#nokturnus

Type 1, the ‘Dhuran’: “We are enemies, I know this. However, I respect true strength and by defeating me you have proven yourself as a worthy opponent. I shall give you advice, for the one thing I am more loyal to than my Lord is my code of honor. I hope that we meet again one day so we may fight once more.”

Dragon Quest VI was the hardest he's ever been but since then he's just really gotten more and more pathetic. In Dragon Quest IX he had the highest stats of the Legacy Bosses, but at least in my experience, he had basically the worst AI. He never seemed to use oomph or any of his other attacks that made him a threat, possibly because he simply had too many attacks to choose from. In the end I would just kabuff my team, protect my squishy wizard, and he generally wouldn't do anything. 

In Dragon Quest Heroes he was much more pathetic. The three DLC bosses were post-game threats that were more dangerous than any other enemy. Zoma was the hardest, that much everyone agrees on. With his obnoxious one-hit KO and how he completely changed his attack strategy when he was half-defeated, he was a real threat. Bjorn wasn't as tough but still could take you by surprise. I died on both of them countless times, Zoma even made me put down the game for a little while. Nokturnus killed me once. After I knew his pattern I came back and defeated him without any trouble at all. His attacks were incredibly predictable and easy to avoid for me. When half-defeated all he did was attack more times. I don't even think he killed any of my allies the second time.

I like how Indignus wears his dragon armor covering his abdomen in Dragon Quest XI S.

-Summoning Ann-lucia and reducing his attack to 0

-Playing as Angelo for the sole reason of just killing him with whack

-Playing as Psaro and using his 9MP cost kill everything attack

-Using Torneko's transformation ability to just turn Nokturnus into some, less powerful monster

-Using one of Meena's skills to turn Nokturnus into a 0MP cost slime. Bye-bye, most powerful demon in existence

-Playing as Jessica to just hecking steal him and make him fight for me

-Summoning another Nokturnus just to instantly kill that first Nokturnus

-Finding every opportunity to finish him off with Mortamor (Preferably without Mortamor dying in the process)

-Summoning Kiryl and having him kill himself on Nokturnus with ridiculous overkill

-Summoning Bishop Ladja and having him kill himself on Nokturnus with even more ridiculous overkill

It’s been a while since we’ve seen this. I apologize, but I had to get the information on an extremely powerful demon, Nokturnus, also known as the Dark Dream, or Drium as it was spelled sometimes...

Nokturnus is a Rank-X, 1-slot member of the Demon Family. He can’t be found anywhere, and must be synthesized by crossing Dr.Snapped with Dhuran. Nokturnus is well known in the Dragon Quest series, first appearing in DQ6′s post game, and working his way into many other games after that, including the new Heroes, almost always as the strongest enemy in each game...by far.

Stat Layout of Nokturnus

Despite that, his stats are...pretty average for a rank X monster. With Uber Attack Boost, the Rank S Fencing Fox surpasses him in every stat. Regardless, Nokturnus has Tactical Trooper and Hit Squad for three hits. With this, he can really do some damage to single opponents. He has Counterstriker as well, but his defenses are a little too low to take too many hits. And Foot Drager, Foot Drager always sucks. That’s why I recommend taking Defense Boost 3. This boosts your defense as well as your HP, giving you some extra staying power. With your high attack, and many hits, you’re going to want to emphasize on slash attacks. I prefer DarkLight Slashes as it comes with Mercurial Thrust and Miracle Slash as well as Sacred, Shadow and Singeing Slash. Lastly, a skillset with Oomph is very helpful. I prefer Missing Lynx or Wulfspade 2. Missing Lynx gives you Counter and Kasag to help deal with physical enemies, as well as Thin Air, and Cremate to hit everyone, and Snooze to try and get a bit of crowd control. Wulfspade 2 on the other hand gives you Oomphle for the whole party, and also Kasag, but you trade the offensive attacks for Kamikaze and Kerplunk for last ditch actions. If you’d rather have another monster set up Oomph, than Diminisher would work well. This gives you debuff attacks like Slowing Slug, Weakening Wallop and Blinding Blow as well as Seal attacks like Breath-taking bash. Combined with your three hits, and possibly Oomph, you can do serious damage while potentially crippling enemies.

Nokturnus’ standard attack, delivered via counter.