Invincible: Guarding the Globe Black Market Event Guide

To maximize your rewards in the Invincible: Guarding the Globe Black Market event, commit your strongest damage-focused heroes to the event GDA Op, spend your event currency strictly on elite hero copies and recruitment dossiers, and avoid spending gems on shop refreshes.

How the Black Market Event Loop Works

The Black Market event uses a closed progression loop:

Collect event access passes from daily login rewards and event quest milestones.
Spend passes to run the dedicated Black Market GDA Op.
Earn event tokens based on the number of waves your squad completes.
Spend event tokens in the limited-time Black Market shop for hero copies and summon materials.

Because access passes stop accumulating once they hit their storage cap, run your passes as soon as your best squad is available. Holding passes until late in the event risks capping your meter and losing free farming attempts. Furthermore, the Black Market GDA Op scales its token payout exponentially at higher wave thresholds, meaning deep wave clears return significantly more currency per pass than short runs.

Recommended GDA Op Squad Setup

The event combat timer punishes defensive, stall-heavy teams. Running multiple tanks or passive healers slows down clear speeds, causing your runs to time out at lower wave counts. Instead, prioritize rapid wave-clearing units and offensive utility.

Team Role	Recommended Unit Archetype	Strategic Function
Primary DPS	Fast AoE attacker (e.g., Invincible, Omni-Man)	Wipes enemy waves quickly before timers expire
Secondary DPS	Burst single-target or hybrid attacker	Cleans up durable boss targets
Offensive Support	Attack buff or speed provider (e.g., Robot)	Increases team damage and accelerates skill uptime
Utility Tank	Disruption or debuffer (e.g., Monster Girl, Titan)	Groups enemies and absorbs initial enemy burst damage

To maximize combat uptime, position your main damage dealer in the central frontline slot. This placement reduces travel time between enemy spawns so your carry deals damage continuously throughout the round. If you include a support hero, choose one that offers squad-wide offensive buffs or energy generation rather than pure health recovery.

Black Market Shop Priority

Event tokens are limited, so direct them into items that drive long-term account progression. Avoid spending tokens on basic resources that you can easily acquire from standard daily GDA Ops.

Top Priority — Elite Hero Copies: Always secure guaranteed duplicate copies of featured elite heroes. Rank promotions provide permanent stat scaling and represent the primary bottleneck in roster development.
High Priority — Recruitment Dossiers: Buy Special and Hero Recruitment Dossiers to fuel banner summons and progress account milestone rewards.
Situational — Targeted Rank-Up Materials: If you are actively gated by specific promotion materials for your core units, purchase them only after buying the available elite character copies.
Items to Skip: Avoid purchasing standard gold, common gear, and basic enhancement chips with event tokens.

Managing Shop Refreshes and Gems

Manually refreshing the Black Market shop with gems is a costly trap if you lack the currency to purchase new stock. If you spend gems to cycle the shop, you risk rolling high-value elite heroes that you cannot afford before the timer expires or the shop resets.

Rely on Free Refreshes: Let the shop's natural countdown timers refresh your inventory without spending gems.
When to Refresh Manually: Only consider a manual refresh if you have built a large surplus of event tokens and the current board contains no high-priority items.
Clear Low-Cost Items to Force Resets: Check whether buying out the remaining low-cost items with spare event tokens resets the shop board before you spend premium gems.
Spend Gems on Passes Instead: If you intend to invest gems into the event, use them to purchase extra event access passes rather than shop rerolls or standard banner pulls. High-wave GDA Op clears convert those passes into guaranteed shop currency, making pass purchases a more dependable route to acquiring elite hero duplicates.