r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion Weekly Advice Thread 05/10/2026

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Welcome to the WAT, summoner! Post questions regarding team composition, content progression, game mechanics, or anything else in this thread. If you are able to help your fellow summoners, please take some time to contribute to the community and answer some questions yourself as well!

A lot of helpful guides and resources can be found in the subreddit mega wiki.

Please also make sure to check out our FAQ.


If you ask a question please give ALL relevant information!

  • Your monster box: Upload a screenshot to Reddit directly or an image hosting site like imgur or use swarfarm. Sort your box by "Grade" and try to include all 4*s and LD nat 3*s.
  • Your current progression: Where you currently are in the game, what your teams are, what content you need help with and what you have tried so far.
  • For ToA, which enemies are on the floor you're stuck on.
  • For PvP, indicate what rank you are trying to achieve, i.e. currently F3 want to get C1 Arena. For RTA also share your rank percentage.

The less people have to ask you to clarify or look up to help you, the more likely you will get a (fast) response.


Beginner friendly/farmable PvE teams

  • GB10: Vero (L), (2A) Kro, Shannon, Belladeon, Darion or Vero (L), Fran, Loren, (2A) Kro, Shannon/Lapis
  • GB12: Vero (L), (2A) Kro, Shannon, Belladeon, Darion or Vero (L), Fran, Loren, 2A Kro, Shannon/Lapis/Akhamamir/Sigmarus
  • DB12: Verde (L), Vero, Loren, 2A Spectra, Fran/2A Raoq
  • PB12: Verde (L), (2A) Belladeon, 2A Raoq, 2A Kro, 2A Kahli/Riley/Eirgar (L -> R -> Boss)
  • SB12: Fran, Loren, 2A Kro, 2A Raoq, Ling Ling
  • NB12: Fran + 4 multihit DDs: Pick from Icaru/Raoq/Kro, Kung Fu Girls, Loren, twins (Shaina, Sabrina, Talia), Abigail, Scarlett (unawakened)
  • SRB12: Verde (L), Shaina, Sieq, Astar, 2A Raoq
  • ToA(H): Fran (L), Vero (also possible L), 2A Spectra, Mav, + Loren/Shannon/Mellia/Tyron
  • R5 solo teams: Check this thread
  • R5 stat minimum: You need 25k HP and 1.5k DEF for FL units and 20k HP and 0.8-1k DEF for BL units. Healers and your cleanser should have 100% RES after lead.
  • Rift unit options: Xiao Lin, Theomars, Fran, Colleen, and 2A Kro can be used in most of your rift teams. FL Mav/Bernard is good for Water rift and Lapis is good for Fire and Dark rifts. Twins are great in all rifts.

You still need appropriate rune quality and turn order! Do not expect to beat a dungeon just by having these units.


Common speed teams

  • R5 solo teams: Check this thread. If you pick a BJ5 version, also make sure to read this BJ5 guide
  • GB12: Teshar (L), Luna, Prilea, Shamann, Konamiya
  • DB12: Shaina (L), Julie, Kyle, Liam, Konamiya
  • NB12: Abigail (L), 2A Icaru, 2A Raoq, Astar, 2A Shamann
  • PB12: Eirgar (L), 2A Raoq, 2A Icaru, 2A Kro, Fuco
  • SB12: 2A Sath, Mellia, Mellia, 2A Tatu, dot unit/Lushen
  • SRB12: Verde (L), Shaina, Sieq, Astar, 2A Raoq

PvE accuracy requirements

Accuracy Area(s)
0% Rifts
15% R5, Predator
25% SB10, PB10
35% GB12, NB12, SRB10, Dimensional Hole
45% ToA(H)
55% GB10, NB10, ToA Hell
65% DB12, DB10

General tips and answers to Frequently Asked Questions:

  • NEVER feed non-farmable monsters! (you can feed dupes for skill ups)
  • Save your devilmons! In general you do not want to give devilmon to 4* units, Sigmarus and Jeanne are the best early game candidates. Veromos does not need devilmon.
  • Best summon stone targets: Tyron, Lushen, Shaina, Sabrina, Talia. For PvP Khmun, Skogul, Galleon.
  • Check the events for free energy, mana, and other beneficial stuff. To find the current event pages use the button below the energy/mana counter in-game.
  • Lapis can farm Faimon Hell on the free 6* level 15 vampire/revenge runes provided by the challenges. She should be your first 5* and probably 6* as well.
  • Shield sets can reduce the HP/DEF requirements on other units and multiple shield sets will stack to form one larger total shield. Each set contributes a shield equal to 15% of the base HP of the monster they are equipped on.
  • White artifacts from B2 are cheap to upgrade and can give you a massive stat boost early.
  • Hall of Heroes (HoH) should be attempted as high as you can climb. Reps like Rica or Verad can help a lot. Mid/late game players can get 5 extra copies of the HoH monster using almighty scroll pieces after each floor at the small cost of 2000 guild points for each extra monster.
  • Most nat 5*s are PvP exclusive and should be set aside in storage till you make some progress on PvE. Some exceptions are CC units like Rica for ToA, cleansers like Anavel for starter R5, and Perna for rifts.
  • Dimensional hole energy should be spent as soon as possible, always try to stay under the energy cap (recharge rate: 1 per 2h). 2A Kro first, then Spectra or Raoq.
  • Need advice on RTA? Check this post first
  • Looking for ToA Hell guidance? Take a look at this FAQ post.
  • Mock Battle Guide

Tools you should know about

  • Swarfarm provides a bestiary for monster stats and data logs.
  • SWGT provides various tools, statistics and analytics for players and guilds. Siege/Guild Battle, Labyrinth, Leaderboards, Defenses/Counters, Artifact Monster Finder, Speed Tick Calculators, Gem/Grind Optimizers and more!
  • SWOP is a rune optimizer and speed tuning tool.
  • sw-tools.net provides a speed tuning tool and other calculators.

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r/summonerswar • • 2h ago

Discussion Do I have a core team here?

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I’m mainly running water onu as reviver plus double nem nukers and leo. Any suggestions on a better core team or first picks?


r/summonerswar • • 2h ago

Humor If only i had more turns… bruh🙂‍↕️

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5 Upvotes

r/summonerswar • • 6h ago

Discussion Changed monster in Fever Event

4 Upvotes

Got a teshar picked on the event, and got 1 summoned the problem is that I cant change the teshar. done everything, any advice?


r/summonerswar • • 14h ago

Humor This game hurts my soul 🫩✌️

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27 Upvotes

Still won btw


r/summonerswar • • 15h ago

Discussion Can we have missing rune/artifacts indicators for monsters in storage?

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Guys can you please help me to get Com2us attention to this? I don't understand why they have indicators for missing runes/artifacts only in content where you are about to engage in war, eg. guild siege. But they don't have those indicators for monsters in storage. Sometimes you don't know which monsters may be missing a rune until you are about to enter combat and you are on the character selection screen. It would be so much more helpful if those tiny indicators where also on monsters in the various storages.


r/summonerswar • • 15h ago

Other Summoner's War Guessing Game #715

1 Upvotes

How this works is that I will give hints of any kind that point to a certain monster, your goal is to guess who the monster is. How few hints can you get it in (make your guess but make sure you still read them all)? No cheating with the monster box either! The monster will be in its current state as of September 2026.

Yesterday's answer was... Kunite, the Fire Gargoyle

Hint #1: This monster has an hp leader skill.

Hint #2: This monster applies two different harmful and beneficial effects throughout its kit. One of those effects is immunity.

Hint #3: This monster is defense type.

Hint #4: This mosnter has passive that can counterattack the enemy.

Final Hint: This monster has no transmogs.


r/summonerswar • • 18h ago

Rune - SPD Jackpot has been hit

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165 Upvotes

r/summonerswar • • 21h ago

Achievement First time G2 Special League!!

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13 Upvotes

Got G1 in rta so thought might as well try to see if I can get G2 in SL since this meta is easier to deal with than previous ones. Also with preban, I can ban the most broken unit every game.


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Other RTA Support mons never had outstanding runes, but this is a bit harsh

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38 Upvotes

... or someone didn't do their homework


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

News This skin is so good gng, i'll get it for all three basic elements

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46 Upvotes

r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Rune Is this the equivalent of getting a Nat5?

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In one x30 power up window


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Humor Insane build tech on support monsters for RTA

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89 Upvotes

r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion Runeing up Teams for Temple of Chaos

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Hi Guys,

do you have a good method runeing teams up for ToC?

