Zoom

#Overview

Zoom the Greyhound is one of the eight ordinary breeds, and one of the two rarest (weight 8 of 80, tied with the Saint Bernard). Tibo recruits it by walking onto a Stray Dog; another Greyhound stray later levels it up.

Every 4 seconds, if an enemy is within 150 units, Zoom sprints 150 units straight towards it. At the end of the sprint, every enemy along the path takes 30 damage, multiplied by Tibo's damage. Bosses can be hit. Its aura adds +6% move speed, the largest move-speed aura of any dog (+24% at level 5). Training raises the damage to about 105 and shortens the interval to about 2.3 s at level 5.

#How it works

• Zoom aims at the enemy nearest to itself, then always runs the full 150 units in that direction, overshooting the target.
• The sprint runs at twice Zoom's speed, 340 units per second, so it takes about 0.44 s.^[1]
• Damage lands once, when the sprint ends. It hits every enemy whose centre is within 12 units (Zoom's size 6 + 6) of the line from start to finish.^[2]
• The damage is 30 × power × Tibo's damage multiplier, so Butter Pat and other damage bonuses raise it. Each hit then goes through the normal hit rules: elite damage, Zelda's marks and crits all apply.
• If nothing is within 150 units, Zoom checks again every 0.25 s.

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, seed wiki, standard mode, normal difficulty; Zoom 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; sprints timed from the game's dogAbility events): once enemies were around, Zoom sprinted every 4 s at level 1 (36 of 36 gaps) and at least 2.31 s apart at level 5, which is the 2.31 s interval rounded to whole ticks.

#Tips

• Zoom averages 7.5 damage per second at level 1 and about 46 at level 5, before Tibo's damage multiplier. Every enemy on the line takes the full hit, so Zoom is best against dense crowds and lines of pests walking at Tibo.
• Against a single target the Jack Russell Terrier does far more: about 134 damage per second at level 5 against Zoom's 46.
• The move-speed aura at level 5 equals three levels of Spud Sneakers (+8% per level). That alone can justify keeping Zoom in a build that kites.

#Ability

Verified (dog ability code in sim-BkfBhQfw.js and run-extras-l2haGSVw.js): Sprints 150 units through enemies, dealing 30 × power × damage to everything in the line. power is the training multiplier below; damage is Tibo's damage multiplier.

#Aura

While in Tibo's pack, Zoom adds: Move speed +0.06 (moveSpeed).

#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. Zoom's breed weight is 8. 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": "greyhound",
  "ability": {
    "kind": "zoomies",
    "damage": 30,
    "every": 4,
    "length": 150
  },
  "aura": {
    "moveSpeed": 0.06
  },
  "levelUps": [
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.5,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.5,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.95,
      "power": 1.25,
      "aura": 0.5
    },
    {
      "every": 0.95,
      "power": 1.25,
      "aura": 0.5
    }
  ],
  "weight": 8,
  "speed": 170,
  "size": 6
}