Feral Assassin

This article is about the common enemy "Feral Assassin." If you're looking for the rare miniboss variant, see Goro Noobjima.
==/// SUMMARY==
Feral Assassin (often simply shortened to Assassin or Feral) is a common enemy that is encountered on Wave 31+. In Default, he has 500 HP and yields 750 Cash when defeated.
==// BEHAVIOUR==
Upon spawning in, Feral Assassin will start cloaking, granting them faster movement speed and 100% Damage Resistance, in addition to turning them completely invisible. However, they will exit cloaking if there is an enemy that is close enough to them. Uniquely, they have an extremely high resistance to damage from nearly every class, with melee-class damage being the only exception. 
Feral Assassins attack via swinging their Daredevil Knife, rapidly dealing significant amounts of damage. In close quarters, they will frequently side roll behind their target, which puts them in a good position to backstab. Backstabs deal extremely high damage, bypass shields, heal them by 10% of their Max HP, and temporarily grants them 90% Damage Resistance. The duration of the provided Damage Resistance is visually shown with a shield, but the shield is unbreakable and will only vanish once its duration ends. 
If a Feral Assassin kills something with a backstab, be it a player or a living minion entity, the body will be flung extremely far away, and the Feral Assassin who landed the backstab will perform the laugh emote for a period of time. Attacking them while they are below 50% HP and laughing will cause them to interrupt the emote. In Casual, they will not interrupt their laugh. 
Occasionally, Feral Assassins will taunt, providing the "True Mad Dog" debuff to nearby players or the Statue, which significantly lowers Damage and Defense stats. This debuff will still be inflicted even if the Assassin was killed while in the middle of taunting. It will not be given to those that are outside of its line-of-sight. In Casual, they will not taunt. 
Additionally, Feral Assassins have a very small chance of becoming Goro Noobjima when spawning. 
===// EFFECT STATS===
====True Mad Dog====
"Reduced Damage and Defense."
-40% Damage
-40% Defense
==/// STRATEGY==
#Despite the low health, Feral Assassins are extremely durable and can deal immense damage to players and the statue. Make sure to use his weakness, Melee weapons, against him to swiftly end him.
#Take your chance to damage a Feral Assassin by attacking during his laugh, dealing extra damage to ease the difficulty of fighting one.
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==/// TRIVIA==
#Feral Assassin and Goro Noobjima's taunt is based of Goro Majima's Mad Dog Style from Yakuza 0.
#The knife that Feral Assassin uses is called the Daredevil Knife.
#Feral Assassin wears the Roblox accessory Hood of the International Order of Buildmasters.
#Feral Assassin taunt animation upon killing someone is the Demoman's Schadenfreude taunt, from TF2. This shares the same animation and sound from the Laugh taunt you can use by pressing T.
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