Axie Infinity: Beginner`s Guide

Introduction

This is an Axie Infinity Class Guide. It starts off with how your class influences your playstyle: learn how to deal 25% additional damage and calculate your stats. After that we dive into the class-specific section, which is an extensive overview of body parts, who decide what cards (abilities) an Axie has.

What classes can you choose from?

Axie Infinity has a total of 9 classes that have been released to the game. Three of these are special classes that do not have their own Body Parts (or Class Cards). I have not concluced them in the Class Guide for that reason, because this guide mainly showcases Class Body Parts.

•  Aquatic
•  Beast
•  Bird
•  Bug
•  Dawn
•  Dusk
•  Mech
•  Plant
•  Reptile

Class advantages

The class of an Axie is important for combat, because each class is weak and strong against other classes. The Axie that has the class advantage will deal 15% additional damage. The Axie that has the class disadvantage will deal 15% less damage. For example, a Bird class Axie deals 15% additional damage to a Beast class Axie.

In addition, when an Axie of a certain class uses a card from its own class, it gets a 10% attack and shield bonus. For example, a Plant Axie playing a plant card will receive 10% extra attack/shield.

Important to note is that these bonuses stack. A Beast Axie using a Beast card against a Plant target will do 25% (10% + 15%) more damage.

Attributes

There are 4 stats in the game, Health, Morale, Skill and Speed.

• Health: The amount of damage your Axie can take before being defeated.
• Morale: Morale increases critical strike chance. It also makes entering last stand more likely and adds more last stand “ticks”.
• Skill: Skill adds damage when an Axie plays multiple cards at once (combo). The extra damage is calculated like this: (card attack * skill )/ 500.
• Speed: Speed determines turn order. Faster Axies attack first. Speed also decreases an Axie’s chance of being the victim of a critical strike. If two Axies have the same speed, this is how attack order is determined: High speed > Low HP > High Skill > High Morale > Low Fighter ID.

An Axie’s stats are dependent on two variables: its class and its body parts. For instance the base stats of an Aquatic Axie (body) are: 39 HP, 39 Speed, 35 Skill and 27 Morale. Each card will add stats based on the type:

• Aquatic: +3 Speed, +1 HP
• Beast: +3 Morale, +1 Speed
• Bird: +3 Speed, +1 Morale
• Bug: +3 Morale, +1 HP
• Plant: +3 HP, +1 Morale
• Reptile, +3 HP, +1 Speed

An Axie is a ‘pure breed’ when its class and all of its body parts are of the same type. The ‘pureness’ of the Axie can be set as a filter on the Axie Marketplace, ranging from 1 to 6 body parts that are the same type as the selected class.

Axie Infinity – Class guide

The class guide shows all of the body parts for each class. An Axie has 6 body parts: eyes, ears, horns, mouth, back and tail. Each body part will determine the card (ability) the Axie can use in battle, except for the eyes and ears. The eyes and ears do not have a card (ability) connected to them. For each body part we will show the following information:

• Tier (taken from the Card Tier List on Axie Zone)
• Body Part
• Card Name
• Energy, attack, defense (shown as ‘Ene/Att/Def’)
• Card Description

Keep in mind that an Axie is not restricted to only using cards from its own class. However, it is beneficial to play cards from your own class to gain a 10% bonus to Attack & Defense points.

The goal of this overview is to help you learn about the cards in the game. Sorting the Cards by Body Part has helped me a great deal in understanding what does and doesn’t work for each class. After each overview of Body Parts I have added a gallery showing what the Body Parts look like. This will help you learn to identify what cards can be played, just by looking at the Axie.

Secret Classes

There are three “secret” classes in Axie Infinity. The three Secret classes are:

• Mech: Offspring of a purebred Beast Axie and a purebred Bug Axie.
• Dawn: Offspring of a purebred Plant Axie and a purebred Bird Axie.
• Dusk: Offspring of a purebred Reptile Axie and a purebred Aquatic Axie.

The “Mech” class is often referred to as “Nut”. The “Dawn” class is often reffered to as “Star”. The “Dusk” class is often referred to as “Moon”.

The Secret Classes are quite hard to breed, because you need a specific combination of two purebred Axies. Even then, there is only a 33% chance to create a Secret Class when producing offspring.

Secret Classes benefit from class advantages and disadvantages, but they do not have their own Body Parts/Cards. Remember that when an Axie plays a card belonging to its class it gets a 15% shield/attack bonus. However, since there are no secret class cards— this was making secret classes weak compared to the other 6 classes. To fix this, the secret classes get the following bonus when playing cards from the classes they share advantages/disadvantages with:

• Dusk: 7.5% class bonus for Reptile & Plant cards.
• Dawn: 7.5% class bonus for Bird & Aquatic cards.
• Mech: 7.5% class bonus for Beast & Bug cards.

