Cockatrice



Cockatrice is a very powerful monster for its area, having barely 60 below Solvaring's HP, and nearly double the stats. It uses Rock Shower and Avalanche. Rock Shower is used when it's about mid range, which isn't possible to dodge. When it's closeby, it will use Avalanche, which deals immense damage unless you can move out of its way. It is possible to dodge the blows, with some RNG and good timing with your Control Stick.



In the remake, Cockatrice focuses on Wind moves and is significantly stronger. Your magic is also massively buffed as well, but it still deals immense damage. If you have a high enough defense, Wind Cutter Lv 3 will deal a bare minimum of 8, while Wind Bomb will always deal a huge amount of damage, and it can possibly hit you twice if you're on the right side of it. The latter attack can be dodged if you get out of the way fast enough, but it's not too likely.

Enemy Formations
Cockatrice x 1

Cockatrice x 2

Trivia

 * Cocktrice is byte value E in the coding.
 * It can only show up with another copy of itself. This is not possible in the Gameboy game, however. It shares this distinction with Hell Hound, Ghosthound, Apophis, Hot Lips, Pale Rider(Nintendo 64 only), Flamed Mane, Mimic, and Big Mouth(Nintendo 64 only).
 * The remake massively changes its abilities, though they both have an attack that hits a rather huge area on the screen(Avalanche and Wind Bomb). In addition, Rock Shower nor Wind Cutter Lv 3 can be dodged.
 * It also changes from Earth to Fire. Coincidentally, Wind Cutter Lv 3 is quite effective against it in both games.
 * Despite this change, it never actually uses a single Fire attack.
 * It shares animations and a similar model with Wyvern and Red Wyvern.
 * Cockatrice are known for turning monsters to stone. It just has Rock-based attacks in the NIntendo 64 version instead. The spells that can do something similar, Restriction Lv 1 and Restriction Lv 2, are not used by it in either version. Ironic too, as they are Wind spells.
 * It is based upon a dragon-like rooster, much like the usual depiction.
 * This makes the similarity to Wyvern and Red Wyvern more logical.
 * Other depictions have them smaller than normal, the size of a regular rooster.
 * Sometimes they use a more chicken-like design instead.
 * The first half of Cockatrice's name references Cock(a name for a Rooster). It is also a type of Basilisk.
 * Cockatrice is the transformation of Kobold in the puzzle game. In addition, it also has a similar design to Scare Crow, including using its wings more like a weapon than for flight.
 * Scare Crow is the only other bird-based monster in the series.