Air elemental
E air elemental 
| |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 10 |
| Attacks |
Engulfing, 1d10 physical damage |
| Base level | 8 |
| Base experience | 122 |
| Speed | 36 |
| Base AC | 2 |
| Base MR | 30 |
| Alignment | Neutral |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Very rare |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 0 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | huge |
| Resistances | Poison, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed |
none
|
The air elemental is one of the four types of elementals in the dungeon and, indeed, the fastest monster of any sort in the entire game. They appear both on the Plane of Air (guaranteed) and in the main dungeon (random). Unlike other elementals, air elementals can engulf players. Their main attack is to pummel the player with debris; this can be quite deadly to unprepared characters due to their extreme speed and because, unlike against other whirly monsters, one cannot acquire a resistance against the physical damage. Air elementals are not genocidable. They are also immune to petrification and poison.
In previous versions of NetHack, air elementals dealt twice the damage than they currently do; it was reduced in version 3.4.0.
