Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26394913-20150515030942/@comment-24577221-20150515162308

Kkisaragi82 wrote: Thank you. I have been having a very hard time trying to get an Entbrat. I currently have 2 torches on Plant Island. How many tries does it usually take? It depends on which monsters you're using.

My "minions" have been doing some experiments. Preliminary results, with no torches: Potbelly + T-Rox, about 30% per try; Bowgart + Noggin, about 30% per try; Fwog + Furcorn, only about 7% per try. The "folk wisdom" about using a 3-element monster and a 1-element monster, rather than two 2-element monsters, appears to be correct.

With odds of 30%, each 2 tries gives you about a 50% chance of success. 4 tries, 75%; 6 tries, 87%, etc. We don't know how much effect the torches have on this breeding process.

As for the larger question of "what works best?", one big variable is how often you play the game. Some monsters earn quickly but max out quickly; others earn slowly but have much higher limits. If you play often, the former are your friends. If you play less often, the quick earners will just be sitting there waiting for you to collect before they can get back to work. But as a general rule, the 3-element monsters are much better earners than the 1- and 2-element monsters, so you should focus your food resources on feeding the 3s instead of the 1s and 2s.