Free fights

There are three basic ways to end a combat without it costing a turn. These are

• free runaways (omitted from this list on purpose, see Run Away for more information),
• fights against certain monsters (hereafter free fights), and
• certain methods to insta-kill monsters (hereafter free kills; insta-kill types that cost turns are omitted on purpose).

Free fights and free kills are limited in various ways. One of the most important ways to bypass free fight limits is copying and/or turning a free fight monster into a wanderer. Having access to a fax machine, a Rain Man, a combat lover's locket, a genie bottle or pocket wishes also obviates the need for a lot of free fights' original sources.

Free fights

Free fights (specific mobs)	limit?	Are additional copies free?	source
lynyrd	3/day	Yes	using a lynyrd snare
Infernal Seals	5 or 10/day	Uncopyable	variety of items; must be Seal Clubber for 5, must also have Claw of the Infernal Seal in inventory for 10.
BRICKO monsters	10/day	Yes	BRICKO bricks; can copy additional oozes or bats
drunk pygmy	11/day	Yes	with Bowl of Scorpions in inventory, fight ends instantly If you equip a miniature crystal ball on the 11th drunk pygmy, you can then fight a 12th pygmy before encountering tumbleweeds.
dense liana	15/ascension	Yes	with machete equipped as weapon, fight ends instantly
Hipster monsters	7/day	Yes	must have Mini-Hipster active, shares counter with Artistic Goth Kid; can copy for more
Black Crayon monsters	7/day	Yes	must have Artistic Goth Kid active, shares counter with Mini-Hipster; can copy for more
DMT fights	5/day	No	must have Machine Elf active, can only be in the DMT (DMT monsters by default, but can be any wanderer)
X-32-F Combat Training Snowman	10/day	Uncopyable	must have a Snojo
Witchess pieces	5/day	Yes	must have a Witchess Set; can copy for more
Protonic accelerator pack ghosts	delay of 50 adventures in-between	Uncopyable	must have either protonic accelerator pack equipped or used almost-dead walkie-talkie to receive location and start counter
Eldritch Tentacle	variable	Yes	casting Evoke Eldritch Horror (1/day) Fighting a tentacle for science in A Science Tent after the Sssschmuck finale (1/day) Eldritch Attunement effect will summon 1 tentacle after almost every non-tentacle fight as long as you have at least 1 turn of Attument remaining by the end of the fight
Time-spinner prank	6/day	Uncopyable	getting pranked by another player with a Time-Spinner; not available in Ronin/HC
Giant rubber spider	delay of 10-20 adventures in-between	Uncopyable	having a rubber spider used against you by another player; not available in Ronin/HC
L.O.V. Enemies	3/day	Uncopyable	must have the Tunnel of L.O.V.E. or use a LOV Entrance Pass
God Lobster	3/day	Uncopyable	must have a God Lobster active, or use a Dish of Clarified Butter
Partygoers from The Neverending Party	10/day	No	must have used a Neverending Party invitation envelope. The partygoers do not have to be fought in the party zone itself to count as free fights. The scheduled noncombat will also take up 1 charge After the daily limit, the partygoers cease to be free fights. The fights are not free if access is acquired with a Neverending Party guest pass.
Vote Monsters	3/day	Uncopyable	Must have an "I Voted!" sticker equipped on the scheduled encounters. The scheduled encounters take place each adventure after your total lifetime turncount modulo 11 equals 1 (similar to the Lights Out encounters). After the first 3 encounters, the monsters become un-free.
Sausage goblin	Theoretically unlimited	Yes	Must have a Kramco Sausage-o-Matic™ equipped. Encounter chance decreases for each goblin encountered, the number of goblins that can be encountered per day is theoretically unlimited but will typically not be more than 23.
Trick or Treat!	5/Halloween or 1/day with a map to a candy-rich block	Yes	The dark houses provide free fights, and the 1st block is free. Subsequent blocks cost 5 advs, but the fights are still free.
%monster%	1/day	Uncopyable	Use URL manipulation to "eat" a [glitch season reward name] (not consumed).
Moleman	1/day	Uncopyable	use the Molehill mountain item.
piranha plant	1/day or 5/day	Uncopyable	Must have Your Mushroom Garden as your garden. 5/day only in Path of the Plumber. If combined with Portscan and Macrometeorite, an additional 3 piranha plants can be fought each day.
Cargo Cultist Shorts monsters	1/day	No	Fight a variety of monsters by picking the right pocket (1/day, must own Cargo Cultist Shorts, only 28 available in one ascension), or use either of the five elemental desk bells from the Cargo Cultist Shorts.
void guy, slab, spider	5/day	No	Encountered with a cursed magnifying glass equipped (see mechanics there); the first 5 fought from any source (e.g. Rubbed it the Right Way|wished]]) are free, but the 6th and subsequent fights (from any source) are non-free
An Unusually Quiet Barroom Brawl	3/day	No	Must have used a Deed to Oliver's Place, the first 3 speakeasy fights become free, but can be any wanderer
Shadow Affinity	11/day or more	No	Combats in a Shadow Rift zone cost 1 duration of this effect instead of an adventure, the effect is extendable
Shadow Rift bosses	unlimited?	Uncopyable	shadow cauldron, shadow matrix, shadow orrery, shadow scythe, shadow spire, shadow tongue are inherently free fights, but require 11 visits to a Shadow Rift to encounter
Cats from the august scepter skill	1/day	No	casting Aug. 8th: Cat Day! leads to a free fight with a random cat
Tooth Golem from the august scepter skill	1/day	No	casting Aug. 22nd: Tooth Fairy Day! leads to a free fight with a Tooth Golem, but its copies are not free
Burning Leaves monsters	(5+3)/day	Uncopyable	Flaming leaflet, flaming monstera, and leaviathan can all be summoned by burning 11, 111, or 666 leaves respectively. All fights are inherently free but cannot be copied. Total of 5 fights can be summoned per day via burning leaves, and another 1 of each monster can be fought per day via the tied-up versions created by the lit leaf lasso.

