Gyrohumor one shot me, 96 health and had electrical resistance?

[stephendkruger]

So, A gyro humor starts rolling towards me, I shoot it 4 times with an electrobow, then it closes and I hit it with a freezing prayer rod. I have 96 health, heal 15-20 when dropping below 20% health from food. I swing and I die instantly from the reaction or one turns worth of attack, or something? I was unable to look at my death logs, but the last thing that happened was I got hit for 26 shock damage by a pseudpod.

I know they explode on death, but that didn't happen.. as it hit me to kill me. Do Humors "store up" elemental damage they receive now? If intentional.. this seems... unfair? No warning, no message about it glowing brighter or something. One shot deaths from creatures of equal difficulty rating when you have high defensive stats and full health, especially reactive deaths, where hitting them causes you to die instantly seems bad. Hoping this was a glitch. Probably going to stop playing for a while... unfair sudden deaths are anathema in a game that takes 100s of hours to play and is roguelike.

[raixel]

I wouldnt go after a gyrohumor in melee with only 96 health.

It wasnt a bug, they can absolutely wreck in close combat, they can attack (I think) 4 times a round plus elemental area effect on death.

As far as the rest - you know you can turn off permadeath, right? I never play perma runs without intent to just see how far I get.

[Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant]

AFAIK gyrohumors not only explode for elemental damage, they also get bonus attack damage based on their current randomly decided element. If you have a ton of electric resistance, it will only do you so much good until the gyrohumor turns into poison element and ruins your day with acid.