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The post SotN Castlevanias typically have some rare monsters (such as the tsuchinoko) fortunately you can just bump in and out of a room repeatedly to encounter them.

Definitely vagrants in Dark Souls. The game came out in 2011 and I play the game once or twice a year every year, and I've only ever seen one or two.

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sfcalimari posted...

Definitely vagrants in Dark Souls. The game came out in 2011 and I play the game once or twice a year every year, and I've only ever seen one or two.

That's partly due to the mechanics surrounding it, someone needs to lose all their souls in a specific spot then they'll spawn. Therefore the less players there are, the less likely you are to spot one.

Feebas is my personal gripe, specifically gen 3. It only spawns on a random fishing tile and even if you go through every single one of them it still doesn't always appear in the random encounter since it's like a 25% chance or something.

MarthGoomba posted...

Dunedigger in EverQuest

What is that and where did it spawn?

In Pokemon R/S/E/FR/LG the odds of finding a random shiny (and having it give you Pokerus) is 1/178,954,240.

masterpug53 posted...

Larva Eater from FF XII satisfies both: you have to kill 256 enemies while remaining the Great Crystal area before one spawns, then it can reappear again after beating another 30-255 enemies. It rarely drops the Danjuro, the most powerful dagger in the game, and this is the only way to get it (I can't seem to find the actual drop rate percentage, and the game's chaining mechanic further complicates this).

Apparently the Zodiac version alters this by giving you other options for obtaining the weapon (and calls it by a different name). I only ever got the Danjuro once, and it was one of the luckiest drops I've ever gotten in gaming. I couldn't get any of the 'shortcut' techniques to work and was frustrated as hell after hours of grinding, and I told myself 'I'm gonna try one more time and then I'm done with this shit forever;' sure enough, the last Larva Eater dropped one. I cherished the hell out of that dagger and built Ashe around using it; pretty sure either it or Vaan w/ Yagyu Darkblade got the killing blow on Yiazmat that playthrough.

How did u beat zodiark?

MarthGoomba posted...

Dunedigger in EverQuest

LOL...All of mine would be from Everquest. People that never played it will never understand how things were back in that day.

My personal would be Deathfang but Dunedigger is a good one.

Dark Souls vagrants

Some are innocent, cute-looking creatures that do no harm, while others are also innocent, cute-looking creatures who will literally one-shot you with their homing projectile attacks.

Tonberry in the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth in FFX. Catching 10 of those for the monster arena was a huge pain in the ass, mainly because they were so rare to encounter.

Shamino posted...

What is that and where did it spawn?

Special armadillo spawn in the desert. About 1/100 chance to appear at a specific spawn point, and that spawn point will refresh in just under 3 hours when whatever spawned from it is killed. 99/100 times it's a generic snake or armadillo spawn.

Items it has at least don't have an absurdly low drop rate.

Henry - Binding of Isaac Repentance. I have 7k hours into BOI and I've never seen him spawn once. I've gone through Dross at least a few thousand times.

PowerOats posted...

In FF4 there's a enemy with a 1/64 chance of appearing, and it holds a item with a 1/64 chance of dropping.

Shin Megami Tensei I or II (can't remember which) has this beat.

The fiends have a 1/256 chance of spawning on exactly specific spots in the game world, and if you beat them, then there's a 1/256 chance that they drop a superweapon.

Pink Puff/Flan Princess

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McMarbles posted...

Pink Puff/Flan Princess

IIRC the GBA and PSP ports have one additional place they can spawn, which is a room that can randomly appear in the Lunar Ruins.

Hey, it helps.

Chimecho in Pokemon RSE is an extremely rare spawn. A shiny Chimecho makes finding a regular one look like finding a Zubat in a cave.

Maybe Shiny Authentic Sinistea. I know they can have special marks now too that are rare. It's something like 1/8 million or something.

I was going to say Time Lost Proto Drake from WoW as well.

LK classic probably made it much more common though

MorbidEngel posted...

IIRC the GBA and PSP ports have one additional place they can spawn, which is a room that can randomly appear in the Lunar Ruins.

Hey, it helps.

Between being able to buy sirens to a fairly forgiving drop rate I was able to farm out five adamant armors on the pixel remaster. Never bothered back in the snes days.

Assuming no mods: Red Iridium Bats in Stardew. They only start to spawn on floor 880 in the skull caverns, which is pretty unrealistic to ever get to.

baby zombie wearing diamond armor while riding a chicken in Minecraft

Wedge_Antilles posted...

First to come mind is the Time Lost Proto Drake from WoW Wrath of the Lich King. Think it spawned only once a week (or was is just several days). And since it dropped a mount it doesn't stay alive for long.

Fluttershy posted...

feel like the time-lost proto drake still has to take it.

I think it really is this.

Vyragosa is a rare mob that spawns every two to eight hours in one of four locations across the Storm Peaks zone. There's roughly a 10% chance that instead of Vyragosa, the Time-Lost Proto Drake will spawn instead. People can sit there for weeks or months and never see it.

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MarthGoomba posted...

Special armadillo spawn in the desert. About 1/100 chance to appear at a specific spawn point, and that spawn point will refresh in just under 3 hours when whatever spawned from it is killed. 99/100 times it's a generic snake or armadillo spawn.

Items it has at least don't have an absurdly low drop rate.

Base game? So either N or S Ro desert?

Cause I don't remember armadillos

Dalthine posted...

In Final Fantasy XI, a lot of "Notorious Monsters" would be a chance of spawning instead of one specific enemy in the zone (I.e. there are 6 flies in this area, one of the six is the placeholder and Valkurm Emperor may spawn in its place). But there's no guarantee people will be killing the placeholder to even give it a chance to spawn, so it might become incredibly rare to actually see.

Then you had the shitty Argus/Leech King split spawn where only one of the two had a chance to spawn once the timer was ready.

Recently, Henry in Binding of Isaac Repentence. Only spawns in a single room layout on a certain floor.

The enemy you need for the item youre currently farming.

loafy013 posted...

Then you had the shitty Argus/Leech King split spawn where only one of the two had a chance to spawn once the timer was ready.

Recently, Henry in Binding of Isaac Repentence. Only spawns in a single room layout on a certain floor.

claiming argus was the tough part. everybody be there.

edit: i was thinking of king arthro nvm nvm