🏯 [May 2021] Ninja Tower Event - FAQ, Discussion & Summons!

Guvnor · April 28, 2021, 7:27am

Coming Soon: The Ninja Tower Event

Schedule

Start Time	End Time	Duration	Frequency
2021-05-26T07:00:00Z	2021-05-31T07:00:00Z	5 Days	Every 8 Weeks

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Post Level 10

Post Level 20

Post Level 30

Post Level 40

Post Level 50 (Completion)

Ninja Tower Overview!!

Click for overview of the event & summary of the aspects to the Eventp; note this section should answer most questions asked.

Gameplay

The Ninja Tower Event a brand new event which is accessed via the “Quests” page with 50 unique stages.
Each stage features 1,2 or 3 monster waves followed by a boss stage.
You CANNOT repeat or replay or rerun a completed stage.
Gameplay features a new tile called an “Oni Curse” (more on that below).
Completing 3 stages gives you a choice of one of three “Oni Blessings” which apply to all heroes in your roster for that specific event.
Heroes can be used on as many stages as you like, as long as they don’t get “cursed out”. Read on that in the “oni curses” section below.
The higher you go up the tower, the more difficult it becomes.
- Gameplay becomes harder
- Oni-Curses appear more frequently
- Different Mob & Boss configurations
- Appearance of “Deadly Chamber” effects (more below)

Flags/ Energy!!

Ninja Tower uses its own Flag Energy Currency. Separate from World Energy etc…
You have a limit of 10 flags
Flags are regenerated once per day & completely refills your flags
There is also a new “flask” which has been added called the “Tower Energy Flask”.

Oni Curses

Oni Curses are a new tile that randomly appears on the Board.
On appearance, the Oni Curse is allocated to one of your 5 heroes
You then have 3 turns to remove the curse. If you fail, that hero recieves 1x curse.
Heroes who are cursed 2 times throughout the event are no longer usable in the event (still able to be used elsewhere).
If you FLEE with an Oni Curse (either with the countdown still on it or timed out) on a hero, it sticks (i.e. that hero is cursed).

Oni Blessings

Rewarded on completing every third stage
Blessings are fixed & are the same for everyone (i.e. player A gets x,y&z blessing at stage 3. So does player B, Player C etc…)
Blessings apply to ALL heroes in your roster for that specific event.
- They do NOT apply outside the Ninja Event

Deadly Chamber Effects.

There are three Deadly Chamber Effects in the Ninja Tower:
- Toxic Vapour - All heroes take ‘x’ damage every ‘y’ turns
- Fragile Floor - The number of battle items you take are reduced by ‘x’. Cannot be less than 1
- Erratic Time - All Status Effect Durations are reduced by ‘x’ turns.
Table below has more details of the deadly chamber effects & how they increase in severity though the Tower Event.

Stage Range	Toxic Vapor	Fragile Floor	Erratic Time
1 - 5	-	-	-
6 - 10	50 damage per 3 turns	-	-
11 - 15	"	1x less of each item	-
16 - 20	"	"	Effects 1 turn shorter
21 - 25	75 damage per 3 turns	"	"
26 - 30	"	2x less of each item	"
31 - 35	"	"	Effects 2 turns shorter
35 - 40	100 damage per 3 turns	"	"
41 - 50	"	"	Effects 3 turns shorter
Note: " means as above

Infographics & Guides

NOTE!!! All infographics are based on previous NT Events & may change. They will be updated as time permits.
Credit: @cap
Source: 🏯 Cap's Ninja Tower Infographics & Guides

Click for Boss Special Skill Info

Click for graphic on Deadly Chambers & Oni Blessings

Oni Blessings

Deadly Chamber Effects

@Zartanis Infographic:
Source: {Master - Zartanis' Guides} Building, Crafting, Event, Talent Grid Guides, etc

Click for Zartanis' Infographics (Part 1 & Part 2)

@Brenna85’s Infographics (Polish):

Click for Brenna85's Polish guides/ infographics

Loot & Rewards

Individual Stage Loot

On completing each stage, you are awarded with a Emblem & Ninja Coin reward in addition to the usual stuff. See above graphics for a breakdown of this loot.

Event Placement Loot

Click for Event End Rewards Summary

Progression Reward – Tower Chest

A “Tower Chest” is awarded every 10 levels completed. It also creates a “Completion” reward of sorts where the 5th and Final Tower Chest will only be available on completing all 50 levels.

