Mimic
Mimics are mini-bosses enemies found in the Bank. Additionally, a Mimic will replace one Shop Keeper outside of the Bank throughout the run if the player has encountered a Mimic at least once before.
Behavior[edit]
Mimics disguise themselves in the shop of one of the merchants in the Bank. The merchant will act normal until the player interacts with an item in the shop. Afterwards, the Mimic eats the merchant, consumes the item with its Tongue Lash attack, and proceeds to engage into combat with the player.
When moving around, Mimics will perform a series of hops rather than walking or running. If the player attempts to flee to another platform, the Mimic will catch up quickly, faster than the likes of Rampagers and Slammers.
Once the Mimic is defeated, it will drop an improved version of the item that was bought. If the item was from a skill or weapon shop, it will receive two additional gear levels[a]; if it was from a food shop, its quantity will be doubled.
Only one item can be bought from a Mimic shop as the other items will disappear once the Mimic reveals itself.
Moveset[edit]
- Description: Performes a fast bite with very short range.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
- Description: Lashes out with its tongue at a medium range, bumping the player upwards and briefly stunning them.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
- Description: Uses its chains as a whip, lashing them at the player.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
- Description: Throws the chain towards the player to grab and pull them in. It will root the player for 1.5 seconds if the attack was successful, allowing the Mimic to easily attack the player.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
- The Mimic can use any attack after this move, though it will often opt for a Bite or Sword Slash. Faster attacks like the Bite can be performed multiple times
Special moveset[edit]
The mimic also has a few special moves it can use depending on what kind of item was bought.
Melee Weapons[edit]
- Description: Takes out a large spiky sword and slashes it in front of itself.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
- Though slower than the Bite attack, the Sword Slash has more range and deals more damage.
Ranged Weapons[edit]
- Description: Spits out a burst of 5 body parts (bones, limbs and brains) in a fan, then spits out another burst of 5 shortly after.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
Shields[edit]
- Description: Opens its mouth, summoning an ethereal arc in front of it for 1.25 seconds. If the player strikes the front of the Mimic with a melee attack during this time, the Mimic will parry the attack, stunning the player for 0.8 seconds and slightly knocking them back, allowing for a follow-up attack.
- Can be interrupted by attacking the mimic with a ranged weapon, a skill or by simply attacking it from behind.
- Unlike the Queen's similar move, the Mimic's parry will be used at random intervals, even if the player doesn't have a melee weapon.
- Similarly to the Hook Throw attack, the Mimic does not have a specific attack to follow up, and will use whichever attack is available to it.
Skill[edit]
- Description: Protrudes spikes from its body in all directions and upon hitting the player will cause 5 bleed DPS for 3 seconds.
- Can be parried and dodge rolled.
- Likely due to a bug, the damage of the bleed debuff doesn't increase like other damage from enemies. As the attack deals very low base damage outside of the bleeding it inflicts, it will typically deal very low damage overall.
Food, Flask Charge, or Cough Syrup[edit]
- Description: Stops and eats body parts to heal itself for 25% of its maximum health. Happens in steps across 1.5 seconds.
- Can be interrupted.
Strategy[edit]
- Deployable skills such as
Wolf Trap can be placed at the merchant when purchasing items to be ready to fight against it.
- Mimic doesn't attack a player in the Bank elevator. One way to defeat it is to escape to the Bank elevator and use ranged weapons to damage it. This Strategy is no safer than normal Strategies since the way to the Bank elevator is not easy to follow. This strategy can be used when using
Hunter's Grenade to get 
Gold Plating and 
Get Rich Quick.
- Outside Bank, it is easy to notice if there is a Mimic (unless player turned off "Lore room"). If player encounter a lore room with hidden Guillain, it means that there is a mimic in the biome.
Note[edit]
Using portals will make the mimic disappear, and the item you buy can no longer be get back.
History[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ If the gear level of the Bank is 7, a weapon and skill shop would normally sell items of gear level 9. If the player buys one such item from a Mimic shop, the items level will be increased to 11 once it drops from the Mimic.
