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[[image:Heretic-Gargoyles.png|thumb|right|256px|Gargoyles in Heretic E1M1]]
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{{gendisambigabout|the monster from Heretic|the monster from Doom Eternal|Gargoyle (Doom Eternal)}}
'''Gargoyles''' and '''Fire Gargoyles''' are small, red and have wings, allowing them to float and fly around the map.  
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[[File:Heretic-Gargoyles.png|thumb|Gargoyles in Heretic [[E1M1: The Docks (Heretic)|E1M1: The Docks]]]]
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'''Gargoyles''' and '''Fire Gargoyles''' are enemies in [[Heretic]]. They are small, red and have wings, allowing them to float and fly around the map.  
  
Normal Gargoyles at close range slash at the player with their claws and can dive at the player from range to quickly close the distance. They have 40 [[Hit points]].
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Normal gargoyles at close range slash at the player with their claws and can dive at the player from range to quickly close the distance. They have 40 [[hit point]]s.  Unlike the [[lost soul]] in [[Doom]], the impact of a gargoyle's swoop will make [[Corvus]] grunt, but does not actually injure him; only when the gargoyle starts clawing will damage be inflicted.
  
Fire Gargoyles instead of both the above attacks, throw small fireballs at the player. Fire Gargoyles also have 80 Hit Points, the same as the regular [[Golem]].
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The fire gargoyles will instead throw small fireballs at the player, lacking both the swoop and the melee attack. They also have 80 hit points, the same as the regular [[golem]].
  
Gargoyles appear on almost every level of Heretic.
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Gargoyles appear in almost every level of Heretic.
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Description of gargoyle from the manual: ''Half-demon and half-bat. these wicked red beasts are the Order's guard dogs of the sky.''
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Description of fire gargoyle from the manual: ''As if flying demons weren't enough, Fire Gargoyles toss balls of fire down on their unsuspecting enemy.''
  
 
== Tactical analysis ==
 
== Tactical analysis ==
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Gargoyles are smaller than other bad guys making them harder to hit. The ability to fly and their small size grants them a high level of mobility and ability to access small areas.
 
Gargoyles are smaller than other bad guys making them harder to hit. The ability to fly and their small size grants them a high level of mobility and ability to access small areas.
  
The Fire Gargoyle doesn't possess either the ability to dash or attack the player in melee like the standard Gargoyle.
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Both types of gargoyle look exactly alike, but can be identified by observing their attack behavior at range: those that swoop in at the player are always the regular variety, while fire gargoyles will hang back and throw projectiles.
  
While Gargoyles may be easy to dispatch individually, they often appear in large groups where they can potentially overwhelm the player.
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While gargoyles may be easy to dispatch individually, with a single point-blank blast of the [[Ethereal Crossbow]] killing the regular variety most of the time, they often appear in large groups where they can potentially overwhelm the player.  When encountered in smaller groups, even the [[Elven Wand]] is generally sufficient.
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The two varieties of gargoyle will [[infight]] each other, but regular gargoyles ignore the swoop impact of their brethren.
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The projectiles of fire gargoyles will be moved by [[wind]].
  
 
== Data ==
 
== Data ==
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   !colspan=2|Attributes
 
   !colspan=2|Attributes
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |ID # ||66 (Regular Gargoyle decimal), 42 (Regular Gargoyle hex), 5 (Fire Gargoyle decimal and hex)
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   |ID # ||66 (regular Gargoyle decimal), 42 (regular Gargoyle hex),<br/>5 (Fire Gargoyle decimal and hex)
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Hit points||40 (regular), 80 (fire)
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   |[[Hit point]]s||40 (regular), 80 (fire)
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Speed||10
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   |Speed||10 [[map unit]]s per frame<br />(116.6667 map units per second)
 
   |-
 
   |-
 
   |Width||32
 
   |Width||32
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   |Reaction time||8
 
   |Reaction time||8
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Pain chance||200 (78.13%)
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   |[[Pain chance]]||200 (79.30%)
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Mass||50
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   |[[Mass]]||50
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Bits||?
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   |Bits||4211206<br/>4160
 
   |}
 
   |}
 
  |-
 
  |-
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   |-
 
   |-
 
   |
 
   |
Obstacle
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1: Obstacle
  
Shootable
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2: Shootable
  
Affects Kill %
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9: Nogravity
  
Float
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14: Floating
  
Nogravity
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22: Affects Kill %
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  |-
 +
  |
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6: Spawn Float
  
