Lava Flail
| “ | Folks say that this club was created from the lava taken from the magic volcano. Don't wear it at your waist. | ” |
—Weapon's description in Gallery | ||
The Lava Flail is a Melee weapon. It is introduced in one of the earlier updates of the game of Pixel Gun 3D.
Description
It is a yellow stick with a lava cactus attached to it that attacks and burns the player in close range. It can output massive damage in a single hit but at the cost of very slow attack speed and average mobility.
Appearance
This weapon has a yellow and orange striped handle, which goes along the "lava" theme. A smaller attachment is completely yellow. A small silver piece of metal is on top of this attachment, and a black chain hangs from this piece of metal. A large red and yellow "lava cactus" is attached to the chain.
Performance
When the player swings this weapon, the lava cactus is swung along with it. This weapon, being a melee weapon, can only attack in close range. The attack is also only successful when the entire swing animation is done. This weapon can also burn the player, making them temporarily lose health.
Strategy
Tips
- It can be inaccurate on some occasions but should be used at a fixed range in order to deal decent damage.
- The player has to wait for the entire swing animation to finish to attack the player.
- This weapon shouldn't be used for its mobility too often.
- This weapon can nearly kill players who have full armor with a single headshot.
Counters
- Pick off its user(s) from long ranges.
- Users can't run very fast with this, making escaping quite hard.
- The slow attack speed can easily be avoided.
Recommended Maps
Equipment Setups
As it has moderate mobility, you can combine it with more-mobile weapons, such as the Turbo Pistols.
Changelog
?.?.?
- Initial release.
11.2.2
- The weapon was given the Burning attribute.
12.5.0
- It was removed from the Lucky Chest.
17.8.0
- It was removed from the Armory
Trivia
- Before the version 8.2.1 came out, this weapon was the second and last upgrade of the Cactus Flail.
- It has an unusually long range for a melee weapon.
- It is based off a flail, but the metal is replaced with lava.
- This melee weapon is one of the only weapons that can't hit in the closest ranges.
- It has the one of the slowest attack rate out of all the Melee weapons.
- This weapons grade was changed from Common to Rare in the current Upgrade System, however players who still have it in Common will not have the ability to max it to Mythical.
- When upgraded to Mythical rarity, it can one-shot players.
- It is one of the powerful Rare weapons, along with Apocalypse (PG3D).
Gallery
The Cactus Flail, which was the original base version of the Lava Flail. It was replaced by the current Flail in the 8.2.1 update. It had a wooden stick, with a black chain coming out of it. A small cactus was attached to the chain. The bottom of the stick had a darker kind of wood. The chain was linked to a metal ring.
