Combat

Dangerous enemies: what to expect and how to counter them

Most enemies in the Forest Region and Burning Grove are weak alone and deadly in numbers or through their side effects. This guide profiles the threats worth planning for: how much health and protection they have, how each attack lands, what status effect it leaves you with, and which damage type gets through best.

The short version

Health is not the only danger. Bleeding, Toxic Gas, fire and fractures do much of the damage in a long fight.
Carry the cures. Bandages clear bleeding, an Antidote clears Toxic Gas, splints clear fractures, and painkillers clear Pain.
Roll out of fire. Each roll removes one stack of Burned.
Pick the damage type they resist least. The resistance table below shows it for every enemy, and Enemy damage types and resistances explained shows how it works.
Noise draws enemies. Enemies that are not already fighting you walk toward player-made sounds they can hear.

How to read the profiles

Damage is what one strike deals before your protection reduces it.
Wind-up is the delay before a strike lands, so it is the moment to move or roll.
Attack interval is how often the attack can be used.
Reach is how far the attack extends.
Speed uses the same scale as the player, whose base speed is 2.5.
Hearing threshold is explained under noise below. A lower number means the enemy notices quieter or more distant noise.

Status effects

Effect	What it does	How to deal with it
Burned	5 damage each second for every stack, up to 5 stacks	Roll. Each roll removes one stack.
Toxic Gas	1 damage every 2 seconds	An 解毒剤 clears it.
Bleeding	1 damage each second for every stack, up to 3 stacks	A 医療用包帯, 止血帯 or 止血粉 clears it.
Pain	Your aim spreads wider	鎮痛剤 clear it.
Fractured	Your movement speed drops by 25%	A 添え木 clears it.
Mycomarked	You are covered in fungal spores that give off an odour. It does no damage itself, but a 恐怖の山人 on the map walks toward you while you carry it.	No item removes it and it has no timer. It lasts until you leave the map.

Each attack lists its chance to cause an effect and how long it lasts. An attack with no chance listed always causes it. Damage from Burned, Toxic Gas and Bleeding is True damage, so armour does not reduce it. Your melee weapons can cause Bleeding and Fractured too; see melee light attacks, heavy attacks and status effects.

Health and protection at a glance

Protection is subtracted from each damage type before general Defence is applied. A value of 0 means no protection against that type. The last column is the type or types with the lowest protection.

Enemy	Health	Impact	Puncture	Slash	Disintegrate	Defence	Least protected against
真菌ストーカー	90	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
真菌ストーカー-棘変種	1	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
真菌ストーカー-煙変種	100	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
真菌母株	800	0	10	0	0	0	Impact, Slash, Disintegrate
Zombie	250	5	0	0	0	0	Puncture, Slash, Disintegrate
腐敗した兵士	300	10	40	5	0	0	Disintegrate
腐敗した将校	1,600	10	40	5	0	0	Disintegrate
The Fish	1,500	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
恐怖の山人	15,000	20	25	20	20	0	Impact, Slash, Disintegrate
患者ゼロ	2,000	0	0	0	0	10	Any type
霧男	3,000	20	30	15	0	0	Disintegrate
パイロ・マッド	10	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
エコーストライダー	10	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
次元シフトバタフライ	10	0	0	0	0	0	Any type
腐敗した鹿	650	0	10	0	0	0	Impact, Slash, Disintegrate
放火博士	6,000	25	45	15	15	0	Slash, Disintegrate
Puppet	8,000	0	0	25	0	0	Impact, Puncture, Disintegrate
Samurai	5,000	40	20	5	0	0	Disintegrate

Noise and hearing

An enemy that is not already fighting you walks to the spot of a sound you make when the sound's volume minus its distance in metres is at least the enemy's hearing threshold. Firing a weapon makes a sound equal to the weapon's volume, which is shown on its page.

An unsuppressed rifle with volume 20 is heard by a Fungal Stalker (threshold 1) from up to 19 m away.
The same shot is heard by a Puppet (threshold 15) only from within 5 m, and by an 放火博士 or Samurai (threshold 20) only at the exact spot.
Suppressors lower a weapon's volume by 4 to 9, which shrinks the area in which every enemy notices it.

Forest Region threats

Fungal Stalker

The most common enemy. It is weak on its own but arrives in numbers, and its claws can cause bleeding.

Found in: Forest Region (116), Burning Grove (26)
Health: 90 · Speed: 4
Protection: None
Hearing threshold: 1

Attacks

Claw swipe: 30 Slash; reach 1 m; wind-up 0.13 s; about one attack every 0.67 s; Bleeding: 10% chance, 30 s

Enemy	Placed	Health	Damage dealt	Aim spread	Gun timing
Cookie Crumbs	61	400	20%	15°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
"Rusty Teeth"	1	500	50%	12°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
"Iron Scab"	1	500	40%	13°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
Fallen Leaf Shooting Guard	1	1,000	40%	10°	fires for 0.8 s, then pauses 4 s
Fallen Leaf Center	1	1,000	40%	25°	fires for 0.5 s, then pauses 1 s
Fallen Leaf Small Forward	1	1,000	40%	15°	fires for 1 s, then pauses 1.2 s
Fallen Leaf Power Forward	1	1,000	40%	15°	fires for 0.8 s, then pauses 1.5 s
Fallen Leaf Point Guard	1	1,000	45%	15°	fires for 1.2 s, then pauses 0.5 s
Supermarket Owner	1	400	90%	15°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
Baseball Cat	1	400	100%	15°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
tHe wREsTleR	1	400	90%	15°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
Crow Believer	12	400	65%	15°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses
Crow Shaman	1	400	60%	15°	standard timing: 0.2 s bursts, 0.5 s pauses

Dangerous enemies: what to expect and how to counter them

The short version

How to read the profiles

Status effects

Health and protection at a glance

Noise and hearing

Forest Region threats

Fungal Stalker

Fungal Stalker, spiky variant

Fungal Stalker, smoky variant

真菌母株

Zombie

腐敗した兵士

腐敗した将校

The Fish

恐怖の山人

患者ゼロ

霧男

Burning Grove threats

パイロ・マッド

エコーストライダー

Dimenshift Butterfly

腐敗した鹿

放火博士

Puppet

Samurai

Human groups

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