Crystal Golem

Crystal Golems
Element:	Earth
Species:	Trogs
Role:	Enemies
World:	*Drill-X's Big Rig Autogyro Adventure Bringing Order to Kaos!
Attacks:	*Crystal shield Slam
Appears in:	*Skylanders: Giants Skylanders: Swap Force (3DS Version)

“Crystals are his weakness.”

– Game descriptions

Crystal Golems are large, ogre-like enemies embedded with purple crystals. They arm themselves with a ring of purple diamonds, shielding themselves from almost all damage; these shielding crystals must be destroyed in order to effectively defeat them. Crystal Golems attack by smashing the ground with both fists, dealing heavy damage and causing a line of crystals to erupt in the direction they're facing.

In the 3DS version of Skylanders: Swap Force, Crystal Golems are much more easier to deal with, as they are smaller and lack protective crystals.

Gallery

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  Original Crystal Golem design spotted in the game's alpha stage

Trivia

• If a Crystal Golem's shielding crystals are destroyed, the golem's ground-slam no longer creates burrowing crystals.
• Crystal Golems bear a slight resemblance to Prism Break.
• In the alpha version of Giants, Crystal Golems reuse the model of Stone Golem from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. Their bodies are shrouded in an ethereal blue tint, and they possess a shield of three green crystals which render them immune to all incoming damage. Like their finalized counterpart, their ground slam creates a burrowing line of large purple gems. When their shield is destroyed, these alpha golems momentarily collapse and afterwards adopt a new visual appearance.
• The Crystal Golem is the only alpha Giants enemy with a placeholder model to have its own intro cutscene. Not only was this cutscene updated in almost every subsequent build of the game, but it also created the cracks in the ground that formed a Giants' leaping point in Drill-X's Big Rig.
• The Crystal Golems' early description was "Don't run, just hide."