Sabreclaw

The Sabreclaw is a moderate-level enemy species in Heretic. Most Doom players associate the Sabreclaw as equivalent to Doom's Demon monster. Both move fast around the maps, and can only hit the player at close range. The Sabreclaw's characteristics include a bladed tail, and axe-handed claws to slice into enemies with. They have 150 hit points, the same as the Demon. When killed, Sabreclaw sometimes drops Lesser Runes. The best way to deal with them is to use the hellstaff, mainly because of its rate of fire combined with the fact that it pushes them away from the player, which can utilized for preventing the player from being cornered.

Some source ports refer to the Sabreclaw as "Clink", "Clinker" or "Scorpion".

The first occurence of Sabreclaws is in The Lava Pits.