Guardian Digger

Sanctuary Guardian

Background

The Guardian Digger (あなのぬし, Hole Master) is a mini-boss in MOTHER 2 (localized as EarthBound). There are five of them that appear in the Dusty Dunes Mine, each of which claiming to be the third strongest master of the hole.

General Information

Name: Guardian Digger

Origin: MOTHER 2

Sex: Unknown

Age: Unknown

Classification: Mole

Codex Statistics

Grade: B

Tier: Low 8-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Small Buiding level (Potency) (Able to damage Ness, Paula, and Jeff)

Durability: Small Buiding level (Able to take hits from Ness, Paula, and Jeff)

Striking Strength: Small Building Class (Potency) (Able to damage Ness, Paula, and Jeff with physical attacks)

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Able to tag the party on the overworld)

Attack Speed: Superhuman (Can keep up with and hit Ness, Paula, and Jeff)

Reaction Speed: Superhuman (Can dodge attacks from Ness, Paula, and Jeff)

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee

Intelligence: Unknown

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Powers and Techniques

Innate AbilitiesWith PSI

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Superhuman Speed, Damage Boost and Forcefield Negation (Can occasionally land critical hits that deal much more damage than standard physical attacks. Critical hits instantly destroy a target's physical shield), Forcefield Creation, Natural Weaponry (Able to claw with its sharp nails as an attack), Non-Standard Interaction (Metaphysical Interaction; All enemies in Mother 2 should be able to kill ghosts, given that enemies inflicted with strangeness are able to attack each other).

Resistance to Fire Manipulation (Only takes 75% damage from fire-based attacks), Heat Manipulation (Only takes 75% damage from freeze based attacks), Mind Manipulation (Brainshock is only 50% effective against it), Paralysis Inducement (Paralysis is only 10% effective against it), Sleep Manipulation (Hypnosis is only 10% effective against it)

Innate PSI AbilitiesUnique PSI Abilities

Psionics & Energy Manipulation (PSI is the manipulation of psionic energy, being described as a mysterious and useful power), Telekinesis (PSI Users such as Ninten can use their psi to telekinetically unbend a spoon, along with Ness as an infant being able to telekinetically move his baby bottle), Telepathy (PSI users all naturally share PSI Telepathy, Ninten uses this to be able to read minds and speak to animals, Paula uses it to telepathically call to Ness in her dreams, along with telepathically speak to other members of the Chosen Four from across towns or even continents. The ability seems to be universal to all PSI users as their consciousness no matter their age is fully aware and can speak with people), Power Bestowal (Limited; PSI users can give PSI abilities to other PSI users, such as when an infant used their mind to give Ninten PSI Teleport, or when the Chosen Four taught a monkey how to use PSI Teleport).

Resistance to Mind Manipulation (The natural PSI users consciousness is already matured and able to defend against other mental attacks)

Damage Reduction, and Attack Reflection (Can use Shield β to put up a shield that halves damage and reflects half of all damaged recieved back at the attacker), Healing (Able to use Lifeup α to restore its own Hp),

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Notable Techniques

• Base: A standard melee attack that does damage.

• Claw: The Guardian Digger claws with its sharp nails, dealing high amounts of damage.

• Tear: The Guardian Digger tears into the target, dealing high amounts of damage.

• Shield β: Creates a three layered shield that halves the damage of all physical attacks. Each layer is depleted by a single hit, and the entire shield is destroyed by a critical hit. Using this while a shield is already active will add three more layers onto it.

• Lifeup α: Restores 75 to 125 Hp to itself.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Guardian Digger attacks by bashing or using its claws, and it will use PSI to fortify itself with shields and heal itself. It begins battles with a power shield active.

Weaknesses: Has barely any resistance to PK Flash. Unable to defend itself if it is inflicted with Paralysis.

Battle Records

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

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