Fire Claw

Fire Claw
Level	20
Race	Unknown
Zone	Labyrinth - Stage 9 (Boss)

Fire Claw are enemies that appear in Labyrinth during Sonny 2. They only appear in one stage, as allies of The Hydra.

Battle

Attributes

Attributes		LV20
EASY	Speed	119
	Instinct	42
	Strength	42
	HP	3264
CHALLENGING	Speed	132
	Instinct	84
	Strength	84
	HP	5549
HEROIC	Speed	132
	Instinct	105
	Strength	105
	HP	6528
Focus	100	Physical	Cosmic	Ice	Fire	Lightning	Earth	Shadow	Poison
Target Weakest	Piercing	100	100	100	150	100	100	100	100
15%	Defense	180	450	20	450	20	450	450	15

Abilities

Fireball	Cost	CD	Available Targets	Number on Action Bar
	None	0	Enemies	1
			Element	Damage/Healing
			Fire	300% Strength
			Accuracy modifier	Additional notes
			1
	Burns	This unit is suffering from burns.		Lasts 4 turns. Damaged for 40% caster's Strength.
	Debuff

Leading Strike	Cost	CD	Available Targets	Number on Action Bar
	None	0	Enemies	1
			Element	Damage/Healing
			Physical	170% Strength
			Accuracy modifier	Additional notes
			2	Sonny can also use Leading Strike. Caster recovers 50 Focus.

Ability Selection

Notes on enemy AI:	While in a given battle stage, enemies will attempt to use First Choice abilities. If impossible (due to focus, silencing or cooldowns), they will proceed to Second Choice, etc. Cooldown for enemies indicates how often abilities may be used, and is effectively one less than for Sonny (IE cooldown of 2 can be used every second turn) Enemy-targetting abilities have a chance of targetting the weakest enemy rather than targetting at random; this is given in the Attributes section above. Ally-targetting abilities always target the weakest targetable ally. Selection within a category is random unless indicated. All exceptions noted below.
Battle Stages	First Choice	Second Choice	Third Choice
All friendly units above 1% HP	Fireball
Weakest friendly unit below 1% HP	Fireball Leading Strike

Tactics

As they only use Leading Strike when an ally is below 1% HP, Fireball is effectively their only ability. Despite it being somewhat weak, they can inflict a lot of damage if the ability stacks.

It is best to destroy these Fire Claws before focusing all attacks on the Hydra. Amplified Fire damage on top of the attacks of the Hydra can be vexing, but Fire Claws are much easier to destroy because of their substantially lower health.

Fire Claws are also more susceptible to the Lightning attacks, taking substantially more damage than the oridnary attacks. On the other hand, they also have high Shadow defense. For the Psychologicals, it is highly recommended that they confront Fire Claws using Lightning abilities.

They also have low Ice Defense, so Ice abilities are also effective.

Poison abilities also deal a large amount of damage.

Drops

They drop nothing.

Trivia

• Fire Claws use the ability Leading Strike, despite not having a melee animation. Because of this, they approach the target but do not actually attack them when using the ability.

See Also

• The Hydra
• Labyrinth