Puzzle & Dragons - Match & evolve creatures

Experience the all-new multiplayer mode in Puzzle & Dragons, the premier choice for mobile Puzzle RPG thrills. Join forces with your buddies to take on fresh adversaries!

Puzzle & Dragons is a captivating and complimentary match-3 puzzle game infused with the enjoyment of classic monster-collecting RPG play.

- INSTINCTIVE AND CAPTIVATING

Form a squad of monsters for dungeons and combat! Battle gameplay is straightforward - simply align 3 orbs of a specific attribute to trigger an attack by a matching attribute monster on your team. By stringing together chains of combos and attributes, you ramp up your damage output and unleash attacks with other team monsters!

- VARIOUS MONSTERS WITH EXTRAORDINARY CAPABILITIES

With a pool of over 2000 distinct monsters to gather, the possibilities for creating diverse team setups are endless. Monsters complement each other, boosting their respective abilities and bolstering team effectiveness in battles. Craft a team that complements your gameplay style!

- EVOLUTION BLUEPRINTS

Monsters can evolve into advanced forms with enhanced prowess. Optimize your monster collection by selecting from branching evolution routes.

- INVOLVE YOUR FRIENDS IN THE FRAY

Exchange IDs with pals and colleagues to add their monsters to your team! In-game chatting and social functions will keep you engaged and connected within the Puzzle & Dragons community.

- MULTIPLAYER SPLURGE!

The fun in Puzzle & Dragons elevates with Multiplayer Mode! Collaborate with a friend and brave Multiplayer Dungeons upon reaching a specific rank!

With a vibrant, engaged player base and consistent social events/updates, the realm of Puzzle & Dragons keeps on expanding. Plus, it’s entirely FREE to delve into, so why not start forging a remarkable (or adorable) dragon lineup today!

NB: Puzzle & Dragons is free for download and play. Nonetheless, there are in-app purchase options to enhance your gaming adventure. If you prefer not to use these features, you can deactivate in-app purchases in your device settings.

Puzzle & Dragons Beginner's Guide 

Step 1: The PAD Dictionary

ATK/Attack: A monster's attack power.

Awoken Skill/Awakening: Some monsters have awoken skills can be activated through using a TAMADRA. You also have a chance to activate these skills by fusing them with a monster that has the same skill, but it is not guaranteed. These skills are represented by tiny boxes to the right of the monster on their info screen.

Best Friend: You can choose a player to become best friends with. You'll be able to see three of their leaders at all times and receive 100 Pal Points every day when you use them.

Evolution/Evo Fusion: The process of evolving a monster into a more powerful monster using evo materials.

Evolution materials: Monsters that are used exclusively to evolve monsters. See the full list here.

Experience: Used to rank up - received after completing a dungeon level. Amount of experience received varies for each level and also according to player rank and how well you do.

Friend slots/Friend leader: Once you've ranked up enough, you'll have 50 friend slots to add compatible leader monsters into. You always want to pick friends with compatible monsters and skills. Using friend leaders gives you Pal Points.

Gold Egg: The rarest of eggs.

HP/Health Points: A monster's life points - these are added together across the entire team to give you total HP.

Leader skill: The monster you equip into a leader slot on your team will be able to use its Leader Skill. Skills vary widely and will also change during evolutions.

Magic Stones: Special items that can be used to increase monster box capacity or number of friend slots, recover stamina, continue in dungeons after defeat, and buy special monsters from the Rare Egg Machine.

Monster: The creatures you assemble teams out of and use to fight your battles. As of the writing of this instructable, there are over 2100 monsters in the US version of PAD.

PAD: The shortened named of Puzzles and Dragons.

Pal Egg Machine: An egg machine that will allow you to roll for a monster for 500 Pal Points. Sometimes this machine comes in special versions that offer limited time monsters for 1000 Pal Points a piece.

Pal Points: Given to the player for choosing a friend leader when entering dungeons. Players on your current friend list will give you 10 pal points. Players not on your friend list will give you 5 stamina. Once you've used a friend's monster, you can't get more Pal Points from them that day.

500 Pal Points allow you to roll the Pal Egg Machine. Pal Points are also given during special events, up to 1000 Pal Points a day. You can only hold 20,000 Pal Points at any given time.

Player Rank: A player's level. Increases as you gain experience.

Plus Eggs: Some monsters drop with a yellow + on the egg. Each plus egg monster will give you +10 points for HP, ATK, or RCV. These eggs can be used to increase a monster's stats up to +97 for HP/ATK/RCV.

Silver Egg: Contain rare monsters, though they're not as desirable as gold eggs.

Skill: Nearly all monsters have a skill that they can use in battle. Each skill requires a certain number of turns to have passed before the skill can be used. You can decrease the numbers of turns that have to pass by fusing the monster with a monster of the same type or one with the same skill.

Skill Up: Successfully fusing two monsters with the same skill can result in lowering the number of turns that must pass before you can use the skill.

Stamina: Stamina increases along with Player Rank and allows you to enter dungeons. As of this writing, American players gain 1 stamina point every 3 minutes.

Stamina Overflow: A new-ish feature that allows you to hold more than your maximum stamina if you use a magic stone to restore it.

Star Egg: The lowest of the rare eggs. Very common monsters.

Rank: The player's level. The higher your rank, the more stamina, friends slots, teams and team cost you have.

Rare Egg Machine: An egg machine that requires 5 magic stones to use it one time. The Rare Egg Machine gives you a random monster with a rarity of 3-7 stars.

Rarity: Each monster has a rarity associated with it - rarity is marked by the number of stars a monster has next to its name. Rarity scales from 1 star to 8 stars. The higher the stars/rarity, the more valuable the monster in most cases.

RCV/Recovery: RCV controls how much health you get for matching heart orbs.

Team: Your monster team consists of one leader and four other monsters, as well as a friend leader. Teams come in many different flavors, including mono-color, mutli-color, healer, devil, spike, etc. You want to build teams around different types of monsters and leader skills.

You have slots for five teams when you start the game.

Team Cost: The total cost of all monsters on your team.

Step 2: Getting Started & Rerolling

When you first start PAD, you'll be asked to choose from three dragons (much like Pokemon!).

These are not super important - chances are your starter dragon will get retired almost immediately.

During the tutorial that follows, you'll also get a chance to roll the Rare Egg Machine with the magic stones you earn in the tutorial. This is your chance to get an amazing leader monster!

You can search around online to find lists of great starter monsters, but here's a quick list of good choices:

- combo based attack multiplier monsters - Kushinadahime, Bastet,

- orb element based attack multiplier monsters - Isis, Karin, Sakuya, Meimei, Haku, U&Y, DQXQ,

- monster element or type based HP/ATK/RCV bonus monsters - Cao Cao, Idunn & Idunna, Ronia, Ame, Valkyrie, Lu Bu, Metatron, Guan Yu, Lucifer

- damage reduction: Odin

If you don't receive one of these monsters or another monster you like (really, do a search for anything you roll!) it's best to delete the game and try again.

This can be a really tedious process, so it's smart to wait for a Gala or Godfest to do it to increase your chances of getting a good monster by a little bit.

Step 3: Stamina, Experience and Player Rank

Stamina:

Each dungeon you enter requires stamina. Stamina will vary quite a bit - typically the harder the dungeon, the more stamina it requires! The minimum stamina a dungeon requires is 3 - the very beginning Normal Dungeons will range from 3-5 stamina for each level.

American players currently gain 1 stamina point every 3 minutes.

Stamina can be completely restored by using a Magic Stone or increasing your Player Rank.

Experience:

Each dungeon level you complete will give you experience and coins at the end. You can see a complete list of the dungeons and the experience they give you on these pages:

- Normal Dungeons

- Technical Dungeons

- Special Dungeons

Player Rank

Your Player Rank will be the biggest limiting factor for you at the beginning of the game. When you first start the game, you'll only have 20 stamina points/20 team cost/20 friend slots. As you rank up through the game, you'll increase these stats and be able to clean more dungeons at once and have many more powerful monsters on your team.