Pincer

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The **Pincer** is a petal in florr.io. It heavily reduces movement speed of mobs and flowers, similar to Web or Honey (old) slowing down petals, and deals poison damage like the Iris. Higher rarities deal more damage.

## Appearance

The Pincer looks like a black semicircle, but curved like a sickle.

## Function

*In-game description: Debilitates enemies temporarily, reducing their movement speed.*

*Note: Common Pincers do not drop.*

Upon contact, poisons the enemy and slows them down by 80%. The slowdown effect does not stack with other Pincers.

The enemy will take the amount of damage shown by the petal's poison stat at a rate determined by the poison's DPS.

Poison does not stack. Applying more poison before prior poison has ended will reset the poison value to either the current one or the one of the petal that hit it, whichever is higher. It will not add poison onto the pre-existing value.

## Drops

### Obtaining

* Farm Scorpions in the Desert.
	+ Later waves spawn more Scorpions, and higher rarity ones.
	+ Waves that only spawn Scorpions are great for farming Pincers.
* Do not farm in Garden or Ocean, the mobs there do not drop Pincer.

### Purchasing

On certain days, the petal can be purchased in the Shop.

*Note: the price depends on how much money is spent. This table shows the prices assuming the lowest and highest amounts of money that can be spent. Also, the stars awarded per ad change depending on the player's highest rarity petal. The table shows the lowest per ad (1) and the highest per ad (3). For more information, go to this page: Stars*

## Strategy

Pincer's poison effect is unremarkable, being outclassed by the Iris, although it does have a faster respawn. Pincer's main use is as a slowdown petal, hindering an enemy's advance. The pincer has the strongest slowdown in the game, leaving enemies wide open for attack. However, it can't affect multiple targets at once like the Web.

Pincers are best used against legendary and mythic mobs, giving players more time to attack it while dealing decent damage. Be aware of sudden changes in speed if using this petal. Combining it with webs can be helpful in grinding the enemy to a halt.

### Garden

* Since webs are useless against Spiders, pincers are the best way to slow down an advancing spider. However, it should not be used against a horde, but rather saved for high rarity spiders which are hard to kill.
* It is not that useful against Hornets since they rely on projectiles.
* Can be useful for attacking bees to stop them from touching you

### Desert

* The pincer is useful against all of the desert's most dangerous mobs since they all rely on body damage. It's best used against high rarities in conjunction with Webs to cripple them.

### Ocean

* The pincer is ironically useful against the Crab. Their unpredictability is lessened with a hefty slowdown from the pincer.
* For Starfish, the poison can temporarily hinder the mob's health regen ability.
* It's not useful against Jellyfish due to their ranged attack.

### PvP

* Pincers can severely slow down flowers leaving them more vulnerable. However, it doesn't slow down petal rotation like the old Honey, so attackers need to be wary of the opponent's petals, since the player can still extend and detract petals.
* It is useful when fleeing since the user won't have to worry too much about counterattacks. It'll not only slow the opponent down but cause them to take poison damage, which usually causes them to back off.
* The Pincer + Iris combo is incredibly deadly. The pincer slows opponents down, and the Iris deals a lot of poison damage, usually allowing the opponent to be an easy target unless they use a healing build.

### Hell

* Pincers can be used to make sure the beetles don't touch you.
* It is advised to use at least 2 pincers (this is for around the leg/mythic rarity)