Strombonin

My Singing Monsters

Dawn of Fire

Strombonin
Element(s)
Class	Mythical
Egg(s)
Portrait(s)
Release
Date	2022-09-01
Version	3.7.0
Statistics
Island(s)	Cold Mythical Mirror Cold
Available at Level 9
3 Beds Required
2 x 2 Size Required
Breeding Combinations
+ Spunge and Bowgart
Breeding/Incubation Time
Default:	23h
Enhanced:	17h 15m
Skin Boost:	20h 42m
Enhanced and Boosted:	14h 57m
Likes
Monsters Who Like It
Buying Price
Cold: 225
Mythical: 500
Buying Price (Discounted)
50% Off (Cold): 112
50% Off (Mythical): 250
Selling Price
168,750
Costumes
Placement XP
110,000
First Discovered By
BuckwheatAAG0718
Variants
Rare	Rare Strombonin
Epic	Epic Strombonin
In other Games
Dawn of Fire	Strombonin

“	This Mythical shares many traits with a certain Fire Monster, but its preferred habitat couldn't be more different. The masterless Strombonin is a drifter… well and truly, as it drifts upon the ice floes that surround Cold Island. The only company it typically keeps is that of a specialized cold-weather snail called the Strombone whose pallial lungs possess unique musical qualities. Albeit being stoic and reserved itself, the hexapod's presence is unmistakable when it bellows forth rebellious decibels with the help of its mollusk companion.	”
	— Monster Bio

Description

Strombonin is a Mythical Monster that is first found on Cold Island and can be teleported to Mythical Island once fed to level 15. Its design features were decided in partnership of the community, through a series of polls during Month of the Mythical. It was added on September 1st, 2022, during version 3.7.0. Strombonin is best obtained by breeding Spunge and Bowgart. By default, its breeding time is 23 hours long. Despite being an elusive Mythical Monster, Strombonin does not have a high Coin production. The Goal for placing your first Strombonin rewards the player with 5 Diamonds ().

Song

Audio Sample:

Instrument: Trombone

Strombonin contributes a robust, acutely dynamic sound with its trombone (called a Strombone). Its Cold Island track is simple in form, consisting of 4 renditions of an anacrusis, a loud note drawn out for 2 measures alternating between D# and E, and a soft, staccato, threefold repetition of G#. On the final rendition, Strombonin plays the latter phrase louder, with faster notes, and with a fall from the last note. Its Mythical Island tracks are particularly melodic.

Strombonin's Mythical Island tracks are frequently embellished with tonguing, glissandos, and falls. Tonguing is a technique for wind instruments wherein the performer taps or trills their tongue on their palate, reed, or mouthpiece to cut the airflow and play faster notes, while exhalation remains steady.

On Cold Island, Strombonin plays in the last verse of the song. On Mirror Cold Island, it plays closer to the beginning, right before Deedge comes in. On Mythical Island, it plays throughout the beginning section and leads the transition into the first Sporerow verse, then it continues to play in the next verse into the section with Cherubble.

VSTs

Main article: VSTs

Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves. The Monster-Handlers utilize several VSTs to create the sounds of instrumental and sometimes vocal Monsters.

VST: PLAY
Sound library: EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Brass Diamond
Path(s): Solo Trombone > 02 Short and 06 Jazz

Staccato Articulations

SoundFonts: 1TB Staccatissimo DblTng RRx9 (both regular and MOD)

Miscellaneous Articulations

SoundFonts: 1TB Growl, 1TB 5th Slide Cres, 1TB Fall, 1TB HT Slide Cres, 1TB Slide Up RR and 1TB Leg Slide

Breeding

On Cold Island, Strombonin can be obtained by breeding Spunge and Bowgart. Note that it's not a 100% success rate, but the chances can be increased with Wishing Torches.

Spunge

+

Bowgart

(Note that this combo can result in Rare Spunge, Rare Bowgart, Rare Potbelly, or Rare Toe Jammer if they’re available.)

On Mythical Island, a duplicate Strombonin can be obtained via unsuccessful breeding for a Cranchee, which has only one combination:

Cataliszt

+

Strombonin

The Rare variant of any breeding Monster can be used instead of the Common variant.

Used in Breeding

Breeding Combo			Result		Breeding Time (enhanced)	Island(s)
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Cranchee	1d 8h (1d)	Mythical
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Strombonin	23h (17h 15m)	Mythical
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Rare Strombonin	1d 4h 45m (21h 33m 45s)	Mythical
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Rare Cranchee	1d 16h (1d 6h)	Mythical
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Cataliszt	9h (6h 45m)	Mythical
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Rare Cataliszt	11h 15m (8h 26m 15s)	Mythical
Strombonin	+	Cataliszt	=	Epic Yawstrich	1d 14h 23m (1d 4h 47m 15s)	Mythical

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 Strombonin:

Spunge
(requires level 9)
()

Cataliszt
(level 12)
()

Kab's Wax
(level 16)

Shrini
(level 17)

Cave Crystal Teleporter
(level 10)
()

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 Strombonin or when Strombonin and a Unity Tree are on the Island. These may or may not also be Strombonin's likes as well:

Cataliszt
()

Cranchee
()

Rare Strombonin

Epic Wubbox (Cold Island)
()

Costumes

Main article: Costumes

Costume	Cost
Peppermint Swirl Festival of Yay	40

Statistics

Earning Rate and Maximum Income

Earning rate is in Coins per minute 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.

