Knowing Your Heartless

Bio:
The Aerial Champ is an Emblem Heartless.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Radiant Garden (Hollow Bastion)

Appearance:
An Aerial Champ is a parrot-like creature with predominantly yellow plumage. Its round head, including its beak, is also yellow, though the tips of its tail feathers are orange and its neck and tail are white. Its eyes are large, black and yellow spirals on either side of its head. The Aerial Champ's wings are white and orange and sprout out of the top of its head rather than from its back or sides like real-world birds. Its legs are sky blue and it wears a large, blue boxing glove on each one. Its Heartless emblem is on its abdomen.

Bio:
The Aerial Knocker is an Emblem Heartless. Once the battle begins, there is no fleeing. It has three types of punches, so figure out which it will unleash and choose an appropriate strategy. Its tackling punch is powerful, so defeat it quickly with successive reaction commands!

Role:
Regular

Attacks:

• Quintuple Hook: Five successive hook punches
  
• Triple Jab: Three rapid jabs
  
• Charge Punch: Rushing straight punch with massive glove

Locations:
Pride Land

Appearance:
An Aerial Knocker is a parrot-like creature with predominantly violet plumage. Its round head, including its beak, is also violet, though the tips of its tail feathers and its neck are orange. Its eyes are large, black and yellow spirals on either side of its head. The Aerial Knocker's wings are yellow and orange and sprout out of the top of its head rather than from its back or sides like real-world birds. Its legs are black and it wears a large, red boxing glove on each one. Its Heartless emblem is on its abdomen.

Bio:
The Aerial Master is an Emblem Heartless. These mid-sized flying Heartless put the wind to expert use when attacking. They move swiftly, so wait for them to swoop low, then strike. Also, note that they are immune to Aero magic.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Agrabah

Appearance:
The Aerial Master is a vaguely humanoid Heartless with black skin and two large, black, curled wings. Its head is spherical with a jagged mouth, with glowing, yellow eyes, and it is mostly covered by a purple helmet. This helmet is adorned with two conical, white spikes on either side, two angular, yellow spirals on its front, and a curled, black antenna on its top. Most of its body is also covered by purple armor, with its Heartless emblem emblazoned on its abdomen. The Aerial Master’s legs end in small, white spikes and it holds golden "brass knuckles" lined with white spikes in each hand.

Bio:
The Aerial Master is an Emblem Heartless. These mid-sized flying Heartless put the wind to expert use when attacking. They move swiftly, so wait for them to swoop low, then strike. Also, note that they are immune to Aero magic.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Agrabah

Appearance:
The Aerial Master is a vaguely humanoid Heartless with black skin and two large, black, curled wings. Its head is spherical with a jagged mouth, with glowing, yellow eyes, and it is mostly covered by a purple helmet. This helmet is adorned with two conical, white spikes on either side, two angular, yellow spirals on its front, and a curled, black antenna on its top. Most of its body is also covered by purple armor, with its Heartless emblem emblazoned on its abdomen. The Aerial Master’s legs end in small, white spikes and it holds golden "brass knuckles" lined with white spikes in each hand.

Bio:
The Aeroplane is an Emblem Heartless. It shoots bullets from midair, but only in a forward direction. Its movement speed increases when retaliating, so defeat it while it's flying slowly.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:

• Machine Gun Strafe: Flies forward firing machine guns
  
• Raiding Charge: Triple spinning charge
  
• Turning Ram: Low-altitude ram

Locations:
Timeless River

Appearance:
An Aeroplane is comprised of a grey-skinned creature with a yellow scarf and a jagged mouth and the fighter plane it is piloting. Its legs are seen dangling through the bottom of the plane, showing that it wears brown shoes. The pilot is also wearing a blue hat with black aviator goggles. Its plane is sky blue with a turquoise propeller, a black nose with a few small, silver rivets on it, and conical, yellow guns on each wing. It has two Heartless emblems emblazoned on each side of the plane. Like all Heartless from the Timeless River, it is normally colored in monochrome, and is only seen in color when outside the world.

