Cyclops: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 19:15, 20 January 2025

Version 0.32: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

For a list of all giants, see list of giants.

cyclops C
HP	32-66
HD	9
XP	549
Speed	7
AC	5
EV	3
Will	40
Attack¹	35 (hit: plain)
Resistances	rDrown
Vulnerabilities	None
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Human
Uses	Starting equipment Open doors
Holiness	Natural
Size	Giant
Type	giant, cyclops
Flags	Speaks Warm-blooded

A giant with one eye in the centre of its forehead. Despite its lack of binocular vision, it is able to throw boulders with fearsome accuracy.

Useful Info

Cyclopes are slow, hard-hitting giants that are a menace at range. They usually generate with three or four large rocks on hand, which they will happily hurl at you from range. Cyclopes can appear alone or with a herd of dream sheep or yaks around them, and are most commonly found in the late Dungeon, the Vaults, the Orcish Mines, and the Shoals.

Tips & Tricks

They move slowly. You can simply run away from them if you aren't ready to fight them yet.
Hide around corners and attack them at close range. Any form of RMsl, such as a scarf of repulsion, will also help. If there are other monsters around, you can use them to block line of fire until the cyclops comes within range.
Cyclopes have lousy willpower; using hex wands with even a little bit of evocations training is likely to work against them.
As you might expect, they can't see invisible, so quaffing a potion of invisibility can let you escape in a dire situation.

Trivia

The presence of sheep and yaks around cyclopes is a reference to Homer's The Odyssey, where cyclopes are presented as shepherds.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<!--monster-bot-begin-->
+{{version032}}
-{{monster
+{{list of | giants}}
-|name=cyclops
+{{monster info}}
-|glyph={{Yellow|C}}
-|tile=[[File:Cyclops.png]]
-|flags={{Speaks flag}}<br>{{Warm blood flag}}
-|resistances={{Drown resistance}}
-|vulnerabilities=None
-|max_chunks=14
-|meat={{Clean corpse}}
-|xp=531
-|holiness={{Natural}}
-|magic_resistance=36
-|hp_range=35-63
-|armour_class=5
-|evasion=3
-|habitat=Land
-|speed= 7
-|size={{Giant}}
-|item_use={{Starting equipment}}<br>{{Open doors}}
-|attack1=35 ({{Hit type}}: {{Plain flavour}})
-|attack2=
-|attack3=
-|attack4=
-|hit_dice=9
-|intelligence={{Normal intelligence}}
-|genus=giant
-|species=cyclops
-}}
-<!--monster-bot-end-->
-{{Flavour|A giant with one eye in the centre of its forehead.  Despite their lack of binocular vision, cyclopi throw boulders with fearsome accuracy.}}
 ==Useful Info==
-'''Cyclopes''' are slow, hard-hitting giants that are a menace at range. They usually generate with three or four [[large rock]]s on hand, which they will happily hurl at you with little concern for anything standing in the way. Once engaged in melee, however, they lack weapons and are thus only slightly more dangerous than an [[ogre (monster)|ogre]]. Cyclopes can appear alone or with a herd of [[sheep]] or [[yak]]s around them, and can be found in the middle-[[Dungeon]] and [[the Shoals]].
+'''Cyclopes''' are slow, hard-hitting giants that are a menace at range. They usually generate with three or four [[large rock]]s on hand, which they will happily hurl at you from range. Cyclopes can appear alone or with a herd of [[dream sheep]] or [[yak]]s around them, and are most commonly found in the late [[Dungeon]], [[the Vaults]], the [[Orcish Mines]], and [[the Shoals]].
 ==Tips & Tricks==
-Hide around corners and attack them at close range or cast [[Deflect Missiles]] if you're a mage. If there are other monsters around you can use them as a shield, and hopefully it will kill them for you.
+*They move slowly. You can simply run away from them if you aren't ready to fight them yet.
+*Hide around corners and attack them at close range. Any form of [[Repel Missiles#Player sources|RMsl]], such as a [[Scarf#Ego|scarf of repulsion]], will also help. If there are other monsters around, you can use them to block line of fire until the cyclops comes within range.
+*Cyclopes have lousy [[willpower]]; using hex [[wand]]s with even a little bit of [[evocations]] training is likely to work against them.
+*As you might expect, they can't [[see invisible]], so quaffing a [[potion of invisibility]] can let you escape in a dire situation.
 ==Trivia==
-The presence of sheep and yaks is a reference to Homer's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey ''The Odyssey''], where cyclopes are presented as shepherds.
+*The presence of sheep and yaks around cyclopes is a reference to Homer's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey ''The Odyssey''], where cyclopes are presented as shepherds.