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Spiderants are viciously territorial creatures that bear a passing resemblance to insects. The most striking features of these creatures are their elongated heads, four limbs, and abdomens. Their heads are thickly armored as are their strong, dangerously sharp forelimbs. The abdomen, however, is unarmored and is the creature's weakest point.

Background

Spiderants are about six feet long. The Workers gather food and build the hive under the ground while the Soldiers and Kings (evolved from Workers) protect the hive. Naturally, the Queen rules them all. She has a larger abdomen and head than the rest of them. The Spiderant’s carapace is very thick and able to withstand major punishment. In general, the greatest weakness of these creatures is their unprotected abdomen. The two large front claws are called the “crusher claws”, which are used to beat and stab their victims to death. It’s said that this bloodied mess is then cocooned in a resin secreted from the abdomen for later consumption. They typically prefer to feast on small Skags, which are abundant in the region and easily slain.

Spiderants are believed to have a highly structured society where each individual Spiderant works for the good of the colony. This is likely why the word “ant” became part of the name for this creature. Although some claim to have found vast underground Spiderant colonies, these individuals have never been able to quite remember specific locations or how they escaped with their lives from such a dangerous place.

(information taken from the Borderlands manual)

Overview

Spiderants are known to burrow underground and tend to frequent areas with relatively flat, open ground. Spiderants are one of the few native species encountered on Pandora that do not emerge from a hardened burrow with an obvious exit.

There are several different varieties of Spiderants, with varying abilities and attack patterns. All Spiderants employ some form of sweeping slash attack when another being gets too close. Some leap at their foes, trying to impale them upon their diamond-hard forelimbs. Some also use a projectile attack, ejecting semi-transparent, egg-like sacks from the ends of their abdomen at their targets. These projectiles range from small, grenade-like projectiles, to large mine-like projectiles that detonate over a large area.

Badass Spiderants, like all badass creatures, can have an elemental property, and can launch powerful elemental projectiles.

General Strategy

All Spiderants are covered with an armored carapace, which protects their rounded head, and sharp-tipped lower legs. Shots to either of the mentioned areas will tend to do about 0.1-0.2 times baseline damage while shots to the upper limbs will do 0.75 times. Shots to the actual body itself, a small sliver of exposed flesh between the head and abdomen, will do regular damage. Dealing enough damage in a short time to a Spiderant's head (especially the upper fringe) will disorient them for a moment, making them turn about and stagger for a second or two, exposing their vulnerable posterior. The abdomen, when accessible, provides a sizable critical hit target that is both easy to strike and disastrous to the Spiderant when struck.

Shotguns work well against Spiderants, not only because they can easily disorient, but also because follow-up blasts to the abdomen can usually take down even the toughest specimen. "Spiked" varieties of Shotgun can also be used to quickly deliver debilitating melee attacks which can themselves disorient or kill a Spiderant if the abdomen takes several blows. Combat rifles are also effective weapons as the heavy slugs can disorient on head strikes, and then slam the abdomen. Revolvers are passable weapons to use against Spiderants; with their extreme damage-per-bullet rating, they have a better-than-normal chance of disorientation. However, revolvers' limited magazines, rates of fire, and poor recoil handling can pose a problem. Sniper rifles can do extreme amounts of damage to this less-than-robust enemy, but only with abdominal hits from a distance. Like scythids, Spiderants resist elemental attacks, and take reduced damage from weapons like rocket launchers or grenades, although rocket launchers, thanks to their high damage-per-shot, can easily disorient them.

Spiderants prefer to run directly up and swat their enemies with one of their forelimbs. A viable tactic to avoid taking excessive damage is to walk backwards, firing until the enemy is just about to attack, then cease firing and sprint to the left or right. This allows players to circle quickly around the Spiderants and deal massive damage to their abdomens.

Players in a solo situation against the larger types of Spiderant (badass and similar) may find it incredibly difficult to exploit the critical point on their abdomens for two reasons. Firstly, the Spiderant itself will not attempt to attack anything other than the player, so it is impossible to flank them while another person takes their attention. Secondly, they are much more difficult to disorient than their smaller counterparts or even the optional bosses. A solution is to focus the targeting element on the upper fringe of the armored head while backpedaling. Due to a collision detection quirk involving their walk animation, several of these shots will register as abdomen hits, dealing critical damage from the front even though the abdomen itself is not truly exposed.

Despite being armored, Spiderants are not appreciably affected by corrosive effects as would be expected from an armored enemy; their frontal armor remains largely intact and (as previously stated) they suffer only minuscule damage over time.

