The SWLens Client

The first screen is the login gate — SWLens won’t open any tools until you’re signed in. Enter your email and password and hit Sign In; tick “Keep me signed in” so you don’t have to log in every launch, and “Remember my email” to prefill it next time. No account yet? Click Create Account, pick a password of at least 8 characters, confirm it, and if a confirmation email is required, open the link in your inbox before signing in. Use Forgot Password to get a reset link emailed to you, and the eye icon to reveal what you’re typing.

Once you’re in, the main game area shows a “Connect with Steam” card. Click it to start the attach flow — this is the only attach mode, since it’s the Steam version of Summoners War that SWLens embeds. You’ll move to a short instructions screen with the actual Attach button; use Back if you want to return to this card.

Follow the three steps on the instructions screen: open Summoners War from your Steam library and wait for it to reach the title screen, make sure SWLens itself was launched as Administrator (Steam runs elevated, so without admin SWLens can’t pull the game window in), then click Attach Steam. The button shows “Attaching…” while it works. If it fails, you’ll get a red retry button with a tip — the usual fix is confirming SW is actually running on the title screen, or fully exiting it via the Steam tray icon and relaunching before you retry.

After attaching, the game renders inside SWLens with a thin gold frame around it on the left, and the tool sidebar docks on the right with tabs for Rune Lens, RTA Lens, Bestiary, Team Builders, Other Tools and Account. The strip under the game changes to match the tab you’re on. The header up top shows your account, which SWEX JSON is synced, plus Import JSON and Screenshot buttons; the bottom bar carries your email, tier badge, version, and the Upgrade / Detach / Log Out buttons. If the game ever goes blank, a “Game not visible?” notice tells you to minimise and restore the SWLens window to force a clean repaint.

Use the Detach button in the bottom status bar when you want to pop Summoners War back out into its own standalone window while keeping SWLens and all its panels open. Confirm in the dialog that appears, and the game returns to a normal top-level window — handy if you need it on a second monitor. You can re-attach at any time from the Connect with Steam card to embed it again.

Quitting (and what closes with it)

The SCREEN row tells Rune Lens which in-game screen you’re scanning, because the rune panel sits in a different spot on each. Use MANAGE for the rune management list, POWER-UP for the power-up/upgrade screen, and BATTLE for the post-battle rune reward popup. Leave it on AUTO (the default) and it figures out the screen for you each scan, trying each layout until a rune decodes — a small green “↳ MANAGEMENT” hint on the right shows what it last locked onto. Switch to a specific mode only if AUTO keeps guessing wrong on a particular screen.

Press START to begin the live scan loop — it re-reads the open rune several times a second and refreshes the verdict as you click from rune to rune. STOP ends scanning and wipes every overlay off the game. PAUSE halts scanning but leaves the last result frozen on screen, so you can study a rune without it refreshing or vanishing; press RESUME to pick scanning back up. A tiny timing chip shows how long the last scan took (and flags when a result was served instantly from cache because the rune hadn’t changed).

While scanning, Rune Lens paints a floating card on the game showing the rune’s RL Score, efficiency, grade, innate stat, and each substat with its point contribution, topped by a colour-coded verdict: green KEEP, red SELL, orange RE-APP, or purple POWER-UP. The same verdict and full breakdown also fill the RuneCard in the panel’s ANALYSIS section, and below it a comparison panel ranks the rune against your same-set, same-slot, and full +12 pools once you have enough runes loaded. If a verdict came from one of your custom rules, it’s labelled “(Custom Rule N)” so you know which rule fired.

Set your KEEP threshold

The default is 230 points (paired with a 75% efficiency threshold). Not sure where to start? Use these ranges as your account grows:

The RL Score is SWLens’s proprietary rune-quality metric — the single number behind every KEEP / SELL call. It measures how many meaningful rolls a rune got into its substats, weighted by how valuable each stat is. Each stat type has a step value; smaller steps make every roll worth more, so SPD and CRI Rate score highest.

6

Step value

SPDCRI Rate

Highest value per roll

7

Step value

CRI DMG

Mid value per roll

8

Step value

ATK%DEF%HP%ACCRES

Standard value

SPD 12

(12 / 6 − 1) × 100

100 pts

ATK% 24

(24 / 8 − 1) × 100

200 pts

CRI DMG 21

(21 / 7 − 1) × 100

200 pts

Innate bonus: a percentage innate stat adds up to 50 points (proportional to its max); flat innates don’t score. Efficiency is shown alongside the score — both current and projected max at +12 — so you can judge a rune’s ceiling before fully powering it.

Three toggles control what gets drawn on the game. IN-GAME OVERLAYS turns the floating score badge and SELL/POWER-UP markers on or off. DEBUG REGIONS draws coloured rectangles showing exactly where the scanner reads each part of the rune — turn it on to confirm the boxes line up over a real rune, then turn it back off. SELL LOCK is a safety net: while it’s on, any rune not tagged SELL can’t be sold — clicking the in-game SELL button is blocked and shows a red warning instead, so you can’t fat-finger away a keeper.

If the overlay or score badge is misaligned, fix it in seconds. Click AUTOMAP first — it reads the embedded game window and auto-places the rune box plus every sub-region for all three screen modes from bundled proportions. If AUTOMAP isn’t perfect, click MAP BOX and drag a rectangle around just the rune box on the current screen; every other region (header, main, substats, grade, icon, SELL, POWER-UP, score badge) auto-fills from your box. The current box shows faintly behind the crosshair so you can re-draw straight over it, and a confirmation pops up with the mode and coords once you’re done.

Open MAPPING SETTINGS (top-right of the panel) when your overlay or scan zones don’t line up — it’s the precise, per-screen calibration layer beneath AUTOMAP, and opening it also paints a faint labelled outline of each mode’s rune box on the game. At the top, PERFORMANCE → OCR Auto-Scan Interval (ms) controls how often the scanner re-reads the open rune: lower is snappier — the verdict refreshes almost instantly as you click between runes — at a little more CPU, and 150 ms is a good default. Mappings then split into two sections, each with its own Management / Power-Up / Battle tabs so every screen is calibrated independently — Manual Region Mapping (OCR) for the six read zones (Rune Box, Header, Main, Substats, Grade, Icon) and Action Buttons for the three overlay positions (Sell, Power-Up, RL Score badge). The shortcut that matters: the Rune Box is tagged AUTO-FILLS ALL, so mapping just that one box derives every other region from bundled proportions — you only REMAP an individual region when AUTOMAP got it wrong for your particular UI. Each row shows its live coordinates with REMAP and ✕ buttons; CLEAR ALL MAPPINGS wipes one section, and RESET TO DEFAULTS at the bottom restores every mode at once.

Open the Advanced modal (ADVANCED KEEP SETTINGS & RULES row, or the cog menu) and go to the KEEP THRESHOLDS tab. The top control mirrors your global keep cutoff; below it, SET OVERRIDES lets you set a different threshold per rune set (leave a set blank to use the global value). The AUTO-KEEP SUBSTAT THRESHOLDS section forces a KEEP whenever any single substat reaches a value you choose — e.g. SPD ≥ a set number — regardless of total score. Use SAVE to apply, or RESET to restore global threshold, clear all overrides, and restore default auto-keep values.

In the RE-APP TARGETS tab, flip the master toggle on to make Rune Lens flag re-application candidates with an orange RE-APP verdict during scans (when off, those runes just go through normal KEEP/SELL/POWER-UP scoring). Pick your priority sets — Violent, Will, Swift, Despair are pre-listed as recommended — and optionally enable others you specifically re-app. A live Top 5 preview shows your best re-app targets ranked by priority, and View All opens the full re-app list. Re-app matches always win over custom rules, so a flagged re-app candidate is never overridden.

The CUSTOM RULES tab lets power users override the built-in KEEP/SELL scoring with their own logic. Click + ADD RULE, build conditions (set, slot, main/substats, level, etc.) and choose the decision (KEEP / SELL / POWER UP); higher-priority rules win, and the first match overrides the engine verdict — but never a RE-APP target match, and Ancient runes are excluded. Click any rule to expand and edit it. Use EXPORT to save your rule set to a JSON file and IMPORT to load one (handy for sharing a friend’s setup); when a rule fires, the overlay labels the verdict with its rule number. All the conditions on a single rule are AND-ed together (the rune must satisfy every one of them), and you drag rules into priority order so the topmost match wins — which makes it easy to layer a few broad “catch” rules under tighter exceptions. Here are a handful of setups players commonly build:

Rune collection overview (bottom panel)

This is the tab RTA Lens lands on. Use the three filter rows at the top to slice the ranking: pick a SERVER (All, KR, CN, AS, GL, JP, EU), a TIER (all the way up through Conqueror, Punisher, Guardian stars, and Legend), and a PERIOD (current season or last). The table refreshes instantly as you tap each chip, so you can isolate, for example, only Korean Guardians this season. Click any player row to jump straight to their full profile.

