tanuki is a monster that swaps element based on its attacks, has buff and heal skills, and can get a shield whenever it heals and is bulky

catzerker is a fire type that has extremely high crit chances as well as a fucking obscene single hit move, slash, that does STUPID damage as well as inflict bleed on crit, has a regen skill, AND can also gain power the more buffs you put on it

like. what the fuck were they smoking when they made these be MONSTERS YOU CAN GET IN THE STARTING AREA

the other monsters are much more in line with what you'd expect, not being so hyper specialized and generally weaker

this makes me wonder if they got complaints about the early game being too tough and put these ones in to help if you can get them

legit the starter is meh compared to them, and the shit in their skill trees just gets better as time goes on