Click for Summary of Coin. Emblems & an Example Set of "Tower Chest" Loot

Loot Summary

Each Tower Chest features a mixture of Fixed Loot (Emblems & Coins) and Random Loot (Crafting/ Ascension Materials & Battle Items).

Tower Chest	Stage Unlocked	Tower Coins	Emblems
1	10	10x	10x
2	20	10x	10x
3	30	10x	10x
4	40	10x	20x
5	50	25x	30x

Total	-	65x	80x

Guvs Example Loot from December 2020

Tower Chest 1

Tower Chest 2

Tower Chest 3

Tower Chest 4

Tower Chest 5

Guide to Excelling in the Ninja Tower Event

Credit to @madmarv for this writeup; Source

Click for guide by @madmarv

Early Information on Ninja Tower Event [Part of The Beta Beat v31 & V32]

The Ninja Tower requires a different kind of strategy to succeed in completing all 50 levels. It also requires a disgusting amount of time to use your 10 Tower flags every day. I typically took 5 - 7 minutes per Level from Level 30 and upwards. This means you should expect to budget an hour a day on this quest alone if you want to complete it. The lower 19 Levels are relatively quick though because there’s only 1 wave of mobs before the bosses.

The most attention grabbing thing is the Oni curses / blessings. Like Pumpkin and Easter egg bombs from the seasonal quests, the Oni Stones drop onto the board at random intervals and you have 3 turns to make a match that clears them from the board. If you fail to do so the Oni Stone explodes and curses one of your heroes. If your hero gets cursed twice, you can no longer use that hero in future Ninja Tower Levels. You do get to complete the current level if a hero gets its second curse though.

In testing I lost about a dozen 80s and maybe another dozen 70s to curses. Based on this I’m going to recommend that you have at least fifty heroes at level 70 or higher. If you don’t have fifty heroes at 70 or better, use 3-star heroes for the first 10 Levels or so to stretch your resources. When you reach the point where you run low or out of Revive Scrolls on a Level then it’s time to use stronger heroes.

You should try to have 2 healers in each attack group once the Toxic Vapor damage reaches 100 points every 3 turns at Level 36. What is Toxic Vapor? There are Deadly Chamber effects that start occurring on each Level of the Tower as you progress upwards. Here’s the Cliff notes.

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Deadly chamber effects:

Toxic Vapor damage similar to the Poison Mists in Atlantis happen every 3 turns starting from Level 6. It also increases as you go higher in the Tower. Level 6 is 50 points every 3 turns. Level 21 bumps up to 75 points, Level 36 goes to 100 points.

Fragile Floor reduces the number of items you can take per battle item slot. Level 11 reduces the number by 1 item, at Level 26 it reduces by 2. You will always be able to take at least 1 battle item per slot. Note that Revive Scrolls really get hosed from Level 26 onward and you may as well take a Miracle Scroll instead.

Erratic Time Chamber shortens status effects by 1 turn starting at Level 16 and by 2 turns starting at Level 31. Status effects will always last at least 1 turn.

These heroes are OK to use up to Tower Level 30, beyond that, their status effects get limited to 1 turn. I’m only listing 4-star and 5-star heroes, 3-stars don’t survive beyond Level 30. Note that heroes that have status effects which normally last 2 turns already get hosed starting from Level 16. It’s just that the bosses below Level 30 are not as tough as the higher level ones so a 1 turn burn from Gravemaker is still marginally useful.

Red: Black Knight, Gravemaker, Grazul, Jean-Francois, Santa.

Blue: Kiril, Aegir, Alasie, Alice, Finley, Vela

Green: Brynhild, Buddy, Hansel, Little John, Cabin Boy Peters, Costumed Melendor, Costumed Elkanen, Frigg, Gregorian, Kadilen, Costumed Lianna, Lady Locke, Margaret, Telluria, Yunan, Zocc.

Purple: First Mate Boomer, Jabbar, Merlin, Proteus, Costumed Rigard, Aeron, Alfrike, Hel, Jabberwock, Khiona, Victor.

