Team Building Guide

Overview

Building an effective team in Roco Kingdom: World requires balancing type coverage, energy management, and role distribution across a maximum of 6 spirits per team. Whether you are progressing through the main story, farming dungeons, or competing in PVP, your team composition determines your success. This guide covers the fundamental principles of team building, recommended compositions for every stage of the game, and the current PVP metagame.

Core Team Building Principles

Type Coverage

The element type system governs offensive and defensive interactions between spirits. A well-built team covers as many types as possible with super-effective attacks while minimizing shared weaknesses. Ideally, every common enemy type should be weak to at least one spirit on your team.

Energy Management

Every spirit skill in Roco Kingdom: World costs energy to use. Your team operates under an energy budget of 10 points, which means you cannot fill your team with six high-cost attackers and expect to sustain output over a multi-turn battle. The solution is mixing cheap skills (1 to 2 energy) with expensive finishers (4 to 5 energy). Healers and support spirits typically have lower energy costs, making them natural partners for energy-hungry damage dealers.

Role Distribution

Every competitive team needs a mix of roles. Stacking six attackers leaves you vulnerable to status effects and attrition, while stacking six supports means you cannot secure knockouts. The standard role distribution for a balanced team is outlined below.

Early-Game Team (Levels 1 to 15)

During the first 15 levels, your options are limited by story progression and available captures. The following team composition uses spirits that every player has access to and provides solid coverage for early-game content.

This team covers Fire (Dimo), Water (Duck Jiji), Flying (Storm Bird), and your chosen starter element. It provides mount access for both water and air travel, making it functional for both combat and exploration. Fill the flex slots with whatever strong spirits you find during early exploration.

Level 30+ Endgame: Attribute-Themed Teams

Once your spirits reach level 30 and beyond, the game opens up to attribute-themed team building. These teams focus on a single element type and leverage same-type synergy bonuses, specialized gear, and concentrated cultivation investment. Below are some popular endgame team archetypes.

Fire Team

Fire teams prioritize raw offensive power. Fire-type spirits tend to have the highest attack stats in the game, making them ideal for fast, aggressive play. The core of a fire team revolves around a primary fire attacker supported by fire-synergy spirits.

Water Team

Water teams focus on sustain and attrition. Water-type spirits often have access to healing and energy recovery moves, making them excellent for drawn-out battles where outlasting the opponent is the path to victory.

The Hidden Owl deserves special mention: its lifesteal and energy recovery combo makes water teams nearly self-sustaining in extended battles. This synergy is what makes water teams competitive against higher-damage archetypes.

PVP Meta Teams (Master Tier)

At the highest levels of PVP competition (Master tier), certain team compositions have emerged as dominant. The current meta features teams with approximately 80% win rates built around a core of four spirits with flexible options for the remaining slots.

Meta Core Spirits

Flex Slot Options

Notable Spirit Tier Rankings

The following tier list highlights the most impactful spirits for competitive team building. Tier 0 (T0) represents the absolute best, while Tier 1 (T1) represents strong picks that appear in most top compositions.

PVP Morale Point Management

In PVP, each player starts with a set number of morale points. Losing a spirit costs 1 morale point, and the match ends when one player's morale reaches zero. This system means that protecting key spirits is just as important as knocking out your opponent's spirits. Sacrificing a weak spirit to save a strong one can be a valid strategy.

• Protect Your Win Condition: If your team relies on one spirit (like Dragon Breath Parasus) for its core strategy, invest in keeping it alive.

• Sacrifice Strategically: Sometimes letting a less important spirit faint to gain positional advantage is the correct play.

• Count Morale: Always track both your own and your opponent's morale. Knowing when you can trade spirits favorably is critical.

• Morale Theft: If the opponent has Dragon Breath Parasus, eliminating it early prevents morale drain.

Weather and Time-of-Day Considerations

The world map features a dynamic day-night cycle and real-time weather system that affect spirit encounters and battle conditions. When building a team for exploration or farming, consider the following environmental factors.

• Rain: Strengthens Water-type moves and weakens Fire-type moves. Water teams gain an advantage in rainy conditions.

• Night: Dark-type spirits only spawn at night. Teams designed for night hunting should include spirits effective against Dark types.

• Fog and Blizzards: Reduce visibility and may alter encounter rates. Bring spirits with high accuracy or guaranteed-hit moves.

• Sandstorms: May boost Rock or Ground-type moves. Adjust your team if farming in desert zones during sandstorms.

Territory Trial Composition

The Territory Trial is a special game mode where pairs of spirits share abilities, requiring flexible team composition. In this mode, you need spirits that complement each other when paired, not just individually strong spirits. Consider the following when building for Territory Trial.

• Pair an attacker with a support spirit so the attacker benefits from healing or buff abilities while the support benefits from offensive moves.

• Avoid pairing two spirits with the same type; you want each pair to cover different matchups.

• Tank-attacker pairs are effective because the tank's durability gives the attacker more turns to deal damage.

• Test pairings in practice mode before committing to Territory Trial matches; some ability combinations are synergistic while others conflict.

Tips

• Always keep your energy budget in mind. A team of six 5-energy spirits will run dry before the battle ends.

• Diversify your spirit types to avoid being swept by a single counter-type opponent.

• In PVP, study the meta and build at least one team that can handle the core meta spirits (Swan, Iron Beast, Ice Pig, Fire Dog).

• The early-game team of Main Starter + Dimo + Storm Bird + Duck Jiji + flex is tried and tested; do not overthink early team building.

• Endgame teams benefit from focused investment; pick one attribute theme and max out those spirits before spreading resources thin.

• Check your spirit natures before investing; a bad nature can significantly reduce a spirit's effectiveness.

See Also

• Combat System - Turn-based battle mechanics and energy system

• Spirits - Complete spirit list

• Element Types - Type chart and matchup reference

• Spirit Cultivation - Training, leveling, and stat optimization

• PvP and Shining Contest - Competitive PVP modes

• Natures - How natures affect stat growth

• Territory Trial - Pair-based battle mode

• Dragon Breath Parasus - Season 1 legendary and PVP powerhouse