From StrategyWiki, the video game walkthrough and strategy guide wiki
< Secret of Mana
Revision as of 02:05, 31 March 2008 by Xenol (talk | contribs) (Boss page (needs completion!))
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

This is a list of bosses in chronological order. Strategies are included as well.

Mantis Ant

SOM Mantis Ant.png
  • HP: 150
  • MP: 10
  • EXP: 30
  • GP: 0
  • Type: Insect
  • Element: Gnome (Lv. 0)
  • Skills: Acid Breath
  • Location: Potos Village
  • Weapon Orb: Sword


Strategy
One of the first things to know is that the boy cannot die. If he does, he'll be revived by another character that you might have met in the inn. So with that in mind, don't use any rare candies. If you spent the time leveling up, you should have at least the sword skill at level 1. Use that against Mantis Ant.

Aside from the Ant's swinging, it can also use Acid Breath for minor damage and can throw a wave that knocks the Boy out.

Tropicallo

SOM Tropicallo.png
  • HP: 300
  • MP: 0
  • EXP: 200
  • GP: 130
  • Type: Plant
  • Element: Dryad
  • Skills: None
  • Location: Dwarf's Village
  • Weapon Orb: Spear


Strategy
Tropicallo's pattern is to dig underground and pop up at a random place. Unfortunately the Boy is blocked direct access to Tropicallo thanks to stalactites. Using the spear may give you more range, but the sword can hit as well. Tropicallo's attacks are only tossing out pumpkin bombs that you can avoid by moving around. Its cohort Brambler is more of a nuisance than anything else.

Remember to heal if your HP drops below 25.

Brambler

SOM Brambler.png
  • HP: 78
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 2
  • GP: 24
  • Type: Plant
  • Element: Dryad
  • Skills: None
  • Location: Dwarf's Village
  • Weapon Orb: None


Strategy
Brambler comes with Tropicallo, and its only purpose is to annoy. You can defeat it, but it'll revive a short while later.

Spiky Tiger

SOM Spiky Tiger.png
  • HP: 530
  • MP: 21
  • EXP: 210
  • GP: 288
  • Type: Animal
  • Element: Salamando (Lv. 2)
  • Skills: Fire Breath
  • Location: Elinee's Castle
  • Weapon Orb: Boomerang


Strategy
This is possibly one of the hardest bosses when you encounter it. Most of Spiky's attacks cause unconsciousness. When its up on the platforms, it will cast the spell Fire Bouquet and Fire Breath. Fire Breath causes Engulfing, which is like poisoning, only the affect character cannot act.

A good set up is to set the computer controlled characters to AWAY/ATTACK on the action grid, and set them to the highest level on their weapon skill. Make sure to keep the Boomerang or Bow free, as you can switch weapons to attack Spiky with either a close quarter weapon or a long range one. As long as you continue to attack Spiky, it won't get a lot of attacks in, as they hurt your characters. Heal anyone who drops below 40HP.

Tonpole

SOM Tonpole.png
  • HP: 600
  • MP: 0
  • EXP: 50
  • GP: 0
  • Type: Lizard
  • Element: Undine
  • Skills: None
  • Location: Water Palace Cave
  • Weapon Orb: None


Strategy
Tonpole fights much like a basic enemy. It'll hop around and then hurt anyone who gets in its way. Just keep attacking it until it transforms into Biting Lizard.

Biting Lizard

SOM Biting Lizard.png
  • HP: 770
  • MP: 6
  • EXP: 210
  • GP: 348
  • Type: Lizard
  • Element: Undine (Lv. 3)
  • Skills: None
  • Location: Water Palace Cave
  • Weapon Orb: Glove


Strategy
Biting Lizard's main, and only, attack is to eat people. This is unavoidable and does quite a bit of damage. It also can cast Cure Water, which it will after most of its HP is gone, to which it'll keep doing it. So in reality, Biting Lizard has somewhere around 1500 HP. The key to this battle is to be persistent.

Fire Gigas

SOM Fire Gigas.png
  • HP: 750
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 326
  • GP: 435
  • Type: Spirit
  • Element: Salamando (Lv. 4)
  • Skills: Fire Breath
  • Location: Earth Palace
  • Weapon Orb: Axe


Strategy
Fire Gigas has a tendency to attack non-stop upon a character, which is bad. Lava Wave and Exploder at its level will do at least 50 HP of damage. Also at times, it will split into fire orbs and is invulnerable until it reforms. The best way to defeat the Gigas is to chain cast with the Sprite with Freeze. If you chain cast until all of the Sprite's MP is gone, it should do enough to kill it.

Wall Face

  • HP: 900
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 580
  • GP: 720
  • Type: Demon
  • Element: Shade(Lv. 3)
  • Skills:
  • Location: Pandora Ruins
  • Weapon Orb: Bow


Strategy
Wall Face will use Freeze and Revivifier as its main spells. It tends to use Freeze on the one who does the most damage. It'll also revive any eye that's dead. Attacking the main eye is rather pointless, as its hard to hit and has a high amount of defense. One of the best ways to defeat it is to use Earth Slide. Just don't use HP absorb, as the reverse happens.

