Mantis

* Max
* Pete
* Willow
* Hoops

* Mantis Claw (2)
* Mantis Head (1)

**Rare Drop**

* Mantis Chunk (0-18)
* Mantis Trinket (0-1)

## Stats

* **Charged Strike**: 90
* **Combo Slam**: 175
* **Ground Shred**: 90
* **Vertical Shockwave**: 120
* **Charged Strike Unearth**: 80
* **Pounce**: 100
* **Escape Leap**: 90

## Inflicts

The **Orchid Mantis** is a large, optional boss creature found in the orchid pot in the sheds porch. The area is accessible via a broken hose leaning on the pot. The boss requires the Hedge Broodmother to be defeated, as its summoning item, the Orchid Mantis Kebab, requires Broodmother Chunks. The Orchid Mantis Kebabs recipe is found in the Stump Lab Outpost. To unlock the stump outpost, you must first kill the Assistant Manager and use its key-card to unlock a door in the pond under the oak tree. When the fight starts, the hose entrance will be clogged with dirt, making escape impossible until either the player or Mantis dies.

## Boss Fight

### Phase 1

The fight will begin with some rustling in the upper leaves of the pot, and then the mantis will lunge down from above. This lunge does no damage. When up close, it can do many attacks such as a single swipe from the left or right, a charged slam that will cause the player to Bleed (similar to Poison), and a vicious 3 combo slam that will lower the players perfect block window. It will also sometimes leap away from the player, then leap back dealing massive damage. When far away, it can send a straight a unblockable shockwave of rocks to the player that lower attack damage or simply lunge at them.

### Phase 2

At about 80% health, it will unleash a massive scream that does damage and lowers the players exhaustion recovery time. The Mantis can also scream whenever it wants, as well as have a devastating combo attack where it shreds its claws on the player, causing lower attack and bleed. Its 3 slam attack also now has as larger shockwave.

### Phase 3

Below 50% health, the mantis gains 2 new attack. It will unearth 3 vertical shockwaves in a row in a similar way to the attack it does when the player is far away. The difference is, it does it even if the player is close, making it very dangerous. Its other attack replaces the slam attack, instead slamming then unearthing its claws to make an extra shockwave the player must avoid.

## Advanced Loot Table

This is a more advanced covering of the loot-table of Mantis. Each item has an independent chance and count, in which the chance is the chance it can drop and the count is the amount of items that have that chance. If a count larger than 2 is in one section, then each item has an independent chance from one another (EX: Instead of getting say 1-2 of a resource, you can get 1 with a 70% chance and another with an additional 70% chance). In terms of Stealing, it can take one item from every section of the loot table, so even if a item count is say 5, the player will only steal one from that section.

Creature Loot Tables also tend to have large amounts of 1% items, which is intended to make stealing more rare items harder, as the player is more likely to steal the large amounts of 1% items than a singular 50% item.

## Strategy

The Mantis is one of the hardest bosses in the game, but using some strategies can make it much easier:

* Use the Salt Morning Star to exploit its Salty weakness as well as not have it resistant to it.
* A unarmed build with phase 3 Lil Fist, Truffle Tussle, and the Power Droplet can quickly kill the Mantis, if the player can avoid taking any damage.
* Despite its slight resistance, a Poison build with Widow Armor/Mother Demon Armor and a Widow Dagger is extremely powerful in the fight.
* Bring many Beefy Smoothies for healing or Sticky Smoothies.
* Be sure to perfect block all of its attacks to avoid the very troubling debuffs it can inflict.
	+ Using Mutations like Parry Master can help you get some extra hits on it.
* Be wary of its 3-combo slam and intense combo shredding attacks as they cannot be blocked and the player has to quickly move out of the way of the attack.
	+ The telegraph for both attacks are very noticeable as it will fold its claws below its head and tilt its head before slamming the ground.
* If the player has critical health, use the large trunk for cover by running around it for a healing break.
* A good combo for this beast is Roly Poly armor with the sour and spicy staff since the Mantis isn't weak to sour and you can stun it.

## Trivia

* The Mantis originally had a pollen cloud attack it would activate in its 2nd phase.
	+ This attack spawned in 3 pollen shots after its scream that would ricochet around the arena, making clouds that inflicted multiple debuffs.
	+ This attack was removed due to framerate issues with rendering in all the pollen clouds along with the Mantis attacks.
* The Mantis originally was weak to Chopping.
* In real life, the Orchid Mantis is native to the rain forests of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia. It is also found in the Western Ghats of India.

## Gallery

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