Nightcrawler

"You feel as if you are invincible..."

Template:Gootraxian Nightcrawler is a Blackout-exclusive Gootraxian in Kaiju Paradise.

It is a lizard Gootraxian, being mostly grey colored with black leaf-like or scar-like patterns on its ears and limbs. It has unique purple patterns on the front of its torso and the bottom of its tail that glow during blackouts. It has a pair of 3-lens night vision goggles that glow, adorned with a waist belt of satchels and a blowtorch along with a pair of gloves.

Abilities

Unlike any other Gootraxian seen in the game, it has two unique moves: Pummel and Pursue.

Pummel

Pummel works similar to a katana. It is a 'combo-like' type of ability, allowing Nightcrawlers to attack survivors 3 times in quick succession with the last attack having a slightly longer cooldown. Unlike the Katana however, it will not slow the Nightcrawler down. During Blackouts, the last attack will dash the Nightcrawler forward.

Pummel's Statistics

Stat	Value
Damage	23
Cooldown	0.75 seconds
Combo Cooldown	2.75 seconds
Effects	Dash (BO), Combo

Pursue

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Nightcrawler's Pursue noises.

Pursue is the Nightcrawler's signature move. The ability has a 30 second cooldown.

Pursue is divided into three stages. First, is the preparation stage, where the player slams their fists into the ground, ragdolling nearby survivors. Shortly after, the second stage begins, where the Nightcrawler begins to sprint wherever the camera is facing. You cannot control its movements in this state and can only move your camera around to guide it. If it collides against a survivor, it will damage them, knockback, and ragdoll them. The survivor will act as a projectile and damage anyone that got hit by them. During the duration of Pursue, if the player collides into a door, the Nightcrawler will break the door and maintain its sprint, regardless if the door is a sliding door, button door, or a bathroom door. The only doors the Nightcrawler is unable to break are the gates located outside of the cafe and in the garden hall. Broken doors will respawn after 60 seconds.

Near the end of the pursue, the final stage begins, in which the closest survivor in a certain radius of the Nightcrawler is grabbed by the neck, lifted off the ground and punched away, dealing heavy amounts of damage as well as ragdolling the survivor and any nearby player. If a survivor dies to the pursue, they will not be turned into a Nightcrawler and will instead die on the spot. If there are no nearby players during the duration of this stage, the Pursue will simply expire.

Pursue's Statistics

Stat	Value	Stat	Value
Preparation Stage	4.25 seconds	Slam Damage	13
Pursue Stage	3.5 seconds	Trample Damage	20
Grab Stage	4 seconds	Grab Damage	61
Shortest length of Pursue	7.75 seconds	Full length of Pursue	11.75 seconds
Effects	Non-infectious, Knockback

Rage

Exclusive to Goggled Nightcrawlers, they have a "Rage" system where they need to keep a rage bar above 0% by fighting or else they start losing HP. You can activate it in private servers with :tf me nightcrawler;goggle=true;forcerage=true. If they keep their rage bar at least 300%, they will regenerate health.

While rage bar is active, Lost Judgment OST - "Fog" from Lost Judgment's Soundtrack is played in the background.

Health Buff

Goggled Nightcrawlers have a huge health pool of 800 HP, however, they cannot regen naturally, only healing 20 damage upon infection during Blackouts and 10 otherwise. Nightcrawlers can only heal through infecting with Pummel.

Stomp (Passive)

Upon being losing a certain amount of health under 2 seconds, it will stomp on the ground and cause nearby players to blow away a few studs, dealing 12 damage.

Block (Blackout Passive)

During Blackouts, fireaxes, bottles and scythes will be dodged, yielding the text "Seems like they managed to evade your axe/scythe swing..", and reducing the damage dealt by 90%, resulting in both the fireaxe and scythes dealing a meager 4 damage. Attempting to hit Nightcrawlers with a bottle will deal a pitiful 1 damage, yield the text "There's no effect..", and ragdoll the attacking player, dealing 30 damage in retaliation. Attacks evaded will not slow the Nightcrawler nor ragdoll them.

Goggle-less Nightcrawlers do not have the same unique abilities as a goggled Nightcrawler and will instead have 110 HP along with the standard Gootraxian abilities (grab & attack). However, they will still retain the ability to passively evade the axe, scythe and bottle.

Acquirement

Nightcrawler can be obtained by finding a pair of goggles around the map.

The goggles can only spawn randomly around the map during Blackouts next to or nearby weapon and item spawns with a 60% chance in public servers and guaranteed spawn on the second Blackout if the goggles don't spawn on the first Blackout.<ref>https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858029724664463400/1001442726514020352/GOGGLES.png Goggles' public server spawn chance adjustment update log, March 3 2022.</ref> It is always guaranteed to spawn in private servers.

You can also obtain it by being infected by another Nightcrawler Gootraxian, but you will not have the goggles.

Bestiary Entry

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Trivia

• Nightcrawlers are one of the only few Gootraxians who can outright kill survivors.
  • In this case, they can do so by using their Pursue ability.
• It is the second Gootraxian in the game that doesn't have the usual abilities such as grab & attack, the first being the Slime Pup.
  • Nightcrawlers without goggles will have the standard abilities, however.
• The only weapons that can ragdoll Nightcrawlers during Blackouts are bricks and the golden bottle.
• Oddly enough, Pursue's ability to break doors also applies to locker doors. Despite playing the animation, the door will remain intact.
• If you use :tf me nightcrawler in private servers, you will transform into a goggle-less Nightcrawler.
  • This can be changed by including ;goggle=true on the initial command.
• Goggled Nightcrawlers have the highest health pool out of all Gootraxians, excluding Diamond Slime variants, with a total of 800 HP.
• Nightcrawler is the only Gootraxian so far to have appeared in the game's thumbnail despite having not been released for the time it appeared.
• They were heavily inspired by the Cloaker from the Payday franchise.
  • In fact, by using the command ;cloaker=true on par with Nightcrawler's :tf command in private servers, the Nightcrawler will say Cloaker's voice lines.
  • Additionally, its festive outfit bears strong resemblances to the Cloaker's outfit.
• Nightcrawler's faces were slightly different when it was still unreleased.
• It is currently the only known Gootraxian to have more than one contributor create its concept.<ref>https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858029724664463400/1001441391488020580/ooo_spooky_lizard.png Each contributor's contribution to Nightcrawler, March 3 2022.</ref>
  • ButteredPancakes made its initial design.
  • Mysticalesta created its concept art.
  • Kos assisted in its design.
  • Kazuko gave the idea of its species.
  • Chroma suggested its current name.
    • According to one of the contributors, its design is heavily inspired and based on Salazzle from the Pokémon franchise.
• Goggled Nightcrawlers are one of the only few Gootraxians whose Bestiary entry is unlocked right after infection, and is currently the only one so far to have more than one way of obtaining its Bestiary entry.<ref>https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/858029724664463400/1001444830699860079/nightcrawler_bestiary_tutorial.png Every way to obtain Nightcrawler's Bestiary Entry, March 2 2022.</ref>
  • A Goggle-less Nightcrawler has to obtain a 10 infect streak for it's Bestiary entry to unlock.
  • Players can kill the Nightcrawler to unlock it's Bestiary entry.
• Despite Goggled Nightcrawlers being considered a mini boss, they still drop 30 credits upon death.
• Similarly to Jammer's Diversion having Feizao and Fashui's Slippery tooltip at one point, Nightcrawler's Pursue used to share the same tooltip as Protogen and Dark Protogen's Self Destruct.

Gallery

<tabber> |-|In-game= Assortment of in-game footage of Nightcrawler.

Skins

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  Nightcrawler's skin (Goggles)
• Nightcrawler's skin (No Goggles)
  Nightcrawler's skin (No Goggles)

Bestiary

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  Nightcrawler's Bestiary icon.
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  Nightcrawler's Bestiary icon when hovered.

Expressions & Animations

Nightcrawler's pummel animations. Nightcrawler's pummel animations. Nightcrawler preparing pursue. Nightcrawler's grab animation. Nightcrawler's attack animation.

Nightcrawler pursuing and successfully grabbing a player. Nightcrawler pursuing and ragdolling a player. The total distance pursue can cover. Nightcrawler's ability to break doors while using pursue. Nightcrawler's stomp passive ability. Nightcrawler's stomp passive ability. Nightcrawler evading an axe, scythe and a bottle.

Nightcrawler (Normal) Nightcrawler (Hurt) Nightcrawler (Low HP) Nightcrawler (Death) Nightcrawler (Grab)

|-|Miscellaneous= Content related to Nightcrawler, outside of the game.

Concepts

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  Nightcrawler's concept, by Mysticalesta.
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  Another concept of the Nightcrawler, by Mysticalesta.
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  Nightcrawler's finalized design, by ButteredPancakes.

Icons

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  Silhouette Nightcrawler in the initial V3.1 icon of the game.
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  Nightcrawler unveiled in the official V3.1 icon of the game.
• Nightcrawler but.. blocky for the April Fools 2022 icon of the game.
  Nightcrawler but.. blocky for the April Fools 2022 icon of the game.

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References

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