Kaltman Returns As Top Monster!

This year was the first year that the 5 new monsters became available to use in tournament games. These new monsters seem to have been reasonably welcomed, with 16 of the 21 Games allowing all of the new monsters to be chosen, and 1 game allowing 3 of the 5 new monsters.

2025 Statistics

This year we had a total of 87 players, 40 unique players, and 21 total games. This puts us down from 2024 by about 33%.

For experience levels, this year we had 9 novices (0-1 games played before), 7 beginners (2-6 games played before), 15 advanced players (7-19 games played before), 6 experts (20+ games played before), and 3 people not mark any experience level down. The beginners number is down by about the amount that the Advanced players gained. The only other difference from last year is the Novice number, which is 18 less new players than last year. This may suggest that we have an issue with retaining new players.

The Monsters by win rate were:

1. Ethroh, the Ancient One – 2 wins in 2 games
2. Gargantis – 1 win in 2 games
3. Kokuri, the Butterfly – 5 wins in 12 games
4. Konk – 3 wins in 10 games
5. Zorb – 2 wins in 7 games
6. Komin, the Snow Yeti – 2 wins in 8 games
7. Tomanagi – 2 wins in 9 games
8. Qu'thral, the Cosmic Horror – 1 wins in 6 games
9. Toxicor – 2 wins in 13 games
10. Megaclaw – 1 win in 10 games
11. Xan, the Great Wyrm – 0 wins in 8 games

Military by win rate were:

1. Army – 8 wins in 21 games
2. Marines – 7 wins in 21 games
3. Air Force – 5 wins in 21 games
4. Navy – 1 wins in 21 games
5. Space Force – 0 wins in 3 games

Stats about winners:

• Winners that had 1st Challenger – 10
• Winners that had High Octane Blood – 3
• Winners that had neither 1st Challenger nor High Octane Blood– 8
• Winners that had the most monster points – 9
• Winners that did not have the most monster points – 10
• Winners that tied for the most monster points – 2

Below is a chart showing the Monster/Military combinations. The numbers show number of wins/number of games played

Some things to know about the statistics:

• This is Konk’s best year in the history of Monsters Menace America, no doubt thanks to the adjustment of his ability now giving +1 against all standard military units, instead of just the fighters
• Qu'thral, the Cosmic Horror win was during the Final this year
• Erik Rittenhouse was the only player to win with the Navy this year
• Toxicor’s win rate this year is much better than last year, and I think that the new 1B adjustment is doing a better job of solving the problems that the 1A adjustment was trying to solve

Some random but interesting things that happened during the Heats:

During Heat 1, Aaron Kaltman’s Air Force did 16 points of damage (with the help of Anti-matter) in a single round of combat to Ethan Shipley-Tang’s Xan, the Great Wyrm. After that, Xan, the Great Wyrm mutated 2 times as a result and got both Berserk & It’s a Robot as a result. Aaron Kaltman won this game, since no matter how good a mutation is, it doesn’t do much good if you don’t have enough health to go with it.

During heat 4, Riley Gleaton had some very good luck, and some very weak opponents. With one opposing monster in Hollywood, and with Riley Gleaton’s Kokuri, the Butterfly as the First Challenger, she destroyed both monster in the first round each fight, with 4 infamy and the Berserk mutation unused, and only spent 2 infamy over those fights.

The “Son of a Monster” award is given to the player who did best and is either 12 or younger, or previous to this WBC had played zero or one times. This year we had 1 player who was eligible who made it to the Semifinal, so winner of this year’s winner of the “Son of a Monster” award is Bobbi Warczak.

Some highlights from the Final:

• The Final was the only game to have only part of the new monsters allowed, because of the request of one player. The monsters not allowed were Xan and Ethroh
• Mid-way through the game, Aaron Kaltman’s Qu'thral, the Cosmic Horror had the chance to stomp Philadelphia without a fight, but choose to stomp Detroit instead, to avoid getting swarmed by all the military units in the area,/li>
• Erik Rittenhouse’s Megaclaw was the first challenger for the Final and choose to challenge Riley Gleaton’s Zorb First. Megaclaw had 17 Health, and 6 infamy to start the Challenge, and Zorb had 21 health, 5 infamy, and Atomic Breath
• Erik Rittenhouse’s Megaclaw came out of that fight stronger, with 29 health as compared to his starting 17. He then challenged Tyler Trahan’s Kokuri, the Butterfly. Kokuri had 12 health, 6 infamy, and Armored Scales. Kokuri also had Fins and Gills, but there was no water at the monster challenge to be able to use it
• Erik Rittenhouse’s Megaclaw came out of that fight victoriously, but weaker, with only 18 health to his name. His final opponent would be Aaron Kaltman’s Qu'thral, the Cosmic Horror. Qu'thral had 30 health, and 2 infamy. Even with no Mutations, Qu'thral had the most monster points before the challenge started
• In the end, Aaron Kaltman’s Qu'thral Emerged victorious as the new king of monsters.