Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Enemies

Enemies

Name	Type	Element	HP	STR	DEF	Exp	Location
Name	Type	Element	HP	STR	DEF	Exp	Location
Abiondarg	Common	Electric	88	388	188	388	Underground Waterway
Abiondarg	Arena	Electric	188	588	288	588	Battle Arena
Adramelech	Boss	Dark	1800	380	360	16000	Chapel Tower
Alraune	Common	Plant	774	490	303	2500	Observation Tower
Alraune	Arena	Plant	1003	640	450	5000	Battle Arena
Arachne	Common	Earth	330	420	288	1300	Catacombs
Arachne	Arena	Earth	430	590	348	2400	Battle Arena
Arch Demon	Common	Dark	320	505	400	1000	Catacombs Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Axe Armor	Common	Dark	55	120	130	31	Abyss Stairway Audience Room Outer Wall
Bat	Common	Dark	5	50	15	4	Catacombs
Beast Demon	Common	Dark	150	330	250	260	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Bloody Sword	Common	Poison	30	220	500	200	Chapel Tower
Bloody Sword	Arena	Poison	55	600	1200	2000	Battle Arena
Bone Head	Common	Fire	24	60	80	7	Catacombs Abyss Stairway
Bone Tower	Common	Fire	84	201	280	160	Catacombs Machine Tower Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Bone Tower	Arena	Fire	120	500	650	800	Battle Arena
Brain Float	Common	Electric	20	50	25	10	Catacombs Chapel Tower Underground Gallery Underground Waterway Outer Wall
Camilla	Boss	Dark	1500	650	700	80000	Underground Waterway
Catoblepas	Common	Stone	550	500	430	1800	Observation Tower
Catoblepas	Arena	Stone	560	510	435	2000	Battle Arena
Cerberus	Boss	Light	600	150	100	500	Catacombs
Clinking Man	Common	Dark	80	135	25	21	Audience Room Triumph Hallway
Coffin	Common	Earth	100	100	35	3	Catacombs
Dark Armor	Common	Dark	400	680	560	3300	Observation Tower
Death	Boss	Dark	880	600	800	60000	Underground Warehouse
Death Mantis	Common	Dark	200	318	240	400	Underground Gallery
Demon Lord	Common	Dark	460	660	500	1950	Observation Tower
Demon Lord	Arena	Dark	590	800	656	4200	Battle Arena
Devil	Common	Dark	1080	800	900	10000	Observation Tower
Devil	Arena	Dark	1530	980	1060	30000	Battle Arena
Devil Armor	Arena	Dark	500	804	714	6600	Battle Arena
Devil Tower	Common	Stone	10	140	200	17	Audience Room
Devil Tower	Arena	Stone	50	560	700	600	Battle Arena
Dracula (1st)	Boss	Dark	1100	805	850	150000	Ceremonial Room
Dracula (2nd)	Boss	Dark	3000	1000	1000	0	Sealed Room
Zombie Dragon	Boss	Poison	1400	390	440	15000	Underground Gallery
Dryad	Common	Plant	120	300	360	300	Underground Warehouse
Dullahan	Common	Dark	240	550	440	2200	Observation Tower
Earth Armor	Common	Earth	130	230	280	240	Machine Tower
Earth Demon	Common	Earth	150	90	85	25	Catacombs
Ectoplasm	Common	Dark	12	165	51	2	Machine Tower Eternal Corridor
Electric Skeleton	Common	Electric	42	80	50	30	Audience Room Outer Wall
Electric Skeleton	Arena	Electric	150	400	200	700	Battle Arena
Evil Hand	Common	Poison	52	150	120	63	Eternal Corridor Underground Gallery Underground Waterway
Evil Pillar	Common	Stone	20	460	800	480	Observation Tower
Evil Pillar	Arena	Stone	55	655	900	1500	Battle Arena
Fallen Angel	Common	Light	370	770	770	6000	Outer Wall
Fishhead	Common	Ice	80	320	504	486	Underground Waterway
Flame Armor	Common	Fire	160	320	300	280	Triumph Hallway Chapel Tower
Flame Demon	Common	Fire	300	315	270	600	Eternal Corridor
Flame Demon	Arena	Fire	680	650	600	4500	Battle Arena
Fleaman	Common	Dark	60	142	45	29	Catacombs Audience Room Triumph Hallway
Forest Armor	Common	Plant	370	390	390	1280	Audience Room Underground Warehouse
Fox Archer	Common	Dark	75	130	59	53	Machine Tower
Fox Hunter	Common	Dark	100	290	140	272	Catacombs Underground Warehouse
Fox Hunter	Arena	Dark	160	510	220	600	Battle Arena
Franken	Common	Earth	1200	700	350	2100	Eternal Corridor
Frozen Shade	Common	Ice	112	490	560	1212	Machine Tower Underground Waterway Observation Tower
Gargoyle	Common	Wind	60	160	66	3	Abyss Stairway Machine Tower
Ghoul	Common	Dark	100	190	79	3	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Golem	Common	Stone	650	520	700	1400	Underground Warehouse
Gorgon	Common	Stone	230	215	165	219	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Gremlin	Common	Wind	30	80	33	2	Catacombs Abyss Stairway
Grizzly	Common	Dark	600	380	200	960	Catacombs Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Harpy	Common	Wind	120	275	200	271	Underground Gallery
Heat Shade	Common	Fire	80	240	200	136	Audience Room Machine Tower Chapel Tower Observation Tower
Hipogriff	Common	Wind	300	500	210	740	Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Hipogriff	Arena	Wind	500	620	280	1900	Battle Arena
Holy Armor	Common	Light	350	420	450	1700	Underground Warehouse
Hopper	Common	Dark	40	87	35	8	Catacombs
Hugh	Boss	Light	1400	570	750	120000	Observation Tower
Hyena	Common	Dark	93	140	70	105	Machine Tower Chapel Tower
Hyena	Arena	Dark	210	408	170	1000	Battle Arena
Ice Armor	Common	Ice	240	470	520	1500	Underground Waterway
Ice Demon	Common	Ice	350	492	510	4200	Underground Waterway
Imp	Common	Dark	90	220	99	103	Audience Room Underground Gallery
Iron Golem	Boss	Stone	640	290	450	8000	Machine Tower
Killer Bee	Common	Poison	8	308	108	88	Eternal Corridor Underground Gallery
King Moth	Common	Poison	140	290	160	150	Underground Warehouse Underground Gallery
Legion	Common	Dark	420	610	375	1590	Outer Wall Observation Tower
Legion	Arena	Dark	540	760	480	2900	Battle Arena
Lilim	Common	Dark	400	800	800	8000	Machine Tower
Lilith	Common	Dark	660	960	960	20000	Underground Warehouse
Lizardman	Common	Ice	100	345	400	800	Underground Gallery Underground Waterway
Man Eater	Common	Plant	400	330	233	700	Underground Gallery
Marionette	Common	Dark	80	160	150	127	Chapel Tower
Marionette	Arena	Dark	200	420	400	1200	Battle Arena
Medusa Head	Common	Stone	6	120	60	2	Machine Tower
Merman	Common	Ice	60	303	301	10	Underground Waterway
Mimic Candle	Common	Poison	990	600	600	6600	Chapel Tower
Minotaur	Common	Earth	410	520	640	2000	Observation Tower
Minotaur	Arena	Earth	580	700	715	4100	Battle Arena
Mudman	Common	Earth	25	79	30	2	Catacombs
Mummy	Common	Earth	100	100	35	3	Catacombs
Myconid	Common	Plant	50	250	114	25	Underground Gallery
Necromancer	Boss	Dark	500	200	250	2500	Audience Room
