Marine Rumba

Marine Rumba
Japanese	マリンルンバ
Rōmaji	Marin Runba
Type	Emblem Heartless
Game	Kingdom Hearts III
Variations • Red Nocturne • Blue Rhapsody • Yellow Opera • Green Requiem • Black Ballade • Silver Rock • Emerald Blues • Crimson Jazz • Spring Metal • Scarlet Tango • Grey Caprice • Striped Aria • Sapphire Elegy • Pink Concerto • Turquoise March • Emerald Serenade • Violet Waltz • Wicked Watermelon • Large Watermelon • Huge Watermelon • Festive Fireworks • Large Fireworks • Huge Fireworks • Jack O' Lantern • Round Rice Cake • Large Rice Cake • Bitter Macaron • Mighty Macaron • Swaying Spook • Wandering Spook • Emerald Sonata • Amber Opera • Apricot Opera • Brilliant Opera • Vermilion Samba • Gold Beat • Malachite Bolero

Marine Rumba
Kingdom Hearts Union χ
KINGDOM HEARTS III (2019) Aquatic Heartless that slowly wade through the skies and unleash water attacks.
Kingdom Hearts III
These watery wizards swim through the air with the grace of the majestic trout. Before casting magic, they'll come to a stop and summon spheres of water, leaving themselves open to attack. Think fast if they do start conjuring, because the speed of their spells is no joke! Nothing dries them up faster than a zap of Thunder magic. If you've got the MP to spare, use it to give 'em a thousand-volt jolt!

Location			HP		Strength			Defense			EXP
Kingdom of Corona			49		29			14			25
Monstropolis			68 6		38			19			62 13
Monstropolis (6 worlds cleared)			76 7		42			21			82 17
Monstropolis (The Final World cleared)			91 9		50			25			131 27
Arendelle			72 7		40			20			71 15
Arendelle (6 worlds cleared)			80 8		44			22			93 19
Arendelle (The Final World cleared)			95 9		52			26			146 30
The Caribbean			87		48			24			118
The Caribbean (The Final World cleared)			99		54			27			161
The Caribbean (Battlegate 10)			137		73			37			353
Scala ad Caelum			118		63			32			247
Physical	Fire		Blizzard			Thunder				Water
×1.0	×0.7		×1.0			×1.5				×0
Aero		Dark		Neutral					Rapid-fire
×1.0		×1.0		×1.0					×1.0
Freeze		Electrify		Stun					Hunny
◯		◯		◯					◯
Reaction Endurance		Revenge Value		Attraction Magnification					Damage Limit
0		—		×1.1					—
Rewards
MP prize (5) ×1, Focus prize (3) ×3 Soothing Stone (12%), Soothing Gem (6%)
World(s)
Kingdom of Corona, Monstropolis, Arendelle, The Caribbean, Scala ad Caelum

The Marine Rumba is an Emblem Heartless that appears in Kingdom Hearts III.

Design

The Marine Rumba has a smooth, conical blue body, with lighter blue dots lining it, with the Heartless symbol on its chest. The top of its body flares outward and forms a "collar" of sorts, covering its pitch black head with its white and blue hat. Like many Heartless, it has glowing yellow eyes, and like many of its relatives, two seemingly useless feet with three thin toes.

Like other Heartless in its family, the Marine Rumba's name comes from a color-marine, a shade of blue- and a musical term-rumba, a term used to describe several types of music, but most commonly referring to Cuban or Cubanized types of dance in Latin America.

Strategy

Kingdom Hearts III

Marine Rumbas are easy to defeat. Their attacks take a long time to charge up, and they can be easily canceled if Sora attacks them before they fire their water shot. If Sora wishes to fight at a distance, Thunder magic is perfect as not only do they take extra damage from it, but Thunder attacks will also cause their water spheres to vanish. Their water spheres will also vanish if inflicted with the Freeze status effect, though Blizzard attacks deal no extra damage. Their Water Snipe attack will allow the usage of Risk Dodge if blocked.

Technique		Element	Status	Power	Block?	Repel LV
Water Vulcan (ウォーターバルカン, Wōtā Barukan)		Water	—	1.0 per hit	△	1
		Shoots its water spheres forward in three directions.
Water Snipe (ウォータースナイプ, Wōtā Sunaipu)		Water	—	1.5	△ (Risk Dodge)	3
		Merges its three water spheres and fires the resulting sphere forward.
Guard/Block: △ = Can be blocked; O = Can be blocked and interrupted (melee) or deflected back (projectile); X = Cannot be blocked.