Giant Tortoise

The Giant Tortoise is a Hardmode Jungle enemy that hurls itself at players, dealing incredible damage on contact. It drops Turtle Shells, which are essential for crafting Turtle armor.

Tips

 * Damaging a Giant Tortoise causes them to stop their attack animation.
 * Melee is highly effective, as long as you stay close to the tortoise and continue attacking, it will be unable to use its jump attack.
 * Try not to make it enter Liquid as it will make it automatically charge at you.
 * Any tactics that work for the Ice Tortoise should be effective against the Giant Tortoise, as well.
 * The Giant Tortoise is very difficult in Expert mode as its health and damage are doubled.
 * It's recommended you at least beat one mechanical boss, recommending The Destroyer, and get Hallowed armor ahead before farming for turtle shells

Trivia

 * This enemy, as well as its Ice Tortoise variation, appears to reference a similar tortoise enemy in Super Metroid that also attacks the player with the same flying spin.

History
Tortue Géante