Bio:
The Air Battler is an Emblem Heartless. These mid-sized flying Heartless put the wind to expert use when attacking. They move swiftly, so wait for them to swoop low, then strike. Also, note that they are immune to Aero magic.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Neverland

Appearance:
An Air Battler is a vaguely humanoid Heartless with navy blue skin and two large, dark blue, curled wings. Its head is spherical with a jagged mouth and glowing yellow eyes, and it is mostly covered by a cyan helmet. This helmet is adorned with two conical, white spikes on either side, two angular, black spirals on its front, and a curled, dark blue antenna on its top. Most of its body is also covered by cyan armor, with its Heartless emblem emblazoned on its abdomen. The Air Battler’s legs end in small, white spikes and it holds a blue punching weapon lined by white spikes in each hand.

Bio:
The Air Soldier is an Emblem Heartless. Winged Heartless. They fly over their enemies and dive to strike them. Their high endurance and quickness make them tough to beat. The Air Soldier is swift, resilient, and not easy to ground.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Traverse Town, Agrabah, Monstro, Hollow Bastion (Radiant Gard), Wonderland, Twilight Town

Appearance:
A cousin of the Soldier, bearing the same shadowed face and jagged visage, the dark-skinned Air Soldier is kitted out for aerial battle in an modified aviator cap that covers the upper half of the face and boasts a pair of shiny-rimmed goggles; the propeller on the top of the cap presumably assists it in hovering in battle, though its bat-like wings seem to do most of the flying work. The Air Soldier also wears thick black pants with an inverted brown Heartless-symbol silhouette at the knees and bulky brown boots with blue and gold toes. It fights with black elbow-length gloves featuring metal bands at the top and sharp red claws that allow for painful attacks.

Bio:
The Air Viking is an Emblem Heartless.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Radiant Garden

Appearance:
An Air Viking is a humanoid Heartless with a tan body and large, orange and yellow wings on its back. It wears brown bracelets on each of its wrists, a skull on each of its shoulders, acting like a pauldron, navy blue pants with blue-white patches on the knees, and yellow and white striped boots. It also sports a gold choker and a black face with glowing yellow eyes partially obscured by a blue and white striped bandana. Its Heartless emblem is on its chest.

Bio:
The Antlion is an Emblem Heartless. This massive Heartless swims freely through the sand. Aim for its face when it breaks the surface. After sustaining damage, it will take to the sky, but its cyclone shield protects it from direct damage while airborne. Instead, hit the debris it throws back at it to create an opening and then strike.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Agrabah

Appearance:
The Antlion is a massive, seemingly mechanical Heartless with a round, egg-shaped body comprised of several rotating rings. Each of these rings are white with black and yellow highlights, and each is lined by multiple, rectangular pillars. Most of these pillars are steel blue, though two on the first ring are a patchwork coloration of gold and copper. The Antlion’s rear sports a grey turbine that it uses for locomotion. Its neck is black and gold, while its comparatively small head is roughly spherical and white. Its head sports glowing yellow eyes, a large, jagged mouth, and two short "horns". It also has two large, steel blue and gold mandibles on the sides of its head. Its Heartless emblem is between its eyes.

Bio:
The Arc Behemoth is an Emblem Heartless. A subspecies of Behemoth. Even if it does resemble a Behemoth, its abilities to fight are not as high as one. However, its ways of fighting and weak point are exactly like a Behemoth's.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
End of the World

Appearance:
The Arc Behemoth has a massive body, with a huge barrel-like chest that tapers into its back end. The Heartless Emblem is located on the underside of its chest. Its coloration is a dark grey-blue on the underside of its body, with a light blue on top in the design of flames. These flames extend to its shoulders of its large front legs, which are much larger than its back legs. A very light blue decorates its forearms, and the feet are black with more flames extending onto the forearms. Its four feet all have a circular pad on the bottom, with two inwardly facing claws on the front. Its back legs are shorter, but boast the same color pattern as the front legs, with the black of the feet extending all the way up to the knee. The Arc Behemoth’s mouth is jagged and extends outwards into two large inwardly curving tusks, which are colored black. The forehead is flat and the eyes sit facing forward, and glow yellow like the other Heartless. A conical, grey horn sits at the top of the head, facing forward at a slight angle.

Bio:
The Armored Knight is an Emblem Heartless. It charges its target in a group. Use the reaction command Rising Sun when it jumps into the sky, as it is about to unleash a tackling attack.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:

• Tripping Slash: Lunging sword attack
  
• Spin Rush: Horizontal spin attack
  
• Jump Rush: Jumping sword thrust

Locations:
Hollow Bastion (Radiant Garden), Beast's Castle, Port Royal, Halloween Town, Pride Land

Appearance:
An Armored Knight, true to its name, is a very thin, humanoid Heartless clad from head to toe in black, grey, and silver armor. Its spherical, pitch-black head and glowing, yellow eyes are visible in its helmet, and there are two red spirals decorating its visor. It also carries a sword with a gold guard and handle. Its Heartless emblem is on its abdomen.

Bio:
The Artful Flyer is an Emblem Heartless. These large flying Heartless put the wind to expert use when attacking. They move swiftly, but are vulnerable just after kicking, so be ready to mount a counteroffensive. They also retain their kind's immunity to Aero magic.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:

• The Artful Flyer dives at you.
  
• The Artful Flyer will try to smash you with its two arms together, in a "v".
  
• The Artful Flyer will release an attack similar to the Antlion's Whirlwind Shield. The duration is much shorter, though. You will be unable to hit it then.
  
• The Artful Flyer will spin in a yellow circle and dive at you.

Locations:
Neverland

Appearance:
An Artful Flyer is a vaguely humanoid Heartless with navy blue skin and two large, blue, curled wings. Its head is spherical with a jagged mouth and glowing yellow eyes, and it is mostly covered by a blue helmet. This helmet is adorned with two conical, white spikes on either side, two angular, yellow spirals on its front, and a curled, blue antenna on its top. Most of its body is also covered by light blue armor, with its Heartless emblem emblazoned on its abdomen. The Artful Flyer's legs end in small, white spikes and it holds a gold punching weapon lined by white spikes in each hand.

Bio:
The Assault Rider is an Emblem Heartless. Avoid getting hit with its spear by using the well-guarded Jump attack to defeat it. When HP gets low, its attacks begin to get bold. Use big attacks to defeat it before it uses its explosive attack.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:

• Slash Out: Rears up then swings weapon
  
• Thrust: Jabs weapon forward
  
• Assault: Rushing body blow
  
• Flourish: Windmill spin with weapon
  
• Explosion: Creates explosion in front

Locations:
The Land of Dragons

Appearance:
An Assault Rider is a centaur-like creature with a black, equine lower body with red hooves. Its upper body is muscular, vaguely humanoid, and has black skin. It wears grey Chinese armor over most of its body, as well as a small, conical, silver helmet with two curved, golden feathers and a red cape. Its pitch-black face is almost entirely obscured by its helmet, though its glowing, yellow eyes are visible. It carries a long guan dao with an angular, gold blade, a silver handle, and a red horsehair tassel at the base of the blade.

Bio:
The Avalanche is an Emblem Heartless. These large aerial Heartless use their potent ice breath to attack their prey. Strike their wings and tail to force them to land, then focus attacks on their head, which is weak against Fire.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Twilight Town, Neverland

Appearance:
An Avalanche is a large, draconian creature with predominantly white and light steel blue skin, save for its belly, which is pale green. Its body is rather thin, while its feet are quite large and somewhat resemble clogs with tips that curve upward. Its wings seem rather short and have a rough, jagged appearance. They also seem to be segmented, each segment alternating from white to steel blue. The Avalanche's tail is long, wide, flat and sports a few short spikes on its sides, as well as a dark grey, zig-zagging stripe near its tip. Its forehead sports a large horn that curves upward slightly. It has beady yellow eyes on either side of its head, and its Heartless emblem is on its chest.

Bio:
The Bandit is an Emblem Heartless. Heartless that mostly appear in Agrabah. They can travel under the sand. They attack deftly with a long sword. Attack them with caution.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Agrabah, Monstro

Appearance:
The Bandit's design seems to be derived from the image of the stereotypical "Arabian" thug seen in many media, including Disney's own Aladdin. The Bandit boasts a bright white turban and matching face mask, a purple vest trimmed in gold, purple pants with plum and silver trim that is held in place with a salmon-colored sash, blue curled-toe shoes, and a plum and silver choker, and set of armbands. They also wear lots of gold and silver rings and bracelets, perhaps showing off the spoils they have plundered. Their large gold-hilted swords resemble classic scimitars.

Bio:
The Barrier Master is an Emblem Heartless. These mid-sized Heartless are accomplished mages. While not aggressive, they grant allies an impenetrable barrier. Attack them until they get dizzy to make them drop their books, disabling any active barriers. The fallen books can then be knocked away. They have high defense, but are vulnerable to magic. Exploit that fact.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Agrabah, Twilight Town, Beast's Castle

Appearance:
A Barrier Master is a rather small Heartless that wears long robes that cover its feet. These robes are predominantly indigo and navy blue, with a light green collar and a number of white designs decorating them. It also wears a tall, cylindrical, indigo and white hat and what seem to be light green gloves. The only part of the Heartless not covered by clothing is its face, which is spherical, navy blue, and sports yellow, glowing eyes. All Barrier Masters hold a dark blue book that they use as a shield.

Bio:
The Behemoth is an Emblem Heartless. Immensely powerful Heartless. With their large frame, they trample enemies, and repel most attacks. Damaging their weak point makes them lose consciousness. Strike them with potent attacks while they are down.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Hollow Bastion (Radiant Garden)

Appearance:
A Behemoth is a massive, quadrupedal Heartless. Its body is predominantly lilac in color, but its back and all four of its legs are violet. Each of the Behemoth's legs have two toes with black claws. It has two large, curved tusks sprouting from its lower jaw that are white on their upper half and lilac on their lower half. The Behemoth's conical, black horn is on its forehead. Like most other Heartless, it has yellow eyes and a jagged maw. Its Heartless emblem is on its chest.

Bio:
The Black Ballade is an Emblem Heartless. Using the art of multiplying, this Heartless confuses its foes. If you attack any of the copies rather than the real one, it will get a chance to attack back and, eventually, will end up fleeing. But if you keep a good eye on the real one and attack it continuously...

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Deep Jungle

Appearance:
A Black Ballade, true to its name, has a smooth, conical, black body with a Heartless emblem emblazoned on its chest. The top of its body flares outward and forms a jagged "collar" below the Heartless’s spherical, pitch black head. It also wears a conical, dark red hat with a jagged brim, white stripes decorating it, a silver band around it, and a thin, curled tip. Like many Heartless, the Black Ballade has glowing yellow eyes. Its seemingly useless feet sport three small, thin toes.

Bio:
The Blitz Spear is an Emblem Heartless. This lightning knight Heartless's skillful defense makes it tough to finish off. Though its focused slash can be stopped with a block, blasting the knight with Aeroga while it is storing up energy will stagger it, opening it up to extra damage, especially from magic.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Beast's Castle

Appearance:
A Blitz Spear is a large, humanoid Heartless covered from head to toe in silver and grey armor. The armor on its legs sport white spikes and indigo highlights. Its helmet sports two short, white spikes and a long, twisted, black antenna. A small opening in the front just barely exposes the Blitz Spear's black face and glowing yellow eyes. Its most notable features are the blades in place of each of its hands. These blades each consist of a black rod with a yellow, pointed tip, surrounded by two zig-zagging, yellow and orange rings. It has two Heartless emblems, one on each of its shoulder pauldrons.

Bio:
The Blizzard Lord is an Emblem Heartless. It appears with Volcanic Lord. It is weak against fire, but it torments it's foes with its use of ice.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Agrabah

Appearance:
The Blizzard Lord seems to be an obese, humanoid Heartless, but its actual upper body is rather thin. Its real body is dark-colored and almost entirely enveloped in a translucent, blue, icy shell that makes it appear much heavier. Only the Heartless's face is left uncovered, exposing its spherical, pitch-black head and glowing, yellow eyes. The top of its head is decorated by several crystals made of ice. It wears a flowing, light blue cape that attaches to a thick, black and light blue-striped collar, secured by a red, circular gem. It also wears silver bracelets and a thick, gold necklace. Its lower body is covered by baggy, black pants with blue, zig-zagging patterns decorating the legs. Its feet are light blue and very small. The Blizzard Lord also wears a thick, silver belt decorated by four red gems and the Heartless symbol in its center. It carried a navy blue staff with ornate, light blue ice crystals decorating both ends.

Bio:
The Blizzard Plant is an Emblem Heartless. These large plant Heartless are rooted to the ground. They strike from afar with homing ice shots that ricochet off walls, but they can be returned with a block. At close range, they'll attempt a head-butt, after which they'll be wide open for a counter attack.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Wonderland

Appearance:
A Blizzard Plant is meant to resemble a large flower. Its base and stem are navy blue, and the base is surrounded by four white leaves. Its hexagonal face is dark blue with a pale green-yellow border. Its mouth is jagged and its eyes are glowing yellow. Its face is decorated by four white flower petals with blue-white edges. A yellow-green band separates the upper body from the lower body. The Heartless emblem is emblazoned on the lower half of its body.

Bio:
The Bolt Tower is an Emblem Heartless. It has very high defense, and can only take damage in the face. Attack the face! If caught by it's snag laser, use the reaction command Bolt Reversal continuously to escape. If successful, a big explosion will unleash damage upon nearby enemies.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:

• Head butt: Launches head at target
  
• Shockwave: Creates shockwave with round slam
  
• Catch Laser: Catches foe, deals 10 hits after 3 seconds
  
• Flash: Fires electric flash from antenna

Locations:
The Land of Dragons, Disney Castle, Pride Land

Appearance:
A Bolt Tower has a spherical black head with glowing yellow eyes. Its head is placed near the base of a tall, cylindrical structure that surrounds it. This apparatus is predominantly red with yellow and lavender patterns decorating its edges. Four large, conical, yellow spikes are set in its base, and three smaller, silver ones adorning its top. It also has a curled, brown antenna on its top, similar to the tip of the Yellow Opera's hat. Its Heartless emblem is on the front of the structure, above the Heartless's head.

Bio:
The Bouncywild is an Emblem Heartless. Heartless resembling a monkey. Unlike Powerwilds, they attack from long range with a sling shot. They scamper about during battle, making them difficult to hit.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Deep Jungle, Monstro

Appearance:
The monkey-like Bouncywild is also one of the rare enemies in the Kingdom Hearts series to boast a distinctly feminine form. They have soft brown fur, which they wear a darker brown shirt with jagged edges and the Heartless Emblem over. Bouncywilds also wear a gold choker and hoop earrings, a bright red bow on top of their head, and blue, yellow, and green bracelets and anklets. Their paws are a dark, velvety-brown, and they also have a tail almost as long as they are tall. In spite of their initially cute appearance, the Bouncywild is still a dangerous Heartless, as signified by its shadowed face, yellow eyes, and toothed edges where the face meets the fur.

Bio:
The Bubble Beat is an Emblem Heartless. These mid-sized Heartless cause the most trouble when they toot their horns to heal themselves and their cohorts. Block and you can deflect the homing water missiles they spew.

Role:
Regular

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Neverland

Appearance:
A Bubble Beat's body is round, blue-grey, and limbless, with the Heartless emblem adorning its chest. Its neck is black and its head sports two glowing, yellow eyes. It also has two short, blue-white horns on either side of its head, and a black and cyan pattern decorating its head that resembles headphones. A large, twisted, blue-grey horn sprouts out of the back of its head. Its most prominent feature is the large, cyan trumpet in the center of its face.

Bio:
The Bully Dog is an Emblem Heartless. Larger and faster than the Bad Dog, but these canine Heartless bark just the same. Physical attacks won't knock them off balance. Exploit their weakness to magic instead.

Role:
Boss

Attacks:
N/A

Locations:
Beast's Castle

Appearance:
A Bully Dog resembles a large, purple dog with a massive head and an equally massive, toothed maw. Its ears are long, stand on end, and curl at the tips. It has a crooked, purple tail and four short legs with no discernible digits on its paws. Its long, pink tongue is often seen hanging out of its mouth. The Bully Dog's large, yellow eyes each sport a black spiral pattern. It also wears a large, yellow collar with several conical, silver spikes on it, though, because of the Heartless's size, it is worn around its waist instead of its neck. Its legs, the tip of its tail, and the tips of its ears are all orange. Its Heartless emblem is on its rear.