Enemies

In Dungeon Defenders II, players must defend their Main Cores and Sub Objectives from various creatures. These creatures are the minions of the Old Ones, an overarching evil presence in the world of Etheria.

Common Enemies

Most of these enemies (with the exceptions of certain variants) will be encountered from Campaign and Adventures onwards.

Goblin Enemy Types: Goblin, Melee. Variants: Griblok, Timmy, Carnival Goblin. Light melee attacker.	Bomb Goblin Enemy Types: Goblin, Ranged. Variants: Quibly, Sammie the Trapper, Carnival Bomb Goblin. Light close-ranged attacker.
Warboars Enemy Types: Warboar, Melee. Variants: Tuskar, Dark Prophet. Medium melee attacker.	Javelin Throwers Enemy Types: Ranged. Variants: Statch the Stalker, Pie Thrower. Medium ranged attacker. Projectiles pierces through defenses.
Orcs Enemy Types: Orc, Melee. Variants: Steiner the Hunter, Zombie, Treet. Heavy melee attacker.	Drakin Enemy Types: Ranged. Heavy ranged attacker. Spits a volley of fireballs.
Ogre Enemy Types: Melee, Miniboss. Variants: MR. SKWISH'N SMASH, Wyvern Enthusiast brothers. Extreme melee attacker. Deals slam attacks for a small area damage and throws snot balls that slows heroes on hit	Wyverns Enemy Types: Ranged. Variants: Sniper Wyvern, Strange Wyvern. Flying ranged attacker.
Lightning Bug Enemy Types: Ranged. Variants: Lava Bug Flying ranged attacker. Fires lightning projectiles that bounces between nearby targets.	Dark Mage Enemy Types: Ranged, Support. Variants: Maldonis the Dark, Malthius, Elemental Mages. Periodically summons skeletons from dead enemies, heals nearby allies and fires projectiles that debuffs defenses.
Skeleton Enemy Types: Skeleton, Melee. Summoned by Dark Mages from dead enemies. Light melee attacker.	Skeleton Enemy Types: Skeleton, Melee. Variants: Slekeleon, Plaguing Hulk, Trikk. Summoned by Dark Mages from dead enemies. Moderate melee attacker.
Witherbeast Enemy Types: Support. Variants: Golden Witherbeast. Damage resistant enemy that burrows underground to emit an aura that increases damage taken by defenses while also healing allies.	Kobold Enemy Types: Support. Variants: Explodinator. Suicidal enemy when near a target or on low health. Charges to its target at high speed and exploding on contact, dealing a high amount of damage.
Kobold Flier Enemy Types: Support. Variants: Carnival Flyer. Suicidal flying enemy that dive-bombs at high speed and exploding on contact when near a target or on low health.	Goblin Siege Roller Enemy Types: Goblin, Miniboss. Slow-paced war machine with a tanky exterior that's extremely resistant to damage. Attacks with rockets that targets random heroes and a frontal spiked roller that deals massive continuous damage to anything that blocks it.
Cannon Ogre Enemy Types: Ranged, Miniboss. Extreme ranged attacker. Uses a large cannon that deals a massive amount of burst damage. Also capable of using melee attacks on heroes if they are too close.

Chaos Enemies

Unique enemies that requires different strategies to counter them. They appear in various Chaos difficulties of Onslaught, Expeditions, Incursions and Mastery.

