The softened type chart and the five weather states

Why the chart is flatter

In the main games a resisted attack does almost nothing and an immunity does nothing at all. In a game where you have exactly one active move and the horde never stops coming, that would mean one unlucky matchup decides the run before you have a say. So the multipliers were pulled in.

How to use it while playing

The chart is not something you memorise before playing. It is something you use when you have a choice: which partner to bring, which arena to accept, whether to switch moves mid-fight. Because resisted damage is still damage, a resisted matchup is almost never a reason to walk away — it is a reason to expect the fight to take longer.

• A resisted matchup means longer fights, which means more incoming damage over the same clear. Budget health for it.
• An immunity matchup still kills things slowly, so a partner that struggles can still farm slowly instead of failing.
• Dual types multiply both ways, so a partner good against the wave is worse against a specific elite, and vice versa.
• Because the cap is ×2.4, the best type matchup can never be three times better than neutral. Do not build a whole route around one hard counter.

The five weather states

Weather runs during play and shifts which types are strong. Five states appear, and each favours a different cluster of types while pushing another cluster down.

Weather changes how you kite

Two of the five states change the floor, not just the damage numbers. Snow and ice arenas let you slide, water arenas slow you down, and lava arenas burn. That means your spacing has to be re-learned inside a rift arena, and the arena you enter is not something you choose — it comes from the legendary's type.

Fog is the dangerous one. Every other weather state changes a number or a surface. Fog changes how much warning you get, and warnings are what you survive on.

Types and arenas together

There are 18 types and 18 rift arenas, one per type. A legendary opens an arena built from its own type, which means the arena's weather, terrain and likely enemy mix all follow from one decision you made much earlier: which legendary you let open the rift.

For dual-type legendaries the game picks one of the two arena types at random, so the same boss can give you two very different fights. Expect that, and plan for the worse of the two.

A practical rule for partners

Most players should keep two answers rather than chase a perfect one: a partner that handles the bulk of the wave, and a partner that handles the elite that shows up in rifts. Swapping between them is cheap; relearning a whole route is not.

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