Varan

Short Claw Swipe

Long Claw Swipe

Varan Rush

Varan is a Secret Kaiju Boss and a secret playable character that appears in Pathos.

## Appearance

Varan is a purple, reptile like creature with a thick armored carapace covered in spines traveling from the back of his tail to his head. He stands a bit shorter then Godzilla and is stockier, but has very large and defined arms and legs.

## Pathos

Varan is hidden in Pathos behind a secret route. This route is located on the left side map and at the top, for the exact location refer to this map.

### Battle

Upon entering Varan's stage, he will be trapped inside a gravity device of some kinds, suspending him in the orb. Upon freeing him, the Moon Gravity Cheat will be unlocked, but the player will also begin a fight with Varan.

Varan pulls no punches, and is EXTREMELY strong. Immediately, he rushes up to the player and begins tearing them apart. This can be incredibly disastrous for ranged and grounded characters such as Moguera and Tankzilla, and the fight is truly RNG when it comes to if Varan will use his good attacks or not.

Varan has a multitude of attacks, most dealing high damage. He has a claw-swipe attack with a short and long ranged variant, both dealing damage. For getting up close, he has Varan Rush which just charges him in towards the target direction, and plowing through everything. His most ungodly move, however, is his basic punch. Yes, his basic punch. Varan's basic punch is able to deal damage on par with a full Godzilla Nuclear Breath, for no apparent reason.

Be prepared when it comes to fighting Varan, a couple punches and the player will be dead.

## As a Playable Character

As it stands, Varan is by far the most potent character. Low energy costs, high speed, super armor, wide variety of attacks, and extreme damage make him an unstoppable force of nature, and a speedrunners best friend. His relatively small hitbox makes him rarely get hit, and his large variety of attacks do a great job of blocking projectiles, especially Claw Swipe.

If the player manages to defeat Varan, they will get his Monster Card.

## Control Scheme

* Z - Punch: Varan does his ungodly world ending punch, dealing ungodly high damage, and with an incredible speed and long range.
* X - Kick: Varan does his much less impressive normal kick.
* Space - Varan Rush: Varan rushes forward with a purple aura, dealing high damage to anything in his way, gaining a large speed boost, and taking reduced damage.
* Down + Z - Short Claw Swipe: Varan does two claw swipes infront of him, with increased rang and a bigger hitbox but less damage then his punch. (Obviously.)
* Down + X - Long Claw Swipe: Varan does two claw swipes very far infront of him, with even more range then his punches or kicks. This costs more energy then Short Claw Swipe, however.

## Pros/Cons

* + Ungodly High Damage: Varan is able to unironically one shot most enemies with even his non-punch attacks, and when it comes to Bosses and Minibosses can kill them in seconds with punches.
* + Speed Demon: Varan Rush is VERY spammable, and can be used for entire stages, just bulldozing everything.
* + Unflinching: Varan is unable to be flinched.
* + Versatile: Varan has an ability for just about every situation, with Long Claw Swipe even substituting for a ranged projectile.
* + Small: Varan is the shortest and smallest grounded character, giving him quite alot of wiggle room during fights.
* - Cant Crouch: Varan still suffers from the big thing that every unlockable character does, he cannot crouch.