What's a good tactic to defeat Giant Piranhas?
Often, I encounter a flooded room with around 3 Giant Piranhas inside. Normally, when overwhelmed, I would retreat behind the door, so only one enemy is able to attack me at a time. In this case, that's not always (I'm not sure about this, I have not yet encountered an instance where the room with Giant Piranhas was connected to water outside of it) possible, and so whenever I encounter the damn things it's either run (and leave behind the food ration or treasure chest) or die (and leave behind my bones).
Are there any good tactics to defeat Giant Piranhas?
Best Answer
They are too tough to fight effectively. When confronted with piranhas, I do one of two things:
1) Potion of Invisibility - This is the "official" solution to these rooms. If a piranha room is spawned, a potion of invisibility will also spawn on the same floor. Drink it at the door and walk around them, grab the treasure and leave.
2) Wand of Lightning - if you zap a water room with lightning, it will damage all creatures inside. A couple zaps should do it.
Again, don't bother fighting them. Your HP is better spent fighting other monsters.
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Be the huntress, throw some inert object (food, meat, blandfruit, stylus) in the door and kill 'em with the boomerang. I actually consider this a built-in bonus of the huntress -- extra food whenever you find piranhas, and extra invisibility potions you don't have to use to get past pirhanas.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon now gives a range of 2 to the spear, so in that variant spear-fishing is an option.
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