bad news about hechoplasm. It doesn't learn any special ghost move, just shadow sphere. Beyond bolt would be really good for it. I wonder wy an undead feline can learn it but not banshreek.

Zuckuss, look up the hyper forms and you will find them. Did you cheat to get your manamon to level 100, BTW, or did you just grind master stadium over and over again? Did you even beat the game before getting to level 100?

It's interesting to see the things my team just bulls through and the places where I get hung up. My old favorites took quite a bit more damage on the bosses, but tore through the tamers and stadiums fairly easily. These are Grandlan, Guerrerrol, Deciced, (crystal slash on Grandlan makes this one redundant I think) Mondevol, (doesn't seem as good in this version) Sacroloon, and Mortrex. (Is there a better ghost? Ghost and shadow kind of cancel each other out, and a piece of equipment gets rid of the weakness to holy, which is why I like this one.) My Manamon 2 team did okay in the stadiums, kinda stumbled through parts of the master stadium, and tore through the bosses. These are Mightauras, Fowlusion, Sirenea, Mantasteel, Holy Cow, and Sylphantom. I want to like the angel pendant on one of these, but 5% hp a round doesn't sound like a whole lot.

Pates, in the impressions threat, so long ago said the Pierre fight was bugged.
Yeah but only if you have an artisoul and/or banshreek on your team.
I didn't test bringing a banshreek to the fight.
But I tested that with artisoul. If you've got it, the game is going to throw a BGT runtime error at you when Pierre is about to select a move.
@Jayde, would you be a banshreek tester for me? I just don't feel like starting the game over only for such a silly purpose.
The rest of this post contains spoiler-ish tricks, so you can skip it using the h key.
It's also possible to get the stone mythicals before the post-game.
You are required to have a monster that can dive under water, a lv 60 monster and atleast 5 keys to access the hyper tarboo.
You can really destroy it if you have hard-hitting monsters to destroy the death cry generator and dodderator (preferably brain wersion).
As for trio guardian, I believe mightauras can do the trick alone.

Yeah, and those types are actually quite common. Poison, shadow and sound still kind of suck IMO. I feel like holy and shadow should be super effective against one another, rather than holy also resisting shadow. I know that is how it used to be with undead and ghost, which was part of the reason why holy was a pain to work with, but I feel like shadow has more weaknesses and is only super effective against two types right now.

Hi:

Are there any reasons why shadow should be effective against holy? I'm not sure I understand.

Man, my team from manamon 1 tore up the hyperforms and the stadiums! And before anyone asks, it was not due to cheating. I have 100-level team from the first game which I imported. Considering how the stadiums are in the 90s when you challenge them again, it's not too much of a stretch to have a level 100 team to compete against them.

I will say that when dealing with the hyperform in the water, it helps to have a couple dudes with earthquake or mudslide. These moves allow the hitting of multiple targets, thereby destroying the machines.

well, the Hiper tarboo is meant to be faced with level 70 at the most, so with level 100 manamon...

LOL it's supposed to be at most level 70? Oops, well, oh well I guess. It was still kinda fun though. I love being able to wreck something in 5-6 hits or less!

Yep, I like tearing things up. Strategy, to me, is overrated.. The best plan to me is survival.

Agreed, Derekedit. Currently just hit Requia and am about to get into barren underground, and my team is 47-50. That's actually a little high for me, but I haven't been grinding excessively, and I'm going to have fits with at least one of the stadiums coming up after Requia. I won't be fighting wild encounters anymore because most of my team wrecks most of what's in Requia's various areas, and I don't want to be, like, level 60 before I hit final protocol. I prefer some strategy in my strategy games, honestly.

Also, if and when I ever get around to working on my own RPG, I have decided that I'm going to do everything I can, within reason, to prevent cheating. I'll have to talk to some folks, if it comes to that point, to see what I can do. If you can have all your stats and levels maxed whenever you feel like it, or can have an enormous amount of items or gold, you're not playing the game the way it was intended to be played, and if I can stop you from breaking it, by god I will. I intend to work very hard on game balance, reasonable difficulty, ease of access, the whole package, to ensure that the game's difficulty curve is gentle enough that you won't find yourself getting trashed unreasonably by bad RNG really early in the game and such. When you win a tough boss battle, I want it to be because you worked out how to do it, and had the legitimate tools, not because you brute-forced it. I mean, technically, you can probably over-level and that might do it, but I've also considered scaling exp, so you get less exp from stuff as you get stronger, meaning it's a matter of diminishing returns eventually.

Incidentally, I'm a big chess player, and I think we desperately need more actual strategy games. I can't count how many times even good tamers, like stadium leaders and bosses, have had terrible AI. They'll hit me with a super-effective move, then switch for no reason to a move that does no damage at all. Or they'll have a move that will hit me hard, and just choose never to use it. AI in the manamon series is really quite basic, and it shows. I mean, it's not as bad as pokemon's gen 1 AI, where Blaine regularly uses super-potions on full-health pokemon and stuff...but yeah, it's fairly bad.
Also also? I have a Dark Shroud on Snowmonno, and its new favourite meal is Vishthaugh, which should by all rights kill it in one hit. But because Vishthaugh's only moves are holy...epic fail, guy.