Grumpyre

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Grumpyre
Element(s)
Class	Ethereal
Egg(s)
Portrait(s)
Release
Date	2013-08-19
Version	1.1.7
Statistics
Island(s)	Cold Colossingum Ethereal Mirror Cold Shadow
Available at Level 9
5 Beds Required
2 x 2 Size Required
Breeding Combinations
+ Deedge and Congle + Deedge and Bowgart + Deedge and Spunge + Deedge and Thumpies
Breeding/Incubation Time
Default:	Cold: 1d 12h Ethereal/ Shadow: 10h
Enhanced:	Cold: 1d 3h Ethereal: 7h 30m
Skin Boost:	Cold: 1d 8h 24m Ethereal: 9h
Enhanced and Boosted:	Cold: 23h 24m Ethereal: 6h 30m
Likes
Monsters Who Like It
Buying Price
Cold/Shadow: 1,000
Ethereal: 1,500
	Colossingum: 1,050
Buying Price (Discounted)
50% Off (Cold): 500
50% Off (Ethereal): 750
50% Off (Colossingum): 525
Selling Price
Cold/ Colossingum: 750,000
Ethereal: 100
Costumes
Placement XP
Cold: 375,000
Ethereal: 10,125
First Discovered By
The Handler-Helper Community
Variants
Rare	Rare Grumpyre
Epic	Epic Grumpyre
In other Games
Composer	Grumpyre

“	Another of the mysterious Ethereals, you can never fully tell what kind of mood the Grumpyre is in. Thanks to its shifting eyes and mouth as it gurgles forth its song, it might appear sad when really it's happy, or afraid when it's actually having a blast. This makes sense, since it embodies the essence of Shadow - always a bit obscured, and able to unnerve even the most intrepid of Monsters.	”
	— Monster Bio

Description

Grumpyre is a Single-Element Ethereal Monster with the Shadow Element. It is first available on Cold Island and can be teleported to either Ethereal Island or The Colossingum once fed to level 15. It is also found on Shadow Islet. Grumpyre was added on August 19th, 2013 during Version 1.1.7. It is best obtained by breeding Deedge and a Triple-Element Monster. By default, its breeding time is 1 day and 12 hours long. Grumpyre has a decent Coin production on Cold Island and is comparable to Deedge. Although useful for beginners, it is recommended to get other Monsters with higher Coin production. The Goal for placing your first Grumpyre rewards the player with 50,000 .

Once teleported to Ethereal Island, Grumpyre takes 10 hours to incubate. You can then breed it with any other Monster to get more. Like all Single-Element Ethereals, Grumpyre has excellent Shard production, bested only by other Single-Element Rare and Epic Monsters. Note that Grumpyre has a slightly lower rate than Reebro, Jeeode, and Humbug.

On Shadow Islet, Grumpyre can be obtained by Dish-Harmonizing a Monster using the Dish-Harmonizer. Its incubation time is 10 hours long. As a Single-Element Ethereal Monster, Grumpyre does not have a high Shard production compared to other Monsters on Shadow Islet.

Song

Audio sample:

Voice actor: Christopher Elliott

Grumpyre repeatedly sings "Boom-shika-la-shika, boom-shika-la-shika" in a harsh whispering voice. In the Cold Island song, it plays in the part with Yool and the part with Toe Jammer. On Mirror Cold Island, it plays at the very beginning and stops when Toe Jammer comes in.

On Ethereal Island, it sings "Boom-shika-la, boom-shika-la-la-la-la boom-shika-la, boom-shika-la-la, boom-shika-la, boom-shika-la-la-la-la Boom-shika-la, Boom-shika-la-la." It plays alongside Whisp and Arackulele.

On Shadow Islet, it sings "Boom-shaka-laka-la, boom-shaka-laka-da, shaka-laka-la, la-la-la-la-la-laaa." It’s voice has a delay effect.

On Colossingum, it sings with combination of "La!" and "Boya!".

