Monster Rancher 4 Walkthrough of the Story
Intro
This isn't a detailed walkthrough like traditional games since the game is mostly about raising monsters.This is a summary of each event for referencing the story and when major changes will happen in the game.
THIS PAGE CONTAINS STORY SPOILERS
Here's what to expect over the course of the game as a Breeder over the various Ranks/Classes.
Main Characters
Phayne- The Protaganist/Breeder of Monster Rancher 4. He was expelled from breeder's school due to unknown circumstances. However, he is given a second chance to raise monsters by Cesare, who oversees the shrine at Togle.
- Phayne's assistant. She is very shy and isn't trusting towards people, but deeply cares about monsters. In fact, she even has the mysterious ability to understand them!
E Class
Pre-Week 1- Learn about history and coexistence with monsters
- Get invited to raise a ranch by Cesare after confrontation with Teetee
- Yuri becomes your assistant and tells you how to raise monsters
- Starting the game you are forced to raise a purebred Garu (it does have bonus stats and trait compared to original Garus!)
- Can name your ranch
- Forced to train
- Learn about monster status and free time actions
- Forced to train
- Rio likes talking to monsters more than people
- Rio is seen speaking at the ranch but can’t identify who's talking to her
- Forced to train
- Visit nearby tournament
- Can visit monster associate to retire/combine monsters. NOTE: If you don't want to raise Garu, now is your chance to retire it and regenerate other CDs/DVDs. There are some monsters that are locked until later in the game!
- Discover Rio talking to a spirit tree named Mockruji and she can understand monsters
- Learn about monster battles
Week 7
- Get competition calendar
- Recommend to train monster for a few months first if not using starter Garu due to it having higher stats that book and it having at least a month of training over your new monster.
- Yuri leaves to open Item Shop and is replaced by Rio
- Cesare no longer offers free food at this point
D Class
1 Week after Rank E win- Intro with Talt the Vet
- Gadgeteer Pollock stops by to sell training gadgets, He visits every 4 months. Can only purchase and put 4 gadgets on ranch at this time.
- Monster feels lonely and Cesare invests to expand ranch
- Carpenter Yu stops by and informs ranch will be upgraded in a week
- Ranch is upgraded, Can put 5 gadgets on ranch and train 3 monsters
- Togle Caves is discovered; an explorer asks you to explore the dungeon next weekend
- Forced adventure on weekend; 2 floors. NOTE: will need to explore Togle Caves again to continue story
- 3 floors
- Rio hears a voice from the gaia stone and sees a terrible vision
- Pollock shows up and explains geonyte is losing power different ranches
- Mockruji says that he is okay to continue powering training gadgets, but feels his energy getting drained from his roots
- You and Rio decide to explore Togle Caves to investigate the geonyte shortage problem
- 5 floors
- discover the huge bird-like monster is absorbing excess geonyte to stay awake.
- Boss Battle - King Shiden: LIF 208, POW 241, INT 191, ACC 245, SPD 224, DEF 228
- King Shiden refers to Rio as a princess, but she doesn’t know what he means.
- King Shiden gives you a King’s Feather before sleeping (can now generate Raiden Breed)
- Association grants us Official Rank D
- prepare for next monster rank battle to face Teetee!
C class
Official Rank D Battle- Finally meet with TeeTee again to fight her Kelarino
- Boss Battle ~ Kelarino (Hare/???):
- Cesare stops by to commend you for your hard work
- Pollock stops by to suggest you to head to Ryuwn for more competition
- Gunwale arrives to your ranch; he’ll lend his ship to you to head to Ryuwn
- Run into old friends Gram & Philia
- Need to come back next week after setting an appointment
- Note: At this point, be sure to visit Togle during your free weekends and speak to Yuri! At some point she will upgrade the shop!
- need license to get into Ryuwn competition as an official breeder
- Run into TeeTee and she runs over an old lady named Mauro. It turns out to be Philias’ grandma.
