Mantis Claws

Mantis Claws Statistics Type Weapon Damage 120 Melee Knockback 7 (Strong) Critical chance 4% Use time 5 Insanely Fast Tooltip Explodes on enemy hits Rarity Sell 12

Dropped by Entity Quantity Rate Mantis Shrimp (Once Plantera has been defeated) 1 20%

The Mantis Claws are a Hardmode melee weapon that autoswings. They are dropped from Mantis Shrimps once Plantera is defeated and act similarly to the Fetid Baghnakhs, having a very short range but extremely fast speed. Mantis Claws additionally create a small explosion on enemy hits. However, the explosion deals no damage and is purely visual.

Its best modifier is Legendary.

Trivia

• The explosion effect is a reference to real life Mantis shrimps and how they attack their prey with such speed and force that it creates a tiny vacuum called a cavitation bubble between the claw and the striking surface, the sudden collapse of which creates a shockwave as water rushes to fill in this gap. This explosion causes their targets to be hit twice: once from the claw itself and then a second time from the following explosion, similarly to the in-game weapon (although the in-game explosion does not deal any damage).