Clicker
Clickers are blind stage three infected that find you by the clicking sound they make. Their grab kills instantly unless you carry a shiv and have the Shiv Master upgrade, so most players deal with them quietly or with fire.
- Threat
- High
- Type
- Infected
Found in
- BostonBoston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- LincolnLincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.
- PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a former quarantine zone now run by hunters who ambush anyone passing through. Joel and Ellie spend two chapters here, Pittsburgh and The Suburbs, and meet the brothers Henry and Sam. Expect heavy human combat and the largest pile of collectibles in the game.
Good to know
- It takes roughly a year of infection to become a clicker.
- Fungus has split the face open and covered the eyes, and fungal plates shield the brain from weaker shots.
- Their echolocation only reaches a few feet unless you make noise or fire a gun.
- You can't strangle a clicker; a shiv is the only silent takedown for Joel.
- Punching is useless: after three hits the clicker grabs you.
- Your first clicker attack comes in The Outskirts.
Stealth
Stay low and slow. A shiv kills a passive clicker even from the front, and an active one from behind. The bow needs a headshot or two body shots and the arrow usually breaks on the fungal armor. Bricks and bottles pull them away from your route.
Loud options
The shotgun, El Diablo and the flamethrower are the surest kills. A Molotov thrown into the middle of a group works well: they rush toward the sound of breaking glass and walk into the fire. A stunned clicker can also be finished with a sprinting melee strike after a brick hit.
Shiv Master and Left Behind
With a shiv and at least the first level of Shiv Master, Joel can stab a clicker that grabs him from the front. On Easy you get this for free. In Left Behind, Ellie's switchblade kills an unaware clicker from the front if you wait still for it to walk up to you.
Related enemies
- Human
FEDRA
FEDRA, the Federal Disaster Response Agency, is the military government that runs the Boston quarantine zone. Its soldiers are the best-equipped enemies in the first chapters, and you fight them while smuggling Ellie out of Boston.
- Infected
Infected
The Infected are people taken over by a mutant Cordyceps fungus, and they are the main threat between every human fight in The Last of Us Part I. In Part I and Left Behind you meet four stages: runners, stalkers, clickers and bloaters, each harder to kill than the last.
- Infected
Runner
Runners are stage one infected, people turned within the last couple of days. They still see, move fast and swarm in packs, so the danger is numbers rather than any single runner.
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Bloaters are stage four infected covered in armor-like fungus. They are slow and blind but kill you instantly if they grab you, and they throw bursting sacks of mycotoxin from range. Fire is the way to beat them.