Air elemental

The air elemental is one of the four types of elementals in the dungeon. They appear both on the Plane of Air (guaranteed) and in the main dungeon (random). Unlike other elementals, air elementals can engulf players. They are fast and their main attack is to pummel the player with debris, which can be quite deadly to unprepared characters. Air elementals are not genocidable.

In previous versions of NetHack, air elementals had even higher speed than they currently do; it was reduced in version 3.4.0.