Vanguard Enemy Types: Gobu, Melee, Chaos. Variants: Shield Goblin Gorbstock. Chaos I enemy. Uses a frontal shield to block all incoming frontal projectiles.	Cybork Enemy Types: Orc, Melee, Chaos. Variants: Thorc the Terrible. Chaos II enemy. Attacks sends out EMP bolts that disables Trap, Aura and Node-type defenses.
Geode Enemy Types: Ranged, Support, Chaos. Variants: Geode Prime. Chaos III enemy. Encompassing bubble shield that deflects all projectiles in random directions.	Berserker Orc Enemy Types: Orc, Melee, Chaos. Variants: Gnash the Flame Lance. Chaos IV enemy. Very speedy and potently resistant to slowing effects. Fierce heavy melee attacker.
Dark Assassin Enemy Types: Melee, Chaos. Variants: Skarnash the Terrible, Altar Assassin. Chaos V enemy. Teleports and latches to heroes from spawn, disabling their targets while at the same time attacking to deal damage.	Hex Thrower Enemy Types: Ranged, Chaos. Variants: Sniper Warbleed. Chaos VI enemy. Javelins produces curse marks on the ground that debuffs defenses. Has more coverage for projectile throwing distance than regular Javelin Throwers.
Kobolt Enemy Types: Support, Chaos. Variants: Zapper. Chaos VII enemy. Dive-bombs towards targets when aggroed, exploding in an EMP burst that disables Tower-type defenses while dealing high damage too.	Death Weaver Enemy Types: Melee, Chaos. Variants: Queen Death Weaver. Chaos VIII enemy. Attacks will web heroes on hit, slowing their move speed. Leaves behind a large spiderweb on the ground when defeated - any defenses within the webbing will be debuffed. Highly resistant to crowd control effects.
Elder Wyvern Enemy Types: Ranged, Support, Chaos. Variants: Ancient Wyvern. Chaos IX enemy. Emits an aura that grants other enemies additional resistance to damage and immunity to crowd control effects.	Berserker Goblin Enemy Types: Gobu, Melee, Support, Chaos. Chaos X War Party enemy. Immune to slow effects. Carries an explosive that detonates on death which will stun any nearby defenses.
Orc Queen Enemy Types: Orc, Melee, Chaos Chaos X War Party enemy. Berserker Orcs with the addition of having potent resistance to stun effects.	Orc Chieftain Enemy Types: Orc, Melee, Chaos Variants: Orc Warlord. Chaos X War Party enemy. Unleashes a warcry when in low health, granting themselves (and any nearby goblins and orcs in a slightly different way) increased speed, healing over time and massive resistance to damage for a short period of time.

Special Stage Enemies

Enemies with unique abilities that originates from specific maps but will also occasionally and interchangeably appear in other maps or gamemodes.

Lava Guardian Enemy Types: Ranged. Origin Stage: The Demon's Lair Incursion. Attacks produces an AoE line of damaging lava fissures that launches any heroes in its way upwards. Drops a lava boulder pickup on death.	Bastille Master Enemy Types: Melee, Miniboss. Origin Stage: Bastille Master Incursion. Periodically puts up golden energy shields around her and any surrounding allies that multiplies any damage taken, before reflecting it back to the source.
Captain Dreadbones Enemy Types: Orc, Melee, Miniboss. Origin Stage: Dark Awakening Incursion. Cursed power buffs nearby enemy allies and also debuffs heroes and defenses when struck by his scythe. Very speedy.	Windshaper Enemy Types: Ranged, Support. Variants: Cyclone Shaper, Tornado Forger, Wind Lord. Origin Stage: Tornado Valley Region Expeditions Casts large piercing cyclones that knocks heroes up.
Stone Wolf Enemy Types: ??? Variants: Elite Stone Wolf. Origin Stage: Malakai's Sewers and Malakai's Manor Expeditions Morph itself into stone for a short period of time, rendering it immune to damage and taunts nearby towers into attacking as well.	Frost Goblin Enemy Types: Frosty, Gobu, Melee. Origin Stage: Revenge of the Yeti Incursion. Tougher and faster than regular goblins. Attacks produces slow effects that slows their target. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.
Frost Bomb Goblin Enemy Types: Frosty, Gobu, Ranged. Origin Stage: Revenge of the Yeti Incursion. Much more ferocious than regular bomb goblins. Attacks produces slow effects that slows their target. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.	Frost Orc Enemy Types: Frosty, Orc, Melee. Origin Stage: Revenge of the Yeti Incursion. Emits a chilling aura that slows nearby defenses down. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.
Ice Mage Enemy Types: Frosty, Support, Ranged. Origin Stage: Revenge of the Yeti Incursion. Charged attack fires a large chilling snowball that passes through heroes and slowing down defenses as well. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.	Drakin Skeleton Enemy Types: Frosty, Ranged. Origin Stage: Revenge of the Yeti Incursion. Fires a volley of chilling snowballs that slows both heroes and defenses on hit. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.
Yeti Enemy Types: Frosty, Melee, Miniboss. Origin Stage: Revenge of the Yeti Incursion. Throws snowballs that completely freezes both heroes and defenses. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.	Drakenlord Enemy Types: Frosty, Melee, Miniboss. Origin Stage: Drakenfrost Keep Expeditions. Covers himself with an icy spherical aura that greatly reduces any damage taken while also slowing and eventually freezing anything within its radius before striking them down with specters. Has 50% resistance to water damage and takes double damage to fire.
Spooky Heroes Enemy Types: (Squire & Monk) - Skeleton, Melee. (Apprentice & Huntress) - Skeleton, Ranged. Four minibosses - skeleton versions of the original four heroes. Deals a good amount of damage and knockback.

