Necrotic Skeleton

Necrotic Skeleton

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Necrotic Skeleton
Mode Appearance	Fallen Western High Rank PVP Test Challenges Juggernaut Jailed Towers Legion Vanguard
Wave Debut	22 (Western)
Statistics
Base Health	750 (Fallen, High Rank PVP Test & Sandbox) 1,250 (Western)
Health Scaling	Trio - 835 (Fallen) Quad - 910 (Fallen)
Defense	40%
Speed	Slightly Fast (5)
Cash Given	$2,750 on death (Western)
Spawned By	Fallen Summoner Fallen King Awakened Fallen King
Hidden?	Variable
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	None
Abilities
Ability 1	Gooey Demise - Upon death, applies an 150% firerate debuff to towers for 4 seconds and deals 20 damage to units.
Ability 2	Essence of Life - Upon death, leaves four purple goo puddles on the path that last 10 seconds. These heal any enemy that walks over them by 2 every 0.05 seconds.

Description

The Necrotic Skeleton is an enemy that appears in Fallen mode, High Rank PVP Test and Badlands II. In Fallen and High Rank PVP Test modes, it does not appear naturally, and is instead summoned by the Fallen King, Awakened Fallen King and Fallen Summoner. In Badlands II, it does appear naturally, though in comparison to its appearance in Fallen mode, it is always a Hidden enemy. It has a decent amount of health, 40% defense and walks quite fast. Despite this, the Necrotic Skeleton is a support enemy, as it has two abilities which debuff towers and buff enemies, both upon death.

Its first ability is Gooey Demise, which causes it to apply an 150% firerate debuff to every tower in its radius for 4 seconds. Its second ability is Essence of Life, which makes it leave four puddles of purple goo on the path. These puddles heal any enemy that walks over them by 2 every 0.05 seconds. They last 10 seconds.

Appearance

The Necrotic Skeleton is made entirely of sand colored parts that resemble a skeletal humanoid. It does not have a full torso, but instead has the bone cage for it. Its head is a skull with large neon blue eyes and horns. It wears a grey chestplate and shoulder-pads.

Upon death, the Necrotic Skeleton will fall over and create a trail of purple goo in front of it.

Strategy

• The Necrotic Skeleton is a support enemy. Upon death, it will both debuff towers and buff enemies.
  • It will debuff towers by applying an 150% firerate debuff to them, though it is quite short.
    • The Commander can be used to partially mitigate its firerate debuff.
  • Its puddles will heal any enemy that walks over it by 2 health every 0.05 seconds, regenerating their health.
    • As it is rather fast, it will get to the front of enemies quite quickly, allowing it to regenerate their health. Additionally, it will be swiftly killed by towers as its health is much lower than most enemies that appear around the same time as it.
• High DPS towers, like the Minigunner, Turret and Accelerator can be quite effective against this, as it has quite low health.
  • High DPS towers with crowd control capabilities, such as the Ranger and Pursuit can be quite useful, as they can damage both the Necrotic Skeletons and the enemies that summoned them.
  • In Badlands II, it is recommended that these towers have hidden detection, due to the Necrotic Skeleton being a Hidden enemy there.
    • The Firework Technician or Ace Pilot can be used to give hidden detection to your towers, if you lack it.
• Crowd control towers, like the Mortar, Rocketeer and Electroshocker can be quite useful at killing the Necrotic Skeletons, as they spawn in hordes.

Gallery

Corpse Variants

Second Corpse variant, current version, original animaion variant (12 March 2025 – Present)

Second Corpse variant, current version, no animaion variant (12 March 2025 – Present)

Thumbnails

Necrotic Skeleton on the game thumbnail.

Trailers

Valentines Skins - Tower Defense Simulator

Necrotic Skeleton in the game trailer.

Renders

Necrotic Skeleton on a render.

Necrotic Skeleton on a render.

Miscellaneous

Necrotic Skeleton on its Index icon.

Update History

• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • Necrotic Skeleton added.
  • Bug: Poison and electric defense dropping towers do not drop its defense.
• 6 November 2024 - v1.40.0
  • Bugfix: Poison and electric defense dropping now drops Necrotic Skeleton's defense, though the Jester still cannot drop it.
• 5 February 2025 - V1.52.0
  • Now appears in Badlands II.
    • Has 1,250 health in Badlands II.
  • Now gives $2,750 on death.
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Now appears in High Rank PVP Test.

Western (Badlands II)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Breaker, Breaker3 & Breaker4 Wave 21	Necrotic Skeleton Wave 22	Tanker Wave 24