Cockroach
Survives everything. Including you.
Rare bugs unlock with XP you earn playing online, or with coins. The game shows how to get each one.
Passive: Survivor
Boosting is 18% cheaper; slows 35% weaker, stuns 17.5% shorter.
A passive is always on: you never fire it and it never runs out. It is what the Cockroach does that no other bug does quite the same way.
Stats
Stats are multipliers on the standard bug, which is ×1.00 in everything (the game shows them as percentages: ×1.14 is 114%). Turn is Agility in the game. For Boost drain, lower is cheaper.
| Stat | Cockroach | Compared with the standard bug |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | ×1.12 | 12% faster |
| Turn | ×1.12 | turns 12% faster |
| Bulk | ×1.08 | 8% thicker |
| Growth | ×0.98 | 2% less from food |
| Boost | ×1.06 | boosts 6% faster |
| Boost drain | ×0.82 | boosting costs 18% less |
| Spawn mass | 18 | the standard |
Power-ups
Every bug has 5 power-up slots. The Cockroach can carry 10 of the game's 18 power-ups: the 5 core ones every bug carries, and 5 more that its traits from the real animal allow. Its traits are ground, fast, armored and nocturnal.
Burrow
Go underground for 5s: untargetable, invisible to bots, 40% slower, cannot eat.
From its ground trait.
Hyperdash
Instantly teleport 420u forward; for 0.4s only the wall can kill you.
From its fast and nocturnal traits.
Barbed Carapace
Body swells up to 30% and grows barbs: enemies that hit your body are repelled and stunned instead of dying.
From its armored trait.
Nectar Bloom
For 10s every mouthful is worth double and you regenerate 6 mass per second.
From its nocturnal trait.
Leaf Camouflage
Blend into the leaves for 6s: bots no longer see your head as a threat or as prey, and other players see you faded.
From its nocturnal trait.
Core power-ups: Nitro Wings, Molt Husks, Phase Shift, Pheromone Call, Shockwave.
How bots play it
Bots fill every seat no player is using. A bot playing the Cockroach plays it as a Skittish. Jumpy: the widest berth around bodies, the earliest flight and quick evasive boosts; it fires defensive power-ups early.
Other skittish bugs: Grasshopper, Mosquito, Monarch Butterfly, Tsetse Fly, Firefly, Luna Moth.
Skins
The Cockroach has 6 skins. A skin changes only how it looks, never how it plays. See them in the full skin gallery.
Madagascar Cockroach
After the hissing cockroach of Madagascar: dark chestnut armour with amber edges.
Amber Cockroach
Glowing honey-amber armour with dark brown trim.
Cuban Cockroach
The pale lime-green banana cockroach of the tropics, with a translucent yellow-green shield.
Mardi Gras Cockroach
Australia's jewel roach in carnival colours: metallic green wings dotted with gold, a purple shield and purple legs.
Magnificent Cockroach
An iridescent royal-blue shell with a cyan sheen and six oil-slick magenta spots.
Phantom Cockroach
Bone-white like a freshly molted roach, with two dark spots on its back that stare out like a little ghost.
The real animal
The Cockroach in buggs.io is based on Periplaneta americana, and its traits come from what the real animal does. Read about it on Wikipedia.