No benefits apart from getting aqua faster. Tends to have a higher fail chance than earnt aqua. You also lose crystals to transmutate it.
How do knockouts work? Because I've seen in some wars one's team's total ko losses does not equal the opponents ko wins, which doesn't make sense, or maybe I'm counting wrong.
X/Y Where X is the number of KO's dealt to the other team, and Y is the number of times KO'd - whether it be by the other team or self-KO'd