On August 12 Yakkamon rewrote the airdrop ladder, and on August 14 published the monster names behind it. Taken together the picture is clear, and it isn’t the one we described first time.
If you just want the analysis of the change itself rather than our correction, the full breakdown is here.
1. The four Genesis Legendaries
The founding set now has names, and the old “Legendary Egg A/B/C” labels are retired. The mapping matters, because it’s what makes the change legible:
| Monster | Ranks | Supply | Previously called |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌩 Storm | 1 – 50 | 50 | new — added above the ladder |
| ⬜ Echo | 1–3, 51 – 250 | 203 | Legendary Egg A |
| 🌸 Bloom | 4–10, 251 – 500 | 257 | Legendary Egg B |
| 🌊 Tide | 501 – 2,000 | 1,500 | Legendary Egg C |
Supply figures are official. The airdrop totals 5,010 Monster NFTs across 5,000 trainers — the extra ten are the second monsters going to ranks 1–10.
2. Legendary supply doubled
This is the number we got backwards, and it’s the heart of the update.
| Before Aug 12 | Now | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legendary monsters | 1,000 | 2,010 | +1,010 |
| Rare Eggs | 4,000 | 3,000 | −1,000 |
| Total airdrops | 5,000 | 5,010 | +10 |
Legendary monsters used to stop at rank 1,000. They now run to rank 2,000 — twice as far down the leaderboard. A thousand trainers who were in line for a Rare Egg now hold a Genesis Legendary instead.
3. Nobody lost a band
We checked every band against the original ladder. Not one came out worse.
| Rank | Was in line for | Now receives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 – 3 | Legendary Egg A | 🌩 Storm + ⬜ Echo | ⬆️ two monsters |
| 4 – 10 | Legendary Egg A | 🌩 Storm + 🌸 Bloom | ⬆️ two monsters |
| 11 – 50 | Legendary Egg A | 🌩 Storm | ⬆️ upgrade |
| 51 – 100 | Legendary Egg A | ⬜ Echo | same monster, utility lifted |
| 101 – 250 | Legendary Egg B | ⬜ Echo | ⬆️ moved up a tier |
| 251 – 500 | Legendary Egg B | 🌸 Bloom | same slot, utility lifted |
| 501 – 1,000 | Legendary Egg C | 🌊 Tide | same slot, utility lifted |
| 1,001 – 2,000 | Rare Egg | 🌊 Tide | ⬆️ Rare becomes Legendary |
| 2,001 – 5,000 | Rare Egg | Rare Egg | unchanged — utility lifted too |
1,200 ranks improved. 3,800 held their slot with utility lifted. Zero moved down.
4. Storm is the real story
The genuinely new thing here is a monster that sits above the previous top tier.
Until now the site’s position — from the team’s own statements — was that the Legendaries are all the same power level, differing in species and role rather than strength. Storm is the exception. It’s described as the newest in the set and the hardest to earn, and the only route to being airdropped one is a top-50 finish.
That creates something the old ladder didn’t have: a genuine gradient at the very top. Previously ranks 1 and 99 received an identical reward, which made the difference between them meaningless. Now the top 50 is a distinct prize and the top 10 is distinct again.
5. What it means for your target
- The Legendary line moved out, not in. It was rank 1,000. It’s now rank 2,000 — a materially easier target than before, and the single most useful change for anyone planning.
- Top 50 is the new stretch goal, and the only way to a Storm.
- Top 5,000 still matters — it’s the last band that receives an airdrop at all.
- Early access is unchanged at the top 100,000, and remains very reachable free.
The flat zones are worth knowing, because points spent inside a band buy nothing: 501–2,000 all receive Tide, and 2,001–5,000 all receive a Rare Egg. Deposit timing →
6. What we still don’t know
Monster utilities land in September. Everything about what these creatures actually do — battle, farm utility, or something else — is unpublished. “Utility lifted” is the team’s description and can’t be verified until then.
It also isn’t stated whether the two monsters at ranks 1–10 are separate creatures or one reward described in two parts, though the phrasing points at separate.
How we got it wrong
Worth explaining, because it’s the second correction on this site in two weeks and you should know how much weight to put on our numbers.
The August 12 update published bands without monster names. It listed ranks 501–2,000 as receiving “Rare Egg A” and 2,001–5,000 as “Rare Egg B”. We read “Rare” as a tier below Legendary — which it plainly implies — and concluded that ranks 501–1,000 had dropped out of the Legendary bracket, and that Legendary supply had roughly halved.
The names published on August 14 show that band receives Tide, a Genesis Legendary. Our reading was wrong, and the arithmetic built on it was wrong with it.
In hindsight the lesson is a simple one: we ran the numbers confidently on labels we didn’t understand, when the honest move was to say the labels were ambiguous and wait. We’d rather publish this than leave the original up.