Corn Boss
The Corn Boss is a boss in Castle Crashers.
Strategy[]
It's best to bring a few healing potions to this battle as it's sometime hard to avoid being hit. As his health decreases, he'll become faster. He does drop a kernel of popcorn every time he takes damage, but each kernel only heals 1 HP, making them somewhat aesthetic.
If the character has been trained appropriately in the ways of Magic and/or Agility, this fight can be somewhat easy, although still lengthy due to his high amount of HP and the little windows of opportunity to harm him by the end of the battle. Just stand out of the reach of his whiplash-like leaf attacks and let go off a barrage of arrows at him. The player can also shoot their magic projectiles, or take the risk of being hit and rapidly shoot a barrage of splash attacks for massive damage.
Towards the end of the battle, he'll become extremely fast, to the point that he'll stay burrowed underground most of the time, and jump out only to burrow himself again in less than a second. At this moment, it is recommended to try to follow his rhythm, and just concentrate in avoiding his burrowing attack by moving left or right, and try to score a ranged attack.
One attack to watch out for is his spinning attack, which he will be using more frequently as the fight progresses. This attack is telegraphed by him popping out of the ground in the middle part of the rightmost side of the battlefield. He'll start spinning the leaves of his husk, and travel through the field in a wave-like pattern, covering a large area and damaging anyone who stands in his way. However, once the player has learned to identify this attack, it's easy to avoid: Just stand on the lower part of the rightmost side of the battlefield, or the upper part of the leftmost side to avoid damage.
When defeated, they player will be rewarded with the horn. The horn has the ability to open the entrance and grants access to the Flooded Temple. It can also unlock the animal orbs BiPolar Bear and Hawkster when blown in the correct areas.
Alternatively, for a cheaper and easier method to slay the Corn Boss, the dive attack is the quickest way to kill him.
Attacks[]
- Arm Whip: It will whip you with a leaf if you get too close.
- Burrowing: It can go underground and jump out below you, knocking you over.
- Spin Attack: It can do a spinning attack where it spins and goes across the screen knocking you over.
- Corn Shield: It also has a defense mechanism when he closes his husk, and you take damage if you hit him, or he hits you putting it up.
Appearance[]
The Corn Boss resembles a giant cob of corn with red eyes and a piece of grain poking out of its mouth, which gives him somewhat of a hillbilly or "tough guy" appearance.
Xbox 360 Glitch[]
In the Xbox 360 version, players may choose to use tons of arrows combined with a high Agility level, because if they keep shooting the Corn Boss with arrows as fast as possible, he will stay in his husk and won't be able to move or attack. This still does full damage while the boss is in his husk, and it's possible to keep him there even after he is defeated.
Tips[]
- The Corn Boss will dive down into the ground, then jump up and try to topple the player. This can be prevented by looking for dust on the ground. Running around the stage when he dives down will often prevent him from landing a hit.
- If playing with an arrow raining character, try aiming Arrow Volley at the dust indicating where he will pop up. Due to Arrow Volley's delay, it is possible to hit him with all of the arrows when he rises. This works best early in the fight, when he's slow.
- His spin attack can be avoided with Magic Jumps.
- Most of his attacks can be blocked with a shield.
- If the peasants at the side are attacked, they will join the fight to assist the player.
- Attacking causes the boss to drop popcorn after every hit, which heal 1 HP.
- High Agility or Magic is very useful for defeating him.
- If the player character has full Magic, the Corn Boss can be defeated in a minute using only splash attacks.
- The Red Knight and Fencer/Industrialist are useful here, as they can tear down the Corn Boss's health with their splash attack. In this case, it will also release an "eruption" of popcorn.
- The magic bomb is effective against him because of his high damage.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- As he takes damage during the battle, you can start to see his underwear; he appears to be wearing his leaves like pants.
- The Corn Boss is one of the two most disliked bosses in the game by fans, mainly because it can be hard to hit him due to his attacks being annoying to dodge, and how he can easily block player attacks.
- Even with Piggy, the popcorn dropped by the Corn Boss still only heals one health.
- The Corn Boss is one of the three bosses to have levels named after them.
- The music played while fighting the Corn Boss is called Child of the Corn (reference to the film and book of the same name). This is also played while fighting Catfish.
- He is one of only two exceptions to the x10 rule, since he has 4100 HP in Normal Mode, but 20500 HP in Insane Mode.
- If the player pauses the game as the Corn Boss roars and wakes up starting the boss fight, the soundtrack: Factory, also known as the Barbarian Boss & Pipistrello's theme can be heard playing.