Starts Friday, November 6 at 10:00 AM New York time.
The Cash Tournament runs from Friday, November 6 at 10:00 AM to Monday, November 9 at 10:00 AM, New York time. Rare and Epic creatures only, any Rare and Epic creature can enter, and every creature fights at the same set level with no stat boosts. First place wins 15,000 Game Cash; everyone who takes part gets 15 Game Cash.
When
Nov 6 to 9Fri 11 AM to Mon 11 AM New York
Eligible
193 creatures107 Epic, 86 Rare
Levels
Set levelNo stat boosts
First place
15,000 Game Cash15 Game Cash for taking part
What are the Cash Tournament rules?
Rare and Epic creatures only.
Skill rules: every creature is set to the same level, with no stat boosts.
Which creatures are eligible?
Any Rare and Epic creature can enter. These are the 193 in my Dinodex; open any of them for its stats, moves and builds.
JWA Edge’s picks for the Cash Tournament, from 193 eligible creatures fighting each other in simulated battles, then in full four-on-four team battles with swaps.
Recommended eight
Bring these eight; the game draws four of them for each battle. They’re the top eight from the ranking: in full team battles they won more than the eight JWA Edge picked for one-on-one coverage, so they’re the ones recommended. They’re ordered by how much each one adds to the team.
Wins 98% of its one-on-one battles and beats 185 of the other 192, including Baryothus, Blonde and Arsionosaurus. Its moves bring a swap-in move, a counter-attack and shields. Watch out for Albertosaurus.
Wins 97% of its one-on-one battles and beats 187 of the other 192, including Baryothus, Arsionosaurus and Tiger. Its moves bring a counter-attack, shield breaking and precise hits. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Kentrosaurus and Aerotitan.
Wins 98% of its one-on-one battles and beats 188 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Tiger and Postimetrodon. Its moves bring a swap-in move, shield breaking and shields. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 89% of its one-on-one battles and beats 169 of the other 192, including Blonde, Arsionosaurus and Saurolyth. Its moves bring a counter-attack. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Postimetrodon and Brunette.
Wins 90% of its one-on-one battles and beats 174 of the other 192, including Tiger, Kentrosaurus and Ampelosaurus. Its moves bring shield breaking and healing. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 91% of its one-on-one battles and beats 176 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Saurolyth and Kentrosaurus. Its moves bring a counter-attack, rend and stun. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Postimetrodon.
Wins 90% of its one-on-one battles and beats 170 of the other 192, including Postimetrodon, Brunette and Arsinoitherium. One of the fastest here, at 131 speed. Its moves bring a counter-attack, precise hits and shields. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 92% of its one-on-one battles and beats 174 of the other 192, including Postimetrodon, Arsinoitherium and Coelotator. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Tiger.
81%full team battles won by this eight (97 of 120)
68%won by the eight with the best one-on-one coverage (82 of 120)
17.9turns per battle on average
Each battle: four drawn from the eight against an opponent team of four drawn from the 16 strongest, 40 opponent teams, three draws each. Both sides are played by the battle engine, with swaps, swap-in moves and knockout replacements.
Wins 98% of its one-on-one battles and beats 188 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Tiger and Postimetrodon. Its moves bring a swap-in move, shield breaking and shields. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 98% of its one-on-one battles and beats 185 of the other 192, including Baryothus, Blonde and Arsionosaurus. Its moves bring a swap-in move, a counter-attack and shields. Watch out for Albertosaurus.
Wins 97% of its one-on-one battles and beats 187 of the other 192, including Baryothus, Arsionosaurus and Tiger. Its moves bring a counter-attack, shield breaking and precise hits. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Kentrosaurus and Aerotitan.
Wins 92% of its one-on-one battles and beats 174 of the other 192, including Postimetrodon, Arsinoitherium and Coelotator. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Tiger.
Wins 91% of its one-on-one battles and beats 176 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Saurolyth and Kentrosaurus. Its moves bring a counter-attack, rend and stun. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Postimetrodon.
Wins 90% of its one-on-one battles and beats 174 of the other 192, including Tiger, Kentrosaurus and Ampelosaurus. Its moves bring shield breaking and healing. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 90% of its one-on-one battles and beats 170 of the other 192, including Postimetrodon, Brunette and Arsinoitherium. One of the fastest here, at 131 speed. Its moves bring a counter-attack, precise hits and shields. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 89% of its one-on-one battles and beats 169 of the other 192, including Blonde, Arsionosaurus and Saurolyth. Its moves bring a counter-attack. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Postimetrodon and Brunette.
