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### Description

Spreads damage taken by the flower over a period of time. If destroyed, will deal remaining damage all at once.

### Damage

* **Common:** 0
* **Unusual:** 0
* **Rare:** 0
* **Epic:** 0
* **Legendary:** 0
* **Mythic:** 0
* **Ultra:** 0
* **Super:** 0

### Special

Initially absorbs 90% of damage, which is dealt over time

*Not to be confused with the mob, Sponge.*

The **Sponge** is a petal in florr.io. It absorbs 100% of damage and returns it to the flower slowly over time. Does not stack. It hovers over mobs instead of colliding with them, rendering it invincible.

## Appearance

A cartoonish smoke. but the color of fill is cream and the smoke is dark cream.

## Function

Petal Stats
 **Unusual** | 2.5 seconds
 **Super** | 60

Absorbs all of the damage taken by the flower and then slowly returns the absorbed damage to the flower. For example, a flower gets hit by an Ultra Stinger: Instead of taking the huge amount of damage at once, the flower takes damage slowly (similar to an Iris's poison effect), until the flower dies or the absorption period runs out. If the petal is destroyed, all remaining damage is dealt immediately back to the flower.

Sponge is an extremely hard petal to grind, due to there being no frequent mythic sponge spawn area. This could possibly change in the future,as M28 is currently adding new petals and places.

## 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

It's best when combined with healing petals, as you will still take all the damage the sponge absorbs. If you use powerful, consistent heals, like Starfish, you will be pretty much invincible. These heals must be combined with a basil or more to increase the healing.

To maximize mythic starfish healing (calculated):

4 basil

6 starfish

Whenever you feel you are about to die use sponge, even though sponge got nerfed it can prevent you from getting instantly killed.

If your sponge has low health left, and you are not taking any damage, unequip it and re-equip, losing your sponge mid-battle can potentially kill you.

Even though sponge got nerfed, the current ultra sponge is really good(as strong as pre nerf mythic sponge) .

You can lure an enemy thats hard to defeat over to a portal, equip sponge, and when you start taking massive amounts of damage, go into the portal to negate damage, heal up on the other side, and fight the enemy again.

### Garden

* While using roses + leaves. you can take damage when the sponge absorbs. Best with weaker hornets.
* Do not equip weaker sponges while with weaker healing to stronger mobs. as they will kill you in no time.
* Petals with consistent, HP/s healing (e.g. Leaf, Yucca, Starfish) are best when paired with Sponge since its damage is spread out as DPS similar to an Iris's poison effect.

### Desert

* Same as Garden, Sponge is best when combined with healing petals.

### Ocean

* Sponge is okay against most of the Ocean mobs. However, Crabs can easily destroy a Sponge with its lunge attack, so it should not be used in maps like Crab Kingdom.
	+ Sponge is actually quite good against Jellyfish since, while its attacks cannot be dodged, it deals lower damage that can easily be outhealed with the help of this petal.
* Never use against ultra Jellyfishes as its new shockwave attack will oneshot the sponge (and all other petals) making it useless. (The absorbed damage will be dealt to you immediately)

### PvP

#### Using

* Pair it with other healing petals to out heal pretty much everything. You can use it to survive ultra stingers.

#### Against

* Sponge is purely defensive so attack when they are using the sponge, the florr receives the remaining damage if the sponge is destroyed so try to destroy although it has massive hp.
* Claw can eradicate sponge users (very useful), if victim is consistently over 80% health. A bunch of fasters, claws, and perhaps a Third Eye plus some healing will do a great job in pvp.

PS: I will not delete what was written above about sponge in pvp, although I extremely disagree. However, I will inform you of the true nature of sponge in pvp. Sponge is overpowered. That's it. If you don't use sponge, you will get melted by a sponge user. You cannot counter the nature of sponge. All that someone needs to do is to use two sponges, and of course assuming mythic pvp and not super pvp, you will never be able to break the sponge. All the someone needs to do to prevent claw ever being a problem is to use starfish. The usage of sponge is situational; however, if you use sponge, make sure to never use roses, dahlias, leaves, and anything else that can heal to full health. Only ever use starfish and shell.

Sponge is the solution to salt users. Sponge tank cannot be killed; 3 starfish 3 basil 2 rubber 2 sponge with mythic petals will never die to mythic petals.

## Gallery

Common SpongeUnusual SpongeRare SpongeEpic SpongeLegendary SpongeMythic SpongeUltra SpongeSuper Sponge
## Trivia

* After the update in January 12, 2024, this petal doesn't have the stats of its durability, meaning that this petal is unbreakable.
* On Corrupt X's video, when the developer gave him ultra uranium, he used 2 legendary soils, 2 legendary cacti, 2 legendary sponges, and a legendary shell. But he doesn't have stronger healing to survive. because he has weaker sponges. It turned to epic uranium at the time according to the video.
* Sponge is one of several petals that drops from a mob of the same name. The others are Bubble, Cactus, Dandelion, Rock, Shell, and Starfish.
* Sponge has the highest health out of any other petal in the game. This does not make it an alternative to corn, as the petal does no damage. You can take advantage of the high health by using it to tank hits (eg. from a mythic hornet)
	+ As of the 14th January 2024 update, Sponge's health is now infinite.
* At some point, people thought that sponges were useless, but they are not. They are useful for healing. if paired with Basils and Leaf/Yucca, then you're pretty much invincible (Unless you ram into a super cactus, for some reason)