Wind Crystal

Wind Crystal
Species	Crystal
First appearance	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996)
Latest appearance	Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) (2023)

Mario, Toadstool, and Geno battling the Wind Crystal as well as the other crystals and Culex

The Wind Crystal is an enemy encountered in battle alongside the optional boss Culex in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Like Culex and the other crystals, it is from the dimension of Vanda and met in a portal leading to that world found in Monstro Town.

The Wind Crystal is the weakest of all the crystals, but has massive physical defense, making it take far longer to defeat than the others.

The Wind Crystal has mainly electrical-based attacks, such as Bolt, Electroshock, Lightning Orb and Static Electricity. It also has two attacks that may inflict status effects on Mario and his party. Petal Blast causes the entire party to transform into mushrooms, which prevents any party member from attacking or using an item, but heals a small amount of HP each turn.

The Wind Crystal is also armed with the Light Bubble attack, which leaves the party under the sleep status. Once defeated, the Wind Crystal will disappear like the other three crystals until the battle ends.

It is weak against Jumping attacks, making it the only crystal susceptible to physical rather than special attacks.

In the Nintendo Switch remake, the Wind Crystal initially returns in the Culex boss fight where it retains its two-dimensional 16-bit appearance, offering a stark contrast to the game's revamped and updated 3D graphics. However, a post-game rematch gives it a full model, called Wind Crystal 3D, as well as the other crystals and its master. In this form, defeating it causes it to use Nimble Force before shattering, giving all its allies a speed boost.

Profiles and statistics

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Wind Crystal
	HP	800	FP	250	Speed	30
	Location(s)	Monstro Town	Attack	0	Magic attack	60
	Role	Support	Defense	200	Magic defense	88
	Bonus Flower	Attack Up! (0%)	Yoshi Cookie	None	Morph rate	0%
	Evade	30%	Magic evade	0%	Spells	Lightning Orb, Bolt, Electroshock, Static E!, Light Beam, Petal Blast
	Weak	Jump	Strong	Thunder, Fear, Poison, Sleep, Mute, Critical	Sp. attacks	None
	Coins	0	Exp. points	0	Items	None
Psychopath	"Whhhhhooooo..."

Japanese Thought Peek quote

• ひゅ～るり～ひゅ～らら～～。 (Hyururi~hyurara~.)

Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)

Super Mario RPG enemy
Wind Crystal
	HP	800	Weak Elements		Drops	N/A
	Exp.	0	Weak Statuses	N/A	Rare Drops	N/A
	Found in	Monstro Town
	Monster List profile	A crystal with mastery over wind. The howls of wind crossing the world and whipping up the atmosphere echo thunderously from it.
	Thought Peek	"Whooooosh..."
	Animations

Super Mario RPG enemy
Wind Crystal 3D
	HP	1800	Weak Elements		Drops	N/A
	Exp.	0	Weak Statuses	N/A	Rare Drops	N/A
	Found in	Monstro Town
	Monster List profile	A crystal with the power of wind. The sound of wind slicing through the air can be heard all over the world.
	Thought Peek	"Whooooosh... Swooooosh..."
	Animations

• Thought Peek quote in other languages (Wind Crystal 3D):
  • Japanese:
    ひゅ〜るり〜ひゅ〜らら〜〜 ひゅるららら〜〜〜〜〜。

Names in other languages

Wind Crystal

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	かぜのクリスタル[?] Template:Nowrap	Wind Crystal
Chinese	風之水晶[?] Fēng Zhī Shuǐjīng	Wind crystal
German	Windkristall[?]	Wind crystal
Italian	Cristallo vento[?]	Wind crystal
Korean	윈드크리스털[?] Windeu Keuliseuteol	Wind Crystal
Spanish	Cristal viento[?]	Wind crystal

Wind Crystal 3D

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	かぜのクリスタル (立体)[?] Kaze no Kurisutaru (Rittai)	Wind Crystal (three-dimensional)

Trivia

• All four of the Crystals originally appeared in Final Fantasy and featured prominently in Final Fantasy IV, from which Culex's theme music comes.
• Paper Mario, which was conceived as a sequel, has the Crystal Bits serving much the same purpose and appearance alongside the Crystal King.

External links

• Wind Crystal on the Final Fantasy Wiki