Monster Rancher Advance 2 Raising Mechanics

US Version Awareness

• In the first month of a monster's life, be it from shrine or combine, it will gain +45 weight every week until you feed him in the next month. The JP version doesn't behave this way, only EN version.
• This is why a fresh baby monster will always be Obese and get the Glutton trait if you don't spar immediately, or start at the 4th week of the month.
• Glutton is automatically acquired when a monster is Obese.

Weight Table

Verbiage	Thin	Slim	Normal	Fat	Obese
Range	-100 to -76	-75 to -51	-50 to 50	51 to 75	76 to 100

A monster's lifespan value varies depending on its main and sub breed, of course. The average lifespan value for this game is 2550 (Divide by 10 and you have 255 weeks average lifespan). The Lifespan value not simply being a "1 week increment" allows for smaller than 1 week increments of lifespan adjustments.

The Lifespan Value goes down by 10 points every week by default, and drops an additional 5 points if your monster's "Fullness" reaches less than 100 at the start of a week.
(Fullness is a term coined by bedegeln to describe a hidden parameter in the game that has no name)

Notes for reaching Maturity faster:

• If you take a look at both tables above, you can see why the "Nuts method" works and you can reach maturity faster using it.
• Feeding nuts just isn't enough to maintain a monster's fullness value above 100, unless you rest every single week.
• Feeding nothing or dessert will also work here (to accelerate a monster's maturity), but they add or substract too much weight.
• Once the monster reach "crucial period", banana is the most "balanced" food.

In MRA2, the monster's stress and fatigue values range from 0 to a max of 999.
There are levels for these values, which Holly will tell you. The worse your monster's condition is, the bigger the lifespan hit.

Stress & Fatigue lifespan hits are added on top of the default weekly Lifespan Value of -10 and is additive.
for example if your monster is "Pretty stressed" and "Exhausted" at the start of the week, it will take (10+6+12) = 28 points deducted from its remaining Lifespan Value.

The max Lifespan Value hit is 55 points when your monster is "Really stressed (above 900)", "About to collapse", and its fullness value below 100.

Training Schedules

Four Options for schedules:

1. HD, HD, Rest - This pattern provides the most points overall but being odd, the drills fall on different weeks each month for 4 months..
2. HD, HD, LD, Rest
3. HD, LD, LD, Rest
4. LD, LD, LD, Rest

- BEFORE Incense: Stress will accumulate without occasional battles to help reset stress to 0.
- AFTER Incense or better passive, Stress and Fatigue should be at or close to 0 after every rest.

Schedule Breakdowns

The key is to determine the Net gains and if it's beneficial. Different monsters will have different stat gains so depending on the drills done and their gains, it can be different than the below examples, but it should at least be relative if you're leaning into a monster's good stat gains.

Using the Wolfkin route as the example, during pre-prime and prime phases:

• POW + ACC Hard Drill gives 22 POW, 8 ACC, -3 SPD. A Net gain of 27 points per drill.
• POW Light Drill gives 16 POW. A net gain of 16 points per drill.

With that in mind, the 4 different raising schedules with near-prime averages would look like so:

Notes about training:

• Your monster will be more stressed if it's Slim or Thin, and less stressed if it's Fat and Obese.
• Your monster will always be more fatigued if it's not at Normal weight.
• At Fat and Obese fatigue increase is higher.
• Sparring is not affected by weight.

Trainings Table

Weight	Type	Stress Gain (Averaged)	Fatigue Gain (Averaged)
Normal	Light Drill	105	120
	Heavy Drill	135	175
	Sparring	180	450
Slim	Light Drill	145	140
	Heavy Drill	175	190
	Sparring	=normal	=normal
Thin	Light Drill	165	165
	Heavy Drill	200	215
	Sparring	=normal	=normal
Fat	Light Drill	65	190
	Heavy Drill	95	235
	Sparring	=normal	=normal
Obese	Light Drill	50	240
	Heavy Drill	80	270
	Sparring	=normal	=normal

Great Trainings

The monster will gain -50 stress if you praise it, and +30 stress you don't.

Failed Trainings

There 2 types of failed trainings:

1. One is when Holly said that your monster "didn't do it right" (failed because of Reliance).
   • Scold it, it will gain 20 more stress, -5 discipline, +1 reliance.
   • Don't scold it, it will gain 20 less stress, +12 discipline, -1 reliance.
2. The other "didn’t do very well" (because of Discipline, if it's too spoilt the chance for this type will increase).
   • Scold it, it will gain 70 more stress, -12 discipline, +1 reliance.
   • Don't scold it, it will gain 20 less stress, +12 discipline, -1 reliance.

If your monster has the "Expert" trait, the chances for successes and greats are increased (percentage number unknown), but it will gain an additional 60 stress if it fails its training.

Standard Coaches:

• Standard Coach selections are updated every April 1st on Odd years. Each selection lasted 2 years.
• Since the game started at year 1, the first selection update is on Year 3, then Year 5, then Year 7 and so on.
• There are 10 set of Standard Coach selection in the game.
• This means for the first rotation, the last set are the one alvailable on year 19, and the pool reset during year 21 to be the same as the one at the start of the game.

View Standard Coaches

Standard 1: Year 1-2, 21-22, 41-42 etc.

NAME	Scarlet
POW	200
INT	350
ACC	320
SPD	330
DEF	150
LIF	250
Deposit	3000
Traits	SwtSmell
	Up Charm
	Up Magic
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Riki
POW	400
INT	100
ACC	200
SPD	150
DEF	400
LIF	400
Deposit	3000
Traits	RockSkin
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Goyo
POW	240
INT	200
ACC	400
SPD	250
DEF	280
LIF	300
Deposit	3000
Traits	EagleEye
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Lu Buwei
POW	280
INT	320
ACC	400
SPD	300
DEF	250
LIF	300
Deposit	6000
Traits	BigVoice
	SwtVoice
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Fukuryu
POW	500
INT	550
ACC	300
SPD	250
DEF	350
LIF	450
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Fire
	Up Wind
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Bao Shu
POW	360
INT	350
ACC	420
SPD	250
DEF	550
LIF	400
Deposit	10000
Traits	TufShell
	HiStamina
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 2: Year 3-4, 23-24, 43-44 etc.

NAME	Mercator
POW	200
INT	50
ACC	220
SPD	450
DEF	250
LIF	300
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Mind
	Up Dance
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Fan Zi
POW	400
INT	260
ACC	220
SPD	250
DEF	320
LIF	400
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Claws
	HiStamina
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Gregory
POW	330
INT	280
ACC	350
SPD	300
DEF	300
LIF	450
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Tail
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Cougar
POW	320
INT	360
ACC	440
SPD	430
DEF	230
LIF	250
Deposit	6000
Traits	UpLtning
	Up Claws
	Up Ice
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Doc
POW	350
INT	520
ACC	480
SPD	320
DEF	200
LIF	360
Deposit	8000
Traits	Up Magic
	UpScythe
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Octopus
POW	350
INT	250
ACC	250
SPD	550
DEF	250
LIF	550
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Water
	Hi Speed
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 3: Year 5-6, 25-26, 45-46 etc.

NAME	Gallon
POW	250
INT	220
ACC	200
SPD	400
DEF	280
LIF	300
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Dance
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Gullwing
POW	400
INT	150
ACC	200
SPD	300
DEF	300
LIF	350
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Earth
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Shiranui
POW	200
INT	300
ACC	260
SPD	460
DEF	200
LIF	240
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Claws
	Up Magic
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Athos
POW	310
INT	300
ACC	450
SPD	260
DEF	360
LIF	350
Deposit	6000
Traits	TufArmor
	Up Sword
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Peperon
POW	400
INT	400
ACC	420
SPD	500
DEF	300
LIF	360
Deposit	10000
Traits	Tuf Skin
	SureHeal
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Muvenbe
POW	350
INT	450
ACC	350
SPD	300
DEF	350
LIF	600
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Water
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 4: Year 7-8, 27-28, 47-48 etc.

NAME	Lucanus
POW	330
INT	250
ACC	320
SPD	240
DEF	300
LIF	240
Deposit	3000
Traits	Tuf Skin
	Up Fists
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Camnavi
POW	320
INT	320
ACC	320
SPD	320
DEF	320
LIF	200
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Tail
	TufArmor
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Darken
POW	420
INT	30
ACC	100
SPD	400
DEF	280
LIF	600
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Mind
	LuckStar
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Horllun
POW	220
INT	440
ACC	430
SPD	360
DEF	220
LIF	250
Deposit	6000
Traits	MagicGrd
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Berry
POW	300
INT	300
ACC	380
SPD	460
DEF	200
LIF	350
Deposit	7000
Traits	Foresee
	Up Dance
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Levin
POW	450
INT	250
ACC	300
SPD	450
DEF	320
LIF	580
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Earth
	IronHart
	Glutton
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 5: Year 9-10, 29-30, 49-50 etc.

