Well recently I noticed that no matter how strong my monsters get when they combine they create.. well.. crap. To try to find out the problem I compared my combined newborn monster to the monster listed in the book and I noticed a pattern in a few of the stats. I noticed that that stats never went above 1.5 times the baseline stat. So I scoped it out and found something very interesting. I found out that indeed there was a statcap on newborn monsters and that indeed that statcap was 1.5 times the baseline stat(Rounded down). Heres the proof

Monster	Life	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Plant	907	32	929	835	52	120
Aero	331	162	810	704	561	169
Resulting Plant	223	64	240	120	118	97
Resulting Aero	118	103	222	205	216	90
Resulting Queen Plant	186	74	244	145	149	93

Plant and Aero were at inseperatable friendship

Now For the baseline stats

Monster	Life	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Plant	160	50	160	80	85	75
Aero	85	80	148	137	155	70
Queen Plant	133	57	163	97	107	72

Now if we multiply those baseline stats by 1.5 we get

Monster	Life	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Plant	240	75	240	120	127	112
Aero	127	120	222	205	232	102
Queen Plant	199	85	244	145	160	108

As you can see the babies stats are always less than Baseline x 1.5. If you look closely you can see that sometimes the babies stats matches the baseline x 1.5 exactly which would be when that monster hits the stat cap for combined monster. This happens on Plant's int and acc, Aero's int and acc, and Queen Plants int and acc.

This brings me to my next point which is about Stat to stat cap ratio. If you were to look closely at the data in the above example the ratio for a specific stat is the same.. for example.. the resulting plant had 223 lif and the stat cap for combined plants is 240. If you divide 223/240 you get 0.93 or 93% of the total possible on that stat for that monster. If you were to then compare that to aero's 118 lif of the 127 stat cap, 118/127 would equal 0.93 or 93% of the total possible on that stat for that monster. You can go down the row and you get 86% for power, 100% for intelligence, 100% for accuracy, 93% for speed, 86% for defense. As you can (or cannot) see these percentages tend to go in a pattern, 86% to 93% to 100%. I have explored this a little further and the other percentages (haven't gotten them on inseperatable monster but have gotten them on other friendship levels) are 66% (which would be baseline), 73%, and 80%. So the percentages go 66% to 73% to 80% to 86% to 93% to 100%... I just can't figure out the rhyme or reason to it. It does seem tougher to get the higher percentages when you have a lower friendship level.

Anyways Hopefully this information will help you combine better.. Maybe even get a monster that eventually hits all of the stat caps. A few interesting monsters you might wanna try to hit all the stat caps are deathwing (stat caps at 225 Life, 225 Pow, 330 Int, 210 Acc, 240 Spd, 165 Defense. Thats a 1395 composite starting monster!) and WildWestNaga (195 Life, 172 Pow, 15 Int, 180 Acc, 142 Spd, 382 Def).

-I'd like to thank Petit Trot and Infernus for helping me discover some of this stuff.

Any questions, comments, gripes, complants, groans, moans, or otherwise?

Ok I have figured out within a handful (If I got the percents right) how to calculate the stats for combined monsters. Heres how.

Take the 2 monsters you want to combine and add the life of the first parent to the life of the second parent, add the power of the first parent to the power of the second parent, etc. For example if your parents are... {These are fictional stats btw}

Breed	Lif	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Plant	350	50	350	250	50	100
KoroP	250	250	50	250	50	100

Then you would have totals...

X	Lif	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Totals	600	300	400	500	100	200

You then take those totals and separate them into 3 groups, the highest 2 totals in one group, the lowest 2 totals in another group, and the middle 2 totals in the last group (I call these high, mid, low. You can call them whatever you want.) So in the example it would look like this.

X	Lif	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Totals	600	300	400	500	100	200
Group	High	Mid	Mid	High	Low	Low

You then have to retrieve the baseline stats of the baby monster. These are found in the book. In the example they are..

x	Lif	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
BL for Plant	160	50	160	80	85	75
BL for KoroPendora	170	65	65	130	100	90
BL for BugBugFlower	163	55	128	97	90	80

BL stands for Baseline

Ok now back to those High's, mid's and low's. Those high's, mid's and low's represents a percentage of the baseline stats. This percentage is based off of friendship. I believe (not 100% sure yet if I find otherwise I will let you know) that the friendship to percent table looks like this...

x	100%	109.5%	120%	129%	139.5%	150%
Friend	Low,Mid,High
Good Friend		Low	Mid	High
Great Friend		Low	Mid	High
Best Friend			Low	Mid	High
Inseperable				Low	Mid	High

100% is baseline stats of course

Now finally multiply each Baseline Stat (for the baby monster..) with the modifier that you got off of the highs, mids, and lows and friendship chart above(I always round down) and wala! You should be pretty close to the stats.

Ok So lets say that our example KoroP and Plant are inseperable, the calculations would look like this...

X	Lif	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
BL for Plant	160	50	160	80	85	75
BL for KoroPendora	170	65	65	130	100	90
BL for BugBugFlower	163	55	128	97	90	80
Multiplier	1.5	1.395	1.395	1.5	1.29	1.29

After the calculations...

x	Lif	Pow	Int	Acc	Spd	Def
Baby Plant Prediction	240	69	223	120	109	96
Baby Plant Actual	240	69	223	120	110	97
Baby KoroP Prediction	255	90	90	195	129	116
Baby KoroP Actual	255	90	90	190	129	116
Baby BugBug Prediction	244	76	178	145	116	103
Baby BugBug Actual	244	76	179	145	116	103

And there you have it, You baby monsters stats. Kinda disappointing that you can't get high comp babies but at least everybody now knows how combining works

More thanks to infernus

Any questions, comments, gripes, complaints, groans, moans, or otherwise?

(This is a revised version based on PT's suggestion to cut a step from the process. It should still get the same result. Thanks PT)

Well, I do wish it worked differently. It would mean I might be able to raise something of some sort worth it's weight in dog crap. Oh, well. Maybe it can be better in 5...Nice research totals and such.

Ok, I have a correction to bring to the table here. I just combined 2 monsters unknown to each other, so I will assume they are at the Friends level. I've had the same results as if they were Good Friends. So until a few more tests, I will consider Friends and Good Friends the same combination wise.

I want to add that what I just wrote isn't true for unraised monsters. Combining 2 completly new monsters will only get you a book monster.