Common Types

Borderlands Spiderants

Borderlands 2 Spiderants

For the most part, the same variations of Spiderants are encountered in Borderlands 2, with their name variations in playthroughs over normal being similar.

Borderlands 3 Spiderants

Much like Borderlands 2, similar variations of Spiderants can be found in Borderlands 3.

Appeared in Borderlands 3:

Appeared in Designer's Cut Arms Race:

Fire Cofferant
Fire Spiderant
Fire Spiderling
Freezing Cofferant
Freezing Spiderant
Freezing Spiderling
Poisonous Cofferant
Poisonous Spiderant
Poisonous Spiderling
Radiation Cofferant
Radiation Spiderant
Radiation Spiderling
Slagged Cofferant
Slagged Spiderant
Slagged Spiderling
Storm Cofferant
Storm Spiderant
Storm Spiderling

Spiderant Bosses

Borderlands

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 3

Appeared in Borderlands 3:

Appeared in Designer's Cut:

Brokus22

Notes

It is possible to kill Spiderants using an Outrunner with a missile launcher turret before they surface by pressing the lock on button in the vicinity of burrowed Spiderants. The missile launcher will immediately lock on to the nearest Spiderant and the splash damage from the missiles will hurt and kill the Spiderants without them surfacing. This is also possible with other area-of-effect weapons (most notably rocket launchers), but the locations of the Spiderants will have to be guessed. Using the machine gun turret for this merely makes the targeted and all adjacent Spiderants surface.
Stun effects can be stacked. This will allow for a prolonged shooting session at the vulnerable parts of the creature.
Explosive weapons will stun a Spiderant almost twice as often as other guns. ^{[citation needed]}
When firing from the front, shots bound for the top of a Spiderant's head will sometimes reach the abdomen for a critical hit.
The corrosive element seems to have more effect than the other elements, although this could be just due to the 'splash' nature of corrosive weapons.
Multiple stacked daze effects can create the humorous situation of a gyro rolling at little more than walking speed.
Elemental damage over time will randomly disorient all varieties of Spiderant. A player with a good elemental (preferably corrosive, due to its long damage-over-time duration) weapon can keep a spiderant completely defenseless as they stagger and are open to abdomen attacks.
The Bloodwing can attack burrowed Spiderants. If sufficiently upgraded, it could devastate a group of burrowed Spiderants before they could surface and attack.
If a Fire Spiderant is thoughtlocked just before it burrows itself into the ground, the glob will be visible above the ground till the thoughtlock period is over.

