Chicken's starting melee weapon is unique to her character only. She has the ability to slow down time. Chicken is also the only character that can stay alive after reaching zero HP.
Features[]
Chicken begins with the Chicken Sword equipped and no ammo.
When Chicken's health reaches zero, she loses 2 max HP and runs around headless for 5 seconds. Getting health in any way will allow her head to grow back, but the max HP will still be lowered by 2 if health is replenished by a health pickup or the Bloodlust mutation.
Walking over a health chest will recover 2 max HP. Choosing the Last Wish mutation will replenish all of Chicken's lost max HP.
Medkits have a 50% chance to spawn instead of Radiation Canisters when your character is under 50% health. When it comes to this spawn mechanic, Chicken's max HP is always treated as 8 (this number is affected by mutations and bounty rewards). So for Chicken, under 50% is always under half of her max HP capacity.
A headless Chicken can teleport through portals, and her timer will reset when the next area is loaded. You can also revive yourself by choosing Rhino Skin or Last Wish mutations while Chicken is headless inside a portal.
Special[]
Chicken can slow down time, slowing both enemies and enemy projectiles and herself's speed and firing rate.
Throne Butt[]
With Throne Butt, slowing down time does not affect Chicken's movement or fire speed.
Ultra Mutations[]
Harder to Kill |
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Kills reset bleed timer. |
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Ninja |
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Increases your melee damage by 25%, rounded up. |
Focus |
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Slow motion is much more effective on enemy projectiles (even moreso with Euphoria).
Slow motion completely stops your projectiles. |
Vanish |
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When in slow motion, you vanish and drop a decoy.
When vanished, enemies won't target you. Attacking when vanished destroys the decoy. |
Gameplay[]
Chicken's abilities let you play very recklessly, running straight into combat and relying on medkit drops when headless and then trying to get a stationary Medkit on the next level to recover your lost max HP. Slowing down time allows to play a bit safer, while running straight into danger. Plus, when ultra c was chosen alongside throne butt, slowing down time does not have any negative effects on chicken, therefore being in the slowed-down mode forever is an beneficial.
Unlock Method[]
Unlocked by opening a big HP chest.
Tips[]
Useful Mutations[]
- Rhino Skin - Increases your max HP, improving your survivability especially if your HP was reduced from Chicken losing her head. You can also revive yourself by choosing Rhino Skin while Chicken is headless inside a portal.
- Last Wish - Will replenish all of Chicken's lost max HP. You can also revive yourself by choosing Last Wish while Chicken is headless inside a portal.
- Blood Lust - Chicken's passive allows you a few short moments after you reach zero health to do as much damage as possible. If Blood Lust manages to activate in this time you'll be revived, making this mutation a must-have in terms of survivability. Best when combined with Stress for maximum DPS and chances of reviving when "dead".
- Rabbit Paw - Increases the chances of health pickups which could allow you to revive if Blood Lust doesn't activate.
- Plutonium Hunger - Reduces the distance you have to walk to grab a medkit. Makes it easier to grab medkits from off screen.
- Scarier Face - Less enemy HP means less damage you have to deal to get a potential health pickup when headless.
- Sharp Stress - Receiving the final blow can kill a bunch of enemies along with Chicken, effectively creating a chance for a medkit drop as soon as you need one. The damage of Sharp Teeth is based off of how much HP you lost. This means if you have 2HP left and die (lose your head) to an explosion that did 10 damage, all enemies on the screen will take 4 damage, not 20. And, Chicken is the only character that can survive with 0 health. This lets her reach the full 80% fire rate increase when headless.
- Gamma Guts - Allows you to deal contact damage by walking over any enemy when headless.
- Long Arms - Gives you a huge advantage over the playing field, allowing you to deflect bullets and attack enemies with Chicken's Sword from further away and even through walls.
- Impact Wrists - Useful for melee in particular, giving you a chance to kill enemies from further away with flying corpses.
- Throne Butt - Gives Chicken her normal walking speed while using her active.
- Euphoria - Makes it easier to reflect projectiles with melee weapons.
- Extra Feet - Allows you to run towards and pick up distant medkits faster.
Unlocking B-Skin[]
Unlocking C-Skin[]
Trivia[]
- Before mutating, Chicken was just a regular chicken.
- It might seem that Chicken had martial arts training before, but she learned everything from movies.
- The movies Chicken watches on her TV are:
- Seven Samurai
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- The Mysterious Island
- Enter the Dragon
- Chicken loves her sword.
- Having 1 max health as Chicken and charged Strong Spirit, will limit Strong Spirit to save you from death only once. It can't be recharged afterwards, unless you recover your lost max health. Taking Crown of Death in this situation reduces your max health to 0 Chicken spawns without her head, bleeds out and dies.
- Chicken was added to Nuclear Throne in update #7.
- Prior to update #50, losing Chicken's head wouldn't lower her max health. It was changed from 1 max HP loss to 2 in update #90.
- Prior to update #76, Chicken used Slow Motion as her special ability. She could slow down time in a small radius around her. The ability emphasized a whole bunch of bugs and "did more damage than it was worth, slowing down a game that's supposed to be fast". Throne Butt allowed Chicken to move at normal speed while using Slow Motion, during which she had a different run animation. However, in the Ultra mod Chickens active is still slowing down time.
- Chicken is reminiscent of a playable character in the another Vlambeer game Super Crate Box.
- Chicken can feed the Frozen Corpse Flower and enter the Jungle while being headless.
- Chicken's unused race_back is "Normal rate of fire during slow motion", but this is already her Throne Butt.