Yellow: Danzaburo, Gretel, Mist, Bai Yeong, Drake, Inari, Malosi, Onatel, Poseidon, Rana, Roc,

Here’s a partial list of good heroes for NT beyond Level 30. Generally they are instant healers, over healers, minion generators, Stacking buffs (e.g. Mireweave) and direct damage. I also list heroes with self-inflicted debuffs that get reduced by the Erratic Time Chamber (Lady Woolerton for example). In general, slow and average SS heroes with strong damage / healing have an advantage due to the Erratic Time Chamber limiting buffs and debuffs. Pure damage dealers like Lianna, Thorne, and Quintus are good compared to crippled status effect heroes.

Red: Boldtusk, Sumle, Azlar, Baldur, Elena, G. Kong, Kestrel, Noor, Queen of Hearts, Red Hood.

Blue: Jott, Mireweave, Isarnia, Lepus, Raffaele, Skadi, Snow White, Thorne

Green: Jack O’Hare, Costumed Kashrek, Heimdall, Horghall, Lady of the Lake, Lianna, Mother North, Ratatoskr,

Purple: Rigard, Killhare, Bera, Freya, Mok-Arr, Kunchen, Quintus, Ursena.

Yellow: Gullinbursti, Lady Woolerton, Delilah, Justice, Musashi, Sir Roostley, Vivica

There are a lot of heroes that fall into the middle ground where their normally 4 turn status effect is cut down to 2 turns. But given what will probably be your lack of other options, you should hoard them for Level 31+. Decent Heal over Time heroes should be strongly considered, even if their effect only lasts 2 turns. Rigard, in particular, is someone you should hoard for upper levels of the Tower. I was using costumed Rigard without emblems up to Level 48. My Rigard tended to have high level troops to increase his toughness so you may want to save any emblemed Rigards, or any emblemed healers for that matter, for as late in the Tower as you can.

Important note on strategy. Because all of the usual mana/SS saboteurs (Proteus, Hel, Merlin, Peters, etc.) get reduced down to 1 turn, using mana control to lock down the bosses’ SS will not be a viable strategy. The other popular strategy with AoE hitting bosses is to use Cyprian, Boril and any reflection / riposte heroes to counterattack the bosses to death. Cobalt’s and Sapphire’s SS each have a fairly good chance of bypassing defense buffs, including counterattack. Onyx’s SS dispels and prevents buffs from being placed on your heroes. While this alone doesn’t rule out counterattack as a viable strategy, it makes it tough to pull off. On top of that, the Ninja bosses do not necessarily fire when they reach their first Charge level. The game randomizes when they fire once they reach 1x charge. Combined with the limited duration of riposte / reflection buffs and now that strategy is really dead at the higher levels of the Tower.

Carpet bombing could still be a way to beat the Tower, but the Fragile Floor reduces your payload of battle items. Even if you maxed the number of Arrows, Axes, Meteors and Dragon Attacks, you would only deal about 3,000 points of damage + some fire DoT from the Dragons. The bosses at the highest levels of the Tower all have 4,600+ HP. That 1,600+ HP gap is not an insurmountable hurdle to cross but it sure is risky if you don’t have your SS charged and diamond ready to pop.

This more or less leaves old fashioned color stacking and leveraged attack buffs / defense debuffs. While the latter does get crippled by the Erratic Time Chamber it does work. And if you plan your Oni Blessings wisely, your Average and Slow SS heroes can recharge fast enough. Speaking of which…

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Oni Blessings. You do not get any bonuses from clearing Oni Stones from the game board, but you do get to choose from Oni Blessings every third Level of the Tower. Some are more useful than others and someone will probably map out all of the options at each occurrence. Here’s my strategy for choosing Oni Blessings.

Choose the +5% mana generation Blessing every time it is available until you reach +15%. This is roughly the same as giving all your heroes level 29 mana troops. You probably could go even higher if you always choose the mana generation Blessing when offered. This bonus stacks with your mana troops. Note that a total of +20% will charge Slow SS in 10 tiles, +25% will charge Average SS in 8 tiles, +34% will charge Fast SS in 6 tiles and Slow SS in 9 tiles.

Choose the +5% critical hit Blessing if the mana generation Blessing isn’t available. This Blessing also stacks with crit troops. Once you get mana generation blessings high enough, you may as well take the critical hit Blessing and use only crit troops to maximize your chances of critical hits with tile damage. This critical hit chance is always on and is not crippled by the Erratic Time Chamber so you may as well take advantage of it. You won’t have many other ways of leveraging damage bonuses within the Erratic Time Chamber.

