Floating "family"
The Floating "Family" is a loosely connected assortment of monsters that share a vulnerability to Flying Knee and Wing-Clipper. Unlike actual families, there is no single unifying theme to the group aside from the aforementioned weakness, and even that is tenuous.
"Floating" is something of a misnomer, as several monsters are shown with their feet planted firmly on the ground and yet are classified as such, where as some monsters that hover in place (such as the Wraithwand) are exempt.
Appearances
Dragon Quest VI
- Babygoyle
- Barksman
- Cloud surfer
- Cumaulus
- Cutterfly (also Dragon)
- Czargoyle
- Damselfly (also Dragon)
- Darkgoyle
- Deadly dodo
- Devilmoth
- Dreamaera
- Freezing fog
- Hell hornet
- Hell nino
- High djinks
- Hocus dreamaera
- Killer moth
- Low djinks
- Mad mallard
- Sniping barksman
- Splutterfly
- Stormsgate Citadel
- Uber dreamaera
- Venom wasp
- Wild carrot
Dragon Quest VII
- Bird of terrordise
- Chimaera
- Cumulus rex
- Cumulus vex
- Direlog
- Discombombulator
- Div
- Djinn genie
- Dragon slime (also Dragon)
- Drake slime (also Dragon)
- Fire fry
- Floating bloater
- Gigalumph
- Gold fryling
- Healium balloon
- High djinks
- Hocus chimaera
- Kingfuchsia
- Metal dragon slime (also Dragon)
- Mouseflap
- Mousenap
- Peahooter
- Prism peacock
- Sharphooter
- Sky fry
- Stingfisher
- Zepling
Dragon Quest IX
Having the flaying status means that an enemy is immune to Trip of a Deathtime.
- Abyss diver
- Alphyn
- Barbarus
- Batterfly
- Betterfly
- Blinkster
- Cheeky tiki
- Chimaera
- Claw hammer
- Clockwork cuckoo
- Corvus
- Cosmic chimaera
- Cumaulus
- Cumulus hex
- Cumulus rex
- Cumulus vex
- Cureslime
- Cyber spider
- Cyclown
- Drackmage
- Dracky
- Drackyma
- Dread admiral
- Equinox
- Firespirit
- Freaky tiki
- Freezing fog
- Genie sanguini
- Godsteed
- Greygnarl
- Hammer horror
- Healslime
- Hell niño
- Hocus chimaera
- Mad moai
- Man o' war
- Mean spirit
- Mecha-mynah
- Medislime
- Mega moai
- Moai minstrel
- Nemean
- Jinkster
- Lleviathan
- Lost soul
- Lunatick
- Pale whale
- Pink sanguini
- Power hammer
- Ragin' Contagion
- Raving lunatick
- Robo-robin
- Scarlet fever
- Seasaur
- Seavern
- Sootheslime
- Spinchilla
- Spirit
- Stale whale
- Tantamount
- Teaky mask
- Teeny sanguini
- Tyrantula
- Uncommon cold
- Vermil lion
- Whirly girly
- Winkster
- Widow's pique
Dragon Quest X
Floating monsters are fully immune to the as-of-yet un-localized soil spell line, and take 20% more damage from the Harvest Moon skill.
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Erik's series of soil spells are ineffective against floating enemies, and Harvest Moon's damage multiplier has been raised to 250%. Additionally, certain co-op techniques cannot reach flying monsters at all.