Elemental family

A Live lava

Elemental Family (Japanese Katakana: エレメント Romanji: Eremento ) refers to the monsters Dragon Quest series that are formed mainly by elements: Fire, Water, Wind or Earth. Usually they have a degree of intangibility to their appearances, and haunt areas similar to their elemental type (E.g. Live lava are found around volcanoes, firn fiends in tundra, etc .). In some games, members of this family are included within the Material family when there are not enough distinct elementals to warrant a separate class of their own.

While there may appear to be an inconsistency regarding earth-themed elementals not being included in the material family when golems and rockbombs are, a closer look will show that material monsters are all constructed beings of artificial origin, where as elementals are pure entities of natural phenomena.

Appearances

Dragon Quest II

• Dancing flame
• Frostburn
• Miasma
• Smog

Dragon Quest III

• Cumaulus
• Firn fiend
• Freezing fog
• Gold basher
• Hell niño
• Magmalice
• Shade
• Shadow
• Silhouette
• Umbra

Dragon Quest IV

• Blizzybody
• Cyclown
• Soulspawn
• Firespirit
• Flamethrower
• Float-o-copier
• Knightshade (remakes only)
• Lost soul
• Spinchilla
• Whirly girly

Dragon Quest V

• Admirer
• Blizzybody
• Flamethrower
• Hotbog
• Magman
• Mudraker
• Soulspawn

Dragon Quest VI

• Burning man
• Cumaulus
• Freezing fog
• Hell nino
• Hopping hellfire
• Scorching man
• Shadow
• Silhouette

Dragon Quest VII

• Admirer
• Cumulus rex
• Cumulus vex
• Discombombulator
• Earth Spirit
• Fire fry
• Fire Spirit
• Fly-by-knight
• Healium balloon
• Knight shift
• Knightshade
• Sky fry
• Sunken spirit
• Water Spirit
• Wind Spirit
• Zepling

Dragon Quest VIII

• Dancing flame
• Dark star
• Firespirit
• Frostburn
• Hellspawn
• Lost soul
• Shade
• Shadow
• Silhouette
• Solaris
• Soulspawn
• Spitnik

Dragon Quest IX

• Admirer
• Cumaulus
• Cumulus hex
• Cumulus rex
• Cumulus vex
• Cyclown
• Firespirit
• Firn fiend
• Freezing fog
• Geothaum
• Hell nino
• Live lava
• Lost soul
• Magmalice
• Mudraker
• Ragin' Contagion
• Scarlet fever
• Shivery shrubbery
• Uncommon cold
• Whirly girly

Dragon Quest X

• Admirer
• Blizzybody
• Dancing flame
• Demon cloud
• Discombombulator
• Firespirit
• Flamethrower
• Float-o-copier
• Freezing fog
• Frostburn
• Healium balloon
• Hell nino
• Hotbog
• Live lava
• Lost soul
• Mudraker
• Poison trill
• Umbra
• Red pudding
• Shade
• Shadow
• Shivery shrubbery
• Silhouette
• Whipped scream
• Zepling

DQM Strengths and Weakness

Strengths

• Has breath attacks that can damage all party members.
• Has higher resistance to attacks of same elemental type.
• Might has mixed elemental types, and thus has resistance to both types (e.g. Magmalice has Fire as major type, and Earth as minor).

Weaknesses

• Has lower resistance to attack opposite to their elemental type.
  • Fire ↔ Ice
  • Wind ↔ Earth

Gallery

• DQII Dancing Flame.png

  Dancing flame

• DQII Frostburn.png

  Frostburn

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  Spirit flame

• DQIII Cumaulus.png

  Cumaulus

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  Hell niño

• DQIII Freezing Fog.png

  Freezing fog

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  Demon cloud

• DQIII Shade.png

  Shade

• DQIII Shadow.png

  Shadow

• DQIII Silhouette.png

  Silhouette

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  Umbra

• BurningManArt.png

  Burning man

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  Hopping hellfire

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  Gold basher

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  Magmalice

• Firn Fiend.png

  Firn fiend

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  Geothaum

• DQIV Firespirit.png

  Firespirit

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  Lost soul

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  Float-o-copier

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  Flamethrower

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  Winter Queen

• Cyclown.png

  Cyclown

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  Spinchilla

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  Whirly girly

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  Spitnik

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  Solaris

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  Admirer

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  Mudraker

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  Live lava

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  Hotbog

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  Fire fry

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  Sky fry

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  Sunken spirit

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  Soulspawn

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  Hellspawn

• ScarletFeverArt.png

  Scarlet fever

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  Red pudding

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  Whipped scream

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  Poison trill

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  Miasma