# Talk:Clockwork Automaton (starting race)
Strategies
Stoning resistance allows for strategies in relation to Medusa and covetous monsters.  If you destroy all structures and trees on the Medusa level and flood it with light, anything that appears there without a stoning resistance will meet Medusa's gaze and turn to stone.  If you find a way to render Medusa permanently blind, she will not be subject to the stoning effect of reflection.  This makes for a good fight with Asmodeus in dNethack -- the hordes of fiends that form from Asmodeus' blood are almost instantly stoned.  Wikid (talk) 08:57, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
... alas this exploit appears to now have been nerfed Wikid (talk) 07:45, 11 January 2020 (UTC)