Talents are a pretty important mechanic inDragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Talents determine what skills your monster will obtain, provide additional stat boosts, and can improve their resistances. As you progress, you’ll find more and more of them, and the skills they have get better.
Besides just finding monsters with new Talents or using scrolls, some Talents can be upgraded, giving you access to certain skills earlier or helping double your monster’s stats. We’ll tell you how to upgrade Talents and give you a list of all the ones with upgrades so you can build the best monsters possible.
How To Upgrade Monster Talents
Alongside all the regular Talents in the game, some have anadditional functionand can beupgradedusing the synthesis process.
Theseupgraded Talentsoffer moreadvanced versions of skills, such as Sizz Virtuoso offering Kasizz and Kaping, while Sizz Afficionado has the lower tier skills of Sizz and Ping.
Toupgrade a Talent, you’ll need to meettwo specific requirements:
For example,one monstercould have40 Points in Zap Afficionado,and theothermonstercould have60 Points invested, and you’d end up with Zap Virtuoso.
Once you’ve gotboth requirements met, all you need to do issynthesize the monsterstogether. The Talents willcombine into the upgraded Talent, and you’ll beable to pass it onto whichever monster you choose to make.
You canupgrade Talents easilyby scouting andusing higher-leveled monstersfromMiddle or Upper Echelonsin the synthesis process, as you canmeet the 100 Pointsrequirementwithout needing to grindthem.
All Upgradeable Monster Talents
There are a total of30 different Talentsin the game that can beupgraded into improved versionsof themselves.
Agility Booster IV
Other Upgradeable Talents
All types ofVirtuoso Talentscan beupgraded into one of two special talents: Impactor or Polarizer.
Each monsterwith the Talent needs tohave theirrespective Virtuoso Talent maxed out, but unlike the Afficionado Talents, youcannot combine two Virtuoso Talentstogether.
You’ll need touse two different onesto end up with Impactor or Polarizer.
Frizz Virtuoso + Crag, Bang, or Zam Virtuoso
Crag Virtuoso + Frizz, Bang, or Zam Virtuoso
Bang Virtuoso + Crag, Frizz, or Zam Virtuoso
Zam Virtuoso + Crag, Bang, or Frizz Virtuoso
Splash Virtuoso + Woosh, Zap, Crack, or Sizz Virtuoso
Woosh Virtuoso + Splash, Zap, Crack, or Sizz Virtuoso
Zap Virtuoso + Woosh, Splash, Crack, or Sizz Virtuoso
Crack Virtuoso + Woosh, Zap, Splash, or Sizz Virtuoso
Sizz Virtuoso + Woosh, Zap, Crack, or Splash Virtuoso
Impactor and Polarizercan befurther upgradedinto the advanced Talent,Perfect Speller, by combining them.
