Summoners Greed Best Teams

The elemental maps gate progression. Each wants the counter-element damage plus a specific immunity. After the recent update a single Dragon (any Draco Knight) can clear all of the elemental normal modes, so this is really about the harder difficulties.

• Ice Queen is a fire boss → bring lightning or ice damage + nothing that freezes on your side.
• Volcano Goddess is on ice maps → bring fire damage + Ra (or Icarus) for freeze immunity, or your team gets locked.
• King in Yellow turns every tower's attack into Cosmic — that's how you run your strongest non-Cosmic units in the Cosmic Tower.
• For the Kami Pantheon maps specifically, add Athena (stun immunity) and the matching elemental Mythical.

Flex / subs: Jiraiya on any ice map — top slow plus real damage · Genbu as a pure-attack ice option · Loand for the global stun on a chaotic wave

The hardest recurring content. These maps punish specific things — stun, freeze, tanky waves — so the loadout is your core plus the exact counters each one demands.

• Bring Ra to any endgame map that freezes; bring Athena to any that stuns — check the map before you start.
• Osiris still earns its slot on endgame maps you'll re-run for gold.
• Several of these placements assume Monster Cards (EMC/ZMC) are in the game — Poseidon and Horus in particular lean on theirs.
• King in Yellow for the Cosmic Tower's higher floors — everything else you've built becomes a Cosmic attacker while he's out.

Flex / subs: Leviathan for the Island endgame maps — he alone clears them · Loand for a global stun on an overwhelming wave · Devon as a second insta-kill body alongside Deathbite

The Cosmic Tower's Lord of the Tower gates progress at waves 33, 66 and 99 with huge HP pools that out-scale flat damage. Devon's percent-HP strip doesn't care about that scaling — pair it with Anubis's mark and it one-shots almost anything.

• Devon + Anubis is the core combo: Anubis marks, Devon's Death Ball strips a percentage of the marked target's current HP ignoring defence — a level 1 Devon can meaningfully dent a boss the moment it's marked.
• Documented by the YouTuber Grinnn ('How Devon Dominates The Cosmic Tower and the New Meta', Summoner's Greed) — the combo predates the 2026 roster additions but still holds with Medjed/Chillplume-era towers since it doesn't depend on any specific attacker's raw stats.
• Wave 66's Lord of the Tower specifically calls for Cosmic-affinity damage per the game's own Cosmic Tower mechanics (confirmed on the Summoner's Greed Fandom wiki as a factual cross-check) — The King in Yellow's conversion is the practical way to meet that without owning a native Cosmic Mythical.
• The Cosmic Tower is 99 waves total but only an 'Endless' mode in name — most players are really aiming to clear the wave 33/66/99 Lord checkpoints.

Flex / subs: Deathbite as a second insta-kill body if you don't have Devon starred up yet · Ra for freeze immunity if that particular season's Cosmic Tower rotation includes a freezing affix · Nyarlathotep or another native Cosmic Mythical in the King in Yellow's slot if you'd rather run him as your attacker instead

PvP resets every monster to level 1 on a new rotating map each season, so raw level doesn't matter — only your stars (from repeat summons), charms and the group of 10 you're laddering against. Build around the pieces that stay strong at level 1.

• PvP is not player-vs-player combat — it's a shared seasonal map where you and 9 other players in the same bracket race clears; per the game's own PvP mechanics (Summoner's Greed Fandom wiki, cross-checked), every monster's level resets to 1 each season, but star count and equipped charms do not.
• This is thin-signal territory for dedicated team-comp coverage — most available material (e.g. the YouTuber Grinnn's 'Best Layouts for Current PvP Season' and 'Best Layouts to Beat All PvP Seasons with Only Level 1 Monsters') is framed as level-1-only layout advice rather than a fixed named comp, so this entry is a documented synthesis of that framing plus the game's own stars/charms-persist mechanic rather than a single confirmed 'meta team'.
• Because base level is wiped, the pieces that matter most are the ones whose value isn't level-dependent: Anubis's mark, a maxed booster charm, and star count on your main attacker.

Flex / subs: Loand for a global stun if the current season's map throws a dense early wave · Osiris if the season rewards gold rather than PvP-specific currency for clears

Specials cost Evolution Stones to star up and there's never enough to max them all at once. This is the order the game's own utility roles argue for investing in first, not a battlefield lineup — get these five ahead of any Mythical chase.

• This ordering follows the 'return on Evolution Stones spent' framing from the YouTuber Grinnn's 'STOP WASTING TIME! Best Special Monster ROI Analysis (2026 Update)' — Specials that unlock a whole mode (Athena, Ra) or multiply the rest of the roster (Horus, Anubis) are argued to outperform starring up any single Mythical attacker early.
• This is a resource-priority list, not a deployed team — see Core Defense and Endgame for how these same five actually slot into a live map.
• Dedicated tier-list-creator coverage specifically for Special-monster ROI (as opposed to general Mythical tier lists) is thin for this game; treat the exact ranking as a documented synthesis of that one creator's framing plus the game's own mechanics (which modes hard-require which immunity) rather than a broad creator consensus.

