A quick guide showing how to scout high-rank wild monsters early on in the game.\r
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Basically, all you need are a monster with high attack stat and the Psycho trait, and another that can buff its attack with Oomph or lower the targets defense with Sap - plus a lot of luck and patience. (The Talent Scout trait helps too, but its ivation is random.)\r
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Please note - although it is possible to scout high level and rank monsters like the Frou-frou early in the game, they are really only useful in synthesis, because wild monsters become much weaker once scouted, and only retain their most basic skill sets. They are also hard to level-up further thanks to the EXP required. I guess the game did this just so that lucky players cant simply bulldoze through most of the game with scouted monsters.\r
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The Iceolation stage walkthrough is here: