Blossom

Blossom is a boss that can be found in level 12 in Dungeon of Weirdos. It has no official name, but has been named Blossom on this wiki due to its resemblance to a blossoming flower and its flower-based attacks. In any case, it is a plant.

## Boss room

Blossom's boss room has no walls, although it is capable of restricting your mobility quite a bit despite there being no solid objects. Despite the prickly appearance of the walls, this is just decoration, as the walls cannot harm you.

## Behavior

Blossom has four spiny branches that extend in four directions and will harm the player if they touch them. During most of the bossfight, these branches rotate counter-clockwise constantly, restricting the areas you can go to. Blossom attacks the player by spawning many flower buds in random places. These buds, if touched by the player, will disappear, and Blossom will take a minor amount of damage. However, these buds will undergo three more stages of growth over time, and if they are not collected before they reach the fourth stage, they can no longer be collected and will become fairly large flowers that rotate counterclockwise and are solid objects, restricting the player's movement. These fully grown flowers do not disappear and will make the area harder to navigate. Once the first batch of buds has had time to grow (even if no buds made it to the last growth stage), Blossom will spawn another batch. After the third batch of buds, by which time Blossom will usually be very low on health, it will retract its branches and will do a different attack. Every few seconds, a square-shaped reticle with a plus sign inside will appear on the player, and a moment later, a branch will extend to the marked spot and Blossom will heave itself to that position, dealing damage as it does so. When Blossom moves in this way, it will clear out any fully grown flowers in its path, so this attack can be advantageous. After it does that attack three times, Blossom will reextend its branches in its current position and the cycle will restart. The fourth batch should be the last one you'll ever need to kill Blossom.

Blossom, in general, isn't too hard to beat. Considering the speed at which the branches rotate and their deceptively small hitboxes, you will seldom miss a bud. However, if you do, by the time you make a full rotation it will likely be fully grown, so do your best not to miss. If you really don't want any buds fully growing, it could be wise to ignore the branch and the damage it deals you and charge through to collect the bud before it grows. When it does heaving attacks, you can move in a perpendicular direction to the direction Blossom heaves itself in (if it comes from above or below, move to the sides and vice versa), and use the heaving to your advantage to clear out fully grown flowers. Note that Blossom will take longer to get to you if you are far away. With this knowledge, dodging the attack is fairly easy. However, by the third attack, it's wise to attempt to get Blossom as close to the center of the room as possible. If it reextends the branches in a corner, it can be very hard to dodge the branches, and thus the boss can get problematic. If you collect all the buds of the first three batches (you can still miss up to three buds for this to work), it will be enough to kill Blossom before it can do its heaving attacks.