How to Get the Hero Gear
The Hero Gear is available in the gear market. They are found in the “Enhance Material” section. They can be bought with gear coins. Gear coins are earned by selling regular gear to the market.
What Each Gear Does
Elf Helmet / Crystal Helmet / Bright Helmet: Makes the Pokemon immune to debuffs.
Elf Tops / Crystal Tops / Bright Tops: Adds 99% damage reflection to the Pokemon.
Elf Gloves / Crystal Gloves / Bright Gloves: Gives full rage to the Pokemon every single time it attacks. The full rage will not be reduced by effects of Mewtwo Y and Victini.
Elf Cuffs / Crystal Cuffs / Bright Cuffs: The Pokemon attached to the gear will attack after the Pokemon who is attached to the gear with the link ball attacks. Example: You put a Lugia link ball on this gear and attach a Jirachi to the gear as well. After your Lugia attacks, the Jirachi will appear and heal the team.
Elf Bottoms / Crystal Bottoms / Bright Bottoms: Makes the Pokemon immune to being hit by crit attacks. The Pokemon will take all hits as normal attacks, not critical attacks. Basically grants infinite critRES.
Elf Boots / Crystal Boots / Bright Boots: The Pokemon will attack 2 times every turn instead of once.
Recasting Gear
Recast gives the Pokemon specific attributes that can be changed. The attributes are similar to the ones found on normal artifacts.
Elf Gear gives 1 recast attribute.
Crystal Gear gives 2 recast attributes.
Bright Gear gives 3 recast attributes.
Recast attributes can be changed using recasting chips, which are available in the gold coupon shop for 8 coupons per 160 recasting chips.
Differences Between Each Class of Gear
The link skills are the same between each type of gear, regardless of the category of gear. However, the Elf / Crystal / Bright gear differ in the amount of recasting skills they give (described above). Additionally, they differ in the amount of gear coins they cost.
Elf Gear: 30,000 gear coins per piece
Crystal Gear: 200,000 coins per piece
Bright Gear: 500,000 coins per piece
How to Use Hero Gear Correctly
To use Hero Gear, you need link balls.
There is the common misconception that the link gear is is supposed to work by putting the Pokemon on the link gear, and that the link gear is broken because you can not attach Pokemon on your team to the link gear.
However, the Hero Gear works completely different.
You need to have the specific link ball of the Pokemon that you want to attach the gear to.
Also, you don’t attach Pokemon on your team to the attach Pokemon slot. That slot is for Pokemon that are not on your team.
When used correctly, the skill of the gear will transfer to the Pokemon on your team that corresponds with the specific link ball.
Also, the Pokemon in the additional slot transfers some of its attack, defense, and HP to the Pokemon on your team that is connected to the specific link ball.
Example: You have a level 1 Ho-Oh link ball and a Rayquaza attached to your Elf Gloves. The Ho-Oh on your team will now always have full rage, and it will receive 50% of the Rayquaza’s stats.
Where to get Link Balls
Link Balls can be claimed in daily recharge after spending a certain amount of $$. In addition, Link Balls can be won in Happy Scratch and Lucky Golden Egg events. It takes around 500 to 600 coupons on average to win a link ball from those events.
How to Use Link Balls Correctly
You cannot simply put a regular link ball on a Hero Gear and have the gear skill transfer to any Pokemon. You need the Pokemon-specific link balls.
These can be found in Supervalue Exchange, where regular link balls can be combined to make Pokemon-specific link balls.
You can not have multiple of the same type of link balls on multiple pieces of gear. (For example, you can’t have 2 Ho-Oh link balls being used on different gears at the same time.)
Leveling Up Link Balls
The Pokemon-specific link balls can be leveled up using more of the same Pokemon-specific link balls. Leveling up the link balls allows more of the attached Pokemon’s stats to transfer over to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 1 Link Ball: Transfers 50% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 2 Link Ball: Transfers 75% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 3 Link Ball: Transfers 85% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 4 Link Ball: Transfers 90% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 5 Link Ball: Transfers 92% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 6 Link Ball: Transfers 94% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 7 Link Ball: Transfers 96% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 8 Link Ball: Transfers 98% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 9 Link Ball: Transfers 99% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
Level 10 Link Ball: Transfers 100% of the attached Pokemon’s stats to the link ball Pokemon.
