Gratin Arc

#Overview

Gratin Arc is the evolution of Starch Chain. Every second it sends 3 cheesy arcs (a raw amount of 2 plus the +1 base amount bonus every non-aura weapon gets, see Stats), each starting at the nearest pest within 170 units and jumping up to 10 times, so a single arc can hit 11 enemies for 30 damage each. Jumps reach 85 units instead of Starch Chain's 70, and every hit gets +25% crit chance on top of Tibo's own.

You get it by opening a chest while Starch Chain is level 8 and you own Hot Sauce at any level. Gratin Arc can still take part in the Starch Supercell union with a maxed Starch Bolt. See Evolutions and Chests.

#How it works

The chaining follows the same rules as Starch Chain: pierce is the number of jumps (capped at 60), each jump goes to the nearest enemy not yet hit by that arc, and jump distance scales with the square root of area.

The crit bonus is added straight to the hit's crit chance, after Tibo's crit points have been converted into a chance (see Stats). It is not subject to the diminishing returns that apply to crit points.^[1] For example, with no other crit sources, Hot Sauce at level 5 gives 0.3 crit points, about a 23% crit chance, so Gratin Arc hits crit about 48% of the time. A crit multiplies damage by 2 plus Tibo's crit damage.

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; 14 pests held in a line, 30 units apart, from 30 units to Tibo's right): three arcs 0.1 s apart every 1 s each hit the 11 nearest pests; some hits dealt 60, the crits. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Keep levelling Hot Sauce after the evolution: its crit chance stacks with the arc's flat +25%.
• Extra pierce turns into extra jumps here too, and extra amount adds whole arcs.

#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.

Evolutions have no level-ups in the game data; they use these fixed raw 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

• Get Starch Chain to level 8 while owning Hot Sauce (any level), then open a chest. See Evolutions.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[2] See Languages.

#Data

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  "id": "gratin-arc",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 30,
    "cooldown": 1,
    "amount": 2,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 0,
    "pierce": 10,
    "knockback": 0.4,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chain",
    "range": 170,
    "jump": 85,
    "critBonus": 0.25
  },
  "from": "starch-chain",
  "catalyst": "hot-sauce"
}