallopurge	187 - Domisun
115-Hedgemon	243 - Wardendure
135-Shalo	247 - Dongdong
191 - Adepdoe	263 - Excaladin
255 - Celesprita

9	10
203 - Danseama	143 - Aquora
	199 - Vergalia

9	10
012 - Rekkoon	219 - Seekerite
071 - Cointaur	251 - Aegistelle
123 - Ursalanche	255 - Malletmaw
139 - Colostiff
167 - Drillpinch
175 - Blizzball
215 - Nocturoam

9	10
155 - Reinkoil	107 - Baalody
	179 - Jestricity
	223 - Emotem

9	10
031 - Artepuss	127 - Sirius
075 - Anuyi	211 - Maskeraith
207 - Whipstache

About Talents

YaoLing may learn up to four talents, which is the main way you customise them.

Talents are divided into 5 rarities:

• Common - Trash talents, which are usually negative. Delete these with Amber Teardrops.
  
• Rare (R) - Blue Commonplace talents, can be bought at the Village Shop every game day for 150 Soul Crystals.
  
• Epic (E) - Purple talents, can be bought at the Village Shop every game day for 500 Soul Crystals.
  
• Legendary (L) - Yellow talents. Soul Jades can only be found in chests at the moment and are limited. Easily breedable, up to a soft limit of 2, after which it gets dramatically more difficult.
  
• Shiny (S) - Upgraded versions of other talents, generated randomly on Shiny YaoLing.

Some talents have some hidden restrictions to them:

• (Ranged) - only learnable by YaoLing with a Ranged default attack.
  
• (Melee) - only learnable by YaoLing with a Melee default attack.
  
• (Summon) - only learnable by YaoLing with an ability which summons units.

Since some talents do multiple things, some of them will re-appear over multiple categories for your convenience.

Some Game Mechanics notes:

• Reflect: Prevents a percentage of damage and returns it to attackers. A very strong defensive effect.
  
• Weight: Determines how severely a YaoLing is affected by physics, such as knock up and knockback.
  
• Strength: Each YaoLing has a Strength category, which is used in knockback calculations.
  
• Interrupt: Note that some abilities and status are capable of interrupting any action taken by enemies. The status Paralysis seems to inflict a certain rate of random interruption.
  
• Dispel: Only buffs marked with [Buff] in the Status Window appear to be dispellable. It's useful to keep a dispeller (ability or talent) around just for some very annoying enemies.

Talents (Pt 1) - Base Stats / LUCK

ATK TALENTS

(L) Tyrant

ATK increased 35%

(R) Reckless

ATK increased by 30%, MAG decreased by 20%

(R) Heavy Strike

ATK increased by 50%, Attack Speed decreased by 30%

(R) Last Stand

Below 50% HP: ATK increased by 30%

(E) Avenger

On ally death: Gain a permanent buff of 10% ATK and 10 DEF. Stacks up to 5 times. Triggered by death of summons

(R) Alpha

If 2 other units of the same species present: ATK/HP/MAG increased by 10%

(S) Alpha SE

If 2 other units of the same species present: ATK/HP/MAG increased by 25%

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

DEF TALENTS

(R) Sturdy

DEF increased by 10

(R) Pacifist

ATK decreased by 30%, DEF increased by 30

(R) Instinctive

Below 50% HP: DEF increased by 20%

(R) Extrovert

Attack Range decreased by 5, DEF increased by 20

(E) Avenger

On ally death: Gain a permanent buff of 10% ATK and 10 DEF. Stacks up to 5 times. Triggered by death of summons

HP TALENTS

(L) Royal Bloodline

HP increased by 40%

(E) Soul Binding

Unit loses 50% Max HP.
Allies gain a total of twice that amount of Max HP evenly distributed amongst all units.

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

(R) Alpha

If 2 other units of the same species present: ATK/HP/MAG increased by 10%

(S) Alpha SE

If 2 other units of the same species present: ATK/HP/MAG increased by 25%

WP TALENTS

(R) Tunnel Vision

Mana regen decreased by 3/s, Gain 100 WP

(S) Tunnel Vision SE

Mana regen decreased by 5/s, Gain 300 WP

MAG TALENTS

(L) Brilliant

MAG increased 35%

(E) Deft Hands

After ability use: Gain 15% MAG (Up to 45%)

(R) Mind Over Matter

ATK decreased by 20%, MAG increased by 30%

(S) Mind Over Matter SE

ATK decreased by 25%, MAG increased by 40%

(R) Alpha

If 2 other units of the same species present: ATK/HP/MAG increased by 10%

(S) Alpha SE

If 2 other units of the same species present: ATK/HP/MAG increased by 25%

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

CRITICAL TALENTS

(L) Intuition

Crit chance increased 20%, Crit damage increased 100%

(E) Anger Issues

(Melee) When hit by enemy: Gain 2% Crit chance and 4% Crit damage.
Stacks 25 times for a total of 50% Crit chance and 100% Crit damage.

(R) Warmed Up

Battle Start: Gain 100% Crit chance for 6s

(E) Methodical

On attack hit: Gain 20% Crit (stacking), resets when a Critical strike is dealt

(R) Prideful

Crit Rate decreased by 20%, Crit Damage increased by 100%

(R) Sniper

Attack Speed decreased 20%, Crit Rate increased by 20, Crit Damage increased by 50%

(E) Combative

On Kill: Gain 100% Attack Speed and 50 Move Speed for 6s

(E) Accurate

Critical strikes ignore 30 DEF

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

LUCK TALENTS

(L) Luckystar

Double the trigger chance of other abilities.

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

Talents (Pt 2) - Mana / Attack Speed / Movement / Ambush / Knockback

MANA

(L) Elite Heritage

Abilities cost 30% less Mana

(E) Inspiration

On ability use: 33% Chance not to consume the Mana cost. 5s CD

(E) Moral(sic) Boost

Aura: All allies recover 3 Mana per second. Does not stack

(R) Investment

Lose 2% Max HP/s: Regenerate 4 Mana/sec

(S) Investment SE

Lose 4% Max HP/s: Regenerate 10 Mana/sec

(R) Piloerection

Below 50% HP: Regenerate 7 Mana/sec

(R) Nimble

DEF decreased by 30, Attack Speed and Move Speed increased by 30%
Mana recharge increased by 3

(E) Siphon

On Kill: Gain 100 Mana

(R) Energetic

Battle Start: Gain 30 Mana

(E) High Spirit

Battle Start: Gain 200 Mana

(R) Charity

On Death: Grant all allied units 30% Mana

(S) Charity SE

On Death: Grant all allied units 70% Mana

MANA DEPRIVATION

(E) Eyecandy

Aura: All enemies recharge 2 less Mana/second and their abilities are weakened by 10%
Does not stack

(E) Drain

On attack hit: 25% chance to steal 20 Mana (5 Mana on Demons)

(E) Irritate

On attack hit: Target loses 5 Mana

ATTACK SPEED

(L) Trance

Consecutive attacks on the same target grant 10% Attack Speed, up to 120%.
Resets when switching targets.