NAME	Hangnail
POW	260
INT	400
ACC	300
SPD	200
DEF	400
LIF	400
Deposit	6000
Traits	BigVoice
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Kyohou
POW	280
INT	230
ACC	430
SPD	330
DEF	290
LIF	380
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Magic
	Swt Hips
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Queen
POW	250
INT	570
ACC	480
SPD	500
DEF	260
LIF	250
Deposit	10000
Traits	SwtSmell
	Up Magic
	MagicGrd
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Shishin
POW	350
INT	200
ACC	550
SPD	650
DEF	300
LIF	400
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Fangs
	Up Feet
	Glutton
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Gotch
POW	630
INT	200
ACC	220
SPD	130
DEF	600
LIF	650
Deposit	14000
Traits	RockSkin
	Up Magic
	Hi Power
	Up Hands
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Pyron
POW	600
INT	600
ACC	200
SPD	200
DEF	600
LIF	500
Deposit	15000
Traits	TufScale
	Up Mind
	IronHart
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 6: Year 11-12, 31-32, 51-52 etc.

NAME	King Crab
POW	300
INT	250
ACC	350
SPD	200
DEF	350
LIF	300
Deposit	3000
Traits	TufShell
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Banderas
POW	280
INT	80
ACC	500
SPD	180
DEF	150
LIF	300
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Mind
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Rites
POW	340
INT	250
ACC	310
SPD	340
DEF	310
LIF	340
Deposit	6000
Traits	SoftBody
	Up Head
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Spooky
POW	400
INT	400
ACC	250
SPD	250
DEF	300
LIF	400
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Fire
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	White Snow
POW	360
INT	230
ACC	300
SPD	400
DEF	350
LIF	400
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Tail
	Up Mind
	Up Ice
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Big Eye
POW	320
INT	400
ACC	450
SPD	400
DEF	400
LIF	350
Deposit	10000
Traits	EagleEye
	UpTongue
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 7: Year 13-14, 33-34, 53-54 etc.

NAME	Chaos
POW	450
INT	250
ACC	200
SPD	180
DEF	310
LIF	400
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Claws
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Shang
POW	100
INT	50
ACC	510
SPD	480
DEF	200
LIF	500
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Water
	Up Shot
	Glutton
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Maverick
POW	300
INT	360
ACC	400
SPD	380
DEF	280
LIF	300
Deposit	6000
Traits	UpLtning
	Up Claws
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Halberd
POW	330
INT	310
ACC	430
SPD	250
DEF	330
LIF	370
Deposit	6000
Traits	TufArmor
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Drill
POW	350
INT	300
ACC	300
SPD	550
DEF	350
LIF	420
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Dance
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Champ
POW	450
INT	200
ACC	300
SPD	450
DEF	350
LIF	500
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Earth
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 8: Year 15-16, 35-36, 55-56 etc.

NAME	Glace
POW	200
INT	280
ACC	420
SPD	380
DEF	50
LIF	400
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Tail
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Ice Man
POW	260
INT	380
ACC	380
SPD	220
DEF	200
LIF	400
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Water
	UpBreath
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Rochefort
POW	320
INT	500
ACC	400
SPD	200
DEF	150
LIF	400
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Magic
	UpScythe
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Little
POW	300
INT	340
ACC	480
SPD	510
DEF	220
LIF	380
Deposit	6000
Traits	Foresee
	Observer
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Yue Yi
POW	350
INT	350
ACC	400
SPD	600
DEF	200
LIF	380
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Claws
	Up Magic
	Hi Speed
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Big Antler
POW	520
INT	300
ACC	330
SPD	310
DEF	480
LIF	380
Deposit	10000
Traits	Tuf Skin
	Up Fists
	Failure
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 9: Year 17-18, 37-38, 57-58 etc.

NAME	Master
POW	400
INT	250
ACC	300
SPD	400
DEF	250
LIF	200
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Claws
	Macho
	Up Hands
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Stripe
POW	250
INT	280
ACC	310
SPD	350
DEF	260
LIF	280
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Ice
	Up Spear
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Artist
POW	100
INT	10
ACC	20
SPD	670
DEF	450
LIF	200
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Mind
	Up Beams
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Ring Ring
POW	230
INT	380
ACC	450
SPD	300
DEF	300
LIF	340
Deposit	7000
Traits	MagicGrd
	Success
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Jupiter
POW	300
INT	620
ACC	380
SPD	240
DEF	280
LIF	600
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Claws
	Hi IQ
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Crimson
POW	500
INT	400
ACC	600
SPD	400
DEF	500
LIF	400
Deposit	12000
Traits	TufArmor
	Up Fire
	Hi Aim
CoachPTS.	6

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Standard 10: Year 19-20, 39-40, 59-60 etc.