Wins 89% of its one-on-one battles and beats 168 of the other 192, including Tiger, Postimetrodon and Kentrosaurus. Its moves bring a counter-attack, shield breaking and precise hits. Watch out for Baryothus, Blonde and Herrerasaurus.
Wins 88% of its one-on-one battles and beats 170 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Postimetrodon and Kentrosaurus. Its moves bring a counter-attack, stun and dodge. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Ampelosaurus and Aerotitan.
Wins 88% of its one-on-one battles and beats 163 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Tiger and Saurolyth. Its moves bring a swap-in move, a counter-attack and stun. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Postimetrodon.
Wins 88% of its one-on-one battles and beats 164 of the other 192, including Kentrosaurus, Red and Diplodocus. Its moves bring healing. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 87% of its one-on-one battles and beats 163 of the other 192, including Blonde, Saurolyth and Brunette. Its moves bring a swap-in move, shields and dodge. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Postimetrodon.
Wins 86% of its one-on-one battles and beats 162 of the other 192, including Postimetrodon, Saurolyth and Brunette. Its moves bring a counter-attack, shield breaking and healing. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 86% of its one-on-one battles and beats 164 of the other 192, including Arsionosaurus, Kentrosaurus and Arsinoitherium. Its moves bring stun, swap prevention and an on-escape move. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Tiger.
Wins 86% of its one-on-one battles and beats 163 of the other 192, including Kentrosaurus, Brunette and Arsinoitherium. Its moves bring a counter-attack, shield breaking and devour. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 84% of its one-on-one battles and beats 156 of the other 192, including Tiger, Kentrosaurus and Herrerasaurus. Its moves bring shield breaking, precise hits and shields. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 84% of its one-on-one battles and beats 155 of the other 192, including Blonde, Postimetrodon and Saurolyth. Its moves bring a swap-in move, a counter-attack and rend. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Arsionosaurus.
Wins 83% of its one-on-one battles and beats 157 of the other 192, including Postimetrodon, Herrerasaurus and Sarcorixis. Its moves bring a swap-in move, shield breaking and shields. Watch out for Baryothus, Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Wins 83% of its one-on-one battles and beats 155 of the other 192, including Brunette, Coelotator and Protoceratops. Its moves bring a swap-in move. Watch out for Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Arsionosaurus.
Scenarios: if your opponent brings…
The four strongest
BaryothusGigantspinosaurusBlondeArsionosaurus
Every four of the recommended eight played this team in full: 14 of 70 combinations won.
Best four: Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde, Baryothus and Tiger, winning with 4 of 4 still standing after 16 turns.
Against Baryothus: lead with Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Against Gigantspinosaurus: nothing in the eight wins one on one, so save a healthy creature for it.
Against Blonde: lead with Gigantspinosaurus and Kentrosaurus.
Against Arsionosaurus: lead with Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Kentrosaurus.
A fast team
SaurolythBlondePostimetrodonCoelotator
Every four of the recommended eight played this team in full: 48 of 70 combinations won.
Best four: Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde, Baryothus and Kentrosaurus, winning with 4 of 4 still standing after 14 turns.
Against Saurolyth: lead with Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Baryothus.
Against Blonde: lead with Gigantspinosaurus and Kentrosaurus.
Against Postimetrodon: lead with Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Baryothus.
Against Coelotator: lead with Gigantspinosaurus, Blonde and Baryothus.
A high-health team
AmpelosaurusGigantspinosaurusBrunetteBaryothus
Every four of the recommended eight played this team in full: 28 of 70 combinations won.
Best four: Gigantspinosaurus, Baryothus, Kentrosaurus and Saurolyth, winning with 4 of 4 still standing after 23 turns.
Against Ampelosaurus: lead with Gigantspinosaurus, Baryothus and Postimetrodon.
Against Gigantspinosaurus: nothing in the eight wins one on one, so save a healthy creature for it.
Against Brunette: lead with Blonde, Baryothus and Saurolyth.
Against Baryothus: lead with Gigantspinosaurus and Blonde.
Creatures grouped by what their moves do. A creature joins every group one of its moves fits, so groups overlap. Win rates are the average of the group’s members over the whole field.
