******************************************* Smart Breeding in Dragon Warrior Monsters ******************************************* by PokeChris Version 1.1 UPDATES 8/4/00 -Added breeding list for boss family -Added Legal Stuff -Expanded info about link-cable breeding -Added credits section 8/7/00 -Added list of incompatible personalities TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. KEYS TO GOOD BREEDING 1.Don't breed to get more pluses, breed to get better stats -A.How pluses are gained -B.The benefit of pluses -C.The big mistake 2.Determine whether potential breedings are beneficial -A.The formula 3.Breed monsters to create new ones with better stats 4.Whenever possible, breed over a link cable -A.Special breeding situations -B.Incompatible personalities -C.A cheesy (but effective) way to use link-cable breeding 5.Keep an eye on your monster's personalities III. OTHER VARIOUS BREEDING THINGS 1.Monsters you must breed to get 2.How to breed boss monsters IV. CREDITS V. CONTACT THE AUTHOR I. INTRODUCTION --------------- Dragon Warrior Monsters (DWM) is an excellent game. The number of quality RPG's in the gameboy library is a bit thin, and DWM is a real gem. It arguably has more depth and replay value than Pokemon. The range of over 200 monsters to collect is diverse and varied. One of the best and most unique aspects of DWM is its breeding feature. There are many important reasons to breed your monsters -Breeding allows you to get new kinds of monsters without having to find them in the wild and persuading them to join you with expensive meat treats. -Normal wild monsters learn only three special skills. Through breeding you can create for your monster a set of eight powerful and diverse skills. -Monsters you have bred are capable of reaching higher levels before they are fully grown. This gives them more time to accrue stat points. -Monsters that have been bred can have potentially much higher level one stats than their wild counterpart. Breeding is the key to success Dragon Warrior monsters. Not only is it fun, but you simply won't be able to beat the game unless you do a whole heck of alot of breeding. However, you must breed intelligently, not all willy-nilly. Bad breeding can actually wreck your favorite monster! There are certain key points to good breeding, and there are certain mistake you need to avoid. ******************************************* II. KEY POINTS TO GOOD BREEDING ------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- {-Don’t breed simply to get more pluses, breed to get better stats} ------------------------------------------------------------------- Some people may make the mistake of breeding monsters together quickly and at low levels to get monsters with high pluses. THIS CAN BE A HUGE MISTAKE! Let me explain. A. HOW PLUSES ARE GAINED ------------------------ Firstly, it is important to know exactly what pluses do and how you earn them. Pluses are earned by the offspring of two monsters. The number of pluses inherited by offspring is directly dependent on two factors. These factors are: 1) The combined levels of the parent monsters The following chart explains how many pluses a child will inherit from its parents depending on their combined total level (Mom’s Level + Dad’s Level) Total Experience Level + Level 20-39 +1 40-59 +2 60-75 +3 76-99 +4 100+ +5 2) The number of pluses which the pedigree parent already had before mating. The number of pluses the non-pedigree mate has is irrelevant. The number of pluses gained by the combined level of the parents is added to the number of pluses the pedigree monster had before the mating. B. THE BENEFIT OF PLUSES ------------------------ Pluses have several benefits for your monster. Firstly, a monster with pluses can reach a higher level than the same variety of monster without any pluses. The more pluses your monster has, the higher the level they can reach before they are fully grown. This gives the monster more time to accrue stat points, leading to a better monster. Secondly, pluses can provide a stat boost every time you go up a level. This plus stat boost apparently begins to affect your monster around level 14. The more pluses