Level	Per Minute					Maximum
	0% Happiness	25% Happiness	50% Happiness	75% Happiness	100% Happiness
1	7	8	10	12	14	2,856
2	11	13	16	19	22	4,570
3	17	21	25	29	34	6,854
4	22	27	33	38	44	9,139
5	28	35	42	49	56	11,424
6	34	42	51	59	68	13,709
7	39	48	58	68	78	15,994
8	45	56	67	78	90	18,278
9	50	62	75	87	100	20,563
10	56	70	84	98	112	22,848
11	62	77	93	108	124	25,133
12	67	83	100	117	134	27,418
13	73	91	109	127	146	29,702
14	78	97	117	136	156	31,987
15	84	105	126	147	168	34,272
16	88	110	132	154	176	35,986
17	91	113	136	159	182	37,411
18	94	117	141	164	188	38,481
19	96	120	144	168	192	39,266
20	97	121	145	169	194	39,698

Feeding Monsters

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

The Treats per level table:

Level Food Per Feeding x4 Food to Level Up Total food to reach this Level 1 10 40 - 2 20 80 40 3 40 160 120 4 80 320 280 5 160 640 600 6 320 1,280 1,240 7 640 2,560 2,520 8 1,280 5,120 5,080 9 2,560 10,240 10,200 10 5,120 20,480 20,440 11 10,240 40,960 40,920 12 20,480 81,920 81,880 13 40,960 163,840 163,800 14 81,920 327,680 327,640 15 122,880 491,520 655,320 16 184,320 737,280 1,146,840 17 276,480 1,105,920 1,884,120 18 414,720 1,658,880 2,990,040 19 622,080 2,488,320 4,648,920 20 - - 7,137,240

More info can be found in the Feeding article.

Egg Consumption

Main article: Zapping

While trying to breed other Monsters (particularly Monsters with a very low chance of breeding), the following Celestials can be used to "dispose of" Strombonin eggs immediately, instead of putting them into a Nursery and having that Nursery not be available. Note that doing this for Rare and Epic Wublins will cause the Wublin to stop producing currency and the eggs will not expire.

Strombonin

Adult Vhamp 3 eggs

Note that Monster eggs can only be "disposed of" before awakening Celestials; afterwards those Monsters will not accept any eggs. Also note that Monsters to which you have already disposed the number of Strombonin eggs that it accepts, will no longer be available as a "recycle bin" for such eggs. Awakened Celestials only accept eggs during their corresponding Celestial month. When being zapped into Celestials as a Flex Egg, Strombonin is not required for the Celestial to ascend. Also note that Mythical Monsters, like Strombonin, cannot be zapped from Mythical Island.

Possible Monster Names

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

Gallery

In-Game

Idle animation

Muted Strombonin

Discovery Screen

Release Promo

Smiling

Strombonin teased in a “Rare Trio” promotion

Concept Art

Concept of Strombonin.

Another concept of Strombonin.

A digital concept of Strombonin.

Another digital concept of Strombonin.

Concept sketches of Strombonin.

More concept sketches of Strombonin.

Even more concept sketches of Strombonin.

Parodies

Strombonin appearing in an MSM parody of the movie "Expend4bles"

Strombonin appearing in an MSM parody of the video game "God of War"

Other

Making of the Cold Island Mythical

The Exploratory Compendium of Monstrology S1E2

The Exploratory Compendium of Monstrology

Notes

• Strombonin's name could possibly be a mixture of "trombone", "strom", German for "current" or "power", "strombus", a genus which comprises of large sea snails with conch shells, and "pangolin", the animal that Strombonin is based off of, as well as "rōnin", a wandering Japanese samurai without a master who could be known as a drifter, Zamboni, a machine used to smooth the ice in skating rinks, and -ing a suffix used to describe doing an action (playing the strombone could be stromboning).
  • The later-released Rare Strombonin was based on a samurai, referencing the "rōnin" aspect of its name.
• Strombonin's design is based on a pangolin.
• Strombonin's facial features are similar to Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow Fish, notably the titular character.
• All of Strombonin's decoration likes are Creator Experience decorations.
  • One of Strombonin's likes, the Kab's Wax, is themed around Fire Haven, which could be a reference to its relative, Repatillo, living there.
• Strombonin was the first Mythical Monster to release since 2014.
• The Monster inside the conch is a Strombone, while the Monster that blows the conch is Strombonin.
• Strombonin is the first Mythical to release by itself.
• In Episode 1 of Quick Questions with Monster-Handler Tyson, it was confirmed that Strombonin is a distant cousin of Repatillo, similar to the relationship between G'joob and G'day.
• If a Strombonin were to be separated from its Strombone, it will search high and low until it has found it again, keeping the discipline to never give up.

  

  A sketch of a Strombone humming a congenial croon to its larger half, possibly as part of a bedtime routine.

• Strombonin is the first Monster to be created in partnership with the community. The second is Buzzinga.
• Possibly as part of a bedtime routine, the Strombone has been seen humming a quiet melody, or "congenial croon," to Strombonin, calming its larger half.
• The Strombone is most likely based on the Queen Conch (from the Strombidae family) due to its size, pink coloration, silly little eyestalks, and the historic use of conch shells as brass-like instruments, such as the horagai, which has a direct connection to Japanese samurai.
• Strombonin is the first and only brass instrumental Monster on Cold Island and Mythical Island.
• A faint glow can be seen on the Strombonin's scales.

References

Breeding	Breeding Combos	Eggs	Feeding	Likes	Goals	Zapping	Translations