Paussinae Beetle

*For the normal variant, see Bombardier Beetle.*

The Paussinae Beetle is the 3rd 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 2x faster than a bombardier beetle.

   When they spot an enemy, they will lock onto it for 2 seconds, then spew hearts out of its abdomen.

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

## Description

Known also as flanged bombardier beetles, they feed on ant eggs, larvae, and adults by piercing their mandibles into the abdomen or other soft part and sucking the contents.

## Stats

Main article: Creature Stats

Paussinae Beetles are very 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

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

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**Paussinae 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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**Paussinae 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 Paussinae entry can be found below:

## Obtaining

### Events

 1st Anniversary Event | 1000
 Creature Event: Paussinae Beetle | 1000

### Defeating

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

#### Strategy 1

1. Go under the Paussinae
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 Paussinae starts shooting
5. Disband just before it shoots again
6. Repeat from step 3, time it so they arrive when the Paussinae is about to shoot again to repeat the cycle until it's dead

#### Strategy 2

1. Recruit your soldier ants
2. Let the Paussinae focus the soldier ants
3. Make the soldier ants attack from behind
4. The player ant goes infront of the Paussinae
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 Paussinae and don't get hit (note some soldier ants may die here and there if the Paussinae spins)
6. Repeat the process till the Paussinae is dead

#### Strategy 3

1. Set a garrison next to the Paussinae
2. The player ant recruits soldier ants shortly after setting the garrison
3. Make sure the Paussinae focuses on the garrisoned ants
4. Set the soldier ants to attack from the front of the Paussinae
5. The Paussinae 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 Paussinae 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 paussinae 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 paussinae to defend their anthill alongside other creatures. This forces the attacker to either paralyze the paussinae 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 Paussinae Beetle is based on the real-life Paussinae Beetle, which actually is similar to the Paussinae Beetle in game, with 2 antennae.

* Commonly known as an ant nest beetle or ant colony beetle due to the fact that they live inside an ant colony.

* The Paussinae Beetle was very unexpected because of the pattern of a mantis and a tarantula in past events. People thought there would be a tiger beetle improved.