Energon is the premium currency typical of a freemium mobile game with microtransactions.
In the Netflix cersion of the game
Where to Spend[]
Energon can be spent on, among other things:
- All items in the store other than those in the Raid store.
- Premium Bot Crystals, Premium Mod Crystals, Gold Crystals, and Featured Bot Crystals
- Refreshing selection of Away Missions (5)
- Selecting another opponent in Raids (2, 6, 10, 14)
- replenishing a Raid Ticket (10)
- Changing opponents in Arenas (5)
- Cooldown of Bots in Arenas (5, 10, 15, 30)
- Limited-time 24-hour flash offers, ranging from 100 to 5,000 Energon
- For the game's final two events. more resources were made available to buy with Energon: (limit 21 for each Spark)
- T2 Alpha Spark - 80
- Tier 3 Basic Spark - 40
- T3 Alpha Spark - 400
- T4 Basic Spark - 200
- 5-Star Bot Crystal - 500
- T4 Bot Crystal - 100
- (seriously none of the highest-end T4 Class and T5 Basics?)
Obtainment[]
Without paying with real money, Energon can be obtained in various ways:
- Completing Solo and Special Missions; completing a stage will give you 10 Energon, while fully exploring it will give you another 15. (15 and 20 for Prime difficulty respectively)
- Some Solo Mission crates rarely give 5 Energon.
- Arena Crystals have a slight chance of giving a small amount of Energon.
- 10, 20, 30, and 40 Energon can be claimed from the login calendar on the sixth day of each week.
- 10 bundles of 20 Energon are sometimes available in the Raid Store for 3,000 Raid Chips each, up to 200 Energon for 30,000 Raid Chips.
- From v5.0, three ads can be watched to get
54 Energon per video each day every 12 hours. - 15 Energon from watching 4 ad videos Daily Objective.
- 10 Energon from completing 7 Daily Objectives.
- A myriad of ways. (Netflix) By the time you've completed Act 1, you'll already have an excess of over 500 Energon.
Should you want to bribe your way to victory, several different amounts of Energon are available in the Energon store to purchase with real money.
- Soundwave's Superior Stocks - 135 - $6.99 USD
- Starscream's Embezzled Stores - 275 - $13.99 USD
- Bumblebee's Trunk - 850 - $39.99 USD
- Megatron's Spoils of War - 1450 - $69.99 USD
- King Grimlock's Royal Bounty - 3100 - $129.99 USD
Occasionally, more Energon and additional items are included with these purchases, such as Energon Daily Cards, Crystals, and Bot Chips, before defaulting to Bot Chip bundles.
On October 14, 2022, all ads and in-app purchases were removed, per the announcement of the game shutting down and removal from the App Stores.
From October 2022 onwards, the 7-Day Calendar gave a consecutive 200 to 800 Energon each day, along with 75~750 Premium Bot Crystal Shards.