Batomon Showdown Gold, Rerolls, and Life Budget

This sheet is the Batomon Showdown calculator you can run in your head. It will not print a spreadsheet file. It will tell you whether the next click should be Reroll, Lock, buy, or Battle. Pair it with shop and merging for rules and the team planner for slots. Numbers below match Balance 14 as recorded on patch notes.

Always-on costs

• Reroll: $3, or one free token (Youngster prints three tokens a day).
• Lock: $0, but it spends tomorrow’s shop flexibility.
• Craghorn: $30 after the cost nerf. If you cannot click items this shop, he is a statue at premium.
• Shopkeeper items: 15 percent off, one rarity higher. Membership Card: +1 item use today.
• Shiny Berry: $1. Basic Candy: $30. Recruiting Flyer: $90. Magic Mirror: $120 for a plain copy.
• Sell value: reduced by discounts you got at purchase. Free Bug Catcher buys still need a look at the sell number before you dump them into rerolls.

If a unit does not complete a merge (3× level 1 or 2× level 2) and does not sit on your trigger, it must win the fight by itself. That is a high bar. Prefer the copy.

Life costs as gold you cannot farm

Days	Life loss per defeat	Meaning
1–2	1	Experiment. Reroll for pairs.
3–4	2	Stop buying zoos. Start a core.
5+	3	No curiosity purchases.

Second Chance returns 1 life plus an event, once. After that, $3 rerolls that miss are how people donate championships. The 10-win guide is the full speech. This table is the short one you should see while hovering Battle.

Reroll decision tree

1. Do I already see a copy that finishes a level 2 or 3? Buy. Do not reroll.
2. Do I see the last piece of a named core (Formiqueen, Berroon, Plunderbird, Battery Pack on Electric)? Buy or Lock.
3. Do I have free rerolls? Spend those before gold.
4. Is my gold ≤ 6 and day ≥ 5? Battle with the board you have unless the row is truly empty.
5. Is shop rank fighting my plan (too high for Commons, too low for a needed Rare)? Spend a rank tool, not 15 gold of panic rolls. Rank-up and rank-down trinkets exist.
6. Am I Shopkeeper with item uses left? Look at the item slot first. A berry that feeds Craghorn can be the real offer.

Plunderbird printing $1 per cast (with multicast, more) is combat income, not shop income you can spend this round. Do not “count” it before the fight. After the fight it is real gold. Swim Coach adding a unit is income in bodies, not in dollars.

Merge value

A completed merge pays a trinket gift plus stats. That gift can be worth more than the unit. Rolling past a third copy to stare at a Legendary is burning two resources: the merge and the trinket. Duplicators only copy non-unique trinkets now; do not overpay for a unique crown clone plan. Echo Bell is for 0-cost items. Upgrade Disc is once per buy.

If Mad Scientist day 7 is coming, stop investing in identities you will lose. Spend on multicast that can transfer and on gold you can still spend after the transform. If Gamer day 9 is coming, spend on staying alive, not on previewing Mythical items you cannot use yet. Mythical builds.

Ranked tax

Overwriting a ranked save scores wins minus 5 immediately. A 3-win “gold test” is a −2 star bill. If you want to test Shopkeeper, do it in Casual. Ranks. Stars are not a shop slot.

Keep this sheet boring. Boring gold is how Formiqueen cores get their Commons and how Berroon cores afford $30 Craghorn. Exciting gold is how people screenshot a Legendary and then die on day 6. For buy/skip names, open the Batomon tier list. For the lock that prints extra shops, open beginner trainers.