Sections in this page:

• What dragons are good?
• How do I get more/better dragons?
• How do I make my dragons stronger?
• What do I do with 'bad' dragons?
• What do I do with bad elements of good dragons?
• What are runes?

The reason you’re here. Whatever kind of dragons you like: cute, cool, badass, traditional, DVM will make you fall in love. What dragon struck you at first sight?

Cait's guide to dragons and how to rune them will help you to figure out what dragons are good.

When it comes to evaluating your dragons by yourself, these are some of the skills to look out for:

• Increases proportionately.
  • These skills deal more damage or heal more HP.
  • Increases proportionately to Critical DMG is a skill that makes dragons such as Water Wonder and Dark Arkana as good as they are. With this skill, for every 1% of Critical DMG that the dragon has, its power is boosted by a further 1.2%!
• Amount recovered proportionally to ATK for healers.
  • ATK-based heals recover more HP than HP or DEF-based heals.
  • However, they come with the caveat that most ATK-based healers are weak compared to their HP and DEF counterparts, due to the fact that they cannot invest much in stats that make them bulky.
• Status effects such as silence and stun.
  • Sleep is acceptable too, but sleeping dragons wake up as soon as they are attacked.
  • On the other hand, silence and stun stay in effect for a set amount of time (based on the skill) or until another dragon removes the status effect.
  • Status effects cannot affect boss monsters.
• Buffs, such as increasing ATK, Critical DMG, or Critical Rate.
• Debuff effects, such as reducing ATK, Crit Rate, Recovery Rate,
  • Debuff can affect boss monsters.
  • You will want debuffers for big bosses such as Clan Dungeon and Ancient Ruins.
  • It is also very effective in Colosseum!
• Provides shield, invulnerability, or immunity.
  • Shields protect your dragon up to a certain amount of HP
  • Invulnerability makes them entirely impervious to damage.
    • Dragons that become invulnerable below X% HP can be very good, as the brief window is usually enough to bring them back to full health or deal more damage.
  • You can activate shields or invulnerability before a boss monster attacks to nullify the damage.
  • Immunity protects your dragons from debuffs and status effects
• Resurrects dead ally.
  • This skill gives dragons that have low HP and DEF another chance at healing or taking out another enemy.
  • Especially effective in Colosseum.
• Becomes zombie
  • Zombies are impervious to damage, which makes them excellent for the frontline.
  • Dragons that become zombie also gain a stat boost when zombie mode is active.
    • e.g. Water and Dark Wonder have their Critical Rate increased.

In the rough order in which you should do them:

• Give them runes and enhance them.
• Level them up.
  • Bring them into the highest Adventure stage you can do during Hot Time, and set it on repeat.
  • Use amethysts to buy level-up slimes.
• Increase their closeness.
  • Feed them fruits. This is the cheapest and easiest way to immediately increase a dragon's stats.
• Rank them up.
• Evolve them.
  • Baby dragons can evolve into Junior dragons immediately, but Junior dragons need to be ranked up at least once to evolve into Adults.
• Level up their skills.
  • For Rare dragons, you can use duplicates to level up their skills, as they are very easy to get.
  • For Heroic and Legendary dragons, use Skill Slimes.
• Enhance them.
  • This is somewhat late-game content due to the high gold cost of enhancing dragons.
  • Farewell your dragons to earn relationship points, that can be used to enhance dragons of the same species.
• Mastery. This is very late-game content. You need to collect books from the Ancient Ruins, and dragons of the same element and rarity, in order to master your dragons.

• For Rare and lower rarity dragons, level them up and use them to rank up your better dragons.
• For Heroics and Legendary dragons, use them to Master your better dragons.

• For Rare dragons, use them as skill level-up material for their better siblings.
  • Once you have maxed out their skills, you can start to farewell them for relationship points.
  • Or you can use them to rank up other dragons.
• For Heroic and Legendary dragons, farewell them to enhance their better siblings.
  • Do not use Heroic and Legendary dragons for skill level-up! Use Skill Slimes instead.

Runes are stones used to make your dragons stronger.

You can equip 6 different runes to each dragon.

You cannot get the primary stat as a substat. For example, a slot 2 rune with ATK% cannot have ATK% as a substat.

Runes are referred to by [set name orcolor, slot 2 main stat/slot 4 main stat/slot 6 main stat].

For instance, if someone says 'reds and purples' or 'Might and Chance' with 'ATK/Critical Rate/ATK', they mean to put on 4 red Might runes and 2 purple Chance runes, in any order, but with the main stats of slot 2 being ATK, the main stat of slot 4 being Critical Rate, and the main stat of slot 6 being ATK.

More information about runes here and how to decide what runes to equip on your dragons here.

• Slots 1, 3, and 5 always provide flat stats as the main stat.
  • This means it is + a number (e.g. ATK+10) rather than a percentage.
• You can also get flat stats as substats on all runes.
• Remember that percentage-based stats are always better than flat stats when looking for optimal substats!
  • The flat boost provided by substats is usually quite small, such as DEF+20.
  • So let’s take Fire Godium, which has 2240 base DEF.
  • With a flat substat of DEF+20, it will, of course, gain 20 DEF.
  • With a substat of DEF+1%, it gains 22 DEF.
  • And this is only at 1%, which is the absolute minimum a %-based substat offers (obviously), while a substat as ‘high’ as DEF+20 is a very rare find indeed.
  • Thus, always be on the lookout for % substats!
• Of course, there is nothing that can be done about the main stats offered by runes 1, 3, and 5, but in this case, the main stat offered is significant enough to be boosted.
• You should only enhance flat main stat runes to +12, however, and to +15 only for the stat most relevant to your dragon
  • e.g. with the example of Fire Godium above, you could enhance its slot 3 rune to +15 but only go up to +12 for slots 1 and 5
• Even then, only if it is a very good rune that you will likely not change out later (e.g. a pink rune with 10% Critical Rate and Critical DMG), and for a dragon you will be using in late-game content.