Crystals

Mario, Toadstool, and Geno battling the four Crystals as well as Culex.

The Crystals are four enemies encountered in battle alongside the optional boss Culex in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Individually named after their elemental nature, they include the Fire Crystal, Water Crystal, Wind Crystal, and Earth Crystal. Like Culex, they are from the dimension of Vanda and met in a portal leading to that world found in Monstro Town.

Each of the crystals has a different choice of attacks and range of stats, as well as a theme in attacks used. These differences all lead to varying levels of difficulty in battling each, as well as different appropriate battling-strategies.

Crystals

Earth Crystal

The Earth Crystal has the highest amount of HP out of all of the four crystals, but balances out with a dismal defense of 70.

Despite being the crystal of earth, it only has two earth-based attacks, Boulder and Sandstorm. It also wields Storm and Water Blast. It finishes up with the move Blast.

It is weak against Thunder-based attacks.

Fire Crystal

True to its name, the Fire Crystal uses largely fire-based attacks, including Corona, Flame, and Flame Wall. It rounds these attacks out with the moves Drain and Mega Drain.

It is weak against Ice-based attacks. It has greater Magic Defense than the next-in-line Water Crystal. Combined with its exceptional Magic Attack, it can be considered an even more difficult opponent than even the Earth Crystal.

Water Crystal

The Water Crystal is the second weakest crystal. While wielding decent Defense, its Magic Attack and Magic Defense are still lower than that of the Fire Crystal.

It uses mostly ice-based moves, namely Ice Rock, Blizzard, Crystal and Solidify, as well as the non-elemental Diamond Saw.

Its only weakness is Fire-based attacks.

Wind Crystal

The Wind Crystal is the weakest of all the crystals, but has massive physical defense, making it take far longer to defeat than the others.

The Wind Crystal has mainly electrical-based attacks, such as Bolt, Electroshock, Lightning Orb and Static E!. It also has two attacks that may inflict status effects on Mario and his party. Petal Blast causes the entire party to transform into mushrooms, which prevents any party member from attacking or using an item, but heals a small amount of HP each turn.

The Wind Crystal is also armed with the Light Beam attack, which leaves the party under the sleep status. Once defeated, the Wind Crystal will disappear like the other three crystals until the battle ends.

It is weak against Jumping attacks, making it the only crystal susceptible to physical rather than special attacks.

Profiles and statistics

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Earth Crystal
	HP	3200	FP	250	Speed	1
	Location(s)	Monstro Town	Attack	0	Magic attack	80
	Role	Support	Defense	70	Magic defense	33
	Bonus Flower	Attack Up! (0%)	Yoshi Cookie	None	Morph rate	0%
	Evade	5%	Magic evade	0%	Spells	Blast, Storm, Sand Storm, Water Blast, Boulder
	Weak	Thunder	Strong	Jump, Fear, Poison, Sleep, Mute, Critical	Sp. attacks	None
	Coins	0	Exp. points	50	Items	None
Psychopath	"I hate being awakened!"

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Fire Crystal
	HP	2500	FP	250	Speed	10
	Location(s)	Monstro Town	Attack	0	Magic attack	130
	Role	Support	Defense	100	Magic defense	60
	Bonus Flower	Attack Up! (0%)	Yoshi Cookie	None	Morph rate	0%
	Evade	10%	Magic evade	0%	Spells	Drain, Flame, Mega Drain, Flame Wall, Corona
	Weak	Ice	Strong	Fire, Fear, Poison, Sleep, Mute, Critical	Sp. attacks	None
	Coins	0	Exp. points	40	Items	None
Psychopath	"I gotta vacuum tonight!"

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Water Crystal
	HP	1800	FP	250	Speed	12
	Location(s)	Monstro Town	Attack	0	Magic attack	120
	Role	Support	Defense	130	Magic defense	50
	Bonus Flower	Attack Up! (0%)	Yoshi Cookie	None	Morph rate	0%
	Evade	20%	Magic evade	0%	Spells	Crystal, Diamond Saw, Ice Rock, Blizzard, Solidify
	Weak	Fire	Strong	Ice, Fear, Poison, Sleep, Mute, Critical	Sp. attacks	None
	Coins	0	Exp. points	30	Items	None
Psychopath	"Get me back underground!"

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Wind Crystal
	HP	800	FP	250	Speed	30
	Location(s)	Monstro Town	Attack	0	Magic attack	60
	Role	Support	Defense	200	Magic defense	88
	Bonus Flower	Attack Up! (0%)	Yoshi Cookie	None	Morph rate	0%
	Evade	30%	Magic evade	0%	Spells	Lightning Orb, Bolt, Electroshock, Static E!, Light Beam, Petal Blast
	Weak	Jump	Strong	Thunder, Fear, Poison, Sleep, Mute, Critical	Sp. attacks	None
	Coins	0	Exp. points	0	Items	None
Psychopath	"Whhhhhooooo..."

Names in other languages

Earth Crystal	Water Crystal
Language Name Meaning Notes Japanese つちのクリスタル[?] Template:Nowrap Earth Crystal	Language Name Meaning Notes Japanese みずのクリスタル[?] Template:Nowrap Water Crystal
Fire Crystal	Wind Crystal
Language Name Meaning Notes Japanese ひのクリスタル[?] Template:Nowrap Fire Crystal	Language Name Meaning Notes Japanese かぜのクリスタル[?] Template:Nowrap Wind Crystal

Trivia

• All four of the Crystals originally appeared in Final Fantasy and featured prominently in Final Fantasy IV, from which Culex's theme music comes.
• Paper Mario, which was conceived as a sequel, has the Crystal Bits serving much the same purpose and appearance alongside the Crystal King.