Weredragon

Weredragons are big, half-beast, half-dragon. They make their first appearance on E2M1, The Crater. Weredragons, like the player and the gargoyle, can be gibbed if killed by an attack that inflicts significant damage.

Description from the manual: ''The Weredragons infest the darkest lairs of the Order. Possessing all of the strength and agility of a tank, these lumbering creatures belch a body-blasting fireball.''

Note: The manual incorrectly states that the player will encounter ghost Weredragons.



Tactical analysis
Their skin colour allows them to blent in somewhat in cave and dark areas. Weredragons attack the player by spitting out fireballs which inflict up to 32 points of damage. Weredragons do not have a melee attack.

When killed, Weredragons sometimes drop Ethereal Arrows giving double the ammo as normal arrow items.

Data

 * 1) These tables assume that all calls to P_Random for damage, pain chance, impact animations, backfire checks, and smoke trails are consecutive. In real play, this is never the case: counterattacks and AI pathfinding must be handled, and of course the map may contain additional moving monsters and other randomized phenomena (such as flickering lights). Any resulting errors are probably toward the single-shot average, as they introduce noise into the correlation between the indices of "consecutive" calls.
 * 2) Hardcoded exception to infighting negates damage (excepting indirect damage caused by exploding puff pods).

Appearance statistics
The Weredragon is first encountered on these maps:

The IWAD contains the following numbers of Weredragons: