Monster Rancher 4 Dungeon, Adventure & Trait Guide

Adventuring/Exploring
Monster Rancher 4 makes expeditions a much more interactive experience for the player by introducing light RPG elements.
Now you can choose a team of monsters to explore with on the weekend to explore randomly-generated dungeons to loot for items and raise your monster's adventure level. Exploring is no longer a high risk compared to previous games, and seems to even be encouraged to do somewhat often!

Wild battles are different than the competitions back at home. The timer is set to infinity, and getting one of your monster's KO'd prevents it from being used in battle to level up until the adventure is over. This is also considered a huge life hit to you monster with increased tiredness, stress, and possible injury!

Spirit Gauge
The spirit gauge is determined by a combination of things, your monster's adventure level, affinities with each other, and boosted items. As long as the spirit gauge doesn't reach zero, you are able to continue exploring the dungeon. While spirit gauge is still active, all your monsters recover life during your adventure! If you ever attempt to run away from a wild battle, you lose a huge portion of your spirit gauge. As long as you leave at the end of the floor, your monsters should build small tiredness and stress. But if you leave midway through a floor, your monster accumulates a large amount of stress and tiredness. Even worse, if all monsters are KO'd!

Boss Battles
Sometimes, you may run into a powerful and rare monster breed that you have defeat before progressing. That rare monster breed is actually a boss battle! If unprepared, they could easily wipe your team.

At the end of each dungeon for main story, you will also encounter a large monster! Battles are carried out a little differently due to their size and power. Thankfully your monster can power up too! Instead of Team Up attacks like normal battles, your monster will use a special skill! Each monster has a special skill depending on their Monster Type:

• Artificial, Beast, and Spirit Type monsters are considered DPS monsters where they consume all team members guts to deal a powerful attack!
• Fanciful Type monsters are considered Support monsters where they consume all team members guts to activate the powerful battle effect, Maximize!
• Sprite Type monsters are considered Healer monsters where they consume all team members guts to completely restore all allied monsters' life!

Adventure Leveling and Adventure Skills
Certain monsters are able to learn special skills to help you find better loot or make exploration a lot easier to navigate. There are 7 adventure skills in total: Cave Search, Dirt Search, High Search, Water Search, Power Ride, Flight Ride, and HiSpeed Ride.

• Cave Search allows you to find treasure in small holes
• Dirt Search allows you to find treasure in dirt patches
• High Search allows you to find treasure on top of tall pillars or trees
• Water Search allows you to find treasure within pools of water
• Power Ride allows you to walk over hazardous terrain that may inhibit your travel, such as spikes or lava
• Flight Ride allows you to fly over hazardous terrain or areas with gaps
• HiSpeed Ride allows you to move over great distances and encounter less wild monsters if needing to get to a area/floor quickly

Monster	Search				Ride
	Cave	Dirt	High	Water	Power	HiSpeed	Flight
Antlan	-	4	-	-	-	-	-
Ape	X	X	-	-	-	-	-
Baku	-	-	-	-	5	-	-
Beaklon	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
Dragon	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
Ducken	6	10	8	12	-	-	-
Durahan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Garu	4	9	-	-	-	-	-
Gitan	-	9	4	-	-	-	-
Golem	-	-	-	-	5	-	-
Hare	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Henger	-	-	-	-	5	-	-
Jell	6	10	8	12	-	-	-
Joker	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lesione	-	-	-	3	-	-	-
Koropendora	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Madillo	-	4	-	-	-	-	-
Mew	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mocchi	9	-	-	4	-	-	-
Mogi	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
Naga	-	-	-	4	-	-	-
Ogyo	-	-	9	4	-	-	-
Pancho	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Phoenix	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
Plant	-	4	9	-	-	-	-
Pixie	-	-	3	9	-	-	-
Raiden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rhinoroller	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
Ripper	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Suezo	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Suzurin	9	-	4	-	-	-	-
Tiger	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
Zan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Zuum	-	-	-	-	-	6	-

While adventuring monsters can level up to learn skills and traits. This section will cover what traits monsters can learn at certain adventure level ranges or level pool. Monsters will learn traits from each pool randomly. For example, you could be raising two Garus of same sub-breed and one could learn Golden Foot at Lv. 3 while the other could Learn it at Lv. 7. The same two Garus could learn 2 completely different set of element lores and other battle traits.

Level 2-8 Traits:

Trait	Effect
Rock Body	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Heavy Armor	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Hard Shell	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Hard Skin	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Hard Scale	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Soft Body	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Thick Fur	Raises Hit, Cut, Pierce by 3, decreases Speed by 20%
Keen Fang	Raises fang skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Sonic Nail	Raises claw skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
King's Fist	Raises fist skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Great Wing	Raises wing skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Super Weapon	Raises weapon skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Sweet Voice	Raises voice skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Big Lung	Raises breath skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Whip Tail	Raises tail skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Great Tongue	Raises tongue skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Golden Foot	Raises foot skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Strong Horn	Raises horn skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Hard Head	Raises head skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Pheromone	Raises charm skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Sniper	Raises shooting/throwing skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Golden Hip	Raises body skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)
Hyper Beam	Raises beam skills by 5% (LIFE, GUTS, CRIT, ACC)

Note: These traits are innate generic traits that are specific to the monster's breed/sub-breed. So a Pixie will never learn the trait Great Tongue. Take a look at each breed's section to see which skill is affected by which trait. Additionally, your monster won't learn any of the generic defensive traits if it doesn't have a sub-breed of the following: Golem, Durahan, Zuum, Dragon, Ducken, Baku, Beaklon, Antlan, Naga, Koropendora, Henger, Zan, Lesione, Rhinoroller, Pancho, Ogyo, Madillo, Mocchi, Jell.

Level 9-15 Traits:

Trait	Effect
Fire Lore	Attributes Fire +3, Ice +1, Wind -3; can add Fire to certain skills
Ice Lore	Attributes Ice +3, Wind +1, Fire -3; can add Ice to certain skills
Wind Lore	Attributes Wind +3, Fire +1, Ice -3; can add Wind to certain skills
Water Lore	Attributes Water +3, Earth +1, Thunder -3; can add Water to certain skills
Thunder Lore	Attributes Thunder +3, Water +1, Earth -3; can add Thunder to certain skills
Earth Lore	Attributes Earth +3, Thunder +1, Water -3; can add Water to certain skills
Heart Lore	Attributes Heart +3, Magic -2; can add Heart to certain skills
Magic Lore	Attributes Magic +3, Heart -2; can add Magic to certain skills
Foresee	Increases Speed 20%, but decreases Beat, Cut, Pierce by 3.
Hi Recovery	Less likely to get injured after battle.
Lucky Star	Raise chances to critical hit
Eagle Eye	Increases accuracy, but also lowers offensive power (+15% ACC, -10% DMG dealt)
Machismo	-25% POW skill damage received / +10% INT skill damage taken
Genius	-25% INT skill damage received / +10% POW skill damage taken
Hi Counter	Increase damage dealt by 10% when performing a counter attack

Reminder! Lores change your monster's elemental stats! Be sure to read the Battling Monsters section again to see how you can use this to your monster's advantage!

Level 16-20 Traits

Trait	Effect
Hi Power	Easier to raise POW stat
Hi Toughness	Easier to raise DEF stat
Hi Technique	Easier to raise INT stat
Hi Speed	Easier to raise SPD stat
Hi Sense	Easier to raise ACC stat
Hi Energy	Easier to raise LIF stat
Popular	Easier to become friends with other monsters
Fire Lore+	Attributes Fire +5, Ice +2, Wind -3; can add Fire to certain skills
Ice Lore+	Attributes Ice +5, Wind +2, Fire -3; can add Ice to certain skills
Wind Lore+	Attributes Wind +5, Fire +2, Ice -3; can add Wind to certain skills
Water Lore+	Attributes Water +5, Earth +2, Thunder -3; can add Water to certain skills
Thunder Lore+	Attributes Thunder +5, Water +2, Earth -3; can add Thunder to certain skills
Earth Lore+	Attributes Earth +5, Thunder +2, Water -3; can add Water to certain skills
Heart Lore+	Attributes Heart +5, Magic -2; can add Heart to certain skills
Magic Lore+	Attributes Magic +5, Heart -2; can add Magic to certain skills
Iron Heart	Training hard won’t tire the monster out (Reduced fatigue by 50%)

Note: Lore+ is still randomly chosen upon leveling even if you have basic lore equipped.

The numbers located next to an item name on each floor of a dungeon indicates the chance or percentage (%) you will discover that item.
This section covers detailed information in each dungeon, including recommended stats/rank and items found.