Orca

CREATURE 5

While many know orcas as "killer whales," they're actually the largest species of dolphin. These powerful animals hunt together in pods to take down seals, sharks, and even whales. Adult orcas are typically 15–25 feet long and weigh 8,000–12,000 pounds.

Dolphins encompass a wide range of aquatic mammals, all of which are social, intelligent, and widespread throughout the world's oceans.

Perception +12; echolocation 120 feet, low-light vision

Skills Athletics +14, Stealth +13

Str +7, Dex +2, Con +5, Int -4, Wis +3, Cha +0

Aquatic Echolocation 120 feet

An orca can use its hearing as a precise sense at the listed range, but only underwater.

Deep Breath

An orca can hold its breath for 2 hours.

AC 21; Fort +14, Ref +11, Will +12

HP 75

Speed swim 60 feet

Melee Jaws +13 (unarmed), Damage 2d8+9 piercing plus Grab

Aquatic Ambush

30 feet.

An orca can travel no further than 5 feet onto land as part of an Aquatic Ambush. After it does so, it's Prone until it Crawls to return to the water.

Requirements The monster is hiding in water and a creature that hasn't detected it is within the listed number of feet.

Effect The monster moves up to its swim Speed + 10 feet toward the triggering creature, traveling on water and on land. Once the creature is in reach, the monster makes a Strike against it. The creature is Off-Guard against this Strike.

Breach

The orca Swims up to its swim Speed, then Leap vertically out of the water up to 25 feet in the air, making a Strike against a creature at any point during the jump (this lets it attack a creature within 30 feet of the water's surface). After the Strike, the orca splashes back down into the water.

Grab

Requirements The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature Grabbed or Restrained

Effect If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to Grapple the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty.

The monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn.

Pathfinder Monster CoreORC