Wind Crystal
The Wind Crystal is an enemy encountered in battle alongside the optional boss Culex in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Like Culex and the other crystals, it is from the dimension of Vanda and met in a portal leading to that world found in Monstro Town.
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 Electricity. 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.
In the Nintendo Switch remake Super Mario RPG, the Wind Crystal initially returns in the Culex boss fight where it retains its two-dimensional 16-bit appearance, offering a stark contrast to the game's revamped and updated 3D graphics. However, a post-game rematch gives it a full model, called Wind Crystal 3D, as well as the other crystals and its master.
Profiles and statistics
| Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind Crystal | |||||||||
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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..." | ||||||||
Japanese Thought Peek quote
- ひゅ～るり～ひゅ～らら～～。[1] (Hyururi~hyurara~.)
Names in other languages
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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.