Free kills

Free kills (specific methods)	limit?	type	remark
Chest X-Ray	3/day	combat skill	must have a Lil' Doctor™ bag equipped
Shattering Punch	3/day	combat skill	Snojo skill, tradable
Replica bat-oomerang	3/day	combat item	Batfellow content, costs at least one Batfellow comic, untradable
Fire the Jokester's Gun	1/day	combat skill	must have The Jokester's gun equipped (Batfellow content, tradable)
Power pill	20/day	combat item	must have Puck Man and/or Ms. Puck Man
Nuclear stockpile	10/day	combat item	only usable during Crimbo 2015
Glark cable	5/day	combat item	against any non-instakillable mobs in The Red Zeppelin
Lightning Strike	20 Lightning per cast	combat skill	only available in Heavy Rains, costs path-specific Lightning resource
Gingerbread Mob Hit	1/day	combat skill	Gingerbread City leaderboard reward skill, tradable skillbook
Superduperheated metal	unlimited	combat item	can only be obtained through the mall or 1/day in The Bubblin' Caldera
Daily Affirmation: Think Win-Lose	unlimited	combat item	can only be obtained through the mall or from the New-You Club Membership Form
Asdon Martin: Missile Launcher	1/day	combat skill	must have Asdon Martin installed in your workshed; instantly forces all items to drop like a Yellow Ray; costs 100 "fuel"
Use the Force, %playername!	5/day	combat skill	must have a Fourth of May Cosplay Saber equipped and select "You will drop your things and walk away." in the subsequent Using the Force choice adventure. Note that this does not end the combat with a win but rather in the manner of a rollover runaway.
Powdered madness	5/day	combat item	can only be obtained through the mall or from the Red-Nosed Snapper
Shocking Lick	unlimited?	combat skill	gain 1 charge per use of battery (9-Volt), battery (lantern), or battery (car); instantly forces all items to drop
Breathitin™	5/charge	spleen item	takes 2 spleen space, makes next 5 outdoor fights free, can only be obtained through the mall or from the Cold Medicine Cabinet
carnivorous potted plant	unlimited	equipment	has a 4% chance to trigger a free kill when equipped
Spit jurassic acid	unlimited, but blocked by Everything Looks Yellow	combat skill	must have a Jurassic Parka equipped and set to the dilophosaur mode; is a Yellow Ray
groveling gravel	unlimited?	combat item	forfeits item drops, but not stats or meat.
shadow brick	13/day	combat item	does disappointing damage against monsters that are immune
Assert your Authority	3/day	combat skill	Needs all three of Sheriff moustache, Sheriff badge, and Sheriff pistol equipped

Path-specific shenanigans

Path-specific shenanigans	path
Optimal monsters in OCRS	One Crazy Random Summer while in Hardcore/Ronin
Source Agent explosions	The Source; the exploded monsters do not take a turn but the agent fights do; but agents can be exploded as well via auto-attacking with portscan
Short-Range Jetpack	License to Adventure; 5% chance of activating after combat, can activate after an already free fight (accomplishing nothing)

Notes

• On January 1st, 2018, the meat drop from free fights and kills was capped at 1000.

There's a lot of Meat here, but you're in too big of a hurry to grab more than 1,000 of it.

• Some time after the release of the Protonic accelerator pack (?), free fights were changed to cost a turn if they were lost; currently the only free fights that continue to not cost a turn when they are lost are to Sssshhsssblllrrggghsssssggggrrgglsssshhssslblgl (whom you always lose to), and the L.O.V. Enemies.