Alpha Clot

The Alpha Clot is a common specimen in Killing Floor 2. It is classified as a lesser enemy, and therefore, cannon fodder. Although extremely weak on their own, their real strength comes in numbers.

Base Statistics

	Normal	Hard	Suicidal	Hell on earth
Kill Reward	7	7	7	7
XP	8	11	11	11
Health (body)	75	100	100	100
Health (head)	15	20	20	20

For kill reward calculations read Dosh Mechanics.

Attacks

The base damage value further modified by the difficulty-specific multipliers.

XP Notes

Killing with weapons other than your current perk grants the XP to the perk that weapons belongs to.
Damaging with on-perk weapons and then finishing it off with an off-perk weapon divides the XP and grants it to both perks.
Assist kills grants full XP.

Speed

Clots move slowly when docile, and sprint when enraged.
On higher difficulties, Clots have a chance to enrage upon sighting the players, and have a chance to enrage when shot.
Once enraged, Clots will never stop sprinting until they are killed.
Movement speed is randomized within ± 10% range and further modified by a multiplier based on difficulty. This value is 0.87 on Normal and 1.05 on Hell On Earth.

	Normal	Hard	Suicidal	Hell on earth
Speed (walking)	164 - 201	189 - 231	189 - 231	198 - 243
Speed (sprinting)	392 - 479	450 - 550	450 - 550	473 - 578
Chance to Sprint on Sight	0%	0%	5%	75%
Chance to Sprint when Shot	0%	5%	100%	100%

For comparison, by default a healthy player character with the minimal weight walks at speed of 383 units/s, and sprints at speed of 460 units/s.

Resistances and Weaknesses

Damage Resistance

Clots have little to no weaknesses, and have a few crippling resistances.

	Piercing	Slashing	Bludgeon	Toxic	Fire	Microwave	Explosives	Slashing - Knife
Damage Multipler	x1	x0.85	x0.9	x1	x1	x0.25	x1	x1

Ballistic Resistance

Clots have no resistances to ballistic weaponry and are extremely vulnerable to sub-machine guns.

	Sub-machine Gun	Assault Rifle	Shotgun	Handgun	Rifle
Damage Multiplier	x1.5	x1	x1	x1	x1

Hitzones

Clots only have one weak spot, which is the head.

	Damage Multiplier
Head	x1.1
All other	x1

Incapacitation Resistance

Behavior

The Alpha Clot is a predictable, melee-only ZED.
Upon spawning, it will walk or sprint towards the nearest player and attempt to scratch them, or grab and bite them, immobilizing their target.
On Suicidal and Hell On Earth, Clots gain additional attack animations that they will use when they are enraged. Other than that, their behavior does not change drastically between the difficulties.

Elite Alpha Variant

Alpha Clots have a chance of spawning as an Elite Alphas aka Albino Clots (refered as King Clots in the code).
These Clots can be easily identified by a whiter skin tone, along with visible blue veins on their body.
Albino Alpha Clots have different statistics as compared to normal Alpha Clots, and they have the ability to rally surrounding ZEDs.
It is recommended to quickly find them and kill them before they can use their ability. They usually weave in and out among the ZED hordes before using Rally.

Rally chance: Suicidal - 0.7, HOE - 0.8. Rally cooldown: Suicidal - 15s, HOE - 15s. Self damage dealt multiplier: Suicidal - x2.5, HOE - x2.5. To activate a rally there should be at least 4 nearby ZEDs (including Elite Alpha itself) within 10m radius.

	Normal	Hard	Suicidal	Hell on earth
Health (body)	225	300	300	300
Health (head)	93	125	125	125

Miscellaneous Information

Affliction handling:

Teleportation:

(PvP) Rally boost: forces AI Alpha Clots to sprint, players do x1.5 more damage.
Distance to perform grab = 1.88m.
Maximum grab range = 2.1m.
Grab attack can be interrupted.
Damage to doors (possible values) = 18 / 36.
ZED mass = 50.
Should sprint if can sprint OR (if can sprint when damaged AND damaged) (i.e. if sprint chance met its value). Should sprint when frustrated.
Alpha Clot cannot grab the player for 1 second after grenade throw. Alpha Clot cannot grab the player for 0.5 seconds after shooting the healing dart.
This ZED can be knocked down when jumped on.
Alpha Clot has a chance to spawn as Elite Alpha. Elite Alpha able to rally boost nearby ZEDs. Rally evaluation happens when Clot sees the player. Interval to check for rally probability: When Clot sees the player a 2s + random (0-3s) timer starts, then for the duration of Clot-to-player LOS visibility evaluation happens within 1.5s intervals.
Alpha Clot has a chance to evade certain damage sources.

Extermination Tactics

Being cannon fodder, just about any form of weaponry will take them out very quickly.
Ammunition can be saved in early waves by switching to the knife and cutting their heads off.
In later waves, Clots are there to populate the waves and distract players from larger threats. Try to take them out quickly so you can focus on the real threats sooner.
Extremely weak to Sub-machine guns, making the SWAT the best perk for quickly exterminating huge groups of Clots.
Beware of their grabs, as Clots can end games by catching the last surviving player off-guard and immobilizing them, giving the larger enemies enough time to catch up and kill them.

Gallery

Artbook concept
Artbook renders

History

Tactical Response Update
Update 1041	Added Elite Alpha to Survival gamemode.