Glossary

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

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

Ares: Ares Realm

SA or Arena: Soul Arena

Clash: Clash Events or units obtained from clash events.

Missions: Missions

HoH - Hell or Heaven difficulty.

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

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

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

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

Banner or Featured Unit: The units advertised in the banner that are not part of the Common Summon Pool.

Reroll: To continually create new accounts until a desired summon pull is reached.

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

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

HP: A unit’s maximum hit points.

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

LC: Link Counter, needed to activate skills.

PSV: Passives, extra skills a unit can obtain.

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

LB: Limit break of a Unit or Gear.

3. Battle
OLA: Overlink Arte

MA: Mystic Arte

Type Boost/Buff: An active that boost the damage on units by weapon type. (See Type Boosters)

Tile Boost/Buff: An active that boost the damage on units by the tile they are occupying on the board/field. (See Tile Boosters)

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

Double Tile Changer: Unit that change two types of tiles to another.

All Changer: Unit that changes all tiles to a single type of tile.

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

AOE - A unit’s arte that attacks all enemies. (See Category:Has AoE Arte)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shields: Iron Stance, where an enemy uses ‘shields’ which must be broken through to pierce the enemy’s defense.

4. Abilities/Skills
Active: Active Skill, the skill that requires LC to use.

LB: Link Boost. Accompanied by a number to indicate the level of Link Boost.

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

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

Finisher: Can also refer to the unit equipped with a MA intended to deal the significant damage of a boss fight.

5. Units
”Hawk” or “To Hawk”: To use hawk units to Limit break another unit.

Bride Sara P/E/G, Chester: Units from the June Bride Summon.

Pnonno, Enonno, Gnonno: Units from the Triad Blossom Summon.

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

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

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

Swim Milla/Asbel: Units from the Swimwear Summon.

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

Yggy: The 6 star Unit (Voice of Martel) Yggdrasill.

Stahn, Judith: When unclarified, refers to one of the two units from the Elemental Summon who have 3x tile boosts as active skills.

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

V. Sara or Vargas Sara: (Commander of Fire) Sara, a unit from the BF collaboration with a useful type boost skill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kratos: Unclarified, refers to the 4 star unit (Blademagic Master) Kratos with an Arte that will return damage dealt as HP.

Keele: Unclarified, refers to the 4 star unit (Craymel Mage) Keele with a turn delay Arte.

6. Gear
Elemental SR Weapons: Elemental SR weapons of each type found in Key of Weapon.

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

GE Weapons: Weapons from the forthcoming God Eater Collaboration that have strong offensive passives.

Bride Ring: Bridal Memories, a strong offensive gear capable of being equipped on all unit types, but is classified as armor.

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

Red Ribbon: Metellard Ribbon that gives immunity to ailments.

Nodus: Wingblade Nodus, a powerful slash weapon.

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

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

Orb/Sphere: Spheres give more exp when fusing items.

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

7. Stages
Thicket: Bewitching Thicket, a stage currently thought of to have the most EXP/stamina gain. EXP is x2 on Sunday.

Corina: Corina Mountain Road, a stage with high EXP/stamina gain. EXP is x1.5 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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

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

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

Prince ME: A prince Mana Eater, which is rare to find.

King ME: A king Mana Eater, only available on EXTREME stage of SA.

To rank: To finish a Soul Arena with a rank within the top tier of rank prizes.

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

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

9. Enemies
Cerbs: Cerberus bosses found only in the 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.

Centaur: Boss, found in the Ares Realm and Weapon Keys, are known for their diagonal freeze attack.

Liches or Reapers: Boss, commonly refers to the version found in Weapon Keys, typically attacks with status effects such as poison, sleep, and arteseals.

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.