Monster Classification
From SpiralKnights
Monsters can be classified into 5 different categories depending on their battle style and power: Mini, soldier, elite, healer, and boss.
Minis
Minis are small monsters that generally provide very little resistance when alone because of their limited attacks and low health, but can be tough to handle when grouped up. Minis include:
- Dust Bunny series
- Knocker series
- Glop Drop series
- Ice Mini
- Royal Mini
- Jelly Green Mini
- Scarab series
- Mini Gourdling
- Mini Creep Cake
Soldier
A majority of the monsters that reside on Cradle fall under the soldier category, and as such their characteristics are as varied as the number of existing monsters. Their difficulty generally falls between minis and Elites. Soldiers include:
- Chromalisk series
- Wolver series, excluding Alpha Wolvers
- Gun Puppy series
- Mecha Knight series
- Retrode series
- Scuttlebot series
- Shufflebot
- Devilite series
- Gorgo series
- Greaver series
- Thwacker series
- Scorcher series
- Demo series
- Mortafire series
- Ghostmane Stalker
- Jelly series, excluding Ice Mini, Jelly Green Mini, Jelly Green Giant, and Royal Mini, and Royal Jelly
- Lichen series, excluding Giant Lichen Colonies, Toxilargos, and Giant Toxoils
- Polyp series
- Howlitzer series
- Kat series, excluding Black Kats and Margrel
- Phantom
- Zombie series
- Almirian Crusader
- Bombie series
- Larger sized Gourdling
- Creep Cake
Elite
Elite monsters are some of the most powerful spawning monsters in the game, and as such can be very difficult to handle. They usually do not spawn with other monsters in the elite class, but it has been known to happen in the more difficult levels. Elite monsters include:
- Alpha Wolver series
- Lumber series
- Trojan
- Giant Lichen Colony
- Toxilargo
- Giant Toxoil
- Black Kat
- Deadnaught series
Healer
Healers do just as their name implies; they have the ability to heal other monsters. Healers do not have any means of attacking themselves, and as such are no trouble at all to dispatch when alone. However, they are known to make lengthly arena battles much more difficult buy healing the stronger foes. Healers include:
Boss
Boss monsters take up an entire floor when fought, and usually have an entire stratum dedicated to them alone. Bosses include:
- Snarbolax
- Rabid Snarbolax
- Roarmulus Twins
- Red Roarmulus Twins
- Collector
- Tortodrone
- Arkus
- Lord Vanaduke
- Darkfire Vanaduke
- Margrel
- Schemer Razwog
- Warmaster Seerus
- Royal Jelly
- Ice Queen
- Jelly Green Giant
No Category
Some monsters have hard to classify abilities and do not directly fall under any one category. These include:
