Lonely Island

## Overview

LonelyIsland is a map in ninja.io used in DM, TDM, and CTF matches. It is based around the theme of water, itself being an island and having two boats on the far ends of the map. On the island is a large castle with two towers and a lower tunnel area with some clutter on the level above it. The poles of each boat are a special kind of soft in that hard projectiles (Barrett, Mac, etc.) will pass through but soft ones (Link, Shock1, etc.) will not.

## Strategies

* The boats on each end of the map are both hollow and (mostly) opaque, allowing for efficient camping against unsuspecting players.
* In the corners connecting the second floor of the castle and the inner wall of the towers, it is possible to hold a movement key and stay stuck in that corner, allowing for sneak attacks. Since you are running into a wall, the Barrett movement nerf is negated here.
* There is a clutter-ish box on the lower floor that hides you like the boats and allows you to, once again, sneak attack.
* The ricocheting ability of the Pulse Gun can help you get easy kills (or lower someone else's health). It is best used inside the "castle"-like building.( you may also use Barrett with this tip)
* With the Bow, you can spam checkpoints and your enemies will be forced to use the upper building where at least one of your teammates are waiting (don't use this tactic if you observe that some/most/all of your teammates are inexperienced (or somewhere else) as this leads to more kills/flag captures to the other team. It's best to guard your base in CTF mode and kill every other enemy in TDM. (Or just leave the game.) If you want, *you* can be the player on the upper side of the building, lying in wait for more players to come and kill.
* Since there is an underwater tunnel, you might as well go check it out and use it to your advantage. Remember that the Flamer and Lasergun doesn't work underwater, the Pulse Gun, Barrett, Bow, Deagles and MAC-10 have much shorter and slower range (thus making it easy to dodge) and the M79 and RPG will just go UP instead of going down in an arch-like path. If there ARE enemies in the tunnel, however, it's best to use the SMG/Minigun/Rifle or any low-damaging weapons. They still work in water while high-damaging ones do not.
* you can use RPG to your advantage in the water and if a player is hiding behind a rock you can use M79 or RPGS special ability to go up underwater to hit them with a sneaky curve attack.

## Notes

1. shock being blocked by the boat's pole remains to be tested. If I remember right, link and x75 are deflected/blocked by the poles so in theory shock and pulse should follow suit

## Trivia

* Lonely Island features the most water out of any map in the game.
* It is the first, and so far, the only map to feature boats, which in this map the boats resemble small pirate-themed ships.
* It is the first and only map to be ocean/pirate/beach themed.
* There is an anchor featured near the entrance of the underpass tunnel below the island.
* There was a glitch where you could go directly into the sand in the map through a little spot between the rocks and the island. this has been patched and was only in the game for the first day or two the map came out
* Surprisingly, although there is a flag on either team's respective sandcastle, both are colored red, instead of showing the respective teams' colors.