A live, auto-refreshing feed of RTA battles being tracked across the playerbase. The same SERVER / TIER / PERIOD filter chips narrow the feed, and the green pulse with the BATTLES TRACKED count shows how many matches your current filter covers. The list reloads roughly every 30 seconds on its own, so leave it open to watch the meta move in real time, or filter down to a tier you care about to study what high-ranked players are actually drafting.

Search any monster by name in the bar at the top, or click a monster anywhere else in RTA Lens to load it here. Once selected you get its header stats (pick, win, ban, and lead rates), a daily trend chart, and a win-rate-by-tier breakdown so you can see exactly where a unit performs. The selected-monster card gives you launch buttons to open that monster’s full RTA Lens or Bestiary profile (in your browser or inside the client), and the View Teams overlay pulls its most popular team compositions. The analytics strip along the bottom goes deeper still — the exact teams this monster is drafted into and how each one performs, the top players who run it (with their rank and win rate), its best and worst matchups, and recent tracked battles featuring it — so you can study not just whether a unit is good, but precisely how, with whom, and against what the best players are using it.

This tab auto-loads your own RTA profile using your synced account data, so you don’t have to search for yourself. If you see a “No wizard linked” message, import or sync your SWEX JSON using the gold badge at the top-right of the sidebar and your profile will appear. Once loaded it behaves exactly like a searched player, with your rank, win rate, score, top teams, and monster usage filling the detail view and the bottom strip.

Type any player’s name into the search bar at the top of RTA Lens (it works from any sub-tab) and pick a result to open their full profile. The sticky header shows their avatar, rank badge, and a Battles / Win Rate / Score strip, while the bottom strip swaps to that player’s Overview, monster usage, and top teams. Use the footer buttons under the profile to switch between Performance, Nemesis, and Recent Battles views, or open their profile on the web. This is how you scout a specific opponent before a match.

RTA Lens — Meta Scatter (expanded win-rate vs games chart)

RTA Lens — Player Monsters (bottom strip middle, collection/chart toggle)

RTA Lens — Player Teams (bottom strip footer sections)

Open the Search sub-tab and click the search bar, then type any monster’s name — the dropdown shows element-tinted thumbnails, family, natural stars, and an element pill, and you can use the arrow keys plus Enter to pick one (or click). Selecting a monster loads its complete bestiary page right inside the panel: recommended builds, best rune sets and stat priorities, skills, top team partners, and matchups. Collab units automatically resolve to their merged page, and the profile bar up top gives you quick links out to the web profile or a jump to the RTA Lens Deep Monster Analytics view. If the list is long, use the page arrows at the bottom of the dropdown to scroll through matches.

Switch to the Advanced Search sub-tab to find monsters by what they bring to a team rather than by name. Toggle any combination of Element, Roles (Healer, Reviver, Cleanser, Stripper, ATB Boost/Reduce, Shield, Ignore Def), Buffs, Debuffs, and Leader Skill — selections stack, and an empty category means “show all.” Press the gold SEARCH button (it shows the active filter count) to see a grid of every matching monster, each card tagged with its element and effect icons; CLEAR ALL resets your picks and per-group RESET clears just one category. Click any result card to jump straight to that monster’s full Search detail page.

The My Monsters sub-tab reads your synced SWEX JSON and shows the monsters you actually own, grouped by Nat-5, Nat-4, second-awakened, and others, with a gold-bordered roster grid. Use the filter chips in the bottom strip to narrow the list instantly, or click the Nat-5 element buttons to pop open an element-scoped viewer. This is the place to take stock of your collection at a glance; make sure you’ve imported your JSON (the gold Import JSON button in the header) for it to populate.

Open the Summon Log sub-tab to see every natural 5-star you’ve ever summoned, pulled from your synced JSON and sorted newest-first. The top tiles show your latest Nat-5 and latest L&D Nat-5 with a “days since” counter and running totals, and a chip strip breaks pulls down by source — Mystical Scroll, L&D Scroll, Summoning Stones, Guild Summon, Fusion, and Ancient Coins. Click any source chip to filter the list to just those pulls (click again to clear); L&D summons get a special celebratory highlight on their row. If nothing appears, import your SWEX JSON first.

Advanced Search — filter builder

My Monsters — Collection panel (left third)

My Monsters — Filters panel (middle third)

My Monsters — Insights panel (right third)

My Monsters — owned roster viewer (right panel)

Summon Log — source filter chips

When you open Team Builders, the right sidebar shows a “Choose a Builder” list of six cards: RTA Wizard, Siege Builder, WGB Builder, Arena Builder, Caiross Workshop (marked Early Access / Beta), and General Optimizer. Each card previews its modes (e.g. Attack/Defense, Full Auto/Semi Auto/Manual, or Giants/Dragons/Necro) and three highlight features, so you can tell at a glance what it does. Click a card to open that builder; the bottom panel before you pick shows a dashboard of your per-builder stats (saved builds, equipped, locked units). Use the back arrow in the header at any time to return here and switch builders.

All Wizards — How every builder wizard works

All Wizards — Build controls (Strict Mode · Locked Runes · Grind · Speed Tuning)

All Wizards — Team Configurations (slots, leader, reorder)

All Wizards — Configure Unit (the right-panel tuner)

All Wizards — Optimise & Advanced Optimise

All Wizards — Results & saving (Save / Save & Lock)

Open the RTA Wizard to build Real-Time Arena teams. It has three folder sub-tabs at the top — Wizard, Saved Builds, and Equipped — plus a Home button to reset. On the Wizard sub-tab you walk the step indicator: choose a mode (Full Auto picks a meta 10-man roster for you, Semi Auto lets you pick from a filtered team list, Manual builds from scratch), then on the build-team step set strict mode, grind level, locked runes, speed tuning and a booster slot before clicking OPTIMISE. Review the optimized team on the results step, then Save Build or Save & Lock to keep the runes reserved. Use the Saved Builds and Equipped sub-tabs to browse past results and your currently-equipped monsters.

The Siege Builder and the WGB (World Guild Battle) Builder are the same tool for two guild modes, so they’re covered together. Both run the Attack / Defense wizard, batch-optimise several teams in one run, and share every Step-4 control above — only the rune pool and the extras differ. Siege draws from your siege pool and adds two tabs: Defenses (trending counters and enemy defence teams to build against) and Guildies (your guildmates’ uploaded defences, to plan around). WGB draws from a separate WGB-only pool so it never competes with your siege or arena gear, and its Attack mode can counter a specific enemy defence. Pick Attack to build a single team, or Defense to build several at once; results sync to that mode’s Saved Builds.

The Arena Builder tunes Arena Attack and Defense teams across Wizard, Saved Builds, and Equipped sub-tabs. Pick Attack or Defense on the Wizard tab, then build a team of up to four monsters and run the optimizer with speed-tuning so your units move in the right order (great for stall and offense comps). Results save to your arena builds and sync to the cloud. Note that Arena shares its standard rune box with the WGB attack pool.

The Caiross Workshop (Early Access / Beta) optimizes PvE dungeon teams. On the Wizard tab you first pick a dungeon — Giants Keep, Dragons Lair, or Necropolis (plus more) — each showing its meta sets and recommended drops, then build or load a team and optimize. It offers beginner and trending team presets plus requirement and difficulty tiers, so you can target a specific dungeon stage. Saved Builds and Equipped sub-tabs let you revisit results and check equipped monsters.

Use the General Optimizer for any team or mode with no meta constraints — pure rune and artifact optimization for 1 to 10 monster slots. It has Wizard, Saved Builds, and Equipped sub-tabs and offers Custom and Manual modes. Add the monsters you want, set your optimization goals and constraints, then run the optimizer and review results before saving. This is the builder to reach for when none of the mode-specific builders fit what you’re trying to gear.

