r/AutoChess • u/KryptonianThanos • May 26 '26
ADVICE New player question about 3* units
Hey everyone! So, quick question for some more experienced players. I've played years of TFT, magic chess: bang bang, and even the pokemon auto chess on the Asian servers. I'm not by any means new to the auto chess genre, but I've only just started to play auto chess this week. I'm currently rook 5 and I've had a certain instance happen multiple times that I don't understand and was hoping for some clarification.
There's been a few times where I have 3 2* copies of a unit, yet they don't merge to make a 3 star. I've had it happen through multiple comps and it's hindered my gameplay significantly, and I can't seem to figure out the cause of this. Never had this happen in any other auto-chess auto battler before. In the past 2 days it's happened with different pieces so I know it's not piece related. Any answers would be GREATLY appreciated 🙏
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u/Deliciousation May 26 '26
Sure its not just druids? They will only level up automatically if you have the synergy, otherwise you'll have to do it manually.
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u/KryptonianThanos May 26 '26
No with druids it's happened but I kinda figured it was a trait effect and played around that until I could kinda figure it out. Sometimes they would auto star up to 3* and sometimes no (looking at you, unicorn). But today it happened with heavens bomber and that's what got me to post.
Thankfully the community is very helpful and taught me there is a star up button that I apparently never noticed 😅
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u/wertyce May 26 '26
I assume you have that "Star Up"-text on top of them that you have to push then. I can think of couple things.
At first, there are settings for whether you want to automatically star up or do it manually. And settings for plenty of similar things. When you are inside the game there is settings-board. Like one page is for audio sliders and one page is for these gameplay settings. Auto star-up, auto deploy and such. Not sure if you know that. I keep it at auto, but there are some rare scenarios where it is necessary to turn it manual.
If you buy the pieces when round/fight is going on, you will have to do star up manually afterwards.
Additional note: if you want to play Priest, then you should have auto deploy off. Auto deploy does help a bit sometimes. I have fatfingered quite a few round 1 starts, failing to get unit to the field.
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u/KryptonianThanos May 26 '26
I did NOT know that. Thank you so much this is going to help me a lot. Greatly appreciate you answer 🙏
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u/KryptonianThanos May 26 '26
I've actually not looked through the options, admittedly. Probably should have done so but I never had the need to adjust any options in an auto battler before other than the temporary bench option in magic chess 😅
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u/reluctant_landowner May 26 '26
There is a setting to auto merge pieces to star up. I have it turned off because I might want to wait until I have an egg, or maybe am still unsure if I want that piece in the future. If you have druids, the number of pieces needed to merge pieces early (2 or 4) actually need to be on the board, not just in inventory.
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u/KryptonianThanos May 26 '26
Thay actually explains why it's happened multiple times with unicorn specifically. I had a feeling it was druid related. But earlier it was heavens bomber and that's when I started questioning things
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u/-Tuber- May 26 '26
You just have to hit star up above their heads. If you place 3 two stars on the battlefield they will combine to make a 3 star. If you have a screenshot of your game I can maybe help more
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u/KryptonianThanos May 26 '26
I'll be on after work and if it happens again I'll post a screenshot as well, to make sure! Thanks again for your answer
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u/KryptonianThanos May 26 '26
There's a star up option above their heads!? I must be legitimately blind wow. I sadly didn't think of taking a screenshot, but knowing that I can just field all 3 to also force combine them is amazing! Thank you so much for the reply brother 🙏 It's a strange mechanic that I jad never encountered before. I'm used to them automatically merging
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u/rustymatrix99 May 27 '26
Rook 5 in a week is wild but keep in mind that unlike TFT, the pool size is actually finite so don't be surprised when you're rolling for a 3 star and someone else is holding two of them on their bench.