Starch Supercell

#Overview

Starch Supercell is the union of Starch Bolt and Starch Chain. Opening a chest when both qualify replaces them with this one weapon and frees a weapon slot (see Evolutions). It calls down Starch Bolt's lightning strikes, and each strike then jumps between nearby pests like Starch Chain.

Every 1.6 s it strikes 6 different pests (raw Amount 5 plus Tibo's base +1 projectile, see Stats) picked at random within 190 units of Tibo. Each strike deals 80 damage to every pest within about 22 units of the target (12 × Area 1.8). From each struck pest, lightning then jumps up to 3 times to the nearest pest within 80 units, dealing 60% damage (48) per jump.

#How it works

• Firing. The weapon only fires when at least one pest is within 190 units; otherwise it checks again every 0.1 s. All strikes of a volley land in the same instant.
• Targets. Strike targets are picked at random from pests in range, and each pest can be picked only once per volley. If fewer pests are in range than the Amount, the extra strikes are lost.^[1]
• Chains. Each jump goes to the nearest pest within 80 units of the last one that has not yet been picked in this volley, so chains never return to a pest already struck or chained. A chain stops early when no such pest is in reach. The 80-unit jump is not affected by Area.^[2]
• Splash. A strike circle hits every pest inside it, including pests already hit by another strike or chain in the same volley; only the choice of targets avoids repeats.

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; pests held on a ring 75 units from Tibo, then in a second run on rings at 60 and 150 units (clock warped 240 s first, to have enough pests)): with 12 pests in range a volley struck only 3 or 4 of them for 80 and the chains hit the rest for 48, because each chain claims its pests before the next strike picks a target, so later strikes find nothing left. With 32 pests in range, 6–7 pests took 80 each volley (6 strikes plus splash) and 16–21 took chain hits, every 1.6 s. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• In a dense crowd one volley can reach 6 strike targets plus up to 18 chain jumps. Against a lone pest it is a single 80-damage strike every 1.6 s.
• Area widens the strike circles but not the chain range.

#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.

Unions 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

• Own Starch Bolt and Starch Chain (each max-level or evolved, at least one a level-8 base weapon), then open a chest. The union replaces both weapons and frees a slot. See Evolutions.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[3] See Languages.

#Data

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  "id": "starch-supercell",
  "tier": "union",
  "base": {
    "damage": 80,
    "cooldown": 1.6,
    "amount": 6,
    "area": 1.8,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 0,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 0.6,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "strike",
    "size": 12,
    "range": 190,
    "chain": 3,
    "jump": 80
  },
  "from": [
    "starch-bolt",
    "starch-chain"
  ]
}