Banishing
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In KoL, banishing a monster removes it from the possible encounters in any zone for a certain number of Adventures. Almost all banishers that cost a turn will run out of their effect 1 turn earlier, because the adventure itself took a turn.
General-Purpose Banishers
| Source | Type | Duration | Queue¹ | Cost | Costs Turn?² | Avail. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louder Than Bomb | Combat Item | 20 | 1 | Item Loss | No | HC/SC Unrestricted | Indirectly acquired from Summon Smithsness |
| Breathe Out | Skill | 20 | 1 | Item Loss,1 Spleen or 1 Fullness | No | HC/SC Standard (2017) | Temporary skill goes away after single use; learn the skill by consuming hot jelly or toast with hot jelly from a Space Jellyfish |
| crystal skull | Combat Item | 20 | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | HC/SC Unrestricted | Acquired from Summon Clip Art |
| divine champagne popper | Combat Item | 5 | 1 | Item Loss | No | HC/SC Unrestricted | Acquired from Summon Party Favor |
| Nanorhino | Familiar | Rollover | 1 | Effect Loss | Yes | HC/SC Unrestricted | From using Unleash Nanites with 40+ turns of Nanobrawny; requires a Muscle-based combat skill; Nanobrawny is lost upon use |
| Harold's bell | Combat Item | 20 | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | HC/SC Standard | Only one bell can be obtained per ascension |
| bundle of "fragrant" herbs | Combat Item | Rollover | 3 | - | No | Crimbo 2015 | Limit 10 uses per day. Cannot be used during Ronin or Hardcore. |
| ice house | Combat Item | ∞ | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | HC/SC Unrestricted | Persists through ascension. Monster can be retrieved from the Museum. |
| Batter Up! | Skill | Rollover | 1 | 5 Fury | Yes | HC/SC Standard | Class-specific: Only usable by Seal Clubbers; banished monster gives stats but not meat/item drops |
| Snokebomb | Skill | 30 turns | 1 | 50 MP | No | HC/SC Standard (2016) | Limit 3 uses per day. Acquired from Training scroll: Snokebomb. |
| Creepy Grin | Equipment | 10 | 1 | 30 MP | No | SC Unrestricted | From V for Vivala mask, once per day; removing mask ends banishment |
| Give Your Opponent the Stinkeye | Equipment | 10 | 1 | - | No | SC Unrestricted | From stinky cheese eye, once per day; removing eye does NOT end banishment |
| Talk About Politics | Equipment | 30 | 1 | - | Yes | SC Unrestricted | From Pantsgiving, can only be used five times per day; kills the banished monster and gives stats, meat, and drops. |
| tennis ball | Combat Item | 30 | 1 | Item Loss | No | HC/SC Standard (2015) | Acquired from Playing Fetch* with a Hallowiener Dog |
| Daily Affirmation: Be a Mind Master | Combat Item | 80? | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | HC/SC Standard (2017) | From New-You Club Membership Form |
| KGB tranquilizer dart | Equipment | 20 | 1 | - | No | HC/SC Standard (2017) | From Kremlin's Greatest Briefcase; can be used three times per day |
| Asdon Martin: Spring-Loaded Front Bumper | Workshed | 30 | 1 | 50 fuel | No | HC/SC Standard (2017) | From Asdon Martin workshed appliance; has a 30 turn cooldown |
| Show them your ring | Equipment | 60 | 1 | 13 MP | No | SC Standard | From mafia middle finger ring, once per day; removing ring does not end banishment |
| Throw Latte on Opponent | Equipment | 30 | 1 | - | No | HC/SC Standard (2018) | From Latte lovers member's mug, up to 4 times per day. |
| tryptophan dart | Combat Item | Rollover | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | HC/SC Standard (2019) | Dropped by Elf Operative |
| Reflex Hammer | Equipment | 30 | 1 | - | No | HC/SC Standard (2019) | From Lil' Doctor™ bag, up to 3 times per day |
| Winifred's whistle | Combat Item | ? | ? | Item Loss | No | HC/SC Unrestricted | |
| Use the Force, %playername! | Equipment | 30 | 1 | 1 Charge | No | HC/SC Standard (2019) | From Fourth of May Cosplay Saber, up to 5 times per day, shared with other abilities |
| human musk | Combat Item | Rollover | 1? | Item Loss | No (first 3 times in a day) | HC/SC Standard (2019) | Dropped by Red-Nosed Snapper tracking dudes |
| pulled indigo taffy | Combat Item | 40 | 1 | Item Loss | No | HC/SC Unrestricted | Underwater only; acquired from Summon Taffy |
| Banishing Shout | Skill | ∞ | 3 | 50 MP | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Avatar of Boris runs |
| Howl of the Alpha | Skill | ∞ | 3 | 9 zombies | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Zombie Slayer runs |
| classy monkey | Combat Item | 20 | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only works in Class Act runs |
| Staff of the Standalone Cheese | Equipment | Rollover | 5 | - | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Avatar of Jarlsberg runs; performed by jiggling the staff in combat up to 5 times/day |
| dirty stinkbomb | Combat Item | Rollover | 1? | Item Loss | No? | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in KOLHS runs |
| deathchucks | Combat Item | Rollover? | 1? | Item Loss | No | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in KOLHS runs |
| Peel Out | Skill | Rollover | 1 | 10 MP | No | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Avatar of Sneaky Pete runs; requires the Extra-Smelly Muffler motorcycle upgrade |
| Walk Away From Explosion | Skill | 30 | 1 | 30 MP | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Avatar of Sneaky Pete runs; banished monster gives stats/etc. |
| smoke grenade | Combat Item | 20 | 1 | Item Loss | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Avatar of Sneaky Pete runs. |
| Thunder Clap | Skill | 40 | 1 | 40 dB | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Heavy Rains runs. |
| Curse of Vacation | Skill | Rollover | 1 | 30 MP | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Actually Ed the Undying runs. Usable up to 5 times per day. |
| Beancannon | Skill | Rollover | 5 | 15 MP, Item Loss | Yes | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Avatar of West of Loathing runs. Requires a can of beans equipped in the off-hand slot, which is destroyed. |
| Baleful Howl | Skill | Rollover | 1 | 30 HP | No | Path | Challenge path-specific: Only available in Dark Gyffte runs. Usable up to 10 times per day. |
¹ How many monsters can be banished at a time by this particular source. If you use this banisher to banish another monster (in any zone), the first monster in the banisher's "queue" will be un-banished. Most things can only banish one monster at a time.
