Carbon Dog

“	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

“	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

Occupation: None

Status: Alive (Ness does not kill his foes but rather turn the enemy tame)

Alignment: Lawful Evil (Sanctuary Guardians are characters corrupted by Giygas, protecting the sanctuary from Ness)

Codex Statistics

Key: Carbon Dog | Diamond Dog

Tier: 8-B | 8-B

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City Block level (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 who is comparable to or superior to Nuclear Reactor Robot, who can do small nuclear explosions with even the smallest real world nuclear weapons reaching up to 20 tons of TNT equivalent) | City Block level (More powerful than before)

Durability: City Block level | City Block level

Striking Strength: City Block Class | City Block Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Unknown | Unknown

Combat Speed: Faster Than Light (Can tag Ness who can dodge laser beams from robotic enemies) | Faster Than Light

Reaction Speed: Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, Higher with PSI

Intelligence: Genius (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)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Power Absorption (All “Your Sanctuary” bosses suck all of the energy out of each sanctuary spot), Fire Manipulation (Can spew out a flaming ball of fire and a spray of fire that’s equivalent to PSI Fire Omega), Light Manipulation & Transformation (Gives off rainbow colors that turns him into the Diamond Dog).

Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Mind Manipulation, and Sleep Manipulation (Has a 50% resistance to Freeze, Flash, & Brainshock. Has a high resistance to fire, paralysis, & hypnosis)

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), Forcefield Creation & Attack Reflection (With PSI Shield Beta, Diamond dog creates a shield that cuts damage in half and reflects attacks back at the user), Transmutation (Seemingly contact based as if the Diamond Dog bites the target hard enough they may be diamondized).
Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Mind Manipulation, and Sleep Manipulation (Updated resistances of a 50% resistance to fire, freeze, and brainshock, a high resistance to hypnosis, and an immunity to flash and paralysis)

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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: Nothing notable.

Battle Records

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