Mash Snowball

#Overview

Mash Snowball has no timer. Movement drives it. While Tibo runs, a ball of mash rolls along his path behind him and grows with every step. When he stops, turns sharply or keeps running with a full ball, the ball surges forward along his heading, flattens pests in its path and splatters at the end of its roll.

A ball starts with radius 4 and grows by 0.22 per unit Tibo moves, up to a radius of 14 × area. At base move speed (62 units/s) it is big enough to release (radius 9) after about 0.4 s of running and full after about 0.75 s. A full ball deals the weapon's full damage, 35 at level 1. At max level the weapon's damage is 90 and its area 1.2, so a full ball deals 90 × 16.8 ÷ 14 = 108. It is a base weapon offered on level-up. At max level, with Masher Grip owned, a chest evolves it into Mash Avalanche (see Evolutions).

#How it works

• Release triggers. The ball surges when Tibo stops for 4 ticks (about 0.07 s), when he turns more than 120° away from his recent heading, or once Tibo has kept moving with a full ball for 0.25 s × duration. A ball smaller than radius 9 is dropped without a surge.
• Direction. After a sharp turn the ball keeps going the way Tibo was running before the turn. After a stop or a full-ball release it goes along his smoothed recent heading.
• The surge. The ball starts from its spot behind Tibo, 8 + 6 × radius units back along his path. It rolls 70 + 9 × radius units at 220 units/s and hits each pest it touches. When it stops, it splatters everything within 2.5 × radius. Each pest is hit at most once per ball.
• Damage scales with size. Each ball deals damage × radius ÷ 14. A ball released at the minimum radius 9 deals about 64% of the weapon's damage. The size cap is 14 × area but the divisor stays at 14, so with area above 1 a full ball deals more than 100%.^[1]
• Amount, cooldown, speed and pierce have no effect on this weapon. Duration only extends how long a full ball can roll before it releases on its own.

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 walking right for 8 s past 12 pests held at fixed points on his path): every hit at level 1 dealt 35, and every hit at level 8 dealt 108 (90 × 1.2), so each released ball was full size. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Run in straight lines, then stop or double back next to a crowd. A sharp turn launches the ball the way you were running, back across the ground you just covered.
• Area raises the ball's maximum size, and with it damage, roll distance, the width of its path and the splatter radius. Area bonuses work especially well with this weapon.
• Short movements that never reach radius 9 never release a ball. Constant small dodging can leave it doing nothing.

#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).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Mash Avalanche	Mash Snowball (max level) + Masher Grip	Evolution

#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": "mash-snowball",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 35,
    "cooldown": 0,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 1,
    "pierce": 99,
    "knockback": 1.5,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "area": 0.1
    },
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "area": 0.1
    },
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "damage": 15
    }
  ],
  "weight": 75,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "bigUpdate",
    "variant": {
      "kind": "snowball",
      "turnDeg": 120,
      "stopTicks": 4,
      "minR": 4,
      "maxR": 14,
      "growPerUnit": 0.22,
      "minRelease": 9,
      "fullSec": 0.25,
      "surgeSpeed": 220,
      "surgeBase": 70,
      "surgePerR": 9,
      "splatK": 2.5,
      "trailBase": 8,
      "trailPerR": 6,
      "sweepK": 1.4
    }
  }
}