Roc enemy line


 * Also see Mountain Roc, a boss in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.

The Roc (ロックちょう, Chief Roc) and Raptor are enemies that are randomly battled in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. These monsters, resembling large winged birds standing on the ground, are palette swaps of each other that have differing levels of power and defense and are fought in different locations in the game.

Roc
A Roc is a level 24 variant with an orange head and crest and a purple beak. Rocs are fought throughout both the exterior and interior portions of Aqua Rock.

While the Roc only has moderate agility among the monsters it is fought alongside, in the exterior portion of Aqua Rock it has the best offenses and durability by quite fair margins. It has rather good EXP and coin rewards as well. Inside Aqua Rock, however, it is outperformed in these areas by the Sea Dragon.

A Roc's statistics are as follows:

A Roc uses these battle commands:

Raptor
A Raptor is a level 35 variant with a violet head and crest and a green beak. They are battled throughout Mars Lighthouse as one of the "final" random monsters of the mandatory game.

Among the other monsters fought throughout Mars Lighthouse, the Roc is only moderately high in every statistic, and it is sharply outperformed in all statistics by the Aka Manah.

A Raptor's statistics are as follows:

A Raptor uses these battle commands:

Fell Raptor
Like with all other enemy lines introduced in The Lost Age that have apparently only two variants, a third palette swap variant to this line exists in the code of the game cart and was even given its own name, but has none of its stats and abilities coded beyond weak placeholder abilities. Had it been used it would have appeared as a variant with a turquoise head and crest and an orange beak named Fell Raptor.

Cultural References
A Roc is a legendary "Bird of Prey" reputed to have been able to carry and eat elephants. A "Raptor" is another Bird of Prey.