Mushroom Parents are enemies in Dark Souls.
Location[]
Mushroom Parents are located in the Darkroot Garden, Ash Lake, and The Great Hollow.
Strategy[]
Although slow, the Mushroom Parent deals very high damage, capable of quickly killing the player. On the other hand, Mushroom Parents have very high starting and ending lag to their attacks, giving players ample time to react. An easy way to dispatch the Mushroom Parents is to fight them one on one since they usually are found in pairs.
Enemy Information[]
Characteristics[]
Respawn | Yes |
---|---|
Backstab | No |
Damage Types | Strike |
Abilities | High staggering attacks. |
Attacks[]
Attack | Damage | Attack Type | Status Effect | Parryable | Tracking | Attack Speed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Left Punch | 686 | Strike | None | No | Both | Medium |
Right Punch | 686 | Strike | None | No | Both | Medium |
Power Punch | 854 | Strike | None | No | Both | Slow |
Defenses[]
Location | Physical Defenses | Elemental Defenses | Resistances | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Darkroot Garden | 146 | 185 | 111 | 148 | 133 | 88 | 296 | A | A | A |
The Great Hollow | 156 | 196 | 117 | 156 | 139 | 93 | 311 | A | A | A |
These stats are sourced from FuturePress's Official Dark Souls Strategy Guide.
Drops[]
Item | Gold Pine Resin |
Gold Pine Resin ×2 |
Drop Rate | 80% (Darkroot Garden) |
20% (Darkroot Garden) |
Trivia[]
- A similar enemy named Nyconid appeared in Shadow Tower, another game developed by FromSoftware.
- In Dark Souls III, a group of Mushroom Parent corpses are found in Farron Keep.
- The Mushroom Parent enemies design as a whole seem to be based upon King Oyster Mushrooms.