
Shogum
A slime so saturated with fighting spirit that its body has turned from blue to red. Doesn't know the meaning of defeat.
Master of the slime armies, he searches ceaselessly for his nine long-lost companions.
The essentials
- Earliest in the story: Grotto boss, map quality 2-60: 27% of grottoes
- Gives: 19,000 EXP, 1,110 G, Platinum headgear (steal 1/32), Miracle sword (steal 1/128)
- Weak to: darkness ×2
- Has no effect on it: dazzle, sleep, whack, confusion, fizzle, poison, paralysis
Family: slime
Stats
| HP | MP | Att. | Def. | Agi. | EXP | Gold | Evas. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,600 | 255 | 242 | 298 | 130 | 19,000 | 1,110 | 0 % |
HP from the game's record: in battle, each monster gets a roll between 80 and 100% of it (rounded); MP is full.
Resistances and actions
- Elements (damage taken): darkness ×2
- Effects (success rate): 50%: Decelerate, Divine Intervention; 25%: stun, Sap; 15%: Blunt; 10%: Charm; immune: Dazzle, sleep, Whack, confusion, Fizzle, poison, paralysis
- Actions: 1 or 2 actions per turn (random) — Attack 27%, “performs a killer combo!” 23%, Kaboom 19%, “calls for backup.” 15%, Disruptive Wave 11%, critical hit 6.6%. Conditions (otherwise it picks another slot): Attack: not while Dazzled, and only on a character whose defence is below twice its attack; Kaboom: not if a third or more of the party has Bounce; “calls for backup.”: if there's no king cureslime; Disruptive Wave: if a character has an effect to remove (buff, Bounce, tension…). Only once per turn for its whole group: “performs a killer combo!”, Kaboom, “calls for backup.”, Disruptive Wave, critical hit
Items
Habitat (in-game monster list)
Grotto
In the game, a defeated monster's entry names one of these places as soon as you have visited it, even if you never defeated that monster there; otherwise “?????????” (checked in game). The first two are named, “Etc.” for the third.
Grottoes (treasure maps)
- Grotto boss, map quality 2-60: 27% of grottoes
- Grotto boss, map quality 61-80: 25% of grottoes
- Grotto boss, map quality 81-100: 27% of grottoes
- Grotto boss, map quality 201-248: 13% of grottoes
Under the hood
Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 225.
Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Platinum headgear : 3 ; Miracle sword : 5.
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