Welcome to Line Rangers Fan Page

Hello! This blog is dedicated to a fun new game from the LINE Naver company, Line Rangers. It is a type of tower defense game and it is available currently from the Android Play store and Apple App store. The game itself is free, while in-game purchases will cost you.

The game is a ton of fun - I've spent countless hours on it already since its release late February 2014. This blog contains information about the variety of rangers in the game as well as musings about specific stages and other thoughts about my gameplay. The game is hugely popular in Asia (as many of the LINE family games are) so I am creating a place for the English speaking fan base.

Quick Links:

• Obtainable Rangers by Stage Number (including profile attributes)
• Gacha Machine & Ranger Stats, Profiles
• Gacha Chances: What are the odds of winning something good?
• Battle Strategies: Openers, Team Comp & Items
• Difficult Stages: Specific strategies for the really tough stages
• Interesting Facts - enemy spawning & gameplay
• Treasure and What We Know About It

Intro and Playing the Game:
The goal of every stage is to get your rangers to the right hand side of the screen so that you can attack and destroy the enemy tower. The tower is destroyed when the health bar above it reaches 0. When you win a stage, you are rewarded with experience gains to your account as well as experience for each of your team's active rangers. You are also awarded some game gold, then you get a chance to roll on a bonus. Bonus rewards can be more game gold, a chance at various rangers (depending on stages, this varies), or an item to use for assisting you in battle. You are also given a chance after defeating each stage to win some "treasure". There's a small chance that you'll get treasure but it's not known what the chances are, and there are often times you just don't get anything. Treasure awards appear to be completely random. More on Treasures later. Ultimately you want to beat all these stages so you can save Sally the duck from the evil Alien who kidnapped her (as seen in the opening splash screen).

Minerals:
You are given minerals which increase as time passes. When you spend minerals to deploy a ranger unit to fight for you, minerals are deducted from the top right hand bank, and the mineral count will begin to increase over time again.

You'll need to spend minerals to accelerate your mineral production within each stage quickly so you can deploy rangers faster and faster. You can invest in your mineral production up to 8 times per stage, and it is generally smart to do this as early as you can in the stage.

In the Upgrade screen (Main screen > Upgrade) you can choose to use your game gold to upgrade your Mineral Production and Max Minerals. Increasing your Mineral Production will speed up the rate at which your minerals will replenish during battle. Max Minerals increases how many minerals you begin each stage with as well as how many minerals capped. Both of these upgrades will be important once you get to the higher stages of the game, so you will want to make sure you save up some gold to upgrade these features!

Rangers:
The game boasts that there are over 70 rangers in this game. They vary from familiar LINE characters like Brown and Cony, to strange animal friends. Some are just plain silly and not at all good for battle. But they're fun to collect. Each ranger has its own special animation in the game. They have a range of abilities and they fall into one of 5 classes: health, attack, splash, speed, balance. Every ranger also has a star rating, attack speed, and move speed attribute.

 - Star Rating: A ranger's star rating tells you what their default max level is and generally how well the ranger performs. The higher the star rating, the "better" the ranger.  For instance, apples to apples, a 2 star attack ranger will always be more powerful than a 1 star attack ranger. In later stages, you can roll on 3 and 4 star rangers during the bonus roll. I believe 5 star rangers are obtained from the Gacha machine only. In addition, star rating determines a ranger's default maximum level. If you want to exceed past the default max, you need to synthesize the same exact ranger as the one you want to level. That will let you take it up 5 more levels. You can exceed the default max level up to 4 times.
     1 star Max Level = 20
     2 star Max Level = 30
     3 star Max Level = 40
     4 star Max Level = 50
     5 star Max Level = 60

 - Attack/Move Speed: In the early stages you will generally get some Slow, Very Slow or Normal speed rangers. The further in the game you get, generally the faster you want your ranger team to be. A ranger's speed will never change, so leveling up will not make them faster. The only way to get a faster moving/attacking team is to obtain rangers that have a faster attribute. Move speed can sometimes make or break the stage. As you break through enemy defenses, your units need to move toward the enemy tower and take it down before reinforcements can be deployed to stop you.

 - Health: These rangers tend to have more health than others. These beefy rangers are best in the front lines, tanking the enemy units directly. Enemy units will stop moving as long as one of your rangers is present so you always want a health unit at the front of your team taking the big hits.

 - Attack: Attack rangers dish out the most damage to enemy units. Most attack rangers hang out in the back and attack from a range. They don't have a lot of health so make sure there is always a health ranger or some other melee ranger ranger blocking the enemies, otherwise your attackers will be toast in no time. Attack rangers' attack speed varies from very slow to very fast so choose your units wisely. A faster attacking unit will do more damage if you can keep him safe and out of enemy fire.


- Splash: Splash rangers are attack units that hit multiple enemies at a time. They typically hit whatever enemy unit is closest to the left, and whatever is around it. Splash rangers are great for stages where the enemy has deployed a lot of units and they're bunched up in the front. You need to be careful, however. Most splash rangers don't have a lot of health and they need to be fairly close to the enemy to fight. If a health unit dies, your splash rangers may be the next target! Splash rangers are a great tool to have in the later stages of the game.

 - Speed: As the name suggest, speed units move to the front lines very quickly. Most of the time they also attack "fast" or "very fast". These units are great in the earlier stages to get in the enemy's face. They're also useful for holding the line if you need a few seconds to prevent the enemy from advancing too close to your tower. Speed units don't have a lot of health so they can't hold on for very long, but they do have their niche purpose from time to time.

 - Balance: These units are hybrids. They may have higher health than other attack units with decent attack, or their speed might be superior. They have a mixture of good traits but typically they are not better at something than a ranger specifically from that class.