Nightcrawler

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

Nightcrawler is a Blackout-exclusive Gootraxian in Kaiju Paradise.

It is reptilian like, 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 works similar to a katana, it is a 'combo-like' type of ability, allowing Nightcrawlers to attack Humans 3 times, with the last attack having a slightly long cooldown. In Blackouts, it is able to dash the Nightcrawler forward a little.

Pursue causes the player to slam their fists onto the ground, blowing away nearby Humans a few studs away. Then, the Nightcrawler starts running where 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 Human, it will damage them a little, knockback and ragdoll them. This ragdolled human will act as a projectile and damage anyone that got hit by it.

At the end of the pursue, the closest human in a certain radius from the Nightcrawler is grabbed and punched away, dealing heavy amounts of damage as well as ragdolling the human. If a human dies to the Pursue, they will not be turned into a Nightcrawler and instead die on the spot.

It has a passive, where, 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. It deals little damage.

During Blackouts, fireaxes, bottles and scythes will be blocked, causing it to do minimal damage and not ragdoll the Nightcrawler.

Goggled Nightcrawlers have a huge health pool of 800 HP, however they cannot regen naturally.

Goggle-less Nightcrawlers do not have their unique abilities and instead have 100 HP along with the standard Gootraxian abilities (grab & attack). However, they will still have the stomping, Axe and Bottle block passive abilities.

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Nightcrawler's Pursue noises.

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. 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 human players.
- 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 one being the Slime Pup.
- Nightcrawlers without goggles will have the standard abilities, however.
The only weapon that can ragdoll Nightcrawlers during Blackouts are bricks.
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 of all Gootraxians that are not a Diamond Slime variant, at 800 HP.
Nightcrawler is the only Gootraxian so far to have appeared in the game's thumbnail, but was still unreleased 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.
Nightcrawler's idle face was slightly different when it was still unreleased.
It is currently the only known Gootraxian to have more than one contributor create its concept.
- 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.