you have, the bigger the stat boost is. -Plus- -Effect of the plus after Lv. 14- 0-(+10) Random +(0-1) to HP & ATK for max total of +2 (+11)-(+20) Random +(0-2) to HP & ATK for max total of +3 (+21)-(+30) Random +(0-3) to HP & ATK for max total of +5 (+31)-(+60) Random +(0-3) to HP & ATK for max total of +6 (+61)-(+80) Random +(0-4) to HP & ATK for max total of +7 (+81)-(+90) Random +(0-4) to HP & ATK for max total of +8 (+91)-(+255) Definite +4 to HP & ATK for a total of +8 C. THE BIG MISTAKE ------------------ As you can see, unless you have alot of pluses, their effect on your stats is relatively small. With that in mind, you should always breed monsters together in a way in which the offspring will have the best possible level 1 stats. Don’t breed monsters together in a way which gives you a bunch of pluses, but ends up greatly lowering the offspring’s level 1 stats in relationship the level 1 stats of either of its parents. You should strive to make every monster generation stronger than the previous one. ------------------------------------------------------------------ {-Determine whether a potential mating will benefit your monsters} ------------------------------------------------------------------ As said before, not all breeding possibilities will be beneficial to your monsters. You should breed so that the level 1 stats of the offspring monster are greater than the level one stats of both of the parent monsters. A. THE FORMULAS --------------- Before breeding, you can determine whether this will be so.with this formula. Stat of Pedigree Monster+Stat of mate monster/4=Lv. 1 stat of offspring If the mating is beneficial to your monster’s stats, then the following statement should be true. Lv. 1 stat of pedigree< Lv. 1 stat of child > Lv. 1 stat of mate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- {-Try to breed monsters together to create monsters with better stats} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is kind of an obvious thing, but you don’t want to make this mistake. Lets say you have two very powerful monsters with a small amount of pluses. For exaple, a GreatDrak and A spotking. Both have killer stats and techniques and you want to combine then into one awesome powerhouse monster, so you breed them together, putting GreatDrak as the pedigree and Spotking as its mate. You would get a DragonKid. Sure the DragonKid will have good Lv. 1 stats that reflect its parents, but it will become fully grown very quickly, without time to gain much in the way of stats, especially since every time a monster like DragonKid goes up a level it doesn’t gain alot of stat points anyways. Not only would you have create one so-so monster from two awesome ones, but if the dragonkid did not get to a high enough level before it maxed out, you could lose completely skills which monsters acquire at a high level, like BigBang, Gigaslash, and Chance. You would have to go through all of the trouble of breeding the lost skills back into your monster. --------------------------------------------- {-Whenever possible, breed over a link cable} --------------------------------------------- Breeding over a link cable is the absolute best way to breed. Each person gives one monster and after the breeding, each person gets one egg. You can keep breeding your monsters together over and over again, acquiring more and more pluses without ever having to go and catch more monsters. This can really help you create super powerful monsters in a short period of time. A. SPECIAL BREEDING SITUATIONS ------------------------------ Normally when mating across a link cable, you and your friend will get new, different monsters. However, there are two notable exceptions. Firstly, if you and your friend mate together two monsters from the same family, both of you will get back the same monster you used for the breeding. There are however some exceptions. Secondly, in the following breedings listed below both people will get the same new monster. The order of the monsters in the mating is not important. SLIME FAMILY ------------ GoldSlime= MetalKing + MetalKing KingSlime= Slime + Slime Metabble= Metaly + Metaly MetalKing= Metabble + Metabble SpotKing= SpotKing + SpotKing DRAGON FAMILY ------------- Coatol= WingSnake + WingSnake Dragon= DragonKid + DragonKid GreatDrak= Dragon + Dragon WingSnake= Crestpent + Crestpent DragonKid + DragonKid BattleRex + BattleRex BEAST FAMILY ------------ KingLeo= Trumpeter + Trumpeter Trumpeter= WildApe + WildApe PLANT FAMILY ------------ Maneater= EvilSeed + EvilSeed Snapper= Maneater + Maneater BUG FAMILY ---------- Armorpion= HornBeet + HornBeet Droll= Butterfly\ /Butterfly Hornbeet= StagBug + StagBug Eyeder| + |Eyeder Taileater/ \Taileater DEVIL FAMILY ------------ Akubar= Grendal + Grendal ChopClown= 1EyeClown + 1EyeClown Durran= GoldGolem + Centasaur GateGuard= Demonite + Demonite Jamirus= Akubar + RainHawk ZOMBIE FAMILY ------------- Boneslave= Hork + Hork DeadNoble= DeadNite + DeadNite Servant= Skeletor + Skeletor Skeletor= BoneSlave + BoneSlave /WhiteKing BombCrag= SpikyBoy + SpikyBoy Skullgon=Dragon Family +|DeadNoble Golem= MudDoll + MudDoll \Skullgon MudDoll= Goopi + Goopi /Golem MetalDrak=Andreal + |Roboster \StoneMan BOSS FAMILY ----------- DeathMore= Zoma + Mirudraas(TransFormed) B. INCOMPATIBLE PERSONALITIES ----------------------------- Sometimes you will attempt to breed two monsters together only to get the message that the breeding failed. This means that you and your friend's monster's personalities clashed. The following are lists of incompatible personalities. Monsters with incompatible personalities cannot successfully mate. A personality IS NOT COMPATIBLE with any of the personalities listed after it. A personaliy IS COMPATIBLE with any personality not listed after it. HOTBLOOD= Vain, Smug, Snobby, Rebel, Spoiled, Uncertain, Sly, Coward, -------- Lazy DARING= Snobby, Coward, Lazy ------ DAREDEVIL= Snobby, Nosy, Ordinary, Coward, Lazy --------- LONE WOLF= Lone Wolf, Vain, EZ Going, Smug, Snobby, Nosy, ordinary, --------- hasty, rebel, spoiled, uncertain, careless, carefree, coward lazy VAIN= Hotblood, Lone Wolf, Vain, Snobby, Reckless, Cool/Calm, Ordinary, ---- Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Careless, Lazy EZ GOING= Lone Wolf, Cool/Calm, Stubborn, Rebel, Lazy -------- SMUG= Hotblood, Lone Wolf, Smug, Snobby, Reckless, Cool/Calm, Ordinary, ---- Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Careless, Lazy SNOBBY= Hotblood, Daring, Daredevil, Lone Wolf, Vain, Smug, Snobby, ------ Reckless, Cool/Calm, Ordinary, Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Careless, Lazy RECKLESS= Vain, Smug, Snobby, Ordinary, Rebel, Spoiled, Uncertain, -------- Coward, Lazy COOL/CALM= Vain, EZ Going, Smug, Snobby, Whimsy, Nosy, Hasty, Stubborn, --------- Rebel, Uncertain, Gullible, Sly, Lazy WHIMSY= Cool/Calm, Ordinary, Stubborn, Lazy ------ NOSY= Daredevil, Lone Wolf, Cool/Calm, Lazy ---- WHIZ KID= Gullible, Lazy -------- ORDINARY= Daredevil, Lone Wolf, Vain, Smug, Snobby, Reckless, Whimsy, -------- Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Coward, Lazy HASTY= Lone Wolf, Vain, Smug, Snobby, Cool/Calm, Stubborn, Rebel, ----- Spoiled, Uncertain, Careless, Carefree, Coward, Lazy STUBBORN= Vain, EZ Going, Smug, Snobby, Cool/Calm, Whimsy, Ordinary, -------- Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Uncertain, Careless, Coward, Lazy REBEL= Hotblood, Lone Wolf, Vain, EZ Going, Smug, Snobby, Reckless, ----- Cool/Calm, Ordinary, Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Uncertain, Lazy SPOILED= Hotblood, Lone Wolf, Vain, Smug, Snobby, Reckless, Ordinary, ------- Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Uncertain, Careless, Carefree, Gullible, Coward, Lazy HUMANE= None ------ UNCERTAIN= Hotblood, Lone Wolf, Reckless, Cool/Calm, Hasty, Stubborn, --------- Rebel, Spoiled, Lazy CARELESS= Lone Wolf, Vain, Smug, Snobby, Hasty, Stubborn, Spoiled -------- SHREWD= Lazy ------ CAREFREE= Lone Wolf, Hasty, Spoiled -------- GULLIBLE= Cool/Calm, Whiz Kid, Spoiled -------- SLY= Hotblood, Cool/Calm, Sly, Lazy --- COWARD= Hotblood, daring, daredevil, lone wolf, reckless, ordinary, ------ hasty, stubborn, spoiled, lazy LAZY= Hotblood, Daring, Daredevil, Lone Wolf, Vain, EZ Going, Smug, ---- Snobby, Reckless, Cool/Calm, Whimsy, Nosy, Whiz