A primary stat of 170 is suggested. If your main stat isn't high enough, you'll see the following message:
A gremlin with huge bat wings flaps to the top of the rusted-out car and begins banging it with a crescent wrench. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It's almost like he's saying, "come on in; I'm not afraid of you." And then when he straight up says, "come on in; I'm not afraid of you," that's even more like it.
(It is recommended that you have at least 170 <mainstat> to adventure here.)
Monster Level: 168 • Substat Gain: 42 • Moxie for No Hit*: 178
Monster Defense: 154
Hit Points: 170
Initiative: 60
Elemental Alignment: None
Note: This vegetable gremlin does not drop the molybdenum screwdriver.
Notes
Most gremlins have two separate versions. Banishing a gremlin that doesn't hold the quest item will not banish the one that does. A.M.C. gremlins are the only ones that only have one version, since they have no quest items. See the Retrieve Yossarian's Tools quest page for attack messages.
In May 2025, Leading Yourself Right to Them and Peering Through Your Peridot both evaluated the monster conditionals as originally intended so they showed a different set of gremlins than you would encounter while adventuring. After an aborted attempt to restore the randomisation, both were eventually altered to show the static Gremlin locations.