² Does ending a combat with this item consume an Adventure?
Monster-Specific Banishers
| Source | Monster | Source Type | Duration | Costs Turn? | Avail. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cocktail napkin | clingy pirate | Combat Item | 20 | No | Both | Deals 20-40 hot damage to other monsters |
| Chatterboxing | chatty pirate | Adventure | 20 | No | Both | Requires a valuable trinket, which is consumed |
| Bowl of Scorpions | drunk pygmy | Item | Rollover | No | Both | Each Bowl of Scorpions will cause one free run-away. After the 11th occurrence, the pygmy is banished. |
| spooky music box mechanism | any in Spookyraven Manor | Combat Item | Rollover | Yes | Both | Queue size of 1. Deals 100-120 spooky damage to other monsters. |
| ice hotel bell | any in The Ice Hotel | Combat Item | Rollover | No | Both | Queue size of 1 Deals 250-300 cold damage to other monsters. |
| Licorice Rope | any dude(?) in Gingerbread City | Skill | Rollover | Yes | Both | Queue size of 1. |
Notes
- Banishing a monster prevents it from appearing in any zone that it would appear in.
- For example, banishing an A.M.C. gremlin will remove it from all four zones that it could appear in.
- Banishing all possible monsters from a zone results in all of the monsters returning, and will also prevent further other banishes from removing monsters from that zone until at least one of the initial banishes expire.
- "Unbanishing" a monster by using that same banisher on a different monster in a different zone will cause that monster to return as normal, and the other banishes in that zone will reapply and remove them.
- For example, using Snokebomb (30 turns) on the VYKEA viking (male) and human musk (until rollover) on the VYKEA viking (female) will cause the following things to occur:
- Both monsters will stay in the zone, and they will also ignore any further attempts to be banished.
- After 30 adventures, Snokebomb will expire and the Viking male will return to the zone, while the Viking female will remain banished.
- If human musk is used on a different monster, such as by using it on a crate, the Viking female will return to the zone because its banish has been lifted, and the Viking male will remain banished until Snokebomb's 30 adventure duration expires.
- Banishing all normal monsters in a zone with conditional monsters in it will instead yield a tumbleweed. You cannot banish the two normal zombies from The Defiled Alcove to force the initiative-dependent modern zmobies.
- Banishing a monster with multiple naturally occurring copies (i.e. there are 2 Astronomers in the Hole in the Sky), will also banish the second copy.
- However, if a monster receives additional copies such as from Transcendent Olfaction (+3 copies), the additional copies will not be banished. The "native" copy of the monster will be banished, but the 3 bonus copies are still in the zone; so instead of being reduced from 4 copies to 0, banishing an Olfacted monster will reduce it from 4 copies to 3.
- In this example, using an additional banish will not reduce copies from 3 to 2; rather it will remain at 3 because banishes remove native copies, hence why they apply against the two astronomers but not Olfacted monsters.
- This is also why banishing a monster with the same phylum that the Red-Nosed Snapper is tracking will fail to remove all copies of that monster.
- (See the Adventure Queue process for more details.)
- There are multiple zones that are banish-proof; either no sources of banishes will work at all, or only special mechanics will affect the appearance of monsters in the zone.
- Entire types of monsters in Dreadsylvania can be banished as a result of special non-combats; see Advanced Dreadsylvania Mechanics for details.
History
- For a long time, banishing was a game mechanic tied almost exclusively to Mr. Store items. Banishing has been slowly trickling into the base game through channels like challenge paths and Batter Up!
See also
- Adventure Queue
- On the Trail (another common way to influence which monsters you encounter)
- Run Away
