Cerberus

The **Cerberus** is a weapon in *Ninjala*. It is part of the Hammer Type C subclass.

## Description

*"A gum weapon with a healing effect. The barrier created with its Special will heal your allies as well as yourself."* *- In-game description*

The Cerberus is a hammer-type weapon that shares many similarities to it's counterpart, the Pop Eye. Similar to other weapons in its class, it has very high HP, but very slow speed. Appearance-wise, a yellow handle with blue gum is attatched to the bottom of a shoe with yellow laces, with a orange sock-like tongue sticking out of the "mouth", adoured with googly eyes at the top of the sock.

## Additional Data

### Damage Values

*Values in brackets denote damage with a Big Weapon. Values in braces denote HP recovered. Current as of Season 8.*

* Normal Attack 1: 50 [55]
* Normal Attack 2: 60 [66]
* Normal Attack 3: 100 [110]
* Back Attack: 95 [105]
* Wide Attack: 45 [50]
* Break Attack: 20 [22]
* Parry Normal: 120 [132]
* Parry Back: 145 [160]
* Parry Wide: 100 [110]
* Normal Special: 20 (lasts for 2 seconds, heals 180 HP in total or 90 HP per second
* Back Special: 20 + 20 + {140} [22 + 20 + {140}] (lasts for 5 seconds, heals 300 HP in total or 60 HP per second
* Wide Special: {150} (lasts for 10 seconds, heals 350 HP in total or 35 HP per second)
* Gum Shoot: 10 (1 small balloon), 12 (1 medium and 1 large balloon)
* Gum Ninjutsu: 540 in total (18 hits in total, 30 per hit)

### Patch History

#### Update 4.0

* ▲ (Fujiyama Rocket) Damage has been increased.
* ▲ (Fujiyama Rocket) Increased the speed of the rocket.

#### Update 5.0

* ▲ Shortened the combo time of normal attacks.
* ▲ Increased damage dealt from the 3rd stage of normal attacks.
* ▲ Accelerated the occurrence of back attacks.
* ▲ Hit reaction of wide attacks has been altered so that your opponent will stagger greatly.
* ▲ Increased downtime of wide attacks.
* ▲ Full-Throttle Field will now grant Super Armor for a period of time.

#### Update 6.0

* ▼ Reduced ninjutsu gauge rate of increase for back attacks.
* ▲ (Gum Balloon) Cooldown time has been reduced.
* ▲ (Gum Balloon) Increased projectile speed.
* ▲ (Gum Balloon) Increased homing ability.
* ⬤ (Gum Balloon) Adjusted the position at which medium and large appear.

#### Update 7.0

* ▼ Reduced cancellation timing of Back Attacks.

#### Update 8.0

* ▲ Increased the life recovery gained from Eat Alive.

## Tips

* **The best way to take drones with Cerberus is either three Back Attacks or two Back Attacks and a Gum Balloon.**
* **The first and second stages of Normal Attack can be jump or dash canceled into the first stage of Normal Attack, which can be useful for extending Gum Bind combos.**
* **Back Attacks can be used in quick succession by either jump or dash canceling during the move. This can be used to destroy drones faster, or bait opponents.**
* **The second hit of Back Special deals high knockback, which is useful for launching opponents away from drones.**
* **All variations of Full-Throttle Field can block other Gum Shoots, Gum Utsusemi, and even detonate Fujiyama Rockets on contact.**
* **An upwards dash followed by a Back Attack can be used to gain a large amount of vertical height.**
* **Master of Change is a well-suited card to have while hiding, due to this weapon's far-reaching Break and Back Attack, which can be useful to gum bind opponents. Normal and Back Full-Throttle Field are also good options to use with Master of Change's ability to gum bind.**
* Gum Balloons are a good pressure tool against opponents who are Gum Guarding, which can set up a Gum Bind by using Break Attack right after a Gum Balloon hits the guarding opponent.

**\*Tips in bold also apply to Pop Eye.**

## Trivia

* The description of the Tongue Gum (Tiger) Skin makes a direct reference to *Tony the Tiger's* catchphrase for the cereal brand *Frosted Flakes,* which is "They're grrrrrrrrreat!".

## Gallery

Default Cerberus skin and its Ninja Gum.Gum Bottle Appearance.