Spawn Float
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12: Pass Mobj
 
 
Pass Mobj
 
 
   |}
 
   |}
 
  |}
 
  |}
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|valign=top|
 
|valign=top|
 
  {|
 
  {|
|
 
 
  |
 
  |
 
   {| {{prettytable}} width=100%
 
   {| {{prettytable}} width=100%
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   |}
 
   |}
 
  |-
 
  |-
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|
 
   {| {{prettytable}} width=100%
 
   {| {{prettytable}} width=100%
 
   !colspan=2|Fire Gargoyle fireball ranged attack
 
   !colspan=2|Fire Gargoyle fireball ranged attack
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   |Type||[[Projectile]]<br />
 
   |Type||[[Projectile]]<br />
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Speed||10 [[map unit]]s per tic<br />(? map units per second)
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   |Speed||10 [[map unit]]s per tic<br />(350 map units per second)
 
   |-
 
   |-
   |Damage||
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   |Damage||1-8
 
   |-
 
   |-
 
   |Width||16
 
   |Width||16
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| '''Swipes needed to kill'''<sup>1</sup>
 
| '''Swipes needed to kill'''<sup>1</sup>
 
| Mean
 
| Mean
| [[Wikipedia:Standard deviation#Interpretation and application|Standard<br />deviation]]
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| {{wp|Standard deviation#Interpretation and application|Standard<br />deviation}}
 
| Min
 
| Min
 
| Max
 
| Max
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Player]] (100%<br />[[health]], no [[armors|armor]])||?||?||?||?
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|[[Player]] (100%<br />[[health]], no [[armors|armor]])||15||?||9||20
 
|-
 
|-
|Player (100%<br />health, [[Silver Shield]])||?||?||?||?
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|Player (100%<br />health, [[Silver Shield]])||29||?||18||40
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Player (200%<br />health, [[Enchanted Shield]])||?||?||?||?
 
|Player (200%<br />health, [[Enchanted Shield]])||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
|Player [[Chicken]]||?||?||?||?
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|Player [[Chicken]]||?||?||3||6
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Bad Guy [[Chicken]]||?||?||?||?
 
|Bad Guy [[Chicken]]||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Gargoyle]]||?||?||?||?
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|[[Gargoyle]]||?||?||4||8
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Fire Gargoyle]]||?||?||?||?
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|[[Gargoyle|Fire Gargoyle]]||?||?||7||16
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Golem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|[[Golem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Golem| Nitro Golem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
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|[[Golem|Nitrogolem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Undead Warrior]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|[[Undead Warrior]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
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| '''Fireballs needed to kill'''<sup>1</sup>
 
| '''Fireballs needed to kill'''<sup>1</sup>
 
| Mean
 
| Mean
| [[Wikipedia:Standard deviation#Interpretation and application|Standard<br />deviation]]
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| {{wp|Standard deviation#Interpretation and application|Standard<br />deviation}}
 
| Min
 
| Min
 
| Max
 
| Max
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Player]] (100%<br />[[health]], no [[armors|armor]])||?||?||?||?
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|[[Player]] (100%<br />[[health]], no [[armors|armor]])||?||?||13||100
 
|-
 
|-
|Player (100%<br />health, [[Silver Shield]])||?||?||?||?
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|Player (100%<br />health, [[Silver Shield]])||?||?||26||100
 
|-
 
|-
|Player (200%<br />health, [[Enchanted Shield]])||?||?||?||?
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|Player (200%<br />health, [[Enchanted Shield]])||?||?||34||100
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Player [[Chicken]]||?||?||?||?
 
|Player [[Chicken]]||?||?||?||?
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|[[Gargoyle]]||?||?||?||?
 
