I was going to level my team up a bit higher, but i was completely sick of ascendence path by that point, I'll probably have to do it now though.
Btw, Is it me, or does the hole space rocket thing feel a bit unfinished? particularly with how late in the game you got some manamon like Galvano.
Ah well, there's always manamon 2, and I liked the sequel references with matthew and Rena going off elsewhere.
Unfortunately now I will be having a very boring time since I've got about 20 different manamon who all need evolving, though at least I can level my main party up while I do  that using the xp pals.

Btw, a shame that there aren't some more diverse lower level areas later in the game, since it'd be fun to get random battles around the same level as the manamon your trying to evolve rather than grinding the same areas again and again.

It also seems a little odd in terms of manamon levels, given the highest level wild manamon I've seen seems to be 67, and even then there is a huge gap between ascendence path and crescent walk in terms of levels. It'd actually be nice if towards the end of the game you could open up an area with all wild manamon available scale to your party, both for the interest of seeing matchups with higher level and lower level manamon, and  to give you a more interesting and preductive time grinding.

Speaking of grinding, At the moment it's just grind grind grind for me. Both to get my party high enough to face Iroadium again, since my party is currently around 65,, and to level up those manamon I still  need for the manapedia.
I got a third xp pal from the arcade and grinding isn't too bad, or at least an hours grind goes a relatively long way in terms of manamon levels, I'm up to 129 manamon so far, including the three starters, though obviously that leaves work to do, though using exponge's limb thrust tactic and then swapping out to a lower level manamon helps, I've got 8 or 9 k a pop doing that with some lower levels.

I haven't decided as yet  if I'm going to try fighting through the upgraded masters and so on, we'll see how I feel when I have a completed mmanapedia, or whether I want to go on to the second game at that point.

I'm tempted to try and get two more xp pals, but I suspect that playing the 600 or so arcade games it'd take to get them would negate any speed training benefits I'd get from them.

It actually seems a little silly to me that level up herbs can only be got from the arcade, since with the massive amounts of gold you end up with later in the game, I'd have assumed they would be more available to help you experiment with higher level manamon, EG sold for about 20000 gold a peace or so.

Ziognioss is more of a pain than a world-class threat. Titomaton shuts him down, and Mondevol shuts him down even harder.

And  And it's done! 158 manamon seen, 158 court.

Iroadium was sort of a pest second time around, since Aura master wasn't strong enough to do as much damage as necessary, so I finished up having to rely on power kick and deciced's frigid touch, as well as taggin  mortrex for confusion and unending curse, and only really using mondovol for stun valt.

First time through I won, but only guererrol was left, and the first turn of the capture battle Iroadium hit him with toxic storm which seemed to do damage even though he's got the altered gas mask equipped.

Second time through I made it with three party members still alive, but didn't mess around, just chucked the gamanet.

Trying tavalus and pegasan with a level 73 party was probably a bit impatient on my part, but it worked out, actually Tavalus was more annoying for  low chances of getting hit by giganets, first try he killed himself with draco blits after I'd chucked about ten, second try he went down after 13.

Pegasan was annoying, and I definitely should've had a higher level group.

Ironically killing him would've been easy for exponge, but withstanding his attacks long enough to get him with a giganet was harder, (he could take out leonetar in one hit with frostbite), also he was immune to stun volt.

In the end I just stuck Exponge at the front  alternated chucking giganets and giving exponge mighty herbs until I finally got lucky.

still there it is! I did! catch them all, in this game anyway .

I'm now not sure  whether to grind my party enough to take on the last few uba battles (legendary creatures in hand), or go straight on to the second game, though I suppose I should really show the various tamers who's bos before I move on just for the hell of it .

Thanks again to Jayde's guide for the assistance, particularly with manamon stats and some of the more obscure item location uses (I don't know if it would've occurred to me to use items in random  places like at the zeogneus statue), though I do feel a trifle more confident in knowing the system now and how things work, especially if Manamon 2 is a little more balanced in terms of stat evolution, meaning that I hopefully won't end up with the problem I had in my first attempt at manamon 1, when I had a bunch of creatures who were all higher level than what they were fighting, and who were all getting the bejaggers kicked out of them due to pretty terrible stat development, Ratsel I'm looking at you)..

Makes sense. Half the time I'm doing horribly because I don't know the typings of certain manamon (when are duel-typing), and still trying to keep track of all the types. It will come eventually.