Strongest style this weekend: stun and daze, whose creatures win 58% of their battles on average. Best of them: Tiger, Herrerasaurus and Ampelosaurus.
Weakest: damage over time, at 47%.
Dodge and cloak beats damage over time 69% of the time.
Shields and taunt beats dodge and cloak 60% of the time.
Counter-attack beats swap-in and escape 60% of the time.
Stun and daze beats swap-in and escape 59% of the time.
Stun and daze 58%
26 creatures
TigerHerrerasaurusAmpelosaurusSarcorixis
Best answers: Blonde (99%), Gigantspinosaurus (98%), Baryothus (98%) and Tiger (92%).
Counter-attack 58%
57 creatures
GigantspinosaurusBlondeTigerSaurolyth
Best answers: Gigantspinosaurus (98%), Blonde (95%), Baryothus (95%) and Arsionosaurus (82%).
Speed control 55%
91 creatures
TigerKentrosaurusBrunetteAmpelosaurus
Best answers: Baryothus (99%), Gigantspinosaurus (98%), Blonde (96%) and Arsionosaurus (92%).
Shields and taunt 55%
67 creatures
BaryothusGigantspinosaurusSaurolythBrunette
Best answers: Baryothus (98%), Gigantspinosaurus (98%), Blonde (96%) and Brunette (92%).
Dodge and cloak 54%
46 creatures
BaryothusBlondeTigerSaurolyth
Best answers: Gigantspinosaurus (98%), Baryothus (97%), Blonde (96%) and Tiger (94%).
Rend and armor piercing 54%
84 creatures
BaryothusBlondeTigerPostimetrodon
Best answers: Blonde (99%), Baryothus (98%), Gigantspinosaurus (96%) and Arsionosaurus (92%).
Healing 51%
49 creatures
GigantspinosaurusPostimetrodonSaurolythBrunette
Best answers: Baryothus (98%), Blonde (98%), Gigantspinosaurus (97%) and Brunette (91%).
Swap-in and escape 48%
100 creatures
BaryothusGigantspinosaurusBlondeBrunette
Best answers: Gigantspinosaurus (97%), Baryothus (97%), Blonde (97%) and Tiger (92%).
Damage over time 47%
18 creatures
BaryothusDeinotopsLeucistic BaryonyxThylacotator
Best answers: Baryothus (100%), Blonde (100%), Koolatrodon (97%) and Tiger (96%).
Style against style (row against column, average one-on-one win share):
Style
Stun and daze
Counter-attack
Speed control
Shields and taunt
Dodge and cloak
Rend and armor piercing
Healing
Swap-in and escape
Damage over time
Stun and daze
48
55
52
55
52
57
59
57
Counter-attack
52
55
55
54
52
58
60
59
Speed control
45
45
46
58
48
52
56
55
Shields and taunt
48
45
54
60
42
53
56
45
Dodge and cloak
45
46
42
40
59
50
56
69
Rend and armor piercing
48
48
52
58
41
56
55
54
Healing
43
42
48
47
50
44
53
52
Swap-in and escape
41
41
44
44
44
45
47
51
Damage over time
43
41
45
55
31
46
48
49
Show the calculations
Builds. Every creature at level 26, with no Omega training and no boosts, so only the kit and base stats matter.
Round robin. Every creature fought every other one, 37,056 battles, searched 8 turns ahead with up to 200,000 positions per battle. Each pair is played twice so both get the first move, and the two results are averaged. The engine uses the game’s turn rules: speed order, critical hits at their expected rate, counters, swap-in and on-escape moves, shields, dodge, damage over time and the like. Win rate is the average over all opponents.
The eight. For any opponent, the four drawn from your eight give you their best answer. Its one-on-one result, weighted by the chance it’s drawn, averaged over every opponent, is the team score (99% here). Starting from the top eight, JWA Edge swapped members while the score went up.
Team battles. Full four-on-four battles with the battle simulator playing both sides: it chooses moves, swaps when a swap beats its best move, and picks knockout replacements. It takes the most likely outcome each turn, so these are expected results, not dice rolls.
