Venom Lord

Venom Lord in-game

Venom Lords are Demons. They're a species of Megademons. These winged, flightless, demonic-looking creatures are fierce melee brawlers who also pack an Inferno breath attack. The inferno was very dangerous in early versions of Diablo II, but it has been nerfed in more recent patches, and is no longer a great threat to any character with reasonable fire resistance.

Venom Lords are still quite dangerous with their melee attack, and they move quickly and hit hard. Their AI is unusual, and they tend to dance around a bit, circling their target before closing in. This makes them slower to engage than more direct melee fighters, but can make a mob of them more dangerous, since they will completely surround their target in short order, rather than stacking up as they all try to take the shortest route to the character.

The weakest Venom Lords in Hell difficulty are found on the Outer Steppes, while the strongest (regular) are found on the Chaos Sanctuary.

• All values are listed by difficulty level: Normal / Nightmare / Hell.

Locations

• Guest Monsters are found only in Act Five, and only on Nightmare and Hell difficulty levels.
• Monsters in areas marked "Boss Only" will only appear as random bosses or champions.
• Monsters in areas marked "No Boss" will never appear as random bosses or champions.

Act 4:

• Outer Steppes (No boss on Normal)
• Plains of Despair (No boss on Normal)
• River of Flame (Normal only, boss only)
• Chaos Sanctuary

Act 5:

• Throne of Destruction (only Ventar the Unholy's pack)

Statistics

• The TC/Rune drops listed are the highest Treasure Class/Rune Group a normal monster of that type can drop.
  • TC Champions and Bosses can sometimes drop from the next higher group.
  • The max TC/Rune possible may depend on which level a monster spawns in, and can be lower than the maximum. See the item calculators to ascertain precisely what a monster from a given area can drop.

Type	Level	Experience	Hit Points	Speed	Max TC/Rune
Outer Steppes	30 / 56 / 82	1001 / 12320 / 61253	255-305 / 2536-3020 / 12257-14592	10	36/Sol, 57/Um, 84/Zod
Plains of Despair	30 / 56 / 83	1001 / 12320 / 63020	255-305 / 2536-3020 / 12499-14880	10	36/Sol, 57/Um, 87/Zod
Chaos Sanctuary	30 / 58 / 85	1001 / 13841 / 66553	255-305 / 2679-3190 / 12982-15455	10	36/Sol, 60/Ist, 87/Zod
Throne of Destruction	43 / 69 / 88	15495 / 202145 / 611780	1224-2442 / 8132-9486 / 27819-32455	10	39/Dol, 69/Lo, 87/Zod

Offense

Venom Lords are melee attackers with the ability to use the Inferno spell from a distance. The Guest Monsters types add a % chance of fire damage adding to their melee hits.

Type	Melee Attack #1	Attack Rating #1	Inferno
Outer Steppes	10-18 / 47-75 / 93-148	386 / 1756 / 5270	72-102 / 99-138 / 135-186
Plains of Despair	10-18 / 47-75 / 94-150	386 / 1756 / 5331	72-102 / 99-138 / 135-186
Chaos Sanctuary	10-18 / 48-76 / 96-153	386 / 1814 / 5452	72-102 / 99-138 / 135-186
Throne of Destruction	15-26 / 57-102 / 100-180	565 / 2664 / 7044	36-54 / 63-90 / 99-138

Defenses

• Regen Rate tells what % of a monster's hit points are recovered per second. Standard is 1.2/sec.
• Blocking values are assigned to every monster in the game, but the ability is seldom enabled, so most monsters can not block (Hence the blocking % given on most Diablo II monster pages, including Blizzard's, is inaccurate.) When enabled, blocking tells what % of successful, blockable attacks will not damage the monster. Monsters need not carry a shield to block.
• Drain Effectiveness tells what % of a character's mana and life steal apply to that monster. 100 is all, 0 is none.
• Chill Effectiveness tells what % of a character's cold length applies to the monster. 100 is all, 0 is no freeze/chill at all.

Type	Defense	Blocking	Regen Rate	Drain Effectiveness	Chill Effectiveness
Outer Steppes	181 / 883 / 1837	--	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 66	50 / 40 / 33
Plains of Despair	181 / 883 / 158	--	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 66	50 / 40 / 33
Chaos Sanctuary	181 / 910 / 1898	--	1.2/sec	100 / 85 / 66	50 / 40 / 33
Throne of Destruction	242 / 888 / 1651	--	1.2/sec	100 / 75 / 50	50 / 40 / 33

Resistances

• Resistances over 99% are listed as immunities and monsters will take no damage from that type of attack.
• Immunities can be "broken" by skills that lower resistance, if the value drops below 99%. See the Resistances page for more details.

Type	Physical	Fire	Cold	Lightning	Poison	Magic
Outer Steppes	0% / 0% / 50%	70% / 80% / 130%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 75%	70% / 100% / 75%	0% / 0% / 0%
Plains of Despair	0% / 0% / 50%	70% / 80% / 130%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 75%	70% / 100% / 75%	0% / 0% / 0%
Chaos Sanctuary	0% / 0% / 50%	70% / 80% / 130%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 75%	70% / 100% / 75%	0% / 0% / 0%
Throne of Destruction	0% / 0% / 50%	70% / 80% / 95%	0% / 0% / 50%	0% / 0% / 75%	70% / 100% / 120%	0% / 0% / 0%