Grotesque

The Grotesque, also called the Corpulent, is an undead construct monster, who can take a lot of hits, and when dead, explodes into a sea of worm-monsters called Lamprey that resided inside the Grotesque.

Diablo III Monster

Diablo III Monster [e]
Grotesque
Classification:	Undead
Monster Family:	Grotesque
Role:	Tank/Spawner
Monster Stats Norm/Night/Hell/Inferno
Life:	Unknown
Mana:	None
Armor:	Unknown
Resistance:	Unknown
Offence Norm/Night/Hell/Inferno
Armament:	Arms
DPS:	Unknown
Low Damage:	Unknown
High Damage:	Unknown
Range:	Melee
Speed:	Slow
Movement:	Slow
Monster Modifiers
None
Spells/Abilities
Lamprey Explosion
Found In
Forgotten Tombs

Lamprey explosion!

One of the more interesting monsters seen in the WWI 2008 gameplay movie, the Grotesque are basically living piñatas. They are fat, white, humanoid monsters, who has a very simple attack. What they do instead is run up to a player who comes into range, hits them, receives quite a few hits, bend over backwards and rupture into a massive fountain of wriggling silver eels. There seem to be far more eels within a grotesque than their volume would permit, but such is the nature of magic.

The eels, properly called Lamprey are wriggling creatures that must be killed lest they consume your character's toes, but they seem to die very quickly, and on the whole the Grotesque/Lamprey combo looks more inventive and amusing than dangerous. One AoE attack usually kills them all.

Spells and Abilities

• Lamprey Explosion

Not a spell per se, but an effect of killing the Grotesque: He explodes into a swam of Lamprey.

Known Subtypes

• Grotesque
• Corpulent

The Corpulent is not confirmed as an ingame monster, but a very likely candidate.

Related Monsters

• Lamprey

These eels are expelled from the Grotesque when he is killed.

Background

Nothing is yet known about the source of the undead Grotesque. It looks like a construct of human body parts, who either just have Lamprey inside the tissue, or is designed with Lamprey in mind. Like a Lamprey container.

Diablo I Monster

The Grotesque did not feature in Diablo I.

Diablo II Monster

The Grotesque did not feature in Diablo II.

Development

The Grotesque was first seen in the WWI 2008 gameplay video, and when found in the Forgotten Tombs, he had significantly less health than in later gameplay videos as well as the BlizzCon 2008 demo. This is not spectacular though, as it seems that video had all mob's health turned way down to show the strength of the Barbarian.

In an interview with Anthony Rivero[1], the designer of the Grotesque, he mentioned the "Corpulent" as the name for this monster. It could be the monster "family" name, or possibly just an alternative name.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:

• Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures
• Grotesque in the gallery

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  One Grotesque fella.

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  Grotesque fighting a Witch Doctor.

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  Grotesque explodes releasing tens of eel-like creatures called Lamprey.

References

• Diablo III Interview in BlizzCast 6