Armored Skeleton

Armored Skeleton
Statistics
Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Underground – Cavern
AI Type	Fighter
Damage	40 / 80
Max Life	260 / 520
Defense	28
KB Resist	60% / 64
Inflicts debuff	Broken Armor  16.67% chance
Debuff duration	120 seconds / 240 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Defense is cut in half
Immune to:
Banner	Armored Skeleton Banner
Drops
Coins	4
Item (Quantity) Rate Armor Polish  1% / 2%  Beam Sword  0.67%
Internal NPC ID: 77

The Armored Skeleton is a Hardmode enemy which can be found in the Caverns during Hardmode along with Skeleton Archers. They have a 1/6 chance to inflict the Broken Armor debuff for 2 minutes (4 minutes in Expert Mode) on contact. They are immune to the Poisoned and Venom debuffs.

Notes

• Approximately below lava level, a slightly larger, more powerful version of Armored Skeletons can spawn. They have 400 / 800  health and 32 defense.

Trivia

• Armored Skeletons appear to be wearing a bluer variation of the Ancient Cobalt Breastplate with spiked shoulder guards.

History

• 1.3.5: Sprite updated.
• 1.2.0.3: Now has a chance to drop its respective banner.
• 1.2:
  • Health, damage and defense reduced from 340, 60 and 36 to 260, 40 and 28 respectively.
  • Now has a chance to drop Armor Polish and/or a Beam Sword.
  • Heavy Skeleton variant no longer has a unique name, but it retains its stats.
• 1.1: Introduced.