Draft:Shiren 3 Wii:Catfish

The Catfish (Japanese: 大ナマズ) is the fourth boss fight in the game. Catfish is the third of the four guardians of Hourai Mountain. He appears to be of a more honorable mindset, stating directly that he will reward the orb to Template:Shiren3 and Template:Shiren3 if he is defeated and that he believes you have no soul if you have to stoop to trickery. Catfish also subtlety suggests that he did not see eye to eye with Template:Shiren3 when he mentions tricks are for the birds. He apparently has an old wound from some time ago that he blames for his eventual defeat. Upon which, Template:Shiren3 shows up to personally kill Catfish off, telling him that he is a failure of a guardian.

Strategy

Catfish doesn't really have a strong gimmick unlike the first two guardians where you were encouraged to use melee and ranged tactics respectively. He did say he rather fight fair and square after all. You can utilize your throwing items when catfish is at a distance and hope he wastes turns approaching you, or you can get up in his face and attack him to death without issue. Once he is close, just move in both characters next to each other to have them dispatch catfish in no time. In his repertoire, Catfish can cause an earthquake that does room wide damage to your whole party. He can also spray water at your characters in a straight line for a single target ranged attack, and his regular melee attacks are fin slap and whisker whip, which essentially do the same thing. As per usual for this game, you can tackle the boss by keeping a lot of healing items on hand like Template:Shiren3 and Template:Shiren3 and any of the Template:Shiren3 that restore health, using them when you need to. A decent Template:Shiren3 will minimize catfish's threat as he lacks any special tricks outside of direct damage. If you pay attention to the stats graph, you will notice that he is barely more powerful than Eagle was, and like with all bosses, his Template:Shiren3 resists all negative effects of Template:Shiren3 and herbs and the like.

Icon	Boss		Template:Shiren3	HP	AP	DP	Speed	Exp
	English	Japanese
File:Shiren 3 - Catfish Icon.png	Catfish	大ナマズ	Boss	250	23	11	1	0

Gallery

• Shiren 3 - Catfish Icon.png

  Icon

• Shiren 3 - Catfish and Tengu.png

  Catfish & Tengu

• Shiren 3 - Meeting Catfish.png

  Meeting Catfish

• Shiren 3 - Catfish attacking.png

  Catfish attacking

References

Data via Akurasu.net, used with permission.

Echeclus11's GameFAQ's FAQ (copied with permission.)