Chamber's Eye (left)

  • HP: 300
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 0
  • GP: 0
  • Type: Demon
  • Element: Shade
  • Skills: Flash Beam, Leaden Glare
  • Location: Pandora Ruins
  • Weapon Orb: None


Strategy
An aid to Wall Face, you can kill it but Wall Face will revive it. Its beams will either hurt or petrify.

Chamber's Eye (right)

  • HP: 300
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 0
  • GP: 0
  • Type: Demon
  • Element: Shade
  • Skills: None
  • Location: Pandora Ruins
  • Weapon Orb: None


Strategy
An aid to Wall Face, you can kill it but Wall Face will revive it. It'll use HP absorb.

Kilroy

  • HP: 960
  • MP: 10
  • EXP: 686
  • GP: 650
  • Type: Machine
  • Element: Luna (Lv. 1)
  • Skills:
  • Location: Gang's Hideout, Dwarf Village
  • Weapon Orb: Javelin


Strategy
This boss focuses more on physical attacks. Its hammer can cause Moogle, a temporary effect but that character can only move around. The main problem with this boss is that it has high defense to both physical and magical attacks. If you plan on magic, use Earth Slide and bring at least two Faerie Walnuts. Otherwise use your best weapons. When Kilroy's HP reaches about half, it'll drop its legs for wheeled movement.

Jabberwocky

  • HP: 900
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: ~1000
  • GP: ~1000
  • Type: Dragon
  • Element: Undine (Lv. 4)
  • Skills: Poison Gas
  • Location: Water Palace
  • Weapon Orb: Bow


Strategy
Despite there being two heads you have to fight, you fight Jabberwocky as one boss. It casts Acid Rain and Poison Gas, but the latter cannot affect your characters if they're wearing the Cobra Bracelet. You again have a choice of using weapons or spells to attack it, as they both equally take the same amount of damage.

Spring Beak

  • HP: 720
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 1090
  • GP: 864
  • Type: Bird
  • Element: Sylphid (Lv. 3)
  • Skills:
  • Location: Sprite Village
  • Weapon Orb: Boomerang


Strategy
All Spring Beak does is jump around, though it will occasionally cast Air Slash. A few Earth Slides will take care of it.

Great Viper

  • HP: 1330
  • MP: 8
  • EXP: 1410
  • GP: 1056
  • Type: Reptile
  • Element: Gnome
  • Skills:
  • Location: Matango Caves
  • Weapon Orb: Sword


Strategy
The Great Viper is a very fast boss. Not only that, there's a possibility of being miniaturized with each hit it does, and it can swallow small characters. Use Air Slash or Thunderbolt to do a lot of damage to it. Trying to attack it with weapons will be frustrating.


Mech Rider

  • HP: 980
  • MP: 18
  • EXP: 1595
  • GP: 1055
  • Type: Machine
  • Element: None (Lv. 3)
  • Skills:
  • Location: Kakara Desert
  • Weapon Orb: Whip


Strategy
You'll fight Mech Rider in a rather large area. He'll be on the left or right side of the screen. When he wants to move, he'll move horizontally across, which also doubles as his main attack. When he's on either side, he'll either shoot missiles or cast Speed Up.

Start with draining out his HP by using Air Blast or Thunderbolt, then switch to weapons as he'll have a low enough HP that he won't survive a few hits.


Boreal Face

  • HP: 1100
  • MP: 12
  • EXP: 2245
  • GP: 1040
  • Type: Plant
  • Element: Dryad (Lv. 4)
  • Skills: None
  • Location: Ice Country
  • Weapon Orb: Bow


Strategy
The first thing you'll notice is that Boreal Face is very much like Tropicallo. It attacks very much the same way, only touching its shell can hurt, and it uses Burst, which hurts a lot. At this point however, using spells against this boss is useless. Even if you had a full number of Faerie Walnuts, you cannot hurt more than about half of its HP before running dry. The best way to defeat it is to use fully charged weapons, hopefully one of them at level 3. But don't hit Boreal at its sides, it typically misses. Boreal Face also comes with the same Brambler as Tropicallo.


Tonpole and Biting Lizard (3x)

  • HP: 600/700
  • MP: 0/6
  • EXP: 50/210
  • GP: 0/348
  • Type: Lizard
  • Element: Undine
  • Skills:
  • Location: Ice Palace
  • Weapon Orb: None


Strategy
This battle is really more or less a distraction. Tonpoles can't hurt you, and getting eaten by the Biting Lizards only hurt them.

Ice Gigas

  • HP: 1140
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 3045
  • GP: 1200
  • Type: Spirit
  • Element: Undine(Lv. 6)
  • Skills: Freeze Breath
  • Location: Ice Palace
  • Weapon Orb:


Strategy
Fortunately, this is the weakest of the Gigases. The most it can do is around 70HP. The first thing it does is cast Ice Saber, which makes it harder for your characters to hit it, but this can be dispelled by swapping weapons. The easiest way to defeat it is to cast Exploder and Blaze Wall or Fire Bouquet.

Minotaur

  • HP: 1200
  • MP: 99
  • EXP: 3348
  • GP: 1440
  • Type: Animal
  • Element: Gnome
  • Skills:
  • Location: Fire Palace
  • Weapon Orb: Javelin


Strategy

'

  • HP:
  • MP:
  • EXP:
  • GP:
  • Type:
  • Element:
  • Skills:
  • Location:
  • Weapon Orb:


Strategy