Wolf

Version 0.31: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

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

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HP	14-30
HD	4
XP	116
Speed	17
AC	4
EV	15
Will	20
Attack¹	12 (bite: plain)
Resistances	None
Vulnerabilities	None
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Animal
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Natural
Size	Medium
Type	hound, wolf
Flags	See invisible Unblindable Warm-blooded

A strong wild canine, with sharp teeth and a healthy appetite.

“Teacher: How does a dog smell?
Student: I don't know.
Teacher: Correct!”
-Traditional Spanish joke.

Useful Info

Wolves are very fast canines that travel in packs, slightly stronger than hounds but generally not too threatening so long as you don't fight a lot of them at once. They can be found wild in the Lair and the Ice Cave, and appear elsewhere tamed by Grum.

Tips & Tricks

As with all pack monsters, try not to fight more wolves than you have to at a time. The Lair might not always have good choke points available, but you can generally at least get your back to a wall.
Wolves are extremely fast -- faster than everything except spriggans, and even then, a spriggan can only keep pace and can't actually outrun them. Even a potion of haste isn't enough to allow a normal-speed character to outrun wolves on its own. If you absolutely have to escape, either combine haste and Swiftness, blink to a stairway, or just read a scroll of teleportation.
Be careful when fighting them off in a spriggan druid's forest. Slugging it out with a pack of wolves becomes much more dangerous when someone casts Awaken Forest in the middle of the fight.

History

Prior to 0.31, players could summon them via Call Canine Familiar.
War dogs were removed in 0.13, and wolves' stats were bumped up to compensate. Grum's pack of war dogs became a pack of wolves in that version.