Chrono Trigger Walkthrough: Headgear Guide

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Below is a guide to all the headgear you can collect in Chrono Trigger. If you want to find a specific piece of equipment, use the Find function in your browser to jump to the item description. Headgear only available to players of the PC, Mobile, and DS versions of the game are marked as such.

Consult this guide for a complete listing of armor in Chrono Trigger.

Note that virtually every helmet on this list can be won in the Arena of the Ages, a DS-exclusive combat area for battling monsters against monsters. The Arena of the Ages is not included in the various item descriptions.

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• Universal Headear
• Male Headgear
• Female Headgear
• Lucca Only
• Magus Only

Universal Headgear

Hide Cap

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 3
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Default headgear for Crono
• Default headgear for Marle
• Default headgear for Lucca
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 25 G

Bronze Helm / BronzeHelm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 8
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Default headgear for Frog
• Purchased:
• Millennial Fair vendor, 1000 AD (200 G)
• Porre Market, 1000 AD (200 G)
• Truce Market, 600 AD (200 G)
• Sell: 100 G

Iron Helm / Iron Helmet

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 14
• Special Effect: --
• Found: --
• Purchased:
• Trann Dome, 2300 AD (500 G)
• Arris Dome, 2300 AD (500 G)
• Sell: 250 G

Stone Helm / Rock Helm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 20
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Default headgear for Ayla
• Reptite Lair, 65,000,000 BC
• Purchased:
• Ioka Village - Trading Hut, 65,000,000 BC (3 Horns, 3 Feathers)
• Sell: 1,000 G

Triceratopper / Cera Topper

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 23
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Tyranno Lair, 65,000,000 BC (two helms)
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 1,250 G

Platinum Helm / Lode Helm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 29
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Mountain of Woe, 12,000 BC
• Purchased:
• Kajar, 12,000 BC (6,500 G)
• Sell: 3,250 G

Clarity Cap / Sight Cap

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 30
• Special Effect: Prevents Confusion
• Found: 
• Ozzie's Fort, 600 AD
• Giant's Claw, 600 AD
• Purchased:
• Fiona's Shrine, 1,000 AD (20,000 G)
• Sell: 10,000 G

Memory Cap

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 30
• Special Effect: Prevents Lock
• Found: 
• Death Peak, 2300 AD
• Sunken Desert, 600 AD
• Purchased:
• Fiona's Shrine, 1,000 AD (20,000 G)
• Sell: 10,000 G

Time Hat

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 30
• Special Effect: Prevents Stop and Slow
• Found: 
• Mountain of Woe, 12,000 BC
• Purchased:
• Fiona's Shrine, 1,000 AD (30,000 G)
• Sell: 15,000 G

Aeonina Helm / Aeon Helm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 33
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Ocean Palace, 12,000 BC
• Lost Sanctum - Mount Emerald, 65,000,000 BC
• Purchased:
• Surviving Village, 12,000 BC (7,800 G)
• Sell: 3,900 G

Haste Helm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 35
• Special Effect: Casts Haste on the wearer
• Found: 
• Black Omen, various eras
• Lost Sanctum - Reptite Village, 600 AD - Complete bridge materials quest
• Charm Elder Lavos Spawn (mouth), Black Omen (various eras)
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 6,000 G

Rainbow Helm / R'bowHelm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 35
• Special Effect: Reduces Light damage by 50%
• Found: 
• Lost Sanctum - Mount Emerald, 600 AD
• Charm Mudbeast, Mudbeast Den (12,000 BC)
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 8,000 G

Mermaid Helm / MermaidCap

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 35
• Special Effect: Reduces Water damage by 50%
• Found: 
• Lost Sanctum - Mount Emerald, 600 AD
• Charm Blue Mudbeast, Mudbeast Den (12,000 BC)
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 8,000 G

Vigilant's Hat / VigilHat

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 36
• Special Effect: Immune to status ailments
• Found: 
• Geno Dome, 2300 AD
• Black Omen, various eras
• Charm Mega Mutant (lower body), Black Omen
• Purchased:
• Fiona's Shrine, 1000 AD (50,000 G)
• Sell: 25,000 G