|[[Gargoyle]]||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Fire Gargoyle]]<sup>2</sup>||||||||
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|[[Gargoyle|Fire Gargoyle]]<sup>2</sup>||||||||
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Golem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|[[Golem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Golem| Nitro Golem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
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|[[Golem|Nitrogolem]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Undead Warrior]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
 
|[[Undead Warrior]] (normal and ghost)||?||?||?||?
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|}
 
|}
 
<small>
 
<small>
#These tables assume that all calls to [[Pseudorandom number generator|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 [[Sector#Vanilla Doom|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.
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#These tables assume that all calls to [[Pseudorandom number generator|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 [[Sector#Doom|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.
#Fire Gargoyles are immune to eachothers fireballs and hence can not damage each other excepting indirect damage caused by exploding puff pods.
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#Fire Gargoyles are immune to each others fireballs and hence can not damage each other excepting indirect damage caused by exploding puff pods.
 
</small>
 
</small>
  
 
== Appearance statistics ==
 
== Appearance statistics ==
  
The Gargoyle is first encountered on these maps:
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In the [[IWAD]]s the gargoyle is first encountered on these maps per [[Skill level#Heretic skill levels|skill level]]:
{| {{prettytable}}
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!Game||[[Thou needeth a wet-nurse|TNAWN]] and [[Yellowbellies-r-us|YRU]]||[[Bringest them oneth|BTO]]||[[Thou art a smite-meister|TAASM]] and [[Black Plague possesses thee|BPPT]]
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{{col-begin}}
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{{col-break|width=50%}}
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{| {{prettytable}}
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!colspan="4"|Single-player
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|-
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!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|''[[City of the Damned]]''||[[E1M1: The Docks]]||E1M1: The Docks||E1M1: The Docks
 
|-
 
|-
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|''[[Hell's Maw]]''||[[E2M1: The Crater]]||E2M1: The Crater||E2M1: The Crater
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|-
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|''[[The Dome of D'Sparil]]''||[[E3M1: The Storehouse]]||E3M1: The Storehouse||E3M1: The Storehouse
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|-
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|''[[The Ossuary]]''||[[E4M1: Catafalque]]||E4M1: Catafalque||E4M1: Catafalque
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|-
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|''[[The Stagnant Demesne]]''||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs
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|-
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|''[[Fate's Path]]''||[[E6M1: Raven's Lair]]||E6M1: Raven's Lair||E6M1: Raven's Lair
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|}
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{{col-break}}
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{| {{prettytable}}
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!colspan="4"|Multiplayer
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|-
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!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
 +
|''City of the Damned''||E1M1: The Docks||E1M1: The Docks||E1M1: The Docks
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|-
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|''Hell's Maw''||E2M1: The Crater||E2M1: The Crater||E2M1: The Crater
 +
|-
 +
|''The Dome of D'Sparil''||E3M1: The Storehouse||E3M1: The Storehouse||E3M1: The Storehouse
 +
|-
 +
|''The Ossuary''||E4M1: Catafalque||E4M1: Catafalque||E4M1: Catafalque
 +
|-
 +
|''The Stagnant Demesne''||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs
 +
|-
 +
|''Fate's Path''||E6M1: Raven's Lair||E6M1: Raven's Lair||E6M1: Raven's Lair
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|}
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{{col-end}}
  
|Episode 1||[[E1M1: The Docks (Heretic)| E1M1: The Docks]]||[[E1M1: The Docks (Heretic)| E1M1: The Docks]]||[[E1M1: The Docks (Heretic)| E1M1: The Docks]]
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The IWADs contain the following numbers of gargoyles per skill level:
|-
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|Episode 2||[[E2M1: The Crater (Heretic)| E2M1: The Crater]]||[[E2M1: The Crater (Heretic)| E2M1: The Crater]]||[[E2M1: The Crater (Heretic)| E2M1: The Crater]]
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{{col-begin}}
|-
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{{col-break|width=50%}}
|Episode 3||[[E3M1: The Storehouse (Heretic)| E3M1: The Storehouse]]||[[E3M1: The Storehouse (Heretic)| E3M1: The Storehouse]]||[[E3M1: The Storehouse (Heretic)| E3M1: The Storehouse]]
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{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
|-
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!colspan="4"|Single-player
|Episode 4||[[E4M1: Catafalque (Heretic)| E4M1: Catafalque]]||[[E4M1: Catafalque (Heretic)| E4M1: Catafalque]]||[[E4M1: Catafalque (Heretic)| E4M1: Catafalque]]
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|-
|-
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!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
|Episode 5||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs (Heretic)| E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs (Heretic)| E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs (Heretic)| E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[City of the Damned]]''||''171''||''284''||''345''
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|''[[Hell's Maw]]''||''166''||''241''||''299''
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[The Dome of D'Sparil]]''||''105''||''172''||''216''
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Heretic|Heretic (registered)]]||442||697||860
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|''[[The Ossuary]]''||''184''||''238''||''259''
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|''[[The Stagnant Demesne]]''||''162''||''211''||''231''
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[Fate's Path]]''||''30''||''30''||''30''
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Shadow of the Serpent Riders]]||818||1176||1380
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|}
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{{col-break}}
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{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
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!colspan="4"|Multiplayer
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|-
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!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''City of the Damned''||''171''||''284''||''345''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''Hell's Maw''||''166''||''241''||''299''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''The Dome of D'Sparil''||''105''||''172''||''216''
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|Heretic (registered)||442||697||860
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''The Ossuary''||''184''||''238''||''259''
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''The Stagnant Demesne''||''162''||''211''||''231''
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|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''Fate's Path''||''30''||''30''||''30''
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Shadow of the Serpent Riders||818||1176||1380
 
|}
 
|}
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{{col-end}}
  
The Fire Gargoyle is first encountered on these maps:
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The fire gargoyle is first encountered on these maps:
{| {{prettytable}}
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!Game||[[Thou needeth a wet-nurse|TNAWN]] and [[Yellowbellies-r-us|YRU]]||[[Bringest them oneth|BTO]]||[[Thou art a smite-meister|TAASM]] and [[Black Plague possesses thee|BPPT]]
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{{col-begin}}
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{{col-break|width=50%}}
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{| {{prettytable}}
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!colspan="4"|Single-player
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|-
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!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|''[[City of the Damned]]''||[[E1M3: The Gatehouse]]||E1M3: The Gatehouse||E1M3: The Gatehouse
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|-
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|''[[Hell's Maw]]''||[[E2M1: The Crater]]||E2M1: The Crater||E2M1: The Crater
 
|-
 
|-
 
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|''[[The Dome of D'Sparil]]''||[[E3M1: The Storehouse]]||E3M1: The Storehouse||E3M1: The Storehouse
|Episode 1||[[E1M3: The Gatehouse (Heretic)| E1M3: The Gatehouse]]||[[E1M3: The Gatehouse (Heretic)| E1M3: The Gatehouse]]||[[E1M3: The Gatehouse (Heretic)| E1M3: The Gatehouse]]
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|-
|-
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|''[[The Ossuary]]''||[[E4M1: Catafalque]]||E4M1: Catafalque||E4M1: Catafalque
|Episode 2||[[E2M1: The Crater (Heretic)| E2M1: The Crater]]||[[E2M1: The Crater (Heretic)| E2M1: The Crater]]||[[E2M1: The Crater (Heretic)| E2M1: The Crater]]
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|-
|-
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|''[[The Stagnant Demesne]]''||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs
|Episode 3||[[E3M1: The Storehouse (Heretic)| E3M1: The Storehouse]]||[[E3M1: The Storehouse (Heretic)| E3M1: The Storehouse]]||[[E3M1: The Storehouse (Heretic)| E3M1: The Storehouse]]
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|-
|-
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|''[[Fate's Path]]''||[[E6M1: Raven's Lair]]||E6M1: Raven's Lair||E6M1: Raven's Lair
|Episode 4||[[E4M1: Catafalque (Heretic)| E4M1: Catafalque]]||[[E4M1: Catafalque (Heretic)| E4M1: Catafalque]]||[[E4M1: Catafalque (Heretic)| E4M1: Catafalque]]
 
|-
 
|Episode 5||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs (Heretic)| E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs (Heretic)| E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]||[[E5M1: Ochre Cliffs (Heretic)| E5M1: Ochre Cliffs]]
 
 
|}
 
|}
 
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{{col-break}}
The [[IWAD]] contains the following numbers of Gargoyles:
 
 
{| {{prettytable}}
 
{| {{prettytable}}
!Game||[[Thou needeth a wet-nurse|TNAWN]] and [[Yellowbellies-r-us|YRU]]||[[Bringest them oneth|BTO]]||[[Thou art a smite-meister|TAASM]] and [[Black Plague possesses thee|BPPT]]
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!colspan="4"|Multiplayer
 
|-
 
|-
|Episode ?||?||?||?
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!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 
|-
 
|-
|Episode ?||?||?||?
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|''City of the Damned''||E1M3: The Gatehouse||E1M3: The Gatehouse||E1M3: The Gatehouse
 
|-
 
|-
|Episode ?||?||?||?
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|''Hell's Maw''||E2M1: The Crater||E2M1: The Crater||E2M1: The Crater
 
|-
 
|-
|Episode ?||?||?||?
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|''The Dome of D'Sparil''||E3M1: The Storehouse||E3M1: The Storehouse||E3M1: The Storehouse
 
|-
 
|-
|Episode ?||?||?||?
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|''The Ossuary''||E4M1: Catafalque||E4M1: Catafalque||E4M1: Catafalque
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|-
 +
|''The Stagnant Demesne''||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs||E5M1: Ochre Cliffs
 +
|-
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|''Fate's Path''||E6M1: Raven's Lair||E6M1: Raven's Lair||E6M1: Raven's Lair
 
|}
 
|}
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{{col-end}}
  
The [[IWAD]] contains the following numbers of Fire Gargoyles:
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The IWADs contain the following numbers of fire gargoyles:
{| {{prettytable}}
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!Game||[[Thou needeth a wet-nurse|TNAWN]] and [[Yellowbellies-r-us|YRU]]||[[Bringest them oneth|BTO]]||[[Thou art a smite-meister|TAASM]] and [[Black Plague possesses thee|BPPT]]
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{{col-begin}}
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{{col-break|width=50%}}
 +
{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
 +
!colspan="4"|Single-player
 +
|-
 +
!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[City of the Damned]]''||''44''||''74''||''85''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[Hell's Maw]]''||''48''||''81''||''96''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[The Dome of D'Sparil]]''||''51''||''86''||''112''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Heretic|Heretic (registered)]]||143||241||293
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[The Ossuary]]''||''95''||''157''||''176''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[The Stagnant Demesne]]''||''90''||''145''||''157''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''[[Fate's Path]]''||''54''||''65''||''73''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Shadow of the Serpent Riders]]||382||608||699
 +
|}
 +
{{col-break}}
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{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
 +
!colspan="4"|Multiplayer
 +
|-
 +
!Game / ''Episode''!!1-2!!3!!4-5
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''City of the Damned''||''44''||''74''||''85''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''Hell's Maw''||''48''||''81''||''96''
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align: left;"|''The Dome of D'Sparil''||''51''||''86''||''112''
 
|-
 
|-
|Episode ?||?||?||?
+
|style="text-align: left;"|Heretic (registered)||143||241||293
 
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Revision as of 22:13, 20 March 2019

This article is about the monster from Heretic. For the monster from Doom Eternal, see Gargoyle (Doom Eternal).
Gargoyles in Heretic E1M1: The Docks

Gargoyles and Fire Gargoyles are enemies in Heretic. They are small, red and have wings, allowing them to float and fly around the map.

Normal gargoyles at close range slash at the player with their claws and can dive at the player from range to quickly close the distance. They have 40 hit points. Unlike the lost soul in Doom, the impact of a gargoyle's swoop will make Corvus grunt, but does not actually injure him; only when the gargoyle starts clawing will damage be inflicted.

The fire gargoyles will instead throw small fireballs at the player, lacking both the swoop and the melee attack. They also have 80 hit points, the same as the regular golem.

Gargoyles appear in almost every level of Heretic.

Description of gargoyle from the manual: Half-demon and half-bat. these wicked red beasts are the Order's guard dogs of the sky.

