Monarch Butterfly

*For the normal variant, see Butterfly*

The Monarch Butterfly is the 4th special creature to be added into the game. It is the first creature to have a healing ability.

## General Information

Monarch Butterflies are very unique, they are the first creature that will not attack at all. It will heal any friendly creatures that gets hit by its particles, when it uses its healing ability. It is the second pacifist creature.

It is a flying creature that will never land in battles except inside the attacking or defending nest.

It is **highly recommended** not to kill these creatures.

## Description

Danaus plexippus eggs are laid singly on the underside of a young milkweed leaf plant during the spring and summer months. Eggs take 3 to 8 days to develop and hatch into larva or caterpillars.

## Stats

Main article: Creature Stats

Monarch butterfly's stats relate to how fast it moves toward injured creatures and how quickly it sends out its healing particles. Monarchs send out healing particles that can heal multiple creatures at once but the most healing is applied to the creature that is most directly hit.

It can be upgraded to a max 60% for health and speed, and 50% for attack rate in the Creature Lab.

* Health
* Attack Rate
* Healing

**Monarch Butterfly Health Stats:** (Shown in bites from a 4-star gold spider)

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**Monarch Butterfly Attack Stats:**

Attack rate refers to how often it sends out bursts of healing particles.

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**Monarch Butterfly Healing Stats:**

Data is based on healing a 3 star normal tarantula, shown with the % of health bar gained from each direct healing burst. Healing percent is based on the average healing done.

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A picture of the full Monarch entry can be found below:

## Obtaining

### Events

 1st Anniversary Event | 1000
 Creature Event: Monarch Butterfly | 1000

### Defeating

The player needs to wait till it's dusk or night so the butterfly lands, when the butterfly lands it's an easy simple kill without any soldier losses since the Monarch Butterfly does not attack.

## Battles

   The Monarch Butterfly is useless in terms of attacking in battles, because it does not attack at all. It cannot be attacked by most creatures in battles either, because it flies and does not land. It can only be damaged by other flying creatures such as the dragonfly, Halloween Pennant, or hornet.

Outside of the colony they fly around and heal creatures in the player's army. Defending Monarch butterflies will fly toward and follow creatures with low health. They will continue to heal themselves and allied creatures until all health is restored to full. This can effectively slow down attacking creatures especially when attack rate is highly upgraded.

It lands and walks on the ground inside the nest though, and it does not heal inside the enemy nest. Therefore, it is only useful outside the enemy nest when battling. For defense inside the colony, it can be used to block the attacking player's view.

The Monarch Butterfly gets destroyed if deployed without support in the enemy nest. Early game, however, the Monarch could be extremely useful, as low star enemies/creatures do low damage and have low health. This means the monarch can heal a bigger portion of a friendly creature's health.

Chrysanthemum does *not* affect this creature.

**Note:** Since defending butterflies do not land when they are outside of the colony, neither Butterflies nor Monarch butterflies have to be killed in order to attack the enemy queen during a battle.

## Trivia

* The Monarch Butterfly is very unique, showcasing a new ability.
* This is the first special event insect that is not a reskin of other special event insect.
* There is a special sound effect for when it heals, just as a bombardier beetle has a sound effect when it attacks.
* This is the only creature that's entry icon in the Collections menu doesn't match its army icon.
* Real Monarch Butterflies can migrate over 2000 miles, from USA or Canada to Mexico!