Glossary

General
<50% and >50% or 2x: Leader skills of type “Boost ATK by x% when under/at 50%+ HP.” (See Conditional Leader)

4x Leads: Using a leader and a friend both with leader skills of type “Boost ATK by x% when under/at 50%+ HP.”

Active: Active Skills, the skill that requires LC to use.

All Lead: See also Rainbow. Leader skills that give boosts to all unit types. (See LS Boosts All ATK/HP)

All Changer: A unit that changes all tiles to a single type of tile. (See All Tile Changer)

AOE: A unit's arte that attacks all enemies. Derived from "Area of Effect". (See Category:Has AoE Arte.)

Arena: Soul Arena

Ares: Ares Realm

Arte Healer: See also Vamp. A unit whose arte will return damage dealt as HP. (See Arte Healers.)

ATK: A unit’s base damage dealt to enemies.

Awakening: The system by which some 5-star units can be upgraded to a 6-star version. Awakening a unit gives them additional passives, improvements to their leader skills and active skills, higher stats, and a larger herb limit.

Badge: Banner Unit: See also Featured Unit. The units advertised in a summon that are not part of the Common Summon Pool.
 * The Awakening Material that is specific to a particular unit.
 * Link Badge, used to exchange for items in the Exchange Market.

Base Stats: The stats of a unit before accounting for herbs or passives.

Bazooka: Gardina SR elemental weapons.

Bell: Bash and spell, used in conjunction with describing leader skills.

BF Weapons: Weapons from the Brave Frontier Collaboration that give elemental damage reduction.

Blitz: A strategy that involves going in with high ATK and defeating an enemy quickly. See Double Barbatos/Barb for an example.

Blood Boost: An active skill that reduces the player's HP in order to boost the ATK of all units. (See Category:AS Boosts Other ATK.)

Bride Ring: Bridal Memories, a strong offensive armor often equipped on non-Slash Mystic Arte users due to its Link Finisher passive.

Brush: Schreibpinsel SR elemental weapons.

Centaur: Boss, found in Ares Realm and Key of Weapon, stages, are known for their diagonal freeze attack.

Cerbs: Cerberus bosses found only in Ares Realm, known for their status effects attacks, foremost the freeze status effect. They are difficult to defeat because of a hit-all-tile attack.

Chakram: Atrana SR elemental weapons.

Clash: Clash Events or units obtained from clash events.

Cloak: Usually refers to Crescent Cloak ++, a strong offensive armor often equipped on non-Slash Mystic Arte users due to its Link Finisher passive.

Cockroach: Refers to an active skill that allows a battle to continue even if you reach 0 HP. Units with skills of this type include (Celestial Judgement) Kratos, (God-General) Dist, and (Lending a Hand) Senel.

Corina: Corina Mountain Road, a stage that formerly had high EXP/stamina gain during certain times.

CT Weapons: Also called CQ Weapons. The UR weapons obtained from the Challenging Trial.

Cutoff: The mana obtained by the last player in the highest tier of ranks in a Soul Arena.

Delayer: A unit whose arte will delay an enemy or enemies for a certain number of turns. (See Delayers.)

Den: Mana-Eater's Den, the highest-difficulty stage in Soul Arena. Favored for its high mana to stamina ratio.

Desperation: Desperation/DoA/CT/CQ Hammer: Mystech Hammer ver. 3, the UR bash weapon obtainable from the Challenging Trial. Valued because the significant boost to ATK it provides at low HP makes it work very well in a Desperation strategy.
 * A massively powerful attack some bosses use when they hit a certain HP threshold. Usually preceded by a countdown of a few turns, it often results in a Game Over for the player.
 * A gameplay strategy involving the use of various skills, unit passives (especially Desperation Healer), and gear to greatly boost the damage of a Mystic Arte used at very low health.

DoA: Dead or Alive. Another way to refer to a Desperation strategy.

Double Barbatos/Barb: A strategy involving using (Hero Killer) Barbatos as your leader and a friend leader. The resulting Mystic Arte damage in battle will be multiplied immensely due to the leader skills (3x and 3x). Often paired with a link boost strategy, in which units with high Link Boost passives are used to start the battle with enough LC to defeat an enemy in as few as a single turn.

Double Tile Changer: Sometimes referred to as 2>1 tile change. Unit that change two types of tiles to another.

Dragon: The typical enemy boss of Soul Arena, but can be found in other areas. They usually hit hard and attack every turn after their initial turn countdown when in Soul Arena.

