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Monsters that have a gold star on their portrait can be equipped (at the cost of four Tan monsters, which invade in urgent dungeons or can be purchased for 25kMP each -- yes, this is a cash sink) to any monster you want.

The base monster charges its own active skill like normal, and once its own skill is ready it starts charging the skill equipped to it. When THAT skill is ready, the original active skill becomes unavailable and you can use the equipped skill.

Say for example that you equipped Gadius (Sunrise Zone, 10 turns) to... I dunno, Awoken Hinokagutsuchi (Yomi Wave, 7 turns).

Turns 1 through 6, Hinokagutsuchi doesn't have any active skills available.

Turns 8 through 16, Yomi Wave is available as Sunrise Zone charges.

Turn 17, Sunrise Zone becomes available and Yomi Wave is unusable.

After you use either active skill, it resets to turn 1.

You can unequip the monster at any time, so you can keep it instead of losing it as if it were an evolution, but you have to pay for it again to re-equip it.