(R) Nimble

DEF decreased by 30, Attack Speed and Move Speed increased by 30%
Mana recharge increased by 3

(R) Leadership

Aura: Allies gain 20% Movement Speed and 10% Attack Speed (Does not stack)

(R) Rapid Strike

Attack Speed increased by 50%, ATK decreased by 25%

(E) Impatient

Battle Start: Gain 100% ASPD for 10s

(R) Hot-Headed

Battle Start: Gain 150% ASPD and Burn status for 6s

(R) Proud

Attack Speed decreased by 100%.
Gain 10% Attack Speed every second, up to a maximum of 150%

(E) Berserk

For every 10% missing HP, gain 10% Attack Speed

(R) Martyr

On Death: Grant all allies 80% ASPD for 6s

MOVEMENT

(R) Hurricane

Move Speed +50%, Weight and Knockback +1

(R) Leadership

Aura: Allies gain 20% Movement Speed and 10% Attack Speed (Does not stack)

(E) Combative

On Kill: Gain 100% Attack Speed and 50 Move Speed for 6s

(R) Flicker

When hit: Blink to a random location (5s cooldown)

AMBUSH

(R) Grand Entrance

Battle Start: Blink behind the farthest enemy, gain 30% DEF for 6s

(S) Grand Entrance SE

Battle Start: Blink behind the farthest enemy, gain 30% DEF and 100% Crit Rate for 6s

(E) Rampage

(Melee) On Kill: Blink behind a nearby opponent and gain 100% Lifesteal for 6s

(R) Backstab

Attacking from behind ignores 30 DEF

KNOCKBACK

(R) Buff

Knockback +1

(R) Hurricane

Move Speed +50%, Weight and Knockback +1

(R) Strength

Further knockback increases stun duration (vague description)

(E) Tantrum

Below 30% HP: Movement Speed decreases by 90%, knockback +3

Talents (Pt 3) - Healing / Shield / Defensive / Status Defence / Behaviour

HEALING

(R) Bloodshot

Gain 15% Lifesteal

(R) Life Sap

On Kill: Heal for 20% MaxHP

(E) Fragrance

On ability use: Heal a random ally for (50 + 2xLv) HP(

(E) Transmutation

On ability use: Heal self for 15% of Max HP(

(E) Rampage

(Melee) On Kill: Blink behind a nearby opponent and gain 100% Lifesteal for 6s

(R) Rapid Recovery

Receive 20% more healing

(E) Organic

Receive 50% more healing

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

(L) Rewind

The first time HP drops below 30% each battle, blink to the back row and heal 30% HP

(S) Rewind SE

The first time HP drops below 20% each battle, blink to the back row and heal 50% HP

SHIELD

(R) Armoured

Battle Start: Gain (50+5*Lvl) pts of Shield (Scales with level)

(E) Scrap Armour

On Kill: Gain Shield equal to 20% Max HP

(E) Magic Armour

On ability use: Gain (50%Mana REQ*(1+0.1*Lvl)) Shield

DEFENSIVE

(E) Mirror Skin

Battle Start: Gain 100% Reflect for up to 3 hits

(R) Tai-chi

Every 8s: Gain 1 stack of Reflect

(E) Rock Solid

Damage taken: 20% is reflected to nearby enemies

(E) Rough Skin

When hit by enemy: Reduce attacker's Attack Speed by 20% (Stacking up to 100%, lasts 3s)

(E) Eyecandy

Aura: All enemies recharge 2 less Mana/second and their abilities are weakened by 10%. Does not stack

(L) Rewind

The first time HP drops below 30% each battle, blink to the back row and heal 30% HP

(S) Rewind SE

The first time HP drops below 20% each battle, blink to the back row and heal 50% HP

(E) Tantrum

Below 30% HP: Movement Speed decreases by 90%, knockback +3

(R) Elemental Armour

Physical Damage taken increased by 30%, Elemental Damage decreased by 30%

(E) Persistent

When receiving damage greater than 20% of Max HP: Decrease that damage by 50%. A fantastic skill for squishies.

(E) Adaptive Defence

When taking damage from a resistant element: Damage is reduced by an additional 20%

STATUS DEFENCE

(L) Consecrated

Gain status immunity

(L) Perfection

Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level

(R) Optimist

Below 50% HP: Duration of status ailments halved

(E) Cleanup Crew

Every 6.5s: Cleanse an ally of 1 debuff. Radius: 5

BEHAVIOUR

(L) Inconspicuous

Become less likely to be targeted

(L) Ingenious

Always target the opponent with the lowest HP

Talents (Pt 4) - Damage / Conversion / Ailments / Summons / Auras

DAMAGE MULTIPLIERS

(R) Martial Mastery

Physical Damage increased by 10%

(R) Elemental Mastery

Elemental Damage increased by 15%

(E) Adaptive Offence

If the opponent is weak to the element of your attack: Deal an additional 30% damage

(R) Bully

Deal 15% more damage to smaller opponents, 15% less to larger opponents

(E) Demonbane

Unit deals 30% more damage to Demons

(R) Yeet

(Ranged) Projectiles gain 2% damage per unit traveled

(E) Focused

Increase damage by 10% every second, resets after attack

(R) Charge!

On attack hit: Deal 10% more damage for each 1 unit this unit has moved since its last attack

(E) Turret

(Ranged)Unit cannot move, but deals 25% more damage

(E) Quick Draw

Battle Start: Your first attack does 300% damage

ELEMENTAL CONVERSION

(R) Heated

50% of attack damage converted to Fire

(R) Shocking

50% of attack damage converted to Lightning

(R) Winded

50% of attack damage converted to Wind

(R) Chill

50% of attack damage converted to Ice

(R) Emo

50% of attack damage converted to Darkness

STATUS INFLICTION

(L) Master of Elements

Attacks have increased Elemental status buildup

(E) Arsonist

On attack hit: If the target is Burning, extend the duration of the Burn

(E) Chisel

On attack hit: If the target is Frozen, send out Frost shards in 8 directions, dealing (8+50%MAG) Ice damage

(E) Smite

On attack hit: If the target is Paralysed, deal an additional (8+10%MAG) to (8+60%MAG) at 78 MAG) Lightning damage

(E) Waft

On attack hit: If enemy is Weakened, apply Levitate: Weight -4
Please note that "Weakened" is an inconsistent translation of the Wind status ailment.

