Nitrogen

Nitrogen

Normal

Activated

The Nitrogen Tank will freeze all enemy and friendly units within its range after it is dropped on the ground. Use wisely!

Main Stats

Rarity

Common

Health

Melee Damage

Duration

Rage Cost

15

Abilities

Perks

Non-documented:

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• Knockback resistance
• Explosion resistance

Special Ability

Will deal 150 damage per tick to entities.

Unlock Requirements

Price

3,200

Player Level

8

Nitrogen is a gray labeled tank with a pair of handles, a blue lock cover, and is filled with cryogenic liquid.

It can be unlocked after reaching player level 8 and can be purchased for 3,200 coins.

Overview

Nitrogen is a debuff-oriented Support Item. It's a canister that can be dropped on enemies to deal melee damage to them. Once placed down, Nitrogen acts as an obstacle – if it stands in an enemy's way, they will attempt to destroy it.

Whenever Nitrogen is spawned it applies a freeze debuff on all entities in a small radius around it—including human units. Nitrogen triggers this effect whenever it gets struck by a melee attack. However, the ability won't activate if the blow lead to Nitrogen's health dropping below zero.

Nitrogen can be used to extinguish friendly units that caught on fire. Once Nitrogen applies its effect on a burning unit their afterburn gets removed and they don't get frozen.

Being a support item, Nitrogen can be dropped on almost any spot of the battlefield, and has all resistances typical for units of that class.

Special Ability

Nitrogen's special ability adds an offensive attribute to its freeze debuff: with the SA unlocked, the freezing now also deals 150 damage per tick throughout its duration, similar to other damaging debuffs. The SA will also be active on free canisters created by Dr. Norman's special, but only if the freely usable Nitrogen is equipped in the deck.

This SA proves to be counterintuitive, as it makes Nitrogen even more dangerous to use around friendly units – not only it greatly slows them down, it also becomes likely to straight up kill them. Meanwhile, it doesn't do nearly enough damage to Nitrogen's usual preferable targets, those being heavy tanks. It's advised against buying this ability.

Gameplay

Nitrogen should be reserved to slow down dangerous enemies and/or large hordes for crowd control. It can also be used to kill very weak enemies in a pinch. Nitrogen is less effective against enemies with fast attack speed as they are still capable of breaking the tank quickly, even while stunned, and waste its potential by destroying it sooner than intended. Nitrogen can prove to be highly effective when it is activated multiple times if an enemy attacking it has low damage. A good example of this in practice is when faced off against Dark Skeleton. However, this advantage becomes gradually less prominent the further the game progresses due to enemies' damage becoming increasingly higher, especially in stage 7 and 8 (where it typically goes down in two hits), thus it should not be relied on too much.

In general though, Nitrogen is probably the worst out of all the support items, partially due to the fact it can stun your own units. It becomes a major liability with spam units such as Redneck or Private Rodriguez, as they tend to get damaged and frozen along with enemies when deployed. It has a fairly long cooldown as well as low health, so higher enemies found during the late game such as the Crank will tend to one shot Nitrogen, meaning it can't dispense as many stuns as it would on easier stages. Fire damage tends to be more useful than a temporary slowdown regardless at Location 8, meaning it is better advised just to use a Red Barrel instead, and even in the presence of fire-immune enemies, there are simply better options to work with, making Nitrogen useless. It is also mentioned that even though it’s useful to stop fire damage, it is noted to also extinguish enemies too, making Nitrogen worse than helpful.

Trivia

• In the past, Nitrogen's damage stat was not documented.
• Strangely, Paramedic and EMT's lightning attacks can activate Nitrogen's ability, despite it being immune to their damage.

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Nitrogen doing normal explosions bug from 4.0.7.