Spewer Enemy type 10 of 15 · first met in Valley of Ashes

Counterplay for Spewer, written from its move list, resistances, variants and drops.

Tips built from its data: what it resists, what it is weak to, which attacks to dodge and how to open it up.

• It never blocks, so a full light-attack chain always lands.
• It cannot be backstabbed, so there is no stealth opener: break its posture or race its health instead.
• Its toughest variant, Big*, starts at 150 HP, far more than the 50 of a level-1 placement.

The game defines 8 versions of this enemy. Each has its own health, posture and defensive behaviour; elites are tougher one-off placements, summoned ones appear mid-fight.

* Variant names are built from the game's internal tier tags (the game shows no name for them). Block and parry chances are listed in the order the game stores them. Placed = how many level spawners use that variant.

Health of every variant by level

How fast each variant closes the distance, and how quickly its posture comes back once you stop pressuring it.

Its fastest variant moves at 1 m/s; your walk speed is 4 m/s.

Speeds are the AI's movement settings in metres per second. Posture recovery is the posture regained per second, and the delay is the wait before recovery begins (game fields posture_recovery_per_sec and posture_reset_delay). — = not set for that variant.

Enemy levels in Valor Mortis are set per placement, not by a difficulty setting (the game has a single difficulty): the same enemy is level 1 in one spot and level 6 in another, usually higher later in the campaign. This is the main variant from level 1 to 6.

Damage dealt multiplies every attack's base damage. Critical attacks (after a posture break) and backstabs deal the fixed amounts shown, whatever your weapon; the share column is our arithmetic.

It has no special resistances or weaknesses: every damage type works the same.

Weak points

Variants with different resistances

Red = takes extra damage of that type; negative = resists it. Head = damage multiplier on head hits.

Random drops on every kill, with the chance the game rolls for each.

Spewer drops

Item	Type	Chance	Amount	On average
Nephtoglobin Vial	Consumable	3%	1	1 in 33 kills
Crude Transmutation Material	Upgrade material	1%	1	1 in 100 kills

"On average" is 1 ÷ chance (calculated): the expected number of kills per drop, not a guarantee.

Placed spawners per region in campaign order: 59 in total, the most in City of Orphans (11).

Counts are the game's placed spawners; scripted waves and summons during fights are not included.

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City of Orphans

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• Lanterns3
• Chests13
• Key1
• Letters16
• Item pickups63
• Mouse holes7
• Enemies112

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Everything placed in City of Orphans

Chests: 13 (Distilled Transmutation Material, Masterwork Firearm Parts, Ferrofluid Flask Power Upgrade, Life Diverted, Superior Firearm Parts, Exquisite Firearm Parts, Sewers Key, Distilled Blade Material, Sixth Sense)

Keys: 1 (Sewers Master Key)

Lanterns: 3 (Sewers, Shamble Street, Tribunal Square)

Mouse holes: 7

Letters: 16 (City Offensive — Ambushes, City Offensive — Infection, Search for the Shrike — Broken Defences, City Offensive — Quarantine, Search for the Shrike — Vanishing Soldiers, City Offensive — Winter, City Offensive — Wooden Fort, Search for the Shrike — Plea to Withdraw, Dead Soldier's Letter, Bark Bread Recipe, Rebel's Note — Plea for Reinforcements, Letters to Amelie — Losing Faith, Letters to Amelie — Believing in the Empire, Subject: Warning, Scribbled Page, A Letter from Bastien Beaufort)

Basic hits needed to kill a level-1 Spewer (50 HP) with every blade and firearm at weapon levels 1, 5 and 10.

Hits to kill

Weapon	Weapon level 1	Weapon level 5	Weapon level 10
Pistol	230 per hit	242 per hit	160 per hit
Musket	1150 per hit	1210 per hit	1300 per hit
Blunderbuss	1150 per hit	1230 per hit	1350 per hit
Saber	320 per hit	240 per hit	160 per hit
Rapier	225 per hit	235 per hit	245 per hit
Claymore	150 per hit	180 per hit	1100 per hit

Calculated from weapon damage × the first light attack's multiplier × (1 − resistance); firearms also show head hits. Upgrades, Ambers, coatings and the stat board are not included, and higher-level placements need proportionally more hits.

William's journal page on Spewer, as written in the game.

Enemies found alongside Spewer

Enemy types that share the most regions with it.

• HowlerThe Battlefield100 Health9 shared regions
• CarrionValley of Ashes120 Health9 shared regionsWeak to Fire damage
• VolunteersValley of Ashes650 Health9 shared regions
• Risen LancerThe Battlefield170 Health9 shared regions

Walkthrough for the chapter where you first meet it