Greater Dog

Greater Dog is a guard dog and a miniboss encountered in Snowdin Forest. It can be later found as an NPC in Grillby's when the protagonist spares it in battle. It is a member of the Royal Guard.

Greater Dog
Origin
Origin	Undertale
Creator	Toby Fox
First Appearance	Undertale
Characteristics
Species	Monster
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Dogs
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Good
Archetype	Protector, Guardian
Occupation	Sentry
Time Period	201X
Language	English, Monster
Combat Style	Magical Combat
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Underground
Enemies	Humans (Formerly in True Pacifist Route)

Appearance

General Description: Greater Dog's fur is wholly white. It wears mantle-gray armor adorned at the wrists with apparently functional dog faces, similar to the spear weapon it holds during battle. Greater Dog itself only fills the smallest neck portion and the tail area of the armor while controlling the rest of the suit through unknown means. When it jumps out of the suit, its "hands" seem to withdraw into the armor and do not reappear when it hops back in backwards.

Items: A spear weapon adorned with dog faces, matching the design on its armor.

Personality

• Affectionate and Attention-Seeking: Greater Dog is incredibly affectionate and constantly seeks attention. Dogamy warns the protagonist of facing the full brunt of Greater Dog's playful attitude if they are not careful of where they sit down in Grillby's bar.

General Information

Name: Greater Dog

Origin: Undertale

First Appearance: Undertale

Company: N/A

Creator: Toby Fox

Actor: N/A

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: He/Him

Handedness: Left-Handed (Wields the spear with their left hand)

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: 201X

Timeline: Undertale & Deltarune Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Snowdin (Underground)

Story Role: Enemies

Legacy: Country-wide Legacy (Royal Guards are well known protectors of the Underground)

Influence: Event Influence

Language: English & Monster

Ethnicity: Dogs

Religion: N/A

Classification: Royal Guards

Species: Monsters

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Monster Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Sentry

Combat Style: Magical Combat

Affiliations: Underground

Enemies: Humans (Formerly in True Pacifist Route)

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive in True Pacifist Route and some Neutral Routes, Deceased in some Neutral Routes and Genocide Route (Is killed by The Human in some of the neutral routes and the genocide route)

Alignment: Neutral Good (A member of the sentries, who tries to capture humans to save monsterkind)

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Fixed Potential
• Level of Potential: Fixed
• Description: Shows no notable potential statements or feats.
• Limitations: Nothing notable.

Archetype: Protector/Guardian

Codex Statistics

Grade: B

Tier: Likely 9-B, Higher with Magic

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency: Likely Wall level (Potency) (As a member of the Royal Guard under Undyne's training he should be relative to her, where Undyne can suplex a huge boulder just because she can), Higher with Magic (Monsters enact in SOUL battles against humans due to humans in their physical forms being far stronger than monsters). Can ignore conventional durability with attacks to the SOUL (As they are attacking the SOUL; which is the very culmination of one's being)

Durability: Likely Wall level, Lower if not wanting to FIGHT or cruel intentions (Monsters weaken when they don't want to fight and one with more killing intent and crueller intentions will inflict more damage on them)

Striking Strength: Likely Wall Class

Lifting Strength: Likely Superhuman Class

Travel Speed: Athletic Human Speed (As a member of the Royal Guard under Undyne's training he should be comparable to her)

Attack Speed: Transonic (Can keep up with The Human, who can maneuver and dodge around the Greater Dog's barks, a sound based attack)

Reaction Speed: Transonic

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with spear, Higher with sound manipulation

Intelligence: Below Average Intelligence (Greater Dog is mentioned as dumb by Doggo)

Knowledge: Journeyman level+ (Greater Dog is part of the royal guard meaning he should be much more skilled at fighting than regular civilians)

