Entangling Noodles

Entangling Noodles Type: Combat MP Cost: 3 This spell allows you to conjure a wad of sticky noodles, which slow down your opponent and make its attacks less effective.

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Source:	Guild Trainer
Price:	250 Meat
Class:	Pastamancer
Level:	2
Effect:	Prevents enemy from attacking for X turns.
When Used:

You conjure up a mass of sticky noodles to entangle your opponent. or CRITICAL NOODLE! You conjure up a mass of sticky noodles to entangle your opponent. or, if you are not a Pastamancer: You conjure up a sloppy mass of sticky noodles to entangle your opponent, but you only manage to make a mess. Your opponent glares at you as he cleans it up. Monster attack power reduced by 8-10 Monster defense reduced by 8-10

Notes

• This skill may be used only once per fight, with two exceptions:
  • If a battle with a monster has multiple stages, this skill may be used once per stage.
  • The Spaghetti Demon, the final form of the Pastamancer Nemesis, may be entangled multiple times in the same fight.
• When used as a class besides a Pastamancer, the skill will delevel attack and defense by 8-10 and act as a single-round stagger.
• When used by a Pastamancer, stuns your opponent, preventing it from attacking you for 3 rounds of combat. This duration extends by 1 turn when a spell critical hit triggers, and further extends by 1 turn if you have a Level 10 Spice Ghost as your current active Thrall.
• While the monster is entangled, each round of combat (including the first) will display the message:

Your opponent struggles against your entangling noodles, but to no avail.

• The last combat combat round of entanglement will display the message:

Your opponent struggles free of your entangling noodles.

• Furthermore, you have a 100% chance of successfully running away during any round your opponent is entangled, regardless of your initiative modifiers.
• The attack prevention effect can carry over from the first form of the Naughty Sorceress to the second, thereby preventing the second form from getting its "free" attack.
• This skill and Shadow Noodles may not both be used in the same fight.
• The Put Down Roots skill is an upside-down picture of this skill's icon.

History

• This skill used to delevel monster attack by (1 + Floor(ModdedMys/8)), capped at -6 atk (reached at 40 Mys) -- impeding the monster's attack (reducing its chance to hit and its hitting power) rather than directly preventing it, and with no effect on its defense. This was changed to a multi-round stun on February 13, 2007.
• Thrust-Smack and Lunging Thrust-Smack used to free your opponent from the noodles. As of July 9, 2007 this no longer occurs.
• The multi-round stun used to work for all classes; however, this was changed to the delevel+stagger for non-Pastamancer classes after they were revamped between September and November, 2013.
  • On September 26, 2013, the Seal Clubber skills were revamped, and Entangling Noodles stopped acting as a multi-round stun for Seal Clubbers. For the first day or so, Entangling Noodles when used by a Clubber used to increase monster attack and defense (with erroneous text saying that the attack and defense had been increased by negative amounts). This was fixed by September 28, 2013.
  • The other classes followed suit over the next several weeks, ending with Saucerors on November 14, 2013.
• From September 26, 2013 until May 19, 2014 the delevel+stagger (non-Pastamancer) form of the skill could be cast multiple times per fight, arguably making the skill more useful for non-Pastamancers than for Pastamancers. This infinite stagger ability was removed with a trivial update on May 19, 2014:

  Entangling Noodles is now castable once per fight even if you're not a Pastamancer.

See Also

• Stunning