(E) Defile

On attack hit: If enemy is Poisoned, apply Strong Poison (Deals 5% Max HP/Sec, 2.5% vs Demons)

(E) Demoralise

On attack hit: If enemy is Feared, all enemies are feared (Triggers once every 10s)

(E) Lacerate

On attack hit: If enemy is Bleeding, apply Wounded: Inflicts 2% of Missing HP as damage for every unit moved

SUMMONS

(E) Mentor

(Summon) This unit's summons gain "Heavy Blow", granting a 25% chance to deal 3x damage

(E) Cheerlead

(Summon) This unit's summons gain 20% ATK and 30% Attack Speed

(E) Loud Voice

(Summon) On Abilty use: 30% Chance to summon an additional summoned unit

AURAS

(E) Eyecandy

Aura: All enemies recharge 2 less Mana/second and their abilities are weakened by 10%. Does not stack

(E) Leadership

Aura: Allies gain 20% Movement Speed and 10% Attack Speed. Does not stack

(E) Healing Aura

Aura: All allies recover 2% HP per second. Does not stack

(E) Moral(sic) Boost

Aura: All allies recover 3 MP per second. Does not stack

(E) Intimidating

Aura: All nearby enemies lose 15 DEF. Does not stack

Talents (Pt 5) - Periodic / Attack / Hit Triggers

PERIODIC

(R) Play-Dirty

Every 7 seconds: Next attack will dispel buffs from enemies struck

(R) Tai-chi

Every 8s: Gain 1 stack of Reflect

(E) Rainstorm

(Ranged) Every 7s: Attack all nearby enemies

(E) Double Strike

(Melee) Every 3s: The next attack strikes twice

(E) Dominion

Every 2-6s: Deal (3+10%)MAG damage to surrounding enemies. Radius 3

(E) Cleanup Crew

Every 6.5s: Cleanse an ally of 1 debuff. Radius: 5

(E) Judicator

Every 30s: Summon a blade of Judgement, dealing (200+10*Lvl) true damage to opponent with the highest HP (Deals 10% more damage for every other opponent alive)

(E) Static Electricity

Every 2-6s: Deal (8+30%MAG) lightning damage to 2 nearby opponents

TRIGGERS ON ATTACK

(E) Shotgun

(Ranged) On Attack: Fire 2 additional projectiles in a fan shape, they deal 50% damage. Will slightly track multiple targets, but cannot hit the same target

(E) Firework

(Ranged) On Attack: Fire projectiles in 8 different directions.
Note this includes the direction your original attack was in.
These projectiles do not proc on attack hit effects

(E) Boomerang

(Ranged) On Attack: 25% chance to create an orbital projectile, dealing 50% damage. Lasts for 10s

(E) Chuck

(Ranged) On Attack: 33% chance to fire an additional projectile to a second target in range

(R) Rapid Fire

(Ranged) Movement Speed -30%. On Attack: 60% chance to fire an additional projectile

TRIGGERS ON ATTACK HIT

(E) Sparkle

(Ranged) On attack hit: Fire 5 projectiles in random directions, each dealing 50% damage

(E) Chain

(Ranged) On attack hit: Projectiles can chain up to 3 times, doing 20% less damage per chain

(E) Sweeper

(Melee) On attack hit: Deal 30% Cleave damage to enemies.

(E) Gyrate

(Melee) On attack hit: 35% chance to deal 60% Splash damage to enemies

(R) Crusher

On attack Hit: 20% chance to shred 2 DEF

(E) Drain

On attack hit: 25% chance to steal 20 Mana (5 Mana on Demons)

(E) Irritate

On attack hit: Target loses 5 Mana

(R) Overpower

On attack hit: Lose 10% of current HP, deal that amount in true damage

(S) Overpower SE

On attack hit: Lose 20% of current HP, deal that amount in true damage

(L) Herald of Flame

On attack hit: Deal 50% MAG Fire damage

(L) Herald of Frost

On attack hit: Deal 50% MAG Ice damage

(L) Herald of Wind

On attack hit: Deal 50% MAG Wind damage

(L) Herald of Lightning

On attack hit: Deal 50% MAG Lightning damage

(L) Herald of Blight

On attack hit: Deal 50% MAG Poison damage

(E) Methodical

On attack hit: Gain 20% Crit (stacking), resets when a Critical strike is dealt

(E) Retaliate

On attack hit: Add damage equal to damage taken in the last 1s

(S) Retaliate SE

On attack hit: Add damage equal to damage taken in the last 2s

(E) Curveshot

(Ranged) On attack hit: Attacks will fork to an opponent within 15 degrees behind the initial target

(E) Wind Vortex

On attack hit: 15% chance to create a Wind Vortex, pulling opponents in and dealing X(29 with 10 MAG) Wind damage

(E) Rime Beam

On attack hit: 20% chance to fire an ice beam forwards, dealing X Ice damage

(E) Chain Lightning

On attack hit: 20% chance to deal additional (50%-200%MAG) Lightning damage to up to 3 nearby opponents

(E) Hurricane

On attack hit: 20% chance to deal additional (15+150%MAG) Wind damage and shred DEF by 2 points for 10s

(E) Gale

On attack hit: Deal 100% of ATK in Wind damage (Skill is fixed now)

TRIGGERS ON ANY HIT

(E) Starfall

On any hit: 16% chance to summon a meteor dealing (16+200%MAG) Fire damage on the target's location

(S) Starfall SE

On any hit: 13% chance to summon a meteor dealing (33 + 250%MAG) (estimated) Fire damage on the target's location

Talents (Pt 6) - Ability Use / Reactive Triggers

TRIGGERS ON ABILITY USE

(E) Magic Armour

On ability use: Gain (50%Mana REQ*(1+0.1*Lvl)) Shield

(E) Fragrance

On ability use: Heal a random ally for (50 + 2xLv) HP(

(E) Transmutation

On ability use: Heal self for 15% of Max HP(

(E) Inspiration

On ability use: 33% Chance not to consume the MP cost. (5s CD)

