Winning the weekly Evony Monarch Competition requires careful resource management, precise timing, and a deep understanding of its rotating daily stages. If you log in and spend your speed-ups, speed-gather, or train troops blindly, you'll burn through your items and fall behind the top players on your server. To climb the leaderboard and secure valuable gems, resources, and honor points, you need a structured plan that maximizes your score every single day.
Understanding the Monarch Competition Structure
The Evony Monarch Competition is a recurring weekly event found in your Event Center. For the first sixty days of a new server's life cycle before Server vs. Server (SvS) battles begin, the event typically runs every other week. After that, it operates on a weekly schedule.
Days one through four feature a rotating set of four development and growth categories: City Development, Monster Killing, Resource Gathering, and Troop Training or Power Increase. Day five is almost universally Kill Event (KE), where players score points by attacking rival keeps or defending their own. Because daily themes rotate unpredictably, hoarding your items rather than using them instantly is the single most important rule for success.
Daily Stage Breakdown and Winning Tactics
To outscore your rivals without draining your bank account, you must treat each day of the competition with a completely different playbook.
City Development
This stage rewards building upgrades and academic research. Points scale directly with the power gained from completing structures and research trees.
- Don't start long-term upgrades at random times. Queue up major construction projects and high-tier research items so they finish precisely when the City Development stage goes live.
- Lean on your alliance help feature to shave off short timers, saving your acceleration speed-ups for massive late-game structures.
- Check your monarch talent tree before clicking finish to ensure your building or research speed buffs are active.
Monster Killing
Points on this day accumulate by defeating monsters and bosses scattered across the world map.
- Avoid wasting stamina on single high-level boss monsters if your rally team isn't fully formed. Instead, target regular monsters efficiently.
- Use teleports to jump to active hunting zones where monster density is high, allowing for rapid-fire engagement without excessive march times.
- Coordinate rallies with your alliance members to tackle tougher boss targets that yield heavier point payloads.
Resource Gathering
This category tallies points based on the amount of lumber, food, stone, iron, and gems collected from map tiles.
- Swap your monarch gear to focus entirely on collection speed buffs (crystal and related gear) before sending out your gathering marches.
- Deploy specialized gathering generals who possess intrinsic skill bonuses for load capacity and speed.
- Prioritize gem tiles when available, as they offer massive point spikes compared to standard resource nodes.
Troop Training and Power Increase
These two categories test your ability to expand your military might. Points scale with the tier and volume of troops trained.
- Stockpile your speed-ups and wait until this specific day to train your highest available tier of troops. Low-tier troops yield minimal points.
- Keep your resource production active through gathering nodes while your training queues run to sustain a continuous loop of fresh recruits.
- For the power increase element, a popular community tactic involves deliberately taking moderate damage on previous days, letting your hospital fill up with wounded troops, and then healing them all at once when the power or training window opens.
Kill Event (KE)
The final day transforms the map into a combat zone. How you approach this day depends entirely on whether your server follows a strict No Attack Policy (NAP) or operates as an open war zone.
- If your server permits fighting, target unbubbled keeps and enemy sub-cities carefully to secure honor points and plunder resources.
- Protect your own troops by using the "ghosting" method: send your main strike force on long-duration rallies against distant monsters or enemy bases so they remain entirely safe from incoming raids while away.
- Maintain an active shield (teleport bubble) if you are offline to prevent opportunistic players from wiping out days of steady progression.
Essential Pro Tips for Maximizing Rewards
- Manage Monarch Gear: Always verify your active gear loadout before launching a major action. Equip the crown, horn, and crystal tailored to the specific daily activity to optimize your yields.
- Watch Server Tiers: Many modern servers group players into tiered brackets based on keep level or overall power. Review your specific bracket in the Event Center to see where you stand against direct peers.
- Prioritize Milestones over Ranking: If whales on your server dominate the top ten spots, don't bankrupt your item inventory chasing rank one. Focus on clearing personal reward milestones to guarantee a steady stream of free gems and resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why didn't I get points for healing my troops?
Healing troops only restores lost power; it does not generate raw positive score points on standard training days unless specific event parameters or hospital mechanics dictate otherwise. However, healing helps offset power losses from previous battles.
How do I protect my resources during Kill Event?
The safest method is maintaining an active truce agreement (bubble). Sending excess resources via the trading post incurs a heavy tax rate, making shielding your keep a much more efficient choice.
Should I spend gems to speed up building tasks?
It's usually better to save your gems for vital VIP activations, elite historic generals, or crucial market purchases rather than burning them on standard building speed-ups.
What is ghosting and why is it important?
Ghosting means sending your entire army away on a long rally against a distant target. Because your troops are marching across the map, enemy players cannot hit your empty city, protecting your valuable power from sudden surprise attacks during PvP windows.
