Cymbal Monkey

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Cymbal Monkey
Japanese	シンバルモンキー
Rōmaji	Shinbaru Monkī
Type	Emblem Heartless
Game	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Variations • Tricky Monkey

Cymbal Monkey
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Raw noise is the chief weapon of these mid-sized Heartless which lurk in treasure chests. Be sure to block their sound bullets. TIP: Illusion-based attacks like these bullets can flip-foot you, which reverses the directional controls for basic movement.

Mission	HP				EXP		STR/DEF
	Story Mode		Mission Mode
23	147		442		1		23
25	152		—		1		24
29	157		—		1		26
40	171		514		2		30
44	200		—		2		39
48	205		614		2		41
49	205		—		2		41
80	334		—		6		81
Fire		Blizzard		Thunder			Aero
x1.80		x3.80		x0.72			x2.20
Ignite		Freeze		Jolt			Air-Toss
x1.00		x1.00		x1.00			x1.00
Defense Power Adjustment					Heart Points
• Full Body: 1.04					11
					Flinch?		Bloom-Out?
					△		◯
Rewards
Missions 15-35 Iron (20%) Missions 36-50 Range Tech (40%) Missions 73-93 Silver (35%)
Story Mode
Munny x25, HP prize (large) x1, HP prize (small) x2
Mission Mode
Munny x13, HP prize (large) x1, HP prize (small) x1
World(s)
Twilight Town, Beast's Castle, Olympus Coliseum, Agrabah

The Cymbal Monkey is an Emblem Heartless that is found in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. It likes to hide within false treasure chests, and pop out when they are opened.

Design

A Cymbal Monkey, true to its name, is a monkey-like creature with violet skin. It has small ears that are black on the inside, as well as two large, jagged horns on its head. Its face is pitch-black with glowing yellow eyes. It wears a high-collared, slightly tattered, black coat with white cuffs and thin, red lines decorating its collar. It holds two gold, diamond-shaped cymbals in its hands, and its Heartless emblem is printed on the front of its coat.

The Cymbal Monkey's name references cymbal monkey toys, which it resembles.

Strategy

Once it pops out of the chest, immediately block its sound projectiles. Doing so will reflect them back at it and should defeat them in one shot. Failure to do so may give Roxas a high chance of being inflicted with the flip-foot status effect. Other than that, this Heartless is not much of a challenge, so just attack it until it is eliminated.

The treasure chests that they hide in are the only treasure chests seen in Mission Mode, thus making them easy to avoid.

Technique		Element	Status	Power	Block?
Sound Bullet (音の弾, Oto no dan)		Illusion	Flip-foot (30%)	1.64	◯
		Launches a sound wave at the target.
Guard/Block: △ = Can be blocked; O = Can be blocked and interrupted (melee) or deflected back (projectile); X = Cannot be blocked.