Can you solve my riddle?

This was a random little thing I whipped up in line chat several months ago, and I just pulled it back up for kicks. So far nobody has been able to figure it out. I put it here because I want to challenge @Dev VKC and the other devs to try it. You made the game, so you of all people should be able to figure it out :wink: Not sure what I can offer as a reward for solving it… how about a like? :smiley:

Anyway, the riddle is, what monster is missing from the team below? Only one monster fits the bill, and no, there haven’t been any new monsters released since then that also match the criteria. I’ll say a few things just to keep the guesses on track:

  • The monster is fully evolved.

  • It is not an ingredient monster.

  • It is not one of the fan made ā€œmonstersā€ that Unown created over at the line group, specifically the photoshopped ones. No matter how convinced you guys seem.

  • It doesn’t necessarily have to be a legendary. Or maybe it is, and I’m just misleading you. :wink:

  • The monster has never been buffed or nerfed. This is the only proper hint I will be offering.

  • It is connected in some way to ALL of the others monsters on the team.
    And last but not least:

  • It’s not Shivadragon. Get over it.

Also, here’s a list of the more obscure monsters shown in case you don’t know them-
2- Orcoid, 3- Niloxov, 7- Krakhan, 8- Skyflame, 12- Gremknight, 13- Platybeak, 14- Shrubtooth, 16- Catobledus.

And one more thing, if you have an answer you have to explain it. I’m doing this just to make sure nobody randomly guesses the correct monster on a fluke, which defeats the whole purpose of a riddle. If you happen to say the correct monster but don’t explain why, I’ll still say it’s wrong.

Here’s the team, good luck.

EDIT- Amazingly, GaryOak found a second solution to the riddle that never even occurred to me, completely different from the first. It really is ingenious. So, now there are 2 correct answers to this riddle. Not sure yet whether the second answer will get as much credit as the first.

Moji. There are monsters of every type of cost in there except a ā€œcost 1ā€ monster. And the cost 1 monster which would fit is Moji because Moji fits in every team and is the only monster worth joking about being a legend.

P.S. If it isn’t Moji then you’ve got to give something a bit more. I analysed the monster names, numbers, colours, costs, cost-star amounts. There are no patterns I can decipher or secret messages held in there. What I’d like to ask is if every single monster in this team is specifically chosen or if some could be swapped for other monsters and the same monster would still fit slot four?

Sorry, Moji is incorrect. The problem is, under those conditions any monster with one cost could fit the bill. Under the conditions I designed, only one monster is up for the job. Also I never confirmed or denied that the answer is in fact a legend. It’s up to you to decide whether I was joking or not :wink: As for your ps, there’s something there alright, just keep looking.

Is it Omegasdragon for auto-poison ? Remus can knockback and with niloxov it can use poison eater.

Nope, Flarevern fits that description too, plus it only involves 2 of the 15 monsters here. They’re all important.

Oakthulhu

Relations:

  1. Hates purifiers and protectors. Remus solves that and sets up poison drain.
  2. Snooze stalls for double survivor
  3. AP + poison eater
  4. Icefang helps deal with protectors, stun pulse helps stall for double survivor. Instant stun flash can be used to set up timestrike.
  5. Stun for stall for DS, accelerate team reduces time for poison drain.
  6. Poison massecre + AP
  7. Purify helps keep poison off of oakthulhu. So he can heal himself off of hold ground.
  8. Sacrifice heal heals oakthulhu. Poison flash helps stall for survivor.
  9. Another poison monster. Benefits from the free extra turn that poison flash creates.
  10. Snooze helps stall for double survivor(at the beginning of a fight). Having monsters at half health helps charge bloodthirst off of 1 kill.
  11. Thunder is weak to earth.
  12. Extra GTs = extra poison drains.
    13… Snooze helps stall
  13. DSA when it goes off makes all incoming monsters get poisoned. Snooze helps stall
  14. He hates protectors.

Raizen. Sequence is triplets of Mons where the letters of each Mon increase by one and each triplet starts at a +1 from where the other triplet started. Also the first two Mons in each triplet have same cost. Guy were looking for would have six letters and same cost as fang. So… raizen without ss?

Shiva, name starts with s and ends with an a (dragon doesn’t count).

Welp, we finally have a winner! The answer is indeed Raizen, good job Sig133. So, I guess you guys can try to figure out Gary’s solution now.

Grr I even thought about the number of letters, that much became clear when I wrote it out and it looked like a Christmas tree. But I didn’t think it could be triplets because there are 16 monsters. Hate to be bitter but the fact it’s 16 monsters is a huge misdirect in my mind. It was a nice puzzle to spend 30 minutes on last night anyway :slight_smile: