Smart Breeding in Dragon Warrior Monsters

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Smart Breeding in Dragon Warrior Monsters
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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
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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.
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II. KEY POINTS TO GOOD BREEDING
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{-Don’t breed simply to get more pluses, breed to get better stats}
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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{-Determine whether a potential mating will benefit your monsters}
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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
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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

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{-Try to breed monsters together to create monsters with better stats}
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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.
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{-Whenever possible, breed over a link cable}
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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
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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
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GoldSlime= MetalKing + MetalKing KingSlime= Slime + Slime
Metabble= Metaly + Metaly MetalKing= Metabble + Metabble
SpotKing= SpotKing + SpotKing

DRAGON FAMILY
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Coatol= WingSnake + WingSnake Dragon= DragonKid + DragonKid
GreatDrak= Dragon + Dragon WingSnake= Crestpent + Crestpent
DragonKid + DragonKid
BattleRex + BattleRex

BEAST FAMILY
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KingLeo= Trumpeter + Trumpeter Trumpeter= WildApe + WildApe

PLANT FAMILY
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Maneater= EvilSeed + EvilSeed Snapper= Maneater + Maneater

BUG FAMILY
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Armorpion= HornBeet + HornBeet Droll= Butterfly\ /Butterfly
Hornbeet= StagBug + StagBug Eyeder| + |Eyeder
Taileater/ \Taileater
DEVIL FAMILY
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Akubar= Grendal + Grendal ChopClown= 1EyeClown + 1EyeClown
Durran= GoldGolem + Centasaur GateGuard= Demonite + Demonite
Jamirus= Akubar + RainHawk

ZOMBIE FAMILY
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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
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DeathMore= Zoma + Mirudraas(TransFormed)

B. INCOMPATIBLE PERSONALITIES
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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
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DAREDEVIL= Snobby, Nosy, Ordinary, Coward, Lazy
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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
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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
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NOSY= Daredevil, Lone Wolf, Cool/Calm, Lazy
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WHIZ KID= Gullible, Lazy
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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
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UNCERTAIN= Hotblood, Lone Wolf, Reckless, Cool/Calm, Hasty, Stubborn,
--------- Rebel, Spoiled, Lazy

CARELESS= Lone Wolf, Vain, Smug, Snobby, Hasty, Stubborn, Spoiled
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SHREWD= Lazy
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CAREFREE= Lone Wolf, Hasty, Spoiled
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GULLIBLE= Cool/Calm, Whiz Kid, Spoiled
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SLY= Hotblood, Cool/Calm, Sly, Lazy
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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.
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{-Keep an eye on your monsters’ personalities}
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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.
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III.OTHER VARIOUS BREEDING THINGS
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A.MONSTERS THAT CANNOT BE CAUGHT
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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
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Goldslime= MetalKing + Metalking

DRAGON FAMILY
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Coatol= WingSnake + Wingsnake
-or-
BattleRex \
Gasgon | /CopyCat
LizardMan | + |Darkhorn
Pteranod | |MadKnight
SkyDragon / \StoneMan

Divinegon= SkyDragon + Orochi

BEAST FAMILY
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/DarkHorn Gulpbeast
KingLeo= Roboster + |MadCat SuperTen
\Trumpeter Unicorn
-or-
Trumpeter + /Balzak GoldGolem
\MetalDrak Trumpeter
BIRD FAMILY
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Rainhawk= Blizzardy + Phoenix

PLANT FAMILY
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HerbMan= DanceVegi + Devil Family
-or-
Plant Family + FunkyBird

Rosevine= Plant Family + Boss Family

BUG FAMILY
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Armorpion= HornBeet + HornBeet

DEVIL FAMILY
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Akubar= ArcDemon + GateGuard
-or-
Grendal + Grendal

Durran= GoldGolem + Centasaur
-or-
Centasaur + GoldGolem

Jamirus= Akubar + RainHawk
-or-
RainHawk + Akubar

ZOMBIE FAMILY
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WhiteKing= Zombie Family + Boss Family
-or-
BoneSlave\ /Andreal Blizzardy
DeadNoble| |GoldGolem GreatDrak
Skeletor | + |KingLeo KingSlime
Skullgon / |Metaking SpotKing
\WhipBird ZapBird

MATERIAL FAMILY
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EvilPot= Gizmo + Devil Family
-or-
Material Family + Snaily

GoldGolem= IceMan + LavaMan

B.HOW TO BREED BOSS MONSTERS
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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/

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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

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V. CONTACT THE AUTHOR
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Feel free to Email me at [email protected]

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.

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