Talk:Yool/@comment-4830404-20121205201735/@comment-5832451-20121205225822

Good thought on the combinations unique to Cold Island. But as you figured out, the combination of ANY two 3-element monsters on a given island is unique to that island.

In fact, of the 10 total 3-element monsters, you could pick any two and that pair would either occur on only one island or none (given the current islands of only 4 elements each and no combinations repeating).

And since we're on the subject, you could make a similar list of unique combinations for each island (for future special monsters) given a couple of rules:

-Any combination involving the 4-element monster would be unique. -Any combination of two of the 3-element monsters is unique to that island (6 pairs). -For each 3-element monster, there are three 2-element monsters that are NOT unique pairs (those made of the same 3 elements), and three that ARE unique pairs (the three involving the one element NOT in the 3-element monster). -There are three unique pairs of 2-element monsters, but note that these have the 4 different elements on the island (and are thus going to make the 4-element monster on that island - it's unlikely they'll use a pre-existing combination)

So it really comes down to 6 pairs of 3-element monsters, and 12 pairs involving a 3-element and a 2-element creature. So now and in the future, there probably are only the 6 (18 at most) combinations to try out.

Sorry this got a little wordy and math-heavy, but that's what I tend to do with these things (ask my wife).