Strawberry Lizard



Strawberry Lizards are a new variant of found exclusively in the Downpour DLC. They are seemingly exclusive to 's campaign.

Appearance
Strawberry Lizards are most notable for their small, narrow size, horns, short stiff antennae curved towards its back and tongue grappling ability. Their diet consists of the standard Lizard prey, though they also attempt to capture.

Combat
Strawberry Lizards may be clumsy and slow using all four of its legs to slide it forward however poses a prominent threat if it grapples onto you with its tongue, allowing them to be pulled forward if you try to get away from it. You can prevent them from trailing behind by hitting their head with stunning them for a short period of time, being vulnerable when they flip over exposing their soft body that is able to be damaged by a  throw. Strawberry Lizards will still attempt to pursuit the even when sustaining grave injuries noticeably appears to be limping but gradually pick up speed greater than before from being agitated from the attack, it takes about 2-3 spear hits to kill a Strawberry Lizard.

Stealth
Strawberry Lizards doesn't have great hearing, but it compensates with the lack of hearing by almost being on the move actively hunting in areas, making it a nuisance when trying to not to walk into it but it will get easily distracted by insignificant prey such as batflies they deemed as viable food source from being abundant in most rooms.

Evasion
Strawberry Lizards cannot outpace the walking speed of slugcat and have difficulty walking in ragged, uneven terrains, its tongue attack needs quick reaction time with maneuvering out of the way from it. Though persistent on hunting down their prey can be easily lose track of them due to its slower mobility wise.

Grapple Tongue
Strawberry Lizards can shoot out their tongue and pull themselves towards the location of where it landed, as long as it does not land on a living creature. They intentionally use this to reach normally out of reach prey. The tongue of Strawberry Lizards is of similar length to that of s and is likewise used to catch prey from a distance.

Trivia

 * Their grapple tongue ability is similar to 's.
 * They can appear in other campaigns through the Lineage System, and won't have hair on their head if spawned this way.