(E) Ignition

After ability use: Gain 100% Fire damage on attacks for 6s

(E) Ice Cold

After ability use: Gain 100% Ice damage on attacks for 6s

(E) High Voltage

After ability use: Gain 100% Lightning damage on attacks for 6s

(E) Venomous

After ability use: Gain 100% Poison damage on attacks for 6s

(E) Deft Hands

After ability use: Gain 15% MAG (Up to 45%)

(E) Electric Charge

After ability use: The next 3 attacks deal X blasts of Lightning damage

TRIGGERS WHEN HIT

(E) Rough Skin

When hit by enemy: Reduce attacker's Attack Speed by 20%
(Stacking up to 100%, lasts 3s)

(E) Infernal Armour

(Melee) When hit by enemy: 15% chance to burn nearby opponents
Deals (6+1xMAG) Fire damage. Radius: 3

(E) Storm Armour

(Melee) When hit by enemy: 15% chance to fire a whirlwind.
Deals(5+1xMAG) wind damage and knockback: 2. Radius: 4

(E) Toxic Armour

(Melee) When hit by enemy: Deal (8+20%MAG) poison damage to the attacker

(E) Anger Issue

(Melee) When hit by enemy: Gain 2% Crit chance and 4% Crit damage.
Stacks 25 times for a total of 50% Crit chance and 100% Crit damage.

TRIGGERS ON DEATH

(R) Insurance

On Death: Grant Shield equal to 30% Max HP to the ally with the lowest HP

(E) Explosive

On Death: Explode, dealing 30% Max HP damage to nearby opponents

(E) Martyr

On Death: Grant all allies 80% ASPD for 6s

(E) Unyielding Presence

On Death: Summon a Phantom of self to keep fighting for 8s

(R) Charity

On Death: Grant all allied units 30% Mana

(S) Charity SE

On Death: Grant all allied units 70% Mana

TRIGGERS ON LETHAL DAMAGE TAKEN

(L) Indomitable

When taking fatal damage: Remain at 1 HP for 6s (Once per battle)

(S) Indomitable SE

When taking fatal damage: Remain at 1 HP for 5s and gain 100% Attack Speed. (Once per battle)

Common Talents

These are all negative talents and you want to delete them most of the time.

Name	Effect
Anxious	Weak to Lightning Damage
Asthmatic	Weak to Wind Damage
Nyctophobic	Weak to Darkness Damage
Flammable	Weak to Fire Damage
Flu-prone	Weak to Ice Damage
Light Bones	Weak to Slash Damage
Thin Skinned	Weak to Pierce Damage
Unhygienic	Weak to Poison Damage
Starved	Weak to Concussion Damage
Slacker	Attack Speed decreased 20%
Lazy	Stunned for 5s at battle start
Slow	Movement speed -50%
Dumb	Mana regen -3
Dejected	WP decreased by 60
Carefree	Crit chance decreased by 30
Wimp	Knockback -2
Anaemic	Def decreased by 10
Rebellious	Reduce healing received by 50%
Malnourished	Weight decreased by 2
Unlucky	Halves the trigger chance of other abilities/Talents
Timid SE	Feared for 1s whenever an ally falls in battle.
Griefer	Debuffs on self last 50% longer

Legendary Talents

These are Legendary talents (Yellow). Legendary Skill Jades are limited in number right now, so you probably want to focus on these when breeding. They are often the strongest types of talents, stronger than the majority of Shiny talents.

Name	Effect
Indomitable	When taking fatal damage: Remain at 1 HP for 6s
Trance	Consecutive attacks on the same target grant 10% Attack Speed, up to 120%. Resets when switching targets.
Luckystar	Double the trigger chance of other abilities.
Intuition	Crit chance increased 20%, Crit damage increased 100%
Ingenious	Always target the opponent with the lowest HP
Herald of Flame	Deal 50% of ATK in Fire damage on normal attacks.
Herald of Frost	Deal 50% of ATK in Ice damage on normal attacks.
Herald of Wind	Deal 50% of ATK in Wind damage on normal attacks.
Herald of Lightning	Deal 50% of ATK in Lightning damage on normal attacks.
Herald of Blight	Deal 50% of ATK in Poison damage on normal attacks.
Perfection	Gain 1% HP/ATK/MAG/Crit/Healing/Status Res/LUCK per Research Level (caps at 10)
Brilliant	MAG increased 35%
Tyrant	ATK increased 35%
Royal Bloodline	HP increased by 40%
Inconspicuous	Become less likely to be targeted
Consecrated	Gain status immunity
Master of Elements	Attacks have increased Elemental status buildup
(L) Rewind	The first time HP drops below 30% each battle, blink to the back row and heal 30% HP
Elite Heritage	Mana cost of ability reduced by 30%

Shiny Talents

Shiny Talents are upgraded versions of lower-level talents. Now I'll be candid with you - many of these are weak and not worth using. Overpower SE is downright suicidal, for example. Generally speaking, the usable ones are Investment SE for ability spammers, Mind over Matter SE, and Starfall SE. Grand Entrance SE is good for tanks/assassins. The rest are a bit situational, although Charity SE has one special mention for being crucial for a degenerate loadout (to be covered later).

Since you're a smart reader, you're probably wondering: If these skills are kind of mediocre, why breed shinies? Well, Shinies still have 2 guaranteed 6 potential stats, which helps increase the probability that your offspring will have great stats. Also, they are pretty.

Name	Effect
Overpower SE	On attack Hit: Lose 20% of current HP, deal that amount in true damage
Starfall SE	On attack hit: 13% chance to summon a meteor on the target's location, dealing fire damage.
Retaliate SE	On attack hit: Deal extra damage equal to damage received in the last 2s.
Mind Over Matter SE	ATK decreases by 25%, MAG increases by 40%
Indomitable SE	When taking fatal damage: Remain at 1 HP for 5s and gain 100% Attack Speed
Rewind SE	When HP drops below 20% for the first time: Blink to the back of the field and heal for 50% HP
Alpha SE	If there are 2 others units of the same species: ATK/HP/MAG increased 25%
Tunnel Vision SE	Mana regen decreases by 5/s, WP increases by 300
Investment SE	Lose 4% Max HP/second, gain 10 Mana/second
Charity SE	On Death: Recharge allies' Mana by 70%
Grand Entrance SE	Battle Start: Blink behind the farthest enemy, gain 30% DEF and 100% Crit chance for 6s

YaoLing List (1-60)

ID	Family	Location	Ability Summary	3rd Form	Demon Form	Notes
1	Moustrike (10)Ratzor (32)Rodenja Shadowtail	Fig Forest	Attacks Backline for Fire damage + Bleed	Guaranteed Crit	Attacks 3 random enemies	-
5	Bunbow (8)Herbunny (28)Florbunny Terrigaze	Fig Forest	Arrow barrage + proc on hit effects + LUCK buff	6 Attacks	8 Attacks, higher cost	Sustains well with Drain. Focus on MAG over ATK.
9	Rockoon (12)Chuckoon (33)Rekkoon Grinhurl	Fig Forest	AoE damage + Knockback	Does Pierce damage to hit target	Higher mana cost, 3 secondary explosions.	-
13	Muzzlewack (9)Barktooth (40)Clubfang Rictushriek	Fig Forest	20% Selfheal + (Attack Speed + Movement) Buff for 8s	Shares buff with 1 ally	Applies status ailments at 200% the rate	-
17	Lurkwulf (20)Bandiwulf (38)Wulfgang Dreadprawl	Fig Forest	Summons a wolf minion with high Crit	Summon 2 wolves at a time	First cast summons 3 wolves instead	-
21	Zpear (14)Lizpear (34)Lizgard Wraithlash	Fluvial Hills	AoE Poison damage + Stacking permanent DEF buff	Reduces enemy Def	Changes Ability to a permanent aura dealing DoT Darkness damage to close units.	Infinite scaling on DEF buff makes normal unit the strongest DEF tank
25	Lume (12)Lumina (35)Owlumina Noculipse	Fluvial Hills	Heals Lowest HP units	Heals 5 allies and cleanses	No longer heals, drains 10%++ of enemy HP	Decent starter healer. Smart targeting.
29	Duskit (15)Duskat (38)Artepuss Umbravix	Fluvial Hills	Piercing Wind attack, knocks back	Dispels buffs	Applies Mana Lock, disabling mana gain for a short duration (bugfixed)	One of the few dispelling units. Mana seal is useful too.
33	Keenine (15)Howledge (36)Shroudfang Ravedge	Fluvial Hills	Stacking permanent HP/ATK/WP buff. Cost increases per use.	Buff also increases Status resistance.	Buff also increases Crit Rate	Fast attacker. Tanking ability needs time to ramp.
37	Bax (28)Rushorn (48)Quakehorn Doomhorn	Titan Woods Peach Grove	Deals AoE Concussion damage and knocks back	Applies additional Stun buildup	Does additional attack to single target	Starter unit, can get somewhat tanky
41	Floop (16)Fronderer (37)Vigilantoad Scarleapt	Riverbloom Valley	Randomly leaps at multiple enemies, dealing Poison damage. Damage increases with distance.	Slightly better scaling	Slightly worse scaling.	-
45	Crowlet (18)Phancrow (42)Brimgwing Crowlamity	Peach Grove	Temporary self buff: Deal additional Darkness damage and attacks pierce.	Guaranteed Crit if opponent is feared	2 additional projectiles	-
49	Swotter (28)Meditott (46)Otterzen Rakshott	Peach Grove	AoE Wind damage, gains immunity to ranged attacks during animation	Knocks enemies back, swings 10 times	Vacuums enemies in. Swings 6 times	-
53	Cinderkit (20)Kitzember (42)Flamenix Vixtress	Peach Grove	Summons up to 5 wisps which attack when the unit attacks	Starts battle with 2 wisps	Gain a wisp whenever defeating an opponent	-
57	Pangoling (36)Panguardin (55)Pangocoil Marrogash	Black Mountain	Shreds DEF and interrupts enemy	50% more damage to enemies above half HP	Creates shockwaves which deal 50% damage	-

YaoLing List (61-120)

ID	Family	Location	Ability Summary	3rd Form	Demon Form	Notes
61	Laventot (11)Lavenfly (30)Lavenqueen Flamender	Fig Forest	Restores Mana to 1 ally. Cost increases per use.	Automatically targets lowest Mana ally and grants MAG buff	AoE weaker mana restoration, removes MP from enemies	-
65	Mosswisp (18)Pedalmoth (42)Mossokis Mesmermoz	Leviathan's Domain	Teleports back, summons 2 temporary clones dealing AoE wind damage	Slows enemy	Summons 1 more clone behind the enemy	-
69	Mintling (21)Changling (36)Cointaur Mormetal	Queen's Vale	Temporarily loses Attack speed and Def, gain ATK, knockback power and knockback resistance	ATK and DEF changes are stronger	Gain 50% Status RES and Knockback immunity	-
73	Scorplune (22)Analune (35)Anuyi Anula	Queen's Vale	Deals ranged Darkness damage. Creates weak friendly clone of opponent. Opponent will take 50% of the damage the clone does.	-	Summon's Attack Speed increased by 100%	-
77	Seeper (21)Lashsprout (32)Inscyther Reaploom	Riverbloom Valley	Teleport behind lowest HP enemy and deals Slash damage. Does AoE damage if the target dies. Deals more damage the lower the HP of target.	Recover 30% HP on kill.	Recover 50% of Mana on kill	-
81	Shockle (17)Voltzard (36)Zapsilisk Malvanic	Riverbloom Valley	Throws a spear dealing pierce damage. Spear does lightning damage periodically to nearby opponents and draws them in.	7 ticks of damage	Throws 3 spears, dealing 5 ticks of damage	-
85	Battusk (17)Vampwing (29)Nocula Fangraze	Fluvial Hills	Gain buff - Leeches HP to self and one ally, gain 10% of damage done as ATK	Buff lasts 10 sec	Buff lasts 7 sec. Gain 10% attack speed per second of the buff	-
89	Rattlesong (36)Serpentune (50)Toxithrall Cursela	Black Mountain Amethyst Mountain	Summons up to 4 snakes behind enemies. Snakes apply poison buildup.	Snakes have slightly more HP	Snakes deal 100% more damage against poisoned targets	-
93	Salachid (22)Serepent (43)Vespernox Malivoo	Riverbloom Valley	Apply Poison DoT to lowest HP opponent, decreasing DEF. DoT will transfer to random opponent if target dies.	Prevents healing	If target dies, 25% of its max HP is dealt as damage to all nearby opponents	-
97	Cuttodile (19)Cleaverdile (42)Crocovile Massacroc	Riverbloom Valley	For 5s, does AoE Slash damage while moving towards opponents. AoE grows with time.	While attacking, gain 50 DEF and immunity to debuffs	Penetrates 80 DEF	-
101	Rhinebeat (22)Rhinebrate (34)Rhinegong Infernus	Titan Woods	Ally attacks in a location become Fire element and damage is increased. Effect persists for 5s after leaving area.	Larger AoE	Applies 20 burn buildup per second to enemies in area	-
105	Lullahorn (22)Songhorn (37)Baalody Sedusa	Titan Woods	Shoots a tornado, pulling in opponents and dealing Wind damage. Tornado slows down each second.	Larger AoE	30% chance to summon 2 additional tornadoes	-
109	Galestride (21)Rumbstead (38)Gallopurge Samurampt	Peach Grove	Charges at enemy, knocking them back and dealing Pierce damage. Deals more damage the further the distance moved	Longer distance	Ends in AoE dealing Concussion damage and applying 50 Stun buildup to nearby opponents	-
113	Drifpine (17)Quillguard (33)Hedgemon Ferropale	Fig Forest	AoE taunt, blocks damage from attacks and shoots out thorns when attacked	Procs thorns once every 0.2s	Longer range thorns spray within a 90 degree arc toward attacker. Can shotgun. Triggers once every 0.5s.	-
117	Grimpaw (23)Tilash (35)Noxsho Cynigash	Black Mountain	Leap towards enemy with the highest HP. Deals more Pierce damage the more HP the target has.	Attacks twice, ignores 50 DEF	Attacks Twice. Increases Attack Speed 200% for 2 sec	-

