Evertale is a popular fantasy collection-based RPG developed by ZigZaGame. Since the launch of 2.0, Evertale has transitioned away from its Pokémon-like roots of monster-catching — to bring in more traditional characters rightfully fitting the RPG mold, a revitalized UI design, and extra content to flesh out the story. Evertale welcomes every collector, enabling bountiful opportunities to scratch the ‘gotta catch ’em all’ itch on Android while offering an epic journey to fulfill the role as Erden’s greatest Crestbearer.
The formidable task of saving Erden from the plagued century-old curse, Pandemonium, will require recruiting powerful allies. So before becoming Erden’s savior, you’ll need to know where to begin. This guide covers the game’s battle systems, along with some pointers on how to get started collecting/building the ultimate team.
Battle system: Ins and outs
You can employ up to eight units in your battle squad. Battles start with your first four units on the frontline, while the last four exist in your reserves. When a forward unit is knocked down to zero health, a reserve automatically jumps to the frontline to take its place.
In battle, the main actions you can perform are catch, pass, and skills. The catch command allows you to capture monsters based on a displayed probability (percentage). You can increase the probability by putting the monster in low health — sound familiar?
The pass command lets you skip your turn. Sometimes you’ll want to bank on your units to unleash a devastating attack sooner rather than later.
Using a skill comes with an associated cost that affects your unit’s turn order and spirit points. Your units will have unique skills tied to their element. You’re encouraged to experiment with your units until you’ve formed a synergistic squad.
How turns work
Battles rely heavily on turn-based mechanics. Your battle unit’s turn order will depend on the actions you take. Every skill has a turn order cost. The higher the turn order cost for using that skill, the longer it takes for your turn to come again. Enemies follow the same mechanic. If you’re not careful, enemies can potentially get a few moves in before you get another turn. Turn order cost is displayed on each skill.
Team spirit
Team spirit exists as a shared point system for all of your units in battle. Every skill includes a spirit point expense or an amount gained. Negative points mean it’ll cost your team spirit to use those skills, and positive numbers will add to your team’s spirit gauge.
Due to the team spirit mechanic, units can’t spam their best attacks on every turn. You’ll have to be decisive on which units to prioritize when unleashing their best moves. This means your general strategy plays an important role.
Managing your story squad
Preferred weapon types and elemental affinities classify your unit’s skills. Evertale, like Pokémon, uses a rock-paper-scissors system to determine a unit’s performance in battle. Each element’s strengths and weaknesses are summarized below:
- Fire: Effective against wind, weak against water.
- Water: Effective against fire, weak against storm.
- Storm: Effective against water, weak against wind.
- Wind: Effective against storm, weak against fire.
- Light: Effective against dark, neutral to all other elements.
- Dark: Effective against light, neutral to all other elements.
Overall, you’ll want to build your squad so that it offers the best coverage against multiple elements. You can find each unit’s elemental affinity on the status screen.
Unfortunately, you can’t stack your squad with the game’s best monsters and characters. A cost system prohibits this from occurring to incentivize you to keep up with ranking up your entire battalion. Every unit has a set cost when placing them on a team, and this cost can grow higher when equipping certain weapons and armor.
Every newly-formed battalion squad requires a leader. You can appoint any unit as the leader, but not all units are created equal since few contain the leader skill passive. Always play around with which units synergize to get the most out of your leader’s skill passive bonus.
Equipping weapons
A big part of managing your team is considering what equipable weapons to use. Weapons are upgradeable similar to units, contain skill sets, and contribute to the cost system when forming your team. Generally, equipping higher rarity weapons means it’ll likely cost you another unit’s spot on the squad. So you’ll have to decide during the early game if you prefer to gear up your characters and monsters with potent weapons in exchange for a smaller team or simply compensate for a weaker (geared) larger team where some units won’t receive the privilege to gear up. The choice is yours, but eventually, this problem goes away once your capacity level increases.
Collecting monsters/characters
Catching and evolving your monster pals
You have unlimited tries (until your party wipes out) to catch any monster of choice. You’ll want to knock down the monster’s health to approximately 25% to increase your capture success rate. Always look to approach shaking grass (surprise, surprise) since that is how you’ll encounter unique monsters.
Your monster pals can evolve into stronger monsters, and you’ll need to farm experience points to get your monsters to evolve. Make sure to place any monster you wish to level on your battle squad if you plan to evolve them.
Navigating the gacha system
If you’re looking to acquire new characters, hold onto your Soul Stones (premium currency). Soul Stone lets you summon on a banner (rate ups on featured characters) of your choice. Banners are separated into limited-time-only characters and permanent character pools. Be aware that some banners require paid Soul Stones for summoning.
You should always summon with 1000 Soul Stones at a time to guarantee an SR unit. SR units are potent but less potent than SSR units. Adding any SR unit to your team will strengthen your account, so it’s recommended to summon in bulk.
Obtaining more Soul Stones will require an investment and a lot of patience. Save up to 30,000 Soul Stones and use them at the Lucky Fountain to gain more. Grinding your daily missions and story quests will also net you more.
Managing duplicates
Unfortunately, you can’t keep all your copies of characters and monsters since you’ll eventually run out of space. This leaves you with two options: forging and power-ups. Forging converts characters and monsters into craftable materials, whereas power-ups strengthen your selected unit. You’ll consume duplicates when awakening the same unit (found under the power-ups option), which in turn adds a passive skill, and increases power, health, and your attack. It doesn’t matter which option you pick; forging will automatically convert duplicate units into shards to be used in the awakening process.
‘Gotta catch ’em all’ to save the world
Evertale offers more than Pokémon-like gameplay and anime character collecting. It’s about a hero’s pilgrimage to become stronger, forming bonds with your allies, and learning more about the world you are trying to save. So if this sounds good to you, grab the install below, especially if you’re looking for a game with lots of collectibles and an interactive storyline filled with heroics.
