The Weeding Shears
Garden shears taller than a man. They grow hedges across the room: walls that stop you and your shots alike.
Phases
Base health. The game multiplies boss health by 1.8, and by 1 plus 0.5 for every floor of depth, so the real number on its own floor is higher. 1560 × 3.6 = 5616.
Attacks
The blades spread and a cone in front of them snaps shut. It also cuts the hedges inside it.
A lane is shown, then the shears run along it blades first, cutting through hedges.
A row of hedges sprouts between you and the shears, with a gap to slip through. A dashed square shows each hedge a second before it grows.
From the second phase the halves come apart: two crossing lanes on your spot, and two blades thrown in wide arcs that come back.
Hedges sprout in a ring around you with two gaps, then it lunges at the cage. It also hurls itself across the room in three bounces, each lane shown first.
How to win
- A bomb clears hedges, and so do its own blades. Lure the snip through a wall that is in your way.
- In the cage, head for a gap before the lunge lane fills.
- From a quarter health every lunge comes twice: keep a dash for the second one.
Moves, as animated in the game
Reward
A gold chest that opens without a key, a hatch to the next floor, eight coins and thirty souls.
Its own drops
- Rot root: 6 to 10, 100% chance
- Slag ore: 2 to 4, 50% chance
- Thorn rune, tier 2: 35% chance
- Heart of Maud: 12% chance
- Blueprints from the pool of Rot Mother Tree