Monster Strike – How to fuse, evolve and ascend your monsters

Monster Strike is a pinball-RPG that has even Puzzle and Dragons quaking in its boots in Japan, and it’s just released in English form in the USA and is becoming a huge hit as well. True to its card-battling roots, there are countless ways to power up your cards, including fusing, ascending and evolving them. but you’re gonna need catalysts such as stoans, sharls, and all sorts of other goods to make it happen. Read on to find out how to do just that!

Fusion is the easiest of these three things that you will do. In order to do fusion, first you pick a beneficiary monster, then you pick up to five monsters to sacrifice in order to give experience points to that first monster. You’ll lose all of these monsters so make sure that these are something you don’t want first.

To gain the most experience in one shot, use the expies that you earn from all throughout various battles, and from the expie event quests especially. Need to know when the next expie event quest is? Go to the “more” screen, hit the expie forecast button to see. The rarer the star rating of the expie, the more experience points they will give you.

To evolve your character, first it needs to be at the maximum level. Then you are going to need a specific mix of stoans and sharls in order to evolve them. This consists of maxstoans, stoans, ministoans, and then element-specific stoans and sharls. The rarer monsters are going to need more advanced mixes and variations, as well as more stoans and sharls in total.

Ascent will not be available to all of your monsters, but it will change them into their “final form”, sort of. To figure out which monsters can ascend, go to the main menu and pick a monster, then tap “evolve/ascend” and select the monster. When the evolve requirements pop up, try to scroll to the right. If the ascend requirements then pop up, that means that you can then ascend them.

Ascending will require a specific mix of material monsters, stoans and sharls, which, of course, is different depending on which monster it is. If you have all of the monsters and catalysts you will be able to ascend, regardless of whether your monster is at the maximum experience level or not.