Feral Bite

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Feral Bite
Statistics
Type	Debuff
Buffed by	Some Bats and Duke Fishron
Effects	Increases damage, but decreases life regeneration and causes random status effects to occur
Tooltip	Increased damage, Decreased life regen, Causes status effects
Internal Buff ID: 148

Feral Bite is a debuff that may be inflicted when a player is hit by a bat (10% chance) or Duke Fishron (33% chance) in Expert mode. It increases player damage by 20%, but lowers player health regeneration and may randomly inflict Darkness, Cursed, Confused, Slow, Weak, or Silenced debuffs.

Causes

From enemy

From		Duration	Chance
	Cave Bat	30-90 seconds	1/10 (10%)
	Jungle Bat	30-90 seconds	1/10 (10%)
	Giant Bat	30-90 seconds	1/10 (10%)
	Giant Flying Fox	30-90 seconds	1/10 (10%)
	Duke Fishron	3-10 seconds	1/3 (33.3%)

Debuffs

When the player is afflicted with Feral Bite, there is a 1/1200 chance per frame for one of six debuffs to inflict the player. When the game is running at the target 60 frames per second, the effective chance is 1/20 every second (approximately 1-20 seconds).

Debuff		Duration	Chance
	Darkness	1.8-3 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Cursed	0.45-0.75 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Confused	0.9-1.5 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Slow	2.1-3.5 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Weak	3-5 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)
	Silenced	0.6-1 seconds	1/6 (16.7%)

Notes

• While at the first look seeming like a rather weak debuff, the randomly occuring status effects can cause major damage to a player. The Confused and Weak debuffs can easily catch players on the wrong foot, especially when they are not aware of being under the influence of Feral Bite.
• Having an Ankh Charm or Ankh Shield eliminates all the debuffs (which technically makes this a pseudo buff like the Tipsy effect).

Trivia

• Internally, Feral Bite is named "Rabies", a real disease which affects animals and humans.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Introduced. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Introduced. ()