The Skelterwild is a Dream Eater that appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.

Design

The Skelterwild is a skeletal beast made from pieces of the Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus armatus, and Ankylosaurus magniventris. The Tyrannosaurus bones form the base of the creature, while the Stegosaurus's plates form ridges along its head, neck, tail, and shoulders, and the Ankylosaurus's club is used as the tail. The Dream Eater sigil is emblazoned on its head.

The Dream Eater's name refers to the 1968 Steppenwolf hit rock song, "Born to Be Wild", combined with American rock band "Bon Jovi" in Japanese, and the song "Helter Skelter" by the The Beatles in English.

Spirit

The majority of the Spirit Skelterwild's body, such as the vertebrae, wishbone, skull, and metatarsals, is mostly cyan, while lime-green appears on the mandible and ribs. Connecting the skull to the mandible is a thick lime-green ring with a small yellow spike on both sides. The top of its head has blue punk-rock "hair" with pink tips. Just above the Spirit Dream Eater sigil is an orange "mohawk". The head itself is capable of detaching from the rest of the body.

Beneath the wishbone are two mantis-like pincers in place of hands, shifting between hot pink, cyan, navy blue, purple, and orange for the main "claws". The legs, which have a large ring located on the femur. The femur also follows a similar color pattern, ending with navy blue phalanges sporting two orange toe claws, the larger of the two pointing outwards, with the smaller one pointing inward. Each side of the back bears four sets of stegosaurus plates of varying shades of green, two on the scapula, and three on the ilium. Three smaller orange plates can be located between the legs. On the end of the tail is a navy blue ankylosaurus club with five large green spikes scattered throughout.

Nightmare

The Nightmare Skelterwild's body, such as the vertebrae, wishbone, skull, and metatarsals, is mostly grey, while dark red appears on the mandible and ribs. Connecting the skull to the mandible is a thick red ring with a small purple spike on both sides. The top of its head has orange punk-rock "hair" with purple tips. Just above the Nightmare Dream Eater sigil is a purple "mohawk". The head itself is capable of detaching from the rest of the body.

Beneath the wishbone are two mantis-like pincers in place of hands, shifting between purple, orange, green, grey, and purple for the main "claws". The legs, which have a large ring located on the femur. The femur also follows a similar color pattern, ending with orange and green phalanges sporting two purple toe claws, the larger of the two pointing outwards, with the smaller one pointing inward. Each side of the back bears four sets of stegosaurus plates fading from green to blue, two on the scapula, and three on the ilium. Three smaller purple plates can be located between the legs. On the end of the tail is an orange ankylosaurus club with five large red spikes scattered throughout.

Strategy

Spirit

The Spirit Skelterwild is the only way of obtaining EXP Walker, and one of the few Dream Eaters which can cast Auto-Life, allowing the protagonist to play more recklessly and get revived upon defeat. Auto-Life lasts for at least 30 seconds.

Nightmare

The Nightmare Skelterwild attacks in a similar way to Tyranto Rex, and can use Sonic Roar to stun its enemies, which needs to be avoided. Its main weakness is against Fire-based attacks.

However, when it separates its head from its body, it is where it is the most dangerous: while the Ice Breath from its head allows it to freeze its opponents, its body can tackle its opponents and knock them away, and does it repeatedly. When knocked away, Sora or Riku need to use Payback Raid or Payback Blast as soon as possible, before they get hit again by this Dream Eater or others, and consequently exit their knockback state. Sora's Payback Raid might be the most efficient as it can knock it away twice or more, but Riku's Payback Blast knocks it away once and may expose him to another charge from the dream eater. Additionally, its head can be impervious to Zero Graviza, which, when used, can expose the protagonist to the Ice Breath's freeze status.

