[MR]this random battle opponent... ...it took me a second to figure it out. Hello, overzealous profanity filter, you need a toggle option!

That said, Amethyst here was a beast - then again, speedsters like Hares (and this one with Naga's added speed) have always performed well against glaciers like Golems, so Pharaoh stood a very slim chance in the first place

(also, I'm playing at a MUCH slower pace than normal - bite-sized sessions of one ingame month per day, so this little guy is probably second gen, while Pharaoh is, well, my first, fresh off the simulated disc.)

....this person had the dedication to raise a power/defense Pixie

tbf she's a Pixie/Monol so that helps with defense growth...

I see from the equal power/intelligence spread this one was bred for vs mode registry - that or adventures

(the AI can't be stupid if all techs are equal statwise!)

...either
A: Nagas are large
B: Pixies are small
C: She was just born with that weird stat spread and that’s a baby. (She had trouble actually doing things which says low loyalty so probably this)

Yeah, I'd choose C too

that pixie looks way too bitty to be competing full time

It's a good thing vs mode doesn't affect the main game. She probably just happened to be sitting in someone's storage (though idk, I was playing around with vs mode with ~1mo monsters just because of that lack of risk.)

Why would that even be censo-- oh.

that's why it took me a second lmao

who assumes people are just going to drop drug references in the middle of words

(koei tecmo, apparently)

weird people is what

who cares if you do a fucking crack joke in Monster Rancher

something something my monster's on meth woo who complains about this

block homo- and transphobic slurs instead idiots

exactly

those are much less likely to be found in innocent words at random too

unlike poor Amethyst, whose full name is only visible to their own trainer

who just wanted to name a purple monster after a purple gemstone