They are bad at hunting in fact, they cannot really hunt at all, because they are close-range units. They can wield Axes or Swords and Shields. 'Yari' (槍) means 'spear' in Japanese.Īn excellent and well-defenced Patapon. There are also 2 other Yaripon classes, Piekron, and Wooyari. In Patapon 3, Yaripon is in the class of ' Yarida'. You might want to have some close combat units to protect your Yaripons. In the first and second Patapon games, the Yaripon unit is the first unit you meet (apart from Hatapon) and you will have three Yaripons to become your first army. They're pretty good for hunting because they don’t scare the animals away by getting too close. They have no shield and are bad at close combat, but are good for attacking medium ranged targets. However, once the last Shield Class unit is killed, Hatapon is very vulnerable, usually getting killed after the first few attacks land, or sometimes instantly.

Chin and a Taterazay-based Uberhero), he is invulnerable to any damage, and Hatapon can't be damaged by any means. In Patapon 3, when there is at least one Shield Class unit alive (i.e. Also, in the first 2 games, Hatapon is not affected by healing, so you could only heal him by collecting health potions during quests. However, having just 200 HP, coupled with the lack of a defense boost makes keeping him alive difficult in some occasions, like in early boss battles when the PonPata song is not available. Status Effects won't affect him in any way. The Chaka Chaka song doesn't give him a defense boost, so you must make him dodge with the Don Don song and Pon Pata song when necessary. His family was given the ability to lead the army. His death immediately results in a mission failure. He holds the Patapon banner with an owl on the top.

Hatapon is the most important Patapon that you encounter in all three games and functions to hold the army together and lead them however, he can't attack. Hatapon's description Main article: Hatapon

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