Edna Weapons: Powerful UR fire weapons from the Fire Element Challenge event.

Elemental SR Weapons: Sometimes referred to as the prismatic series. Elemental SR weapons of each type found in Key of Weapon stages.

Featured Unit: See also Banner Unit. The units advertised in a given summon that are generally not part of the Common Summon Pool.

Finisher: Finisher Count: See also Kill count. Number of enemies a unit has defeated, typically to obtain a passive.
 * Link Finisher, usually accompanied by a number to indicate the level of the passive.
 * The unit equipped with a MA intended to deal the significant damage of a boss fight.

Force: Forcefulness. Accompanied by a number to indicate the level of the passive.

G5: A summon that guarantees a 5-star character in a multiple-unit draw. The roster usually consists of previously issued units, and there is a limit to how many times one can summon from it; after the limit is reached, either the summon becomes unavailable or the 5-star guarantee disappears.

Gacha: Summons. Derived from “Gashapon”, refers to a limited time pool containing different characters you can summon using stones.

GE Weapons: Weapons from the GOD EATER 2 Collaboration that have strong offensive passives.

Global: The World Wide version of Tales of Link encompassing the EUR/CAN/CHN/TWN/USA localizations.

Gravity: Refers to an Active Skill that inflicts damage as a percentage of the enemy's current health; units with skills of this type include (Hot-blooded Punk) Stahn, (Hero Killer) Barbatos, and (Bladerang Maestro) Malik.

GST: Guardian Summon Ticket, usually used in the plural.

Grind: Playing a stage or stages over and over again rapidly to accumulate EXP, gear, mana, etc.

“Hawk” or “To hawk”: To use hawk units to limit break another unit, raising its maximum level.

“To herb”: To use herbs or similar items to increase a unit's stats.

HoH: Hell or Heaven difficulty.

HP: A unit's maximum hit points.

HP Drop/Reduction Boost: See Blood Boost.

Japan/JPN/JP: The Japanese version of Tales of Link.

Kill Count: See also Finisher Count. Number of enemies a unit has defeated, typically to obtain a passive.

King ME: A king Mana Eater. Can only be encountered in the Mana-Eater's Nest and Mana-Eater's Den stages of Soul Arena.

KoW: Key of Weapon, a Key stage used to farm gear from the chosen type and evolve materials.

Kush: Kusharama SR elemental weapons.

Lailah Weapons: Powerful UR water weapons from the Sorceress of Eternal Flame event.

LB: LB0: Refers to the maximum level that a unit or piece of equipment can achieve without being limit broken. Usually used when referring to stats.
 * Limit break of a Unit or Gear.
 * Link Boost. Accompanied by a number to indicate the level of Link Boost.

LC: Link Counter, needed to activate skills.

LF: Link Finisher. Accompanied by a number to indicate the level of the passive.

Liastora: See also White Armor. Radiant Liastora, an armor with a strong support passive.

Lich: See also Reaper. Boss, commonly refers to the version found in Weapon Keys, typically attacks with status effects such as poison, sleep, and arteseals.

MA: Mystic Arte

Malik: Key of Malik, a Key stage used to increase Finisher/Kill Counts.

ME: Mana Eater(s). This mainly refer to Rare ME, but there are also Normal ME.

Metal/Ingot/Ore: Metals are gear intended to be sold for gald.

Mikleo Weapons: Powerful UR wind weapons from the Wind Element Challenge event.

Missions: Missions

MLB: Max Limit Break, when a gear or a unit has been limit broken fully.

Multi: A summon that gives multiple units. Usually refers to spending 50 Hero Stones on a summon event to receive 10 units, although these numbers may vary depending on the summon.

Nest: Mana-Eater's Nest, the second-highest difficulty stage in Soul Arena.

Nodus: Wingblade Nodus, a powerful slash weapon with a Link Finisher passive.

OLA: Overlink Arte

Orb: PA: Power Awakening, one manifestation of the Awakening system that can be used to evolve some 5-star units into 6-star units.
 * See also Sphere. Spheres give more exp when fusing items.
 * Any of the various types of Awakening Material that are not character-specific.

Prince ME: A prince Mana Eater, which rarely appears in HoH levels and below of Soul Arena.

PSV: Passives, extra skills a unit can obtain.

Rainbow: See also All. Leader skills that give boosts to all unit types. (See All Boosters)

“To rank”, “to T1”: To finish a Soul Arena with a rank within the top tier of rank prizes.

Rank Up: The act of repeatedly completing high EXP stages to increase Account Rank and refresh the stamina bar.

RCV Armor: See also White Armor. Radiant Liastora, an armor with a strong support passive.

RCV: A unit’s base recovery/healing rate.

Reaper: See also Lich. Boss, commonly refers to the version found in Weapon Keys, typically attacks with status effects such as poison, sleep, and arteseals.

Red Ribbon: Metellard Ribbon, an armor that gives immunity to ailments.

Red Ring: Promeggle Liberator, an armor that can heal HP based on an unit's RCV when the unit kills an enemy.

Reroll: To continually create new accounts until a desired unit is obtained through summoning.

Ribbon: Unless otherwise specified, Metellard Ribbon, an armor that gives immunity to ailments

“To ring”: To use an Element Ring to change a unit's hidden element.

“To roll”, “a roll”, “to pull”, “a pull”: To spend Hero Stones in a summon event.

Rush: The rapid increase of accumulated mana of the upper tier of ranks during the last few hours of a Soul Arena event.

SA: Soul Arena

Sac Boost, Sacrifice Boost: See Blood Boost.

SAO Gear/Units: Gear obtained in the Sword Art Online Collaboration, all earth element. Units obtained are typically referring the Ludger and Milla won from the event.

Scuba Gear/Snorkel: Summer Memories, an armor sporting a strong attack stat and an Aura chance increasing passive (see Aura Plus).

Shields: Iron Stance, where an enemy uses ‘shields’ that must be broken before the player can deal full damage.

Single: See also Yolo. The first roll of a summon event that guarantees a 4 star or above unit.

Sphere: See also Orb. Spheres give more exp when fusing items.

Splash: Slash and spell, used in conjunction with describing leader skills.

Sustain: See also Tank. A gameplay strategy that involves using two HP/ATK leads and weathering enemy attacks for a long battle.

TA: True Awakening, a term borrowed from the Japanese version to refer to EX Awakening. One manifestation of the Awakening system that can be used to evolve some 5-star units into 6-star units.

“Tank”, “to tank”: See also Sustain. A gameplay strategy that involves using two HP/ATK leads and weathering enemy attacks for a long battle.

Thicket: Bewitching Thicket, a stage formerly valued for its high stamina to EXP ratio.

Thrash: Thrust and slash, used in conjunction with describing leader skills.

Tile Boost/Buff: An active skill that boosts the ATK of units occupying certain types of tiles on the board/field. (See Tile Boosters.)

Tile Changer: An active skill that changes tiles into another tile. (See Tile Changer.)

Towers: Trial Tower

Type Boost/Buff: An active that boost the ATK of units of a certain weapon type. (See Type Boosters)

Vamp/Vampire: See also Arte Healer. A unit whose arte will return damage dealt as HP. (See Arte Healers)

Vamp/CT/CQ Bow: Bow of Ralmutoluk, the UR shot weapon obtainable from the Challenging Trial. Prized for allowing the wielder to sometimes restore HP based on damage dealt, much like an Arte Healer.

Weapon Key: Key of Weapon, a Key stage used to farm gear from the chosen type and evolve materials. This is also sometimes used to grind account level.

White Armor: See also RCV Armor. Radiant Liastora, an armor with a strong support passive.

“Yolo”, “to yolo”: To spend 5 stones on a summon event for a single unit. May or may not refer to a first pull.

Units
AnniSara or Anniversara: (Anniversary Dress) Sara, an arte healer and HP/ATK leader for all types.

Archer Kratos: (Unifying Calm) Kratos, a unit with Link Boost 4.

Armpit Kana: (Gentle Soul) Kana, an arte healer slash unit with two Forcefulness passives. AsuMilla: (Flash of White) Milla, a unit from the Sword Art Online Collaboration with a useful boost active skill.

Barbatos/Barb/Barby: (Hero Killer) Barbatos, known for his 3x leader skill and Link Boost 5.

Basketball or BBall Jude: (Intelligentsia) Jude, a unit with a 2.2x conditional leader skill and extremely high HP with passives.

Beginner Yuri: (Shadowed Judge) Yuri, a unit known for his spell/thrust leader skill and delay arte. One of the only beginner units to not be featured in the common summon pool.

Beginner [Unit]: In general, refers to the units available in the beginner summon.

BF Milla: (Duty Fulfiller) Milla, a 4 star HP/ATK leader for all types from the Brave Frontier Collaboration.

