Minecraft Dungeons:Giant Royal Guard

The giant royal guard is a large illager and boss mob that appears as a boss on the Squid Coast in Minecraft Dungeons Arcade. It is a large, enhanced variant of the royal guard.

Appearance
The giant royal guard is a large royal guard that has been enhanced by the Arch-Illager using the Orb of Dominance. Unlike the normal royal guard, it only spawns with a mace and no shield. Upon being enlarged, its yellow accents and gem on its armor turn purple, as well as having menacing purple eyes, and having crackling purple sparks around its body.

Spawning

 * (Arcade)

Behavior
The giant royal guard is a tough boss with strong attacks and defense, with its only disadvantage being very sluggish when approaching the hero and having a brief weakness point where it stops moving for a bit. It has three known behaviors:

It will smash the ground with its Mace when the hero is near it which can damage nearby mobs and deal heavy damage.
 * Giant Mace Smash

It will spin its Mace around dealing damage to any heroes and knocking them back.
 * Giant Mace Spin

It will lunge forward to the hero, which deals heavy damage when in its vicinity.
 * Giant Lunge

Giant Royal Guard (mob)
A giant royal guard (mob) is a non-boss variant of the giant royal guard that appears as a hostile mob atop the Obsidian Pinnacle.

Appearance
The giant royal guard is a large royal guard that has been enhanced by the Arch-Illager using the Orb of Dominance. Like the normal giant royal guard, it spawns with a mace and no shield. Unlike the boss, though, it attains yellow accents rather than purple. Like it’s boss variant, however, they have purple electricity crackling all throughout its body.

Spawning

 * (Arcade)

Behavior
Like its boss variant, the giant royal guard possesses strong attacks and defense, with its only disadvantage being very sluggish when approaching the hero and having a brief weakness point where it stops moving for a bit. It also has three known attacks:


 * Mace Smash

It will smash the ground with its Mace when the hero is near it which can damage nearby mobs and deal heavy damage.


 * Spin Attack

It will spin its Mace around dealing damage to any heroes and knocking them back.


 * Forward Lunge

It will lunge forward to the hero, which deals heavy damage when in its vicinity.

Trivia

 * The giant royal guard, alongside the obsidian monstrosity and the giant cave spider are the only bosses exclusive to Arcade.
 * When defeated, the giant royal guard doesn't convert back into its pre-enhanced form.
 * The giant royal guard uses low-pitched pillager sounds and vindicator novelty sounds when attacking.