Seasonal Monsters

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   **Seasonal Monsters** are limited time Monsters that are exclusive to Seasonal Events observed throughout the year. They are available during a short window of time for purchase and/or breeding, making them some of the more elusive Monsters found in the game. However, all Seasonals are available for breeding and buying on Seasonal Shanty all-year-round. Seasonals become available during their specific Seasonal Event. For example, the Yool becomes available during the Christmas Season, known ingame as the Fesival of Yay. On the Natural Islands, it is also possibe to obtain Seasonals via the Scratch Ticket. It is possible to acquire these Monsters during "Out of Season" promotions, which happen six months after the Seasonal event takes place, during Anniversary Month, or during other special times. The way they work is similar to the Celestials in Dawn of Fire (excluding the Cosmic Cubes, of course); each Seasonal having its own Season when it is available. Seasonals that are obtained will stay on your Island unless they are teleported or sold.

Seasonal monsters can only be bred with other Seasonal monsters on Seasonal Shanty, but they cannot breed on any other Islands, including with their Rare counterparts. They don't appear in the lists of monsters that can be used in the Breeding Structure on any Island except Seasonal Shanty. Seasonal Monsters can be teleported at any time, regardless of their availability.

Seasonals are special Monsters that are rather difficult to breed. It's recommended that you use the Enhanced Breeding Structure to breed these types of Monsters. Each Seasonal has a specific breeding combination, but they can only be bred during certain times (or at any time on Seasonal Shanty.) If Rare Seasonals are available, you can use the Common combination to get them, but it is not certain that you will get a Rare Seasonal as a result. Epic Seasonals have a combination different than their Common and Rare cousins. It is often easy to tell when a Seasonal Event is happening, because the Island that the event takes place on will be decorated with a special festive appearance.

There are 2 types of Seasonals, which play an important role to how breeding works on the Seasonal Shanty:

**Core Seasonals** Template:SpooktacleTemplate:YayTemplate:LoveTemplate:EggyTemplate:Summer

The Core Seasonals consists of Seasonals available on the Natural Islands. A specific combination of 2 Core Seasonals can be used to get an Aux. Seasonal, while any combination of 2 Aux. Seasonals can result in any of the 5 Core Seasonals. The Core Seasonals can also go to Gold Island or be teleported to The Colossingum. (Note: Core Seasonals can only be placed on Gold Island if they are on a Natural or Mirror Island. Core Seasonals on Seasonal Shanty cannot be placed, even if they are level 15.)

**Aux Seasonals** Template:Beat HereafterTemplate:Echoes of EcoTemplate:Anniversary MonthTemplate:Crescendo MoonTemplate:SkyPaintingTemplate:Life-FormulaTemplate:CloverspellTemplate:MindBoggleTemplate:Perplexplore

The Aux. Seasonals or Auxiliary Seasonals consists of Seasonals that are available in the Fire Islands or that are exclusive to the Seasonal Shanty. Although it has been confirmed that each Seasonal currently exclusive to Shanty will make its way to another island, with Jam Boree possibly being an exception. A combination of 2 Aux. Seasonals can be used to get any of the 5 Core Seasonals, while a specific combination of 2 Core Seasonals can result in an Aux. Seasonal. These Monsters can **not** be teleported to Gold Island or The Colossingum.

The Seasonals on Seasonal Shanty work similarly to the Ethereal Monsters, where the five core seasonals can breed in order to produce an Aux. Seasonal. This makes the Island able to have 15 Seasonals, 5 of these being Core Seasonals and 10 being Aux. Seasonals.

The 15 Seasonal Events, or Seasons, are as follows:

* Spooktacle - With Punkleton
* Festival of Yay - With Yool
* Season of Love - With Schmoochle
* Eggs-Travaganza - With Blabbit
* SummerSong - With Hoola
* Feast-Ember - With Gobbleygourd
* Beat Hereafter - With Clavavera
* Echoes of Eco - With Viveine
* Anniversary Month - With Jam Boree
* Crescendo Moon - With Carillong
* SkyPainting - With Whiz-bang
* Life-Formula - With Monculus
* Cloverspell - With Ffidyll
* MindBoggle - With Boo'qwurm
* Perplexplore - With Spurrit

Each Seasonal has their own special Element.

## List of Seasonal Monsters

Each of the Seasonal Monsters are obtained by breeding two specific monsters together, any time of the year on Seasonal Shanty but only during the designated period of time on the Natural Islands. The exact dates are different from year to year, but during a particular season, the monster's island will be decorated differently when the opportunity to breed these monsters is possible. During Daily Deals, the monster's island does not look any different so attention to the News will be necessary. The chances of breeding these monsters are very low.

## Notes

* All Core Seasonal Monsters have vocal parts.
* Seasonal Monsters were referred to as both Limited Time Monsters and Special Edition Monsters in the past.
* During Anniversary Month, all released Seasonals becoming available in a promotion called "Time of the Season".
* Anniversary Month was the only seasonal event without a seasonal monster until the release of Seasonal Shanty and Jam Boree.
* All Aux Seasonals, besides Gobbleygourd, do not have their breeding mechanics mentioned in their bio, this might be due to them currently being exclusive to the Seasonal Shanty.
* Occasionally, Seasonal Monsters are re-released "out of season" for very short periods of time, with a purchase price up 75 Template:Diamonds from the usual 150 Template:Diamonds, to 225 Template:Diamonds. For details, refer to the individual Seasonal Monsters information. This is true only for mobile app players. PC players have never had those opportunities.
	+ In 2014, costs of Seasonal Monsters except for those of the Hoola and Yool went up 75 Template:Diamondsfrom 150File:Diamond25px.png to 225 Template:Diamonds.
	+ During the Seasonal Event in September 2014, costs of all Seasonal Monsters were 150 Template:Diamonds.
* Seasonal Monsters didn't have an element until a news pop-up on June 25th, 2016 for the re-release of the Yool on the same date. Each one became a single element monster. These elements were added in-game in an update, which at the time included elements for all five Core Seasonals.
* As the teaser for Composer's 1.3 update, "Seasonals' Greetings!", featured an unknown percussion monster that had been heard in the teaser itself, which was later added as Boo'qwurm.
	+ The percussion was edited out of the YouTube upload for the trailer. This might be because it spoiled the seasonal.
* During MSM Live episode of June 2022, the non-Core Seasonals were officially named the "Aux. Seasonals", or Auxiliary Seasonals.

## References

1. ↑ "The new sort of ideology for these new Seasonal Monsters is that they're gonna be the opposite of the original Seasonals - the first generation, if you will - and that's that they all started on their own Island and then made their way to Seasonal Shanty. We're going to do the opposite with these new Seasonal Monsters that we're discovering, and that they're gonna begin on Seasonal Shanty, and then find sort of a 'forever home' across the various Islands of the Monster World in subsequent appearances." -Quote by Monster-Handler Matt during the October 2021 Handler Hangout