Spartan Sandals
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The Spartan Sandals are a melee weapon which knock enemies away from the player, causing them to take extra damage if they hit a wall or similar solid obstacle while being knocked back.
Details
- Special Effects:
- Pushes enemies away quickly for 0.5 seconds on hit, interrupting attacks and dealing fall damage.
- Attacks that connect with enemy bombs launch them back as if they were parried by a shield, but at 45% of shield-parry power (40.5 base damage instead of the usual 90 base damage).
- Enemies that hit a wall or solid barrier shortly after getting knocked back by this weapon take an additional 90 base damage.
- Foes also take at least the minimum amount of fall damage upon impact with the ground no matter how short the fall, as well as dealing AoE damage to nearby enemies.
- Breach Bonus: 0.25 / 0.25 / 0.25
- Base Breach Damage: 17.5 / 17.5 / 21.5
- Base Breach DPS: 28
- Combo Duration: 2 seconds
- First Hit: 0.55 (0.1 + 0.25 + 0.2)
- Second Hit: 0.6 (0.15 + 0.25 + 0.2)
- Third Hit: 0.85 (0.25 + 0.4 + 0.2)
- Tags: UtilityWeapon, NoCritical
- Legendary Version:
- Forced Affix: Super Bump
- "Greatly increases the knockback of the item."
- Forced Affix: Super Bump
Synergies
- The melee weapon
Snake FangsFF, the shield 
Assault Shield, and the power 
Phaser can be used to quickly close the distance between the player and an enemy that has survived being kicked away and is now out of reach.
- The melee weapon Snake FangsFF is better fit for this task as it is more accurate than the Assault Shield and less disorienting than Phaser.
- The melee weapon
- The power
Grappling Hook can be used to pull in enemies and close the distance created after having kicked them away. - Kicked enemies that impact the deployable
Emergency Door will take the additional damage typically caused by hitting a wall.
Notes
- Can "kick" bombs away, similar to
Shovel or 
Flashing Fans (see weapon details). - Bombs will still be reflected with
Porcupack (while equipped in the backpack) if you roll through them, similar with 
Armadillopack, and the cooldown will not be triggered.
- Be cautious that the mutation is often on cooldown, if so, this will not work.
Trivia
- The description of the item and the item itself, including its Legendary version, are a reference to the famous quote from Zack Snyder's film 300 "This. is. Sparta!", shouted by Leonidas, Spartan king, right before kicking a Persian messenger into a pit.