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 [[File:Borderlands-Spiderant.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]
 '''Spiderants''' are viciously territorial creatures that bear a passing resemblance to insects. The most striking features of these [[Creatures#Creatures|creatures]] are their elongated heads, four limbs, and abdomens. Their heads are thickly armored as are their strong, dangerously sharp forelimbs. The abdomen, however, is unarmored and is the creature's weakest point.
+== Background ==
+Spiderants are about six feet long. The Workers gather food and build the hive under the ground while the Soldiers and Kings (evolved from Workers) protect the hive. Naturally, the Queen rules them all. She has a larger abdomen and head than the rest of them. The Spiderant’s carapace is very thick and able to withstand major punishment. In general, the greatest weakness of these creatures is their unprotected abdomen. The two large front claws are called the “crusher claws”, which are used to beat and stab their victims to death. It’s said that this bloodied mess is then cocooned in a resin secreted from the abdomen for later consumption. They typically prefer to feast on small Skags, which are abundant in the region and easily slain.
+Spiderants are believed to have a highly structured society where each individual Spiderant works for the good of the colony. This is likely why the word “ant” became part of the name for this creature. Although some claim to have found vast underground Spiderant colonies, these individuals have never been able to quite remember specific locations or how they escaped with their lives from such a dangerous place.
+(information taken from the ''Borderlands'' manual)
 ==Overview==
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 There are several different varieties of Spiderants, with varying abilities and attack patterns. All Spiderants employ some form of sweeping slash attack when another being gets too close. Some leap at their foes, trying to impale them upon their diamond-hard forelimbs. Some also use a projectile attack, ejecting semi-transparent, egg-like sacks from the ends of their abdomen at their targets. These projectiles range from small, grenade-like projectiles, to large mine-like projectiles that detonate over a large area.
-Badass Spiderants, like all [[Badass]] creatures, can have an elemental property, and can launch powerful elemental projectiles.
+Badass Spiderants, like all [[badass]] creatures, can have an elemental property, and can launch powerful elemental projectiles.
 ==General Strategy==
-All Spiderants are covered with an armored carapace, which protects their rounded head, and sharp-tipped lower legs. Shots to either of the mentioned areas will tend to do about 0.1-0.2 times baseline damage while shots to the upper limbs will do 0.75 times. Shots to the actual body itself, a small sliver of exposed flesh between the head and abdomen, will do regular damage. Dealing enough damage in a short time to a Spiderant's head (especially the upper fringe) will disorient them for a moment, making them turn about and stagger for a second or two, exposing their vulnerable posterior. However, if the Spiderant's level is much higher than their foe's, stunning them becomes much more difficult. The abdomen, when accessible, provides a sizable [[critical hit]] target that is both easy to strike and disastrous to the Spiderant when struck.
+All Spiderants are covered with an armored carapace, which protects their rounded head, and sharp-tipped lower legs. Shots to either of the mentioned areas will tend to do about 0.1-0.2 times baseline damage while shots to the upper limbs will do 0.75 times. Shots to the actual body itself, a small sliver of exposed flesh between the head and abdomen, will do regular damage. Dealing enough damage in a short time to a Spiderant's head (especially the upper fringe) will disorient them for a moment, making them turn about and stagger for a second or two, exposing their vulnerable posterior. The abdomen, when accessible, provides a sizable [[critical hit]] target that is both easy to strike and disastrous to the Spiderant when struck.
-[[Shotgun]]s work well against Spiderants, not only because they can easily disorient, but also because follow-up blasts to the abdomen can usually take down even the toughest specimen. "Spiked" varieties of Shotgun can also be used to quickly deliver debilitating melee attacks which can themselves disorient or kill a Spiderant if the abdomen takes several blows. [[Combat Rifle]]s are also effective weapons as the heavy slugs can disorient on head strikes, and then slam the abdomen. [[Revolvers]] are passable weapons to use against Spiderants; with their extreme damage-per-bullet rating, they have a better-than-normal chance of disorientation. However, revolvers' limited magazines, rates of fire, and poor recoil handling can pose a problem. [[Sniper Rifle]]s can do extreme amounts of damage to this less-than-robust enemy, but only with abdominal hits from a distance. Like [[Scythid]]s, Spiderants resist elemental attacks, and take reduced damage from weapons like [[Rocket Launcher]]s or [[Grenades]], although Rocket Launchers, thanks to their high damage-per-shot, can easily disorient them.
