Raging Vulture

The Raging Vulture is an Emblem Heartless that appears in Kingdom Hearts III.

Kingdom Hearts III
Upon the Black Pearl's return to the living world, the Raging Vulture and a swarm of Vaporfly Heartless prepare to attack the Pearl. The Raging Vulture launches an attack near the Pearl, almost hitting it, and Sora rides the Vaporfly's smoke to pursue it. When it is destroyed, the Raging Vulture and Vaporflies vanish, leaving Sora and his friends to fall into the sea.

Design
The Raging Vulture is a mechanical and wooden Heartless with the appearance of a vulture. The wings of the Heartless is composed of a mechanical wing with a cannon embedded as the joint. Three chained anchors dangle on the Heartless by its neck and two wing joints. The Heartless insignia is present on its chest.

Strategy
The Raging Vulture may prove a hard boss, especially on level 1 playthroughs. It is recommended to have a high strength stat to defeat it.

For most of the fight, the Raging Vulture flies around the area. It will attack the Black Pearl and increase its damage gauge, resulting in a Game Over if the gauge is completely filled. To prevent this, approach the Raging Vulture to draw its attention towards Sora instead. Sora begins the fight riding one of the Vaporflies, allowing him to damage the boss with rapid-fire projectiles and torpedoes. If dismounted he can mount another one by using Airstep on it or using its colored smoke as a rail slide to get close enough to use the Ride Situation Command. The Ride Situation Command is also used to jump onto the Raging Vulture's back when it is stunned.

When the Raging Vulture is reduced to 70% and 40% HP, it becomes stunned, allowing Sora to mount the Raging Vulture and somersault across its back to reach its head before attacking it. During this phase, the boss will breathe fire at Sora every 11 seconds with Fire Breath, which can be blocked by pressing to surround Sora with a barrier. It's safe to attack the Raging Vulture up to 15 times before using Barrier. After 33 seconds pass, the boss will throw him off, returning to its original behavior. With time and patience, the Raging Vulture will fall.

If Sora is low on health at any point in the fight, he can defeat the Vaporflies to gain HP orbs. Alternatively, dismount the Vaporfly and use Cure magic or an item before Airstepping back onto another one.

While atop a Vaporfly, it will fly continuously in the faced direction. While in this state Sora gains access to the following commands: