Don-chan (not Brave Don-chan) evolves into a monster of awesomeness.

The dragons from the gift dungeon are sometimes called the Late Bloomer Dragons (they suck bad until you get them all the way up, including their stats -- they get really weak stat gains at low levels and faster gains at high levels) and sometimes called the Double Dragons (because their best evolutions are their Twin Star forms).

Until the Twin Star uvos were added, they SUCKED. They're not TOTAL crap early on, but until last year's "let's make dragons suck less" buff cycle, they were pretty easy to outgrow.

Now, the non-Twin Star uvos are still pretty weak, but they'll still be somewhat useful for ML -- the choice of uvos allows you to vary their subtypes and elements for flexibility of team composition, and 1.5xHP 2xATK is useful if you don't have anything better.

The Twin Star uvos require two Trifruits, which is... difficult... and their stat growth curve is a pain in the butt as described earlier. But in return, you get a monster with decent stats and the appropriate awakenings/leader skill for a row-enhance team. And it should be noted that the ATK bonus in the leader skill is NOT a typed bonus -- if you trigger it, it applies to your whole team regardless of type or element.

All of the uvos have the same active skill, which used to suck pretty bad (20xATK is pretty meaningless damage most of the time) but is useful (though still a bit weak) now that they provide a damage buff (1.3x) for two rounds.

Unfortunately even the Twin Star versions still don't really stack up in the late game. They look good on paper with relatively high stats and good awakenings, but their active skill is underpowered and the team composition convenience of the leader skill doesn't really pan out in practice when it's so easy to find unconditional 3xATK leader skills. The end result: by the time you can make them useful, you probably have better.

-Reads coda's wall of text-

so whats twin star mean? ouo

But does it still make for a good team member if not leader on a dragon team? :o If I have something better? (which I might already anyways).

x2 drop on the PAD Beach thing after 12PM Pacific ouo best time to grind and gather mons from that place ^-^

DK: Each of the Late Bloomer Dragons has an ultimate evolution with "Twin Star" in the name, for example, "Wind Twin Star Fafnir" or "Light Twin Star Divinegon." Unlike the two-color uvos, which require a Dub-mythlit, a Dragon Fruit, and three Dublits of the same color, the Twin Star uvos require a Keeper of Rainbow, a Dragon Fruit, a Dublit, and two Trifruits (from Thursday Dungeon Mythical). Trifruits are a *pain*. I can clear that dungeon but it usually takes me a couple stones, and you only have a 1-in-3 chance of the color you need to drop. (They DO drop from the Pal Egg Machine when rare evo materials are active, but they're rare.)

ML: If you can get them leveled up (sadly they need lots of XP and their stats don't start getting out of the "mediocre" range until around level 60), then the non-Twin Star uvos could be useful subs or potentially even leaders for you; they've got good stats relative to their team cost (20). Pick the uvo that synergizes best with your other monsters. And remember you can un-uvo monsters if you later decide you need to switch them, or if you get the Trifruits for the Twin Star uvo.

I have the Y/G Divinigon <3

I've had the G/L Fafnir lying around in my box for ages but he's level 43 -- I got him because I needed a mono-green/mono-light leader way back in the day and then I got enough wood-element Balanced monsters to just use Cu Chulainn on that front, and I got Pterados from a gift egg to handle the light-element side.

I dunno, maybe if I ever have the spare Trifruits lying around I might re-uvo it to Wind Twin Star Fafnir, but Brachys is just so much better. Same active skill, better leader skill, better RCV, and the 2xTPA makes up for having lower ATK. I don't really NEED another wood-element dragon.

I was thinking of just waiting and seeing what kinds of teams I can make before doing that. :3 So no worries.

So I got another Okuni from this god fest xD I was wanting another just for his new ulti evo xD

and I got Umisachi&Yamasachi o3o -pokes at- I wanted Kushi ;-; oh well.. I got a random dragon.. its a mecha/dragon o3o
http://www.puzzledragonx.com/en/monster.asp?n=2187
that. o3o 2 more gems and i can do another pull >.>

They are finally bringing in the machine type now? :o

o-o i thought they added machines last month or the month before

Ugh.. stamina recharge faster D8 i need just 1 more gem >x<

if they did I didn't notice. x'D

Coda was excited about it... o3o didnt it come out with the one monsters new evo? I ended up with that monster around the time but never worked on it xD

SOOO Bastet is now lvl 99.. who to work on next =o=

odin maybe? XD He does come in handy.

my odin is blue so he's gets all the blue gem dragons and pengies.. ouo i need to figure out who to work on in hte green section o3o

ah, that I'm not sure, never looked at your list. ^^;