Hercules Carpenter Ant

Camponotus herculeanus

Insectstrong against fungi, fish

Common

Swarm

While active with another insect in play, each of its attacks also hits the opposing bench for 10, without knocking them out (20 with two others).

Camponotus herculeanus

Photo: Philipp Hoenle (original photo) · CC0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Fungi
Fish

Weak against

Amphibians
Arachnids

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

Camponotus herculeanus (or Hercules ant) is a species of ant in the genus Camponotus, the carpenter ants, occurring in Northern Eurasia, from Norway to Eastern Siberia, and North America. First described as Formica herculeana by Linnaeus in 1758, the species was moved to Camponotus by Mayr in 1861.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Camponotus herculeanus, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

No global status on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations: 6,710 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: about 5 mg
Diet: Omnivore

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 30
ATK 31
DEF 39

How they’re shared out:

Type: Insect: HP 32, ATK 39 and DEF 29 out of 100 to start.