Stinger

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The **Stinger** is a petal in florr.io, dealing high damage at cost of low durability and slow recharge.

## Appearance

A small, black, triangular shaped petal with an even darker outline. If the petal is Mythic, the stinger will turn into 3 stinger petals that rotate around each other.

Ultra and Super Stingers have 5 stingers forming a pentagon.

## Drops

### 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

Stingers deal devastating damage to anything they hit. Higher rarities will one shot most enemies. However, their very long respawn keeps the DPS fairly low, except for the mythic and ultra varieties. Still,without a high durability higher levels cannot multi-hit mobs unlike other petals,meaning high level stingers have less of an edge. Their low health means that other petals can destroy them easily too. High-rarity stingers have been heavily nerfed (the reload used to be 2.5s, then was nerfed to 7s and in March 2023 to 8s), reducing their usefulness in certain PvP scenarios.

### Garden

* Stinger's low respawn means that it struggles against hordes of enemies. However, it is perhaps the best petal at dealing with a single mob quickly. Stinger spam can take down moderate groups of mobs and is great for dealing with a single Legendary/Mythic mob.
	+ Pairing stingers with Fasters lowers the overall damage but increases how quickly it is dealt, making it a useful combination.
* Stingers are good against Hornets because they have high burst damage. However, be aware that the Hornet's missiles may destroy the Stingers.
	+ Because of this, Stinger is one of the best petals to use in Centralia Maze, one of the toughest maps and best places to farm Mythic petals.

### Desert

* Similar strategies as garden, it is great for dealing damage against a single mob or handling moderate swarms.
* It is especially useful against Sandstorms due to their high health. Stingers can kill a sandstorm before it has the potential to cause problems.

### Ocean

* Due to their health regen, Stinger is useful against Starfish. They can one shot most of them, preventing regen.
	+ Having multiple stingers can counter rarer varieties that may be able to tank a hit.
* Stinger is good against Jellyfish since it can quickly kill them before they have the chance to deal too much damage.
* Stinger is good against Crabs since it only needs to land one hit to kill it or deal serious damage, making the crab less likely to dodge as they tend to do.

### PvP

#### Using

* Since the beginning of florr, stingers have been a powerhouse in PvP. A few of them will make quick work of any flower and all players fear them. A mythic stinger deals over 24.3k damage at once, killing any player in one hit unless they have opted to spam Cacti and/or Soil, but if they decided to do that, they lack adequate damage.
* The goal of a stinger user is quite simple - land a stinger on the flower to deal lethal or near lethal damage.
	+ Fasters can make this easier by causing stingers to move faster, making them harder to dodge or destroy
	+ One of the most popular builds involves stingers and Bubbles. The stingers are placed on the opposite side of the bubbles, so when the user uses their bubbles, their stringers are thrusted into any opponent with almost no way to dodge.
* High health petals such as the Heavy and Corn can be used a shield against fragile stingers.
	+ Stinger users can also use these petals to shield their stingers.
* A stinger can be paired with an Iris for an inescapable combo. The stinger deals a quick hit of damage while the iris slowly deals the rest. This is an almost guaranteed kill if successful, but the attacker must land a good hit and dodge counterattacks for a few seconds.
	+ Hitting the player with a Dandelion beforehand slows down their healing.

#### Against

* High petal density, achieved through Light or Pollen spam, can serve as a shield against stinger attacks too.
* If a player's stingers are killed, they are left vulnerable for a few seconds. Players can take full advantage of this, attacking the stinger user before their petals recharge. Stinger users should be wary of this and be ready to flee battle if needed. Bubbles can help with fleeing.

## Gallery

Stinger in the Petal GalleryA stinger being used against ants in the older version.A stinger in the old ? zone, the former hardest zone in the game.Common StingerUnusual StingerRare StingerEpic StingerLegendary StingerMythic StingerUltra StingerSuper Stinger
## Trivia

* Mythic stingers are frequently referred to as tringers due to there being three and them forming a triangle shape.
	+ Ultra stingers are frequently referred to as pingers due to there being five and them forming a pentagon shape.
* They were originally most frequently obtained from Hornets, but this was changed on February 19, 2020, when Hornets no longer dropped Stingers (they drop Missiles now)
* This petal has the highest single-target burst damage potential of any petal. A mythic stinger can deal up to 24.3k damage, ultra stinger 72.9k damage, and the super stinger has the potential to deal 218k damage. It is second overall in terms of burst though, super lightning deals 26k to up to 9 entities, beating the stinger by exactly 17100 damage per petal.
	+ On January 13th, 2023, Stinger's damage was buffed due to many other mythic petals outclassing its damage.
* In old florr, Legendary Stingers used to have 3 stingers in one.