Krampus

Krampus

Village of Despair • Krampus Frosthold • Sticker

Event Content

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Krampus (Krampus Frosthold) has been removed from the game as of the 31st of January 2024 as it was part of the Krampus' Revenge Event.
This page has been preserved for historical purposes.

Krampus
Mode Appearance	Krampus' Revenge
Wave Debut	20
Statistics
Base Health	400,000
Speed	Extremely Slow (0.5) Extremely Slow (0.75, Lapland Turned Red)
Cash Given	$20,000 every 1% health
Hidden?	No Yes (Lapland Turned Red, temporarily)
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Freeze Immune Stun Immune Boss Immunities: Freeze Immunity Stun Immunity Poison Slowdown
Abilities
Ability 1	Ryanair Flight - Jumps between the two middle paths by casting a spell onto where it is about to land. Upon landing, icicles from the ground and a shockwave are formed, freezing towers, damaging units and after few seconds applying a 75% firerate debuff to all towers near the landing site
Ability 2	Secret Santa - Krampus throws 4–8 gifts onto random paths around the map where Krampus would be if it was on those paths, spawning Papa Breads, Evil Elves, Packed Ices, Crying Angels, Frozens, Cookie Guards, Snow Golems and Tough Cookies.
Ability 3	Freezing Spell - Creates a forward shockwave of ice which freezes towers, damages units and after few seconds applying a 75% firerate debuff to all towers caught in the line.
Ability 4	Raining Spikes - Creates 25 to 30 icicles in the sky which begin falling down onto the ground that upon landing freeze towers for 5-7 seconds, dealing 100 damage to units and after few seconds applying a 75% firerate debuff to all towers hit.
Ability 5	Germanic Stomp - Stomps on the ground causing a shockwave that stuns towers for 6-10 seconds, damages units by 500 and after few seconds applies a 75% firerate debuff to all towers hit.
Ability 6	Body Slam - Krampus jumps into the air and begins falling, making ice spikes rise from the ground upon landing that freeze towers, damage units and after few seconds apply a 75% firerate debuff to all towers hit.
Ability 7	Lapland Turned Red - At half health Krampus takes off its mask and screams, gaining 50,000 shield health, becoming Hidden for a few seconds and increasing the frequency of its abilities. Krampus is invulnerable while using this ability.
Music
(Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Krampus 2023 Theme

"KRAMPUS?.. I thought you were defeated years ago!
Looks like he's controlling all my elves with that purple thing in his staff..
You must recover the artifact and defeat Krampus for good!"

―Santa dialogue on Wave 20 (Krampus Frosthold)

Description

Krampus was the third and final boss that appeared in Krampus Frosthold as part of the Krampus' Revenge Event. As with most major bosses, it had an extremely high amount of health, but walked quite slowly. It was immune to being frozen and having the chillness effect applied to it from freezing towers, it could not be slowed down by the Toxic Gunner, and the Electroshocker and Warden could only slow it down instead of stunning it.

Krampus had seven abilities. Its Ryanair Flight ability caused Krampus to hop between the two middle paths of the map. When Krampus landed, it created a large shockwave, stunning towers around it. Its Secret Santa ability summoned a large number of enemies by Krampus, from 4-8 gifts which were thrown onto any of the four paths. These enemies could be the Papa Bread, Evil Elf, Packed Ice, Crying Angel, Frozen, Cookie Guard, Snow Golem and Tough Cookie. Its Freezing Spell attack created a shockwave of ice that stunned towers. Its Raining Spikes ability summoned 25-30 large icicles that rained down on the map and stunned towers hit for 5-7 seconds and dealt 100 damage to units. Its Germanic Stomp ability makes it stomp on the ground, creating a shockwave that stuns towers for 6-10 seconds and deals 500 damage to units. Its Body Slam ability made it jump into the air and start falling, which created ice spikes upon landing that stunned towers. When Krampus reached half health, it activated its Lapland Turned Red rage mode ability. It would take off its mask and scream, gained 50,000 shield health, sped up, became Hidden for a few seconds and started to use its abilities more frequently. It was invulnerable while it was screaming. All abilities that stunned towers also applied a 75% firerate debuff to affected towers a few seconds after, including towers that could not get stunned like the Ranger and non-humanoid towers that normally could not have debuffs applied to them like the Pursuit.

