The Conehead Groom is one of the bosses in Castle Crashers, encountered at the end of Wedding Crash. Due to his quick and powerful attacks as well as his incredible movement speed, he is one of the most challenging bosses in the game, if not the most, as the Necromancer is mostly considered difficult because of the enemies before him.
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Visual Description[]
He takes the appearance of a larger-than-average Conehead in a white shirt, a black tailcoat, a red pocket square, and a red bowtie which is barely visible except when his head is raised. There is also a grey strip around his waist, resembling a cummerbund or a low-cut suit vest.
Castle Crashers[]
Wedding Crash[]
On the Wedding Crash level, he attempts to forcibly marry the Green Princess after kidnapping and taking her to his cathedral stronghold. After crashing his party, he will take his would-be bride to the altar, where the battle will start.
Parade — Cyclops' Fortress[]
Following his demise, he would have a funeral at the Cyclops' Fortress, which is also crashed by the player. The Cyclops is mourning the Conehead Groom in the coffin, and has a hole dug in the ground, leading to a lava pit. After noticing the player and being enraged, the Cyclops attacks the player, only to be defeated and fall into the lava pit, dying.
Wizard Castle Interior[]
He is later resurrected by the Necromancer, and seen again during the Undead Cyclops fight as the Undead Groom. When the Undead Cyclops is killed, the boss chest lands on him showing a ghost of the Groom and the Cyclops.
Final Battle[]
He makes one final appearance at the ending celebration, as a ghost playing a harp.
Battle Overview[]
The Conehead Groom attacks using his Light Saber, performing a number of melee moves. In addition to regular melee attacks, he has a twirling move and a ground slam attack, which are both blockable with a shield. He can also throw bombs. His movement speed increases as his health decreases. At below 40% health, he starts using dark magic like that of a Skeleton or Cult Minion.
During the fight, he will occasionally run up to the organ on the right side, temporarily becoming invincible as the organ shoots out bombs, which the player must avoid until he hops off the instrument. While playing the organ, the Groom is surrounded by red laser beams that electrocute the player on contact.
Like a regular heavyweight enemy, the Groom can be knocked down, stomped on, thrown, or juggled with a heavyweight juggle combo.
Strategy[]
Juggling[]
The Conehead Groom can be juggled with the heavyweight juggle combo 
. He can't escape this as it's an infinite juggle combo. With more than one player, it's also possible to twin juggle him with .
Arrows[]
One way to dispose of the Conehead Groom is by using the "What Organ?" technique. The basic idea is to have two or more max agility characters standing at both sides of him, the farther apart the better, as his bomb-throwing attacks can knock one of the players over or force them to dodge, when it could be avoided just by staying spread apart. Each character spams arrows, and the Conehead Groom will seldom touch the floor. The more players there are spamming arrows, the less probable it is he'll touch the floor. When he hops on the cannon organ and plays, he will be invincible. Instead, focus on avoiding the target markers on the ground. The easiest way to dodge the bombs is by using the levitation combos such as or 
.
On single player, the Conehead Groom will roughly take 250/267/308 arrows to kill with max Agility attributed, and with +4 Agility/+3 Agility/-3 Agility from full health on Insane Mode. By positioning the player character at the organ, the Conehead Groom will usually be immobilized by the player, and can only interrupt the arrow spam by running back to the organ.
Bombs[]
On Normal Mode, the Conehead Groom can be quickly killed with bombs. On Insane Mode, however, due to being affected by the "10x Rule", he has significantly more health, making this strategy less viable.
Sandwich[]
With the Sandwich, it is possible to kill the Conehead Groom quicker using this method on the PS3, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and PS4 versions of the game. By tapping and occasionally using , the Conehead Groom's health will be drained rather quickly.
Infinite Stun[]
Castle Crashers — Blue Knight Stunlock on Conehead Groom (Insane Mode)
It is possible to infinitely stun the Conehead Groom using the headbutt combo , purposely missing the first .[1] This method renders him unable to retaliate, and can be repeated until his health is fully depleted.
Alternatively, Blue Knight players can infinitely stunlock the Groom by repeating a pattern of Heavy Cycle () followed by a Magic Projectile. This method is demonstrated in the video in this section.
Flying Conehead Groom Glitch[]
The Flying Conehead Groom Glitch is a glitch caused when throwing the Conehead Groom while in Beefy form, which will cause the Groom to fly across the battle area in loops until he reaches an area above a bench, or until he is hit again. This glitch has no practical effect.
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Trivia[]
- When playing as the Conehead playable character, defeating the Conehead Groom or the Cyclops will unlock The Traitor achievement.
- The Conehead Groom's two eyes can be seen in the beginning of the level, Wedding Crash, as they pop out of his visor when he is startled by the player's appearance.
- The Groom can be seen in his "angel-risen" form twice, first inside Undead Cyclops' Room, after the boss chest crushes the duo, and again in the Barracks at the end of the game; in both appearances, he plays an angelic harp.
- While running to the organ, the Groom will block all incoming attacks with his shield.
- Conehead Groom and Necromancer are the only bosses that do the peace-sign pose when hit by Pink Knight's splash magic.
- When the Conehead Groom is one hit away from death, hitting him as soon as he starts running up to the organ will damage him, depleting his health, but he will continue running to the instrument and start playing it. He dies soon as he leaves the organ.
A picture of the Cyclops and the Conehead Groom seen in Cyclops' Fortress.
- Somewhere along the way in Cyclops' Fortress, a picture on the wall can be seen of the Cyclops and the Conehead Groom holding a shark, resembling a father and son moment.
- Dan Paladin has addressed the fan speculations of their relations in an interview: "So usually, when we make something, and we haven't shown you in the game anything about it, it's really up to you."[2]
- The music that plays during the Conehead Groom's boss fight is Till Death Do I Impart by MaestroRage.
- The name of this soundtrack is a reference to "Till Death Do Us Part", a phrase commonly uttered during weddings.
- This soundtrack is a corruption of Richard Wagner's Bridal Chorus, commonly known as "Here Comes the Bride".
- Prior to Till Death Do I Impart, the composer had written a different corruption of the same melody, titled Corrupted Matrimony.
Video Walkthrough[]
Note: Since he is part of the Wedding Crash stage, that level is included in this video. Skip to 10:25 for the fight against the Conehead Groom.
