"Preytor is our huge mutant mantis", says Dylan Jobe, the producer of the game at Incog. "The one element that separates Preytor from the rest of the monsters is her jump/flight ability. Although she isn't the best flyer in the game, she still can get around the level better than most monsters. Preytor's hand-to-hand style is very fast with an arsenal of blade strikes and slashes."
Preytor was once an ordinary praying mantis that had mutated due to exposure to the alien fuel by a scientist researching the effects of the fuel on normal animals. Preytor grew to a monstrous size and proceeded to devour the scientist and join the war of the monsters. Armed with piercing appendages and an ability to regurgitate a parasitic lifeform, this flying monstrosity feeds on destruction.
Travel Speed:Superhuman (Through sheer size, Preytor should be able to move at these speeds), Higher with Flight (Preytor can outfly attack helicopters)
Green Sphere: Act as the health pickup items, the monsters use this when being gravely injured.
Blue Sphere: Act as the stamina pickup items, the monsters use this to restore their stamina and enter their "Monster rage" state.
Red Sphere: Act as a special move pick up item, the monsters pick this up in order to use their special move.
Cloaking Cube: A cloaking device made by aliens that allow the user to be temporarily invisible and prevents target lock.
Throwing Objects: Throwing objects vary greatly in what it can be in War of the Monsters. They can be of the following different classes:
Spears: Items that can pierce and stab an enemy, best for stunning them. These are the following spear types:
Radio Tower
Broken Pipes
Bars
Clubs: Items that can deal extra impact damage to monsters. These are the following club types:
Steel Bars
Parts on Buildings
Explosives: Items that explode upon being thrown at the enemy. These are the following explosive types:
Cars
Planes
Tanks
Boats
Helicopters
Propane Tanks
Planes
Rocks
Debris
Ventilation Systems
UFOs
Gas Trucks
Notable Techniques
Parasite: Preytor's long Range attack is a homing parasite that reaches a long distance and does low damage.
Long Flight: H-H-H
High Blade: L-L-H-H
Shoulder Stab: L-L-L-L
Upper Slice: L-H-L-H
Lightning Claw: L-L-L-L-L
Speedy Stab: H-L-H-L-H-L-H-H-L
Thorax Double Juggle: H-H-H-UH-DL-DL
CLAW DANCE: L-L-L-L-H-H-L-L-H
SHINING CLAW: L-L-L-L-H-L-H-H-L
Other
Standard Tactics: The monsters use the environment around them in combat along with using their melee attacks and special moves. Preytor will fly around and physically attack her opponent along with regurgitate a parasitic lifeform to assist her
Preytor's red ant skin from Stage 3 is a nod to the 1954 WB film Them!.
Preytor appears as a pre-boss threat, the giant ants, in Stage 3 at Rosdale Canyon, and then with Mecha-Congar in Stage 4 at Metro City.
The name of the Metro City poster, The Creeping Chaos, may be a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos.
Preytor's third skin might be based on the giant praying mantis robot from the DuckTales TV show.
Preytor's roars are the same as the Xenomorph screech from the Alien movies.
If the infinitely respawning Kineticlops in the Atomic Island level are excluded, Preytor has the most appearances out of any monster in Adventure mode, having 9 versions of her that appear and must be defeated.
Preytor may have been inspired by the Giant Praying Mantis from the Goosebumps series, which first appeared in A Shocker On Shock Street.
Battle Records
This battle record is with the Togera Adventure Mode in mind. 14-0-0
