All monsters in Lethal Company and how to deal with them

Some of Lethal Company’s many monsters are lethal with their one-hit moves. But you can’t run away from everything, so what do you do when you’re face-to-face with a Forest Giant patrolling your ship? It’s safe to say all the monsters in Lethal Company come with their own unique challenge.

Here is how to deal with every monster in Lethal Company.

Lethal Company monsters guide: Tips and tricks

There are two monster categories in Lethal Company. You have Facility Monsters and Outdoor Monsters. Here’s a quick rundown on their differences:

• Facility Monsters: Spawn exclusively inside the Facilities. Most can be stunned and killed with a Shovel, Stop Sign, and Shotgun bullets. However, the amount of hits it takes to defeat each enemy type varies. Shovels and Pro-Flashlights are crucial here to survive encounters while navigating around the Facility. Facility Monsters move around through the ventilation shafts.
• Outdoor Monsters: Most of these spawn after 5pm. Eclipsed Moons spawn these lethal monsters in off the drop. Some monsters roam during the daytime, such as the Baboon Hawk, Earth Leviathan, and Old Bird. It’s best to use TZP-Inhalants to avoid these creatures, while sticking with your team, and ensuring you are paying attention to the current weather report so your environment doesn’t kill you along the way (e.g., Stormy and Flooded).

Let’s dive into all monsters you can meet and how to counter them in Lethal Company; including their threat level and some strategies to help you survive every encounter.

How to handle Lethal Company’s Facility entities

Spore Lizard

• Hostility: Low
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Spore Lizards are completely harmless if left alone. If provoked, they will emit purple smoke that impairs vision. Spore Lizards can bite, but the damage is minimal. You don’t need to worry about this creature at all. This creature can only kill if you are on critical damage or obscure your vision, increasing the chances of you falling down a pit, walking on a mine, or wandering in front of a turret.

Survival strategies

Avoid going up to the Spore Lizard so you don’t scare it. This way it won’t release its defensive smoke, letting you navigate around the Facility with clear vision. You can follow the Spore Lizard if you get lost in the Facility. It’s unlikely this cute creature will lead you to dangerous entities.

Hoarding Bug

• Hostility: Low to medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Three
• Shotgun bullets: One

Monster overview

The Hoarding Bug is the nuisance of the interior, as it follows you around, looking for loot to steal. These creatures are harmless unless provoked, where their intent to kill skyrockets if you try to steal back your loot. Their two phases consist of a crouched animation with the Hoarding Bug slowly wandering around the Facility, searching for valuable items to hold, and the attack form that sees the Hoarding Bug fly at you.

Survival strategies

Wield a Shovel to handle any Hoarding Bugs getting aggressive on you or your teammate. It’s easier to kill an angry bug when it’s targeting one of your friends. The best way to avoid their aggression is by moving any loot you find to the main entrance and dropping it outside. That way the Hoarding Bug doesn’t get the opportunity to steal your goods.

Snare Flea

• Hostility: Low
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Three
• Shotgun bullets: One

Monster overview

The Snare Flea hides in a stationary position on the ceiling, waiting for you to walk underneath it. If successful, the flea will wrap its body around you to smother. Your vision goes dark and your audio muffled. The Snare Flea cannot be removed by hand. Instead, you need a Shovel to knock the flea off.

Survival strategies

Use your scan to locate a Snare Flea. When you find one, crouch, and slowly approach it, keeping it in your vision at all times. You want to coax it into dropping. The plan is for the flea to drop on the ground in front of you, to then hit it with a Shovel. The flea will retreat and try to get back to the ceiling for safety. Use the same method again to lure the flea out of its hiding spot. If caught, call out to your teammates, they will hear your muffled shouts and know a flea is on you. Don’t panic when the Snare Flea is on you.

Bunker Spider

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Five
• Shotgun bullets: One to three

Monster overview

The Bunker Spider will often stand still, waiting for you to step on its webs. Due to its blindness, the Spider will listen out for your comms on the open mic, but won’t attack unless you step on one of its webs.

Survival strategies

Continuously walk backwards while hitting the spider in the head. A similar attacking strategy as the Thumper, a spider will run at you in with predictable pathing. Use the environment to your advantage such as stairs or ramps to jump past the ascending arachnid, creating space between the two of you.

Butler

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Two to eight
• Shotgun bullets: One to four

Monster overview

The Butler typically spawn in pairs, sweeping the Facility’s interior with their brooms. If you are alone, the Butler will switch his broom to a Kitchen Knife and attack ferociously. His health pool is incredibly small, but you shouldn’t assume that he’s easy prey. If you hit the Butler with a blunt force weapon, his head will explode, and Mask Hornets will emerge to chase you until you die.

Survival strategies

It is best to leave the Butler alone so he stays in his humanoid shape. Keep a safe distance if you’re solo so he doesn’t switch weapons. The Butler cannot attack if you’re with another player.

Nutcracker

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Five
• Shotgun bullets: One to three

Monster overview

The Nutcracker marches around the map in search for someone to shoot at. Its Double-Barrel Shotgun can kill you incredibly fast, making the Nutcracker one of the toughest enemies to counter. While it’s blind as it marches, it reveals a singular eye when it stands stationary, looking for movement. The Nutcracker cannot see you if you’re crouched and staying still.

Survival strategies

The best way to kill a Nutcracker is to get its attention while having cover to hide behind (typically the corner of a wall) and hitting as it reloads. Use cover to absorb the bullets and attack it only while it reloads. Try to get it in an open area with cover, away from other threats, or near the main entrance for a quick getaway.

Masked Mimic

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Four
• Shotgun bullets: One to two

Monster overview

The Masked Mimic appears in two forms: Dramatic Masks as scrap to pick up (Tragedy and Comedy) or as a Mimic that freely walks around the Facility. The Tragedy Mask transforms players into a Mimic if worn for two seconds, while the Comedy Mask has approximately 10 seconds before turning you.

Survival strategies

The Mimic can and will hide inside the ship. You should only retreat if you don’t have the weapons to fight. Avoid getting close when the Mimic has their hands out towards you. Keep your distance and use weapons to hurt the Mimic until it dies.

Hygrodere

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Hygrodere is a strange goo-like substance that slowly moves around the map. Its goal is to trap you and kill you quickly if your feet take a plunge in its body.

Survival strategies

Lure the Hygrodere to areas of the map that allow you to jump over them or get around them. Alternatively, wait for these creatures to pass or use a completely different route to get around these creatures.

Thumper

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Four
• Shotgun bullets: One to two

Monster overview

The Thumper is deaf but not blind, only reacting to your movement if you panic. Don’t panic if you spot a Thumper first. If its thumping sound hasn’t quickened then it probably hasn’t seen you yet. The Thumper quickly moves around the Facility in search for employees to attack. Dragging its body around, this is the fastest entity in Lethal Company and is one of the most persistent threats that hover around the main entrance if it spotted you there.

Survival strategies

The best way to avoid them is to run away the moment you see them. Avoid long corridors and straight lines while running. Be sure to drop any heavy loot so you can quickly retreat.

Coil-Head

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Coil-Head is one of the toughest entities to counter due to its speed when you’re not looking at it. What’s worse is that multiple Coil-Heads can spawn in at once. While these entities can’t move when it’s in your line of sight, they’re tough to counter when other threats are lurking around the same Facility (Jester, Butler, and Bracken).

Survival strategies

Designate a teammate to stare at the monster while you look around to find your bearings and lead your team to safety. Do not attempt to outrun the Coil-Head. You can use the Radar Booster to temporarily stun the entity. If you’re at an exit and the Coil-Head is near you, turn sideways, keeping the monster in your peripheral vision so you can leave.

Barber

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Barber isn’t currently active in Lethal Company.

The Barber can only attack in a straight line and is limited to a one-meter jump every three seconds (distinguishable by its trumpet sound). The Barber may take a few attempts to turn and face your position before it tries to snip you with its giant scissors. As the Barber is only visible within a one-meter radius of an employee, it is best to avoid investigating the area where you heard its ominous footsteps.

Survival strategies

Listen out for the distinct warning sound that indicates the Barber is nearby. This sounds like a light drumroll followed by a single note from a trumpet (or clanging noise). The Barber cannot interact with objects so be sure to shut doors behind you.

Maneater

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Five

Monster overview

The Maneater has two phases in its life: Child and adult. It’s harmless in child form and lethal in adult. The Maneater will lure you with its cries. Once transformed, its cries deepen with a low growl layered over it. This entity is incredibly fast as it moves around the Facility, using water tunnels and vents to dart around.

Survival strategies

Keep the Maneater baby happy by rocking it. Don’t take it outside the Facility or it will transform. If you accidently cause a transformation, listen out to its new cries and avoid its position at all cost.

Ghost Girl

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Ghost Girl is a difficult entity to counter as you cannot kill her. She haunts one employee at a time, slowly closing her distance until you’re head explodes once she makes contact.

Survival strategies

Anyone haunted should place their back against a wall. This way the Ghost Girl cannot approach and stand behind you (a step she needs to do to kill you). The Ghost Girl cannot kill if she can’t get behind you.

Bracken

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Three to five
• Shotgun bullets: One to two

Monster overview

The Bracken is the smartest creature you can face in Lethal Company. It will attack employees from the shadows, going up to them in an instant to snap their neck, and take them back to its lair.

Survival strategies

Look at the Bracken for a short amount of time (one to two seconds) to stop it from attacking. The Flower Man will attack if you stare at it too long. With teammates, use a Zap Gun to stun and then hit the Bracken with the Shovel or Shotgun.