Guardian Helm / Safe Helm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 38
• Special Effect: Reduces physical damage by 1/3
• Found: 
• Forest Ruins, 1000 AD (left chest)
• Charm Elder Lavos Spawn (shell), Black Omen
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 5,000 G

Prismatic Helm / Prism Helm

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 40
• Special Effect: Magic Defense +9, immune to status ailments
• Found: 
• Guardia Castle, 1000 AD - Rainbow Shell quest (3 helms)
• Charm Queen Zeal (left hand), Black Omen
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 4,400 G

Ozzie Pants

• Equipped by: All
• Defense Power: 45
• Special Effect: Inflicts Confusion and Sap on wearer
• Found: 
• Charm Ozzie the Great, Ozzie's Fort (600 AD)
• Purchased: --
• Sell: --

Male Headgear

Golden Helm / Gold Helm

• Equipped by: Crono, Frog, Robo, Magus
• Defense Power: 18
• Special Effect: --
• Found: 
• Zenan Bridge, 600 AD
• Denadoro Mountains, 600 AD
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 600 G

Radiant Helm / Glow Helm

• Equipped by: Crono, Frog, Robo, Magus
• Defense Power: 3
• Special Effect: --
• Found: --
• Purchased:
• Medina Village, 1000 AD (65,000 G / 2,300 G)
• Algetty, 12,000 BC (2,300 G)
• Sell: 1,150 G

Dark Helm

• Equipped by: Crono, Frog, Robo, Magus
• Defense Power: 35
• Special Effect: Reduces Shadow damage by 50%
• Found: 
• Death Peak, 2300 AD
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 6,000 G

Dragonhead (PC, Mobile, and DS only)

• Equipped by: Crono, Frog, Robo, Magus
• Defense Power: 36
• Special Effect: Strength +5
• Found: 
• Lost Sanctum - Millennia Wood, 600 AD
• Purchased:
• Lost Sanctum - Reptite Village, 600 AD (20,000 G)
• Sell: 10,000 G

Master's Crown (PC, Mobile, and DS only)

• Equipped by: Crono, Frog, Robo, Magus
• Defense Power: 40
• Special Effect: Boosts damage, immune to status ailments
• Found: 
• Dimensional Vortex - Volcano, 1000 AD
• Dimensional Vortex - Ancient Keep, 2300 AD
• Purchased: --
• Sell: --

Female Headgear

Porrean Beret / Beret

• Equipped by: Marle, Lucca, Ayla
• Defense Power: 17
• Special Effect: --
• Found: --
• Purchased:
• Porre, 600 AD (700 G)
• Sell: 350 G

Reptite Tiara (PC, Mobile, and DS only)

• Equipped by: Marle, Lucca, Ayla
• Defense Power: 35
• Special Effect: Magic +5
• Found: 
• Lost Sanctum - Winding Passage, 65,000,000 BC
• Purchased:
• Lost Sanctum - Reptite Village, 600 AD (18,000 G)
• Sell: 9,000 G

Angel's Tiara (PC, Mobile, and DS only)

• Equipped by: Marle, Lucca, Ayla
• Defense Power: 36
• Special Effect: Casts Haste, immune to status ailments
• Found: 
• Dimensional Vortex - Strath, 12,000 BC
• Purchased: --
• Sell: --

Lucca Only

Taban's Helm / Taban Helmet

• Equipped by: Lucca
• Defense Power: 24
• Special Effect: Magic Defense +10
• Found:
• Lucca's Home, 1000 AD
• Purchased: --
• Sell: --

Magus Only

Doom Helm

• Equipped by: Magus
• Defense Power: 29
• Special Effect: --
• Found:
• Default headgear for Magus
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 4,750 G

Gloom Helm / Gloom Helmet

• Equipped by: Magus
• Defense Power: 42
• Special Effect: Immune to status ailments
• Found:
• Ozzie's Fort, 600 AD
• Purchased: --
• Sell: 6,500 G

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