Gargantula

Gargantula
Element:	Undead
Spyro's Adventure Giants
Species:	Spider
Gender:	Female
Role:	Enemy
World:	Crawling Catacombs Creepy Citadel The Oracle
Attacks:	Spits sticky webs Strike with claws
Appears in:	Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Console) Skylanders: Giants (Console) Cynder Confronts the Weather Wizard

“She's into close relationships, shake to escape!”

– Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure flavor text

“Shake to avoid a sticky situation.”

– Skylanders: Giants flavor text

Gargantulas are huge spiders first introduced in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure at Crawling Catacombs. These massive spiders shoot a strand of sticky web at Skylanders. The Gargantulas pull in their prey and strike for a lot of damage unless the Skylander can break free. When defeated, they will produce a small number of Skitterbooms or Spiderlings, depending on the game. However, they do not produce Spiders in most Heroic Challenges.

In Skylanders: Giants, Gargantulas reappear in The Oracle. In the Trial of Courage: Spiders, a single, much larger Gargantula appears. Later, in the Trial of Heart: Big Fish, several smaller Gargantulas are encountered.

Game Data

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

Health: 186 HP

Damage methods:

• Sticky web pull: 64 damage + 16 damage per second (Wii) / 0 damage (PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360)
• Claw strike: 161 damage

XP given: 220 XP

Italicized text refers to values only present in Heroic Challenges.

Values may vary depending on location, difficulty, and/or other factors.

Gallery

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  Gargantula's enemy intro in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure at Crawling Catacombs (Wii)
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  Gargantula's enemy intro in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360)
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  Gargantula icon from Prism Break's Heroic Challenge in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii)

Trivia

• The name "Gargantula" is a combination of "gargantuan", another word for massive, and "tarantula", a type of spider.
• In the strategy guide for Giants, they are the only enemies with all their stats shown as EXTREME.
• Unlike other Spiders in the Skylanders games, who have only four legs, Gargantulas have six. This is ironically still less than the amount of legs real-world spiders have, which is eight.
• Because they spawn smaller spiders when defeated, much like real-life female spiders carrying their offspring on their backs, one can assume that all Gargantulas are female.
• Gargantulas are the only enemy in Giants whose alpha counterparts are identical to those in the final game.