How Can You Kill a Ghost Leviathan in Subnautica?
How to Kill a Ghost Leviathan in Subnautica
To effectively combat a Ghost Leviathan, it’s essential to keep a few key strategies in mind:
- Attack Strategy: The Ghost Leviathan only requires 2 hits to kill. After each hit, the Leviathan will take time to turn, giving you enough opportunity to use a medkit before it can strike again.
- Movement: You should avoid staying in one place for too long. Flee horizontally after hitting it, as this gives you a better chance of dodging its attack. If you get hit unexpectedly, you might be too late to react.
- Defensive Measures: The Ghost Leviathans typically don’t grab and drag for long, unlike the Reaper. If you trigger electrodefense immediately after being hit, the Ghost Leviathan will release its grip (if any) and avoid a second attack. Small Ghost Leviathans can bite for up to 55% damage if electrodefense is not activated, while adults bite for 42% damage.
- Equipment: Using the Prawn Suit with a Grapple Arm and Drill Arm can quickly dispatch smaller creatures like Ghost Leviathans. Alternatively, the Stasis Rifle paired with a Thermoblade offers a safer—yet slower—method for dealing with them.
- Aiming: When you see the Leviathan charging, ready your stasis rifle, charge it fully, and aim for its face. The hitbox generally does not extend much beyond the fins near its head. Once it’s stuck, move in quickly and begin attacking with your weapon.
- Combat Efficiency: It’s faster to kill Ghost Leviathans using the Stasis Rifle followed by stabbing them. It requires significantly fewer stabs with the Heat Blade compared to dealing with Reapers.
Overall, the Ghost Leviathan has a soft, bioluminescent outer membrane covering a muscular, blue inner body that features many darker blue stripes and 12 yellow, bioluminescent eyes. Upon successful attack, it inflicts 84% damage to the player. Adults can even push the Cyclops, either dragging or overturning it. When killed, Ghost Leviathans within the Crater do not respawn, although those near the Crater Edge will.
What Weapons Are Effective Against Ghost Leviathans?
Effective Weapons Against Ghost Leviathans:
- Heat Knife: It takes 100 swings of the heat knife to kill a juvenile ghost leviathan.
- Gravity Gun: You need 3 full blasts from the gravity gun to assist in defeating the leviathan. It takes 20 seconds less than a full tank of air to kill it, providing ample time to return to your vehicle.
- Prawn Suit: Using a Prawn Suit, specifically the Grapple Arm upgrade and Drill Arm, is highly recommended. You can hang onto a Leviathan and inflict damage using the Drill Arm.
- Thermoblade: Inflicts 40 damage at 100% efficiency. However, to ensure a kill, you may need to make over 125 hits, as not every hit will inflict 100% damage. Alternatively, consider stronger weapons.
- Repulsion Cannon: This weapon inflicts at least 300 damage per shot, making it a strong option against ghost leviathans.
- Sea’s Searing: This legendary weapon is very effective due to the leviathan’s large size, but it can be difficult to obtain.
- Drilling Technique: The Drill Arm is a hugely effective tool for inflicting damage on larger creatures. Drilling constantly into the creature while latched on with the Grapple Arm can quickly eliminate reapers and even larger leviathan-class beings.
- Stasis Rifle: Pairing the Stasis Rifle with other tools can enhance your chances against these leviathans.
Understanding the Respawn Mechanics of Ghost Leviathans
Understanding the respawn mechanics of Ghost Leviathans reveals several key points:
- In the Crater Edge, specific species will not respawn if killed by a player. This includes:
- Juvenile Ghost Leviathan
- Ghost Leviathan
- Reaper Leviathan
- Sea Dragon Leviathan
- However, the Dead Zone contains plenty more Ghost Leviathans, so players can encounter them even after killing.
- When luring a Reaper into another biome, it is speculated that the game does not track its life or death state outside its home biome. Each biome likely maintains its own state and memory independently.
- Ghost Leviathans will spawn and pursue players as follows: – If the player stays in the Crater Edge for 40 seconds, a second Ghost Leviathan will spawn. – After another 40 seconds, a third Ghost Leviathan appears. – When killed, they will respawn if players remain in the area.
- In total, six Ghost Leviathans are known to spawn on the map, excluding those found in the Crater Edge: – Three juveniles in the Lost River – Two adults in the Grand Reef – One adult in the Northern Blood Kelp Zone
- Players can kill Ghost Leviathans, but they will respawn. An adult Ghost Leviathan inflicts 84% damage on players, while a Juvenile Ghost Leviathan inflicts 55% damage.
- Regarding size, adult Ghost Leviathans found in the void are approximately 1.15 times larger than those found in the Crater Edge. Their growth appears to be continuous throughout their lifespan.
- If a player deletes the cellscache folder, Ghost Leviathans will return as their state is saved in the cell where they exist or died, not in the player’s save file.
