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Huh. That's very interesting that the Facebook page says that. Are the contents of that page sanctioned by BBB?

Despite the fact that I have over 1600 breeding attempts logged, I don't have a whole lot of data that can help with this, because most of those who have contributed data were already well developed and breeding for Ethereals and Hoolas with high level monsters. And the data that I do have is conflicting.

For four-element attempts (e.g., T-Rox/Potbelly for Entbrat), 12 of 64 (18%) were successful when one of the monsters was under level 6. I only have 8 attempts where both breeders were 10 or higher, but 4 were successful (50%). Tha's far too small of a sample size to have any certainty, but it sure looks like having both parents at higher levels was beneficial.

On the other hand, I got the exact opposite from the Ethereal breeding data, but again the sample size was too small. Out of 38 attempts with one of the monsters under level 6, one was successful for a rate of 2.6%. Of the 946 attempts with both parents at 10 or higher, 12 succeeded for a rate of 1.3% (more in line with expectations). We really need at least a couple hundred attempts of a certain type to have decent confidence in the results.

I posted about the project both here and on the Big Fish forum, but haven't got much interest. I'm running 8 simultaneous games, but it's just not enough to answer questions like this. Please check out http://mysingingmonsterstracker.azurewebsites.net if you're interested in contributing your breeding data. Thanks.