+[[Shotgun]]s work well against Spiderants, not only because they can easily disorient, but also because follow-up blasts to the abdomen can usually take down even the toughest specimen. "Spiked" varieties of Shotgun can also be used to quickly deliver debilitating melee attacks which can themselves disorient or kill a Spiderant if the abdomen takes several blows. [[Combat Rifle|Combat rifles]] are also effective weapons as the heavy slugs can disorient on head strikes, and then slam the abdomen. [[Revolvers]] are passable weapons to use against Spiderants; with their extreme damage-per-bullet rating, they have a better-than-normal chance of disorientation. However, revolvers' limited magazines, rates of fire, and poor recoil handling can pose a problem. [[Sniper Rifle|Sniper rifles]] can do extreme amounts of damage to this less-than-robust enemy, but only with abdominal hits from a distance. Like [[scythid]]s, Spiderants resist elemental attacks, and take reduced damage from weapons like [[Rocket Launcher|rocket launchers]] or [[grenades]], although rocket launchers, thanks to their high damage-per-shot, can easily disorient them.
 Spiderants prefer to run directly up and swat their enemies with one of their forelimbs. A viable tactic to avoid taking excessive damage is to walk backwards, firing until the enemy is just about to attack, then cease firing and sprint to the left or right. This allows players to circle quickly around the Spiderants and deal massive damage to their abdomens.
-Players in a solo situation against the larger types of Spiderant ([[Badass]] and similar) may find it incredibly difficult to exploit the critical point on their abdomens for two reasons. Firstly, the Spiderant itself will not attempt to attack anything other than the player, so it is impossible to flank them while another person takes their attention. Secondly, they are much more difficult to disorient than their smaller counterparts or even the optional bosses. A solution is to focus the targeting element on the upper fringe of the armored head while backpedaling. Due to a collision detection quirk involving their walk animation, several of these shots will register as abdomen hits, dealing critical damage from the front even though the abdomen itself is not truly exposed.
+Players in a solo situation against the larger types of Spiderant ([[badass]] and similar) may find it incredibly difficult to exploit the critical point on their abdomens for two reasons. Firstly, the Spiderant itself will not attempt to attack anything other than the player, so it is impossible to flank them while another person takes their attention. Secondly, they are much more difficult to disorient than their smaller counterparts or even the optional bosses. A solution is to focus the targeting element on the upper fringe of the armored head while backpedaling. Due to a collision detection quirk involving their walk animation, several of these shots will register as abdomen hits, dealing critical damage from the front even though the abdomen itself is not truly exposed.
-Despite being armored, Spiderants are not appreciably affected by [[Corrosive]] effects as would be expected from an armored enemy; their frontal armor remains largely intact and (as previously stated) they suffer only minuscule damage over time.
+Despite being armored, Spiderants are not appreciably affected by [[corrosive]] effects as would be expected from an armored enemy; their frontal armor remains largely intact and (as previously stated) they suffer only minuscule damage over time.
-==Types of Spiderant==
-==Borderlands 1 spiderants==
+==Common Types==
+===''Borderlands'' Spiderants===
 *[[Spiderantling]]
 *[[Spiderant Worker]]
 *[[Spiderant Gyro]]
 *[[Spiderant Soldier]]
+*[[Spiderant Queen]]
-===Queen Spiderant===
+*[[Spiderant King]]
-[[File:Queen Spiderant.png|right|250px]]
+*[[Spiderant-Trap]]
+*[[Badass Spiderant Corrupter]]
-'''Queen Spiderants''' are very large Spiderants. They can be distinguished by their large size and bluish coloring. While they will slash with their large scything talons at times, they prefer to hang back and shoot volleys of large, powerful white projectiles. The larger, delayed-blast projectiles from these mighty matriarchs have been known to instantly cripple a Vault Hunter otherwise distracted by other Spiderants. Their abdomens are huge in comparison to their heads allowing for easy criticals.
-*Playthrough 2: Spiderant Matriarch,
-*Playthrough 2.5: Queen Mother Spiderant
-{{clr}}
-===King Spiderant===
-[[File:King Spiderant 2.png|right|250px]]
-'''King Spiderants '''are huge Spiderants with a pale brown coloring similar to the Worker. While similar in size to Queen Spiderants, they have larger heads and small, relatively well protected abdomens. Kings attack exactly like Workers do, except they can leap longer distances, and they are more damaging. Rarely will they shoot volleys of large whitish exploding sacks, which is fortunate as they can be excessively damaging and hard to avoid.
-*Playthrough 2: Spiderant Overlord
-*Playthrough 2.5: Spiderant Emperor
-{{clr}}
 *[[Badass Spiderant Burner]]
-{{clr}}
 *[[Badass Spiderant Zapper]]
-{{clr}}
-*[[Badass Spiderant Corrupter]]
-{{clr}}
+===''Borderlands 2'' Spiderants===
-==Spiderant-Traps==
-<gallery type="slideshow" crop="true" position="right">
