Summon Deercoy

Summon Deercoy
Summons a seemingly-innocuous deer
Type	Projectile
Uses	10
Mana Drain	120
Cast Delay	+1.33
Damage (Explosion)	100
Explosion Radius	30
Lifetime ⓘ	-1
Additional Information
Unlock	SPOILER: Collect its Orb
ID	EXPLODING_DEER
Tags	loopableswappable
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	000 100 200 31/21610.46 41/23810.42 51/20810.48 600 700 800 900 1000

Summon Deercoy is a spell which creates a deer at the point of casting. The deer will walk back and forth on any solid surface and attract enemy fire. Upon taking enough damage, it will explode.

Deer also explode shortly after contact with 'prey' creatures, such as Lammas (or even other deer).

Tips

• Summoning multiple deercoy at the same location at the same time will cause them to immediately explode.
• By default, every Parantajahiisi will be friendly towards Deercoy; they will shoot healing projectiles at injured Deercoy, which you can intercept. However, if there are more stacks of More Hatred than there are More Love, then no Parantajahiisi will naturally do this.
• Pairs well with Tentacle With Timer, which will usually immediately detonate the Deercoy as it spawns.
• Deercoy are not impacted by Homing, but are affected by Projectile Area Teleport. With the latter modifier, Deercoy will normally walk around and will teleport to enemies in range. However, two or more stacks of More Hatred will change this behavior, and the Deercoy will levitate in place and not teleport to enemies in range except for when initially spawned.
• While alive, Deercoy repeatedly "hit" enemies between their legs extremely rapidly, though these hits deal no damage by default. They also do not hit you by default.
  • Combined with Projectile Area Teleport and Damage Plus, they will often "ride" enemies while dealing rapid damage to them, while avoiding damage from some types of projectiles shot by its victims. However, especially after the Deercoy has landed on the ground, they will sometimes stick to enemies without dealing damage.
  • Combined with Piercing Shot and Add Trigger, can rapidly fire payloads downward when you collide with them. This can be used to extend the usage of limited-use utility spells like Black Hole and Healing Bolt. However, Deercoy will despawn if you move too far away.
• Similar to Pollen, Deercoy can be used to create Trigger Loops to repeatedly fire copies of a trigger payload for the cost of a single copy.
• Deercoy is a valid target for Swapper and Homebringer Teleport Bolt.
• Material transmutation modifiers can be applied to the Deercoy
  • Ground to Sand is particularly useful - the Deercoy's explosion destroys the sand, leaving a sizeable void.
• With the use of Long-Distance Cast (or Phasing Arc, Drilling Shot etc.) Deercoy can be spawned inside solid rock (where they will immediately begin to suffocate).

Trivia

• The Summon Deercoy spell was originally named Summon Deer Decoy, but was renamed after a petition on Reddit caught the developers' attention.
• Combined with Add Trigger, will also trigger on some entities like Health Pickups and Orbs of True Knowledge.

Unlocking

Summon Deercoy is unlocked once the Orb of True Knowledge under the Snow Chasm has been collected (along with Flock of Ducks and Worm Launcher).

Gallery

Testing Summon Deercoy in a Holy Mountain and regretting it.

Deercoy being used in a similar manner to Pollen for creating a Trigger Loop.

History

• Nov 20 2019: Renamed from "Summon Decoy Deer" to "Summon Deercoy"