Choose +5% mana injection every 5th turn if neither of the above are also available. Arguably this mana injection might be more valuable than the crit Blessing. You are going to have to experiment on your own.

If none of the three above blessings are offered, choose whatever fits your play style the best. Note that there is a Blessing that spawns minions for your team every 5 turns. Those minions could displace more valuable minions like Queen of Heart’s Taunt minion or Lady of the Lake’s mana stealing minions. You cannot take back or change out any of the Blessings once you’ve chosen them. Plan ahead. I typically chose attack bonuses and HP injections.

Tower Coin

A new coin currancy added to the game. Used exclusively to summon in the Ninja Portal.

Thus far the Ninja Coins can only be gained from the Ninja Event as either progress rewards, stage rewards or final placement rewards. Oh and offers too…

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In Game Tool-Tip:

Used for a free summon at the Ninja Summon. You need 100 coins for one summon.
This Item can be received as a reward from the Ninja Tower

Share Your Teams & Results for Ninja Tower Level!

Post your teams in a comment down below, and how you did!

Which team did use for each Stage?
What Battle Items did you use, if any?
Which Stages did you defeat?
Would you do anything different next time?
Anything else interesting to share?

Ninja Heroes

To Discuss the Power or Effectivness of the Ninja Tower Heroes please use this thread:
🏯 Ninja Hero Thoughts & Discussion Thread

Beta Information on the Ninja Heroes: 🧪 Early Information on Ninja Tower Heroes (Epic & Legendary) [Part of The Beta Beat V32]

Ninja Tower Summons & Offers

The below section summarises the Odds & Offers for the two portals associated with the Ninja Tower Event.

Click for Portal Odds & Summon Costs

Ninja HERO Portal

Classic Heroes

Rare Classic Hero: 71%
Epic Classic Hero: 20.8%
Legendary Classic Hero: 1.5%

Ninja Heroes

Epic Ninja Hero: 5.7%
Legendary Ninja Hero: 1.0%

Bonus Draw

Legendary Hero of the Month: 1.3%

Summoning Costs

The costs of summoning are listed below
Single Summon:

100x "Tower Coins
300x Gems

10x Summon:

2600 Gems

There is currently no “30x” summon option

Avoiding Overspending & Heartache
Or: How many summons are needed to get a Ninja Hero?
Below Maths is current as of October 2020 portal.

	1x ~~US$3.00~~	10x ~~US$26.00~~	30x ~~US$77.99~~	100x ~~US$259.97~~	500x ~~US$1,299.87~~	1500x ~~US$3,899.63~~
Any Ninja Hero (4 or 5*)	6.70%	50.02%	87.51%	99.90%	100.00%	100.00%
Any 5* Ninja	1.00%	9.56%	26.03%	63.40%	99.34%	100.00%
A Specific 5* Ninja	0.20%	1.98%	5.83%	18.14%	63.25%	95.04%
Any 4* Ninja	5.70%	44.39%	82.81%	99.72%	100.00%	100.00%
Any Specific 4* Ninja	1.90%	17.46%	43.76%	85.31%	99.99%	100.00%
Any Ninja Troop	5.00%	40.13%	78.54%	99.41%	100.00%	100.00%
A Specific Ninja Troop	1.00%	9.56%	26.03%	63.40%	99.34%	100.00%
Please note that NO occurrence is ever actually 100%; the 100% entries in the table below indicate cumulative probabilities sufficiently close to 100% that they are expressed as such for simplicity. All other numbers are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
This table shows the cumulative probability of different Summon events, based on a total number of Summons (1x, 10x, 30x, 100x, 500x, 1500x, 2500x, 5000x & 10000x). Based on 10,000 gems costing 99.99 USD, I have also added an approximate $ cost too. (Each 30x Summons costs 8,000 gems or ~$79.99 USD).

Ninja Troop Portal

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Rare Classic Troop = 85%
Epic Classic Troop = 10%
Epic Ninja Troop = 5%

Summon Costs

You CAN use your Epic Troop Tokens (ETT’s) in the Ninja Portal. Gem Summon Costs remain the same:

1x = 200 Gems
10x = 1600 gems

Offers

Click for Offers Screenshots

prices in AUD & include tax

Questions?

