---
title: "Giant Mantis"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.sIGP4uWQ2AJNlRiw" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/animal
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/3
statblock: inline
name: "Giant Mantis"
level: 3
license: OGL
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary"
name: "Giant Mantis"
level: "Creature 3"

alignment: ""
size: "Large"
trait_01: [[animal]]
modifier: 9
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+9; Darkvision"
languages: ""
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +8, Athletics: +12, Stealth: +12"
abilityMods: [5, 3, 3, -5, 2, 0]
speed: 25 feet,  climb 25 feet,  fly 20 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary_"
ac: 20
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "20; __Fort__ +10, __Ref__ +12, __Will__ +7"
hp: 40
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "40"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Leg"
    desc: "+12 (agile, reach 10 feet)\n__Damage__  1d10 + 5 piercing plus grab"

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Mandibles"
    desc: "+12 ()\n__Damage__  1d12 + 5 piercing"

  - name: "Deadly Mandibles"
    desc: "`pf2:r`  **Trigger** The giant mantis [[Conditions/Grabbed|Grabs]] a creature with its leg.\n* * *\n\n**Effect** The mantis pulls the creature adjacent to it, then makes a mandibles Strike against the creature."

  - name: "Lunging Strike"
    desc: "`pf2:2`  The giant mantis lunges forward, making a leg Strike with an extended reach of 20 feet."

  - name: "Sudden Strike"
    desc: "  On the first round of combat, creatures that haven't acted are [[Conditions/Off-Guard|Off-Guard]] to the giant mantis."

  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Grab|Grab]]"
    desc: "`pf2:1`  **Requirements** The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature [[Conditions/Grabbed|Grabbed]] or [[Conditions/Restrained|Restrained]]\n* * *\n\n**Effect** If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to [[/act grapple]] the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty.\n\nThe monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Giant Mantis
creatures:
  - 1: Giant Mantis
```



These massive cousins of normal praying mantises stand taller than an average human. They stalk through dense forests, striking at meals from the trees.

* * *

These monstrously oversized insects are silent predators with lightning-quick forelegs and a bone-breaking bite.