- Help Mauro's recovery by going to Togle Caves to receive a Healing Mushroom
- 4 floors
- Boss Battle ~ Blobster (Naga/???):
- Get a letter from Mr. Karnab to explore Kalaragi Jungle and find a piece of junk
- Philia visits the ranch to teach about counters, skill attacks, and tag attacks
- 3 floors
- Discover another gaia stone. It warns about preventing the world from succumbing to darkness
- Will need to visit again later to find the junk item
- 5 floors
- Boss Batte ~ ArborMogi(Mogi/???):
- Junk item appears to be a machine/device
- Discover Mr. Karnab is the explorer from Togle Caves
- Test fight with Philia to get Breeder’s License
- Earn Rank C Breeder Status
B class
1 Week after Breeder's License- Cesare stops by and offer to expand ranch final time
- Ryuwn competition now available (more available tournaments on schedule)
- Yu stops by to inform final ranch upgrade will completed in a week
- Can now raise up to 5 monsters at a time (not recommended at this time due to money and competitions)
- Can now have up to 8 gadgets on the ranch
- Can hold up to 16 gadgets
- prepare for monster Rank C battle.
- Gram is finals competitor; wants to beat you to get back at you from school and to impress Philia.
- Boss Battle ~ Dodongo (Golem/???):
- Mr. Karnab stops by the ranch to congratulate your victory. He asks you to explore Kalaragi Jungle to find out why other explorers are missing.
- 7 floors
- Monster believes we’re there to alter monsters due to his mechanical arm.
- Rio tries to reason with monster but it wants to fight to know the truth.
- Boss Monster ~ Don Mudleone:
- Monster asks to never alter monsters and he will return all people.
- Cynthia stops by to deliver a letter from Mr. Karnab to stop by Monster Association in Ryuwn
- Mr. Karnab grants you Breeder’s Rank B.
- Rio informs Karnab about altered monsters, but he doesn’t agree with the idea of doing such things to monsters.
- Rio also asks Philia about altered monsters, and she tells you to look into the city of Torble about the topic.
A class
Visiting Torble You run into your old friend Wit Wit vaguely goes into the past apologizes about it. Rio notices that you seem different with Wit compared to Gram and Philia Visit the University to run into Wit again. He tells you that it’s possible some people are doing monster alteration, and to enter Torble competition. Wit informs his assistant Teetee (surprise!) to speak to association on your behalf to enter. Go to Torble Association- Much easier to get into Torble competition compared to Ryuwn
- Discover that there are stray monsters running rampant
- Diehl, another former classmate lives in Torble and thinks you don’t stand a chance in IMa competition.
- You visit his ranch and notice that he disposes monsters that don’t do the best.
- Rio punches him in the face due to his cruelty, and we declare to challenge him in competition.
- NOTE: Visit the Inn after Diehl. Chiho will ask if we are raising any Mocchi due to a lot of them disappearing. But we interrupt and say no before leaving.
- Philia will stop by with a Mocchi, but Rio notices that you act strange around the topic of Mocchi.
- You will tell past story about your mistreatment with Mocchi. It saves you from a stray monster but is washed away at sea. And vow to not raise another Mocchi.
- Teetee also visits the ranch on behalf of Wit and ask you to visit Torble University.
- Wit helps you beat with by giving you a Magic Medal, which gives effects to training gadgets.
- Learn about effect training gadgets
- Talt stops by to do a check up on your monsters.
- You learn about why Talt became a monster vet due to his pet Mocchi which passed away due to an injury.
- Can now enter Torble Competition.
- A new gadgeteer named Swift stops by that sells special training gadgets, aka effect training gadgets. He will visit every 2Yr6Mo, replacing Pollock's usual visits.
- NOTE: Visit Torble Restaurant again to speak to Chiho. She will inform you that Mocchi are apparently heading to Kalaragi Jungle. An Investigator named Cortes will give you a Mocchi Doll to find whoever are abducting Mocchi.
- 6 Floors
- Find Geras, the person that appears to be abducting the Mocchi.
- Boss Battle ~ DeviMadillo (Madillo/Gitan):
- Discover he was stealing Mocchi to make a business and sell them life profit after defeating him.