Abilities

Ability Link

Skelterwild's Prize List
Ars Arcanum	Limit Storm
Deep Freeze	Ice Barrage
HP Boost	HP Boost
HP Boost	Blizzard Boost
Blizzard Boost	Blizzard Boost
Defense Boost	Defense Boost
Defense Boost	Poison Block
Reload Boost	EXP Walker

Skelterwild's Ability Link
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
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Location			Type		Name		Requirement
A-5			Secret		Secret: Green[n 1]		10 LP
A-6			Quota		Checkpoint[n 2]		Link x3
A-7			Attack Command		Ars Arcanum[n 2]		400 LP
B-3			Stat Ability		Defense Boost		100 LP
B-4			Secret		Secret: Green		10 LP
B-5			Stat Ability		Defense Boost[n 1]		200 LP
B-6			Quota		Checkpoint[n 1]		Level 30
B-7			Magic Command		Ice Barrage[n 1]		300 LP
C-2			Attack Command		Limit Storm		10 LP
C-3			Stat Ability		Blizzard Boost		30 LP
C-4			Stat Ability		HP Boost[n 3]		100 LP
C-5			Stat Ability		Blizzard Boost[n 3]		100 LP
C-6			Stat Ability		Defense Boost[n 4]		300 LP
D-2			Quota		Checkpoint		Link x5
D-3			Stat Ability		Blizzard Boost		50 LP
D-6			Stat Ability		HP Boost[n 4]		50 LP
E-2			Support Ability		EXP Walker		400 LP
E-3			Stat Ability		HP Boost		30 LP
E-4			Stat Ability		Poison Block		30 LP
E-5			Stat Ability		Reload Boost		150 LP
E-6			Magic Command		Deep Freeze		400 LP

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Becomes available after unlocking Secret: Green at B-4.
2. ^ ^{a b} Becomes available after unlocking Secret: Green at A-5.
3. ^ ^{a b} Becomes available when in Savage disposition.
4. ^ ^{a b} Becomes available when in Fiend disposition.

Attacks

Name	Element	Level	Disposition
			Ba	Bu	S	F
Dino Bite	Physical	1	✔	✔	✔
Dino Tail	Physical	1		✔	✔
Dino Tap	Physical	1	✔		✔
Ice Breath	Blizzard	1	✔	✔		✔
Ice Spear	Blizzard	1		✔		✔
Falling Spear	Blizzard	1	✔			✔
Sonic Roar	Physical	1	✔		✔
Duo Combo	Physical Blizzard	1	✔		✔	✔
Deep Freeze	Blizzard	26	✔
Zero Gravity	Neutral	1				✔
Zero Gravira		13
Zero Graviga		25
Blackout	Neutral	10			✔
Poison	Neutral	9				✔
Auto-Life	—	36			✔	✔

Name	Element	Level	Disposition
			Ba	Bu	S	F
Dino Bite	Physical	1	25%	20%	30%	15%
Dino Tail	Physical	1		20%	20%
Dino Tap	Physical	1	20%		20%
Ice Breath	Blizzard	1	25%	25%		20%
Ice Spear	Blizzard	1		20%	15%	20%
Falling Spear	Blizzard	1	10%	10%		15%
Sonic Roar	Physical	1	5%	5%	15%	10%
Deep Freeze	Blizzard	26	15%
Zero Gravity	Neutral	1				10%
Zero Gravira		13
Zero Graviga		25
Poison	Neutral	9				10%
Ice Zone	Blizzard	1	Evolved Command

Recipe

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Riku can obtain the Skelterwild Recipe from a chest at the Verge of Chaos. The Skelterwild can be created through three different recipes.

Skelterwild
Rank		Ingredients	Wild Fantasy x2 Noble Fantasy x2
Success	20%
Chance	Fishboné
Rank		Ingredients	Wild Fantasy x2 Brilliant Fantasy x1
Rank		Ingredients	Prickly Fantasy x3 Wild Fantasy x4
Success	40%
Chance	Tyranto Rex

Gallery

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  SR+ Power card featuring Skelterwild in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi].

• Spirit Dream Eater
• Nightmare Dream Eater
• Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance enemies
• Blizzard-attribute Dream Eaters
• Dark-style Dream Eaters
• Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory enemies