RTA Wizard — Step 1: Mode Selection

RTA Wizard — Step 2: Team Finder (Semi Automatic only)

RTA Wizard — Step 2: Flex Picker dialog

Siege Builder — Sub-tab strip (top of right rail)

Siege Wizard — Step 2: Mode selection (Attack vs Defense)

Siege Wizard — Step 3: Team Finder (right rail list)

Siege Wizard — Step 3: Team Finder filters (bottom panel)

Siege Defenses tab — your banked defense teams

Siege Guildies tab — guildmates' defenses

Arena Builder — Step 1/2: Setup & Build Mode (homepage canvas)

Arena Builder — Step 3: Pick teams (MONSTER LOOKUP / FILTERS / SELECTED TEAMS)

Caiross Workshop — Step 2: Select Dungeon

Caiross Workshop — Step 3: Select Team

Caiross Workshop — Dynamic Speed Ticks (Simulated Ticks grid)

When you open the tab with no tool selected, the right panel shows three tool cards — Re-App Target, Speed Tune, and Artifact Damage — each with a short feature list, and the bottom canvas shows a showcase strip. Click any card (the gold “Select →” footer) to open that tool; its controls fill the bottom canvas and its results fill the right panel. To switch tools, click “Back to All Tools” in the top-right of the header. If you want a calculator that doesn’t exist yet, scroll to the “More Tools Coming Soon” card and hit “Submit a Suggestion” — every suggestion is read and replies come by email.

This tool ranks every rune in your box by re-appraisal priority so you spend gems on the runes with the biggest upside first. The right panel lists your ranked re-app targets (each row shows priority, RL score, set, location, and stats) — click any rune to load its breakdown in the bottom canvas, which splits priority into Innate / Slot / Gap scores and flags Top-3-Gap runes. Use the middle Configs column in the canvas to toggle which sets (Violent, Will, Swift, Despair, plus “Configure Other Sets” and Ancient) and slots count, drag the RuneLens Threshold slider so already-good runes are excluded, and flip “Show All” to include dupes and high-speed flats. The left Gap Analysis column tells you which stat categories your box is weakest in so you know where re-apping helps most.

Use this to find the exact minimum rune speed each follower needs to move right after your booster. In the bottom canvas, first pick a game mode (RTA = 5 slots, Arena/Caiross/General = 4, WGB and Siege = 3 — the card shows that mode’s tick speed), then your team auto-loads from your JSON. Set the booster’s ATB Boost % (presets 25/30/33/50) and optional +30% Speed Buff, add any Leader Skill % (presets 19/24/33), and click a monster card to open its deep config in the right panel where you can edit base speed, mark a Swift-set follower, add artifact SPD %, set the team leader, or exclude a monster from tuning. The Results column then lists each monster’s minimum rune speed, displayed speed, and combat speed in turn order.

Speed Tune — Mode selector (bottom-left)

Speed Tune — Setup column (bottom-middle)

Speed Tune — Per-monster config (right panel)

Speed Tune — Results table (bottom-right)

This simulates a skill’s exact damage and ranks your artifacts by how much damage each adds. In the bottom canvas Setup column, pick a monster, choose Normal or RTA stats, select the skill slot and skill level, and switch between “From JSON” (your real stats) and “Manual” if you want to override the stat grid. Open “Open Battle Configs” in the middle column to set enemy DEF/HP/element, combat modifiers (DEF break, branding, ignore DEF, first attack, etc.), leader %, and Glory Tower bonuses. The right panel’s Damage Calc tab then shows the best artifact pairs (top 3) plus per-slot Element and Type rankings with a damage delta versus your equipped setup — click any row to preview it, and hit the lock icon to save a pair to the Locked Artifacts tab for later comparison.

Artifact Damage — Setup column (bottom-left)

Artifact Damage — Battle Config summary (bottom-middle)

Artifact Damage — Battle Config modal

Artifact Damage — Right panel tabs (Damage Calc / Locked Artifacts)

Artifact Damage — Result Preview (bottom-right)

Re-App Calculator — Configs filters (bottom-middle)

Re-App Calculator — Ranked list & breakdown

The main Account panel gathers everything tied to your login in one place — your identity, your linked wizards, and your subscription. Each labelled section below is a card on that panel.

Sign out from the LOG OUT button in the bottom-right of the status bar — it’s there on every tab, so you never have to hunt for it. Clicking it opens a “Sign out?” confirmation rather than logging you straight out. If a game is currently attached, the dialog warns that it’ll be detached first so Summoners War isn’t left orphaned, and the button reads DETACH & SIGN OUT; with nothing attached it’s a plain sign-out. Hit CANCEL to stay put. Once you confirm, SWLens releases the game (if needed), clears your session, and returns you to the login screen — and because everything lives in the cloud, your saved builds and synced JSON come straight back the next time you sign in.

Account — Profile actions (bottom strip, left card)

Account — Subscription / Billing (bottom strip, middle card)

Account — Support / Community (bottom strip, right card)