Nightcrawler

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

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

The Nightcrawler is a lizard like Gootraxian, being mostly grey colored with a black leaf-like or scar-like patterns on its ears and limbs. It has a unique purple pattern on the front of its torso and the bottom of its tail that glows during Blackouts. The Nightcrawler wears 3-lensed night vision goggles that glow a faint purple alongside a waist belt of pouches and a singular blowtorch. It wears a pair of black gloves.

Abilities

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

Nightcrawler Minions do not have the same unique abilities as a goggled Nightcrawler and will instead have 115 HP along with the standard Gootraxian abilities (Grab & Attack).

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 make the Nightcrawler dash forward.

Pummel's Statistics

Stat	Value
Damage	23
Cooldown	0.75 seconds
Combo Cooldown	2.75 seconds
Range	11 studs
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 Nightcrawler slams their fists into the ground and causes nearby survivors to be ragdolled. Shortly after this begins the second stage, 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 the direction of the pursuit. If the Nightcrawler collides with a survivor, it will damage, knockback, and ragdoll them. The final stage begins near the end of the pursuit, in which, should the Nightcrawler come into contact with a survivor, will cause the survivor to be grabbed by the neck, lifted off the ground and punched away, dealing heavy amounts of damage and ragdolling the survivor. Said survivor will then act as a projectile, damaging and ragdolling any user that is hit by them for a few seconds. If a survivor dies to the punch, they will not be turned into a Nightcrawler and will instead die and eventually respawn. If there are no nearby survivors to collide with during this stage, the pursuit will simply end.

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 their rage bar above 0% by fighting, or else they start losing 5 HP per second. They can have a maximum of 600% rage when a Blackout is active, and 300% outside of said event.

In order for a Nightcrawler obtain passive regeneration, the rage bar needs to be kept above 400% during a Blackout. Otherwise, however, it only needs to stay above 200%. Nightcrawler has an increased passive regeneration rate of 1.5 HP per second.

Using Pursue causes 75% of the rage bar to deplete.

While rage bar is active, Violet breakthrough soundtrack is played in the background.

Health Buff

Goggled Nightcrawlers have a huge health pool of 800 HP. They can passively regenerate if they have the necessary rage, They can also heal through infecting with Pummel healing 20 HP upon infection during Blackouts and 10 HP otherwise.

Retaliate (Passive)

Upon losing 100 health in under 1.5 seconds, the Nightcrawler will stomp on the ground, sending nearby players into a ragdoll and dealing 12 damage. Retaliate requires 15 rage to function.

Block (Blackout Passive)

During Blackouts, Fireaxes and Long Pipes will be dodged, yielding the text "Seems like they managed to evade your axe/long pipe swing..", and reducing the damage dealt by 90%, resulting in both the Fireaxe and Long Pipe dealing a meager 4 damage. Evaded attacks will not slow the Nightcrawler nor ragdoll them.

Bounty

Goggled Nightcrawlers can be killed for 2,500 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination immediately after they spawn. For each infect that a Nightcrawler gains, an additional 20 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination is added to their total worth.

Acquirement

Nightcrawler can be obtained by finding a pair of Goggles around the map or via infection from another Nightcrawler Gootraxian, becoming a Nightcrawler minion. You will not have the goggles, and will not have the unique abilities of a Goggled Nightcrawler.

The goggles can only spawn randomly around the map during Blackouts in specified locations. They have a 60% chance to spawn each Blackout in public servers. It is always guaranteed to spawn in private servers.

If the goggles are to spawn, they will do so 6 minutes and 15 seconds into a Blackout; otherwise referred to as the beat drop of the 2nd loop.

Bestiary Entry

N/A

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.
• After you successfully transform into a Nightcrawler, you will be unable to reset.
• Goggled Nightcrawler is the only Gootraxian in the game to not have access to either grab or attack.
  • Nightcrawler minions are excluded from this, as they have both.
• The only weapons that can ragdoll Nightcrawlers during Blackouts are Bricks, Bottle and the Golden Bottle.
• If you use :tf me nightcrawler in private servers, you will transform into a Nightcrawler minion.
  • This can be changed by including ;goggle=true on the initial command.
• Nightcrawlers have the highest health pool out of all Gootraxians, with a total of 800 HP.
• Nightcrawler is the only Gootraxian to appear in the game's thumbnail before its release.
• They were heavily inspired by the Cloaker from the Payday franchise.
  • In previous versions of the game, using the command ;cloaker=true on par with Nightcrawler's :tf command in private servers gave the Nightcrawler Cloaker's voice lines.
  • Additionally, its festive outfit bears strong resemblances to the Cloaker's outfit.
• It is currently the only known Gootraxian to have more than one contributor create its concept
  • NyuRuButter made its initial design.
  • Mysticalesta created its concept art.
  • 0Kosm_o0 assisted in its design.
  • BlendAndMixx 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.
• Nightcrawler is the only Gootraxian whose Bestiary entry is unlocked right after infection, and is also one of few Gootraxians who have multiple ways of unlocking its Bestiary entry.
  • A Nightcrawler minion has to obtain a 10 infect streak in order to unlock its Bestiary entry.
  • Players can kill the Nightcrawler to unlock its Bestiary entry.
    • However, only the player that has landed the last hit on it will unlock the entry if they do not already have it.
• Similarly to Jammer's Diversion tooltip being used as 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.
• Hovering over the Nightcrawler's icon in the Bestiary repeatedly will play the Nightcrawler's Pursue sound effect, as well as cause its icon to violently shake.
• When a player picks up the goggles, the Blackout will extend by 50 seconds, and after transforming, it will last an additional 550 seconds, adding up to 1300 seconds (21 minutes 40 seconds) as opposed to 750 seconds (12 minutes 30 seconds).
• Nightcrawlers were able to block Bottle while in a Blackout, attempting to hit Nightcrawlers with a Bottle would deal a pitiful 1 damage, yield the text "There's no effect..", and ragdoll the attacking player, dealing 30 damage in retaliation.
• Originally, It was planned for Nightcrawler to be able to weld doors shut using the blowtorch on their utility belt. this was unimplimented for unknown reasons.
• Before the current music was made, when the rage bar was active, it played "Fog" from Lost judgement.
• Oddly, this is one of the Gootraxians to lack a Bestiary description.
• It, along with Sprinklekit, Witchbrew and Saturn are the only Gootraxians that didn't get a redesign when V3.1R was released.
• The Pursue's run animation is based on a very old run animation used before Lang and the soap squirrels were removed.
• The finished concept art for Nightcrawler showed 2-lensed goggles instead.
• When a Nightcrawler has Pummel equipped, an unique idle animation is used.

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The hitbox used for the Pummel.

• If the Nightcrawler has Pummel equipped with the "Debug Mode" option activated, the hitbox is similar to the one used for the basic Gootraxian abilities (Hitboxes on both arms), but includes an extra one on the left leg.
  • The hitbox on the arms is used for the first and second swing, and the one on the leg is used for the third swing.
• Nightcrawler's Cloaker costume is inspired by their festive skin from the 2022 Christmas event and the old ;cloaker=true subvariable in their TF command.
  • Their festive skin was based on the Cloaker from Payday 2, and the cloaker subvariable made Nightcrawler use voicelines from the same character. The Cloaker costume reuses the same voicelines and modernizes their festive skin' design.

Bugs

• The Pummel was affected by the anti-cheat, causing it to usually miss the second/third attack due to the short cooldown, this has been fixed at the release of Hallows Eve Event.
• Oddly enough, Pursue's ability to break doors also applies to locker doors. In the past, it would play the animation, but the door would still remain intact. This has since been changed to break the door=