Waffles

#Overview

Waffles the Corgi is one of the eight ordinary breeds. Tibo recruits it by walking onto a Stray Dog that rolls Corgi (weight 10 of 80). Another Corgi stray later levels it up.

Every 5 seconds Waffles barks and freezes every pest within 60 units of itself for 1 second. The pest's own radius is added to that range. Bosses are not frozen. Its aura adds +6 armor, or +24 at level 5. Training makes the bark wider (about 94 units at level 5), longer (about 1.56 s) and more frequent (every 2.6 s).

#How it works

• The circle is centred on Waffles, not on Tibo. Waffles follows at Tibo's side, so the two are usually close.
• Both the radius and the freeze length grow with the square root of power: 60 × √power units and 1 × √power seconds.^[1] A bark never shortens a longer freeze from another source, such as Frozen Fries; the pest keeps whichever freeze ends later.
• If no pest is in range, Waffles checks again every 0.25 s, and the interval only restarts after a bark that froze something.
• At level 5 a pest that stays in range is frozen for about 1.56 s of every 2.6 s, roughly 60% of the time.

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, seed wiki, standard mode, normal difficulty; Waffles added at Tibo's side and trained with the sim's own dog-join and dog-level-up functions; HP refilled every tick; Tibo standing still; level-ups taking the first offer; 150 s; barks timed from the game's dogAbility events): the shortest gap between barks was 5 s at level 1 and 2.6 s at level 5, which was also the most common gap (32 of 43). The longer gaps are likely Waffles waiting for a pest to come in range (inference; the run did not log pest distances).

#Tips

• Frozen pests take double damage from Permafrost Fries (shatter 2), and the check only asks whether the pest is frozen, not who froze it. A Corgi therefore feeds that evolution.^[2]
• The armor aura loses value as the run goes on, because armor is weighed against the attacker's level. +24 armor blocks about 32% of a hit from a level-10 pest at 0:00, but about 14% from a level-30 pest at 20:00. See Armor.
• Waffles cannot freeze a boss. In a boss fight its value is in freezing the pests that come with it.

#Ability

Verified (dog ability code in sim-BkfBhQfw.js and run-extras-l2haGSVw.js): Freezes nearby enemies within 60 × √power for √power seconds. Bosses are not frozen (in-game text). power is the training multiplier below; damage is Tibo's damage multiplier.

#Aura

While in Tibo's pack, Waffles adds: Armor +6 (armor).

#Training levels

Each level multiplies the ability. every multiplies the time between uses (lower is faster), power multiplies its strength and aura scales the aura bonus. The multipliers below are copied from the game data.

Verified: ability power is the product of power multipliers, the interval is ability.every × the product of every multipliers, and the aura is multiplied by 1 + sum of aura values.^[3]

#Obtaining

Stray dogs appear as Stray Dog points of interest; walk onto one to recruit it. Waffles's breed weight is 10. See Dogs.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[4] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "corgi",
  "ability": {
    "kind": "bark",
    "radius": 60,
    "stun": 1,
    "every": 5
  },
  "aura": {
    "armor": 6
  },
  "levelUps": [
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.3,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.3,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.9,
      "power": 1.2,
      "aura": 0.5
    },
    {
      "every": 0.9,
      "power": 1.2,
      "aura": 0.5
    }
  ],
  "weight": 10,
  "speed": 90,
  "size": 5
}