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By: Zombie333- Jimmy Spivey
Version: 1.2
Site:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/6395
Date: 6/24/99
email:
[email protected]
-~^Introduction^~-
Well one day I was looking for the old MR FAQ's that I started off
with when I was a novice Monster Rancher, and I couldn't find them. And the
internet was disconnected (my cousin
has aol, and aol has the worst connection ever) and I didn't feel like
getting her to hook me back up again so I made this FAQ.
If you want to post this faQ on your web site or message board than
email me and do not alter ANY of it.
Shouts out to Dan Hauck(
[email protected]), INDYMISFIT AND HyDrOsToRm, they
didn't help me directly or anything but I did use their FaQs to write this
one and to improve my skills in Monster Rancher.
This FaQ will help you become a Master Breeder, help you obtain rare
monsters; expand all of your monster's life spans and much more. Even if you
own a MR site, are a Master Breeder and have every monster, 215, there is
something in here for you. So enjoy!
-~^Picking your monsters^~-
First off before you experiment with this faQ you must be geared off
into the right direction. Some people who have played for 30 Monster Rancher
years have never accomplished anything in except the basics of the gameplay
(not even that) and raised a Nya. You don't have to play for 50 MR years to
get a good Monster. The important thing is, is that you know the purpose of
your Monster(s). What is their job? You might want to use your monster to
perform the following:
- Become a master Breeder
- Fill up your Breeder book
- Max out the stats on your favorite monster
- Be the best breeder in town by challenging anyone with Monster Rancher
- use a Dex Drive to challenge people over the net
- more....
Well the object of the game is very flexible.
To achieve these goals your monsters will need certain jobs. Since
your monsters are short lived they should only qualify for one job.
Monster Jobs
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| Job || Description |
|===================||======================================================|
| Battler || Your number one priority is to get him pumped up |
| || and to have enough life left to win all of the S |
| || invitational tournaments. These monsters come |
| || before any other. They are also used to Battle other |
| || Trainers. |
|===================||======================================================|
|Expedition Monster || These monsters should never have to worry about a |
| || battle, just make sure that you get him to Class C |
| || with haste. From there on just train Pow., Ski. and |
| || Int. attributes. There are of extreme importance and |
| || are key to getting a long lived, powerful, and great |
| || Battler. They can also bring back very expensive |
| || items. |
|===================||======================================================|
| Money Monster || Not necessary, but useful if your low on cash and |
| || need some for your upcoming monster(s). These |
| || Monsters should be brought up to Class A (S would be |
| || a waste of time) and then battle in non-official A |
| || Class battles. |
===========================================================================
Before getting a Battler you must get some rare items by using an
Expedition Monster and if you don't have enough money to raise one then try
raising a Money Monster. Now not just any Monster can be a Battler,
Expedition Monster or even a good Money Monster. Here are the best fit
Monsters(in my opinion) for each Job:
_____________________________
|___________Battler___________|
| Name || Type | Well this chart is just my
|=============================| opinion, but you can see you don't need
|1. Ardebaran|| Magic/??? | rare monsters to beat the game.
|2. Robo || Dragon/Henger |
|3. Kaduka || Magic/Naga |
|4. Mage || Ghost/??? |
|5. Aloha || Dino/Plant |
=============================
_____________________________
|_____Expedition Monster______|
| Name || Type | Magic's, Golem's, Hare's, Naga's,
|=============================| Gali's and Pixies are great for
|1. Jerod || Magic/??? | expeditions, so mix these together and try
|2. Angel || Pixie/Gali | them out.
|3. Amehno || Golem/Gali |
|4. Dean || Golem/Pixie |
|5. Magic || Magic/Magic |
=============================
_____________________________
|________Money Monster________|
| | A lot of Monsters fit into this
| Any above average to | category, nothing special about them.
| average Monster. |
| |
| |
| |
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Note: Remember that the better your expedition monster you have, the better
your battler(s) will be.
-~^Raising your Monster^~-
This is the biggest concept of the game, raising your monsters. You
only get a certain amount of time to beat the game in with the one monster
so a lot of preparation is needed. Whenever you take a monster to the Ranch
its only purpose is to raise its attributes -unless your just playing around
or trying to get a ghost. Now it sounds so easy, yeah? Well no not really.
Its actually the hardest part of the game.
Newbie Monsters
When you first take a monster to the Ranch it is really crappy right.
Well its not because of age, no its because of loyalty. So the first thing
you must do when your monster first arrives at the ranch is boost its loyalty
before any training. The method is simple but whatever you do don't use sting
dust. Just buy four apple cakes. You might already know the loyalty boost
trick but if not than go to
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/6395/gnrlnf.html . Ok now that
your set just feed your monster a apple cake every time your raising style go
towards cruel.
Raising Methods
Well yeah this is the hard part and if not perfected it can turn the
best monster into a failure. There are some methods to choose from, and they
are all effective, its just your decision on which one you want. One is to
train your monster accordingly to the moves he has. Like if your monster's
best move has a D grade Chance of hitting and S power than you would train
more in skill. Or make your monster offensive by training mainly in Pow. or
Int and Skl. Or making it defensive by mainly training him in Life, Spd. and
Def. An offensive monster will try to knock its opponent out in 2-3 hits and
if that fails well just hit reset. A Defensive monster will take about 10%
of its opens life but his opens will take about 2-5% of your monster's
life.
What Attributes to Raise
If you just want to train your monster to be a more average monster
or just need some guide lines for what to raise and how much of it than this
will help. First of its best to pick a monster and decide whether to use pow.
or Int. based moves. On your moves list the moves that are in yellow use pow.
to determine the amount of damage taken. While green uses Intelligence to
determine how much damage will be dealt. If you pick a monster that has more
and better Intelligence/Power based moves than ONLY train in Int./Pow. Then
Life and Defense go together since they basically serve the same purpose. Try
and keep your monsters Life and Defense around the same level. But have more
Life than Defense, a good ratio of Life and Defense would be 250 Lif. and 150
Def. Then try and keep that kind of ratio as your monster progresses in those
attributes. Next is Skill, this is mainly determine by your monster's most
used moves. Try to always get Skl. up to 600, but remember that Skill will
only determine your monster's chance of hitting by level only. So 418 skl.
is the same as 445 Skl. Now speed is a little to based on chance but still
nice to have. Speed is also determined by level. The chart below is a quick
reference for how much of each attribute should be raised:
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|======================|
|Pow. || max it out |
|Lif. || at least 250 |
|Def. || at least 150 |
|Skl. || at least 600 |
|Spd. || at least 400 |
|Int. || max it out |
======================
-~^Long Lived Monsters^~-
No matter what kind of monster you have and how good of a breeder you
are, if your monster doesn't have a long life period than consider him
useless. You must try as hard as you can to make your monster live longer.
Things to avoid
First you must know your do-not's before you know your do's. It is
vital that you never, under any circumstances, give your monster any type of
vitamin, pill, steroid or taffy. Feeding it any of these will shorten its life
span from 3-5 years. Never overwork your monster, always rest it when it gets
tired or if you prefer, rest it just before it gets tired.
Proper raising methods
Now a lot of times, breeders (including myself) don't follow these
rules all the time but in a game like this you really should. There are lots
of ways to get your monster to live longer. The one that will give you the
most results is feeding your monster a golden peach or plant egg. These can
only be found on expeditions and are hard to find unless you have a good
expedition monster. Once you find one of these items it will only it will be
gone for awhile (about 10 years) so be skeptical of who you feed these to.
-~^Expeditions^~-
There are three different expedition to go on. You must have your
expedition monster at, at least Class C. There are three different places to
explore, Reno, Hartville and Titus. Expeditions are the best preemptive ways
of raising a monster. Expeditions can make your monsters:
1. can help you obtain great monsters
2. make your monsters live longer
3. items that you keep in your inventory can lower fatigue, resist stress and
increase training results/working
4. gain tons of money
Getting rare monsters-
In each expedition there will be a item (for Reno its four items) to
get that you will use to combine with certain monsters to obtain a rare
monster. In Titus you will find an Old Mirror that you use to get a Magic.
When you visit Reno there will be four Doll Pieces to obtain (this gets a
little complicated so visit a monster rancher site and find out about
Hengers). In Hartville there is a Magic Banana that you use to obtain an Ape.
For info about Rare Monsters visit
http://www.gamesages.com, for some info
but I highly recommend that you visit a Monster Rancher Site.
Fire Stone, Wind Drums, etc
These items must be obtain before you think about trying to become a
master breeder. They will automatically work if you just keep one in your
inventory (note: having more than one of each of these items will have the
same effect). On the Reno Expedition you can find the Wind Drum and the Wind
Whistle. While in Titus you will come across a Fire Stone and in Harville
there is a Calm Stone.
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|================================================|
|Calm Stone || resist Stress |
|Fire Stone || helps cure some Fatigue |
|Wind Drum || increases Training results/Work |
|Wind Whistle || increase monster's life span |
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Hidden paths, Int. & Pow obstacles
Expeditions sound so great and all but finding items isn't easy, you
can find them or you can't. Get a good expedition monster and on one
Expedition you can get a lot of stuff. In all of your expeditions there are
just about 2-3 buildings that have what you want and are block by obstacles
and hidden paths. First off it's important that your monster has at least 600
Int. to destroy Int. based obstacles and find hidden paths. Same goes for
power, at least 600, and get at least 500 skill for finding items. But after
awhile everything(items/obstacles) except hidden paths will reappear around
ten years.
-~^Tournaments^~-
Tournements are the reason why you train your monster and right? This
is where all of the game evolves around. So you should know some
tips about how to defeat your opponent. Just try and find each monsters weak
points and attack them, then find there strong points and avoid them.
Defeating the AI
Fortunately the AI in this game is rather stupid. Use this as your
strong point whenever challenging the AI. You have probably have seen how bad
the AI is, the basic advantage of this is that you can dodge its attack
easily or keep it at bay. Its attacks are chosen randomly if it is close to
you it will attack you with random close range attacks. This means you could
keep a pixie at close range and she will waste her will power on kick and
scratch attacks instead of her using sonic blast or psychic kick. Try to keep
your opponents will down, the AI will not attack unless it has more than 20
will power. If you can drain its will to bellow 20 this should keep it at bay
The AI will not align its self to the appropriate distance to attack you.
Battling Tips
First off you should try not to lose much life because the more life
you lose the sooner your monster will die. Try not to get your will down to
low or your hit percentage will drop. If the hit percentage for the selected
move is over 50% than you have a really good chance to hit your enemy. If its
under 51% than you will have a relatively low chance of hitting your enemy. A
great move is to scare your opponent away. When your enemy gets as close to
you as it possibly can than hit the square button. This will send it back
really far. If you have trouble pulling this off than try to hold forward
and keep pursing them until a little red "face-to-face" symbol appears.
The Monster Rancher Community
BeastNet
http://members.xoom.com/beastnet
Beastie Farmer
http://www.6u.com/beastie/
Beelzebub's Monster Rancher Page
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/4262/index.html
Blaze of Fire
http://members.tripod.com/~BLAZE_OF_FIRE/CD.html
Bombhemoth's Monster Rancher Site
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/DREAMTHUNDER/
Carl & Nancy's Monster Rancher monster list
http://www.vistech.net/users/tcm/monster-rancher.html
Chris and Nick's Monster Rancher Page
http://members.tripod.com/~myrkhul/
The Dudes Ranch
http://www.dreamsunlimited.com/mrancher/
Holly-chan's Monster Rancher Guide
http://www.telesouth1.com/~ryouko/mrancher/front.html
Fade's Breeding Site
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/9310
Flea's Ranch
http://www.monsterweb.org/mrancher/flea/
Joe and Melisa's Monster Rancher Shrine
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bungalow/4633/rancher.htm
Keg's Ranch
http://members.tripod.com/~Keg_Killer/MonsterRancher/monster.html
Kwarlord's Monster Rancher Site
http://members.tripod.com/~kwarlord/monster.html
