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How to perform four-monster synthesis - Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince

This level of control over monster genetics feels a little unethical

Lucas White

December 14, 2023 9:15 PM

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For the most part, synthesis in Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince is pretty straightforward. You pick two monsters, put them together, and then choose a few Talents from the combined pool for your new creation. But there are a few larger-value monsters that require some extra attention to detail. Here’s how four-monster synthesis works.

Explaining four-monster synthesis

If you look at a monster’s details, you can check out its Family Tree. The chart goes back just two generations, showing your monster’s parents and grandparents. Normally this doesn’t matter much, since you’re usually just fusing two monsters together and those parents are the ones informing the result. But if you look at some charts online folks make for stronger monsters, you might see sections that look more complicated.

Please don't judge my McDonald's Eugenics in that screenshot. Anyway, to perform these fusions you have to actually tailor the grandparent generation a specific way, with the parents being the less important factor. So if a monster requires two sets of specific grandparents, how you fuse them together doesn’t really matter as long as you don’t cross any wires, so to speak. It is possible to do that pretty easily if you aren’t paying attention, so like I mentioned in another guide, turning autosave off is a good idea. Here are a few examples of four-monster synthesizing I’ve done myself:

Buntzenburner

Combinations: Brimstone Bulb, Frostburn, Dancing Flame, Soulspawn

Mortamor

Combinations: Hackasaurus, Uberkilling Machine, Stout Troll, Murdaw

Balhib

Combinations: Coralossus, Stone Golem, Firn Fiend, Magmalice

Hargon

Combinations: Wrektor, Atlas, Pazuzu, Belial

As you can see, each of these monsters has a four-monster combination requirement. Now, check out the Family Tree for my Mortamor:

Notice how the two parents are just copies of monsters earlier in the tree. I could have done the synthesis any way I wanted, as long as each space in the grandparent section was one of the four required monsters. If I had, for example, fused the second Hackasaurus into the first Uberkilling Machine, accidentally leaving out the Murdaw, I would’ve had to start over, or at least redo the other half. Yeesh.

Hope this helped! If you liked this, read my review of Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince!

Lucas White

Contributing Editor

Lucas plays a lot of videogames. Sometimes he enjoys one. His favorites include Dragon Quest, SaGa, and Mystery Dungeon. He's far too rattled with ADHD to care about world-building lore but will get lost for days in essays about themes and characters. Holds a journalism degree, which makes conversations about Oxford Commas awkward to say the least. Not a trophy hunter but platinumed Sifu out of sheer spite and got 100 percent in Rondo of Blood because it rules. You can find him on Twitter @HokutoNoLucas being curmudgeonly about Square Enix discourse and occasionally saying positive things about Konami.