“ | Carbon Dog burns to roast you, but you can turn the rotisserie on it by using Freeze or strong weapon attacks like Jeff's Bottle Rockets. | „ |
~ Carbon Dog’s description in the Earthbound Player’s Guide |
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Carbon Dog
“ | Carbon Dog becomes Diamond Dog after taking damage of several hundred HP. Now it's your turn to suffer. DD is hard. Use Multi-Bottle Rockets right away before it puts up its counter shield. Also use shield killer. | „ |
~ Diamond Dog’s description in the Earthbound Player’s Guide |
Background
Carbon Dog is the 8th and final Sanctuary Boss fought in MOTHER 2 (localized as EarthBound). It guards Fire Spring, the last Your Sanctuary location in the game. Carbon Dog uses physical attacks and fire moves. Once it has been defeated, Carbon Dog's flames go out and it transforms into Diamond Dog, beginning the second half of the battle.
Diamond Dog is the second form of Carbon Dog. It appears when Carbon Dog's HP goes below a certain amount. Diamond Dog has higher defenses and offense than Carbon Dog, but its guts stat is lower; it can also use some PSI abilities. Diamond Dog begins the battle with a Shield β already active, so any physical damage will be reflected back at the party at first. The boss has two different biting attacks, one stronger and one weaker, but they both have the same description. As its name implies, Diamond Dog is capable of Diamondizing party members. Once it has been defeated, Ness is finally able to complete the Sound Stone's melody and enter Magicant.
General Information
Name: Carbon Dog, Diamond Dog
Origin: MOTHER 2
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Sanctuary Guardian, Fire Dog, Diamond Dog
Species: Dog
State of Being: Regular'
Occupation: None
Affiliations: Giygas
Enemies: Ness
Status: Alive
Alignment: Lawful Evil (Sanctuary Guardians are under the influence of Giygas and have stole Ness' sanctuary locations)
Threat Level: Metropolitan Threat (Sanctuary Guardians pose threats over entire towns they're near and are the boss of the entire dungeon area, which are normally multi-leveled cave systems)
Codex Statistics
Key: Carbon Dog | Diamond Dog
Tier: 8-C | 8-C
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Buiding level (Potency) (Absorbed energy from the Fire Spring which is a powerful spot that allows the user to perform “wondrous feats” according to Frank. Can fight Ness, who already defeated Thunder and Storm and who can fight and defeat the Kraken, who massively dwarfs an entire ship in size) | Buiding level (Potency) (More powerful than before)
Durability: Buiding level | Buiding level
Striking Strength: Building Class (Potency) | Building Class (Potency)
Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown
Travel Speed: Unknown | Unknown
Attack Speed: At least Transonic (Can tag Ness) | At least Transonic
Reaction Speed: At least Transonic | At least Transonic
Stamina: Unknown
Range: Standard Melee, Higher with PSI
Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (As the Carbon Dog has drained the energy from the Fire Spring and has shown to use PSI from it, they should naturally be this intelligent)
Powers and Techniques
All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Light Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Mind Manipulation, Durability Negation, & One Hit KO (Can emit a glorious light that can cause uncontrollable crying, feeling strange, paralysis, or an instant KO), Transmutation (Seemingly contact based as if the Diamond Dog bites the target hard enough they may be diamondized).
Other
Standard Tactics: The Carbon Dog will shoot fire based attacks and bite, once it feels it’s about to be defeated it will let out rainbow colors and transforms into the diamond dog, where it will emit a glorious light and deal bashing attacks and a bite that may induce diamondization. It may also make a shield to reflect back attacks.
Weaknesses: PSI users need to concentrate in order to use their PSI[2].
Battle Records
None.
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References
- ↑ "PSI is a mysterious and useful power that can replenish your energy or even assist in your transportation needs. Using PSI will deplete your PP." MOTHER 3 Memo Description
- ↑ A miraculous stone that enables you to "concentrate" without using your own brain. This is accomplished just by your keeping this item. This is great because if you can't concentrate, you can't use PSI.