Nightmare	Common	Dark	250	550	550	2000	Outer Wall
Poison Armor	Common	Poison	260	382	310	822	Audience Room Underground Gallery
Poison Armor	Arena	Poison	380	680	634	3600	Battle Arena
Poison Worm	Common	Poison	120	30	20	12	Catacombs
Poltergeist	Common	Dark	105	360	380	510	Underground Warehouse
Scary Candle	Common	Poison	150	300	300	900	Machine Tower
Siren	Common	Wind	160	443	300	880	Underground Waterway Observation Tower
Skeleton	Common	Dark	25	65	45	4	Catacombs Abyss Stairway Audience Room Triumph Hallway Machine Tower
Skeleton	Arena	Dark	150	400	200	500	Battle Arena
Skeleton Athlete	Common	Dark	100	100	50	25	Chapel Tower
Skeleton Bomber	Common	Fire	20	50	40	4	Sealed Room Catacombs Chapel Tower Outer Wall
Skeleton Bomber	Arena	Fire	150	400	200	550	Battle Arena
Skeleton Boomerang	Common	Wind	60	170	90	112	Machine Tower Eternal Corridor
Skeleton Knight	Common	Dark	50	140	80	39	Machine Tower Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Skeleton Medalist	Common	Wind	250	100	100	1500	Sealed Room
Skeleton Soldier	Common	Dark	35	90	60	16	Abyss Stairway Audience Room
Skeleton Spear	Common	Dark	30	65	46	6	Catacombs
Skeleton Spear	Arena	Dark	150	400	200	580	Battle Arena
Slime	Common	Poison	40	102	18	11	Catacombs Abyss Stairway Audience Room Machine Tower
Spearfish	Common	Ice	40	360	450	280	Underground Waterway
Specter	Common	Fire	15	295	95	3	Underground Gallery
Spirit	Common	Fire	9	55	17	1	Catacombs
Stone Armor	Common	Stone	90	220	320	222	Catacombs Machine Tower
Stone Armor	Arena	Stone	260	585	750	3000	Battle Arena
Succubus	Common	Dark	150	400	350	710	Audience Room Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Succubus	Arena	Dark	300	670	630	3100	Battle Arena
Thunder Armor	Common	Electric	204	340	320	800	Machine Tower Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse Underground Gallery
Thunder Demon	Common	Electric	180	270	230	450	Machine Tower Chapel Tower
Trick Candle	Common	Poison	200	400	400	1400	Catacombs
Were-bear	Common	Dark	265	250	140	227	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Were-horse	Common	Earth	400	540	360	1970	Outer Wall
Were-jaguar	Common	Dark	270	416	170	760	Chapel Tower Outer Wall
Were-jaguar	Arena	Dark	320	518	260	1200	Battle Arena
Were-panther	Common	Dark	200	300	130	270	Chapel Tower
Were-wolf	Common	Poison	160	265	110	140	Machine Tower
Were-wolf	Arena	Poison	340	525	180	1100	Battle Arena
White Armor	Arena	Light	640	770	807	7000	Battle Arena
Wight	Common	Dark	110	235	87	4	Underground Warehouse Underground Gallery
Will O'Wisp	Common	Fire	11	110	16	9	Audience Room Triumph Hallway Outer Wall
Wind Armor	Common	Wind	320	500	460	1800	Underground Waterway Outer Wall
Wind Demon	Common	Wind	400	540	490	3600	Audience Room
Wind Demon	Arena	Wind	490	600	540	4000	Battle Arena
Witch	Common	Dark	144	330	290	600	Audience Room Eternal Corridor Underground Waterway
Witch	Arena	Dark	210	480	340	1000	Battle Arena
Zombie	Common	Dark	48	70	20	2	Catacombs Triumph Hallway
Zombie Thief	Common	Wind	120	185	30	58	Catacombs Machine Tower

Item drops

All enemies, except for bosses drop two items: a common item and a rare item. Bosses never drop anything and the Battle Arena versions of enemies drop the same items as their common counterparts. DSS Cards can only be picked up once.

The actual probability of an enemy dropping an item is determined by your luck (LCK) stat. The formula to determine the probability is:

Probability = Rate + (Rate * (Luck - 100) / 200)

If you have a luck stat of 100 (the starting rate for the first four modes), the actual probability is the base rate. Drop rates are capped at 50% for common items and 25% for rare items. Luck does not effect how often enemies drop small and large hearts.

Name	Common	C. Rate	Rare	R. Rate
Abiondarg	Potion	1.25%	Spiced Meat	0.30%
Alraune	Magic Robe	1.00%	Potion Ex	0.50%
Arachne	Heart High	1.60%	Heart Mega	0.50%
Arch Demon	Cursed Ring	3.00%	Apollo card	1.40%
Axe Armor	Leather Armor	4.00%	Mandragora card	1.50%
Bat	Wrist Band	2.50%	Heart	0.50%
Beast Demon	Arm Guard	4.00%	Cursed Ring	1.00%
Bloody Sword	Arm Guard	5.00%	Mars card	1.20%
Bone Head	Mercury card	20.00%	Heart	1.00%
Bone Tower	Heart	2.00%	Heart High	0.75%
Brain Float	Leather Armor	5.00%	Mind Restore	0.75%
Catoblepas	Heart High	2.00%	Soldier Fatigues	0.50%
Clinking Man	Prison Garb	4.00%	Miracle Armband	1.00%
Coffin	Cotton Clothes	3.00%	Heart	0.75%
Dark Armor	Platinum Armor	2.00%	Double Grips	1.00%
Death Mantis	Hard Ring	5.00%	Cockatrice card	1.50%
Demon Lord	Potion	2.00%	Strength Armband	1.00%
Devil	Potion High	2.00%	Mirror Armor	1.50%
Devil Armor	Potion High	2.50%	Black Dog card	2.50%
Devil Tower	Wrist Band	4.00%	Potion	1.25%
Dryad	Heart High	1.00%	Heart Mega	0.20%
Dullahan	Platinum Armor	2.00%	Thunderbird card	1.40%
Earth Armor	Gauntlet	4.00%	Gold Armor	2.00%
Earth Demon	Magic Gauntlet	15.00%	Serpent card	2.50%
Ectoplasm	Wrist Band	2.00%	Mind Restore	0.40%
Electric Skeleton	Leather Armor	3.00%	Golem card	1.00%
Evil Hand	Prison Garb	2.50%	Intelligence Ring	0.60%
Evil Pillar	Steel Armor	2.00%	Toy Ring	0.25%
Fallen Angel	Heart Ex	2.00%	Saturn card	1.20%
Fishhead	Chain Mail	1.50%	Mind Ex	0.30%
Flame Armor	Bronze Armor	5.00%	Heart Ex	1.00%
Flame Demon	Potion	4.00%	Chain Mail	2.00%
Fleaman	Cotton Clothes	5.00%	Arm Guard	1.25%
Forest Armor	Chain Mail	1.80%	Rainbow Robe	0.45%
Fox Archer	Cotton Robe	2.00%	Silk Robe	1.00%
Fox Hunter	Potion	1.40%	Meat	0.80%
Franken	Ninja Garb	1.20%	Soldier Fatigues	0.75%
Frozen Shade	Magic Gauntlet	3.00%	Star Bracelet	1.00%
Gargoyle	Prison Garb	1.50%	Heart High	0.40%
Ghoul	Prison Garb	2.50%	Heart High	0.30%
Golem	Night Suit	1.30%	Steel Armor	1.00%
Gorgon	Heart	2.50%	Meat	1.00%
Gremlin	Wrist Band	2.50%	Mind Restore	0.50%
Grizzly	Strength Ring	1.50%	Spiced Meat	0.50%
