Molten Hound

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Molten Hound
Mode Appearance	Molten Events The Takeover (Master)
Wave Debut	22 Originally: 14 (The Takeover Master)
Statistics
Base Health	500
Health Scaling	Duo - 580 Trio - 630 Quad - 700
Defense	40%
Speed	Swift (10)
Cash Given	$900 on death (Molten) $5 on death (Default)
Hidden?	Variable
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	None
Ability
Ability	Explosive Malfunction - Upon death, creates a small explosion which deals 5,000 damage to units in a radius of 3.

CurrentOriginal

Watch out for those dogs! Down boy! Let's send you back to the— uh… cough…

―Commander dialogue on Wave 22 (Molten)

Reports are coming in about something strange on the field. Is that a...dog?
Down boy! We're sending you back to the knennel^[sic]!

―Commander dialogue on Wave 21 (Formerly, Molten)

Description

The Molten Hound is an enemy that first appears on Wave 22 of Molten mode. It also appears in The Takeover Event. It has a decently high health and swift speed. Upon death, it will create a small explosion which deals 5,000 damage to units in an explosive radius of 3.

Appereance

The Molten Hound resembles a hellish dog with crimson skin. Multiple parts of its body are replacement with cybernetic parts, which includes portions of its head, torso, tail and legs. It walks on all fours and has a mouth with very sharp teeth.

Strategy

• High DPS towers, like the Minigunner, Hunter or Turret should be able to take care of this quite easily, due to their DPS.
  • The Ranger and Pursuit can also be useful, due to their practically map-wide range.
• Stalling towers like the Electroshocker, Freezer, Brawler or Cryomancer can be used to slow it down, as it is quite fast.
  • Multiple of these towers can also be used to drop its Defense, though as it is quite low this will have minimal impact on the damage it receives.

Gallery

Converted Variants

• 
  Green variant, current version (11 June 2025 – Present)
• 
  Overclock variant, current version (11 June 2025 – Present)

Corpse Variants

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  Second Corpse variant, current version (12 March 2025 – Present)

Miscellaneous

• 
  Molten Hound on its Index icon.

Sounds

Sound	Description
Death
	When the Molten Hound dies

Trivia

• The Commander's current dialogue was supposed to be the same as the original dialogue for the Molten Hound, but it was stopped in the middle as it was stupid.

Update History

• 11 December 2024 - v1.45.0
  • Molten Hound added.
• 20 December 2024 - v1.47.0
  • Health increased from 600 to 700.
  • Defense of 25% added.
• 12 September 2025 - v1.74.3a
  • Now appears in Sk8 P4rk Master difficulty as part of The Takeover Event.
    • Has 700 health in Sk8 P4rk.
  • Cash given is now mode dependent.
    • Molten mode now gives $600 on death.
    • The Takeover Event Master difficulty gives $500 on death.
    • Default value is $5 on death.
• 22 September 2025 - v1.74.3g
  • No longer appears in Sk8 P4rk, as it has been removed.
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • First wave appearance changed from 21 to 22.
  • Health decreased from 700 to 500.
  • Defense increased from 25% to 40%.
  • Speed increased from Fast (7) to Swift (10).
  • Cash given increased from $600 to $900 on death.
  • Explosive Malfunction changed.
    • Damage increased from 50 to 5,000.
    • Explosion radius decreased from 6 to 3.

Molten
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Elite Boomer Wave 21	Molten Hound Wave 22	Molten Mech Wave 23

Master (The Takeover)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Molten Necromancer Wave 13	Molten Hound Wave 14	Breaker4 Wave 15