Krampus

Base HP	Stage HP
60	45

Entity ID
81.1

Found In
Mini-Boss

Dropped Items
A Lump of Coal
or
Head of Krampus

Unlock Method
Take 20 items from Devil Rooms

Krampus is a mini-boss that occasionally appears inside of a Devil room.

Behavior

• When he stops and roars, he is about to shoot Brimstone lasers in all 4 cardinal ( or diagonal) directions.
  • The Brimstone beams sometimes can rotate 90 degrees after being shot.
    • Krampus will growl just like The Fallen and quickly dash towards the player if the Brimstone Beams are going to rotate.
• He also spits 3 projectiles then 4 consecutively.
• When not performing either of these attacks, he flies about the room aimlessly.

Unlockable Achievements

• 

  Head of Krampus - Defeat Krampus.

Gallery

• 

  Krampus ingame before Repentance.

• 

  Krampus as one of Delirium's forms before Repentance

Notes

• Beating Krampus the first time will unlock Head of Krampus.
• Krampus will generally start by attacking with projectiles before firing Brimstone lasers.
• Chaos will not change the items dropped from Krampus.
• Rerolling A Lump of Coal or Head of Krampus with The D6 will cause another Devil Room Pool item to appear.
• Krampus does a full heart of damage on contact.
• Krampus can never appear in the first Devil Room entered on a run.

Trivia

• Krampus is based on an Alpine folkloric figure of similar appearance, supposedly acting as a contrast to Saint Nicholas, punishing children who misbehave near Christmas time.
  • This is most likely why A Lump of Coal is in his item pool.
• Krampus's attack pattern and appearance are similar to The Fallen, but Krampus does not split upon death.
• Krampus can spawn in Greed Mode without needing to be unlocked.
  • Defeating Krampus will unlock Head of Krampus even if Krampus himself has not yet been unlocked.
• In an AMA subreddit thread for Edmund McMillen, a user questioned why Krampus got "worse with every update." Edmund McMillen jokingly responded, "he's the new bloat."