YMMV / Monster Legends

• Broken Base:
  • Big time with the announcement of the Mythic rarity. One part of the fandom is angry that the Legendary monsters they spent so long to get are being overshadowed in an instant, another side believes that Mythics will help the meta become more balanced by restarting the mess that was the Legendary meta, and a third side sees Mythics as fairly equal to Legendaries, thanks to worse moves and traits going against their better stats, and that the two rarities will work well when used together.
    • This has been taken up to eleven with the announcement of multiple "Eras" with even higher stats. Only a few months after the beginning of the Mythic Era, the Cosmic Era got announced and was quick to sweep almost every Mythic under the same rug as Legendary monsters, giving it a similar fan response to said Mythics between those that felt optimistic for a new start and those that felt betrayed by a repeat of the last rarity announcement. However, once the exact same thing happened another few months later, now with the "Corrupted Era", to say people were unimpressed would be an Understatement. While it still has its supporters that believe the game's gotten stale and could use another rework, most of the fandom flew into a rage upon its leak, and many even left the game outright, stating that they'd lost hope by now.
  • On a less game-changing note, the 2020 Black Friday event, which stretched into the weekend, included a period of time where Diamond relic chests could be obtained easily through watching Monsterwood videos (read; ads). While some people were excited that SocialPoint, a company infamous for its greedy practices, would so generously give out powerful relics, there is a large portion of the fanbase that thinks this was too overboard and that Diamond relics have lost their value after it.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Out of an infinite number of combos you can make with teams of three monsters, you can expect to see people in high-tier competitive play using the exact same pool of about 15 or so monsters in the Legendary meta. The Mythic and Cosmic metas are better about this, but there still tends to be many repeated team formulas.
• Complete Monster: With how many monsters that have been released over the years, it's no surprise that Monster Legends is home to some of the most vile characters around.
  • Lord Nebotus serves as the main villain of the Corrupted Saga and for good reason. After stabbing Hyperia with his sword to uncover the resource known as Lutum, he started corrupting monsters to do his bidding a, ranging from invading the Light Kingdom to controlling the Eastern Kingdom, overthrowing Hell's king Barbatos and even assaulting those who would dare stand in his way. A tyrant with a god complex, Lord Nebotus would do anything to keep control.
  • Malfeitor is one of the main villains of the Metropolitan Saga, and the father of the supervillain sorcerer Malair. Abandoning his kid since he decided to become a superhero, he later return when his son was struggling as a villain and aided him with Nebula and a plan to conquer Elektra. Assaulting the Space Defenders and sending The Frutastor after Emerald Nathura, Malfeitor tried to take over Elektra but failed. Later returning in the Galactic Saga, Malfeitor managed to get his hands on a piece of Astronite and used it to transform the already brainwashed Dusk Aura into Nuke Aura, and send her to capture the heroes and control the power grid of Elektra despite it being a suicide mission, even abusing her despite her complaints.
  • Don Canine is the other main villain of the Metropolitan Saga and the head of The Syndicate. Striking a deal with Malair to control the plant Elektra, Don runs for mayor while airing mass amounts of misinformation that the sunlight is toxic, all the meanwhile demolishing most of Monstown and dumping the toxic remains in the Wastelands. After commissioning Dark Voltaik to deal with the angered residents of the Wasteland, Don allows his crew to steal iron from the Wasteland. Even after being exposed, Don manages to get away with it by claiming he was deceived. After which, he tried to steal the special seeds from Mr. Beast Eco in order to take credit for his actions.
  • General Nishant is the general of the Dark Forces and leader of the Dark Blades faction. A terrifying general with a nasty pet and even nastier bodyguard, he killed Samael's brother Ishamael, then resurrected him as a zombie angel loyal to him, escaped punishment by convincing Samael to join him, and emotionally abused his gravedigger Brutalizer into an angry beast. In the Doomsday Era, he tries to kill Xiron the Great for attempting to take back Arch Knight's armor, and later tries to kill Master Goldfield for attempting to stop the Barbarians for continuing their destructive path. Later serving as the main antagonist for the Blossom Era, he tries to kidnap Nereida using Elfriede, steals Atum's Armor nearly resulting in the mass extinction of the Rocky Peaks faction, uses fearmongering to convince the Fiery Forces to attack the Cardinal Forest, kidnaps Blumeria and Talika, and then frames them for the theft of the armor, even going so far as kidnap monsters for their cells, and create new soldiers for his army.
• Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: The game has been praised by many for its quality character design, massive and varied cast, good knowledge and implementation of fanservice (not that kind), and interesting story. This was exacerbated by the release of Era Sagas, which allow these qualities to flourish even more with full-on plots. The gameplay, on the other hand, has been heavily criticized for repeatedly trashing entire metas with the releases of different Eras, failing to balance those metas on their own, and especially infamously locking powerful monsters behind large paywalls while leaving those without money with oodles of garbage.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Moves that give extra turns to an ally are commonly known as "Turn Transfers" in the community, as they functionally give the user's turn to whichever ally they decide to target.
  • A few monsters are so well known that many refer to them simply by a vague, short descriptor that nevertheless pertains primarily to the referenced monster. For example, if you use the name "bird" and you're talking about the Cosmic meta, most people will know you're talking about Vanoss2099.
  • Particularly bad monsters will be given Portmanteaus of their names with... less-than-flattering terms about their viability. Again referring to the Cosmic Era, Thundercrap / Thunderkrap (Thunderkong) and Trashgon (Targon) are some of the more common variants.
