Iris/Stage 3

The **Iris/Stage 3** is a petal in florr.io that poisons anything that it touches, dealing damage over time.

## Appearance

Petal: A small (the same size as a Light petal), purple petal with a dark purple outline.

Flowers with the petal's effect: Poisoned flowers turn purple and frown regardless of whether or not they're defending.

## Function

Poisons any enemy that touches it. The enemy will take the amount of damage shown by the petal's poison stat.

Poison does not stack. Applying more poison before prior poison has ended will reset the poison value to either the current one or the one of the petal that hit it, whichever is higher. It will not add poison onto the pre-existing value.

## Drops

### Obtaining

* The Iris drops in both Garden and Desert but not in PvP.
* In Garden, Evil Centipedes drop irises at a high rate. These can be farmed quickly to gain a lot of irises.
* In Desert, Scorpions drop it. Later waves spawn more scorpions, so surviving late game is the best way to gain these.

### 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*
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## Strategy

Irises have the highest raw damage of any one petal, even higher than that of a mythic Stinger. However, the poison does not deal damage immediately, so other petals have higher burst damage. Furthermore, the iris has low health and a high respawn timer. Iris is generally good against targets with high damage but struggles against hordes of low HP enemies.

Iris users should keep their iris protected at all costs when not in use. The long respawn timer means that it'll be awhile before it comes back.

### Garden

* Landing an iris on a Common or Unusual Ant Hole will deal substantial damage, but keep in mind that the hole will continuously pour ants out for awhile. It's better than using a stinger which will release them all at once though. Iris can also be useful for higher rarity mobs.
	+ The iris is bad against the ants, so have high DPS petals too.

### Desert

* In desert, irises are most effective against Sandstorms due to their high HP. It's best to make a quick hit on a sandstorm and quickly retreat afterwards.

### Ocean

* The Crab and Shell have the most HP, thus the iris is most effective against them.

### PvP

#### Using

* Landing an iris on a player dooms them into losing most or all of their HP.
	+ Combining an iris with a Dandelion is one of the deadliest combos in the game. The iris will deal a substantial amount of damage while the dandelion will prevent the opponent from healing while taking damage.
* A mythic iris is a guaranteed kill unless the opponent has spammed cacti or healing petals, but if they did that, they'll lack offense and be an easy target.
* A Faster or Yin Yang makes the petal harder to destroy and more likely to land a hit.
* Iris users should be careful of Salt users since attacking one will cause the attacker to take some damage too.
* Iris users must be careful about not letting their iris die in combat without hitting an opponent.

#### Against

* An iris can easily be destroyed by most other petals.
* However, should one get hit, they should immediately retreat and equip all the healing petals they have.

## Gallery

Iris in the petal galleryIris in a full Unusual petal build except for Legendary EggThis is the Iris, the only Unusual Petal in that build.Weak but strong flowerIris Combat.pngTwo players with Irises in Hard, one chasing the other.Iris (Common).pngCommon Iris/Stage 3Iris (Unusual).pngUnusual Iris/Stage 3Iris (Rare).pngRare Iris/Stage 3Iris (Epic).pngEpic Iris/Stage 3Iris (Legendary).pngLegendary Iris/Stage 3Iris (Mythic).pngMythic Iris/Stage 3Iris (Ultra).pngUltra Iris/Stage 3Iris (Super).pngSuper Iris/Stage 3
## Trivia

* The Iris shares the poison effect with Grapes and Pincer.
	+ It also shares its colour codes with Grapes
* The poison effect from the Iris is, for any given rarity, the strongest.