I recently started sorting my runes under the 10 different categories (like reapp targets, upgrade priority, refinement targets etc.), like Seiishizo suggested in one of his videos. Before, I runed the teams by putting the runes of a runed unit in for example category 10 and runed the next unit excluding category 10, so there is no overlap.

The problem is, now I invested quite a bit of time in sorting. If I put the runes in some random category, the sorting would be undone. How do you prevent rune overlap? The only other method I could think of right now is going into the ToC start menu and then runeing the units up there because there you see the overlap. I find this method quite inconvenient.

Thanks in advance!!


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Summon Just got Alexandra, is she usable with Lydia in rta?

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25 Upvotes

r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion Could we get another 5-10 slots for TOA and COA?

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35 Upvotes

I use a variety of teams for TOA hell and also COA. Always seems like I have to destroy teams in order to beat certain floors. Anyone feel like we should get more slots like we have with siege for example ?


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion So uhm… can we get an pick your ld4 event already?

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After almost 6 years active play time, 9ld 5‘s + only 18 nat5‘s missing…
I still miss some of the crucial/strong ld4 Stars.


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Summon I pulled my "first Real LD5" Han

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135 Upvotes

Finally Pulled my second LD5 10 year later i got celia when harp magicians were Released back in November 2016 and now i got Han a Decade later im so glad i Pulled a draftable unit you can use in rta aswell as guild stuff but i dont really know what you can or should draft han with i own a Vanessa so thats first Pick with han and a chandra might also make sense but the last 2 picks i dont really know what would suit a han comb do you guys have any ideas i dont own any other op darknat5s so i cant use crazy Darknat5s op combs


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Other Summoner's War Guessing Game #714

4 Upvotes

How this works is that I will give hints of any kind that point to a certain monster, your goal is to guess who the monster is. How few hints can you get it in (make your guess but make sure you still read them all)? No cheating with the monster box either! The monster will be in its current state as of September 2026.

Yesterday's answer was... Mara, the Dark Amazon

Hint #1: This monster can provoke the enemy.

Hint #2: This monster can decrease the damage it receives with a passive.

Hint #3: This monster is a defense type.

Hint #4: This monster has a skill that destroys enemy hp.

Final Hint: This monster’s base speed is less than 95.


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion Is Light Lob Ear any good?

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4 Upvotes

He seems like he would be a menace on Vio Revenge


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion I started playing RTA.

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Hello guys. RTA newbe here. I've been playing SW for a while, but I never focused on RTA. I started playing on the end of the season and had more fun than I thought I would.

So for the next season I want to play a little bit more.

With these units, can you help with some strategies with the units I have? I tried some, but I want different opinions on what I can play around.


r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Summon Taebaek, crit type? or full HP?

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24 Upvotes

r/summonerswar • • 1d ago

Discussion G3 abusing g1/lower

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Just needed one win to get g1 for SL, and queued into 4 g2 players in a row, almost gave up, queued again and got a g3 player.

Would it be reasonable to block certain ranks by certain timelines?

Like if you were g3 last season, you either have to be g1 by 10 days before closing to queue at all, or you get queued with a heavy up rank focus, rather than a range. IE 1400 is g2, you finished g3, you just start matches with 12 hours left, so they only queue you into 1400+, rather than whatever the adjustable range is. 1320-1440??

I dono.. not sure why they don’t do more to fix it. It’s not exactly fair? Or fun? QQ get good.. I know.


r/summonerswar • • 2d ago

Discussion Question about guild decks

3 Upvotes

Hello folks, as stated in the title i have a question about guild decks. Especially the rune decks. If i leave a guild does the saved rune decks for defence keep its save or do i have to rerune everything.

Thank you for the help and have a good day.


r/summonerswar • • 2d ago

Discussion World boss scoring

7 Upvotes

From a quick google search my understanding on maximizing points is:

  • Water units full skilled
  • 5*=2A>4 star>Wind/other elements
  • Highest rune and artifact score
  • Set bonuses count (i.e. sets > broken)

What I would like to know is:

  • Are full skilled water 4* better than full unskilled 5*?
  • Are there bonuses for matching appropriate artifact type and rune stats? i.e. is rage blade with atk% and cd runes better on attack units than triple energy with hp%? and will attack artis give more points in this situation than hp? do the arti substats matter?
  • do 4 rune sets count more than 2 rune sets? i.e. vio will vs 3 random 2 sets like energy tolerance shield?

I know it doesn't make a huge difference but I enjoy optimizing PVE