Guard runes guide and suggested monsters

Igmanodon (Fire Lizardman) is a good defense tank monster Igmanodon is excellent in Raid Battles, he is often put in frontline since his best build is defense based. All his skills scale up with defense: this makes him a good choice also for Arena and Guild Wars Defense. His passive grants him lowe..

Sin (Fire Martial Artist) is currently a not so useful unit, but he can be viable in PvP especially for low-mid game players due to his passive which allows him to resist defense break effect. Fire Martial Artist could be used against Galleon-based defenses and low-mid Water Units on defense like Ca..

Bulldozer the Fire Frankenstein is a pretty decent defense based unit, capable of ignoring defense and one shot wind units if runed and teamed properly,based on his skills and pretty base stats this Frankenstein is comparable to Kahli (Fire High Elemental) except more hard to put down.He is also rea..

Duamutef (Fire Horus) is a great support monster with speed based skills Duamutef rune build Violent build: Violent/Focus or Violent/Guard - SPD / %DEF / %DEF or SPD / %Crit Dmg / %DEF with speed and accuracy substat..

Vanessa (Fire Valkyrja) is a pvp reviver with great arena speed leaderskill Vanessa has a good passive skill that allows her to automatically revive a dead ally with 30% of his max HP and attack power buff on it. The revived ally will come back into play with his attack bar in the same state as the..

Velajuel (Fiire Archangel) is a great defense based support monster He is a great defense tank with cleanse and immunity ability. Velajuel's third skill is his main feature: this skill cleanses, immunizes for 3 turns and buffs all allies attack bar. You may want to have a fast Velajuel because he b..

Mao (Water Drunken Master) is a good attack unit in Summoners War with single target ignore defense in first skill! Despite his reputation we think it is a very underrated monster, especially for a natural 3 star. He is an attack monster with healing capabilities (based on ATK) + critical hit protec..

Talc (Water Battle Mammoth) is a good support HP monster Talc rune build Healer-Tank build: Energy x3 or Energy x2/Guard - %HP / %HP / %HP or SPD / %HP / %HP Violent build: Violent/Energy - %HP / %HP / %HP or SPD / %HP / %HP..

Anavel (Water Occult Girl) is a great all-around skillset monster She has a pretty unique build, since she heals based on her attack power and deals damage with third skill based on her max HP; however her first skill deals a lot of damage and it is based on her attack power again. Anavel is a soli..

Copper (Wind Living Armor) is a great defense tank monster Living Armor Wind is one of the best defense tank in the game Copper can do a lot of damage with his skill set: with second skill he defense breaks all anemies for two turns with 80% chance with 3 turns cooldown on max skillup and with his ..

Crane (Wind Frankenstein) is a food monster Use crane for food to his Water, Fire and Light twins which are much more interesting. If you wanna build him you can use him in a team like the one featured in the video down below, in which Crane is in a team with many buffers and so thanks to his passi..

Jamire (Wind Dragon) is a great support monster Jamire has a great third skill which will reset all allies' skills cooldown. Jamire rune build Violent build: Violent/Energy or Violent/Nemesis - SPD / %HP / %HP or %HP / %Crit dmg / %HP with speed substat Nuker Build: Rage/Blade - SPD / %Crit dmg / %..

Elpuria (Light Serpent) is a good 3 star monster Elpuria main usage is in Rift of Worlds thanks to his second skill and third skill. His second skill is a 3 hit that decreases the target attack bar by 30% for each hit and his third skill increases Elpuria's attack and defense by 20% every time he's..

Groggo (Light Golem) is a great defense tank monster The Light Golem is a great tank to use in pvp thanks to his second and third skill: the second skill is a buff that increases his defense for 3 turns and grants Groggo immunity effect for the same amount of turns. Moreover it will increase Groggo..

Driller (Light Frankenstein) is a great tank monster His skills relies on both max HP and Defense value, so it's difficult to build him properly in the early stages of the game but in late game he can be devastating. His third skill can hit up to 8 times, doing huge amount of damage to the target. ..

Artamiel is a great support tank He can remove beneficial effect on the first skill. He has also a heal on second skill, then a passive third skill that allows him to counterattack whenever an ally is hit by critical hit. Moreover this skill increase Artamiel's defense up to 5 times whenever he is ..

Zinc (Dark Living Armor) is good defense tank Zinc is a very good nat 3 light and dark monster. He has 2 AoE skills that make him suitable for Despair rune set: the second skill is a mass defense break with 50% chance and the damage of this skill scales up with Zinc's defense. All Zinc's skill actu..

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Xiong Fei (Fire Panda Warrior) is one of the best defense tank monster Xiong Fei is a Fusion Monster obtainable by fusing the following monsters in 5 star awakened form: Qebehsenuef-Water Horus, Ling Ling-Wind Kung Fu Girl, Akia-Fire Succubus, Geoffrey-Fire Viking. He is great in Necropolis dun..

Feng Yan (Wind Panda Warrior) is a great defense tank monster Please check out our review and rate this monster! Feng Yan has a defense break first skill, a second skill which makes him counterattack and all allies regenerate 15% HP each turn for two turns and a passive third skill that makes him d..

Eleanor (Light Unicorn) is a great support hp type monster in Summoner War. The Light Unicorn have a great skillset, somewhat similar to Molly's and Camilla's, with decreased chance of getting critically hitted and less damage from crits, this makes Eleanor intrinsically very tanky. Moreover in Huma..

Leona is one of the best monsters Being a dark element monster she has no chance to glance and her first skill stuns the enemy at 100% chance on max skillup. That means that she always lands stun if she uses her first attack (there is always a 15% chance the enemy can resist), so it's particulary g..

Abellio the Water Druid is a great nemesis healer nat-5 monster in Summoners War, he isn't easy to use for sure, especially in defense (arena and guild) because you need to build him squishy enough to reach an HP level below 30% and in the meanwhile not getting him killed to trigger his Passive kill..

Taranys the Wind Druid is a great defense based nat-5 monster in Summoners War he has the same second spell as his Water twin (Abellio). Third skill is a revive skill, so you should build him tanky since he is a reviver. Moreover his passives make him very difficult to kill (shield and auto revive..