One-on-one results for the top 20 (row against column, win share):
Creature
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1. Baryothus
0
0
63
74
100
100
50
100
75
100
100
100
100
97
100
100
100
100
50
2. Gigantspinosaurus
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
50
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
3. Blonde
100
0
100
100
100
100
0
100
94
88
100
0
100
100
100
100
26
100
100
4. Arsionosaurus
38
0
0
0
100
50
0
50
0
0
100
50
100
25
100
100
100
100
100
5. Tiger
26
0
0
100
0
50
75
0
88
0
100
88
100
100
94
0
100
100
100
6. Postimetrodon
0
0
0
0
100
0
100
0
25
100
100
100
0
100
100
100
1
0
100
7. Saurolyth
0
0
0
50
50
100
0
97
50
0
100
0
28
89
100
50
13
88
100
8. Kentrosaurus
50
0
100
100
25
0
100
0
0
0
0
100
100
0
0
0
100
100
100
9. Brunette
0
50
0
50
100
100
3
100
0
100
50
0
0
100
0
100
0
100
0
10. Herrerasaurus
25
0
6
100
13
75
50
100
100
0
100
0
94
68
98
0
1
28
75
11. Ampelosaurus
0
0
13
100
100
0
100
100
0
100
94
100
100
100
63
0
100
100
100
12. Arsinoitherium
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
100
50
0
6
0
0
25
0
0
63
100
100
13. Aerotitan
0
0
100
50
13
0
100
0
100
100
0
100
100
0
100
0
50
100
100
14. Coelotator
0
0
0
0
0
100
72
0
100
6
0
100
0
100
100
100
0
100
0
15. Sarcorixis
3
0
0
75
0
0
11
100
0
32
0
75
100
0
100
0
50
0
50
16. Nanotyrannus
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
100
100
2
38
100
0
0
0
100
5
0
100
17. Ankylocodon
0
0
0
0
100
0
50
100
0
100
100
100
100
0
100
0
100
100
50
18. Red
0
0
74
0
0
99
88
0
100
99
0
37
50
100
50
95
0
0
100
19. Diplodocus
0
0
0
0
0
100
13
0
0
72
0
0
0
0
100
100
0
100
100
20. Koolatrodon
50
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
100
25
0
0
0
100
50
0
50
0
0
Worked out on November 2, 2026 from 37,056 one-on-one battles and 450 full team battles.
Which creatures beat yours?
Pick a creature to see which of the 193 eligible creatures it beats and which beat it, with every battle played move by move. Then test your real levels and boosts against any opponent and build your team for the weekend.
Base level
Pick one of your creatures, or press Plan on any card above. I show which eligible creatures it beats and which beat it, both at the same level with no boosts, then you can test your real builds below.
Test any matchup with real builds
Set each side’s level and boosts, for example your level 30 creature with its boosts against a level 35 opponent with extra attack. Boosts stay within what the level allows.
What are the rewards?
Final rank
Reward
Rank 1
15,000 Game Cash
Rank 2
13,500 Game Cash
Rank 3
12,000 Game Cash
Ranks 4 to 5
10,500 Game Cash
Ranks 6 to 10
9,000 Game Cash
Ranks 11 to 50
7,500 Game Cash
Ranks 51 to 100
6,000 Game Cash
Ranks 101 to 250
3,750 Game Cash
Ranks 251 to 500
1,500 Game Cash
Ranks 501 to 1,000
750 Game Cash
Ranks 1,001 to 5,000
375 Game Cash
Ranks 5,001 to 10,000
75 Game Cash
Ranks 10,001 to 20,000
40 Game Cash
Everyone who takes part
15 Game Cash
How do I build a team for it?
Pick eight from the eligible list; you bring four into each battle. Check each pick’s moves on its page, then try your team against the creatures you expect to meet in the battle simulator and keep it in My Teams. The live tournament standings show who is winning once it starts.
Which tournaments come after it?
DNA Tournament, November 13 to 16, 2026Every rarity, Common to Omega. Advantage rules: your own levels and stat boosts count.
Boost Tournament, November 20 to 23, 2026Every rarity, Common to Omega. Skill rules: every creature is set to the same level, with no stat boosts. Only a set list of creatures can enter: 226 creatures.
Coin Tournament, November 27 to 30, 2026Every rarity, Common to Omega. Advantage rules: your own levels and stat boosts count.
Later weekends can change before they start; this page switches to each one as it comes up.
Last weekend was the DNA Tournament (October 30 to November 2, 2026); see its final standings. Schedule last checked against the game on November 2, 2026.
Baryothus
Gigantspinosaurus
Blonde
Arsionosaurus