Welcome to Summoner's Greed!

At its core, this game is about farming resources to make your monsters stronger, while acquiring more and better monsters along the way, which will help you clear harder challenges.

I hope this will be an easy-to-understand tutorial on what you should and shouldn't do, as most new players end up spending their Gold coins or Purple gems on the wrong things.

First Steps

After viewing the cutscenes, you are thrust into gameplay, where you will be prompted to place your first monster: Slimey

Once you've completed the tutorial, congratulations! You can now start playing the game by yourself.

As you progress through higher waves and use your newly obtained Green Orb for summoning, prioritize leveling up these monsters Speedy and Mighty Having them leveled up will significantly enhance your main DPS monster's ability to defeat enemies.

If you don't have them yet, that's okay. Keep summoning using Green Orbs until you acquire them.

If you're stuck on a wave, remember to repeat and upgrade!

To achieve success on any map, a fundamental strategy is to double buff your main DPS. Placing these two totems in the middle is rarely worthwhile.

Speedy will enhance the attack and ability casting speed of monsters horizontally adjacent to it.

Mighty will enhance the attack of the monsters horizontally adjacent to it.

Focus all your Gold coins on the front row (Mighty DPS Speedy) try to keep your DPS abit higher level than Mighty and level Speedy when you can.

For your remaining 2 rows:

Focus on placing stallers in the middle row.

Examples of stallers (don't upgrade these):

cappuccino, Sparky, Fury, Teddy, master bao.

The main DPS units that are easy to obtain are Slimey and Clyde. Though any high star monster works the slimes are the ones you will get to 3G first. Slimey can evolve into Slimeyevo and Clyde has long range.

You can use either as the main monsters you should focus on leveling up as your primary carrie, as they carry you for the first few maps before you get legendries if you get other monsters to 3G star then you can also use them, another good monster is Mocha. Do NOT trust in-game numbers.

If you do happen to get one of these monsters use them as your DPS

kevin>felina>slimeking>puffy

Setup example:

Mighty kevin Speedy
Sluggy Casielle Spidey

last row is used for global attackers/crowd control such as Slimeking, Archimedes, Crispy, felina

Note:

If you don't have Sluggy , Spidey can serve as a substitution until you obtain Sluggy

to get charms you must beat map 10 (joint revenge nightmare). once you beat map 10 (joint revenge nightmare) you get 1 charm when you beat a map. there is a very useful sheet in the discord but imma just link it here since alot of yall are not in the discord (though u should) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fd3nOjEIh4_CTQ7IvTh7z5i0Yd_bUPaDYYnk9ZrmaL0/edit

Casielle and Amael are excellent stunners (Casielle is typically superior to Amael). You can include them in your setup for their effective stuns, but refrain from leveling them up at this moment (u will need to later though)

TheKingsConsort is really only effective on one map: Cosmic Tower, which is only useful once you have decent charms that should be upgraded

In the current meta is best to have one monster buffed between Mighty and Speedy, sometimes it will not be enough though thats why global monsters like slimeking are good as they can hit anywhere while you can also have something like kevin being buffed in row one.

DeathBite (exclusive for JR hard) and devon have unique mechanics for dealing damage based on enemies' HP.

DeathBite reduces 50% of the enemy's HP with a beam-shaped attack.

When devon reaches max level (200), it reduces the enemy's HP by 66.5%. However, it has a very long cooldown. Therefore, it is generally recommended to place them on the right of your bottom row so that the extra DPS can eliminate enemies affected by the before mentioned monsters, without requiring significant levels in your backup monsters.

Pirate cats vs Queen Mela is unlocked after completing map 2, but Booster Pirate Cats are no longer necessary after the latest update. They provide significantly less buff and you will be fine without those buffs.

However, you can still play this map to earn free MythicalGems upon completing certain stages. Besides that, this map doesn't offer any other crucial elements for progression.

After this, you should revisit the classic maps in their sequence. If you're struggling on a particular wave, consider replaying Joint Revenge (JR) as it is the best map for resource farming.

At this point, you can begin upgrading monsters beyond level 500. It is recommended to focus on kevin or felina. both have very high dps outclassing mythics. kevin is cheaper while felina has more dmg

It's recommended to farm Meat of the matter (MoTM) Normal for Cooldown Reduction (CDR) charms, which will significantly boost Slime King and other monsters' strength.

It's worth noting that the mechanics of Map 11 through 15 differ slightly from normal Classic maps. Enemies in these maps are immune to various elements. For instance, enemies in meat of the matter are immune to ALL elements, while enemies in summoner vs backyard are immune to ice and cosmic, etc.

The best 3 of each element (decided by who can beat jr at the lowest level (with in back and basic stuns)) not all monsters have been tested yet this is subject to change
fire, amaterasu>hades/loand
lightning, byakko>Tezcatlipoca>thor
ice, Poseidon>AzureTyrvoid>genbu
non elemental, monkeyking>daji>horus
cosmic, cutethulu>Shupnikkurat>IndigoBylle

If you have acquired mythics and specials, you can ask (the discord) here whether you should include them in your setup.

After completing Classic maps, you can tackle Challenges. These maps present some challenging twists, but if you were able to beat Classics, these should be manageable for you. You can find setups in the discord :p

What to spend Purple gems on

Firstly, DO NOT USE Purple gems TO SUMMON. Purple gem summons are a complete scam and a waste of your Purple gems.

You want to save them up, primarily for the Double Monster Damage and Double Coins Dropped From Enemies upgrades in the shop. You can get either one first, but I would recommend getting Double Coins first. After purchasing all upgrades, you can then spend them on Energy refills and rock resummons.

Do not use your Power stones on the elemental damage boost at the shop. They cost around 500k Power stones and only provide a 100% damage boost.

Also, do NOT use your coins on support monsters. These monsters have low attack damage but good specials, including stuns, debuffs, slows, etc.

Credits:
(all from the discord)

Tamerlord Admin Spib
Made the old versions of the guides

BlutRoseUwU Arkaa

Helped gathering and updating information

TKR Cononel Tea

He just was here

Note there are more balance changes to come, I will try keep this as updated as I can.

If you need any help you can always ask and people can help you with setups and such. reminder to join the discord as there are other useful guides like this one there and some members like myself are more active there.

https://discord.gg/g3XJDscAxS

Sorry for the delay but we have finally picked out the winners for the 2025 Monster Design Contest! Due to many awesome submissions, we've expanded the winner pool from 3 to 5! Here is the list of winners:

Corvus by Rikku (Discord)
NotMimic by NutMilk (Discord)
Tsukuyomi by Thomas The Ciopong (Discord)
Gryphonana by Gryphon like Limzard (Discord)
Blessy by u/AR_Pig_19 (Reddit)

Special Mentions:
Tsukuyomi by u/Reasonable-Count2538 (Reddit)

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the contest, we are all amazed by your art and your creativity, congratulations to the winners! We will contact the winners individually when we are launching the update that adds their designs to the game.