Riptide

Riptide

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	12 Melee
Knockback	1 (Extremely Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	25 Slow
Reach (tiles)	18
Attack duration	18 seconds
Velocity	36 effective
Tooltip	Sprays a spiral of aqua streams
Rarity
Sell	40
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Riptide

Sounds

Use

This article is about the weapon. For the debuff, see Riptide (debuff).

The Riptide is a craftable Pre-Hardmode yoyo. While deployed, the yoyo will fire streams of water in a clockwise spiral, each piercing once.

Its best modifier is Godly. It cannot get modifiers that affect size.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Pearl Shard	3
	Sea Prism	7
	Navystone	10
Result
	Riptide	1

Trivia

• In real life, rip tides are powerful water currents that flow out into the ocean, known for being deadly towards swimmers.
• This weapon was originally planned to be named "Whirlpool" but was changed due to a conflict with a yoyo of a similar name from the Thorium Mod.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.3.002: Nerfed effective local immunity frames from 10 to 20, but buffed air time from 3.75 seconds to 18 and range from 13.75 tiles to 18.

• 2.0.2.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 16 to 12, the water streams now deal 100% base damage instead of 4 damage and pierce once.
  • The water streams are no longer fired randomly and are instead fired at decrementing angles each time.

• 2.0.1.001: Now uses 3 Pearl Shards in its recipe.

• 1.5.0.001:
  • Nerfed damage from 18 to 16.
  • The yoyo projectile now grants enemies 20 local immunity frames instead of using standard immunity frames.

• 1.4.5.006: Added the line "A very agile yoyo" to its tooltip.

• 1.4.5.004:
  • Buffed yoyo range from 11.25 tiles to 13.75.
  • Decreased air time from 7.5 seconds to 3.75.
  • The yoyo now moves and fires twice as fast.

• 1.4.3.001: Nerfed range from 18 tiles to 11.25 and air time from 15 seconds to 7.5.

• 1.4.2.109: Now internally counts as a yoyo.

• 1.4.2.103: Fixed it having a messed up animation.

• 1.4.2.001: Introduced.