OK I have been meaning to post an update to my previous Best Movesets post (found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DraconiusGO/comments/7anuil/creatures_movesets_should_you_change_your/) for awhile now that looked in depth into the actual effectiveness of each moveset. With changes taking place to both move names, how many fast moves needed to fully charge a charge bar and other work I had it has been a little delayed but here it is now. Be warned this post is long and consists mainly of tables.

Firstly please note the following moves: Fire Thrower, Hot Spring, Spirit of Forest, Crash, Icy Blast, Lava, Meteors, Poisonous Puddle and Whirlwind may have new names however I currently don’t have any creatures that have/had these moves so can’t confirm if they’ve been changed – if you have creatures with any of these moves please confirm whether the name is still the same in game or has now changed. All of move name changes have been applied to these tables.

Methodology – How the movesets have been ranked

The rank I’ve assigned to each moveset has been determined by a calculated statistic referred to as Combined DPS (Comb. DPS). Before explaining this value it is worth going over some other values which you may have seen on the Critical.gg website from which these calculations have been based.

DMG (Damage): This is the base damage of a move. In compiling their rankings of movesets on their website Critical.gg adds the DMG of one fast move to the DMG of one charge move to get their rating value. Until Elyland changes the game so that all fast and charge moves have the same duration and for all charge moves can be charged by one fast move only this will remain an inaccurate rating system.

Cast Time: Time it takes a move to execute (move duration).

DPS Multi/Modifier: This is the DMG statistic divided by Cast Time.

DPS (as found next to creature in game): For a fast move this is the creature’s attack multiplied by the move’s DPS Multi. For a charge move it is the creature’s attack multiplied by move’s DPS Multi multiplied by 3. (No idea why there is a x3 in the charge attack formula and not just have the move’s DPS Multi be 3 times higher but anyway).

Creature Attack: Some value determined by the creature’s base stats, strength IV, distortion and level. The exact makeup of the stat is beyond the scope of this post but if you wish to figure out this attack stat for a creature at a given level it is roughly DPS of Fast Move divided by the DPS Multi of the Fast Move OR you can calculate it by DPS of Charge Move divided by (3 times the Charge Move DPS Multi). Please note that as the DPS shown in game for both Fast and Charge moves are rounded so you won’t get exact attack values using these formulas.

EPS (as found next to Fast DPS in game): This is equal to the EPS Multi/Modifier x 14.2. No idea why 14.2 was chosen as a number. To get the amount of energy received from using a fast move once use EPS times Cast Time.

Combined DPS Multi (Comb. DPS): Assuming a strategy in which a player uses a charge move once they have enough energy to use the charge attack (as opposed to overcharging or charging all 2 or 3 bars of multi charge moves before using them all), this statistic takes the total amount DMG from the charge move and all fast moves required to charge said move and divides it by the time it takes to execute the charge move and all required fast moves. Please note that for movesets with 2 or 3 bar charge moves the Combined DPS Multi represents the average of charging up and using the charge moves over ten consecutive cycles so as to not ignore any extra energy remaining in the charge bar after a charge move has been used as a result of the previous fast move charging further than the 1st bar.

Actual Combined DPS: To get the actual Combined DPS for your creature multiply the Combined DPS Multi by Creature Attack.

The Data Tables

To compile this post I went through every move combination currently available to at least one creature within the game to find their Combined DPS and rank the movesets. This lead to a rather user-unfriendly table of 244 moveset combinations of which most are moveset combinations learnt by unevolved creatures that would never be used in battle. In an effort to make things more user friendly I have limited the data to the following tables.

Firstly I have tables for the top 16 creatures by Max CP in which I have ranked the six possible movesets that creature can have by their Combined DPS Multi. These tables also include the ranking the Critical.gg website gave to the moveset (Crit. Rank) along what percent of peak performance (peak performance being Combined DPS multi of creature’s best moveset) each moveset achieves (Perform.).

The final table is a table of the best movesets for each fully evolved creature ranked by highest Combined DPS Multi. Please note that a creature with a superior moveset may be outperformed by a stronger creature with an inferior moveset as it’s best moveset. For example Picaroon’s best moveset produces the highest Combined DPS Multiplier in the game however as Smoargh is a stronger creature, Smoargh’s inferior best moveset may perform better. For more refer to Actual Combined DPS stat description.

Water Types: Leviathan, Neptune, Armorank

Leviathan’s moves rated

Neptune’s moves rated

Armorank’s moves rated

Arcana Types: Morogoroth, Manticore, Curly, Rosebud

Morogoroth’s moves rated

Manticore’s moves rated

Curly’s moves rated

Rosebud’s moves rated

Fire Types: Smoargh, Picaroon, Salute

Smoargh’s moves rated

Picaroon’s moves rated

Salute’s moves rated

Air Types: Charybdis, Bajun, Gryphon

Charybdis’s moves rated

Bajun’s moves rated

Gryphon’s moves rated

Earth Types: Scylla, Grendel, Yogi

Scylla’s moves rated

Grendel’s moves rated

Yogi’s moves rated

Table of Best Movesets for fully evolved creatures ranked by Combined DPS Multi