#1 Tip from me would be - Don't be afraid to synthesise a monster into the same monster again if leveling has gotten super slow for it, if you want to keep a specific Monster for a fusion later but it has stopped leveling as much/as fast Synthesise it back into itself using another monster with the same[or similar] talents. This way you can Max out talents easier as well as boost its stat's a little or even evolve talents to their next stage on slthe same monster.
Definitely helps to max out the default skill trees. If nothing else, if you just want to keep a favorite monster, but want it to just get stats faster, just fuse it with the same species.
@GymLeaderEd I named every monster is Synthesised with my starter [a platypunk] Dr.Punk as a funny haha and have kept it as a Sir Rosengaurd for like 4 iterations now waiting to boost it from C>B or Higher haha
i am doing this a lot. I also recruited a bunch of heal slimes for their revive ability, and you can find an appropriate time to fuse them in for your healers and casters.
While not something to rely on, here's a tip I just learned! Damage reflection from Spiky Body bypasses defense. So if you're having trouble downing early metal slimes, even though they don't run immediately, you can bring Spiky Body monsters to reflect damage back to the slimes, ignoring their defense, and beating them that way. Just watched a metal slime KO itself against my Cactiball, taking 5 reflect damage lol
@@tcglitten4251you can only bring over 8 from demo. The 8 that are in your party and reserve. They lose their second talent. So start the full game if you can, or try to fuse the highest rank you can. No reason to scout a high quantity in the demo.
@@tcglitten4251DONT waste your time with the demo, when you play the full game you have to restart from the very beginning. It doesn’t continue off the demo
@@tcglitten4251 you can only take your party and reserves. you cant bring anything from your pen. Also dont focus on skills in the demo, as you cant carry over your picked skills in the full game. I'd personally say get a couple hunter mechs and living armors, succubats are really good too as u can make dark slimes with them (if you fuse them with any slime)
If you're thinking of synthesizing one of your monsters, but one of its talents just has a FEW points left until it's maxed, consider grinding that last little bit to get the rest of the way there before you commit to synthesis. Having maxed talents can occasionally unlock upgraded forms of them for the offspring--most commonly any talents tagged "Aficionado", or the talents that revolve around simply boosting one stat in particular like Attack or Defence. These upgraded forms have higher point caps and stronger abilities, some of them even BEGINNING with learning the skill that was the ultimate capstone of the previous talent.
Evolve the shallow breather talent, which can be found on many low rank dragons. Next fuse the now evolved breather talent onto the strongest large monster you can find. Next put enough talent points to max out the breather talent so you have the deep breath, scorch and c-c-cold breath skills. Next go into your monster's A.I. and turn off all skills except for deep breath and your strongest breath attacks. Finally turn their tactics to "support allies". Your large monster will now breathe deeply, then do a double damage massive breath attack to all enemies in the same turn. This works even better if your monster has the frizzmeister/crackmeister passive. I was ending boss battles in 1 or 2 turns this way all the way through the mid game. Remember to synthesize your large monster with another large monster every so often to raise their stats so they dont die too easily.
I’d love to see another video touching on upgraded/fused talent trees! I’ve lowkey been using one of your older vids to compile a list of evolved talent trees, so feel free to use any of the information I’ve been putting there!
Didnt realize you could influence a monsters move choice. Kept getting angry my monster was choosing weaker or less appropriate moves at times. This helps a ton
My best advice for people is to use buffs and debuffs! Using both Kabuff and Attack Attacker will make an otherwise one shot turn attack into a wet noodle. Gobstopper (no breath attacks) can hamper certain enemies to turn them completely trivial. Debuffs and buffs matter in this game.
1. Get the dlc for the mole hole. Its, sadly, really really good. 2. Pick up the metal slime for 10 mini medals. Its probably the best early game fusion material. 3. The heal slime is great for the healer talent tree 4. Fuse talent trees for advanced versions of afficianado and slasher skills 5. Fortifier has oomphle(atk up for everyone). Its great for scouting 6. Kaping(wis up for all) seems to be only available early on the sizz virtuoso tree. Also great for scouting 7. And then theres sap also for scouting. Its easier to get tho 8. You can stack stat buffs and stat debuffs more than once. So sap on enemy twice. Though im not sure if you can stack it more than 2 times.
