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

How to Beat Metal Dragon

Metal Dragon Can Be Skipped Metal Dragon List of Attacks Use Physical or Breath Attacks Increase Your Defense With Kabuff

Metal Dragon Can Be Skipped

The Circle of Fortitude (Upper Echelon) is a complicated maze. In addition, some routes will allow you to ignore and skip boss fights. Skipping the boss fights will not affect your progress, so you can ignore them if you feel you can't win.

The green route as shown above will allow you to skip the Metal Dragon.

Metal Dragon List of Attacks

Use Physical or Breath Attacks

Metal Dragon Has Bounce Skill

The Metal Dragon has the Bounce skill that allows it to reflect spells to its caster. So bring monsters with mostly physical attacks.

Increase Your Defense With Kabuff

The Metal Dragon has very few attacks. It has a regular attack and Boulder Toss. You can't reduce the damage of its attacks, but you can reduce the amount of damage your monster will receive by using Kabuff to increase their defense.

Examples of Monsters That Can Learn Kabuff

Eggsoskeleton	Komodo	Leery Lout
Materialist	Defender

Recommended Party

Monster	Main Talent
Trauminator Lvl. 31	Leading Light
Hacksaurus Lvl. 40	Paragon
Dancing Flame Lvl. 39	Deep Breather
King Cureslime Lvl. 39	Cure-All

Best Monsters Tier List

Metal Dragon Overview

Metal Dragon 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