Hello friends, I realize I am late the the party with Monster Legends. I have been playing for 3 weeks now, and I am really enjoying the game. However, I am coming to find the best way to advance is through legendary monsters. I have a decent amount of epics, but these legendary monsters are kicking my butt.

What is the best strategy for a newer player? I am not looking to spend a lot of money but I would invest a little for the right monster to help grow.

Any leveling strategies I should know about?

Thanks for the help.

You can get legendaries from events and from breeding. Often not the best you can find, but decent enough (from the breedables Goldfield, Vadamagma and Lord of the Atlantis are really nice starter L's).

If you are looking to buy Legendaries: Voltaik, Demise, Timerion, Shallinar and Barbatos are among the very best. Galante is useful as well and necessary anyway to breed Laomu.

As you progress through the game, legendary monsters are the only way to survive.

For damage, try to buy Barbatos. For tactics, Demise and Timerion are good ideas.

Yeah, start off with the breedable legendaries. Search for the Monster Legends Wiki, it's the essential resource for this game. Focus on getting your gold production up. This will allow you do get your food production up and get all needed buildings and boosts. Social Point has nerfed a lot of big gold producing monsters, but the best gold 'farms' are legendaries, without question.
As events happen (and they are literally ALWAYS happening) you'll start earning new legendaries. As you progress, you'll be able to do better in the challenges (like feeding monsters, collecting gold, crafting/buying runes) which will net you gems. And you'll be able to blast through dungeons, which will give you even more gems.
As you have gems, you can purchase monsters when they're on sale (don't buy ANY if they cost more than 276 gems). They often offer 3-packs where you get 3 legendary monsters for an even better discounted price. I've often bought those. As a general rule, don't use gems to speed up buildings/breedings/hatchings.

At some point, you'll have to figure out what your motivation in the game is. For me, I like collecting monsters. I know I never will, but I want to "catch 'em all." Some players, however, want to be the very best (like no one ever was). Those players spend gems to buy duplicate monsters (to rank them up) and high level runes (necessary to start focusing on at some point).

Lastly, this is a game that rewards you for constantly opening it up and playing. And OVER TIME, you will be doing quite well in it. Have fun!

Thanks everyone. I’m starting the breeding tonight. Hopefully not too long before I get a legendary. We will see where it goes from there.

@sansot said in Late to the party!:

Focus on getting your gold production up. This will allow you do get your food production up and get all needed buildings and boosts. Social Point has nerfed a lot of big gold producing monsters, but the best gold 'farms' are legendaries, without question.

Yep focus on gold is the most essential part :) but i think you should build pandaeks farm first ,, yep Legendary farm are the best but not for beginner

every resources investment in increasing gold worth it

@paul0613 As everyone has really said, breed some legends.

But really, try and breed all or most of the breedables at least aim for one of each element, they won't be game-breaking, but they will help you along. SInce you are a newbie don't focus on end-gamey things like ranking and relics or even really runes yet, just focus on gold production thereby increasing food production ! Be active on the forums as many senior players an shed much light on questions you might have and search through the forums, we've had players asking similar questions to your own !

@paul0613 hHi I've been playing 4 months. The game can make you feel like you have to pay real money to buy nemesis and or vip monsters. I am FtP and have enjoyed the game without them. To star I had lots of nature habitats and pandakens for gold production. Upgrade the habitats too. Resist getting too many fire habitats as the space they take doesnt give gold lvls