Kid, Ordinary, Hasty, Stubborn, Rebel, Spoiled, Uncertain, Shrewd, Sly, Coward, Lazy Unfortunately, if you get the message that the breeding has failed, this means you will have to change your monster's personalities until the are compatible. This is a real pain, but at least it gives you a chance to improve your monsters' personalities. C. A CHEESY (BUT EFFECTIVE) WAY TO USE LINK-CABLE BREEDING There is also a really cheesy way you can use a link cable to easily breed monsters like Servant, Golem, SlimeKing, SpotKing, Goldslime, or Coatol. Let me explain using GoldSlime as an example. Get two gameboys, two copies of DWM, and a link cable. On your copy of the game, catch two Metalys. Now get in a cable link battle with the other copy of the game and offer one of the metalys as a prize for winning. Then lose in the link battle so the metaly is tranferred to the other copy of DWM. Now that you have one metaly on each copy of DWM, mate them together, after the mating there will be one Mettable on each copy of DWM. Raise both Metabbles until they are old enough to mate and mate them. Then there will be one MetalKing on each cartridge. Here comes the best part. Mate the MetalKings together and you will have...TWO GOLDSLIMES!!! Now Get in another link cable battle and have the GoldSlime on the other cartridge be offered as a prize. Purposely win and you will get the GoldSlime back. Now you have two GoldSlimes on your copy of DWM and all you had to catch to do it was two Metalys. --------------------------------------------- {-Keep an eye on your monsters’ personalities} --------------------------------------------- There are 27 different monster personalities in DWM. These personalities run the gamut from HotBlooded to Lazy. These personalities are especiallly important when you are fighting in the arena. In arena battles you cannot directly command your monsters to perform specific attacks. Instead, you can only assign them a general attack posture like CHARGE, CAUTIOUS, or MIXED. Montsters with the best personalities pick the best skill corresponding to thier category. Monsters with the worst personalities sometimes don’t even pick moves that correspond to the attack strategy you assigned them. For instance you might be losing in an arena battle and you desperately need one of your monsters to cast HealUsAll to save your team. If your monster has a personality which causes him to choose CAUTIOUS skills poorly, then he might choose to use a move like FireSlash instead and your team would lose. Below is a chart outlining the different personalities and thier effect on how well monsters of each personality choose skills for a MIXED, CHARGE or CAUTIOUS strategy. -PERSONALITY- -CHARGE- -MIXED- -CAUTIOUS- HotBlood Great Great Great Daring Great So-so Great Lone Wolf Great Great so-so Cool/Calm So-so Great Great Vain Great So-so So-so Whimsy So-so So-so Great Whiz Kid So-so Great So-so Daredevil Great bad Great Humane Bad Great Great Smug Great Great Bad Ordinary So-so So-so So-so Hasty So-so Bad So-so Carefree Bad So-so So-so Rebel So-so So-so Bad Reckless Great Bad Bad EZ Going Great Bad So-so Snobby Great So-so Bad Nosy So-so Bad Great Stubborn So-so Great Bad Uncertain Bad So-so Great Shrewed Bad Great So-So Spoiled So-so Bad Bad Careless Bad Bad Great Gullible Bad Bad So-so sly Bad Great Bad Coward Bad So-so Bad Lazy Bad Bad Bad Personalities also have specific benefits and penaties outside of arena battles. -Monsters with High CHARGE compatibility can make critical hits with skills and physical attacks. Monsters with a low compatibility to CHARGE can sometimes be hurt 50% more than usual when defending. -Monsters with a high compatibility to the CAUTIOUS command can sometimes use a healing skill without spending MP. Monsters with a low compatibility to the CAUTIOUS command might use one of your other monsters as a shield. -Monsters with a high compatibility to the MIXED command can sometimes affect a monster with a status attack while ignoring the target's resistances. Monsters with a low compatibility to the MIXED command automatically counterattack instead if obeying your commands. As you can see, your monster's personality can be an