Skip to monster special abilities. Basic Monster Stats: Level: A monster's level is basically the same as the character's level. It factors into damage calculation, and also determines if the monster will be affected by certain spells (such as L.5 Doom). HP: As with characters, a monster's HP is how much damage it can take, when it reaches 0 it dies. MP: MP is used by certain spells and skills, when it reaches 0 the monster can't use those skills anymore. XP: XP is the number of experience points the characters receive after battle for defeating the monster. GP: GP is the number of GP the characters receive after battle for defeating the monster. Battle Power: Battle Power determines how much damage the monster does with physical attacks. Check damage calculation to see exactly how Battle Power factors into damage done. Hit Rate: Hit Rate determines how well the monster hits when using the ordinary fight command, other skills have their own Hit Rate that is used instead. Check chance to hit calculations for more info. Defense: Defense determines how much damage the monster receives from physical attacks. Check damage calculation to see the effect that Defense has. Evade: Evade determines how hard it is to hit the monster with physical attacks, or at least it's supposed to. Due to a bug, it has no effect at all. Magic Power: Magic Power determines how much damage the monster does with magical attacks. Check damage calculation to see exactly how Magic Power factors into damage done. Speed: Speed determines how fast a monster is. The higher speed a monster has, the more often it will get to attack. Magic Defense: Magic Defense determines how much damage the monster receives from magical attacks. Check damage calculation to see the effect that Magic Defense has. MBlock: MBlock determines how hard it is to hit the monster with magical attacks. Due to a bug, it also determines how hard is is to hit the monster with physical attacks. See the chance to hit calculations for more info. Vigor: Vigor determines how much damage the monster does with physical attacks. Check damage calculation to see exactly how Vigor factors into damage done. Unlike other stats, each monster does not have a fixed Vigor value, instead Vigor is randomly determined for each monster at the start of combat. A monster's Vigor is a random number between 58 and 65 (inclusive). Stamina: Stamina increases the monsters chance of blocking most instant death attacks. (see the chance to hit calculations for exact details. Stolen Items: Every monster has 2 items that can be stolen from it, a common item and a rare item. When you attempt to steal from the monster, you may get one of the items. See the Steal command for exact details on the odds of stealing. Check the Monsters page to see which items each monster has. Dropped Items: Each monster has 2 items they can drop, a common item, and a rare item. At the end of combat, the game checks each monster to see which item it will drop. Each monster has a 1 in 8 chance of dopping their rare item, otherwise they drop their common item. If the monster doesn't have an item in that slot then it doesn't drop anything. Check the Monsters page to see which items each monster has. Morphed Items: Each monster has 4 items that it can be morphed into with the Metamorphability. Each item has a 1 in 4 chance of being the item that the monster is morphed into. Check the Monsters page to see which items each monster can be morphed into, as well as the odds of succesfully morphing the monster. Control commands: Each monster has up to 4 control commands. When you successfully Control the monster you can pick one of these commands to perform each time it becomes that character's turn to attack. Check the Monsters page to see the control commands for each monster Rage commands: When a character uses a monster's rage there are 2 different abilties that may be used each turn. The first ability has a 75% chance of being used, and the second has a 25% chance of being used. See the Rage command for more info on rages. Check the Rages page to see which rage commands each monster has. Rage commands: When a character uses the Sketch command, there are 2 different abilties that may be used. The first ability has a 75% chance of being used, and the second has a 25% chance of being used. Check the Monsters page to see which sketch commands each monster has. Monster Special attacks: Every monster has a special attack that they sometimes use. Check the monsters page to see what special attack each monster has. A monster's special attack deals the same damage as it's notmal attack, but also has other properties: Inflict Status: If the monster's special attack has this property, then it will inflict the listed status every time it hits. Drains HP: If the monster's special attack has this property, then the monster will gain an equal amount of HP to the damage done by the attack. The attack can't do more damage than the monster's max HP - current HP. Osmose If the monster's special attack has this property, then the attack will deal MP damage, and the monster will gain an equal amount of MP to the damage done by the attack. The attack can't do more damage than the monster's max MP - current MP. Removes Reflect Status If the monster's special attack has this property, then the attack will remove Refelct status whenever it hits. Attack Lv. ? If the monster's special attack has this property, then the attack will deal more damage. If the special has Attack Lv. 1 then 1 is added to the damage multiplier (see Step 5 in damage calculation algorithms), Attack Lv. 2 adds 2 to the damage multiplier, Attack Lv. 3 adds 3, etc. Deals no damage If the monster's special attack has this property, then the attack will not deal any damage, but will sttill inflict whatever status it's set to inflict. Ignores MBlock If the monster's special attack has this property, then the attack will amost always hit (See Step 3 of the chance to hit algorithms.) Monster Special abilities: Can't Suplex: This ability is just like it says, if you attempt to use Suplex on the monster, you will always miss. Can't Run: If any monsters you're fighting have this ability, then you can't run. However, if you kill all the monsters with this ability, and there are other monsters without this ability left, then you can run. Can't Scan: Any attempts to cast Scan on a monster with this ability will automatically fail. Can't Sketch: Any attempts to cast Sketch on a monster with this ability will automatically fail. Can't Control: Any attempts to cast Control on a monster with this ability will automatically fail. Dies at 0 MP: Any monster with this ability will die if their MP every reaches 0. The monster will only die if an attack, such as Rasp, or Osmose reduces its MP to 0. If its MP is reduced to exactly 0 when it casts a spell it will not die, of course any MP draining attack will kill the monster instantly if it already has 0 MP. Name doesn't display: Normally the names of each type of monster you're fighting are in the lower left corner. For monsters with this ability, their name does not display down there. Human: All monsters with this ability are considered human, and will take extra damage if hit with the Maneater. Automatically does critical when Imp: For most monsters, their battle power is considered to be 1 while an Imp, monsters with this ability however, retain their full battle power while imped, and do automatic critical hits as well. Undead: Undead monsters receive damage from healing spells and items, are instantly slain by spells or items that revive dead characters, and are fully healed by Doom.