Spider

"FLESH EATING APEX PREDATOR."

The **Spider** is one of the four Fiends. She has moderate health, low damage, and high speed.

She was introduced with the Steam launch of Last Year as part of Chapter 1: Afterdark.

## Lore

*A manifestation of arachnophobia itself, the Spider is the first Fiend without a shred of humanity. The eight-legged menace stalks the halls of East High and beyond, spreading venom to poison the students she intends to make her meal. The Spider can explode from the ground in a flurry of powerful limbs and pull foolhardy survivors into their pit below the earth.*

## Appearance

The spider has eight glowing red eyes, and eight legs with four segments.

She has a large abdomen and two chelicerae with fangs at the ends.

## Tips

### Classmates

* The Spider has the advantage in enclosed spaces, as its venom will become much harder to avoid. Try to fight it out in the open.
* If you are covered in venom, quickly retreat until it wears off. The Spider deals more damage against venom-covered targets. However, you will also be slowed, making the Spider much harder to avoid. Conserve your sprint stamina for escapes, or make use of a movement spell like Power Walker.
* The Spider's large hitbox makes it vulnerable to weapons such as the Shotgun and Pipe Bomb.
* The Spider explodes into Venom upon death. Make sure not to group up too closely when it's about to die.
* The Spider's ambush, Black Hole, is one of the hardest ambushes to detect. Stay close to the Scout to avoid an instant death.
	+ Low growling sounds play while a Spider is hiding in an ambush. Listen closely for them.

### Fiends

* The Spider's primary strength lies in area denial. Use your venom spit to deny the Classmates escape routes, split them up, and slow them down.
* When spitting venom, make sure to spit around the Classmates rather than directly at them. Covering a larger area in venom will deal more damage to them, as well as restrict their movement.
* If you're about to die, try to do it near an Objective so that Classmates have to decide between taking damage to complete the objetive or stalling until the Venom disappears.

## Executions

 **Front** | The Spider grabs the Classmate with its mouth and ferociously shakes them around until their limbs fly off.

## List of changes

**1.0.7**

* **[NERF]** Slow effect on the Spider Venom has been reduced.
* **[FIX]** Classmates crouching in Venom are now able to move.
* **[FIX]** Spider no longer disables the Classmates sprint when hitting them.

**1.0.8**

* **[BUFF]** Acid now deals damage to incapacitated classmates.
* **[QUALITY OF LIFE]** Optimized the performance when the Spider uses her Venom abillity.

**1.0.10**

* Added a new Spider execution that plays when approaching Classmates from the left side.
* **[FIX]** Spider's SFX can no longer be heard when in Predator Mode.

**1.0.11**

* The Spider's new execution now has SFX.

**1.0.13**

* Implemented Resistances and Vulnerabilities.
* **[BUFF]** Health increased.
* **[BUFF]** Attack speed increased.
* **[BUFF]** Attack damage increased.
* **[NERF]** Ability cooldowns increased.
* **[QUALITY OF LIFE]** The Spider can now spawn out when inside a porta-potty with a Classmate nearby.

**1.0.14**

* **[NERF]** Venom ability damage reduced from 15 to 10 damage per second.
* **[NERF]** Reduced the time Classmates are covered in Venom from 10 to 5 seconds.
* **[NERF]** Movement speed decreased by 30.

**1.0.15**

* **[BUFF]** The Spider now spits twice as much Venom when using her ability.
* **[BUFF]** Attack damage increased to 15.
* **[BUFF]** Attack damage to Venom covered Classmates increased to 20.
* **[BUFF]** Spitting time increased to 1.5 seconds.

**1.0.16**

* Added new Spider execution that plays when approaching Classmates from the front.

**1.0.17**

* Added New Web Zip utility.
* **[BUFF]** Venom now breaks turrets.
* **[QUALITY OF LIFE]** Spider's speed has been adjusted to compensate for Fiends no longer having collisions with the Cryptids.
* **[REWORK]** Spider now has separate walk and run speeds.

**1.0.18**

* **[NERF]** Increased utility cooldown to 12 seconds.

**1.0.21**

* Removed Resistances and Vulnerabilities.

## Trivia

* The Spider is the first female Fiend and the first non-human Fiend.
* The Spider is the only Fiend who has a cooldown on ambushes.
* While the Spider has a weakness to fire, she takes the exact same damage to fire as other Fiends.

## Quotes

**For a list of quotes, check out List of Spider Quotes**