NAME	Piccolo
POW	200
INT	200
ACC	420
SPD	310
DEF	210
LIF	260
Deposit	3000
Traits	Up Magic
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Monophony
POW	400
INT	300
ACC	150
SPD	100
DEF	400
LIF	650
Deposit	6000
Traits	RockSkin
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Choco
POW	300
INT	230
ACC	370
SPD	400
DEF	300
LIF	150
Deposit	6000
Traits	Up Fangs
CoachPTS.	5

NAME	Jeni
POW	200
INT	360
ACC	310
SPD	330
DEF	150
LIF	200
Deposit	6000
Traits	SwtSmell
	Up Magic
	Up Dance
CoachPTS.	4

NAME	Kung Fu
POW	480
INT	310
ACC	460
SPD	350
DEF	440
LIF	360
Deposit	10000
Traits	Up Claws
	Up Fists
	Up Hands
CoachPTS.	6

NAME	Okita
POW	600
INT	500
ACC	700
SPD	700
DEF	300
LIF	300
Deposit	12000
Traits	TufArmor
	Up Feet
	Satori
CoachPTS.	6

Super Coaches:

• There are 3 Super Coach, Morgan, Aegis, Arther. Their appearance are repeated in that order.
• The Super Coach appears every Even years on a specific month. They will stay for that entire month of the year and leaves after that month passed.
• The Super Coach have 30000 deposit cost, but their term payment is still 800
• The Super Coach have 5 separate patterns of appearance. After the fifth pattern are shown, it will reset to pattern one similar to how the 10 standard coach pool worked
• This means the first Super Coach would appear at year 2, their rotation will end by year 30, and then by year 32 they would repeats the pattern

View Super Coaches

NAME	Morgan
POW	500
INT	850
ACC	700
SPD	600
DEF	500
LIF	700
Deposit	30000
Traits	SwtSmell
	TufArmor
	Charisma
	Satori
CoachPTS.	6
Spawn 1	March (Yr 2)
Spawn 2	September (Yr 8)
Spawn 3	May (Yr 14)
Spawn 4	November (Yr 20)
Spawn 5	July (Yr 26)
Spawn 1	March (Yr 32)

NAME	Aegis
POW	500
INT	500
ACC	500
SPD	200
DEF	900
LIF	900
Deposit	30000
Traits	RockSkin
	UpCountr
	Up Beams
CoachPTS.	6
Spawn 1	January (Yr 4)
Spawn 2	July (Yr 10)
Spawn 3	March (Yr 16)
Spawn 4	November (Yr 22)
Spawn 5	May (Yr 28)
Spawn 1	January (Yr 34)

NAME	Arther
POW	800
INT	600
ACC	700
SPD	400
DEF	650
LIF	700
Deposit	30000
Traits	TufArmor
	Up Mind
	FullArmr
	Up Sword
CoachPTS.	6
Spawn 1	July (Yr 6)
Spawn 2	March (Yr 12)
Spawn 3	September (Yr 18)
Spawn 4	May (Yr 24)
Spawn 5	November (Yr 30)
Spawn 1	July (Yr 36)

Result	Stress	Fatigue	Discipline	Reliance	Weight	Fullness
Win
Baseline	-400	300	0	0	-10	-100
Praise	-450	300	2	3	-10	-100
No Praise	-370	300	-10	-3	-10	-100
Lose: 2nd/3rd Place
Baseline	-300	400	0	0	-15	-100
Console	-300	400	5	1	-15	-100
No console	-280	400	-3	-1	-15	-100
Lose: Last Place
Baseline	-200	500	0	0	-20	-100
Console	-200	500	5	1	-20	-100
No console	-180	500	-3	-1	-20	-100

Passive Items

Type	Stress Reduction	Fatigue Reduction	Notes
Rest without anything	250	450	averaged
Rest with Incense	320	650	averaged
Rest with AromaPot	420	850	averaged
ShinyGem	3	0	fixed, automatically applied per week, can be abused with save/load
GlmrGem	13	0	fixed, automatically applied per week, can be abused with save/load
BrghtGem	23	0	fixed, automatically applied per week, can be abused with save/load
SlvrCup	0	5	fixed, automatically applied per week, can be abused with save/load
GoldCup	0	25	fixed, automatically applied per week, can be abused with save/load
HolyCup	0	45	fixed, automatically applied per week, can be abused with save/load

Observations:

• Incense is quite powerful especially for a speedrun.
• Only the best gem and cup are worth having, though they are quite expensive.
• The lower-tiered gems and cups reduce too little stress and fatigue to be of any real value.