Jester

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Jester is the most terrifying entity in Lethal Company for its speed and shock alone. This creature appears innocent at first, winding itself in front of an employee, hoping you’ll wait it out. If you wait between 10 to 45 seconds during wind-up, the box will spring out, revealing a giant skull. The entity then moves at a ferocious pace, running at any employee wandering in the Facility.

Survival strategies

Reset the Jester’s wind-up time by exiting the Facility, this way it cannot activate its attack mode.

How to counter Lethal Company outdoor entities

Manticoil

• Hostility: Harmless
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: One

Monster overview

Manticoils are harmless.

Roaming Locusts

• Hostility: Harmless
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

Roaming Locusts are harmless.

Tulip Snake

• Hostility: Low
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: One
• Shotgun bullets: One

Monster overview

These airborne creatures work tirelessly to pick you up and drop you from an extreme height. Found most commonly on Adamance, the Tulip Snakes like to swarm their prey by grabbing and lifting them high into the air. While it is unlikely you’ll die from the fall, things get rather tense once your health falls critically low. These monsters attach to your body one by one, where a total of three Tulip Snakes can grab hold of you at once.

Survival strategies

Avoid running and jumping once these little rascals grab hold of you.

Baboon Hawk

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Four
• Shotgun bullets: One to two

Monster overview

The Baboon Hawk look for prey between the main entrance and ship. They are harmless if you’re close proximity to friends.

Survival strategies

Look out for their nests because they can only spawn if one of these is visible (wooden sticks connected by string at the top). Drop your loot and run away if the Baboon Hawks group up to attack you. Stick together to scare away the Baboon Hawk as they will only attack if you’re on your own.

Kidnapper Fox

• Hostility: Medium
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: Seven
• Shotgun bullets: Two to four

Monster overview

The Kidnapper Fox isn’t currently active in Lethal Company.

The Kidnapper Fox can only spawn near a collection of Vain Shroud. These are red weeds, most commonly found on Vow. A Kidnapper Fox will lie in wait or move swiftly across the weeds in an attempt to ambush you. It has a single mode of attack: To grab you with its tongue and reel you in.

Survival strategies

The best way to evade the Fox’s trap is to avoid Vain Shrouds altogether unless they block the path back to the Dropship. Use Weed Killer to remove Vain Shrouds. Attempting to hit the Fox on its head while your friend is lassoed will likely result in your explosive demise.

Circuit Bees

• Hostility: Low to medium
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

Circuit Bees are harmless if you leave them alone. If approached, the bee swarm will fly and attack any nearby employees, electrocuting them until they die.

Survival strategies

Use the TZP Inhalant and keep your inventory light if you want to steal the hive. Take the bee hive back in pairs or multiple attempts if you are on your own. Wait until your stamina is full, then grab the hive, run as far as you can with it, and drop it when your stamina runs out. Swap out with a teammate or wait until your stamina has replenished to move the hive again. Place the hive at the back of the ship and move it inside after you pull the lever to return to orbit.

Eyeless Dog

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: 12
• Shotgun bullets: Three to six

Monster overview

The Eyeless Dogs move between the main entrance and ship, listening out for employees talking and running around. They can enter the ship and climb stairs, making them one of the hardest creatures to avoid. These creatures can die in Thunderstorms.

Survival strategies

Avoid running, jumping, and using open mic. Remain crouched and never speak if you have proximity chat activated.

Forest Giant

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: Yes
• Shovel hits: 38

Monster overview

The Forest Giant has excellent vision, spotting employees far away where it will then run away you. While it’s slow, the Giant is a persistent threat that will eat you if it grabs you.

Survival strategies

Multiple Giants can spawn at once. Use the trees as cover to avoid the giant spotting you. The TZP-Inhalant is great to retreat to the Facility or Home Base and get away from the Giant if it is chasing you. If it attacks, the Zap Gun and Stun Grenade can free any teammates from the Giant’s grasp.

Earth Leviathan

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The ground will shake near you if the Leviathan is close by. It stays underground until it finds you directly above it. You will get killed if you stand still in the rumbles.

Survival strategies

Run backward and away from the shaking ground before it attacks. Check the monitor inside the ship for the giant red dot that tracks the Leviathan’s movements. You can either transmit a message using the Signal Translator to broadcast the Leviathan’s presence near the ship or use the Walkie-talkies to warn others of nearby danger as they approach the Home Base.

Old Bird

• Hostility: High
• Can it be killed: No

Monster overview

The Old Bird is the toughest monster to counter due to its wide range of weapons, attacks (flamethrower and missiles), and its ability to fly. While their activation time varies (earliest activation at 3pm), they are activated sooner if you pick up the Apparatus. The Old Bird will fight other outdoor creatures.

Survival strategies

The best way to avoid the Old Bird is to use the Jetpack or TZP Inhalant to keep you out of harm’s way, letting you easily move scrap without taking damage from the child-screaming mechanical abomination.

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