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

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: Building 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 and who can fight and defeat the Kraken, who massively dwarfs an entire ship in size) | Building level (More powerful than before)

Durability: Building level | Building level

Striking Strength: Building Class | Building Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Unknown | Unknown

Combat 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 (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)

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), Limited Power Bestowal (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)

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).

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)

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)

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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: PSI users need to concentrate in order to use their PSI.

Battle Records

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