Harpy	Stylish Suit	2.50%	Star Bracelet	0.80%
Heat Shade	Stylish Suit	2.50%	Jupiter card	2.20%
Hipogriff	Meat	1.25%	Heart Ex	0.60%
Holy Armor	Serpent card	5.00%	Platinum Armor	0.50%
Hopper	Cotton Clothes	5.00%	Gauntlet	1.50%
Hyena	Potion	1.50%	Night Suit	0.50%
Ice Armor	Steel Armor	2.50%	Neptune card	1.20%
Ice Demon	Rainbow Robe	2.20%	Diamond Armor	1.20%
Imp	Salamander card	20.00%	Spiced Meat	0.25%
Killer Bee	Antidote	3.00%	Night Suit	0.20%
King Moth	Antidote	3.00%	Heart Ex	0.20%
Legion	Cure Curse	5.00%	Potion High	0.50%
Lilim	Mind High	2.00%	Dark Armor	0.50%
Lizardman	Chain Mail	1.40%	Mandragora card	1.35%
Man Eater	Heart	3.00%	Diana card	1.50%
Marionette	Cure Curse	4.50%	Mind High	0.75%
Medusa Head	Wrist Band	1.50%	Hard Ring	0.40%
Merman	Gauntlet	1.00%	Meat	0.15%
Mimic Candle	Heart	10.00%	Gambler Armband	2.00%
Minotaur	Golem card	1.50%	Spiced Meat	0.75%
Mudman	Cotton Clothes	2.50%	Mind Restore	0.50%
Mummy	Cotton Clothes	3.00%	Heart	0.75%
Myconid	Potion	1.00%	Mind High	0.20%
Nightmare	Mind Restore	2.50%	Needle Armor	0.50%
Poison Armor	Antidote	5.00%	Rainbow Robe	0.50%
Poison Worm	Antidote	4.00%	Magic Gauntlet	0.50%
Poltergeist	Cursed Ring	2.00%	Mind High	0.60%
Scary Candle	Heart Ex	0.80%	Uranus card	0.60%
Siren	Griffin card	2.00%	Mind High	0.50%
Skeleton	Leather Armor	2.50%	Potion	1.00%
Skeleton	Leather Armor	2.50%	Potion	1.00%
Skeleton Athlete	Cotton Clothes	3.00%	Griffin card	0.75%
Skeleton Bomber	Salamander card	20.00%	Potion	1.00%
Skeleton Boomerang	Miracle Armband	4.20%	Stylish Suit	1.00%
Skeleton Knight	Leather Armor	3.00%	Bronze Armor	1.25%
Skeleton Medalist	Toy Ring	10.00%	Bear Ring	1.00%
Skeleton Soldier	Leather Armor	3.00%	Bronze Armor	1.00%
Skeleton Spear	Leather Armor	3.00%	Cotton Robe	1.00%
Slime	Antidote	4.00%	Venus card	2.50%
Spearfish	Heart	2.00%	Heart Ex	0.40%
Specter	Mind Restore	0.45%	Mind High	0.15%
Spirit	Wrist Band	2.00%	Mind Restore	0.40%
Stone Armor	Hard Ring	6.00%	Cockatrice card	1.80%
Succubus	Intelligence Ring	2.40%	Manticore card	1.50%
Thunder Armor	Gold Armor	2.50%	Steel Armor	0.75%
Thunder Demon	Magic Gauntlet	15.00%	Manticore card	3.00%
Trick Candle	Heart Mega	0.50%	Pluto card	0.40%
Were-bear	Cotton Robe	4.00%	Strength Ring	1.00%
Were-horse	Meat	1.50%	Defense Armband	1.00%
Were-jaguar	Gold Armor	2.50%	Ninja Garb	0.40%
Were-panther	Wrist Band	5.50%	Thunderbird card	1.10%
Were-wolf	Gauntlet	2.00%	Meat	1.00%
White Armor	Potion High	2.50%	Unicorn card	2.50%
Wight	Silk Robe	1.50%	Mind High	0.15%
Will O'Wisp	Wrist Band	2.50%	Mind Restore	0.50%
Wind Armor	Potion	2.00%	Potion High	0.40%
Wind Demon	Mind High	2.00%	Sage Armband	1.20%
Witch	Mind Restore	1.25%	Magic Robe	0.20%
Zombie	Cotton Clothes	2.50%	Potion	0.50%
Zombie Thief	Prison Garb	3.00%	Luck Ring	0.90%

Strategies

For strategies on the bosses (Cerberus, Necromancer, Iron Golem, Adramelech, the Dragon Zombies, Death, Camilla, Hugh, and Dracula), see the bosses page.

For surviving the Battle Arena, see the Battle Arena guide.

General tips

• All enemies have an elemental type. If you are having difficulty, equip the appropriate Neptune combination and attacks will drain your MP instead of your HP.
• Use items sparingly as they are rare. It's better to backtrack to a save room instead of wasting all of your potions.
• You are invincible while summoning, but using these cards defensively requires timing.
• If you lose a lot of life in a room, once it's completely empty, fully restore your HP with Jupiter/Mandragora, then wait for your MP to restore itself before going into the next room.
• The chance of an enemy dropping an item is determined by your luck stat. Equip Venus/Mandragora when item hunting to raise your luck by 25%.
• Even when cursed you can use your sliding-kick attack and your Hawk familiar will continue to attack as well.
• Lilith will appear in the Underground Warehouse after you defeat Camilla in the Underground Waterway. As soon as she does, go there and raise your levels significantly.

Candles

The Trick, Mimic, and Scary candles are annoying, but not difficult. They look like normal candles (but it's obvious which one they are as it's a different candle type than the others in the room). Once you hit them, they dive at you and die on their own. You must defeat them before they vanish to get any experience or items from them.

You'll have enough time to get two whip strikes in before they die, so your timing has to be good. You also need to be strong enough to kill them in two hits, or you'll never defeat them. You can use card combos to boost strength, however since their drops rates are all incredibly low, it's better to use Venus/Mandragora and Luck Rings to raise your luck instead. If you are too weak, just level up by fighting Lilith. Stopwatches can freeze the candles, but since you will have to kill each one numerous times to get the items, you will quickly run out of hearts.

• Mimic Candle
  • Location: In the long hallway off the east side of the Chapel Tower.
  • Appears: After you defeat Death.
  • HP: 990
  • EXP: 6600
  • Drops: Heart, Gambler Ring (Rare drop, raises luck by 100 points).
• Scary Candle
  • Location: In Iron Golem's room in the Machine Tower - rightmost candle.
  • Appears: After you defeat the Twin Dragon Zombies (though you probably won't be strong enough to kill it for a while).
  • HP: 150
  • EXP: 900
  • Drops: Heart Ex, Uranus Card (Rare drop).
• Trick Candle
  • Location: In Cerberus's room in the Catacombs - lower middle candle.
  • Appears: After you defeat Camilla.
  • HP: 200
  • EXP: 1400
  • Drops: Heart Mega, Pluto card (Rare drop).
  • Tip: Kneel slightly past the candle (not directly under, or it might not jump in the direction you want), and use the spinning whip technique to break the candle. Immediately after you break it, stop spinning and start using normal whip strikes.

Winged demons

Lilim

Basically a weaker version of Lilith (and incidentally, the Lili are the daughters of Lilith in mythology). Lilim flies around, circled by six energy balls which she spreads around the room in a spiral, or occasionally flings at directly at you. Use the Thunderbird summon to kill her in one or two shots.

She appears in the Machine Tower after you defeat Death. As with so many things in CotM, you'd never find her if you didn't read a strategy guide or by sheer accident. She's in the hidden room off of the second large room of the tower. It's the large room with the C-bend in it and connects to the second save room on the left. At the very top of the left side is the breakable wall. Go through, drop down and go left to a Heart Plus if you haven't gotten it already.

Along with 8000 experience points, Lilim rarely drops the Dark Armor, which gives you +500 defense. It's as powerful as the Shining Armor, which you can only get after beating the Battle Arena, the only difference is the Dark Armor also gives you a -10 penalty to strength, intelligence, and luck (a trivial amount, all which can be countered with various Rings). Lilim drops the Dark Armor very rarely, so wear two Luck Rings when you go to fight her.

Fallen Angel

There is only one Fallen Angel in the game, and she appears outside the entrance to the Battle Arena. You won't be able to reach her until you get the Roc Wing after defeating Camilla in the Underground Water way.

To get to her, transport to the fourth teleporter room, which is the closest you can get. If you haven't walked to the room yet, you won't be able to teleport over there. In which case, head back to the Chapel Tower. In the large room in the northwest (right before the room with the bells), is a non-hidden exit in the middle of the left side. Go through the door and head left until you can drop down and you'll have reached the teleporter.

Anyway, from the teleporter room, head up and left to the Battle Arena entrance. Use the Roc Wing to get over the tower and drop down the other side. The Fallen Angel will probably notice you and chase you, if not walk right a little bit and do a single Roc Wing jump to get her attention. When she shows up, simply fry her with a Thunderbird summon. With any luck you'll take out the two Legions that are floating about as well.

Then, just run right, go in to the first room of the Battle Area and head back out. Head back to the same area and Roc Wing jump to get her attention. Fry her again, then repeat the process as long as necessary.