I have to ask, because I may be doing something wrong, but my experience with the mole hole as been terrible (early game). Monsters I've had 35%+ chance to scout naturally barely reach 10% in the mole hole. I assume it's because they're higher level, but it seems absurdly difficult to tame monsters there compared to the overworld. When the whole point of the mole hole is to re-tame monsters. Should I really just be using the mole hole more at a mid-game level, where I have access to Sap/Oomphle/stronger attackers? Because early game, it seems kind of pointless. Or am I supposed to rely more on the chance that they monster gets up an joins me (after feeding it) for early game?
@@Red-gw3ju yeah its tough. Usually im able to get to 30% with monsters a rank or more below my monsters. So if I have a D rank team i can get lucky with E ranks and definitely get F ranks. But for the Large monsters, it usually requires reloading a save. Using the monster treats is really useful here because it increases the chance of getting the monster if you fail to scout and simply defeat them
@@Red-gw3juit's not useful early game. Scout chance is lower cause their level is higher than wild and if you already have 1 in your paddock your chance is halved. Mole hole didn't become useful to me until my team was moving from B to A and I'm mostly getting monsters two ranks lower. Progressing the story is more useful than Mole hole. That how it's been for me, hope it helps.
@@Red-gw3jualso I don't waste my meat. They may get up wether or not you feed them and if you're relying on that you'll use all your meat. Synthesizing skills to aficionado is more important to progression than super high rank.
the dlc is completely worth it, i also dont understand the hate, yes its paid, but there has never been a dlc in the history of dqm that has helped players more. It saves literal hours of grinding. It is also relatively inexpensive for the amount of money studios are charging dlcs nowadays anyway.
A small addition to your "catch everything" tip: monsters in the Depot ALSO get experience from battles (at a slower rate, something half experience? I didn't calculated it accurately). So yeah, it is extremly advised to scoot as much and as soon as possible (I personnaly rush the Zone's story goal to unlock the reputation gain and then do a full round of scooting of the zones of said region). That way, you'll always have some monsters ready to be fused at a reasonnable level even when you didn't expected you'd needed them.
One thing I do is check their talents (mostly for stat boosts) and focus on that talent tree until I want to merge them with someone else. I also use the name feature to rename fusion monsters so I can find them easily, like naming a monster with attack boost 3 to atk 3 or a zap focus monster to Zap to be fused to my main monster which retains their name no matter what monsters they are.
Hearing that certain Pokémon Colosseum song playing in a loop over and over in this video had me like: RIDER WILLIE would like to battle! RIDER WILLIE sent out ZIGZAGOON and ZIGZAGOON! Go! ESPEON and UMBREON!
A great one to me was using the reverse synthesis menu and setting it to '"no" on only showing monsters you haven't scouted. I think the menu is invaluable especially when crafting higher end monsters from the ground up. It was mentioned in the video but I think it bears saying again, cap those skills! I was putzing around with a monster that had the shallow breaths skill, I capped it out and fused it to make a new monster and it created the deep breaths skill. Classic DQ games have taught me that breath attacks are super strong and a lot of the mid tier areas will crumple quite fast if you belt out an inferno or c-c-cold breath a time or two and I was only using an E tier monster at the time!
I’ll prob pick this up after super Mario rpg or the thousand year door remake. Never realized how deep I am into the monster tamer genre! Pokémon, digimon world games, digimon cyber sleuth and hackers memory, SMT 3-5, monster hunter stories 1 & 2. Lol I just chalked it up to “I like turn based JRPGs” 😂😂
Honestly when i bought this i was expecting more of a digimon world/monster rancher vibe and i wasnt disappointed. all the different fusions and evolutions for the monsters is what i really like. building that perfect team that just smashes through enemies is a great feeling in games like these where its not all about leveling up
I just love how they took the best parts of previous dragon quest monsters games, and also took out the most frustrating part. With this game, you can fuse any monster with any other monster. No previous game had this ability. Monsters had to be 1 male and 1 female. Or different charges. Negative, positive or neutral. I can't tell you how frustrating it was to get 2 male and 2 female metalys in order to breed one metal king slime from the original games on the Game boy color. Great info by the way and keep up the good content.
