Swarm of necrosprites

Enemy
Swarm of necrosprites
Health	400
Evasion	100%
Melee damage	death (80)
Xp reward	1700
Resistances	100% bullets 100% blade 100% blunt 30% explosions 30% laser 80% freezing 50% lightning 100% poison

Swarm of necrosprites is an enemy found in Canterlot ruins, being arguably the most dangerous enemy found there. It takes the appearance of a black cloud, which is known to be made up of tiny bloatsprites, full of necromancy. It can pass through walls and doors and is completely immune to most physical attacks.

Behaviour

Swarm of necrosprites will hover in place and move around slightly when idle. When a swarm spots you, it will immediately start flying towards you at speed comparable to your walking speed, while passing through any obstacles.

When a swarm of necrosprites touches you, it deals massive black magic damage that ignores armor. Fighting a few swarms at once with no way to escape is almost certain death.

Strategy

Dealing damage

Unique swarm of necrosprites, after taking some damage (they change color to red)

Since no bullet, blade or blunt attack can harm it (imagine shooting or hitting a cloud of flies) you must use attacks that do other types of damage instead. This include anything that does fire, laser, plasma, or acid damage. Explosions works as well, as does stellar blaze and kindness rays damage.

Lightning and freezing damage is highly ineffective, however freezing damage can inflict Frozen which makes necrosprites take 25% damage from bullet and blunt attacks, allowing those damage times to work, if ineffectively. Death damage does not work at all at first, but applying a status effect such as Burning or Frozen will make them vulnerable to it.

Note: You can use any melee weapon, firearm, energy weapon, explosive or spell that deals those types of damage. Magical Energy Sword or Knife for instance is a perfect weapon to use against the Swarm of Necrosprites, while those who use firearms can switch to (mag) ammunition to deal plasma damage.

Avoiding attacks

Evasive maneuvers

Necrosprites have a lot of health, so taking them down requires high damage or many hits. While you're shooting/hitting the swarm, it constantly follows you, so it might be tricky to avoid taking damage as it can pass through obstacles.

However if you have a big enough space, you can perform evasive maneuvers. A good strategy is running/jumping in circle. The swarm slowly curves it's flight path to follow you, making it easy to move to the side as it passes, since it's unable to turn quickly.

If you're in a tight space and can't perform evasive maneuvers, use teleportation to escape to a place more suitable to fight.

A viable strategy against a single swarm is to hold it on place with telekinesis. Necrosprites could be held in place long enough to deal with them safely, but care must be taken if you take too long as they will escape and cannot be grabbed again for a short time.

If dealing with a swarm proves to be too much, you might be able to run far enough for the swarm to loose interest in pursuit, provided there are walls in between you and the swarm so it loses sight.

Trivia

• Unique swarms of necrosprites do not have higher health, damage or experience reward compared to other necrosprites, and they do not get a unique name. This makes their uniqueness visual only.