Enemy · Emberwaste
Fire Imp
Fire Imp is a fiery, flying-hop enemy from Emberwaste in Castle Bonk, a free castle defense game for kids. It belongs to Emberwaste and first marches in on Day 19, “Popcorn Heat”. After that it comes back on days 20–25 and 28–30.
Fire Imps hop like popcorn and giggle like teakettles.
Fire Imp at a glance
- Health (HP)
- 525
- Speed
- 65 (a Goblin Grunt walks at 50)
- Wall damage
- 1.2 per second
- Gold dropped
- 5
- Threat
- 1.5 (a Goblin Grunt is 1)
- Traits
- Fiery, Flying
What it does
It moves in big bouncy hops (240 px arcs, 1 s airborne, 0.5 s grounded). While airborne it counts as Flying, so ground units can't reach it. It's vulnerable to catapult and melee only during the ground beat. At the wall it throws ember-flicks.
How to beat Fire Imp
Frost mage (fiery +50%), Stormcaller, Balcony Archers (hit them mid-air), and Ranger. Pyromancer and Boiling Oil show "resist".
Best counters: Cryomancer and Stormcaller.
Also works: Balcony Archers, Footman and Ranger.
Not great against it: Boiling Oil and Pyromancer.
- Fiery foes take 50% more frost damage and shrug off fire.
- It flies, so marching troops cannot reach it. Archers, crossbows, storm magic, and rangers can.
Fire Imp in the campaign
On Normal you'll face about 126 Fire Imps over 10 days, spread across 17 waves. The biggest crowd comes on Day 21, with 21 of them. Harder difficulty levels send more of them, with more health; Easy sends fewer.
What it looks like
A small red-orange imp with flame hair like a candle, stubby bat wings (too small to really fly, hence the hopping), a pointy tail, and a mischievous grin. Gag: it lands on its own tail sometimes and hops higher with an "ow!".
The elite version
It leaves small fire puddles where it lands, which burn units for 2 s (1 dps, cartoon).
Similar enemies
See every foe in the enemy almanac, or read the Day 19 walkthrough.