Roachester

Roachester
Japanese Name	ラウム Raumu

Location	Viper Manor
Type	None
Gender	Male
HP	Innate
1245	Blue
Attack	Magic Attack
66	20
Defense	Magic Defense
54	12
Drop (Common)	Drop (Rare)
Elbow Pad (100%)	n/a
Steal (Common)	Steal (Rare)
n/a	n/a
Absorbs	Immune
n/a	n/a
Gold
1076g

The Roachester is a boss fought in Chrono Cross. They are a large insect that inhabits the underground sewers of Viper Manor.

Battle and Strategy

They primarily use the Blue elemental BugKamikaze (single target) and JitterBug (multi-target) techs for large amounts of physical damage. The latter is particularly dangerous as it hits all party members. They mix this up with physical attacks where they either attack twice or thrice - the latter type can be quite powerful so watch your HP.

When the Roachester runs low on HP, it quits using its powerful Bug techs, so aggressively lower its HP using physical attacks the most potent elements (preferably Red) in your arsenel to defeat this foe.

Bugged(?) Tech

According to the Chrono Cross Ultimania guide, they use the Blue elemental tech ColdBreath on a single target, which does a modest amount of magic damage and inflicts Poison. It probably won't be necessary to worry about this tech as they almost never use it however - in fact, it might be bugged and not actually in the game.