important factor in how effective they are in battle. As you breed you monsters, if don't pay attention to molding their personalities, you will notice the quality of their personality decreasing. If you raise a monster to a high level and then realize you have forgotten to pay attention to its personality, you might find yourself having to spend a ton of money to buy books to raise your monsters personality. The best time to raise a monster's personality is while the monster is very young. It is easiest to change a monster's personality, without personality books, before it reaches level 11. If you want to raise your monster's personality a lot without using BK items (Books) go back to one of the first gates and fight the monsters there. You can raise you monster slowly, while at the same time using all three strategies equally. ******************************************** III.OTHER VARIOUS BREEDING THINGS --------------------------------- A.MONSTERS THAT CANNOT BE CAUGHT -------------------------------- The following monsters cannot be caught in the wild or from foreign masters. I did not include gate boss monsters which join you, only gate bosses which don't join you and aren't members of the boss family. SLIME FAMILY ------------ Goldslime= MetalKing + Metalking DRAGON FAMILY ------------- Coatol= WingSnake + Wingsnake -or- BattleRex \ Gasgon | /CopyCat LizardMan | + |Darkhorn Pteranod | |MadKnight SkyDragon / \StoneMan Divinegon= SkyDragon + Orochi BEAST FAMILY ------------ /DarkHorn Gulpbeast KingLeo= Roboster + |MadCat SuperTen \Trumpeter Unicorn -or- Trumpeter + /Balzak GoldGolem \MetalDrak Trumpeter BIRD FAMILY ----------- Rainhawk= Blizzardy + Phoenix PLANT FAMILY ------------ HerbMan= DanceVegi + Devil Family -or- Plant Family + FunkyBird Rosevine= Plant Family + Boss Family BUG FAMILY ---------- Armorpion= HornBeet + HornBeet DEVIL FAMILY ------------ Akubar= ArcDemon + GateGuard -or- Grendal + Grendal Durran= GoldGolem + Centasaur -or- Centasaur + GoldGolem Jamirus= Akubar + RainHawk -or- RainHawk + Akubar ZOMBIE FAMILY ------------- WhiteKing= Zombie Family + Boss Family -or- BoneSlave\ /Andreal Blizzardy DeadNoble| |GoldGolem GreatDrak Skeletor | + |KingLeo KingSlime Skullgon / |Metaking SpotKing \WhipBird ZapBird MATERIAL FAMILY --------------- EvilPot= Gizmo + Devil Family -or- Material Family + Snaily GoldGolem= IceMan + LavaMan B.HOW TO BREED BOSS MONSTERS ---------------------------- You can't catch these monsters either. I did not include them in the above list because you can't catch any monsters in this family. You have to breed to get them all. Don't waste meat treats on them when you fight them in the mystic worlds. There is no way you can get them to join you. Baramos= Hargon + Orochi Darkdrium= DeathMore(Final Form) + Watabou DeathMore= Zoma + /Mirudraas \Mirudrass(Transformed) -or- Mirudrass\ + Zoma Mirudrass(Transformed)/ DeathMore(Transformed)= DeathMore + Armorpion DeathMore(Final Form)= DeathMore(Transformed) + Mudou DracoLord= Servant + /Andreal \GreatDrak DracoLord(Dragon)= DracoLord + Divinegon Esterk= Pizzaro + KingLeo Hargon= WhiteKing + MetalKing Mirudraas= Esterk + GoldSlime Mirudraas(Transformed)= Mirudraas + Spikerous Mudou= Baramos + Darkhorn Pizzaro= Durran + Divinegon Sidoh= Jamirus + Rosevine Zoma= Dracolord(Dragon\ + Sidoh Dracolord/ ******************************************** IV. CREDITS I have a few organizations to thank Prima Games, for coming up with an excellent guide for DWM http://www.primagames.com Enix for creating one of the best Gameboy games, ever. http://www.enix.com LCOTA Dragon Warrior Monsters- a great site with a message board that supported me. The sites creator, Jimeous, is a nice guy http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~jimeous/dwm/index.htm ******************************************** V. CONTACT THE AUTHOR ---------------------- Feel free to Email me at chrism15@ignmail.com You can Email with criticisms and suggestions for what to add If you E-mail me I will probably let you post this on your site. If you do post it, post the whole thing, including my name. (C) PokeChris 2000 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED