Enemy Mounting

This page shows the mechanics of enemy mounting and notable targets.

Enemy mounting

Only brood-originated ants can mount large creatures in combat. The number of mounting ants on each creature is unaffected by their size. Ants themselves can't be mounted.

Only a certain percentage of fighting ants can mount a large creature. If ants on the ground are dead or prevented from attacking, mounting ants will dismount until the required percentage is met.

You can disable attacking or enemy mounting to prevent your ants from mounting or make them dismount.

Mounting ants can only use basic attack and can't use any abilities, except for fire ants. They are affected by damage reflection.

Large creatures will take more damage if there are enough mounting ants on them. The specific calculation hasn't been revealed.

Mounting ants will be dead when mounted creatures leave the map.

Termites are counted as ants in the game and share the same mounting mechanics.

Mountable enemies

Large ants can only mount huge enemies. They include leafcutter ant mediae, leafcutter ant majors, matabele ant soldiers, army ant majors and termite major soldiers.

Small ants can mount both large and huge enemies. They include other ants and termites.

Bullet ant soldiers and super leafcutter ant major can't mount enemies.

Mountable enemies
Huge	Large
Uber mole crickets [3] Large hermit crabs [5] Large and Uber leaf-mimic praying mantises [4] Large and Uber spiny devil bush crickets [6] Large, huge and Uber whip spiders [24] Large and Uber velvet worms [5] Adult false bombardier beetles [2] Great blue skimmers [18] Juvenile and Uber eastern newts [5] Pine woods tree frogs [3] Adult and Uber narrow-mouthed toads [4] American bullfrogs [44] Medium African tiger beetles [4] Medium and large rainbow lizard [12/ 18] Small, medium and large African mantises [3/ 9/ 17] Medium and large alligator back scorpions [7/12] Large and huge sun spiders [15] Large and huge African giant centipedes [14/?] Large and huge emperor scorpions [12/?]	Uber devil's coach horse beetles [3] Uber hermit crabs [5] Large northern dune tiger beetles [4] Large and Uber beach tiger beetles [4] Large and huge sand bear wolf spiders [3] Large and Uber beach wolf spiders [3] Uber jumping spiders [3] Medium six-spotted tiger beetles [4] Uber bombardier beetles [2] Adult and Uber Red velvet ants [2] Green lynx spiders [4]

Trivia

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