Description of fire gargoyle from the manual: As if flying demons weren't enough, Fire Gargoyles toss balls of fire down on their unsuspecting enemy.

Tactical analysis

Gargoyles are smaller than other bad guys making them harder to hit. The ability to fly and their small size grants them a high level of mobility and ability to access small areas.

Both types of gargoyle look exactly alike, but can be identified by observing their attack behavior at range: those that swoop in at the player are always the regular variety, while fire gargoyles will hang back and throw projectiles.

While gargoyles may be easy to dispatch individually, with a single point-blank blast of the Ethereal Crossbow killing the regular variety most of the time, they often appear in large groups where they can potentially overwhelm the player. When encountered in smaller groups, even the Elven Wand is generally sufficient.

The two varieties of gargoyle will infight each other, but regular gargoyles ignore the swoop impact of their brethren.

The projectiles of fire gargoyles will be moved by wind.

Data

Attributes
ID # 66 (regular Gargoyle decimal), 42 (regular Gargoyle hex),
5 (Fire Gargoyle decimal and hex)
Hit points 40 (regular), 80 (fire)
Speed 10 map units per frame
(116.6667 map units per second)
Width 32
Height 36
Reaction time 8
Pain chance 200 (79.30%)
Mass 50
Bits 4211206
4160
Bits list

1: Obstacle

2: Shootable

9: Nogravity

14: Floating

22: Affects Kill %

6: Spawn Float

12: Pass Mobj

Sprites & sounds
Sprite name IMPX
Alert sound IMPSIT
Action sound IMPACT
Pain sound IMPPAI
Attack sound IMPATK
Death sound IMPDTH
Gargoyle melee attack
Damage 5-12
Sound IMPAT1
Fire Gargoyle fireball ranged attack
Type Projectile
Speed 10 map units per tic
(350 map units per second)
Damage 1-8
Width 16
Height 8
Sprite name FX10
Swipes needed to kill1 Mean Standard
deviation
Min Max
Player (100%
health, no armor)
15 ? 9 20
Player (100%
health, Silver Shield)
29 ? 18 40
Player (200%
health, Enchanted Shield)
? ? ? ?
Player Chicken ? ? 3 6
Bad Guy Chicken ? ? ? ?
Gargoyle ? ? 4 8
Fire Gargoyle ? ? 7 16
Golem (normal and ghost) ? ? ? ?
Nitrogolem (normal and ghost) ? ? ? ?
Undead Warrior (normal and ghost) ? ? ? ?
Disciple of D'Sparil ? ? ? ?
Sabreclaw ? ? ? ?
Weredragon ? ? ? ?
Ophidian ? ? ?
Iron Lich ? ? ? ?
Maulotaur ? ? ? ?
Green Chaos Serpent ? ? ? ?
D'Sparil ? ? ? ?
Fireballs needed to kill1 Mean Standard
deviation
Min Max
Player (100%
health, no armor)
? ? 13 100
Player (100%
health, Silver Shield)
? ? 26 100
Player (200%
health, Enchanted Shield)
? ? 34 100
Player Chicken ? ? ? ?
Bad Guy Chicken ? ? ? ?
Gargoyle ? ? ? ?
Fire Gargoyle2
Golem (normal and ghost) ? ? ? ?
Nitrogolem (normal and ghost) ? ? ? ?
Undead Warrior (normal and ghost) ? ? ? ?
Disciple of D'Sparil ? ? ? ?
Sabreclaw ? ? ? ?
Weredragon ? ? ? ?
Ophidian ? ? ?
Iron Lich ? ? ? ?
Maulotaur ? ? ? ?
Green Chaos Serpent ? ? ? ?
D'Sparil ? ? ? ?

  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. Fire Gargoyles are immune to each others fireballs and hence can not damage each other excepting indirect damage caused by exploding puff pods.

Appearance statistics

In the IWADs the gargoyle is first encountered on these maps per skill level:

The IWADs contain the following numbers of gargoyles per skill level:

The fire gargoyle is first encountered on these maps:

The IWADs contain the following numbers of fire gargoyles:

Monsters from Heretic