Since a Gem Guide was just written last week, it seemed a good idea to write about the other form of currency in Smash Supreme – gold. Gold is much less valuable than gems, but there are just as many things that you can buy with gold exclusively. These are move levels, equipment levels, and common cards, rare cards, and epic cards in the shop.

You can obtain gold in three ways. You can win matches, open crates, and buy gold with gems. However, the amount of gold one receives depends on one’s rank. For example, at rank 11, you get 5 gold per win, but at rank 1, you get 25 gold per win. The amount of gold in crates also varies based on rank. So this makes a calculation of gold much, much trickier. For simplicity’s sake, I will use the maximum amount of gold one gets based off of the rank 1 amounts.

Minimum wins per day -> 5

Gold per win -> 25 gold

Gold from wins daily -> 25 x 5 -> 125 gold

Free Crates Daily -> 6-7

Approximate amount of gold from free crates -> 90 gold (no numbers have been released)

Loot Crates Daily -> 4-5

Gold in Loot Crates -> 85-100 gold

Rare Crates Daily -> 1

Gold in Rare Crates -> 200-280 gold

Jumbo Crates Monthly -> 1

Gold in Jumbo Crates -> 900-1000 gold

Jumbo Crate Gold Daily -> 900-1000 / 30 -> 30-33 gold

Gold from Victory Crates -> 0-125 gold

Gold from crates daily -> 1110-1568 gold

Gold daily -> 1235- 1693 gold

If we average the amount of gold earned daily (at a minimum, based on only obtaining Victory Crates), we get a budget of 1464 gold per day. Bare in mind that this can reach exorbitant amounts if you play many, many matches a day because there is no cap on the amount of gold earned from wins. Now, I realize that this gold value changes as your rank changes, but unfortunately I am not able to do this calculation for every rank tier.

The real question is how to spend this gold. Does one upgrade moves, upgrade equipment, or buy cards? This answer really depends on your player level.

If you are below level 7: Getting move levels is by far the most important thing currently. All your moves need relatively little in terms of both cards and gold to gain levels. Gold should be spent on both common and rare moves in the shop (epic moves are far too pricey). Move levels should be the number 1 priority. If you ever have some to level up, save the gold for those. If you do not have any moves to level up, buy some cheap equipment upgrades. Each level up gives the same effect, so don’t spend 3.5k gold when you can spend 500 to the same effect. After equipment upgrades, you should spend gold in the shop. Don’t spend all of your gold at once, but if you can afford it, try to buy about 25 common moves and 5 or so rare moves.

If you are below level 9: At this point, most of your common moves are maxed out. You are getting some moves from crates still, but you are rarely getting move level ups. Equipment and epic moves have become the priority. Buy one epic daily if yours are low levels. This is the number one priority because these are the easiest to level up. Next, level up equipment. If you still have more gold to burn, buy some rare moves in the shop. Your common moves can be maxed out through requests and crates.

If you are level 9: All of your common moves are probably maxed out by now. This is similar to below level 9, but equipment upgrades have begun to take precedence. The smallest edge in battle can give you victory. Most epics are level 3 or so by now, which means that it would take way too long to get an upgrade. Upgrade equipment and buy epics. Rare moves are now what you will request in guild chat.

If you are level 10: By now you have finished upgrading all the equipment you have available to upgrade, even though all of your equipment is not the maximum level. All of your common moves are maxed, and your epics and rares are nowhere close to the next levels. At this point, do whatever you want with gold. Always keep a nice cushion for upgrades (about 5k or so), but feel free to buy whatever you think will help you. You know what you are doing at this stage, so have at it.

Happy Shopping!