Maplestory Link Skills Guide – December 2023

Last Updated on 29 November, 2023

Maplestory Link Skills Guide – updated Best Link Skills for bossing & training, and all the link skills (permanent & temporal) explained

You can also check our Training & Leveling guide, and the DPM & DPS chart, Top Private Servers, Daily and Weekly Reset Time

Maplestory Link Skills Guide – Best Link Skills

Best Link Skills for Bossing 2020

1. Zero: Ignore Enemy Defense and Reduce Damage Taken
2. Luminous: Ignore Defense
3. Kanna: Damage
4. Demon Avenger: Damage
5. Demon Slayer: Boss Damage
6. Angelic Buster: Damage Boost for short period of time.
7. Hayato: Weapon/Magic Attack
8. Kinesis: Critical Damage
9. Xenon: All Stats %
10. Phantom: Critical Rate
11. Illium: Stackable damage when moving during battle.
12. Cadena: More damage against lower level enemies and enemies affected by debuff.
13. Beast Tamer: Boss Damage, Critical Rate (For GMS Players)
14. Ark: Damage

Best Link Skills for Training 2020

1. Mercedes: Exp Rate Boost for Training 1ºLevel-250
2. Evan: Increases Rune duration.
3. Aran: Permanently increases Combo Kill or EXP gain.
4. Illium: Stackable damage when moving during battle.
5. Kanna: Damage
6. Demon Avenger: Damage
7. Demon Slayer: Boss Damage
8. Hayato: Weapon/Magic Attack
9. Kinesis: Critical Damage
10. Xenon: All Stats
11. Phantom: Critical Rate
12. Cadena: More damage against lower level enemies and enemies affected by debuff.
13. Beast Tamer: Boss Damage, Critical Rate (For GMS Players)
14. Ark: Damage

Maplestory Link Skills Guide – List by Jobs

Permanent Link Skills

Aran

Combos blessed by Maha (permanent)

• 1ºLevel: Combo KillMarble EXP: +400%
• 2ºLevel: Combo KillMarble EXP: +650%
• 3ºLevel: Combo KillMarble EXP: +900%

Beast Tamer

• 1ºLevel: Boss damage +4%, CritRate +4% also MaxHP&MP +3%
• 2ºLevel: Boss damage +7%, CritRate +7% also MaxHP&MP +4%
• 3ºLevel: Boss damage +10%, CritRate +10% also MaxHP&MP +5%

Cannoneer

+ All stats (STR, DEX, INT, LUK), + Max HP and also MP (permanent)

• 1ºLevel: +15 All Stats, also +5% Max HP&MP
• 2ºLevel: +25 All Stats, also +10% Max HP&MP
• 3ºLevel: +35 All Stats, also +15% Max HP&MP

Cadena

+ Damage against weaker enemies (< level than you)

• 1ºLevel: +3%, +6% damage if status effects.
• 2ºLevel:+6%, +12% damage if status effects.

Cygnus Knights

+ Resistance to statuses, also elements

• 1ºLevel: +2%
• 2ºLevel: +5%

Demon Avenger

+ Damage (permanent)

• 1ºLevel: +5%
• 2ºLevel: +10%
• 3ºLevel: +15%

Demon Slayer

+ Damage to bosses

• 1ºLevel: +10%
• 2ºLevel: +15%
• 3ºLevel: +20%

Eunwol / Shade

+ Chance to survive fatal attacks

• 1ºLevel: 5%
• 2ºLevel: 10%

Hayato

• 1ºLevel: +15 All Stats, +10 Attack and also Magic attack
• 2ºLevel: +25 All Stats, +15 Attack and also Magic attack

Kaiser

+ MaxHP (permanent)

• 1ºLevel: +10%
• 2ºLevel: +15%
• 3ºLevel: +20%

Kanna

+ Damage (permanent)

• 1ºLevel: +5%
• 2ºLevel: +10%

Kinesis

+ Crit damage

• 1ºLevel: +2%.
• 2ºLevel: +4%.

Luminous

Ignores enemy defense

• 1ºLevel: 10%
• 2ºLevel: 15%
• 3ºLevel: 20%

Mercedes

+Exp Rate

• 1ºLevel: +10%
• 2ºLevel: +15%
• 3ºLevel: +20%

Phantom

+Crit Rate (Permanent)

• 1ºLevel: +10%
• 2ºLevel: +15%
• 3ºLevel: +20%

Xenon

+ All stats (Permanent)

• 1ºLevel: +5%
• 2ºLevel:  +10%

Zero

Reduces enemy damage and also ignores their defense

• 1ºLevel: -3% damage, +2% ignored ( Lv.118)
• 2ºLevel: -6% damage, +4% ignored ( Lv.128)
• 3ºLevel: -9% damage, +6% ignored ( Lv.138)
• 5ºLevel: -15% damage, +10% ignored ( Lv.178)

Temporal Link Skills

Angelic Buster

+ skill damage (10seconds)

• 1ºLevel: +30%
• 2ºLevel: +45%
• 3ºLevel: +60%

Ark

+ Damage (5 seconds)

• 1ºLevel:  +1% damage, also + 1% per stack.
• 2ºLevel: +1% damage, also + 2% per stack.

Evan

+ Duration Liberated Runes

• 1ºLevel: +30%
• 2ºLevel: +50%
• 3ºLevel: +70%

Illium

Stacks up to 6 times (5 seconds)

• 1ºLevel: +1% Damage per stack.
• 2ºLevel: +2% Damage per stack.

Jet / Zen

Boost STR, DEX, INT, LUK, Weapon & also Magic ATT

• 1ºLevel: Small Boost
• 2ºLevel: Medium Boost
• 3ºLevel: Large Boost

Mihile

+100% Knockback resistance

• 1ºLevel: 90sec
• 2ºLevel: 110sec
• 3ºLevel: 130sec

Resistance

Prevents damage after revived, can be stacked up to 4 times for each character who grants the link skill.

• Owner Stat
  • 1ºLevel: 3 seconds
    2ºLevel: 6 seconds
• Linked Stat
  • 1ºLevel: 1 seconds
  • 8ºLevel: 8 seconds

Maplestory Link Skills Guide – Unlock Levels

To unlock a new Link Skill level you need to level up your character:

1st Level Link Skill – Character Level 1
2nd Level Link Skill – Character Level 120
3rd Level Link Skill – Character Level 210