Lunatic Cultist

Terraria · Games · Cultist, Leader of the Dungeon Coven

Tier

HIGH 5-A

Attack Potency

Brown Dwarf Level

Speed

Subsonic+

Durability

Brown Dwarf Level

Powers and abilities

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
• Flight
• Intangibility (Phasing, can phase through all tiles)
• Ice Manipulation (Throws many Ice with Ice Mist)
• Fire Manipulation (Throws Fireballs, inflicting the On Fire! debuff)
• Electricity Manipulation (Shoots Lightning bolts)
• Darkness Manipulation (With Shadow Fireballs from clones and Prophecy's End)
• Light Manipulation (With Ancient Light)
• Illusion Creation, Necromancy (Lunatic Cutlist will create a Ritualistic Circle, Attacking the wrong Cultist will spawn a clone of him, can summon a Wyvern's Soul, giving it a physical form, if a phantasm dragon is still alive, will spawn an ancient vision)
• Limited Damage Reduction (takes 25% less damage from homing attacks)
• Enhanced Senses (Champion can still be seen by bosses while invisible from invisibility potions)
• Non-Physical Interaction (can kill Champion while they are insubstantial from shimmer)
• Teleportation
• Status Effect Inducement and Regeneration Negation (Low-Mid; via On Fire!, which deals damage over time and negates Regeneration)
• Limited Transmutation (Bosses can pass through shimmer unaffected)
• Homing Attack (homing attacks will not attack the real cultist while performing the ritual)
• Mind Manipulation (Immune to Confused, which reverses movement and stops the use of ranged attacks)
• Poison Manipulation (Immune to Poisoned)
• Durability Negation (Immune to Blood Butchered, Bleeding, Penetrated, Hemorrhage)
• Fire Manipulation (Immune to On Fire!, Hellfire, Shadowflames, Cursed Inferno, Frostburn, Frostbite)
• Statistics Reduction (Immune to Broken Armor, Ichor, Betsy's Curse)
• Heat Manipulation (Immune to Daybroken, which is the heat of solar flares)
• Acid Manipulation (Immune to Acid Venom)
• Absorption (Immune to Celled debuff from Stardust Cell Staff)
• Immune to Slime debuff from slime gun, increases damage from fire debuffs
• Oil Manipulation (Immune to Oiled)

Weaknesses

Its clones will disappear if the true self is attacked during the summoning process

Ranked tied for #1 of 25 in Terraria by strength.

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Close fights from other series

• Lunatic Cultist vs Ryu (Asura's Wrath) (Street Fighter · Tier HIGH 5-A): Ryu · Slight edge
• Lunatic Cultist vs Valentine (Guilty Gear · Tier HIGH 5-A): Valentine · Slight edge
• Lunatic Cultist vs Y'Mera Xebella Challa (DC · Tier HIGH 5-A): Too close to call
• Lunatic Cultist vs Megaguirus (Godzilla · Tier HIGH 5-A): Too close to call
• Lunatic Cultist vs Optimus Maximus (Transformers · Tier HIGH 5-A): Too close to call
• Lunatic Cultist vs Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe) (Marvel · Tier HIGH 5-A): Too close to call
• Lunatic Cultist vs Death Egg Robot (Sonic · Tier HIGH 5-A): Too close to call
• Lunatic Cultist vs Ra Moon (Mega Man · Tier HIGH 5-A): Too close to call

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