QUOTE(Valheran @ Jan 9 2012, 20:33)

Despite what most people claim, I still believe having many little monsters gives more than 1 huge. That is, if you do not plan at throwing milions cr at him. I think monster needs to be lvl 25 to even start appearing, but I'm not sure. My game plan is to lvl one to 31, then start on next one. Sure it will get less kills, but as long as you have chaos tokens, you can have army of lvl 30 for the price of single lvl 100.
that is and isn't true. An army of level 25-99 monsters can get you a lot of kills, low-mid grade stuff and bindings but you don't even have a chance for high grades until 250 and even at that level you'll almost never get them. 1-2 very high level monsters in a class that can kill and a lot of little guys is a good way to go.
I had 18 monsters almost from the start and have added to them since, i've got 26 and may goto +30
A PL of 25 on a giant use to be good, but there are so many monsters now that a 75-99 may be needed to get the same kills as before.