water ruins monster

[cleo]

do I need friends to help defeat it

[Fel]

You can solo the entire game is you want, or bring some help (villagers or monsters).

Try to see if you can get better equipment, gain some skill and/or character levels, get some food that boosts your stats (only the last one you eat affects you and only for the duration of the food meter), make some potions for a quick healing during battle and finally learn their attacks.
This goes for any point in the game, every time normal enemies or bosses start to deal high damage to your character.

If you can, try raising a "battle" monster or two by giving them an item every day, it gives them permanent stats so on top of levelling them it can make them stronger than you fairly quickly.
Of course, very agressive monsters, mages and bosses are better for that purpose but even a weak whooly can turn into a decent tank.

[cleo]

ok thanks for telling me. after 3 tries i finely defeated the monster in the ruins

[SillyCrow]

You can also bring villagers with you if you befriend them enough. They level up like you do. You can also gift them equipment and they will use them. Though they will prefer some weapons over others.

Some have quirks that are really helpful.

[Kuehnau]

I've managed to play the entire game solo so far. While talking to NPCs, there's a button that sometimes shows up that says, "BTW"

Using this option allows you to do things like declare your love for the NPC or ask them to adventure with you.