Breeding

Grumpyre can be bred using a combination of a Deedge and one Triple-Element Monster. Possible combination(s):

Deedge	+	Spunge
Deedge	+	Thumpies
Deedge	+	Congle
Deedge	+	Bowgart

There is roughly a 1% chance of breeding this successfully, but out of all of the combinations shown above, Deedge + Congle is the best combination out of them all, as Congle eggs can be zapped to a Zynth, which is the cheapest Wublin that requires eggs from Cold Island Triples. According to statistics, doing 70 attempts gives you a 50% chance of successfully breeding at least one Grumpyre; and doing 690 attempts gives you a 99.9% chance of successfully breeding at least one Grumpyre. Note that a Rare Monster could substitute any of the parents. The only exceptions are Ethereal Breeding Bonanzas.

Ethereal Island

Grumpyre

+

Rare Grumpyre

(Best choice, 100% chance of a Grumpyre if Rare Grumpyre is unavailable)

Used in Breeding

Breeding Combo			Result		Breeding Time	Island(s)
Grumpyre	+	Ghazt	=	Whisp	1d 18h 1d 7h 30m	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Ghazt	=	Rare Whisp	2d 4h 30m 1d 15h 22m 30s	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Reebro	=	Arackulele	1d 18h 1d 7h 30m	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Reebro	=	Rare Arackulele	2d 4h 30m 1d 15h 22m 30s	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Jeeode	=	Boodoo	1d 18h 1d 7h 30m	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Jeeode	=	Rare Boodoo	2d 4h 30m 1d 15h 22m 30s	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Humbug	=	Kazilleon	1d 18h 1d 7h 30m	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Humbug	=	Rare Kazilleon	2d 4h 30m 1d 15h 22m 30s	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Any other Monster	=	Grumpyre	10h 7h 30m	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Any other Monster	=	Rare Grumpyre	12h 38m 20s 9h 28m 45s	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Any other Monster	=	The other Monster	varies	Ethereal
Grumpyre	+	Any other Monster	=	Rare variant of the other Monster	varies	Ethereal

Likes

Every Monster has different things that they like. For every unique object that they like that's placed near the Monster, the Monster's happiness will increase by 25%. Placing more than one of the same liked item near a Monster won't increase its happiness by an additional amount. If there's a Unity Tree or a Primordial Monster of the same rarity on the Island, items don't need to be near the Monster. Below are the things liked by Grumpyre:

Maw
(requires level 7)
()

Arackulele
(level 9)
(, )

Yooreek
(level 19)
()

Nitebear
(level 19)
()

Saggle Tree
(level 8)
(, )

Dragon Tower
(level 20)
(, )

Bass String Bridge
(level 19)
(,, )

See the Likes page to view a complete list of all Monsters' likes.

Monsters Who Like It

The following Monster(s) will increase their happiness by 25% when being placed near Grumpyre or when Grumpyre and a Unity Tree are on the Island. These may or may not also be Grumpyre's likes as well:

Nebulob
()

Sox
()

Yooreek
()

Meebkin
()

Blarret
()

Nitebear
()

Piplash
()

X'rt
()

Pentumbra
()

Rare Grumpyre

Costumes

Main article: Costumes

Costume	Colossingum Availability	Cost
Dungeon Master	Always available	85,500 (discounted) 43 (discounted) 131,250 (full price) 64 (full price)
Garbed in Goth	Always available	30 (discounted) 45 (full price)
Holly-lujah Festival of Yay	N/A	40

Statistics

Earning Rate and Maximum Income

Earning rate is in Coins per minute or Shards per hour and depends on Happiness % (Likes increase Happiness) and Monster Level. Each Monster also has a maximum amount of income it can hold at a time. Increasing the Monster's level also increases this limit.

Cold Island

Level	Per Minute					Maximum
	0% Happiness	25% Happiness	50% Happiness	75% Happiness	100% Happiness
1	14	17	21	24	28	23,000
2	22	27	33	38	44	36,800
3	34	42	51	59	68	55,200
4	45	56	67	78	90	73,600
5	56	70	84	98	112	92,000
6	67	83	100	117	134	110,400
7	78	97	117	136	156	128,800
8	90	112	135	157	180	147,200
9	101	126	151	176	202	165,600
10	112	140	168	196	224	184,000
11	123	153	184	215	246	202,400
12	134	167	201	234	268	220,800
13	146	182	219	255	292	239,200
14	157	196	235	274	314	257,600
15	168	210	252	294	336	276,000
16	176	220	264	308	352	289,800
17	183	228	274	320	366	301,392
18	188	235	282	329	376	310,433
19	192	240	288	336	384	316,642
20	194	242	291	339	388	319,808

