Chip Shuriken

#Overview

Chip Shuriken throws a ring of spinning chips that spiral outwards from where Tibo is standing. Every 1.6 s it releases 4 chips at once (its raw amount of 3 plus Tibo's base +1 amount, see Stats), spaced evenly around Tibo; each chip turns at 3 radians per second while its distance from the centre grows at 110 units per second, so the ring sweeps outwards in a swirl. Each chip deals 9 damage and can pass through 2 pests before it breaks (it hits up to 3).

Levels mostly add chips: by level 8 it fires 8 chips per throw (raw amount 7 plus 1) for 29 damage each, with pierce 3 and speed 130. Chip Shuriken is offered on level-up cards; it is not in the pool of random starting weapons. At level 8, a chest opened while Tibo holds GPU evolves it into Kettle Cyclone.

#How it works

• All chips fire at once. Spiral weapons fire a single volley per cooldown containing every chip, so interval has no effect.^[1]
• Spacing: chips are spread evenly over a full circle, and the starting angle advances by 0.4 rad on each throw, so consecutive rings do not line up.^[2]
• The spiral is anchored where it was thrown. Its centre is Tibo's position at the moment of the throw; the chips do not follow him afterwards.^[3]
• Motion: each chip starts 6 units from the centre. Its angle grows by spin rad/s and its radius by its speed per second.^[4] Projectile speed bonuses (such as Salt Shaker) make the ring expand faster, not spin faster.
• Lifetime is the weapon's duration (1.6 s) times Tibo's duration stat, which starts at +25% (see Stats). At base values a chip ends roughly 6 + 110 × 2 = 226 units out, after a bit less than one full turn.
• Pierce: a chip with pierce N hits N + 1 different pests; it is destroyed on the hit after its pierce runs out.^[5]

Measured in the headless sim (tools/play.mjs, build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, Standard, Normal, god mode, seeds s1, s2 and s3; the seeded starting weapon removed, the weapon given with give, spawning stopped after 4 s of play and the pests already on the field held at fixed spots with 10⁹ HP; Tibo standing still, facing right, with 8 pests in a line 20 to 90 units to his right): at level 1 every throw released 4 chips on the same tick, every 1.6 s, each spawned with a 2 s lifetime and pierce 2; at level 8 it released 8 chips every 1.6 s with pierce 3. The in-game stat table shows the raw amounts (3 and 7). All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Close to Tibo the chips are tightly packed, and they spread out as the ring grows. Pests next to Tibo are the most likely to be hit.
• Extra projectiles from passives add chips to every ring, which is the main way the weapon scales.

#Stats

Values are the raw numbers from the game's definitions, before Tibo's global stat multipliers, difficulty and time scaling. In play, Tibo's base stats add +1 amount to every weapon except aura, cone, nuke and ring weapons, and make every duration ×1.25 (see Stats). Field names in code are the game's internal names. Attack descriptions such as “Melee slash” are this wiki's summary of the internal attack kind.

#Level progression

Each level-up adds the listed change to the weapon's raw values. Totals are cumulative.

#Base values

#Behaviour parameters

Raw parameters of the attack (behavior), copied from the game definition. What they do in play is explained under How it works above.

#Obtaining

• Offered as a card on level-up (offer weight 75).
• Can be given by poteto's visit (listed in poteto.newWeapons).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Kettle Cyclone	Chip Shuriken (max level) + GPU	Evolution

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[6] See Languages.

#Data

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  "id": "chip-shuriken",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 9,
    "cooldown": 1.6,
    "amount": 3,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 110,
    "duration": 1.6,
    "pierce": 2,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 5
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 5
    },
    {
      "speed": 20,
      "damage": 6
    },
    {
      "amount": 2,
      "damage": 4
    }
  ],
  "weight": 75,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "spiral",
    "size": 4,
    "spin": 3
  }
}