Battledome Help

by broiledpenguin

OK, now that the Battledome is up many of you are battling and having fun with it. Here are some tips on how to survive the Battledome without losing miserably every time.

If you are poor and cannot afford to buy expensive items to equip your pet with, that's OK. I belong to that category as my account recently got hacked into and everything of mine was stolen. A basic lightning beam or a even wooden blocking shield can work just as well for your pet. If you are really desperate, you can just have 7 weapons, transferring the weapons to whichever pet of yours that is going to battle! Like that, I have fought many battles and I have not lost a single one of them except once on my very first battle.

CHOOSE your opponents carefully. When someone challenges you, don't immediately accept the challenge - check up the pet's statistics and level. Don't think that level doesn't matter - the higher your opponent's level, the more abilities he or she has got to use against you! Take note of the pet's hit points too. Choose wisely, if you feel that you can win against the pet with your statistics, then go ahead.

If you have many abilities... great. If you don't... better go and buy some faeries or only battle level 1 pets! Try not to use the abilities such as alchemy (arrgh... that's the worst thing you can do as what can you use alchemy for? It simply turns your items into Neopoints and doesn't defend your pet... I'm not even sure if it really turns your items into Neopoints if you use it as an ability. It probably doesn't) as they don't really help right now. The abilities you should use are those such as HEAL (if your hit points are going down). Your hit points will go up after healing, or try TOUGH SKIN or BUBBLE SHIELD to protect yourself. How about DIAMOND DUST or STONE LEGION?

Don't be silly and use the ability like tough skin, a wooden blocking shield and a large metal shield all at once - what is the point?! They are all defence items. Only use one defence item at a time. Use...let's say...this kind of combination - a large metal shield, a psychic attack and a black frost cannon. Find out what kind of weapons your opponent has - and work out the mindset of your opponent. Use your weapons to defy your opponent in the appropriate way(s). Let's say if your opponent is fond of using the Scorch attack against you, use a water attack against him.

These are basically all the tips I can give, but there are so many other things that cannot be explained and you have to discover them for yourself as you make progress in your battles. Good luck to all of you!