This has been implemented as of Season 6.

What makes Secret Classes different?

Secret Classes have different colors and base stats.

 Aquatic Class

Aquatics are strong against: Beast, Bug, Mech.
Aquatics are weak against: Reptile, Plant, Dusk.

Attributes

The base stats for the Aquatic class Axie are:

Each Aquatic card will give the Axie an additional 3 Speed and 1 HP. Playing Aquatic class cards will give an additional 10% damage bonus, but you are not limited to using only Aquatic class cards.

With high Speed and good HP the Aquatic Axie is incredibly versatile. An Aquatic Axie can be a good Off-tank with, because of high base HP and cards like Sponge. However, because of high Speed and cards like Perch and Piranha the Aquatic Axie can also be a very high damage backdoor Attacker.

Card Tier List

Body Part: Mouth

Body Part: Horn

Body Part: Back

Body Part: Tail

Beast Class

Beasts are strong against: Reptile, Plant, Dusk
Beasts are weak against: Aquatic, Bird, Dawn

Attributes

The base stats fort he Beast class Axie are:

Each Beast card will give the axie an additional 3 Morale and 1 Speed. Playing Beast class cards will give an additional 10% damage bonus, but you are not limited to using only Beast class cards.

Card Tier List

Body Part: Mouth

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Body Part: Horn

Body Part: Back

Body Part: Tail

 Bird Class

Birds are strong against: Beast, Bug, Mech
Birds are weak against: Reptile, Plant, Dusk

Attributes

The base stats for the Bird class Axie are:

Each Bird card will give the Axie an additional 3 Speed and 1 Morale. Playing Bird class cards will give an additional 10% damage bonus, but you are not limited to using only Bird class cards.

The high Speed and Morale of the Bird Axie makes it a great choice for the role of “Attacker”. An “Attacker” Axie has at least 2 high damage cards (100+ damage) and they sacrifice survivability for high damage output. Often they are set up with 4 high damage cards, or 3 high damage cards with one card that allows the Bird to attack the backline.

Card Tier List

Body Part: Mouth

Body Part: Horn

Body Part: Back

Body Part: Tail

 Bug Class

Bugs are strong against: Reptile, Plant, Dusk
Bugs are weak against: Aquatic, Bird, Dawn

Attributes

The base stats for the Bug class Axie are:

Each Bug card will give the Axie an additional 3 Morale and 1 HP. Playing Bug class cards will give an additional 10% damage bonus, but you are not limited to using only Aquatic class cards.

The Bug class is hardly ever seen in an Axie team setup. Most their cards score low on the Card Tier List. The Bug class has a lot of cards that apply Debuffs upon use.

The Thorny Turtle build is a Meta Build that centers around the use of the ability Allergic Reaction to deal 130% damage against debuffed targets. The combo with Chomp (part: Tiny Turtle) and another card, allows you to ignore your opponents defense and to trigger the damage bonus of Allergic Reaction. 0 energy skills which cause another debuff, for example Mystic Rush (part: Laggin), can round this build up. Other debuff generating Axies in your team will improve the effectiveness of this build as well.

Card Tier List

Body Part: Mouth

Body Part: Horn

Body Part: Back

Body Part: Tail

Plant Class

Plants are strong against: Aquatic, Bird, Dawn
Plants are weak against: Beast, Bug, Mech

Attributes

The base stats for the Plant class Axie are:

Each Plantcard will give the Axie an additional 3 HP and 1 Morale. Playing Plant class cards will give an additional 10% damage bonus, but you are not limited to using only Plant class cards.

High HP and Morale makes the Plant the best “defender” class. A “defender” can be defined as:

• Adept at absorbing damage.
• High HP stat (50+).
• Having at least 2 high shield cards (70+). More is preferable.

The Plant class is found in nearly every Axie team. Their ability to absorb a high amount of damage, while also gaining Energy and destroying the opponent’s energy, makes this a Plant an easy choice when choosing your team setup.

Card Tier List

Body Part: Mouth

Body Part: Horn

Body Part: Back

Body Part: Tail

 Reptile Class

Reptiles are strong against: Aquatic, Bird, Dawn.
Reptiles are weak against: Beast, Bug, Mech.

Attributes

The base stats for the Reptile class Axie are:

Each Reptile card will give the Axie an additional 3 HP and 1 Speed. Playing Reptile class cards will give an additional 10% damage bonus, but you are not limited to using only Reptile class cards.

The Reptile Axie is a great tank of off-tank, because of high base HP and Speed. Their cards are quite special, allowing a high variety of abilities and debuff potential. To compensate, they have a more limited damage potential.

Card Tier List

Body Part: Mouth

Body Part: Horn

Body Part: Back

Body Part: Tail