Monsters

Monsters are the enemies that stand on the road of each chapter. The game has 54 monsters: 33 normal monsters, 11 Elites and 10 Bosses. Every chapter has its own set of normal monsters, one Elite and one Boss (see Chapters).

How monsters work

• Monsters stand in a single file queue. Only the front one attacks in melee, so a pack of three does not hit three times at once.
• A few monsters attack from range and can swing from further back in the queue. Their Attack column shows how many bodies they can reach past.
• A monster’s strength depends on its type, its tier (normal, Elite or Boss) and the chapter. Later chapters multiply every monster’s stats.
• Each kill pays experience and coin. Elites and Bosses pay more.

Types

Every normal monster belongs to one of three types, which decides how its stats are shaped. The numbers below are multipliers.

Tiers

Tiers apply on top of the type. Elites and Bosses also carry their own crit, combo, dodge, armor and attack speed, plus a few perks of their own that show as icons under their health bar. The Legendary tier is used only by the Legendary Challenge.

Normal monsters (33)

Image	Name	Type	Chapters	Attack	Description
	Meadow Larva	Grunt	1	Melee	The first thing on the path that hits back. It is mostly mouth.
	Meat Bug	Grunt	1	Melee	Fatter than the larva and twice as hungry. Hits harder and knows it.
	Cave Rat	Grunt	1, 2, 3, 5, 8	Melee	Comes up from wherever the light stops. Fast enough that the pack is on you at once.
	Grey Wolf	Brute	1, 2, 4, 6	Melee	Walks alone and carries a pack’s worth of health in one body.
	Tusked Boar	Warden	1, 3, 5, 6, 9	Melee	A hide like a shield and a temper to match. Only an Ultimate reads through the guard.
	Pirate Boar	Grunt	1	Ranged (reaches 3 bodies)	Shoots from behind whatever is standing in front of it. Kill the shield and the gun is next.
	Silverwood Rat	Grunt	2, 8	Melee	Silverwood’s smallest problem and never one of them.
	Brown Bear	Brute	2, 9	Melee	What the wood feeds first. Slow and single and very hard to finish.
	Ward Wasp	Warden	2	Ranged (reaches 3 bodies)	Stings from behind the line and keeps its distance. Patience is the only counter you own.
	Bound Zombie	Grunt	3, 7	Melee	Buried and still under orders. Comes up in threes.
	Possessed Wolf	Brute	3, 4, 10	Melee	The wolf is still standing whether or not anything is inside it.
	Crypt Ghost	Warden	3, 7, 10	Ranged (reaches 3 bodies)	Died mid-ward and never dropped it.
	Frost Wolf	Grunt	4	Melee	Runs the snowline in packs and never feels the cold it brings.
	Rime Boar	Warden	4	Melee	Ice grows over its hide faster than a blade can chip it off.
	Ice Parasite	Brute	4	Melee	Feeds on whatever freezes up here. Up here everything does.
	Dune Scorpion	Grunt	5	Melee	Buried under the sand until the first footstep lands on it.
	Sand Scarab	Warden	5	Melee	A shell polished by a thousand storms. Blows slide off it.
	Ember Parasite	Brute	5	Melee	Crawled out of a vent and kept the heat.
	Grass Panther	Grunt	6	Melee	Fast and low and gone before the grass stops moving.
	Savanna Lion	Brute	6	Melee	Does not hunt. Simply waits for the road to bring something.
	Iron Bull	Warden	6	Melee	Horns first; everything else second.
	Hollow Rat	Grunt	7	Melee	Something else looks out through its eyes.
	Dusk Bunny	Grunt	7	Melee	Small; soft and never once blinked.
	Nightmare	Brute	7	Melee	A beast made of the dark between two lanterns.
	Gear Parasite	Grunt	8	Melee	Built to dig. Learned to bite.
	Miner Boar	Warden	8	Melee	Still wears the helmet. Still charges like a boar.
	Crystal Lizard	Brute	8	Melee	Grows the mine’s crystals along its own spine.
	Butcher	Brute	9	Melee	Sharpens its cleaver on whoever came before you.
	Cannibal	Grunt	9	Melee	Hungry. The Badlands grow nothing else.
	Black Boar	Warden	9	Melee	Thick-skinned enough to shrug off a whole combo.
	Flying Demon	Grunt	10	Melee	Drops out of a burning sky with nothing to lose.
	Evil Eye	Warden	10	Melee	The Throne’s watcher. It has seen every hero who failed.
	Shard Lizard	Brute	10	Melee	Scales of broken obsidian. Every one of them cuts.

Elites (11)

Elites are placed on the road at fixed spacing. They hit harder than a normal pack and carry two or three perks.

Image	Name	Type	Chapters	Attack	Description
	Warg	Warden	1	Melee	Leads the meadow’s packs. The first thing on the path that will not let you walk past.
	Mosquito Parasite	Warden	2	Ranged (reaches 3 bodies)	It picked this stretch of wood on purpose and has been waiting on it.
	Dread Eye	Warden	3	Ranged (reaches 2 bodies)	You feel the Crypts’ Elite watching a long time before the fight begins.
	Mine Troll	Brute	—	Melee	The Gold Mine grew a guard out of its own walls. It does not leave the mine.
	Winter Warg	Warden	4	Melee	Frostpeak’s Elite. The pass is its hunting ground and you are on it.
	Scarab Rider	Warden	5	Melee	The Dunes’ Elite rides the largest scarab the sand ever made.
	Sabretooth	Warden	6	Melee	The Savanna’s Elite. Its fangs are older than the road.
	Possessed Warg	Warden	7	Melee	The Hollow’s Elite. Whatever rides it chose well.
	Drill Parasite	Warden	8	Melee	The Mine’s Elite. It was the foreman once.
	Maneater	Warden	9	Melee	The Badlands’ Elite. The name is a description.
	Battle Panther	Warden	10	Melee	The Throne’s Elite. Armoured for a war no one else survived.

Bosses (10)

Each chapter ends with one Boss on its last node. Defeating it clears the chapter.

Image	Name	Type	Chapters	Attack	Description
	Meadow Ogre	Brute	1	Melee	Meadowmere never needed a king with a crown. Everything else on this path answered to it.
	Moss Queen	Brute	2	Melee	Silverwood did not grow around her. It grew around Silverwood.
	Cerberus	Brute	3	Melee	What the Sunken Crypts were built to keep down there.
	Winter Ogre	Brute	4	Melee	The meadow ogre’s elder kin. Frostpeak froze around its throne.
	Bug Queen	Brute	5	Melee	Every scarab in the Dunes hatched from her.
	Bull Chieftain	Brute	6	Melee	Rules Wildmane from the back of its greatest bull.
	Hollow Bear	Brute	7	Melee	The night itself; given claws.
	Juggernaut	Brute	8	Melee	The Gearworks built it to clear rock. It clears everything.
	Dreadnought	Brute	9	Melee	The ogre every other ogre stays out of the way of.
	The Punisher	Brute	10	Melee	Sits on the Demon Throne and has never once stood up for a hero.

See also

• Chapters
• Node types
• Perks
• Pets