Plague Monk

The Plague Monk is one of the Enemies in Vermintide 2.

Description
Of all the Horned Rat’s children, Plague Monks are undeniably the foulest. Zealots dedicated to the spread of corruption and decay, they are recognisable through their ragged, soiled garments and a putrid stench that fogs the surrounding air.

Plague Monks are zealots, and hurl themselves into the fray without thought for their own lives. So scarred and swollen have their bodies become that pain is a distant memory, held at bay by diseases yet gnawing at their flesh, and callouses hardened into knotted lumps of flesh. Only death can still their fanatical ardour.

Strategy

 * Plague Monks perform four fast attacks in quick session followed by a brief moment where they are specially vulnerable to attacks. When they leap towards you parry their attacks and immediately follow up with an attack of your own.
 * Plague Monks don't seem to be affected by a block attack or a parry knockback as their attacks are faster than most block attack animations. It is however possible to knock them back before they barrage you.
 * Using a ranged weapon would often enough to send these fanatics of clan Pestilens into their own grave. This is not always the same case on higher difficulities, since they will be able to often soak alot of that ranged damage.
 * If they come to close they can be tricky to hit with a ranged weapon, remember to parry the attacks to reduce the damage that you take!
 * The Plague Monks are more difficult to deal when compared to savages primairly due to their numbers, being able to appear up to as many as four at a time.
 * They are one of the more deadlier enemies in terms of raw damage on higher difficulities, so it's even more important to take them out on higher difficulities since they are even tougher to kill than their armored Stormvermin cousins on Champion and above.