Starting out playing Dislyte can feel pretty daunting. There are so many ways to battle, so many ways to improve your Espers, and so many Espers to choose from. But the game does a good job of steering you through those early experiences with some set content – including giving you four-star Esper Mona early on in the main story.
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If you’re a F2P player, Mona could be the only four-star character you have for a while – only being slightly overshadowed by your first legendary five-star (either Li Ling or Tang Xuan). But just because everyone gets her early in the game doesn’t mean she can’t go the distance. Unlike some other Espers you’ll see early in the game, it’s not surprising to see Mona in some top-level squads.
Mona is categorised as a Fighter in your Esper list. This means her primary role is as a DPS squad member, dealing big damage while her teammates keep everyone alive or manipulate and control other aspects of the battle. Her abilities are:
She is capable of some serious damage against groups, especially early in the wave and when her crits land. She also has a decent self-heal that also hits enemy squads hard, while Moonshot makes her perfect for picking-off weak targets later in the battle.
It’s not easy finding extra copies of Mona, but if you are lucky with your Echo Spins, you’ll want to use duplicates to upgrade her by using Resonate (under the Growth tab). You have three options here – ATK, DEF and HP. As Mona is all about the DPS, and all her damage output is predicated on her ATK skill, boosting her ATK here is really the only sensible option.
One of the beauties of Mona is her simplicity. She has a clearly defined role in your squad, so you simply need to
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