i think the no.1 thing i can say that helps a lot is remember that items is a free thing, it doesn't take any of your monster's turns to use them. I can give a few example of times you should consider items as they are pretty strong. Say you run into a cannibox and you worried it could whack one of your monsters successfully so you want it gone fast, a rockbomb shard will easily bring it down to near death and one of your monsters will finish it. Bad medicine is a amazing item to use during say a boss fight, ofc, it can fail (always check on their name if they are strong against it) but should it succeed, it'll lower all 4 of their stats somewhat, making them much easier to deal with for a time.
Just got this game as a late holidays gift. Huge pokemon player so it's really hard for me to remove my pokemon habits while playing this. But videos like this helps. Gonna seek out the other guides on this.
gonna repost the top-comment from another guide you had, because i really need help on this: "one thing id love explained is what skill/spells/attacks scale off of what for example, how i understand it right now, ONLY slashing damage scales off of attack? and ONLY spell-damage off wisdom. while breaths and non-specific damage doesnt scale off anything at all? healing seems to scale off wisdom? maybe? does harmful effect accuracy scale off wisdom like in mainline-dq? and what about harmful-effect-evasion? does that scale off wisdom? they really dont explain this well in the game. Id love to find some explanation or some spreadsheet online, but i cant seem to find anything."
I managed to snatch a Large Beleth from the second egg I ever hatched. It's actually by far the largest creature I own. So large in fact, that Synthesis with it will generate a Large as a result with almost every other monster I have, except for the tiniest Vampire Cat.
Thank you for these tips. I ended up getting a sparkly monster just randomly while trying to fuse for higher rank monsters. Wasn't sure how rare they were (though I'm well acquainted with pokemon shinies) and if it would carry over if i synthesized again. Glad I didn't!
Tips if you are hunting metal slimes for xp: if you see one in the wild, turn off auto save, save and engage battle with it. This way if it flees, you can just reload your save and try again. If you're hunting liquid metal slimes, or even better, metal king slimes, if you see one in the wild, you can try to save as close to where it spawned as you can. This way if you reload your save, it will look like the metal king slime isn't there, but when you back up a bit it will reappear. If you save and reload from a distance, the monsters that appear in the battle will always be the same, if you save close to it and reload, it will generate a new battle, allowing you to essentially reroll the battle into 2, 3 or even 4 metal king slimes so you can have a better shot at getting more xp from the rare encounter.
I actually think both pokemon and dragon quest monsters have their unique complexities at the same level. One isn't more complex than the other. It's just the systems used are different. Another tip is not to ignore the importance of the various items you collect. You can issue commands for all 4 monsters AND use an item (which happens before anything else in that turn) so it is like having a 5th monster.
The Mole Hole, get it. You can scout any monster that you have obtain once before. On Monsterpedia if the monster has a tick, you can find it in The Mole Hole Useful for Synthesise Monster Only since once you Synthesise them, they will be in The Mole Hole. You will need to be on the right floor, eg for G Rank Monsters you need to be on the G Rank Floor. For A rank Monsters you need to be on A rank floor
Ive been a major fan of the OG GBC DQMonsters, and breeding has been my most favoret feature of that game. I still wish there was that breeding/hereditary mechanic but as long as i can fuse mons into new stronger ones im fine with it. I have to say the OG is still better but this is by far MUCH better than the Joker games
i've sunk 20 hours into the game atm. I would label it Shin Megami Tensei 5 meets Pokemon Arceus. It's got a pokemon arceus style of open world, with multiple zones and what not, but the rest is more shin megami.
Reverse search for the monsters you desire to see all compatable monsters that will make that specific one and their abilities they would gain! Also, if you are focusing on the ability/talent upgrades, filter filter filter so you save yourself headaches and improve your point allocations from your parents to see if it would actually be the best match for what you have available.
