One of the most fun things you can do in Monster Sanctuary is testing out your finely-tuned builds against tough foes. Kindly, the game has what it calls champion monsters – brutal enemies who can attack multiple times in a turn and have inflated stats.

There are 27 champion fights in total, ranging from the humble Steam Golem that you have to fight at the beginning of the game to the most secret of creatures, such as Vertraag and Diavola. They’re the toughest challenges that the game can throw at you and you’ll need five-star ratings if you want to get their eggs, so here are our tips.

6 Study The Champion

One of the first things you should do when taking on a champion is to study everything you can about it. From the fight preview you’ll know exactly what it is weak against, resistant to, and even the elements it can use.

Using this information, it’s quite easy to stack your combat team with monsters who can target weaknesses and resist the champion’s attacks. If this tactics doesn’t outright win you the fight, you can at least perform some reconnaissance.

5 Don’t Be Afraid To Alter Your Builds

If there’s one thing you’ll learn around the mid-game point of Monster Sanctuary, it’s that your builds are not likely to last you throughout the entirety of the game. As you unlock new tiers or encounter new obstacles, you’ll find that your monsters’ builds are sub-optimal, and this is highlighted when being stonewalled by a particularly tough champion.

Skill Resetters provide the solution. They will refund all of your skill points and allow you to experiment with new builds.

These items can be purchased from the Consumable Merchant in the Keepers’ Stronghold for only 300 G.

4 Debuff Stacking Rules

Poison and Burn are fantastic debuffs to exploit against champions. Chill is also very great, but mostly when combined with the Congeal aura. The reasons for this are as follows:

In addition, save any Skill Potions you come across for use with the monsters that you consider integral to your strategy. They can only provide one extra skill point per monster, but some skills can provide massive bonuses.

3 Take Out The Mooks First

Some champions will have other, regular monsters helping them out. These should be your primary targets in such fights, as they often have very annoying moves that directly contribute to the difficulty of the main champion.

2 Prepare For The Gimmick Fights

There are a few champion fights in the game that are quite unique, either in their strategies or in their affinities. We’ve listed them below – knowing them in advance can help you prepare for them when you find a suitable monster for the job.

Don’t be tempted to whittle the entire party down with weaker, party-wide attacks – focus the mooks down with single-target attacks and be done with it.

  • King Blob is a prolific self-buffer. Bring monsters that know how to Cleanse, such as Sutsune or Sizzle Knight.

1 Tips For Getting 5 Stars

If you want to perfect these fights and obtain the champions’ eggs for your own use, you’ll need to finish the fights with a five-star rating. Below are some of our tips and explanations of how the system works:

  • While you can get a ton of points for finishing a fight in as few turns as possible, the points you get for a slow and steady debuff strategy will more than make up for the loss incurred by a very long battle.

  • Note that these positions aren’t based on their physical positions in the party, but the order they act in a given turn.

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