Appearance

Krampus was a giant, anthropomorphic half-goat and half-demon. It had black skin, red horns and light blue glowing eyes. It wore red and black shoulder-pads with blue spikes, black and red shirt with a hood, red elbow-pads, black pants, and red and grey knee-pads. Multiple parts of it clothing also had light grey fur on its edges. It also wore a large black helmet. On its back it had a staff powered by a God Cube shard, which it used to attack towers.

Upon entering Lapland Turned Red, it would take off its helmet and exposed its face, and also gained blue neon lines on its skin.

Strategy

• High DPS towers, like the Accelerator, Ranger and Pursuit should be used against Krampus.
  • The Ranger, Pursuit and Ace Pilot can be especially useful as they are immune to stuns, though they are still affected by the firerate debuff.
  • As Krampus becomes hidden for a few seconds after Lapland Turned Red, DPS towers with hidden detection like the Accelerator and Golden Minigunner are useful against this, as they can keep attacking Krampus even while it is hidden.
  • The DJ Booth and Commander are useful for boosting the towers' range and firerate respectively.
    • The Commander can also be useful at mitigating the effects of the firerate debuff it applies to all towers shortly after they get hit by its abilities.
  • The Medic's Cleansing ability is extremely useful for cleansing stuns from Krampus' abilities, though it cannot cleanse the firerate debuff.
• All abilities that stun also damage units, making spawner towers like the Military Base and Necromancer worse against this.
  • The Engineer can still be useful as its sentries have a shield, which prevents them from being damaged as long as the Engineer is not stunned itself.
• Crowd control towers, like the Mortar and Golden Pyromancer are highly recommended to deal with the hordes of enemies that spawn before and after Krampus, as well as enemies spawned by Krampus' Secret Santa ability.
• Krampus has the ability to jump between paths. Because of this, towers should be placed so that they can cover both paths of the map.
  • Do note that this ability can also stun your towers.
  • The DJ Booth can be especially helpful at increasing the range of your towers.
  • The Ranger is mostly unaffected by this, due to its high-range allowing it to cover most if not all of Krampus Frosthold in certain spots.
• Because of its immunities, freezing towers and Toxic Gunner cannot stall Krampus.
  • The Electroshocker and Warden can only slow down Krampus instead of stunning it.
  • The Jester's confusion bombs can be very effective at stalling Krampus.

Gallery

Thumbnails

Krampus on the game thumbnail.

Icons

Krampus on the game icon.

Krampus on the game icon.

Krampus on the game icon.

Promotional Images

Krampus on a promotional image.

Trailers

Tower Defense Simulator- Christmas 2023 Trailer

Krampus in the game trailer.

Stickers

Krampus on the Krampus sticker.

Concept Art

Krampus on concept art.

Trivia

• Krampus was a returning boss from the Christmas 2019 Event, with the Krampus' Revenge Event's name stating that it had come back for revenge. It received a visual overhaul, and while its abilities got many visual changes, they roughly retained the same mechanics.
  • Unlike its previous version, Krampus' abilities were powered by the God Cube, with a part of it being included in Krampus' staff.
• Krampus was the only boss enemy that could become Hidden, as it briefly became Hidden after using its Lapland Turned Red ability.
  • Unlike all other Hidden enemies, it did not change its transparency over time during that ability, most likely due to it being a temporary attribute.
• Krampus was the first enemy that can change which path it was on with its Ryanair Flight ability.
• Krampus, alongside Ducky D00M from D00M's Revenge and Primordial Drakobloxxer, had the second highest number of abilities in the game, only behind the Frost Spirit from the Operation I.C.E Event.
• In folklore, the Krampus is a half-goat, half-demon monster in some legends. During the Christmas season, his role is to punish children who have misbehaved.
  • He originated from Germany.
• Krampus' boss theme was a remix of the original Krampus boss theme.
  • Interestingly, the theme played in the last stage of Krampus Frosthold instead of the final wave where Krampus appeared in.
• A re-textured version of the helmet worn by Krampus was uploaded as an UGC, it is called Krampus' Helmet.

Update History

• 21 December 2023 - v1.11.0
  • Krampus added.
• 31 January 2024 - v1.12.0c
  • Krampus removed.

Krampus Frosthold (Krampus' Revenge Event) (21 December 2023 – 31 January 2024)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Present3, Papa Bread & Builder Elf Wave 18	Krampus, Evil Elf, Sleigh & Toy Soldier Wave 20	End N/A