I’m very early game and I feel like I made a lot more progress in the demo, so having all the progress taken away was a bummer cuz I feel like I’m doing worse than I was before. And in general there’s so much that it feels overwhelming
I would use the reverse synthesis system and just peruse all the things you can fuse! I wish i had used it earlier on. It's nice to have all the options on one page.
ugh yess this completely changed the game for me, i spent have the game synthesizing normally, then decided to see what reverse synth was about. Safe to say it is probably one of the most convenient features theyve added in any dqm game to date, another feature close to it is probably the mole hole dlc
My tip is always throwing meat 🍖 instead of scouting before you've beaten a big hitter that way you can grind exp items and gold on your way to a big hitter and still have a decent chance of acquiring monsters.
Hello and thanks fot the video , as always great job !!! One question only... do the shinies have different color in this game ? Oh and are there any outfits for my character except from the dlc ? Thanks again !
I have 2 questions, 1. Does it exactly matter which skill tree you focus on for fusing 2 Monsters? And 2. When is the best time to syntenzise as soon as possible at level 10 or somewhat later?
For your very first synthesis, you might want to synthesis as soon as possible just to slowly get out of G rank monsters, but also simply to restart at level one with more talents points. And early game those few talents points can help a lot. Remember than Child monsters inherit 50% of the talents points of their parents, either via the talents you'll inherit or via the unspented points. So the longer you wait before fusing, the more talents points your child will get. Later on, there's surely better anwsers, so here's my personnal take: I usually wait until I have newer monsters ready to take place of my mains before synthesising. For instance, I had an already better physical DPS in reserve just to level it up and catch up on levels, until it caugh up enough to take my main physical DPS dealer to use it as a fusion material for yet another better one. It's really more of a feeling to get, because while leveling is important, like the guide said, it's more important to have a more coherent / adequate team. So if you feel like leveling is starting to slow down, it might be a good opportunity to replace some of your monsters. It might take some grinding, but as exp is exponentiatory, it never takes that long for a newer monster to catch up, especially if it's a rank higher and / or star variant (that small pink star that can pop in their profile icon, because they'll catch up to your older monsters as a lower level either with their stats or simply better skills). To help during griding newer monsters, you'll sometime recieve bonus ball as consummable. I personnaly use then after having made switch to my team to help catch up with the 50/100% bonus exp. There's also consummable to simply give exp, metal slimes cards, or even the game's variant of super candy, seed of growth. During adventuring and grinding, my Reserve teams is only composed of future Mains or monsters that I'll want to sacrifice for fusing. It's also nice to remember that even DEPOT monsters get exp (albeit at a slower rate). So it's really not that hard to end up having lot of monsters to fuse with that are a reasonnable level. For your first question, it's nice to know that any unspented point is also given at half to the child monster. So in the worst case scenario, if you're unsure, simply don't spend those points. When it does matter a lot is when you want to create a better talent. You have two ways to inherit an upgraded version: either one of your monster has maxed out said talent, or the total of spent points in both monsters is enough to have it maxed out normally. For instance, if both the monster material has ATK Booster 1, if their total is 85 or more, the child will have the new talent ATK Booster 2. It'll start out as weaker as an already upgraded ATK Booster 1, but it's better to think in the long term and give up the 1 version for the 2 version. However, for "skills talents", the upgraded version is usually way better right off the bat. All in all, the story isn't that hard either to progress through. I've personnaly noticed one particular boss I'd consired a powerwall / test of strength if you rush too quickly, but if you don't ignore every monsters in your way / flee any battles and simply auto battle through them for a bit of exp there and there, you should be fine.
@@SarkenHS I see thank you for answering my questions i do however have one more question and its fine if you don't know it or anyone else does but: its a about the booster skills, do you need the booster 1 skill with booster 2 skill to get booster 3 skill or can you just go with just booster 2 while synthezise?
Alright so I found out the easiest way to scout monsters Wisdom based monsters give the biggest bonus Get krystalinda , try to even get a few of her , get a monster that has kaping, use two turns and raise your wisdom , weaken the monster , give it some food Right now I’m getting 60-80% on S rank monster on wormhole It doesn’t have to be krystaljnda , add a tier 4 wisdom boost to your monsters and watch how easy it is
Spoilers maybe : #1 synthesis tip : only synthesis with reverse search AND make sure to put NO on possible combinations only and monsterpedia entries only ! Rank A/S/X monsters are only unique and by "normal" means I'd have never found that a demon at arms + jugular joker makes a hell gladiator since I fused my jugular joker to make a demons at arms, but by that way, the game told me I had to remake one to unlock a rank A since when looking at all I can make I see the Hell Gladiator there, and I now lack only a Jugular Joker !
