Decoy

Decoy

Statistics

Type:

Active

Quality:

Sell Creep Price:

16

Recharge:

Floor	Dmg
1	400
Oub	533.32
2	520
Abbey	666.64
3	640
4	740
5/6	840

Special Pools:

Blue Chest Break

Ammonomicon Entry

Get Him!

Distracts enemies.

Most inhabitants of the Gungeon are not the most intelligent of creatures, and will fire upon anything that they do not recognize. This crude fascimile of a Gungeoneer will hold their attention for a time.

Many Gundead seem content to lock trespassers up in cells, despite their trigger-happy natures. Somewhere deep in the Gungeon, there is probably a prison full of Decoys.

Decoy is an active item that appears in Enter the Gungeon.

Effects

• Places a decoy at the users current position. This decoy will distract enemies, who will target the decoy instead of the player. This decoy will be destroyed after taking too much damage.
• If a decoy is placed in a Shop, it will also distract the shopkeeper, allowing the player to steal from that shop while the Decoy is inside.

Synergies ^ETG

• Deadly Distraction - If the player also has Monster Blood, the Decoy creates a large poison pool when attacked.
• Decoy Octorok - If the player also has Abyssal Tentacle, the decoy will become a charmed enemy once destroyed.
• Frosty Distraction - If the player also has Heart of Ice, the Decoy becomes partially made of ice and causes enemies that shoot it to be frozen.
• Hardwood - If the player also has Mahoguny, it will fire three explosive shots at a time.
• Kage Bunshin - If the player also has Shadow Bullets, using Decoy spawns a shadow clone of the player that mirrors their movements and fires towards the crosshair whenever the player fires.
  • This synergy essentially turns Decoy into Shadow Clone. Using the item no longer deploys a decoy and stops providing the ability to steal from shops.
• Kinjutsu - If the player also has Shadow Clone, Shadow Clone creates 3 clones instead of 1.

Item Interactions

• Ring of Triggers - Using the Decoy will also result in a circle of bullets being shot outwards, which will oftentimes destroy the Decoy, making stealing difficult unless this item is dropped first.

Cut Content

• In Pre-Alpha versions of Enter the Gungeon, the Decoy had a different, considerably smaller sprite.
• Special decoy sprites resembling the Cosmonaut, Pilot, Robot, and Convict exist in the assets of Enter the Gungeon, suggesting that at one point each Gungeoneer may have been planned to have their own special Decoy appearance.

Notes

• Items cannot be purchased from a shop with a decoy in it; stealing is the only option. Place a decoy close to the shop's entrance and shoot it from outside the shop to enable buying items normally again.
• The item itself is a reference to the Body Replacement Technique from Naruto, in which the user replaces themselves with a log to avoid an opponents attack.
• The Kage Bunshin synergy refers to the Kage Bunshin technique from Naruto.
• The Kinjutsu synergy refers to the same technique being considered a Forbidden Technique
• The Decoy Octorok synergy is a reference to the Metal Gear Solid character, Decoy Octopus and the purple, tentacled Legend of Zelda enemies of the same name.
  • It is also a reference to Dave Crooks, one of Enter the Gungeon's developers, whose handle is DecoyOctorok.

Gallery

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  Decoy's appearance with the Deadly Distraction synergy.
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  Decoy's appearance with the Frosty Distraction synergy.
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  The Decoys appearance in the Pre-Alpha of ETG
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  Unused special Cosmonaut decoy appearance.
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  Unused special Convict decoy appearance.
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  Unused special Robot decoy appearance.
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  Unused special Pilot decoy appearance.

See also

• Items
• Explosive Decoy, a special version of this item that explodes after taking enough damage or after a short period of time.