Yochlol
Monster Manual (2025) p. 341
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- fiend (demon)
- Alignment
- chaotic evil
- AC
- 15
- Initiative
- 8
- Hit Points
- 153 (18d8+72)
- Speed
- walk 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Wis +6, Dex +8, Cha +7, Int +5
- Skills
- Insight +6, Deception +11
- Resistances
- cold, fire, lightning
- Immunities
- poison
- Condition Immunities
- poisoned
- Senses
- darkvision 120 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 12
- Languages
- Abyssal, Elvish, Undercommon
- Challenge
- 10
- Environment
- planar (abyss)
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+4
Demonic Restoration
If the yochlol dies outside the Abyss, its body dissolves, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points in the Abyss.
Magic Resistance
The yochlol has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Spider Climb
The yochlol can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Walker
The yochlol ignores movement restrictions caused by webs.
Actions
Multiattack
The yochlol makes two Caustic Lash attacks, and it can use Spellcasting to cast Web or Dominate Person if available.
Caustic Lash
Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +8, reach 10 ft. or range 120 ft. Hit: 25 (6d6 + 4) Acid damage.
Spellcasting
The yochlol casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
- At will: Detect Thoughts, Gaseous Form (self only), Web
- 1/day: Dominate Person
Shape-Shift (Bonus Action)
The yochlol shape-shifts into a Medium Humanoid or a Medium spider or back into its true form. Its game statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed.
Reactions
Toxic Escape
Trigger: The yochlol is hit by an attack roll. Response: The yochlol halves the attack's damage to itself (round down), and it teleports to an unoccupied space it can see within 30 feet of itself. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature within 5 feet of the yochlol's destination space. Failure: The target has the Poisoned condition until the end of its next turn. While Poisoned, it has the Incapacitated condition.
Spells
Detect Thoughts [5.5e], Gaseous Form [5.5e], Web [5.5e], Dominate Person [5.5e]
Other data
description
Yochlols embody the pernicious will and infectious philosophies of the Abyss. In their rarely seen true forms, these noxious manipulators appear as evershifting masses of dripping tentacles and toxic flesh crowned by a single baleful eye. More often, though, yochlols take the form of spiders or zealous cultists. They use manipulative magic and dangerous rhetoric to spread demonic cults, corrupt the righteous, and further the plots of their fiendish overlords. They relish coercing the unwitting into furthering demonic plots and turning mortals against one another. Most yochlols serve Lolth. The Demon Queen of Spiders claims all yochlols as minions and orders any yochlols that disagree destroyed. In rare cases, yochlols might serve other demon lords, particularly manipulative or changeable ones like Graz'zt, Juiblex, and Zuggtmoy. Despite their service to demon lords, yochlols harbor their own vicious whims and ambitions. They might claim to speak for their overlords to further their own ambitions or seek to reveal rivals' selfish goals to gain standing with their demonic masters.