The Master Ranchers'
http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/playstation/39/main.html
The Monster Haven
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/6761/mhaven.htm
Monster Rancher Central Brain
http://members.aol.com/clarkdup/welcome.html
Monster Web
http://www.monsterweb.org
Monster World Monthly
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/9467/main.html
MoG's Monster Rancher Realm
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Ring/8696/
Monster Rancher Create-a-beast Contest, The
http://come.to/create-a-beast
Monster Rancher Dungeon, The
http://members.tripod.com/~BlitzWing/psx/monster.htm
Monster Rancher HQ#2
http://www.angelfire.com/al/Boyer/index.html
Monster Rancher Info Guide
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/7230/mrancher.html
Monster Rancher Page
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/9793/
Monster Rancher Police Station
http://members.tripod.com/~motoroil/Monster_Rancher/
Monster Rancher Range
http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~albrnick/mr/
Monster Rancher Relm
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/8540/
Monster Rancher Retirement Home
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/2050/memory.html
Monster Rancher Unofficial Headquarters
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/6857/mmain.html
Monster Rancher X
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/4725/MRTactics.html
Monster Ranchers
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/1984/
The Naga's Den
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/7194/
The Online Ranch
http://welcome.to/Online_Ranch
PirchMan's Monster Rancher Page
http://members.tripod.com/~PirchMan/home.html
Ranch of XaOS, The
http://members.aol.com/XaOSbOy/rancher.html
Sailor Bacon's Monster Rancher Page
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/3319/mrancher.html
Scott's Monster Rancher Site
http://members.aol.com/Monster453/main.html
Seph28's Monster Rancher Site
http://members.tripod.com/~Seph28/monster_rancher.html
Tunnel Rat And Romona's Monster Rancher Offspring
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6666/mr/
The Ultimate Monster Rancher Guide
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/7927/
Unofficial Monster Rancher Home
http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/playstation/39/index.html
Yet Another Monster Rancher Site
http://www.mbay.net/~neko/mr/
Official MR Sites
Tecmo's Monster Rancher Page
http://www.tecmoinc.com/Product/Mr/index.html
Tecmo's Monster Farm Page -Japanese
http://www.tecmo.co.jp/product/monster/mf_home2.htm
MR Message Boards
Fade's Monster Rancher Co-op
http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb217741
Monster Rancher Co-op 2
http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb416447
Monster Rancher discussion
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Monster%20Rancher%202
The Original Monster Rancher Co-op
http://www.insidetheweb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi/mb27464
The Ultimate Monster Rancher Message Board
http://www.insidetheweb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi/mb52898
Monster Farm Sites
Hide's Monster Farm
http://village.infoweb.or.jp/~fwgh4853/mf/mf.htm
King of Breeder
http://w33.mtci.ne.jp/~runtime/mf/
Monster Farm Combination Manual
http://imsnispc01.netvigator.com/~tarot/Games/Monster2.html
Monster Farmers
http://www2e.meshnet.or.jp/~suezo/
Monster Farm SIYO
http://www2.isnet.or.jp/isn00407/monster_farm/minichat.cgi
Monster Farm Studio
http://www3.alpha-net.or.jp/users/onozaki/mf.htp
Welcome2Takuya's HP
http://www01.u-page.so-net.or.jp/ba2/tak_cp/
Yes Yes Yes
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~je2m-gtu/
Dead MR Sites
BJ's Monster Ranch
Brandon's Monster Ranch
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Battlefield/8625/index.html
The Breeding Pit
FCBM Monster Rancher Page
FIMBA
Hartville
Kaiser Dragon's Monster Ranch
Kyuu Monster Ranch, The
Michael's Monster Rancher Realm
Monster Rancher Breeding Ground, The
Monster Rancher's Guidebook
The Monster Rancher H.Q.
http://canisminor.knology.net/~rdweb/monster
The Monster Rancher Hare Names Sites
Monster Rancher Institute of Technology
Monster Rancher Monster Attacks
Monster Rancher Monster List
Monster Rancher Shrine
Monster Rancher Universe
Monster Ranching
http://ndzine.com/Seido/The Seido
Thunder2's Monster Rancher Database
United Monster Rancher Message Board, The
ValleyLily's Monster Rancher
Comments, questions, mistakes on this FaQ? Please send them to:
[email protected]
~Fin
