Summoners War: Why You Should Save Scrolls Before Major Updates

Stop spending your summoning scrolls, crystals, and Devilmons during quiet periods between major Summoners War patches. Holding these resources until an update or collaboration launches lets you participate in 10+1 scroll rebate events, utilize SP Summon banners for newly released monster families, and clear event milestone shops without extra spending.

10+1 Summon Refunds and Event Milestones

Summoning during an update lull reduces your overall summon volume. Major milestones—including new monster releases, collaboration patches, and anniversary events—routinely feature a scroll rebate mechanic.

During these promotional periods, every 10 Mystical Scrolls used returns one bonus Mystical Scroll. Opening 200 Mystical Scrolls outside of an event yields exactly 200 summons. Opening those same 200 scrolls during an active refund event yields roughly 220 or more summons as returned scrolls compound into additional pulls.

Major content updates also introduce multi-tiered milestone shops. These tracks award items such as Light & Dark Scrolls, high-tier runes, and Reappraisal Stones based on the number of summons you perform. Burning scrolls in advance deprives your account of simultaneous milestone progress for summons you planned to do anyway.

Targeted Rates Through SP Summon Banners

Whenever a new monster family arrives, the game enables a Special Summon (SP Summon) toggle on the summoning altar.

• Targeted Odds: The SP toggle increases the probability that any successful 4-star or 5-star lightning result pulls a monster from the newly introduced family.
• Preserved Rates: Activating SP Summon does not reduce the baseline chance to pull standard lightning; it only directs successful lightning pulls toward the featured pool.
• Pool Dilution: Summoning without an active SP window spreads your chances evenly across the entire permanent monster roster, drastically lowering your likelihood of obtaining new kits upon release.

Hoarding regular Mystical Scrolls, Legendary Scrolls, and Elemental Scrolls allows you to direct all accumulated summons into the SP pool the day the patch goes live.

Preserving Devilmons, Rainbowmon, and Essences

Acquiring a new natural 5-star monster offers little immediate benefit if the unit sits in storage without skill-ups. Devilmons are heavily time-gated, limited to guaranteed monthly sources such as the Glory Shop, Guild Shop, Trial of Ascension (ToA), and select events.

A newly acquired natural 5-star typically requires 10 to 14 Devilmons to minimize skill cooldowns and maximize effect activation rates. Expending Devilmons on secondary projects right before a patch risks leaving newly buffed or newly released monsters unusable.

Alongside Devilmons, save the following progression materials:

• 5-star Rainbowmon: Stockpile evolution fodder to promote new units to 6 stars immediately without burning energy on low-tier leveling.
• Awakening Essences: Pre-farm elemental and magic essences in the Cairos Halls during quiet periods so your daily energy can go entirely toward event farming on patch day.

Preserving Crystals for Energy Over Premium Packs

Avoid spending accumulated crystals on Premium Packs between updates. Release events regularly include high-yield reward shops that require thousands of spent energy to fully clear.

Purchasing summon packs leaves your crystal reserves depleted when high-efficiency farming events open. Keeping a surplus of crystals ensures you have the liquid currency needed to refill energy continuously during speed runs in Cairos Dungeon, letting you finish event tracks rapidly while farming necessary runes.

Pre-Patch Resource Allocation Summary