Scorch

Scorch (ダイナ Dyna) is a Mars Djinni found in and.

Scorch is the fourth Mars Djinni in the original, and can also be acquired in. Although it is not the party's fourth Mars Djinni in The Lost Age, Scorch is still ordered as the fourth Mars Djinni when equipped to characters. Because it is not available until after most other Mars Djinn can be found, however, the separate Djinn list viewable with the Select button from the status screen lists Scorch and all other Mars Djinn from Golden Sun after all of the Djinn introduced in The Lost Age. According to this order, Scorch is the fifteenth Mars Djinni in The Lost Age rather than the fourth, but this order has no influence elsewhere in the game.

Basic description

 * "Stun a foe with a blast attack."

When Set, Scorch increases its Adept's base HP by 8 and base Attack by 3.

When Scorch is unleashed in battle, the user deals a Mars-based attack equal in power to the user's normal physical attack with an additional 50 damage points added to the result. Then, there is a chance that the target will be inflicted with the Stun status condition, causing them to not be able to take actions for potentially a few turns.

In and, Scorch's unleash animation visually resembles a normal physical attack that generates a fiery explosion on impact.

Locations
Upon entering the tunnel through the cave entrance concealed by a statue at the upper right of the town area, you are immediately in Scorch's vicinity. Push the nearby statue all the way left so that it blocks the water flowing out of the wall, and simply climb to Scorch and collect it.



Analysis
General: The GBA games do not have any Mars Djinn that increase damage based on a multiplier, so Scorch is one of the only and "best" offensive Mars Djinn that the player has, having a relatively strong 50 set damage bonus and the chance to inflict the useful Stun status condition. In Dark Dawn, Chili and Pepper are also offensive Mars Djinn that can Stun, but Chili has a set damage bonus of 80 while Pepper has a damage multiplier of 1.5.

By game
(Torch, however, has a chance to ignore half of the enemy's defense rating, letting it deal sharply more damage to the target than Scorch on occasion.) Stun is always an excellent secondary effect, which most likely places it as better even than Torch for the purposes of winning battles. 50 additional points of damage is somewhat substantial for when Scorch can be first acquired in the middle of the game.

As before, Scorch and Char can be equally practical for the Stun chance backed up by satisfactory power ratings, though the Mars Djinni with the highest added damage rating is Fury with 70 points (though its secondary effect is Haunt, oft viewed to be far less beneficial).

Name Origin
To be scorched is to be burned by extreme heat. Heat is relevant in all Mars Djinn.

Dyna comes from dynamite, an explosive, or possibly from the Greek word dynamis, meaning power. A third origin could be the word dynamo, which relates the possible Japanese name origin for Ember, generator.