Efreeti and Efreet Sultan

Inferno creatures
Level 1
Imp
Familiar
Level 2
Gog
Magog
Level 3
Hell Hound
Cerberus
Level 4
Demon
Horned Demon
Level 5
Pit Fiend
Pit Lord
Level 6
Efreeti
Efreet Sultan
Level 7
Devil
Arch Devil
Towns

Statistics
Efreeti
Cost per troop  900
	Attack 16 Defense 12 Damage 16–24 Health 90 Speed 9 Movement Flying Size 1 Growth 2 AI Value 1670
Special abilities:
• Immune to fire (Magic Arrow included) • Hates genies
Efreet Sultan
Cost per troop  1100
	Attack 16 Defense 14 Damage 16–24 Health 90 Speed 13 Movement Flying Size 1 Growth 2 AI Value 1848 *
Special abilities:
• Immune to fire (Magic Arrow included) • Hates genies • Fire Shield
Portraits

Efreet and Efreet Sultans are level 6 creatures of Inferno. They are recruited from the Fire Lake. Note, that Efreeti is singular while plural phrasing is Efreet in game.

"Efreet and efreet sultans are recruited into Inferno forces from the realm of fire magic, and are, consequently, immune to Fire School spells. They are natural enemies of genies and do 150% damage against them." ^{RoE manual}

Special ability

As beings from the realm of fire magic, both Efreeti and Efreet Sultans are immune to all fire school spells. They also both hate Genies as well as Master Genies. In addition, Efreet Sultans have natural fire shield, which reflects 20% (cp. basic level Fire Shield) of the damage taken back to the attacker in melee combat. Orb of Tempestuous Fire is increasing the effect of the ability by 50% (30% of damage reflected in total).

The Fire Shield does not reduce the damage taken by Efreet Sultans. The amount of damage reflected back to the attacker is defined the moment an attacker inflicts it. Even if the attack kills the Efreet stack, the shield still causes damage to the attacker, but damage in excess of what was required to kill the stack is not counted when calculating the damage the fire shield does.

Also, creatures with the ability to evade enemy retaliations (e.g. Vampire Lords) suffer from the fire shield. The only way for creatures to attack Efreet Sultans without being affected by the shield is to use ranged attack.

Protection from Fire effectively reduces damage from fire shield in fight against Efreet Sultans.

Clone of Sultan Efreet does not have the ability.

Creatures immune to Fire shield ability:

•   Efreet and Efreet Sultan
•   Fire and Energy Elementals
•   Firebird and Phoenix

Heroes with a specialty

• Rashka the Demoniac has Efreeti as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any efreet or efreet sultans for each level attained after 6th level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

Horn of the Abyss

• Efreet Sultan's AI Value was increased to 2343.
• Adventure map view of Efreeti was fixed, no longer featuring the black outline.

Tactics and info

(This section contains a general opinion over the subject!)

Although efreeti are immune to fire magic, they are not unaffected by fire-based creature attacks. For example Magogs' fireball attack or Dragons' breath attacks are not considered to be magical and therefore they do harm efreet. (In Horn of the Abyss efreeti are vulnerable only to the central hex of Magog's attack) .

Efreeti are among the game's most dangerous creatures. Whereas they can be slowed to be targeted by Ranged attackers, they are formidable offensive units. Being able to fly at a relatively high speed, in addition to the devastating fire shield and immunity to Blind makes these some of the most formidable 6th level creatures in Heroes III.

Tip: If your hero has slow, it should be utilized on Efreet. Past that, you should try and soften or kill them with direct damage spells or ranged attackers, because the fire shield can inflict heavy losses, even to creature stacks far stronger.

Trivia

Efreeti and Efreet Sultans are actually creatures summoned from the Elemental Plane of Fire, having made a contract with the Kreegans to aid them in their conquest. They were later free from it.

See also:

• List of creatures