How to Beat Ash: Best Party Members and Weakness

Ash is one of the bosses in Dragon Quest Monsters 3: The Dark Prince. Learn about Ash's weaknesses and recommended party members to beat Ash here!

How to Beat Ash

Ash List of Attacks Use Brake Wind to Reflect its Breath Attacks Use Monsters that are Strong Against Fire Skills Ash's Weakness is the Water Element

Ash List of Attacks

Use Brake Wind to Reflect its Breath Attacks

Ash has a couple of powerful breath skills that you should watch out for: Inferno and Poison Breath. The counter to these attacks is the move Brake Wind, a skill that reflects breath attacks once.
Brake Wind Skill Effect and Required Talents

Monsters that Learn Brake Wind

Awebergine	Restless Armour	Stark Raven
Vexologist	Breath Taker	Blusterer

Use Monsters that are Strong Against Fire Skills

Ash's fire moves are quite dangerous, so it's recommended to carry monsters that are resistant, immune, or even heal from being hit by fire attacks.

However, many of these monsters are also Fire element themselves and carry Fire skills (which Ash resists), so keep note and make sure to carry skills of other elements.

Monsters that Heal from Fire Attacks

Dancing Flame

Magmalice

Monsters Immune to Fire Attacks

Metal Slime

Liquid Metal Slime

Monsters Resistant to Fire Attacks

Flamethrower	Hell Niño
Scuttle Slime	Slick Slime

Ash's Weakness is the Water Element

You can deal a lot of damage to Ash using water-elemental attacks. By evolving the talent Splash Afficionado to the higher-level Splash Virtuoso, you can learn some powerful water skills, so consider this if you're having difficulty with Ash.

Monsters that Learn Splash Afficionado and Virtuoso

Toady

Puffpoise

How to Get Splash Afficionado

Recommended Party

Sample Party 1

Monster	Main Talent
Dancing Flame Lvl. 29	Deep Breather
Archdemon Lvl. 26	Storm Chaser
Briny Bronco Lvl. 30	Aquapothecary
King Cureslime Lvl. 19	Cure-All

Dancing Flame heals from Ash's attacks so it's a very powerful counter to Ash. Meanwhile, Briny Bronco is also useful since it resists Fire, has Water skills to hit Ash's weakness, and can heal allies.

Sample Party 2

Monster	Main Talent
Hunter Mech Lvl. 34	Blade Maven Attack Booster III
Hunter Mech Lvl. 33	Blade Maven Attack Booster III
Shogum Lvl. 22	Empath
Archdemon Lvl. 30	Bang Virtuoso

None of these monsters follow the counters listed above, but it worked because of the overwhelming power of the two Hunter Mechs.

Best Early Game Monsters

Ash Overview

Ash Location and Drops

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Related Guides

List of Bosses and Guides

Lower Echelon

Lower Echelon Boss List
Bernie	Raph	Penteratic Guardian
Percival	Foo Dog	Abracadabrador
King Foo Dog	Cheater Cheetah, Rhinoceraxe, & Hellion	General Chayne

Middle Echelon

Middle Echelon Boss List
Darius the Shadethrower	Ash	Dessert Demon, Boss Troll, & Chocolate Golem
The Cane Custodian	Claudio	Petrarch
Grimglow Cave Boss	Whiteworl the Watcher	Succubat

Upper Echelon

Upper Echelon Boss List
Ash, Blaise, and Bernie	The Ifreann Eagle	Massimus
Pruslas	Hacksaurus	Warhog
Escudogre	Metal Dragon	Barbatos
Estark Izmah	Aamon	Sir Goolahad
Lady Vinezzia	Sir Sabrefang	Sir Beefdrake
Dolph the Destroyer	Final Boss

Post Game and Secret Bosses

Post Game & Secret Bosses
Estark Venjah	Wyrmsworth	Azabel
Secret Boss