I really need synthesis guides and I’ve tried finding a synthesis guide online but they kinda just don’t exist and the one Japanese one I found which was awesome I couldn’t find again :(
Thanks! I just beat the Plains. When it comes to synthesis, would it be better to level up monsters you plan to synthesize or would fusing two freshly caught monsters be ok? I caught multiples of some monsters to experiment.
In the long term is better to synth higher level mons. But in the early I would say synth as soon as it becomes available. It’s a great boost to your power!!
Try working on synthesizing advanced talent trees. For example, fusing two randomly caught monsters with Attack boost 1 to create monsters with attack boost 2. Then fuse that onto your physical attacking monster.
honestly best tip i can give is try and get a black dragon then go try and get an l sized one from the mole hole that thing can easely hits1-3 times about 300 damadge whit kazam and literly steam rolls bosses and it also asorbs fire
Hm... so if I want to strenghten a mage-type monster, I need to feed-synthesis him high WIS & MP monster. I guess everything is pretty modulable then except a monster trait, it's resistance & it's species (Slime being vulnerable to "slime squisher" for exemple). We can get the stats & talents from synthesis.
So far the 6 shiny/sparkle monsters that I have, has come from synthesizing a Large monster with a Small monster. Don't know if it's a higher rate because of that or I'm just lucky.
Is the only time i can change the monsters name is when i first scout them? or am i able to change the name whenever i want? It's not a huge things but i like to give my monsters/pokemon names when i find a good one. Thanks for the videos they have all been great at explaining and helping me decide if i wanna buy into this game.
4 starting monsters eh I know like three of them since I saw Ed's demo play he got like some type of dragon than a nature slime and I got myself one one of those puppets. So there one more eh. I don't like my puppet I need to fusion it with something.
Its a really good fusion material too, so just go ahead. Fuse into cool monsters, but dont get attached to them. Rather focus on picking cool talent trees with good skills. Early on the slasher and afficionado trees are good. Fortifier is great and healer from the heal slime is a must
I have a question I fused two lvl 10 Monsters but I didnt use any talents for them, so has my fused monster now I any disadvantage should I have spent the parents talents first??
Does anyone know where you can purchase/farm bonus balls? They’re really handy items and even shops in later areas just have the exact same items as the first shop
You get random seeds by releasing nicknamed monsters. So just go to the starting map, get em with 100%, delete a character and release the monster immediately.
You're thinking of dqm joker 3. Also,Terrys wonder land was a remake. Dqm joker 1,2,3 don't count nor does the remake. Its literally called dqm 3 in Japan
Just because you couldn't recruit a monster with the recruit command doesn't mean you won't be able to recruit it. Sometimes they'll still want to follow you after defeating them. So be patient and beat them anyways! ;)
“Don’t get attached to your starter” … Too late lol I even made sure to have the synthesis monster from it be leader on my team. Which is good cuz it’s my healer
8 is just flat out wrong. Ranks have always mattered. The stars are just stat scaling, and there are different types of builds, higher wisdom mons do better with magic compared to mons with just better attack. It matters so much. The whole point of the gameplay IS to synthesize and attain HIGHER ranked mons.
I breathe game with E, C, D and B. They don't matter to the point of needing to hyperfocus I should've specified. I did say that they tend to be better tho
You know what I love about this game? The fact that you can basically say f#$k the humans I am going to be the solo monster king rule these lands with a iron fist. All those who defy me shall perish.
No offense, but these tips are mostly for noobs which I am not. Of course I'm not saying they're bad they're really really helpful, but I'm a DQM veteran so it didn't help me much. Anyways nice video.
Sigh.. the comparisons to pokemon are ridiculous and dragon quest does not have more attacks than pokemon lmfao.. I think the funniest part is that this system of play is not new to dragon quest you could do alot of the same things in dq 7.. they just took a small part of that game and made it the whole game lol
