[ Guide ] Tensura: King of Monsters equipment / gear builds

An extremely important but easily overlooked part of Tensura: King of Monsters is the Gear and equipment sets accessible to all characters. The only exception to this is Rimuru, your main character.

More often than not, your Gear will contribute more stats than the base amount you gain from levelling. Having the right Gear and equipment sets in Tensura: King of Monsters can sometimes double or triple your DMG output.

This guide will get you up to speed in knowing which Gear and equipment sets to go for and for whom. Let’s dive into it!

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Fantastic Gear and where to find them

The vast majority of Gear you will find comes from Subjugation missions. There are three different subjugation modes—Hazard, Calamity and Disaster. Each Subjugation mode has three different difficulties. The higher the difficulty, the better the Gear that drops.

Here is a list of Subjugation modes, their difficulty and the equipment sets that drop:

Hazard

• D1: 2★ Figurine Blessing Set (big chance), 1★ Brass Set (small chance)
• D2: 2★ Figurine Blessing Set (big chance), 1★ Brass Set (small chance)
• D3: 3★ Ninja Heart Set, 3★ Fearless Set, 3★ Greedy Fiend Set (big chance), 2★ Ninja Heart Set, 2★ Fearless Set, 2★ Greedy Fiend Set, 2★ Figurine Blessing Set (small chance)

Calamity

• D4: 3★ Ninja Heart Set, 3★ Fearless Set, 3★ Greedy Fiend Set (big chance), 2★ Ninja Heart Set, 2★ Fearless Set, 2★ Greedy Fiend Set, 2★ Figurine Blessing Set (small chance)
• D5: All 4★ sets except Figurine Blessing and Brass Set (relatively small chance), all 3★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (relatively big chance)
• D6: All 4★ sets except Figurine Blessing and Brass Set (relatively small chance), all 3★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (relatively big chance)

Disaster

• D7: All 5★ sets except Figurine Blessing and Brass Set (relatively small chance), all 4★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (relatively big chance)
• D8: All 6★ sets except Figurine Blessing and Brass Set (slim chance), all 5★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (big chance), all 4★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (small chance)
• D9: All 6★ sets except Figurine Blessing and Brass Set (relatively small chance), all 5★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (relatively big chance), all 4★ sets except Figurine Blessing Set and Brass Set (small chance)

Gear comes in a variety of stars and colours. Currently, the strongest Gear in the game is 6★ equipment which has red backgrounds. These should be your goal when for your party members due to the potentially powerful attributes they provide.

Attributes

In Tensura: King of Monsters, secondary attributes are the stat values listed underneath the main attribute of each Gear or equipment. The main attribute is the first stat at the top when looking at the equipment page. While secondary attributes may vary from Gear to Gear, the main attribute is always the same depending on the type of equipment.

Here are the main attributes for each equipment:

• Weapon: ATK
• Top: DEF
• Bottom: HP
• Pendant: ATK bonus %
• Ring: DEF bonus %
• Earring: HP bonus %

On the other hand, secondary attributes are random stats provided by the equipment. Secondary attributes can be of the same type as the main attribute. However, the same equipment cannot have two or more of the same secondary attribute. Let’s look at the following example:

As a pendant, the Ninja Heart Pendant has ATK bonus as its main attribute. Below that, you can see that it has another ATK bonus for one of its secondary attribute. Secondary attributes are always different from each other and can never repeat.

In addition, you can see a blue diamond next to ATK bonus and Crit. Each blue diamond represents a significant boost given to the corresponding secondary attribute. These blue diamonds appear when the equipment reaches a level multiple of 3 once it has unlocked all four secondary attributes.

The Perfect Equipment

Since all secondary attributes differ from Gear to Gear, what combination of secondary attributes is the best? The answer to this question depends on the character who is equipping said gear.

For damage dealers, here are the secondary attributes to go for, in order of importance:

1. ATK bonus
2. Crit DMG and Crit
3. DMG bonus
4. ATK

ATK bonus is extremely strong and can easily increase your total ATK by a huge high percentage. Crit DMG becomes more and more valuable the higher your crit chance is. These two are the second most important secondary attribute for damage dealers. DMG bonus is useful, but provides a smaller percentage increase than ATK bonus. Flat ATK is last because at later stages, the increase it provides is too small compared to the other secondary attributes.

DEF Pen. is negligible. Enemies tend to have much lower DEF than ATK, thus it is better to focus on increasing your own ATK and DMG rather than focus on ignoring a percentage of the enemies’ DEF.

For other characters who do not focus on dealing damage, parry is a great secondary attribute to have. What parry does is it reduces the DMG your characters take by half when it activates (visible as blue DMG numbers on top of the character’s head). A high parry % essentially makes your character take half DMG at a high rate and is incredibly useful for characters who focus on tanking.

In a nutshell, the ideal equipment for a damage dealer would be a Lv. 15 (max level) 6★ Gear with ATK bonus, Crit DMG, Crit and DMG bonus, with blue diamonds on ATK bonus and Crit DMG or Crit. For anyone else, get parry for survivability and your preferred secondary attributes depending on the character’s role. Note that % bonus attributes are better than flat stat increase. This becomes a lot more apparent at later levels, where your character’s base stats scale a lot higher with % bonus instead of flat stat increase.