Blushing Luke: (Blushing in Finery) Luke, one of the highest ATK stat units currently available.

Bodybuilder Panonno/Pnonno/Pasca: See Pnonno. Specifically refers to the Triad Blossom variant.

Bride Kana, Bride P2, Bride E2, Bride G2, (Bride) Zephyr: Units from the Bridal Collection Summon.

Bride Sara, (OG) Bride P, (OG) Bride E, (OG) Bride G, (Bride) Chester: Units from the June Bride Summon.

Butler Alvin/Lloyd: Units from the Maid & Butler Summon.

Cheer/Cheerleader Flynn/Emil/Colette/Marta: Units from the Cheerleader Summon.

Christmas Milla: (Early Christmas Gift) Milla, a unit with Link Boost and high attack for a spell unit.

Christmas Ludger/Luke/Kanonno/Cheria/Rose: Units from the Knotty Holy Night Summon.

Common Estelle: (Humanitarian Noble) Estelle, a HP/ATK leader for 3 types valued for her 3.0x tile boost skill.

Cowgirl Pascal: (Skimpy Cowgirl) Pascal, an arte healer from the School Festival Summon.

Dhaos: Unless otherwise specified, refers to the 6-star unit (Man Who Stands by God) Dhaos.

Dezel: Unless otherwise specified, refers to (Reticent Avenger) Dezel, a HP/ATK leader for all types valued for his arte healing ability and all-tile change.

Disappointment Ludger: See Kimono Ludger. The only 5-star arte healer to have an arte that does less than 250% damage.

Eleanor: (Expert Lancer) Eleanor, an arte healer in the common summon pool valued for her 1.5 HP/2.0 ATK leader skill for 3 types and her active heal skill.

FHM Tear: (Fonic Hymn Master) Tear, a unit known for high RCV stats.

Forcehawk, PA Hawk: (Breaker of Limits) Forcebird, a hawk unit that can be used to limit break 5-star units eligible for Power Awakening.

GE Edna, GE Reid, GE Judith, GE Veigue: Units from the GOD EATER 2 Summon.

GM Rita: (Grand Mage) Rita, a unit with a rare cheap tile change active skill.

Gymnastics Colette: (Gymnastics Rep) Colette, a slash unit from the Athletics Festival Summon that becomes stronger at low HP.

Halloween Emil/Elize/Rita/Saleh/Meredy: Units from Halloween Horror Summon.

Halloween Judith/Kongwai/Jade/Arche: Units from Trick or Treat Summon.

Halloween Judith/Kongwai/Jade/Arche 2.0: Units from Tales of Halloween Summon.

IColette, IAnise, ILeia, IReala, IKohaku or IMColette, IMAnise, IMLeia, IMReala, IMKohaku: Units from The Idolmaster Collaboration Summon.

Idol Alisha/Marta/Rose/Shirley or IAlisha, IMarta, IRose, IShirley: Units from the Idolmaster Crossover Summon.

Idol Kor: (Shining Idol) Kor, a unit from the School Festival Summon.

Keele: Unless otherwise specified, refers to the 4-star unit (Craymel Mage) Keele with a turn delay Arte.

Kimono Ludger: (New Year's Kimono) Ludger, a unit known for his arte healing ability.

Kiriger: (Twin Swords of Shadow) Ludger, a unit obtained from the Sword Art Online Collaboration.

Knight Yuri: (Knight's Garb) Yuri, a unit from the School Festival Summon valued for his Link Boost, delay arte, and ATK-boosting active skill.

Kratos: Without modifiers, may refer to either the 4-star unit (Blademagic Master) Kratos, with an Arte that will return damage dealt as HP; or the 6-star unit (Celestial Judgement) Kratos.

Login Milla: (The Final Arbiter) Milla, a 5 star HP/RCV leader for all types.

Login/Freebie/Welfare/Poverty/Walmart Sorey: (Reunited Traveler) Sorey, a 5-star HP/ATK leader for all types.

LoL Asbel: (Lord of Lhant) Asbel, a unit with both a Mystic Arte and a turn delay Arte.

Magical Girl/Mahou Shoujo Estelle: (Sparkly Magic Girl) Estelle, a unit from the School Festival Summon.

Magilou: Unless otherwise specified, refers to (Master Sorceress) Magilou, a 6-star unit whose high multiplier conditional leader skill makes her valued as an alternative to using (Hero Killer) Barbatos.

Maid Milla/Tear: (Gorgeous Barmaid) Milla and (Blushing Maiden) Tear, units from the Maid & Butler Summon.

Mieu Tear/Luke/Norma/Keele: Units from the Mieu & Masters Summon.

New Asbel or Newbel: (Veteran of the Sword) Asbel, a common summon pool unit prized for his 3.0x circle boost active skill.

New Year's/NY Yuri: (New Year's Prayer) Yuri, a unit with a delay arte and high Link Boost passive.

NY Leon/Sara/Kana/Pasca or Pnonno or Panonno: Units from the New Year Summon.

Orchestra Sorey/Luke/Mint/Cress: Units from the Tales of Orchestra Concert 20th Anniversary Summon.

Parka Asbel or Parkabel: (Vest Parka Wearer) Asbel, an arte healer, 2x type booster, and HP/ATK leader.

Phoenix: Unless otherwise specified, refers to the 6-star unit (Aspiration Reborn) Phoenix, a bash unit with a Mystic Arte obtainable outside of Soul Arena.

Pnonno or Panonno, Enonno, Gnonno or Ganonno: P. Kanonno, Kanonno E., and Kanonno G., respectively. If not otherwise specified, refers to their units from the Triad Blossom Summon.

Rainbow Jude: (Encounter at Sea) Jude, a HP/ATK leader for all types valued for his 3.0x tile boost active skill.

Rainy Asch/Kohaku/Leon/Sophie: Units from the Rainy Tone Summon.

Ristelle: (UA) Estelle & Rita, the first 5-star Unison Arte unit in Global.

SA Unit: The 5-star unit received from a character's respective Soul Arena.

Santa Ludger: (Scattered in the Night) Ludger & Elle, a unit known for its active skill that increases damage at the cost of HP.

School Stahn/Leon/Muzet/Elize: Units from the Campus Legends Summon.

Series [Unit]: Units from the Series Collection Summon.

Shieldbel, Tankbel: (Enlightened Warrior) Asbel, a common pool unit notable for his elemental shield passives, particularly his Earth Shield.

SoS Luke: (Sword of Swords) Luke, an awakenable unit used as a slash/spell leader.

Stahn, Judith: Unless otherwise specified, refers to the units from the Elemental Summon who have 3x tile boosts as active skills and 1.5x HP/ATK for all units as leader skill.

Spinonno: (Bedside Goddess) Kanonno G., a unit from the Knotty Holy Night Summon. Known for her wide utility (link boost, high-ATK arte healer, all-tile changer, HP/ATK lead) as well as her idle animation, in which she perpetually spins around. Sports Colette/Tear/Kratos/Jude: Units from the Athletics Festival Summon.

Swim/Summer Milla/Asbel/Jude/Cheria: Units from the Swimwear Summon.

Swim Tear: (Swimming Rep) Tear, a spell unit with a delay arte.

V. Kanonno or VNonno: (Present for You) Kanonno E., a Valentine-themed unit from Valentine's/Special Outfit Summon. Highly valued for her wide utility (inexpensive tile change, link boost, high-ATK arte healer).

V. Sara, VSara, Vargas Sara: (Commander of Fire) Sara, a unit from the Brave Frontier Collaboration with a useful type boost skill.

Valentine Marta/Kanonno or Earheart/Pascal/Reala: Units originally from 2015 Valentine's summon, first available for Global in the Special Outfit Summon.

Vampire Saleh: (Wicked Vampire) Saleh, a thrust arte healer.

Velvet: Unless otherwise specified, refers to (Journey of Vengeance) Velvet, a 6-star unit with a 2-turn delay arte, Link Boost, and a 3.0x tile boost active skill.

Waiter Alvin/Lloyd: Units from the Maid & Butler Summon.

Watermelon Luke: (Evening Stroll) Luke, a slash unit with a Desperation Healer ability and a MA.

Werewolf Emil: (Fearsome (?) Werewolf) Emil, a 3.0x attack booster for circles.

Witch Rita: (Sweets Magician) Rita, a 1.6x HP/ATK leader for slash/spell that also has a delaying arte.

WotA Leon: (Warrior of the Abyss) Leon, a unit known for its Desperation Healer ability combined with MA.

Ygg or Yggy: The 6-star unit (Voice of Martel) Yggdrasill.

Yukata Estelle/Luke/Rita/Tear/Yuri: Units from the Summer Fes Summon.