- Cortes stops by Ranch to ask if we solved the Mocchi investigation
- Talt finds your lost Mocchi long ago.
- Due to our bond with Mocchi we can now regenerate Mocchi
- Prepare for Monster Rank B battle.
- Diehl boasts about his Balboa at the finals
- Boss Battle ~ Balboa (Durahan/???):
- After beating him, he is in disbelief about his loss.
- Rio suggests that maybe a teacher can help him learn from his wrong ways.
- You decide to go to Vizley to visit your former school, Elives School.
- You run into your teacher, Casa and inform her about what happened with Diehl, but she is unable to help.
- She suggests to talk to IMa about creating official rules to regulate monster competition.
- Learn about your past that you were expelled for tampering with Tome of Black Arts, an ancient book that strengthens monsters.
- It appears that Casa believes there's more to the story.
- Note: At this point, be sure to visit Torble during your free weekends and speak to Chiho! At some point she will upgrade the shop!
- Cynthia appears to give us our Rank A Breeder’s Certificate.
- Can now enter Vizley competition
- Prepare for Monster Rank A battle
S class
Rank A Competition- Wit is the finals competitor who was visiting Vizley due to some business he needed to handle and decided to enter and compete.
- Boss Battle ~ Spartacs (Ripper/???):
- You receive a trophy that contains a Gaia Stone, which surprises Rio with another vision.
- Rio faints and is taken to the school nurse station.
- Casa is there and Rio explains the situation to her. She suggests looking into Promiass Ruins to unearth any additional info.
- 3 floors
- Discover an ancient painting with text and apparently Rio can read it.
- Rio doesn’t understand why she is able to read it and why it seems familiar.
- You end your adventure and decide to investigate another time after resting
- Diehl stops by our Ranch to tell you he closed down his ranch and began a new journey.
- You learn that Wit tried to use you to prove that Diehl’s ranch is superior, but Diehl didn’t have the innate skills to win.
- 5 floors
- Boss Battle ~ KingTutDuck(Ducken/???):
- You find another ancient painting with text.
- It speaks about how human technology created the Dark Ones that led into a war.
- The girl and Lord Suzaku lead the battle against the Dark Lord, ending the war.
- Rio finds Mockruji singing an ancient song about a Turtle that dwells in Promiass Ruins
- Apparently the turtle is wise and knows of all pasts events.
- You and Rio decide to visit the ruins one more time to find the Wise Turtle and learn more about Rio’s mystery
- 8 floors
- Rio asks who she is to Garp the Turtle, but he wants to test our power in battle first.
- Boss Battle ~ Garp:
- After defeating Garp he tells Rio the meaning behind her visions.
- Discover that Rio is the girl from the past that lived in a saucer stone
- Cesare stops by the ranch to tell Rio the truth of how he found her.
- He also had a vision-like dream
- Rio decides to keep living happy knowing the truth.
- Cynthia stops by the ranch to deliver our Rank S Breeder’s certificate.
- You also receive a letter from Casa complimenting your hard work earning S rank.
- The letter also informs the Tome of Black Arts was stolen from school.
- Later, Gram also sends a letter to watch and support his matches.
- Discover that Gram has altered his Golem and Mr. Karnab is apparently supporting him.
- You stop by the association and Mr. Karnab confesses about the alteration due to IMa and FIMBA strength gap widening.
- A man named Nazzeni sent a letter to Mr. Karnab stating monster alterations is FIMBA’s last hope.
- You set out to find Nazzeni at Kalaragi Jungle to end monster alterations and heal Gram’s Golem.
Final Chapter
NOTE: Completing Rank S competition is completely optional and doesn't serve a purpose in main story.Kalaragi Jungle: Ending Monster Alterations
- 4 floors
- You confront Nazzeni about the letter he sent to the association regarding monster alterations.
- He fights you for insulting and misunderstanding his work.
- Boss Battle ~ Nazzeni 2 (Zan/Zan):
- Nazzeni is in disbelief of his loss since his monster was created with the Tome of Black Arts, however its different than the one from school.
- After Rio reasons with Nazzeni on how to mutually love without force, he agrees to revert back monster alterations and give us a Black Egg to regenerate Zan.
- Diehl returns from his journey to our ranch.
- Stray monsters have formed an army to attack people in Torble and they’re operating from Kawrea Volcano.
- Discover Wit is the one who stole the Tome of Black Arts.
- You decide to investigate Kawrea Volcano
- 3 floors
- Find another gaia stone, which shows the vision in more detail.
- Rio remembers the past, and each gaia stone found is a soul fragment of Lord Suzaku who fought against the dark lord.
- You and Rio vow to stop the Dark Lord and prevent humans from making mistakes from the past.
- Rio senses something terrible is happening at the volcano.
- Apparently an evil aura is controlling the stray monsters and making them attack humans.
- Gram and Philia stop by your ranch regarding a letter from IMa requesting help to form a group and fight the stray monsters.
- While Gram, Philia, and Diehl hold off a war at the associations, you and Rio will investigate the volcano again to stop the aura.
- -10 floors
- 6th floor Boss Battle ~ Flazer(Tiger/???):
- 9th floor Event: You run into Teetee and she asks what you did to Wit because he changed and is determined to defeat you after you first met up again.
- You begin explaining your past of how you and Philia seen Wit holding the Tome of Black Arts.
- Wit became desperate after losing for the first time against you for power to never lose again.
- You decide to take the fall when alarms are alerted for the book being handled in school and tell Philia to run away after Wit left.
- In hindsight, you probably should’ve told the truth but it appears that Teetee is determined to save Wit.
- 10th floor Event: You find Wit injured before a large monster.
- Xevion tells Wit that he is the master and injures Teetee for him to obey.
- Wit realizes his foolish ways, but Rio interjects and believes with humans and monsters fighting together, Xevion can be defeated.
- Boss Battle ~ Xevion:
- After defeating Xevion the first time, he transforms to fight again
- Boss Battle ~ Xevion(transformed):
- Xevion is defeated and afterwards crushed by boulders.
- Wit acknowledges your strength after defeating Xevion while also comparing his cowardice.
- You acknowledge your own faults of being a coward and encourage Wit that you two can become stronger to overcome your weaknesses.
- Xevion destroys the exit to prevent escape.
- The war is beginning at town and Diehl begins to panic.
- Philia tells Gram and Diehl to not give up and believe in you.
- Suzaku speaks after all seems lost.
- The four gaia stones revives Lord Suzaku, a Phoenix.
- Suzaku explains to Rio can understand monster language because he gave her a bit of his blood.
- Suzaku provides everyone a chance to escape the volcano.
- Congrats you won! Read the ending credits to learn what happened after they escaped
Post-Game
1 Week after Game Completion- You, Rio, Philia, Gram, Diehl, Teetee, and Wit all meet at the Vizley school to see Casa to establish a Tome of White Arts book due to being saviors of the world.
- Everyone says their goodbyes.
- Note: At this point, be sure to visit Vizley during your free weekends and speak to Laurier! At some point she will upgrade the shop!
- Rio greets you during the morning and notices there’s something in your bag.
- You are given a Phoenix Feather as a gift from Suzaku to regenerate Phoenixes now.
- Mr. Karnab visits during the weekend to inform that new passageways have showed up.
- Dungeon+ can now be explored.
- Finish collecting stone tablets to unlock all training gadgets
- Finish collecting documents for information to read in the library
- Complete S Rank Official Tournament (if you haven’t already).
- Collect combination items and medals to help prepare raising strong monsters for Dungeon+
- Explore Dungeon+ to defeat end-game bosses and unlock special key items to extend spirit gauge. Each boss also drops other rare items after first defeat including Rainbow Discs to unlock rare monsters! Beware of endgame boss in Kawrea! It has near max stats!
- Complete monster book, fame, and competitions won for each month.
- Raise a max stat (all 999) monster!
Credits: ADC*Ken's MR4 guide
This page was last modified: November 13 2023