Set Effects

While attributes may be random, set effects are not. Equipping 2 or 4 pieces of the Gear with the same name gives powerful passive abilities—almost as if the character has a third aptitude.

Equipping 2 pieces of Gear enhanced to Lv. 3 provides the first set effect, while equipping 4 pieces of Gear enhanced to LV. 9 provides the second set effect.

Here are the set effects currently available in the game:

Brass Set

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: No effect
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: No effect

Figurine Blessing Set

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: ATK + 100
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: No effect

Ninja Heart Set

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: ATK bonus 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: The first auto attack of each round has a 50% chance of launching an extra auto attack

Fearless Set

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: ATK bonus 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: Synergy DMG + 50%

Greedy Fiend

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: ATK bonus 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: Deal + 50% DMG to enemies whose HP is above 70%

Elven Blessing

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: HP bonus 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: For every 1% of HP lost, ATK bonus + 0.5%

Bloodthirsty Zealot

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: ATK bonus 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: Restore HP equivalent to 10% of DMG dealt

Storm God

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: Crit + 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: Crit DMG + 50%

Dominant Lord

• 2 Lv. 3 pieces: ATK bonus 10%
• 4 Lv. 9 pieces: 5% chance of stunning the target with every instance of dealing DMG

Brass and Figurine Blessing Sets are early game sets. Don’t bother enhancing them beyond level 3. As for the other sets, there is no reason to equip 6 Gears of the same name. Instead, your characters should ideally equip 4 Lv. 9 (or higher) Gears of a set, and 2 Lv. 3 (or higher) Gears of another set.

Recommended equipment sets for each character

Generally speaking, Storm God is the best set for most auto attackers. If you can get 50% or higher Crit rate, the 50% Crit DMG bonus will outdamage Ninja Heart’s 50% of extra auto attack almost every single time. Storm God is still useful for basically every DMG dealer.

For those who rely on powerful Ultimate Skills to burst down the enemy team, Greedy Fiend is an acceptable alternative to Storm God. Otherwise, stick to Storm God.

Note that the set recommendations below refer to 4 Lv. 9 pieces of the same Gear. The remaining two pieces can be any set that gives 10% ATK bonus or Storm God’s Crit + 10%, if the character isn’t already going for it.

SP

• Shion [Reindeer Emissary]: Storm God
• Shuna [Princess of Presents]: Ninja Heart Set or Fearless Set (for synergy teams)

SS

• Ifrit: Bloodthirsty Zealot for tanking/sustain, Elven Blessing for damage
• Milim*: Greedy Fiend or Storm God
• Shizu*: Storm God
• Gazel**: Bloodthirsty Zealot or Storm God

*Will be available through new banners in the future
**Will be obtainable once all Space Gap stages are unlocked

S

• Benimaru [Kijin]: Storm God
• Souei [Kijin]: Bloodthirsty Zealot
• Shion [Kijin]: Storm God
• Hakuro [Kijin]: Ninja Heart Set
• Shuna [Kijin]: Dominant Lord (since she has no DMG whatsoever)
• Gabiru: Storm God
• Souka: Fearless Set
• Gobta: Storm God
• Ranga: Bloodthirsty Zealot for tanking/sustain, Elven Blessing for damage
• Yuuki Kagurazaka: Storm God
• Kenya Misaki: Ninja Heart Set
• Ryota Sekiguchi: Ninja Heart Set
• Gail Gibson: Storm God for damage, Dominant Lord otherwise
• Treyni*: Ninja Heart Set
• Chloe Aubert*: Storm God

*Will be available through new banners in the future

A

• Benimaru [Ogre]: Storm God
• Souei [Ogre]: Ninja Heart Set or Storm God
• Shion [Ogre]: Elven Blessing
• Hakuro [Ogre]: Ninja Heart Set or Fearless Set (for synergy teams)
• Shuna [Ogre]: Ninja Heart Set
• Saika: Fearless Set
• Touka: Fearless Set
• Orc General: Elven Blessing
• Trya: Dominant Lord (since she has no DMG whatsoever) or Fearless Set (for synergy teams)
• Kaval: Elven Blessing
• Gido: Storm God or Fearless Set (for synergy teams)
• Eren: Dominant Lord
• Byrne: Elven Blessing
• Phobio: Dominant Lord
• Gelmud: Bloodthirsty Zealot or Greedy Fiend (if you plan to open with his ult)

B

• Any B-ranked character: Storm God or Fearless Set (for synergy teams)

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Closing

More of often than not, farming Gear for the right equipment set is what you’ll be spending most of your Magicules on in Tensura: King of Monsters. Thus, I hope you will have a greater understanding of the Gear and equipment sets present in the game with this guide.

Note that this guide is relevant only for the current version of the game and the next few banners. In the future, it is extremely likely that we will be receiving rainbow-coloured Gear and new equipment sets that are available in the Taiwanese version of Tensura: King of Monsters. Until then, stay tuned for a new guide for that.

You can also check out our other guides:

• Beginner Guide
• Character Guide
• Rimuru Guide

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