Bosses

Large major enemies with challenging special mechanics that heavily defines specifics rounds. Essentially....these are boss fights!

• Stationary boss fight - The boss is only positioned in one or several specific spots during its attack phase, players will need to go to the boss to defeat them.
• Free-roaming boss fight - The boss is mobile. Players will be able to aggro them to various areas in the map.

Betsy Encountered in: The Wyvern's Den Campaign or Prime VI Incursion 5th wave. Stationary boss fight. Within the giant wyvern's arena, heroes will have to deal with her devastating firebreath/fireball attacks, summonings of wyverns and deadly melee claw swipes. Periodically, she will leave the arena to attack the core or other targets within the map.	Harbinger Encountered in: Harbinger's Warship Adventures or Prime VII Incursion. Semi-stationary/free-roaming boss fight that adds an additional attack pattern with each passing phase which includes various vicious melee and range attacks. Also utilizes functions of his warship such as using his cannons to fire at the Core or the opening of a hatch that vacuums nearby heroes into the brig.
Demon Lord Encountered in: The Demon's Lair Chaos IV or Prime II Incursion. Stationary boss fight. Can only be damaged when stunned by catapult-launched lava balls. Attack patterns involves frequently throwing three giant lava boulders at heroes, defenses or core and setting everyone ablaze with roars dealing very minimal chipping damage.	Phoenix Encountered in: Embermount Volcano Expeditions 6th wave. Free-roaming boss fight. Battles with an insane flurry of melee and ranged based attacks. Creates flame trails, spits lava boulders, breathes fire, drops chucks of rocks, executes core-damaging chasm dives & full-bodied physical charges. Incredibly resistant to damage.
Genie King Encountered in: Tornado Highlands Expeditions 6th wave. Stationary boss fight. Fires extremely well-aimed eyebeams and homing spits of various elements that inflicts crippling crowd control effects to targets. Whenever a health breakpoint has been reached, an immunity shield will be placed on the boss which has to be removed by defeating multiple Wind Lords acting as conduits. Unable damage core.	Lava Beast Encountered in: Crystal Mine Expeditions 6th wave. Free-roaming boss fight. Large witherbeast with unique melee and ranged attack abilities that focuses on dealing high knockback and stuns. Other periodic abilities include an instant-death burrow attack and summonings of Lava Bugs as minions. Incredibly resistant to damage.
Lord Malakai Encountered in: Malakai's Manor Expeditions 6th wave. Free-roaming boss fight. Uses a mace and shield to perform various smashing and bashing attacks that specializes in moving defenses. Projectile attacks has the ability to home and pass through terrain. Incredibly resistant to frontal damage.	Eye Of Cthulhu Variants: Demon Eye. Encountered in: Dawn of the Blood Moon in Chaos III or Prime VI Incursion 5th wave. Free-roaming boss fight. Fights in two phases of attack patterns - The first phase have the Eye keeping a short distance from heroes while spawning Demon Eyes. Second phase involves increased movement speed and dealing dive charge attacks after removing half of the boss' health.

Miscellaneous

These enemies are only exclusive to certain Incursions only. They do not appear in Onslaught, Expeditions, Mastery or Survival.

Lady Orcs Variants: Sturgis the Falconer. Female version of an Orc in appearance. (Currently only existing as Sturgis the Falconer in Forest Poachers Incursion)