Good way to handle these poison mutations?

[HippeusOmega]

Any advice you can offer for these poison creatures in the sewers with Leon and Claire? Seems like I end up wasting too much resources on them.

[bocodamondo™]

both leon and claire get a specific weapon that can deal them later on,
but before that, its best to get rid of them with shotgun/flame rounds,
having hand grenades helps too since you can avoid their grabs with them and deal alot of damage.

[Lukey Pooky]

i try to avoid them best i can, baiting an attack and then running past them. i don't have that down and sometimes they get me, always have a defensive item on hand. ultimately avoid them and save your ammo, only use defensive items when grabbed.

[DOUBLE [R]]

Stand close and shoot the adult G so they wake up, if theyre showing themself. You can run by when during their wake up animation.

Or bait their chase animation and evade them like you would a normal zombie.

[BassChamber]

If you want to kill them:

Leon: Magnum / Flamethrower

Claire: Fire Rounds / Spark Shot

[AloisaTrancy]

Are you talking about the big blobby boys who spit rats? I never got hit by the rats so I dont know if they're poisonous. But as the other guy said, the flamethrower once you get it is so good for killing them I tracked them down and killed them with it just to get rid of the annoyance.

[bulldog0890]

Typically i just blow passed them with defense items and don't look back. you can fight them after you get the sparkshot or flamer.

though there is a trick where you shoot their shoulder with a pistol until they start spitting out the minions. this gives you time to run by their left sides

[HippeusOmega]

Thanks for all the advice!

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

Originally posted by HippeusOmega:

Any advice you can offer for these poison creatures in the sewers with Leon and Claire? Seems like I end up wasting too much resources on them.

Simple kite until it spits, then move to the right as fast as you can. Or use flame thrower, flame round, or spark shot to weaken them.

[talgaby]

If you want to get past them, then either shoot a hiding one's visible fleshy spot from a short distance and run past on your left side (its right-side small arm) during the standing up animation, or keep your distance and wait for it to start spewing larvae. It is an uncanncellable animation, so you can go past on either side during it.

Otherwise, their weak spot is the shoulder eye, which may be unprotected or behind two layers of shells you must destroy first. Leon's magnum can pierce them, Claire has to just keep shooting both.

They are extremely vulnerable to fire and they are the second most vulnerable enemy against the sparkshot after lickers. (A sparkshot in the eye kills all but two of them on the maximum rank.)