If you have question that have not been answered above about the Ninja Tower Event Quest, please post them down below.

Related Threads

Historical Ninja Tower Threads:

Beta & Announcements

Guvnor · May 25, 2021, 7:00am

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Gocalek · May 26, 2021, 1:43pm

I have enough gems for 2 ten pulls from the ninja summon. Is it worth it or would you wait for other summons?

Ultra · May 26, 2021, 1:48pm

If you have most of the best ninjas, then it is not worth it. If you only have a few or none of them, it is always a good portal to have a chance getting Garnet, Onyx, Cobalt, Sapphire and Ametrine.

In the end, it is really up to you. Most F2Ps would advise to only summon using free keys, coins and tokens. But if you don’t mind spending extra money just to get enjoyment (and disappointment) from pixels, summoning from any portal wouldn’t be an issue for you, ain’t that right?

Gocalek · May 26, 2021, 2:11pm

I only have Shale. I don’t mind spending a bit here and there but I’m just wondering if there are better sumons to pull from.

Liam_K · May 26, 2021, 2:25pm

The main problem with the Ninja Portal is that there are no 3* ninjas. So if you don’t get a ninja, there is not much consolation prizes. If you summon in S3, S4, or the new Starfall Circus event, there are interesting and useful 3* and 4*s.

I only spend on the 300 token offers on Day 4 instead of using gems, but I’ve been lucky enough to pull Onyx and Ametrine.

Mr.Sabaton · May 26, 2021, 2:28pm

If you are a regular spender then do it, if you are C2P and want the most out of your gems then dont, you get way more value out of your gems if you use them on the S3 or S4 portal, that way even if you dont get a 5* (very likely) then you will end up with good 3 and 4*s.

TeslaTry · May 26, 2021, 2:31pm

Be ready for this

Ultra · May 26, 2021, 2:33pm

Yep. As @Mr.Sabaton have stated. The issue is if you already have the 3* heroes from those aforementioned portals. Then you’d be gunning for the 4*. Besides, Shale is one of the weakest ninjas out there. I don’t have him though. I have 2 Sapphires, 1 Ametrine and Jade (ugh!!) all from tower coins. Still want a 2nd Ametrine. But I’d settle for Garnet, Cobalt and Onyx. Lol

Gocalek · May 26, 2021, 2:37pm

I have all the 3 and 4 star classic heroes so my question remains the same really. Are the 4 and 5 star ninjas worth it if I get them. When is the circus going live?

Gocalek · May 26, 2021, 2:40pm

I can always wait for other summons

Mr.Sabaton · May 26, 2021, 2:44pm

Circus is coming in june so in only a few weeks. The problem with the ninja portal is that only 3 out of the 5 5* s are actually good so even if you get lucky to pull a 5* its still only a 60% chance to be a good one. If you dont have a huge I mean HUGE budget to keep pulling till you get those 3 then i would advise to keep your gems.

Gocalek · May 26, 2021, 2:46pm

Or maybe do a 10 pull and get some troops, inonly have 3 4* troops. All I’m getting is 3* from tokens

Luckman8 · May 26, 2021, 2:48pm

on my experience, if you summon first or second ninja portal most probably you will get jade first or mica unless you spend like 2-3 grand probably you will get cobalt onyx and garnett…

Gocalek · May 26, 2021, 2:49pm

That is very true. I don’t want to spend to much on this game, to many disappointments

Ranvir · May 26, 2021, 6:48pm

My 2 free pulls :

Ametrine is dupe but Yang Mai is new

cold_blood · May 26, 2021, 7:49pm

Really, i do not understamd why SG not give all 50 flags from the start of event?

Is like SG wants to see us every day in game, but they dont care about our life, just our money i guess.

Thats pretty sad, this game seems still nice, but it goes in a very wrong direction.

A lots of little improvements that exists in other games to make game more pleasant for players are missing, and this is just sad.

dawnsempires · May 26, 2021, 8:02pm

i think giving us all 50 flags at the start would be too much, but i would like to see the flags accumulate instead of go to waste. i would love to relax after a Sunday morning at church and just crank out Ninja Tower for the rest of the day–or however long it takes me to finish it haha.

Mr_Smile · May 26, 2021, 8:11pm

I think I’ve done 25 pulls for Ninja event troops just today…
I have been playing for more than a year ,maybe 1,5…so far no ninja troops