Orb

An Orb in Citadel Agartha.

The Orb is a flying invulnerable enemy found in Citadel Agartha and the Kerguelen Plateau that behaves more like a hazard than an enemy, bouncing off terrain and inflicting damage on contact with the player.

## Behaviour

Orbs' behaviour is straightforward: they start flying in a random direction as you enter the room and simply bounce off of terrain continuously. They always travel in a straight line (making them predictable), don't have any attacks and never target the player in any way. They are completely invulnerable, and though they can be affected by status effects like  Burn and  Poison and can steal life on hit (with the  Burden of Blood), this has no effect on them.

However, Orbs can still be  Frozen using for example  Winter's Shout or  Freeze Strike, stopping their movement and rendering them harmless temporarily.

Attacking an Orb with most melee weapons will interrupt the player and knock them back. On the other hand, they can be safely Spin Kicked, and also launched into other enemies for damage using the Boxer's  Knockout Punch.

Since Orbs deal damage by ramming into the player, they **always deal contact damage**.

Since it's classified as an enemy (and not as a biome hazard like the Nightmare) the Orb is affected by enemy-specific Burdens in New Game Plus, but it is not affected by the  Burden of Ruin. This means it can move faster, deal more damage, shred Armor on hit, and evolve into more dangerous variants of itself depending on the burdens taken.

## Attacks

Orbs don't have any attack, they just bounce around the room hurting the player if they come into contact with them.

## Location

Orbs can only appear naturally in Citadel Agartha and the Kerguelen Plateau.

They can also appear in any biome, but only:

* within certain special red portals' layouts that will spawn more of them regularly
* in certain fairy challenges where one of the condition is always to not get hit.

Once you reach NG+1, you will unlock the use of burdens: each level of  Burden of Evolution enabled adds a 10% for an Orb to instead spawn as its next higher tier, the Yorb

## Variants

*Orbs are one of the only enemy family to also feature a Mini-Boss variant, along with Rocket Boxes and Plinkies.*

## Trivia

 Name in the game files | BouncySpike\_Basic

While technically invulnerable, they can die if you finish a red portal challange room that contains an orb and will trigger spore burst if you have Weird Mushrooms *(might need more testing for other effects)*

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