YaoLing List (121-180)

ID	Family	Location	Ability Summary	3rd Form	Demon Form	Notes
121	Clubcub (21)Polarmace (28)Ursalanche Tedditerror	Amethyst Mountain	Slams ground, dealing AoE Ice damage and knocking up opponents	Reduces opponent Attack Speed by 30% and Movement by 50% for 5s	Higher mana cost, creates 3 AoEs, knocks back	-
125	Arruda (20)Aruhadi (41)Sirius Sinrudis	Riverbloom Valley	Inflicts Ice damage and Ice vulnerability	Ability has a small AoE	Freezes target for 3 seconds, does another 50% damage when effect wears off	Very high ATK growth, but extremely slow attack speed
126	Yaka (21)Yaken (39)Yakuro Fiendstead	Titan Woods	Self cleanse Buff: increase ASPD 300% Block attack damage Decreased mana recharge Stun self when skill ends	Shorter Stun duration (2s)	Heal self for 4%/sec	-
133	Bobo (12)Moco (26)Shalo Vexo	Fig Forest	Throws a fan of 6 Pierce damage blades	Blades split into two midflight.	Throws 12 Blades in a ring, which return.	-
134	Mastiff (38)Gigantiff (52)Colostiff Masterror	Great Rift	Summons a thunder cloud, strikes random opponents 5 times for Lightning damage. Attacks deal 30% Lightning damage for 10s	On attack hit, 44% chance to inflict lightning strike	When attacked, 22% chance to inflict lightning strike	-
135	Droplet (35)Narcinie (47)Aquora Byssbloom	Western Gulf	Create 5 orbiting pearls, doing damage on impact	Pearls rotate faster	Create 3 larger pearls instead	-
145	Poshell (50)Shellchemy (66)Elixishell Venomper	Western Gulf	Throw a projectile which bounces once. Creates AoE field on impact which deals Fire DoT damage and heals all allies within for 5s	AoE restores 20 Mana/sec	AoE cleanses debuffs	Very high DEF for a support Excellent melee healer
149	Spearfin (36)Tridefin (50)Ripplance Mawserrate	Western Gulf	Creates an AoE dealing 10 hits of Ice damage, applying extra Freeze buildup	16 hits	-	-
153	Bubber (22)Gurglio (37)Reinkoil Achermaw	Fluvial Hills	Silences random opponent for 3s Creates a bubble, exploding after 3s, applying 50 points of random status buildup	Bubble also deals random elemental damage equal to 50% of damage received while bubbled	Explosion creates 3 smaller bubbles on nearby opponents with 33% effectiveness	Reinkoil is a very strong damage multiplier
157	Bubliss (38)Melochat (50)Achorus Sirena	Frostpeak Fortress	Grants Redemption to 3 allies with lowest HP, preventing HP from falling below 1 for 8 sec. Mana cost increases 50% per use.	Heal affected allies when effect ends	No longer buffs Debuffs opponent with lowest HP, preventing damage/healing for 8s Opponent takes 2x prevented damage at end of effect. Mana cost increases 50% per cast	Very strong healer, but requires percentage mana regeneration like Clarity. Sirena is similar to Reinkoil with a stronger multiplier, but may work against you due to the immunity.
161	Gunster (25)Shelgun (45)Cannonlob Scorchrack	Black Mountain	Summons 2 shrimplings, firing 4 volleys with a 20% crit rate	Summons 3 Shrimplings	Summons 2 fire shrimps Attacks pierce enemies and deal 5 ticks of fire damage	-
165	Crabrock (38)Rockrab (50)Drillpinch Moltcan	Western Gulf	Gain a shield for 10s Shield explodes for AoE Ice damage when expiring Damage scales with remaining shield amount	-	While shield is up, reflects 50% MAG of damage when attacked	-
169	Lotsy (27)Lolla (49)Lotmosa Nyxsa	Northern Snowfield	Randomly buff 3 allies: Regenerate HP for 10s Resist Ice damage Luck increased by 50%	Buff temporarily increases Max HP	Instead, channel for 8s Each second, heal 5 random allies and grant a buff stack for 2s (Max 12 stacks) Buff increases frost resistance, and healing received/Luck by 10%	Very random healer with a fast attack speed
173	Orby (27)Icephere (44)Blizzball Glacieraith	Northern Snowfield	Rolls a snowball for 4s, dealing area damage and knocking opponents back	Snowball grows bigger with distance	Damage and knockback increase with distance	Like that little boy character from the popular game "League of Legends"
177	Boltee (23)Shocklass (40)Jestricity Harlewatt	Amethyst Mountain	Channels for 8s, randomly releasing lightning balls at 300% of Attack Speed. Balls deal Lightning damage each second when passing through opponents.	25% chance to release a larger lightning ball for double damage	Surrounds self with lightning Lightning arcs between pairs of bolts for 3s, dealing 50% damage	-

YaoLing List (181-240)

ID	Family	Location	Ability Summary	3rd Form	Demon Form	Notes
181	Songcada (30)Serenada (46)Eternica Enchantress	Queen's Vale	Randomly strikes 15 times for Wind damage, inflicting Silence for 2s and reducing all Status resist by 20%	Debuff stacks up to 3 times	Silence lasts for 3 sec	Very strong debuffer and CC unit with amazing DPS potential
185	Wandersun (48)Brawlersun (60)Domisun Wu Kong	Golden Valley	Creates a clone of self behind target for 12s, inheriting all talents and a proportion of own stats	Clone lasts 18s	Create 2 clones, lasting for 7s	Enables many degenerate strategies with on-Death or On Hit effects. Amazing Mana battery. Very versatile.
189	Fawnduo (43)Retaineer (52)Adepdoe Inferdoe	Golden Valley	Summons 4 swords, dealing Pierce damage to different targets. Each subsequent hit deals 20% more damage and applies on hit effects.	Summons 6 swords	Lifesteal: 30% of damage dealt	-
193	Pawnda (44)Panbrawl (55)Pandover Pandevil	Harvest Fields	Deals Wind damage to a cone Knocks targets back, reduces their mana by 50	Damage increases with every target hit	Gain shield for every target hit	-
197	Scaleaf (56)Vinecoil (67)Vergalia Hellthorn	Lotus Pool	Fires a slow poison orb dealing Poison damage every second. Leaves a cloud applying 20 poison buildup.	Ally attacks deal 30% additional poison damage	Reduces 5 DEF per sec	-
201	Weavy (49)Spinnit (59)Danseama Arachloom	Lotus Pool	Summon 8 spiderlings with no collision. Spiderlings deal Darkness damage.	Spiderlings multiply after 6 attacks	Spiderlings explode in an AoE for 20% HP in Darkness damage on death	-
205	Whippy (49)Whuppa (59)Whipstache Fettermaw	Lotus Pool	Releases 5 vine traps for 5s around unit. Traps root enemies which touch them, dealing Poison damage every second	Trapped enemies lose 30% Attack Speed	Releases 7 traps	-
209	Shask (52)Spectrask (63)Masqueraith Wraithstress	Guardian's Ridge	Pulls opponent with lowest HP to self, dealing Slash damage while attacking them once	Refunds mana cost if target dies while being grabbed	Execute target if HP is below 15%	-
213	Duskeen (50)Scentinel (59)Nocturoam Stygifang	Evernight Woods	Marks closest opponent for 8s, shredding DEF and making ranged allies attack them. When marked, ranged allies launch 1 extra attack at marked enemy	If target dies while marked, increase ATK of all allies by 10%	Increases own Attack Speed to marked target by 50%	Synergy with slow attackers like Aruhadi family, bad on bosses
217	Lingeraze (55)Pupisight (65)Seekerite Liegeling	Bronion Ruins	Shoots a piercing laser in a fan sweep, dealing fire damage every second	Causes an explosion at the end	Deals true damage	-
221	Totodd (52)Totanger (60)Emotem Malevotem	Guardian's Ridge	Transforms for 12s, attacks deal Darkness damage, Max HP is increased and Weight increases by 1	Deals 30% increased Darkness damage	Applies 70 points of Feared buildup to nearby opponents	-
225	Lanty (54)Lampid (65)Lumicarp Lampdra	Fort Wharf	Self-destruct, dealing Concussion and Fire damage in an area. Damage scales with current HP	Higher damage scaling	Instead of dying, consumes 50% of current HP	-
229	Roslet (30)Bloomaid (57)Florstress Carntitress	Peach Grove	Randomly buffs 3 allies for 8s: 30 DEF penetration Crit rate increased by 30% Crit damage increased by 50%+30%MAG	Affects 5 allies	Only affects self Crit rate increased 50% instead Crit damage increased by (100%+30%MAG)	Very large damage increase
233	Seallu (58)Pineseal (64)Sealighten Necroseal	Harvest Fields	Links 3 opponents/allies. Whenever 1 takes damage, all linked opponents also receive 40%+10%MAG of that damage	Links 4 units	If a linked target dies, the link transfers to a new target	-
237	Jatu (50)Pilikal (61)Jakalace Tyrakal	Fort Wharf	Fires 30 low accuracy shots in a fan. Each shot that hits restores 5 mana	Accuracy slightly improved, decreasing angle of fire	-	-

YaoLing List (241-297)

