pathfinder-2-sqlite-MIRROR/data/monsters/deadly mantis.yaml

ability_mods:
  cha_mod: -2
  con_mod: 5
  dex_mod: 3
  int_mod: -5
  str_mod: 8
  wis_mod: 3
ac: 31
ac_special: null
alignment: N
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'These gigantic mantids make their homes within deep jungles and prehistoric
  forests where they hunt and devour equally massive prey.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Animal__ (__Nature__)**: DC 28'
hp: 220
hp_misc: null
immunities: null
items: null
languages: null
level: 11
melee:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d12+14
    type: piercing
  name: mandibles
  plus_damage: null
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - reach 10 feet
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d10+14
    type: piercing
  name: leg
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: Grab
  to_hit: 24
  traits:
  - agile
  - reach 20 feet
name: Deadly Mantis
perception: 20
proactive_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The deadly mantis flings a grabbed creature into the air, up to 30
    feet overhead and up to 30 feet away from the mantis (the creature takes damage
    from the fall as normal). If the flung creature lands on another creature, the
    creature it lands on takes the same amount of bludgeoning damage. The creature
    being landed on can attempt a DC 31 basic Reflex save.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Fling
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Fling**   The deadly mantis flings a grabbed creature into the
    air, up to 30 feet overhead and up to 30 feet away from the mantis (the creature
    takes damage from the fall as normal). If the flung creature lands on another
    creature, the creature it lands on takes the same amount of bludgeoning damage.
    The creature being landed on can attempt a DC 31 basic Reflex save.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Two Actions
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The mantis Leaps up to 40 feet vertically and 20 feet horizontally.
    At any point during the jump, it can make a leg Strike. If it hits, it automatically
    Grabs the target, bringing the creature along until the end of the jump.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Leaping Grab
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Leaping Grab** [Two Actions]  The mantis Leaps up to 40 feet
    vertically and 20 feet horizontally. At any point during the jump, it can make
    a leg Strike. If it hits, it automatically Grabs the target, bringing the creature
    along until the end of the jump.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The mantis makes a mandibles Strike against a creature it has grabbed.
    If that Strike hits and the creature is wearing armor with Hardness 12 or lower,
    the armor is broken. This Strike doesn't further damage armor that's already broken.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Rending Mandibles
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Rending Mandibles**   The mantis makes a mandibles Strike against
    a creature it has grabbed. If that Strike hits and the creature is wearing armor
    with Hardness 12 or lower, the armor is broken. This Strike doesn''t further damage
    armor that''s already broken.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: On the first round of combat, creatures that haven't acted are __flat-footed__
    to the deadly mantis.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Sudden Strike
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Sudden Strike** On the first round of combat, creatures that
    haven''t acted are __flat-footed__ to the deadly mantis.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
ranged: null
rarity: Common
resistances:
- amount: null
  type: '>'
ritual_lists: null
saves:
  fort: 24
  fort_misc: null
  misc: null
  ref: 20
  ref_misc: null
  will: 18
  will_misc: null
sense_abilities: null
senses:
- Perception +20
- darkvision
size: Gargantuan
skills:
- bonus: 18
  misc: null
  name: 'Acrobatics '
- bonus: 25
  misc: null
  name: 'Athletics '
- bonus: 22
  misc: null
  name: 'Stealth '
source:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: 233
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 50
  type: Land
- amount: 50
  type: climb
spell_lists: null
traits:
- N
- Gargantuan
- Animal
type: Creature
weaknesses: null