The Giant Mantis has a little nod to a Colossal version, called the Deadly Mantis: "Known by various names, such as the drake-eating mantis, the treebender mantis, or simply the deadly mantis, these immense behemoths average more than 60 feet in height and have a terrifying habit of destroying entire villages or towns in order to satiate their ravenous appetites. A deadly mantis is a giant mantis advanced to Colossal size, 16 Hit Dice, and CR 14."
Technically speaking, it should look like this.
However, the Inner Sea Bestiary also has the Deadly Mantis, a Colossal vermin... but the stats are radically different.
Different as in:
- No fly speed
- Lunge and Sudden Strike replaced by Fling
- Different stats across the board
If making scorpions, centipedes and spiders were simply about adjusting the size like in other bestiaries, why does the Deadly Mantis has a totally different stat block that doesn't seem to follow regular advancement rules?
