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The Explosive Decoy is a utility deployable skill which grants brief invisibility and drops a decoy that attracts the attention of nearby enemies before exploding.

Details[]

  • Special Effects:
    • The player turns invisible for 2.5 seconds, and a decoy appears in their place which attracts the attention of nearby enemies for a brief time.
    • Upon the end of the 2.5 seconds, the decoy explodes, dealing 22 base damage to enemies in close proximity.
    • Can be manually detonated.
      • At the same time, it releases 6 grenades in rapid succession that also deal 22 damage.
  • Tags: Deployable, Explosive, UnlockInPublicEvent
  • Legendary Version:
    • Forced Affix: Run Speed on Kill
      • "Increases your movement speed for 5 seconds after killing an enemy."

Notes[]

  • The achievement "Going Down!", which requires the player to kill an enemy with an elevator, can be received by killing the decoy with an elevator.

Trivia[]

  • The sprite for the decoy is the same as the Protector but with a different head.
  • There used to be a bug where it would show in the monsters' slain statistics at the Scribe.

History[]

  • 0.0: Introduced.
  • 1.9: Rally effect has been removed.
    • No longer activates cooldown reduction mutations.
  • 2.9: Can now be manually detonated.
  • 3.0: Added the Legendary Affix "Run Speed on Kill".
Skills
Traps & Turrets
Double Crossb-o-matic'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Sinew Slicer'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Heavy Turret'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Flamethrower Turret'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Cleaver'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Wolf Trap'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Crusher'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Explosive Decoy'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Emergency Door'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Tesla Coil'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Scavenged BombardTQatS'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Night Light'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Barnacle
Grenades
Powerful Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Infantry Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Cluster Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Magnetic Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Stun Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Ice Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Fire Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Root Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Oil Grenade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Swarm'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Hunter's Grenade
Powers
Barricade'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Taunt'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Death Orb'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Tornado'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Knife Dance'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Corrupted Power'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Vampirism'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Tonic'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Grappling Hook'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Phaser'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Temporal Distortionremoved'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Corrosive Cloud'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Lacerating Aura'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Wave of Denial'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Wings of the Crow'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Blueprint Extractor'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Forgotten Map'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Great Owl of War'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Lightspeed'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Giant WhistleRotG'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Telluric Shock'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Smoke BombTBS'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Mushroom Boi!TBS'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Lightning RodsFF'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Scarecrow's SicklesFF'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Ice ArmorRotG'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• SerenadeFF'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• CocoonFF'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Face Flask'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Pollo Power'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• LeghuggerTQatS'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Transformation
5 BSC spoiler:
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