Castlevania: Circle of the Moon/Enemies

Enemies

Name	Type	Element	HP	Strength	Defense	Exp	Item	%	Rare	%	Location
Abiondarg	Common	Electric	88	388	188	388	Potion	1.25%	Spiced Meat	0.30%	Underground Waterway
Abiondarg	Arena	Electric	188	588	288	588	Potion	1.25%	Spiced Meat	0.30%	Battle Arena
Adramelech	Boss	Dark	1800	380	360	16000	---	---	---	---	Chapel Tower
Alraune	Common	Plant	774	490	303	2500	Magic Robe	1.00%	Potion Ex	0.50%	Observation Tower
Alraune	Arena	Plant	1003	640	450	5000	Magic Robe	1.00%	Potion Ex	0.50%	Battle Arena
Arachne	Common	Earth	330	420	288	1300	Heart High	1.60%	Heart Mega	0.50%	Catacombs
Arachne	Arena	Earth	430	590	348	2400	Heart High	1.60%	Heart Mega	0.50%	Battle Arena
Arch Demon	Common	Dark	320	505	400	1000	Cursed Ring	3.00%	Apollo card	1.40%	Catacombs Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Axe Armor	Common	Dark	55	120	130	31	Leather Armor	4.00%	Mandragora card	1.50%	Abyss Stairway Audience Room Outer Wall
Bat	Common	Dark	5	50	15	4	Wrist Band	2.50%	Heart	0.50%	Catacombs
Beast Demon	Common	Dark	150	330	250	260	Arm Guard	4.00%	Cursed Ring	1.00%	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Bloody Sword	Common	Poison	30	220	500	200	Arm Guard	5.00%	Mars card	1.20%	Chapel Tower
Bloody Sword	Arena	Poison	55	600	1200	2000	Arm Guard	5.00%	Mars card	1.20%	Battle Arena
Bone Head	Common	Fire	24	60	80	7	Mercury card	20.00%	Heart	1.00%	Catacombs Abyss Stairway
Bone Tower	Common	Fire	84	201	280	160	Heart	2.00%	Heart High	0.75%	Catacombs Machine Tower Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Bone Tower	Arena	Fire	120	500	650	800	Heart	2.00%	Heart High	0.75%	Battle Arena
Brain Float	Common	Electric	20	50	25	10	Leather Armor	5.00%	Mind Restore	0.75%	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	Heart High	2.00%	Soldier Fatigues	0.50%	Observation Tower
Catoblepas	Arena	Stone	560	510	435	2000	Heart High	2.00%	Soldier Fatigues	0.50%	Battle Arena
Cerberus	Boss	Light	600	150	100	500	---	---	---	---	Catacombs
Clinking Man	Common	Dark	80	135	25	21	Prison Garb	4.00%	Miracle Armband	1.00%	Audience Room Triumph Hallway
Coffin	Common	Earth	100	100	35	3	Cotton Clothes	3.00%	Heart	0.75%	Catacombs
Dark Armor	Common	Dark	400	680	560	3300	Platinum Armor	2.00%	Double Grips	1.00%	Observation Tower
Death	Boss	Dark	880	600	800	60000	---	---	---	---	Underground Warehouse
Death Mantis	Common	Dark	200	318	240	400	Hard Ring	5.00%	Cockatrice card	1.50%	Underground Gallery
Demon Lord	Common	Dark	460	660	500	1950	Potion	2.00%	Strength Armband	1.00%	Observation Tower
Demon Lord	Arena	Dark	590	800	656	4200	Potion	2.00%	Strength Armband	1.00%	Battle Arena
Devil	Common	Dark	1080	800	900	10000	Potion High	2.00%	Mirror Armor	1.50%	Observation Tower
Devil	Arena	Dark	1530	980	1060	30000	Potion High	2.00%	Mirror Armor	1.50%	Battle Arena
Devil Armor	Common	Dark	500	804	714	6600	Potion High	2.50%	Black Dog card	2.50%	Battle Arena
Devil Tower	Common	Stone	10	140	200	17	Wrist Band	4.00%	Potion	1.25%	Audience Room
Devil Tower	Arena	Stone	50	560	700	600	Wrist Band	4.00%	Potion	1.25%	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	Heart High	1.00%	Heart Mega	0.20%	Underground Warehouse
Dullahan	Common	Dark	240	550	440	2200	Platinum Armor	2.00%	Thunderbird card	1.40%	Observation Tower
Earth Armor	Common	Earth	130	230	280	240	Gauntlet	4.00%	Gold Armor	2.00%	Machine Tower
Earth Demon	Common	Earth	150	90	85	25	Magic Gauntlet	15.00%	Serpent card	2.50%	Catacombs
Ectoplasm	Common	Dark	12	165	51	2	Wrist Band	2.00%	Mind Restore	0.40%	Machine Tower Eternal Corridor
Electric Skeleton	Common	Electric	42	80	50	30	Leather Armor	3.00%	Golem card	1.00%	Audience Room Outer Wall
Electric Skeleton	Arena	Electric	150	400	200	700	Leather Armor	3.00%	Golem card	1.00%	Battle Arena
Evil Hand	Common	Poison	52	150	120	63	Prison Garb	2.50%	Intelligence Ring	0.60%	Eternal Corridor Underground Gallery Underground Waterway
Evil Pillar	Common	Stone	20	460	800	480	Steel Armor	2.00%	Toy Ring	0.25%	Observation Tower
Evil Pillar	Arena	Stone	55	655	900	1500	Steel Armor	2.00%	Toy Ring	0.25%	Battle Arena
Fallen Angel	Common	Light	370	770	770	6000	Heart Ex	2.00%	Saturn card	1.20%	Outer Wall
Fishhead	Common	Ice	80	320	504	486	Chain Mail	1.50%	Mind Ex	0.30%	Underground Waterway
Flame Armor	Common	Fire	160	320	300	280	Bronze Armor	5.00%	Heart Ex	1.00%	Triumph Hallway Chapel Tower
Flame Demon	Common	Fire	300	315	270	600	Potion	4.00%	Chain Mail	2.00%	Eternal Corridor
Flame Demon	Arena	Fire	680	650	600	4500	Potion	4.00%	Chain Mail	2.00%	Battle Arena
Fleaman	Common	Dark	60	142	45	29	Cotton Clothes	5.00%	Arm Guard	1.25%	Catacombs Audience Room Triumph Hallway
Forest Armor	Common	Plant	370	390	390	1280	Chain Mail	1.80%	Rainbow Robe	0.45%	Audience Room Underground Warehouse
Fox Archer	Common	Dark	75	130	59	53	Cotton Robe	2.00%	Silk Robe	1.00%	Machine Tower
Fox Hunter	Common	Dark	100	290	140	272	Potion	1.40%	Meat	0.80%	Catacombs Underground Warehouse
Fox Hunter	Arena	Dark	160	510	220	600	Potion	1.40%	Meat	0.80%	Battle Arena
Franken	Common	Earth	1200	700	350	2100	Ninja Garb	1.20%	Soldier Fatigues	0.75%	Eternal Corridor
Frozen Shade	Common	Ice	112	490	560	1212	Magic Gauntlet	3.00%	Star Bracelet	1.00%	Machine Tower Underground Waterway Observation Tower
Gargoyle	Common	Wind	60	160	66	3	Prison Garb	1.50%	Heart High	0.40%	Abyss Stairway Machine Tower
Ghoul	Common	Dark	100	190	79	3	Prison Garb	2.50%	Heart High	0.30%	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Golem	Common	Stone	650	520	700	1400	Night Suit	1.30%	Steel Armor	1.00%	Underground Warehouse
Gorgon	Common	Stone	230	215	165	219	Heart	2.50%	Meat	1.00%	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Gremlin	Common	Wind	30	80	33	2	Wrist Band	2.50%	Mind Restore	0.50%	Catacombs Abyss Stairway
Grizzly	Common	Dark	600	380	200	960	Strength Ring	1.50%	Spiced Meat	0.50%	Catacombs Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Harpy	Common	Wind	120	275	200	271	Stylish Suit	2.50%	Star Bracelet	0.80%	Underground Gallery
Heat Shade	Common	Fire	80	240	200	136	Stylish Suit	2.50%	Jupiter card	2.20%	Audience Room Machine Tower Chapel Tower Observation Tower
Hipogriff	Common	Wind	300	500	210	740	Meat	1.25%	Heart Ex	0.60%	Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Hipogriff	Arena	Wind	500	620	280	1900	Meat	1.25%	Heart Ex	0.60%	Battle Arena
Holy Armor	Common	Light	350	420	450	1700	Serpent card	5.00%	Platinum Armor	0.50%	Underground Warehouse
Hopper	Common	Dark	40	87	35	8	Cotton Clothes	5.00%	Gauntlet	1.50%	Catacombs
Hugh	Boss	Light	1400	570	750	120000	---	---	---	---	Observation Tower
Hyena	Common	Dark	93	140	70	105	Potion	1.50%	Night Suit	0.50%	Machine Tower Chapel Tower
Hyena	Arena	Dark	210	408	170	1000	Potion	1.50%	Night Suit	0.50%	Battle Arena
Ice Armor	Common	Ice	240	470	520	1500	Steel Armor	2.50%	Neptune card	1.20%	Underground Waterway
Ice Demon	Common	Ice	350	492	510	4200	Rainbow Robe	2.20%	Diamond Armor	1.20%	Underground Waterway
Imp	Common	Dark	90	220	99	103	Salamander card	20.00%	Spiced Meat	0.25%	Audience Room Underground Gallery
Iron Golem	Boss	Stone	640	290	450	8000	---	---	---	---	Machine Tower
