Can you flank with a familiar?

The familiar can use the HELP action, which in combat confers advantage to the one attacking a creature within 5′ of both. Familiars are creatures who are your allies; there’s no reason that they shouldn’t be able to flank according to the flanking rules. No Help required.

Can you flank a huge creature?

A medium creature can flank a large creature with a normal weapon but they need a reach weapon like a spear to effectively flank a huge creature. This means you won’t flank many larger creatures because you’d need two characters to both have the reach weapons to get a flank.

Can you flank a dragon?

With the skill that gives 2x crit rate when flanking. So then your damage when flanking is drastically higher than when facing them head on. Attacking a dragon from the front would then be not only dangerous to your health, but would also result in rather meagre damage.

Can you flank with an invisible ally?

Yes, you can. Because even invisible you can threaten his square: You threaten all squares into which you can make a melee attack, even when it is not your turn.

Can you flank with spiritual weapon?

The spiritual weapon is not a person, not a character, and not an ally. It’s a spell effect. It doesn’t take attacks of opportunity or flank.

Does spiritual weapon get advantage on prone?

Ignore the Yes. His explanation that the caster is the attacker would mean that, if the caster of spiritual weapon isn’t adjacent to the target they will have disadvantage against a prone target. An attacker using a reach weapon from 10′ away doesn’t gain Advantage because they aren’t adjacent to the prone target.

Does spiritual weapon count for sneak attack?

No, it would not apply sneak attack damage. The particular weapon that is summoned is just flavor. They all do the same damage with the same damage type.

Does spiritual weapon count as a magic weapon?

It is not a weapon. It is a 2nd level spell whose effect resembles a weapon. The Rakshasa is immune. Each of these has to be decided on a case by case basis and ultimately this is a DM call.

Can wizards use spiritual weapon?

Need to get the damage about right for giving it to a Wizard. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it. …

How far can spiritual weapon go?

20 feet

Does spiritual weapon have to stay within range?

Yes. You don’t have to be within the casting range to maintain a spell. And it can only move 20 feet per turn.

Does Spirit Shroud work with spiritual weapon?

The benefit of Spirit Shroud is that you can cast it as a bonus action, and if some effect gives you multiple attacks (not really a strength of clerics, though it technically applies to Spiritual Weapon) it applies to all of them.

Is spiritual weapon a ranged attack?

Spiritual weapons allows you to summon a t ranged a magical weapon that does spell melee attacks. Thorn Whip cantrip is a melee spell attack with 30ft range. Sleep spell is the perfect non-lethal option at low levels. Bigby’s hand is a melee spell attack with 120ft range.

Is spiritual weapon a melee attack?

A) No, they’re two separate spells. Since spiritual weapon doesn’t explicitly allow other melee spell attacks to be channeled through it, you can’t. So you would cast, move, and swing your spiritual weapon as a bonus action, and if it hit, you could activate Touch of Death.