User:Ion frigate/Statue gargoyle table

This table lists how "complex" it is for SLASH'EM characters to damage statue gargoyles with their initial inventory:

• Easy: Can essentially deal with them like any other monster
• Medium: Have a way to damage them, but it is either limited or suboptimal
• Difficult: Have no viable way to kill them with initial inventory

Note that "Easy" does not necessarily mean statue gargoyles are trivial for that role: a Tourist can kill them with darts as they do other monsters, but that remains a dicey proposition as it would be with (e.g.) a giant ant; the following roles are always or nearly always classified as Easy:

• Caveman, Knight, Monk, Necromancer, Ranger, Tourist, Valkyrie, Yeoman

The remaining roles are listed below. A split rating denotes different complexities based on different possible starting inventories, ignoring inventory variations with low (<¹⁄₁₀) probability:

Role	Complexity	Notes
Archaeologist	Medium	Can use the bullwhip, but because they are thick-skinned it will only do 1 damage per hit.
Barbarian	Difficult	No way to hurt them with initial inventory
Flame Mage	Medium	Flame spheres can't hurt them, but quarterstaff and wand of fire can.
Healer	Medium	Scapel damages them normally, but they are immune to standard go-to for difficult monsters (wand of sleep)
Ice Mage	Medium	Freeze spheres can't hurt them, but quarterstaff and wand of cold can.
Priest	Difficult/Medium	Usually Difficult, 1⁄9 chance of starting with a spellbook of force bolt that can hurt them
Rogue	Medium	Poisoined projectiles do normal damage, which rogues can always make a stack of; daggers are preferable, but darts will work
Samurai	Difficult	No way to hurt them with initial inventory
Undead Slayer	Difficult/Medium	Roughly half of Slayers cannot hurt them; +1 low boots can kick them to death, and +2 bullwhip can damage them slowly
Wizard	Easy/Medium	Force Bolt starts work as normal, but statue gargoyles are immune to Sleep, necessitating quarterstaff