-Fry superbad spiderant-trap fulminator.png|Superbad Spiderant-Trap Fulminator
-Fry superbad spiderant-trap cremator.png|Superbad Spiderant-Trap Creamator
-ScreenShot00006.jpg|Agitated Spiderant-Trapling
-ScreenShot00007.jpg|Spiderant-Trap Slave
-ScreenShot00008.jpg|SuperBad Spiderant-Trap Desecrator
-ScreenShot00009.jpg|Spiderant-Trap Slayer
-ScreenShot00013.jpg|Spiderant-Trap Queen Mother
-ScreenShot00014.jpg|Spiderant-Trap Vermin
-</gallery>
-Spiderant-Traps are Spiderants that have been assimilated by the [[Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap]] to fight on the side of the [[Claptrap (enemy)|Robot Revolution]]. Spiderant-Traps act exactly the same as their normal counterparts however their appearance will differ somewhat. Spiderant-Traps wear the "claptrapped" headgear of an assimilated creature, have some or most of their organic armor plating replaced by riveted metal plates, have visibly pulsing lines that appear similar to fiber optic lines, and have a Claptrap-type red reticle embedded in the middle of their head armor. Spiderant-Traps appear only in [[Claptrap's New Robot Revolution]].
-{{clear}}
-==Borderlands 2 Spiderants==
 For the most part, the same variations of Spiderants are encountered in Borderlands 2, with their name variations in playthroughs over normal being similar.
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 *[[Slagged Spiderant]]
 *[[Spiderant Knight]]
+*[[Spiderant King|King Spiderant]]
+*[[Spiderant Queen|Queen Spiderant]]
+*[[Chubby Spiderant]]
+===''Borderlands 3'' Spiderants===
-=== King Spiderant ===
+Much like Borderlands 2, similar variations of Spiderants can be found in Borderlands 3.
-The King Spiderant is a foe to be reckon with. They have high damage attack, ranged attack and a good resistance. The Kings are simply stronger variant of a Warrior mixed with a Soldier. They first appear in The Dust, near Ellie's garage. They are indentified by their yellow/green shell with spikes. In [[True Vault Hunter Mode]], they are renamed ''Emperor''. In [[Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]], they are renamed ''Monarch''.
+:Appeared in ''Borderlands 3'':
+* [[Cofferant]]
+* [[Royal Spiderling]]
+* [[Spiderant (Borderlands 3)|Spiderant]]
+* [[Spiderant Bishop]]
+* [[Spiderant King]]
+* [[Spiderant Knight]]
+* [[Spiderant Rook]]
+* [[Spiderant Queen]]
+* [[Spiderantling|Spiderling]]
+:Appeared in ''Designer's Cut Arms Race:
+* [[Fire Cofferant]]
+* [[Fire Spiderant]]
+* [[Fire Spiderling]]
+* [[Freezing Cofferant]]
+* [[Freezing Spiderant]]
+* [[Freezing Spiderling]]
+* [[Poisonous Cofferant]]
+* [[Poisonous Spiderant]]
+* [[Poisonous Spiderling]]
+* [[Radiation Cofferant]]
+* [[Radiation Spiderant]]
+* [[Radiation Spiderling]]
+* [[Slagged Cofferant]]
+* [[Slagged Spiderant]]
+* [[Slagged Spiderling]]
+* [[Storm Cofferant]]
+* [[Storm Spiderant]]
+* [[Storm Spiderling]]
-===Queen Spiderant===
+==Spiderant Bosses==
+===''Borderlands''===
-[[File:QueenSpiderant1.jpg|thumb|184x184px|Queen Spiderant]]
+*[[Helob]]
-Queen Spiderants are the nest leaders; they are never found alone. They have a red and black color-scheme and are much tougher than normal spiderants, including the king spiderant. If killed via being hit in the abdomen (Crit. spot), multiple spiderlings will spawn{{fact}}. In [[True Vault Hunter Mode]], they are renamed ''Matriarch''. In [[Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]], they are renamed ''Procreator''.
+*[[King Aracobb]]
+*[[Queen Tarantella]]
+*[[Widowmaker (enemy)|Widowmaker]]
+===''Borderlands 2''===
-*[[Chubby Spiderant]]
+*[[The Black Queen]]
+*[[The Black Queen#Dark Web|Dark Web]]
+*[[Scorch]]
+*[[Spycho]]
+*[[Sully the Blacksmith]]
+===''Borderlands 3''===
+:Appeared in ''Borderlands 3'':
+* [[Princess Tarantella II]]
+* [[Queen Ant Wanette]]
+:Appeared in ''Designer's Cut'':
+* [[Brokus22]]
 ==Notes==
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 *The corrosive element seems to have more effect than the other elements, although this could be just due to the 'splash' nature of corrosive weapons.
 *Multiple stacked daze effects can create the humorous situation of a gyro rolling at little more than walking speed.
-*Elemental DoT will randomly disorient all varieties of Spiderant. A player with a good elemental (preferably corrosive, due to its long DoT duration) weapon can keep a spiderant completely defenseless as they stagger and are open to abdomen attacks.
+*Elemental damage over time will randomly disorient all varieties of Spiderant. A player with a good elemental (preferably corrosive, due to its long damage-over-time duration) weapon can keep a spiderant completely defenseless as they stagger and are open to abdomen attacks.
 *The Bloodwing can attack burrowed Spiderants. If sufficiently upgraded, it could devastate a group of burrowed Spiderants before they could surface and attack.
 *If a Fire Spiderant is thoughtlocked just before it burrows itself into the ground, the glob will be visible above the ground till the thoughtlock period is over.
+{{Enemies}}
-==Spiderant Bosses==
+{{Navigate enemies bl2}}
-===''Borderlands''===
+{{Navigate enemies bl3}}
-*[[Helob]]
-*[[King Aracobb]]
-*[[Queen Tarantella]]
-*[[Widowmaker]]
-===''Borderlands 2''===
-*[[The Black Queen]]
-*[[Scorch]]
-*[[Spycho]]
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