Power hammer

Dragon Quest monster
Power hammer
	; Art by Akira Toriyama
Japanese	サンドシャーク
Romaji	Sando shyāku
First appearance	Dragon Quest IX

The Power hammer is a recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series. It is a desert-dwelling shark monster with a striped body and sickle-shaped arms.

Characteristics edit

Power hammers have the appearance of hammerhead sharks with sandy brown skin and front-facing eyes. They have bone-like limbs shaped like sharp sickles jutting out from their sides and countless legs underneath their bodies. The sharks are able to hover about in midair as though swimming through water. They also have white stripes like tigers all throughout their body. The power hammers have learned some defensive magic to help protect themselves and their allies. They can also kick up clouds of sand to blind their opponents, then move in and land a desperate attack.

Appearances edit

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies edit

Power hammer (サンドシャーク, Sando shyāku)
Defeated Monster List No. : #095

Image	Attributes
	Family	HP	MP	EXP	Gold	Attack	Defence	Agility
	Aquatic & Floating	110	7	450	168	85	105	100

Resistances
Fire	Ice	Wind	Blast	Earth	Dark	Light	Drain Magic	Whack	Dazzle	Fizzle
0%	-25%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	25%	25%	0%
Confusion	Paralysis	Sleep	Poison	Stun	Blunt	Deceleratle	Sap	Spooky Aura	Charm
50%	25%	50%	25%	25%	25%	25%	0%	25%	75%

Additional information
Spells	Skills	Locations	Dropped items
Kabuff	Desperate attack Sandstorm	Djust Desert Lonely Coast Ocean Grotto (Volcano, rank 2)	Glass frit¹⁄₃₂ Kitty litter¹⁄₆₄
Description		Not content just to be strong, they get tough with Kabuff, then try to get critical. Watch out for their Sandstorm strikes. Desert predators, they sit silently below the sands masking their scent, then pounce when prey approaches.

Power hammers are the objective of Quest #73: Whipping Boy's Wish. Defeating one will eventually drop the Hammerfang necessary for completing the quest.

Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca's Marvelous Mysterious Key edit

Power hammer makes its debut in the Monsters games as an E-rank monster of the Nature family. Its skillset is Assassin. They can be encountered in the Desert World during bad weather.

Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest 3: Daikaizoku to Shippodan edit

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In Other Languages edit

Language	Translation	Meaning
Español	Martillo potente	Spanish for "powerful hammer".
Français	Vilerequin tigre	French for "basking tiger shark".
Deutsch	Krafthammer	German for "power hammer".
Italiano	Martellissimus	From the Italian martello and the Latin suffix -issimus, which is added to an adjective noun to form its superlative grade.

Gallery edit

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