
Your health bar is dictated by the monkey you just beat (or lost to). This means that (assuming all fights are won) the shortest path to victory is timid -> strapping -> Jojo. At the start of your run, only timid and smelly monkeys will spawn. In order to spawn the strapping monkey, you just need to win a fight (the easiest being timid monkey). In order to be accepted to fight Jojo, you must beat at least the strapping monkey. Winning fights, and fighting stronger monkeys, causes stronger monkeys to spawn. Which monkeys spawn are dependant on which monkey was just fought, and whether you won or lost. They are, in order from weakest to strongest, timid, smelly, strapping and brawny. The full "rules" here are not known, but it is almost certain that all 6 Ack-starters are indeed present in your run. Update: I am aware of one run (but only one) where not all 6 Ack-starters were present. It removes the need to draw to learn information. By doing this, we can have perfect play from the start. If it is a foul, or takes us to a losing position, we reload and guess another. This gives us a reasonable strategy early on - we can save before our turn, and guess an A-starting play (which is not currently used for something).

It seems that the remaining plays are selected randomly, and can be any of the other options (though, for whatever reason, are unlikely to be COE or COA).

OAE is most probably one of the other plays, and OAC is very likely to be another. Of the 10 plays, 6 of them will always be the 6 plays which begin with A (AOE, AOC, AEO, AEC, ACO and ACE).

Unlike in diving, where Marco can sometimes duplicate moves, plays like AOO or CEC will never be valid in Monkey Kombat. Firstly, all plays consist of three different cries.

In your run, there will be 10 different plays taking you between stances. I will use the letters A,O,E and C to refer to Ack, Oop, Eek and Chee. You must first be familiar with how Monkey Kombat works and basic strategy for beating Jojo in order to make sense of this guide. This is a guide for speedrunning the Monkey Kombat section of the game.
