Plague Rat of Doom

“	The Plague Rat of Doom uses SMASH attacks frequently. Keep yourself healed up and in the fight. Use your top Fire and Flash PSI powers.	„
	~ Plague Rat of Doom’s EarthBound Player's Guide description

Background

Plague Rat of Doom is the fifth Sanctuary Boss in MOTHER (localized as EarthBound and guards the fifth Your Sanctuary location in the game, Magnet Hill. Like other rat enemies in EarthBound, the Plague Rat of Doom's guts stat is maxed out at 250, making it extremely likely to land critical hits. Once it has been defeated, Ness and his friends may record the melody of Magnet Hill on the Sound Stone.

General Information

Name: Plague Rat of Doom

Origin: MOTHER 2

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Boss

Species: Rat

State of Being: Regular

Occupation: Sanctuary Guardian

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

Tier: 8-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level (Absorbed all the energy from a sanctuary location which is a powerful spot that allows the user to perform “wondrous feats” according to Frank, can fight Ness, who can fight and defeat the Kraken, who massively dwarfs an entire ship in size)

Durability: Building level

Striking Strength: Building Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Unknown

Combat Speed: At least Transonic (Can tag Ness)

Reaction Speed: At least Transonic

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, possibly Higher with PSI

Intelligence: Unknown (Has drained energy from the Your Sanctuary location but has no PSI)

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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), Poison Manipulation (Can bite with his poisonous fangs, dealing poison damage).

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

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Other

Standard Tactics: Will scatter spores and disrupt one’s concentration while bashing them and using PSI to heal itself.

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

Battle Records

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