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Powers and Techniques

General Monster AbilitiesUnique Abilities

• Irregular Physiology (Monsters physiologies show they are mostly made of magic, noting that humans have a "physical form", along with having their SOUL directly attuned to their body)
• Magic (All monsters are made of magic and can use and express themselves through magic)
  • Curtain Fire (Monsters can use their magic to make bullet-pattern cards. Monsters are able to develop a large sum of magical attacks to overwhelm the opponent)
  • Creation (Monsters can make weapons, clothes and even food from magic)
  • Personal Domain & Battlefield Removal (When one encounters a monster they get into a fight, a FIGHT is an encounter in a monster's personal domain allowing them to fight humans, this has various rules such as turn-based combat)
• Limited Spatial Manipulation
  • 3-D: Monsters can at times influence the battle box)
  • Transmutation & Healing (Monsters can turn their attacks into healing projectiles)
• Absorption (Monsters and humans can absorb the SOUL as long as the person isn’t the same species as them)
• Non-Standard Interaction
  • Metaphysical Interaction: All monster attacks in Undertale are to the SOUL.

• Resistance to
  • Soul Manipulation (All monsters bodies are attuned to their SOUL thus they are effectively taking hits to their SOUL whenever attacked)

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Weapon Mastery
  • Spear Mastery: Skilled spear user, and uses it in the battle box.
    • Penetration Damage
• Skilled in Hand to Hand Combat (As a member of the Royal Guard under Undyne's training, Greater Dog should be trained in hand to hand combat)
• Conditional Attacks (The Greater Dog uses blue attacks, where blue attacks only inflict harm if one moves)
• Sound Manipulation (Can attack with barks).

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Colds (Greater Dog lives in Snowdin)

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Equipment

His Spear

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Other

Standard Tactics: Greater will bring an enemy into its personal domain and attack while barking and using a spear.

Weaknesses

• Monster Weaknesses: All monsters are weak to an attack with killing intent behind it and if a monster doesn't want to fight, they are weakened greatly.
• Unique Weaknesses: Great Dog mostly wants to play and can be easily pacified by playing with them.

Explanations

Monster Check Stats

Monster's check stats are quite dubious for a couple of reasons:

• Monsters like Glyde give off the implication that monsters are the ones listing their statistics.
• Mad Dummy has a defense stat listed of -40 but notes because they're a ghost physical attacks will fail. One could say the -40 comes from the fact that the dummy's body is that weak, however, the regular Dummy's check stats just has their DEF as 0, there's really no reason why the Mad Dummy should have far lower DEF stats especially during a pacifist route.
• Characters like Napstablook have a defense stat listed but you actually aren't lowering his HP he was just lowering it for you to be nice.
• Toriel's stats are listed at 80 ATK and 80 DEF, the same as Asgore's stats. Yet in one of the endings Unydne with her strength as stated by Sans literally threw Toriel out of the castle. Despite Undyne's stats being 7 ATK and 0 DEF. This would also imply characters like Papyrus are stronger then her as he has an 8 ATK and 2 DEF, and while she does admit Papyrus is pretty tough, it's never really implied to be that Papyrus is stronger then Undyne. Royal Guard members are also shown to have higher stats then her through this logic.
• Undyne the Undying has stats of 99 ATK and 99 DEF yet due to Mettaton's Invulnerable Body, they have a defense stat of 999.

On top of these, genocide route has the check stats differ too with confusing changes, while the human's killing intent is a reason behind this, some characters have their defense stats raise such as Papyrus'. There's also inconsistencies even in these routes, for example The Human at a level 3 killing intent one-shots Toriel yet The Human at level 13 can still only chip damage Asgore.

It should also be noted, the argument that Toriel sent Asgore flying with her fire, has an issue it was an off guard hit which it has been shown off-guard/betrayal kills can one-shot monsters as they lowered their guard.

Magic vs. Physicality

Monsters are mostly made of magic while human beings are mostly made of water making humans with their physical forms far stronger then them. However humans have lost the ability to use magic by proxy.

Monsters bodies being made of magic has their body physically attuned to their SOUL. Due to this, monsters that don't want to fight have their defenses weaken and one with more killing intent and crueller intentions will inflict more damage on them. This is due to a monsters SOUL being made of love, hope, and compassion.

Monsters bodies being made of magic also makes it where they do not possess enough physical matter to take concentrations of determination.

In the Undertale 10th Anniversary Livestream Gerson reveals that humanity once had magic too but creating the barrier that separated humans and monsters caused them to use up all their magic.

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