The developers could have come up with a smarter solution (I actually thought that when I saw the Gargoyle, it looked like a Gargoyle when it's not moving, and when its turn comes, it transforms into a cool guy). They could have done it the way I thought, or added an ability to "transform into a cabinet" so that the Gargoyle would freeze in place and its defense would increase. An alternative way to defend archers or block the passage for various Hydras and other thick, four-cell units.