Flex / subs: Move Ra above Athena if your account is further along in Volcano Goddess content than Kami Pantheon · Hanzo as a 6th pick once the above five are covered, purely for farm efficiency

Master's Challenge throws an elemental dragon boss at waves 9 (Fire), 18 (Ice) and 27 (Electric), then all three together at wave 30 — so the team isn't one fixed lineup, it's a stun/mark backbone plus a rotating attacker you swap in per dragon.

• The wave 9/18/27 Fire/Ice/Electric dragon order and the wave 30 triple-dragon finale are the game's own Master's Challenge structure (confirmed on the Summoner's Greed Fandom wiki as a factual cross-check, not a creator opinion).
• The Fire-beats-Ice and general 'answer the boss's element' logic follows the same counter pattern the community already uses for Ice Queen / Volcano Goddess (see the Elemental Bosses comp) — apply it per-dragon here instead of per-map.
• Dedicated wave-by-wave team coverage specifically for the Master's Challenge dragon gauntlet is thin online; the Electric-dragon and triple-dragon-finale picks here are a documented synthesis (element-neutral true damage in place of an unconfirmed direct counter) rather than a sourced 'best answer', flagged so it isn't read as confirmed meta.
• Master's Challenge itself unlocks once you own at least 18 unique monsters — this comp assumes you're past that gate already.

Flex / subs: Tezcatlipoca or Susanoo as a Lightning-damage swap-in if that performs better against the wave 9 Fire dragon than Ice damage for your roster · Ra as a permanent fixture rather than a swap if freeze immunity is otherwise the run-ending issue

Farming is its own loadout. The goal is to clear a repeatable map as fast as possible while multiplying the drop you're after — gold (for leveling) or Power Stones (for stars).

• The Ice Queen Nightmare map is the standard gold farm — pair Osiris with it.
• For Power Stones (star-up material), swap Osiris's gold multiplier thinking for the Power Stone drop-rate charm on your farm attacker.
• Hanzo is a classic dedicated farm unit — infinite-range special, put a gold or power-stone charm on her and leave her on the farm map.
• Don't farm a map you can't clear near-instantly — a slow clear is worse than farming an easier map faster.

Flex / subs: Hanzo as a self-contained farm carry · Deathbite + Anubis if the farm map has a tanky wave · Moby with a Lucky charm specifically on the Pirate Cat / Island farm maps

There's no single fixed team in Summoners Greed — you build one strong core and swap one or two towers per map. This is that core: a booster, a slow, a damage mark, and your best attacker, with a flex slot for the map's element.

• Slot count grows as you progress — early on you're choosing 4–5, later you have room for the full core plus swaps.
• Early game, one cheap Legendary as the main attacker (Ash / Frostbite / Puffy / Kevin) carries fine. Level ONE of them high rather than spreading resources.
• Osiris goes in whenever you're farming (see the Farming setup) — 1.5× gold is worth a slot on any map you'll run many times.
• Deathbite + Anubis is the standard 'delete everything' pair for the hardest maps — Deathbite needs no leveling.
• Put boosters where their aura actually covers your damage dealers — placement matters as much as the picks.

Flex / subs: Ra or Icarus on freeze maps (Volcano Goddess) for freeze immunity · Athena on Kami Pantheon / Spectre Club / Meat of the Matter for stun immunity · Deathbite or Devon as the insta-kill partner for Anubis on final maps · Daji when the map wants love-stun

The Evil Summoner steals 5-9 of your fielded towers after waves 1 and 2, so the whole team is built to look expendable. Cheap decoys eat the thefts, your real damage stays hidden until wave 3, and Cheebs semi-permanently stun-locks the final boulder-throwing golem.

• The Evil Summoner is the game's first Challenge Map: 3 waves, and after waves 1 and 2 she steals a batch of your currently-fielded towers (5-6 on Normal, 8-9 on Hard) before letting you refill the empty slots from your roster.
• The standard counter, per the Summoner's Greed community and the YouTuber Grinnn's Evil Summoner guides (including 'Evil Summoner Strategy Guide 2026: Best Way to Get Power Stones Fast'), is simple: never let your main attacker or Anubis touch the field until wave 3 — only cheap, replaceable towers should be up before then.
• The Cheebs stun-lock (Speedy/Horus + Cheebs targeting a boulder near the Mystical Giant - Final Form) is a specific tech documented in the same creator's Evil Summoner content and still works because it depends on Cheebs's own kit, not a rotating roster pick.
• This map is farmed repeatedly for Power Stones once you can clear it consistently, since gear/star progress carries over between runs even though the thefts don't.

Flex / subs: Deathbite in the 'held back' attacker slot for a guaranteed finish once it's revealed · Athena if a given season's Evil Summoner rotation adds a stun affix to the golem