Floating "family"
The Floating "family" is a loosely connected assortment of monsters that in older titles shared a vulnerability to Flying Knee and Wing-Clipper, and in recent games are immune to any one-turn stun moves that attempt to knock the target down. Unlike actual families, there is no single unifying theme to the group aside from the aforementioned weakness and resistant, 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[edit]
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation[edit]
- Babygoyle
- Barksman
- Cloud surfer
- Cumaulus
- Cutterfly (also Dragon)
- Czargoyle
- Damselfly (also Dragon)
- Darkgoyle
- Deadly dodo
- Devilmoth
- Dreamaera
- Freezing fog
- Hell hornet
- Hell niño
- High djinks
- Hocus dreamaera
- Killer moth
- Low djinks
- Mad mallard
- Sniping barksman
- Splutterfly
- Stormsgate Citadel
- Über dreamaera
- Venom wasp
- Wild carrot
Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past[edit]
- 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: Sentinels of the Starry Skies[edit]
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[edit]
Floating monsters are fully immune to the Rubblerouser spell line, and take 20% more damage from the Harvest Moon skill.
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age[edit]
Erik's series of soil spells are resisted by all floating enemies, with the degree of resistance varying between species, and Harvest Moon's damage multiplier has been raised to 250%. Additionally, certain co-op techniques cannot reach flying monsters at all nor can any knock down abilities.