Killer Bee	Common	Poison	8	308	108	88	Antidote	3.00%	Night Suit	0.20%	Eternal Corridor Underground Gallery
King Moth	Common	Poison	140	290	160	150	Antidote	3.00%	Heart Ex	0.20%	Underground Warehouse Underground Gallery
Legion	Common	Dark	420	610	375	1590	Cure Curse	5.00%	Potion High	0.50%	Outer Wall Observation Tower
Legion	Arena	Dark	540	760	480	2900	Cure Curse	5.00%	Potion High	0.50%	Battle Arena
Lilim	Common	Dark	400	800	800	8000	Mind High	2.00%	Dark Armor	0.50%	Machine Tower
Lilith	Common	Dark	660	960	960	20000	Mind Ex	1.50%	Sage Robe	0.50%	Underground Warehouse
Lizardman	Common	Ice	100	345	400	800	Chain Mail	1.40%	Mandragora card	1.35%	Underground Gallery Underground Waterway
Man Eater	Common	Plant	400	330	233	700	Heart	3.00%	Diana card	1.50%	Underground Gallery
Marionette	Common	Dark	80	160	150	127	Cure Curse	4.50%	Mind High	0.75%	Chapel Tower
Marionette	Arena	Dark	200	420	400	1200	Cure Curse	4.50%	Mind High	0.75%	Battle Arena
Medusa Head	Common	Stone	6	120	60	2	Wrist Band	1.50%	Hard Ring	0.40%	Machine Tower
Merman	Common	Ice	60	303	301	10	Gauntlet	1.00%	Meat	0.15%	Underground Waterway
Mimic Candle	Common	Poison	990	600	600	6600	Heart	10.00%	Gambler Armband	2.00%	Chapel Tower
Minotaur	Common	Earth	410	520	640	2000	Golem card	1.50%	Spiced Meat	0.75%	Observation Tower
Minotaur	Arena	Earth	580	700	715	4100	Golem card	1.50%	Spiced Meat	0.75%	Battle Arena
Mudman	Common	Earth	25	79	30	2	Cotton Clothes	2.50%	Mind Restore	0.50%	Catacombs
Mummy	Common	Earth	100	100	35	3	Cotton Clothes	3.00%	Heart	0.75%	Catacombs
Myconid	Common	Plant	50	250	114	25	Potion	1.00%	Mind High	0.20%	Underground Gallery
Necromancer	Boss	Dark	500	200	250	2500	---	---	---	---	Audience Room
Nightmare	Common	Dark	250	550	550	2000	Mind Restore	2.50%	Needle Armor	0.50%	Outer Wall
Poison Armor	Common	Poison	260	382	310	822	Antidote	5.00%	Rainbow Robe	0.50%	Audience Room Underground Gallery
Poison Armor	Arena	Poison	380	680	634	3600	Antidote	5.00%	Rainbow Robe	0.50%	Battle Arena
Poison Worm	Common	Poison	120	30	20	12	Antidote	4.00%	Magic Gauntlet	0.50%	Catacombs
Poltergeist	Common	Dark	105	360	380	510	Cursed Ring	2.00%	Mind High	0.60%	Underground Warehouse
Scary Candle	Common	Poison	150	300	300	900	Heart Ex	0.80%	Uranus card	0.60%	Machine Tower
Siren	Common	Wind	160	443	300	880	Griffin card	2.00%	Mind High	0.50%	Underground Waterway Observation Tower
Skeleton	Common	Dark	25	65	45	4	Leather Armor	2.50%	Potion	1.00%	Catacombs Abyss Stairway Audience Room Triumph Hallway Machine Tower
Skeleton	Arena	Dark	150	400	200	500	Leather Armor	2.50%	Potion	1.00%	Battle Arena
Skeleton Athlete	Common	Dark	100	100	50	25	Cotton Clothes	3.00%	Griffin card	0.75%	Chapel Tower
Skeleton Bomber	Common	Fire	20	50	40	4	Salamander card	20.00%	Potion	1.00%	Sealed Room Catacombs Chapel Tower Outer Wall
Skeleton Bomber	Arena	Fire	150	400	200	550	Salamander card	20.00%	Potion	1.00%	Battle Arena
Skeleton Boomerang	Common	Wind	60	170	90	112	Miracle Armband	4.20%	Stylish Suit	1.00%	Machine Tower Eternal Corridor
Skeleton Knight	Common	Dark	50	140	80	39	Leather Armor	3.00%	Bronze Armor	1.25%	Machine Tower Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Skeleton Medalist	Common	Wind	250	100	100	1500	Toy Ring	10.00%	Bear Ring	1.00%	Sealed Room
Skeleton Soldier	Common	Dark	35	90	60	16	Leather Armor	3.00%	Bronze Armor	1.00%	Abyss Stairway Audience Room
Skeleton Spear	Common	Dark	30	65	46	6	Leather Armor	3.00%	Cotton Robe	1.00%	Catacombs
Skeleton Spear	Arena	Dark	150	400	200	580	Leather Armor	3.00%	Cotton Robe	1.00%	Battle Arena