She gives very good experience, but that's not why you fight her (Lilith becomes available at the same point in the game and gives 3x as much exp, so fight her for experience instead of the Fallen Angel). The reason to fight her is for the Saturn card. It's a rare item, so equip two Luck Rings (or Gambler's Rings, if you have them) when you fight her. You can equip the Venus/Mandragora DSS combo to boost your luck by 25%, but that means being unable to summon, and the Fallen Angel is somewhat difficult to kill by whipping, especially since you have two Legions getting in your way and are pretty far from a save room. It's also much slower without summoning, so you'll actually get the card faster by using Thunderbird. She also drops Heart Exes and the Legions drop Cure Curses.

Lilith

Lilith is, without question, the best source of experience points in the game. Dropping 20,000 points per kill, she is second only to the Devil (Battle Arena version) in terms of experience dropped. While the Devil give 30,000 points, he is very hard to kill and you have to fight through the entire arena to get to him (and if you can do that, you don't need to raise your levels any more).

She appears in the Underground Warehouse (in the hidden room off the long tower where you can get a Heart Plus), but only after you defeat Camilla. She's very strong (only Dracula and the Devil are more powerful), fast, and surrounded by an energy field that can hurt you. She's basically a supercharged Fallen Angel. She also has very high defense and fairly high HP (660 points). Despite this, she's very easy to kill.

Just use the Thunderbird summon repeatedly. If you have reasonably high strength, you'll be able to kill her in two hits. As there is some randomness to the amount of damage done by the Thunderbird, make sure you have at least 600 MP going into the room so you can use it three times if necessary. Even at high levels you should continue to use the summon as she'll still be about to do about ~100HP in damage and is hard to hit.

As you're invincible while summoning, you don't need to worry about your defense (besides, even if you have the best armor she can still tear you to pieces quickly), so equip luck boosting equipment such as the Luck and/or Gambler Rings. Eventually you'll get the Sage Robe from Lilith, which (in addition to being the fifth strongest armor in the game) boosts your intelligence by a whopping 500 points. This means that your MP will recharge incredibly fast (about 10MP/second), making repeatedly killing her go by much faster.

Strength is another stat to worry about, since if you can't kill her in two or three summonings, you're probably at a low level and therefor might not have enough MP to cast a fourth time. However, if you're strong enough to defeat Camilla, chances are you're strong enough to kill Lilith in three or less summonings.

Despite the fact that you're invincible while summoning, you should keep an eye on your HP. There is enough time for her to hit you while you're pressing the button combination in order to summon. You should also save often in case something goes horribly wrong. The closest save point is the one above where you fought Death. A few Succubii and other enemies stand between Lilith's room and the save point, so use Jupiter/Mandragora to heal before making the trip. You do not want to kill Lilith 40 times only to be taken out by a Succubus.

Skeleton Medalist

This guy is an easter egg that is annoying to kill, but worth it for the humor of the item he rarely drops. He's in a hidden room off the left side of the pit that Dracula throws you down in the beginning of the game. While you can open the room by jumping down the pit, you only have one shot per jump and then you have a long walk back to the top. He doesn't appear until after you defeat Camilla anyway, so just wait until you have the Roc Wing. From the bottom of the pit, jump up, and up, and up. About halfway up the room, start whipping the wall as you fall. Once you break it, jump back up and in. Grab the power up and then break the ceiling on the right side. Once you jump up, you'll see the Medalist run off. You can't catch him, even with the Pluto/Griffin combo. You have to use the Pluto/Salamander in order to use the stopwatch's item crush. At a cost of 80 hearts, the Medalist still won't be stopped, but will move so slowly that you can kill him.

Since it costs so many hearts just for a 1 in 100 chance that you'll get his rare drop, you might want to save first and then keep reseting until you get it. Or just skip it until you're playing in Thief mode. What you're trying to get is the Bear Ring, which will transform you into a cartoonish bear when you use the Pluto/Black Dog combo instead of a skeleton. It's something that's merely meant to be cute and does not help you out with the game. As such, unless you're a completionist, this can just be skipped.