ID	Family	Location	Ability Summary	3rd Form	Demon Form	Notes
241	Plateling (39)Guarmetal (56)Wardendure Religeist	Frostpeak Fortress	Grants 3 allies (10+20%MAG) Shield. Gain 50% Status resistance while shield lasts	Affects 4 allies	Only affects self Reflect 50% of damage taken as true damage	-
245	Bangbang (50)Boomboom (62)Dongdong Doomdoom	Harvest Fields	Attacks deal Concussion damage to nearby opponents instead. Each attack grants a 5s buff to allies which increases ATK by 5%. When buff expires, deals (MAG*(1+20*Stacks) damage. Area increases with Stacks	Attack AoE scales with stacks	Taking damage has a 25% chance to grant a stack of the buff	-
249	Astar (57)Stellux (64)Aegistelle Aegisvex	Bronion Ruins	Become invincible and increases Luck by 100% for 5s. Mana cost increases by 40% per use (not stated in ability)	Nearby Allies have 33% chance to gain Invincibility	7% chance to do 700% damage	-
253	Wanny (40)Cresenla (58)Celesprita Celenyx	Geyser Forest	Darkness AoE. Deals (5-35%) more damage, increasing with opponent size	Hit debuffs ATK/MAG by 50% for 5s	Rains down 5 waves of AoEs at random spots	-
257	Poundor (56)Crusheron (66)Malletmaw Maelstrum	Bronion Ruins	Smashes 3 times, creating AoEs around all allies, dealing Fire damage to nearby enemies. Each smash increases the area by 25%	Next 3 attacks also create the AoE	Emits thorns from both allies and enemies	-
261	Senzor (47)Furend (65)Excaladin Durandoom	Golden Valley	Charges 3 times, dealing Pierce damage to all opponents hit	Charges 4 times	Summons 7 blades to fly at random opponents	-
265	Bungo (12)Vagabun (30)Harogue Vorbane	Starter	Deals Slash damage to main target, then a Wind damage AoE. Each use of this ability increases AoE by 20%, to a limit of 100%	If target is the only enemy hit, damage is doubled	Instead, deals AoE Slash damage twice	-
269	Flenny (12)Foxire (30)Furniere Pyravix	Starter	Deals 2*ATK AoE Concussion damage. Ignites ground to burn opponents for 50%MAG Fire damage every 0.5s for 6s	Ground AoE lasts 9s (total 300%MAG more damage)	Fires 3 arrows instead	Note that arrow explosions scale with ATK, not MAG
273	Meep (12)Merlaw (30)Merking Abyseer	Starter	Gain Status/Knockback immunity Pulls in enemies in a large AoE, ending with a 150% MAG Ice AoE to all nearby opponents	Decreases Attack Speed and Move speed of affected opponents by 70%	Deals (90%MAG*(1 to 2)) Darkness damage per tick to nearby enemies, damage increases with proximity	Explosion is quite weak, but the suction effect is gigantic
277	Tifur (30)Tigrunt (60)Khangur Khan of Flames	Boss	Leaps towards an opponent, dealing (350%MAG) AoE fire damage and knocking them back	Grabs opponent and powerbombs it onto another opponent. Deals 200%ATK Concussive damage to grabbed opponent	Slams the ground 3 times for (250%MAG) Fire damage with each slam	Khangur will interrupt enemy actions and is invincible while powerbombing them, but your ally attacks will also probably miss.
281	Wyrmy (30)Scalyx (60)Eysdrax Thousand-Gaze	Boss	Fires an orb which chains 4 times off random allies, Cleansing and healing (20+3*MAG) HP	Each bounce also deals (2*ATK) Poison damage to nearby opponents	Instead, fires an orb which bounces 4 times off opponents, dispelling buffs and dealing (10+1.5MAG) Poison damage per bounce. Final bounce creates poisonous ground, dealing 0.5*MAG/0.5s Poison damage for 6s	Demon version is a rare dispeller
285	Frosly (30)Galie (60)Alluair Ninetails	Boss	Shoots a blizzard towards the enemy, dealing (30+5*MAG) Ice damage and applying 30 Freeze buildup.	Blizzard is larger	Creates 9 blizzards which blow in random directions instead	-
289	Tunie (30)Lyrotun (60)Axeman Rocklorde	Boss	Creates a ring of electricity which expands and contracts 3 times, dealing (50%MAG) Lightning damage on contact and inflicting Petrify (-100% Attack and Move speed) for 0.5s	Expands and contracts 4 times	Next 3 attacks will create an additional ring	Rings hit twice per expansion/contraction cycle
293	Cardiling (30)Scarpy (60)Solcrow Raven	Boss	Leaps back, then flies forward, creating 15 AoEs dealing (300%MAG) Pierce damage.	AoEs track opponents	Leaps into the air on the spot instead	Avoids most attacks while flying AoEs are slightly inaccurate
297	Didi	Unknown (Western Gulf Cage in Fluvial Village)	Taunts furthest opponent, then runs away Opponent gains debuff Annoyed: Attack Range -5, is unable to cast abilities. If target dies while debuff is active, fully recharge mana	Does not evolve	Does not evolve	Quick recharging rare taunt, useful on Demon fights, but may lead boss on top of your backline

Extra Random Questions nobody asked.

This is an extra general questions section.

Q: How do you sustain Soul Crystals?

A: Commissions at the Tavern are currently the only real way of getting significant amounts of Soul Crystals. Hunting Demons in the meanwhile can provide you with a small amount and is a good way to level up units at the endgame when you unlock a certain boss rush area.

Which units should I use?

A: I'm compiling (very slowly) a YaoLing scroll which is only 56/297 units in. You shouldn't expect it any time soon. I can give general tips on YaoLing if needed, but I think one of the fun parts about this game is that almost every single YaoLing I've seen has a purpose and can be made to work. You should play around and find what works for you, because that is part of the fun of the game.

Just as an example, Bunbow, which is one of the first YaoLing you ever meet, can be potentially S-tier material with a little bit of breeding.

I hate thinking/have completed the game and just want a way to farm demons effectively.

A: I'll share a degenerate strategy I use to farm all demons by using one of the most broken units in the game.


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Behold the pinnacle of Mechanics abuse. Make two of these or back them up with a decent Wind debuffer and you'll never have to worry about Demons getting a skill off again because they simply won't have any mana.

Wu Kong is an absolutely degenerate unit to use because his summons sharing his Talents means that they also trigger "On Death" skills, meaning you can combine them with Charity to feed your entire team with % mana, letting you spam skills which shouldn't be spammable and have an increasing cumulative Mana cost to stop you from doing that normally. Charity also feeds himself with Mana, so you'll always have summons up.

Incidentally, his summons also trigger "At Battle Start" skills.

He generates an absurd amount of hits, so he is a great candidate for Irritation and Drain, while building a crazy amount of Stun on the boss. There's probably about a hundred different builds with Wu Kong alone.

[Passi Biceps]

Hi there,

thanks for the awesome guide! :)

i want to farm sealighten for charm crafting, but i forgot where the ink realm is.
Can you tell me how to access the area to farm sealighten? I think there was a portal, but i cant remember...

Thanks in advance :)

[VinceWolf]

Thank you for the detailed guide!

[Dar]

@fairfrozenn - Not viable anymore, so I deleted it. Sorry, I haven't had the time to play the game much thanks to it being a crunch period at work and a whole lot of games I've been meaning to play come out one after another. I haven't even updated the guide for the last patch's changes to abilities.

@Lemniv - Dazzling is not that difficult at all, and is basically a 100% chance once you have both the traits on both parents. Not sure if they changed something, however.

[Lemniv]

Hey there, just recently got this game and discovered breeding, just wondering how difficult it is to get a Dazzling egg? I've been cross breeding 2 units with 2 gold stats but its been almost 2 full days of breeding and I've never gotten a Dazzling egg

[fairfrozenn]

Is there a new guide for team comp in union difficulty? I saw you had one before but it's outdated with the changes, is it still viable? Thanks

[Palea_alt2]

@Dar Thank you, much appreciated.

[Dar]

@Palea_alt2 Press RMB to throw a charm at them, the charms will hit them through the bars and start a battle.

[Palea_alt2]

Thanks for the guide. This was super helpful.
1 question: not sure if I'm stupid or what, but how do you get to the starter Yaolings? They're behind bars/cages.
Are there quests for each of these?
Thank you.

[Surkk]

@Dar Ah, ok then, thanks for the info.
Some abilities/talents are a bit confusing still even though I'm almost at endgame.

[Dar]

@Surkk Pedalmoth and Analune aren't true summoners - Pedalmoth doesn't actually create real units and Analune fires an arrow which just happens to summon a clone. Lurkwulf should count as a true summoner, however, so if you cannot put summoning skills on it, it may be an oversight.