Slime	Common	Poison	40	102	18	11	Antidote	4.00%	Venus card	2.50%	Catacombs Abyss Stairway Audience Room Machine Tower
Spearfish	Common	Ice	40	360	450	280	Heart	2.00%	Heart Ex	0.40%	Underground Waterway
Specter	Common	Fire	15	295	95	3	Mind Restore	0.45%	Mind High	0.15%	Underground Gallery
Spirit	Common	Fire	9	55	17	1	Wrist Band	2.00%	Mind Restore	0.40%	Catacombs
Stone Armor	Common	Stone	90	220	320	222	Hard Ring	6.00%	Cockatrice card	1.80%	Catacombs Machine Tower
Stone Armor	Arena	Stone	260	585	750	3000	Hard Ring	6.00%	Cockatrice card	1.80%	Battle Arena
Succubus	Common	Dark	150	400	350	710	Intelligence Ring	2.40%	Manticore card	1.50%	Audience Room Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse
Succubus	Arena	Dark	300	670	630	3100	Intelligence Ring	2.40%	Manticore card	1.50%	Battle Arena
Thunder Armor	Common	Electric	204	340	320	800	Gold Armor	2.50%	Steel Armor	0.75%	Machine Tower Chapel Tower Underground Warehouse Underground Gallery
Thunder Demon	Common	Electric	180	270	230	450	Magic Gauntlet	15.00%	Manticore card	3.00%	Machine Tower Chapel Tower
Trick Candle	Common	Poison	200	400	400	1400	Heart Mega	0.50%	Pluto card	0.40%	Catacombs
Were-bear	Common	Dark	265	250	140	227	Cotton Robe	4.00%	Strength Ring	1.00%	Eternal Corridor Chapel Tower
Were-horse	Common	Earth	400	540	360	1970	Meat	1.50%	Defense Armband	1.00%	Outer Wall
Were-jaguar	Common	Dark	270	416	170	760	Gold Armor	2.50%	Ninja Garb	0.40%	Chapel Tower Outer Wall
Were-jaguar	Arena	Dark	320	518	260	1200	Gold Armor	2.50%	Ninja Garb	0.40%	Battle Arena
Were-panther	Common	Dark	200	300	130	270	Wrist Band	5.50%	Thunderbird card	1.10%	Chapel Tower
Were-wolf	Common	Poison	160	265	110	140	Gauntlet	2.00%	Meat	1.00%	Machine Tower
Were-wolf	Arena	Poison	340	525	180	1100	Gauntlet	2.00%	Meat	1.00%	Battle Arena
White Armor	Common	Light	640	770	807	7000	Potion High	2.50%	Unicorn card	2.50%	Battle Arena
Wight	Common	Dark	110	235	87	4	Silk Robe	1.50%	Mind High	0.15%	Underground Warehouse Underground Gallery
Will O'Wisp	Common	Fire	11	110	16	9	Wrist Band	2.50%	Mind Restore	0.50%	Audience Room Triumph Hallway Outer Wall
Wind Armor	Common	Wind	320	500	460	1800	Potion	2.00%	Potion High	0.40%	Underground Waterway Outer Wall
Wind Demon	Common	Wind	400	540	490	3600	Mind High	2.00%	Sage Armband	1.20%	Audience Room
Wind Demon	Arena	Wind	490	600	540	4000	Mind High	2.00%	Sage Armband	1.20%	Battle Arena
Witch	Common	Dark	144	330	290	600	Mind Restore	1.25%	Magic Robe	0.20%	Audience Room Eternal Corridor Underground Waterway
Witch	Arena	Dark	210	480	340	1000	Mind Restore	1.25%	Magic Robe	0.20%	Battle Arena
Zombie	Common	Dark	48	70	20	2	Cotton Clothes	2.50%	Potion	0.50%	Catacombs Triumph Hallway
Zombie Thief	Common	Wind	120	185	30	58	Prison Garb	3.00%	Luck Ring	0.90%	Catacombs Machine Tower

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 HP instead of your MP.
• 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.

• 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 unless you have the Roc Wing from 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 north west (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 (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, which (in addtion 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 your pressing the button combination 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. 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 Item Crush on the Stopwatch. 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 much 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.