Okay, now that I've gotten several monsters into the Hall of Fame, it's my opinion that the "Forte" award goes to a monster's overall most powerful move, whether they used it a lot or not. Why? Take a look at my monster type- Forte readouts:

Jell- Jell Copter
Golem- Brow Smash
Naga- Turn Assault
Hare- Big Bang
Ape- Swing-Throw
Mew- Million Blows
Undine- Water Cannon
Ducken- Maximal Beam
Zuum- Jumping Fire

Etc., Etc.

In all cases, it's something that does S or A rank damage, with accuracy, sharpness, and withering also taken into account, but all take second chair to sheer force. I predict that whatever the most devastating moves are for Arrowhead, Dragon, and Henger, they'll be listed no matter what else I may have used more. Comments? Corrections? Whatever?

Negative, Nate...

I just checked my HOF, yesterday, for the sake of gloating, and here are my monster's fortes:

Pix (Pixie/Pixie) Bolt

Shinobi (Ninja Kato) Tornado Claw

Inferno (Durahan/Phoenix) Air Shot


Pix had "Lightning," as well as to go as far as "Big Bang." While I admit that "Tornado Claw" WAS Shinobi's most powerful int. type technique, Inferno had "Blast Shot," "Rolling Slash," and one up close technique, I'd have to dethaw him to check. Anyways, to reach a simple point, I understand how oyu could see a pattern there, Nate, but it is not the case.

Yeah my phoenixes in the HoF both had fire wave yet one's forte was heat beam and the other fire stream. My theory is that it is either your most used tech. or the one you get the most 1 hit K.O.s with. be seein' ya

the whole forte thing is strange. neither nate's nor phoenix masta's explanation works for how darva, my daina ended up with flame as her forte, when it was a move she never used after e level. the best explanation was that her mother, laurel, [a futurity] had used flame a lot.

My Undine (Aqua Regina) had Hailstorm as her Forte. I tend to go with the usage theory with the mod that the main form parent stats carry over.

Well, I once again issue the hypothesis that different copies of Monster Rancher 2 are just programmed differently, which would explain why we have all these oddly different results. It's the same way that there are supposed to be four different colors of Shoguns (mine is black, others have reported red, green, or white).

If it's any comfort, even mighty Nevistar is having trouble with this one!

DP, who are you calling mighty? your just as mighty as nevistar!