Ethereal Island

Level	Per Hour					Maximum
	0% Happiness	25% Happiness	50% Happiness	75% Happiness	100% Happiness
1	2	2	3	3	4	23
2	3	3	4	5	6	37
3	5	6	7	8	10	55
4	6	7	9	10	12	74
5	8	10	12	14	16	92
6	10	12	15	17	20	110
7	11	13	16	19	22	129
8	13	16	19	22	26	147
9	14	17	21	24	28	166
10	16	20	24	28	32	184
11	18	22	27	31	36	202
12	19	23	28	33	38	221
13	21	26	31	36	42	239
14	22	27	33	38	44	258
15	24	30	36	42	48	276
16	25	31	37	43	50	289
17	26	32	39	45	52	301
18	26	32	39	45	52	310
19	27	33	40	47	54	316
20	27	33	40	47	54	319

Feeding Monsters

Each Monster needs to be fed four times before it reaches the next level. Increasing the Monster's level increases the shards earned per minute, as well as the maximum shards earned.

The Treats per level table:

Level Food Per Feeding x4 Food to Level Up Total food to reach this Level 1 20 80 - 2 40 160 80 3 80 320 240 4 160 640 560 5 320 1,280 1,200 6 640 2,560 2,480 7 1,280 5,120 5,040 8 2,560 10,240 10,160 9 5,120 20,480 20,400 10 10,240 40,960 40,880 11 20,480 81,920 81,840 12 40,960 163,840 163,760 13 81,920 327,680 327,600 14 163,840 655,360 655,280 15 245,760 983,040 1,310,640 16 368,640 1,474,560 2,293,680 17 552,960 2,211,840 3,768,240 18 829,440 3,317,760 5,980,080 19 1,244,160 4,976,640 9,297,840 20 - - 14,274,480

More info can be found in the Feeding article.

Note: As of version 1.2.0, Single-Element Ethereals can be fed to level 15 on the Natural Islands, at which time they can be teleported to Ethereal Island instead of being placed on Gold Island.

Possible Monster Names

To see all possible names for Grumpyre, see Monster Names.

Gallery

In-Game

Idle animation

Muted Grumpyre

Discovery Screen

Cloverspell seasonal sale

Concept Art

Concept art

Concept art for Tweedle, Grumpyre, and Cybop

Parodies

An Angry Birds parody: Angry Monsters.

Grumpyre in a The Mitchells vs. the Machines parody.

Other

Meet the Monsters

Grumpyre presenting the Monsterple Choice pop quiz

Grumpyre presenting another Monsterple Choice pop quiz

All pre-Workshop Ethereals together

The :grumpyregrump: emoji from the Official My Singing Monsters Discord Server

Release Promo

Notes

• Grumpyre's name may be a portmanteau of "Grumpy" and "Vampire", due to the ambiguous facial expressions that the Monster makes, and its bat-like traits.
• One of the Breeding combinations for Grumpyre (Thumpies and Deedge) was also the combination for Yool. Big Blue Bubble eventually realized the confusion, and changed Yool's breeding combination on September 13th, 2014, when the Time of the Season event was started during Anniversary Month.
• It was revealed in the version 4.3.0 trailer that Grumpyre is the Monster singing at the start of the loading screen with backgrounds of Mammott.
• Even though there are holes in Grumpyre's wings, it still flies without any problem.
• In the info menu, Grumpyre's eyebrows never emerge, similarly to its pre-1.3.1 appearance.
• Grumpyre is the only Single-Element Ethereal to be a vocalist. This is similar to Noggin being the only Single-Element Natural Monster to not be a vocalist.
• Before the introduction of Ethereal Island, Grumpyre temporarily maxed out at level 10. If you tried to feed past Level 10 beforehand, you would receive a message saying "This Monster is satisfied for now, and will not eat any more food."
• Grumpyre was the first Monster to be based on a real person, being based on Monster-Handler Chris.
• Similarly to Wubbox, Fluoress, and Whaill, Grumpyre's Monster portrait actually shows its early design, rather than its final design.

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