Scorpion enemy line

The King Scorpion is a boss found in the Yampi Desert in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Like the Storm Lizard and Tempest Lizard, you have to use your Psynergy in order to uncover this boss. The King Scorpion will be found at first burrowing under the sand, appearing as a shuffling lump of sand that makes a scuffling noise as it moves. It needs to be forced into a corner before it will attack. If you attempt to trap it underneath your feet by standing in its path, it won't take any notice and will continue to go around in the set pattern.

It requires the Pound Cube, found early on in the game to change the movement of the King Scorpion. When the Psynergy is applied to a wooden stake in the path of King Scorpion, the boss will change direction to avoid the disturbed sand (and the big stake embedded in its path) but will only do so if the stake has been pounded shortly before the boss comes to it. Otherwise, the player must retreat to the screen before it and come back in, resetting the puzzle.

This puzzle must be done over three screens, with timing becoming more important each time. In the final screen, if the puzzle has been done right, the scorpion will run into what turns out to be a trapfall, and a battle takes place underground.

In battle, King Scorpion is a large, pink-red scorpion, with white detail. It uses a fairly even mix of physical attacks, coupled with poison or paralysis status effects from the tail. If the party remembers to heal, it is a fairly easy boss.

After this boss is defeated, the party will find a Scoop Gem.