Lugubrious Bombardier Beetle

*For the normal variant, see Bombardier Beetle.*

The Lugubrious Beetle is the 18th special creature to be added into the game.

## General Information

They have the same amount of health and damage as a golden Bombardier Beetle. The attack rate is also the same, but their speed is about 3x faster than a normal bombardier beetle.When they spot an enemy, they will lock onto it for about 3 seconds, then spew green and purple skulls out of its abdomen.

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

## Description

Aptinus Lugubris, deriving its name from its dark and gloomy colors, is a type of bombardier beetle equipped with a chemical defense mechanism. This creature finds its habitat in Greece.

## Stats

Main article: Creature Stats

Lugubrious Beetles are slow unless leveled up, but have lots of health, and an average attack rate.

They can be upgraded a max of 20% each stat in the Creature Lab.

* Health
* Attack Rate
* Damage

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

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**Lugubrious Beetle Attack Stats:**

Attack rate is how quickly it moves to attack after the  appears shown in seconds.

**The attack speed is one attack every 8 second.**

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**Lugubrious Beetle Damage Stats:**

Data is based on attacking a 3 star normal tarantula, shown with the % of health bar lost for each hit. The percent damage is an average of all damage dealt.

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

## Obtaining

### Defeating

Keep in mind that the skulls they spray can one-shot the player and any level soldiers.

#### Strategy 1

1. Go under the Lugubrious
2. Place yourself so it aims towards the opposite direction your soldiers come from (outwards the anthill)
3. Recruit your soldiers
4. Attack when the Lugubrious starts shooting
5. Disband just before it shoots again
6. Repeat from step 3, time it so they arrive when the Lugubrious is about to shoot again to repeat the cycle until it's dead

#### Strategy 2

1. Recruit your soldier ants
2. Let the Lugubrious focus the soldier ants
3. Make the soldier ants attack from behind
4. The player ant goes in front of the Lugubrious
5. When it's about to launch the player ant retreats the soldier ants, that way the soldier ants go to the front of the Lugubrious and don't get hit (note some soldier ants may die here and there if the Lugubrious spins)
6. Repeat the process till the Lugubrious is dead

#### Strategy 3

1. Set a garrison next to the Lugubrious
2. The player ant recruits soldier ants shortly after setting the garrison
3. Make sure the Lugubrious focuses on the garrisoned ants
4. Set the soldier ants to attack from the front of the Lugubrious
5. The Lugubrious will shot at the garrisoned ants and your soldier ants remain unharmed
6. Keep setting the garrison back up after the previous garrisoned ants have died
7. Repeat this process until the Lugubrious is dead

## Battles

Tanky crowd control unit.

A very useful creature to bring when raiding anthills. It can massacre lots of ants with one single explosion, which can also deal tons of damage to enemy creatures. Most of the time, players won't have to worry about enemy soldier ants attacking the beetle because of its high amount of health and it can take down multiple soldiers at once, even when surrounded.

The only drawbacks are that is it slow, does low damage to high level/armored creatures such as Rhinoceros Beetle and cannot fight properly with a swarm of creatures around it. So keep that in mind.

When attacking and using soldier ants, the enemy bombardier will do considerable damage to the ant army; sometimes even wiping it out completely. This is noticeably more damage than the player's Lugubrious can do to the enemy ants.

### Platinum/Diamond League

Very useful and used by attackers to clear crowds of soldiers and to tank against defending creatures, sometimes used like the rhinoceros beetle, placed to distract creatures and ants.

Players put Lugubrious to defend their anthill alongside other creatures. This forces the attacker to either paralyze the Lugubrious to allow their soldiers to attack the defending creatures, or to disband their soldiers and being forced to face off the defending army with just creatures.

## Trivia

* The Lugubrious Beetle is based on the real-life Lugubrious Beetle, which actually is similar to the Lugubrious Beetle in game, with 2 antennae.

* The Lugubrious Beetle was considered long overdue because of the length of time between it and the paussinae.