Chicken Flute

Chicken Flute

Statistics

Type:

Passive

Quality:

Sell Creep Price:

30

Unlock Method:

Kill The Bullet's past.

Introduced in:

Ammonomicon Entry

Fowl Play

The sounds from this strange instrument seem to have summoned a chicken.

How useful!

Chicken Flute is a passive item in Enter the Gungeon.

Effects

• Spawns a chicken that follows the player, blocks bullets, and deals 2.5 contact damage per frame to enemies it touches.
• If the chicken takes damage 8 or more times in quick succession, it will summon an army of 20 chickens to attack all enemies in the room.
  • The chickens summoned by this attack each deal 5 damage for a total of 100 damage in total per chicken swarm.
  • The chicken tracks the number of times it has taken damage, summoning the swarm when the number reaches 8- however the counter is reduced by 1 every 7 seconds.
  • The chicken swarm has a 10 second cooldown between activations, but there is no limit on how many times it can be summoned per room.
  • Damage taken while the chicken is summoning will not count towards its next activation.

Synergies ^ETG

• Bullet or the Egg - If the player has The Scrambler, its shots become larger and split into 10 seekers instead of 5.
• The Elephant in the Room - If the player has Elephant Gun, it becomes an elephant head and shoots elephants instead of bullets.
• Tea For Two - If the player also has Teapot, while reloading the Teapot, a small red aura will appear around the chicken. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.

Item Interactions

The chicken swarm summoned by the chicken flute is not affected by the players stats in any way. Additionally, since the chickens in the swarm are not projectiles, they are not affected by the players bullet modifiers.

• Battle Standard or Really Special Lute - Every hit taken by the chicken adds 2 to its hit tally instead of 1, functionally halving the amount of hits the chicken needs to take in order to activate (from 8 to 4).
  • Unlike most other effects of the Really Special Lute, the Lute does not need to be playing for this effect to be active. It only has to be the players currently held gun.
  • If both Battle Standard and Really Special Lute are held, this effect does not stack.
  • Has no effect on the rate at which the hit counter is reset.
  • Possible Bug Battle Standard and Really Special Lute have no effect on the damage of the chicken swarm on their own, however if the Really Special Lute is held while the Battle Standard is in the players inventory, the damage of the chicken swarm will be increased by 80%.
• Battery Bullets, Shock Rifle, Thunderclap - Electrified water deals rapid damage to the chicken, quickly summoning the chicken swarm.
• Shock Rounds - The electric links created by Shock Rounds can damage the chicken.
• Grappling Hook - The grappling hook can hit the chicken, dealing damage one time and stunning it.

Unused and Cut Content

• Unused: Chickensword - If the player has Blasphemy, Blasphemy will still be able to fire its sword projectile even when the player is not at full HP. Likely removed because it contains a starting weapon.

Notes

• This item is a reference to Cuccos in the Legend of Zelda series, where if Link attacks a Cucco three times, an army of Cuccos will appear, attacking the player.
• The appearance of the item itself is also a reference to The Fairy Ocarina in the Legend of Zelda series, which can play different songs which serve different purposes.
• The Ammonomicon quote, "Fowl play", is a play on the common expression "Foul play" and the fact that chickens are a type of fowl.
• The synergy Bullet or the Egg is a reference to the famous question "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?".
• Possible Bug Since the contact damage dealt by the chicken is applied per frame it is making contact with an enemy, it can be incredibly powerful- especially on higher end machines. It is limited, however, to the sheer difficulty of getting the chicken to press up against enemies consistently for any length of time.

See also

• Items