  • As mentioned below in What Could Have Been, most of the community prefers to use Morgz' beta name Dielab over his actual name, for obvious reasons.
  • Within the Corrupted Era, Rattacker is a very popular term used to refer to the use of Master Rat as an attacker, famous for being the complete opposite of his intended use (he was created to be a support).
• Game-Breaker: Has its own page now.
• Memetic Badass: As mentioned below, Hayman for reasons yet unknown.
  • Spekthra, the monster that single-handedly shattered the balance of the Corrupted meta.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Ultimate Epic God OP Celestial Mythics^Explanation Legendary monsters lasted for 4 years as the top rarity up until the Mythic monsters were released. Comparatively, Cosmics took less than a month to usurp Mythics in the same way they did for Legendaries. This has led people to make jokes about more and more rarities (or "castes", if you want to be specific) being released until the meta gets thrown completely out the window. This joke begins to hit a lot harder after the announcement of the Corrupted Era, which is the third era of Mythics and the one that made most finally give up.
  • $P^Explanation SocialPoint is infamous for their skewed practice of microtransactions, usually locking most of the best monsters behind excessive paywalls that can go up to 50 US Dollars in price, or locking optimal traits behind ranking up, which sometimes can take even more money. With the release of things like the infamous August 2020 Legends Pass, this Fan Nickname for the company only becomes more prominent by the day.
  • Hayman for OP+^Explanation It's unknown really how this meme came into existence, but it's one of the oldest memes in the community. Hayman is an earlier-released Halloween event Legendary monster, and overall a pretty terrible support in the meta. Despite this, it's become a long-running joke to treat Hayman as an overpowered monster that breaks the game, specifically making mention of his godly Daze Immunity trait and Team Precision move. This later became an Ascended Meme when SocialPoint gave him a massive buff as of Halloween 2021, giving him the highest stats of all Legendaries (on par with most Mythics) and a significantly better movepool (though he's still stuck with Daze Immunity for a trait). This became a twice Ascended Meme when SocialPoint remade Hayman as Lord Hayman, giving him Lord Pumpseed's trait and abilities as well as better stats.
  • Moochy = Coochy^Explanation After comparisons were made between the design of the Mythic monster Moochy and a...female body part, this phrase has been uttered by many a fan, generally upon any mention of Moochy.
  • Morgz2099^Explanation One of the very first monsters released for the Cosmic Era was Vanoss2099, a monster based on a future version of a YouTuber that had already been put in the game. This was alright with the fandom at first, as Vanoss already had several monsters based on him and his friends, but quite a ways later into the Era came the release of LazarBeam2099. Fans were automatically annoyed by it, since the exact concept had already been done and was being utilized on a far less liked YouTube monster that was also already in the game. Combined with the similarly unoriginal Undead Mr. Beast's release earlier, the fandom was quick to snark about SocialPoint running out of YouTubers to sponsor and making 2099 versions of all of them, and of course, the immediate candidate was resident Flame Bait Morgz.
  • Hornet's gender^Explanation Hornet is a legendary Thunder monster that is described as male in his in-game description. However, due to him being based on a developer's motorcycle labelled with female pronouns and mistaking his abs for bust, many people mistakenly believed he was female. While this simply started out as Viewer Gender Confusion, everything changed when a SocialPoint dev confirmed in a Discord AMA◊ that Hornet is a she. Thanks to this contradiction with the description, people began interpreting Hornet as just about anything, from a transgender man to non-binary and everything in between. To this day, most people have settled on leaving Hornet's gender a mystery, and final confirmation has yet to be seen.
  • Lindworm is the hero^Explanation One of the monsters released in the Cosmic Era, Lindworm, has a description that states he plans to close the Cosmic portal and end the Era. This is portrayed as villainous in the game's context, but as a majority of the playerbase heavily disliked the Cosmic Era, jokes began to arise labelling Lindworm as a Designated Villain or downright Hero Antagonist, clamoring for him to succeed in ending the Era.
    • THIS WAS NOT WHAT WE MEANT, LINDWORM^Explanation Eventually, the Cosmic Era did actually come to a close...to make way for yet another Era with even higher stats, the Corrupted Era. As this was the third time this had happened in a very short span of time, there was damn near no one that wanted this to happen. This resulted in mutations of the above meme noting the Exact Words and claiming that Lindworm had screwed up.
• Memetic Psychopath: Anton Acorne, after the release of his less-than-sane looking Cosmic form.
• Moe: Many of the baby monsters, but the biggest example has to be Ursus. He's so fluffy and small!
  • Uru is a jelly blob styled after an anime character, and weaponizes this trope in his default form with his adorably prideful face and stubby little limbs.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page now.
• Ugly Cute: Many examples, but the two biggest contenders are Moochy and Slugazoid.
• Underused Game Mechanic: Reverse Healing is a status effect that makes healing moves harm the user instead. This even affects healing relics, which would make it useful for crippling a number of monsters, especially Tanks that rely on healing moves. Sadly, the effect was given out very sparingly, and there were no good users of it in the meta for a long time. This became subverted, however, with the release of Luponudo in the Cosmic Era...before getting immediately Double Subverted upon the Corrupted Era edging out all Cosmic monsters.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Downplayed. Some monster designs are scarier than one would expect from a game of this genre, and these monsters' descriptions often reference violence.