Elephant Beetle
A fuzzy-coated heavyweight with a horn like a trunk. Pushing it around is a mistake.
Epic bugs unlock with XP you earn playing online, or with coins. The game shows how to get each one.
Passive: Juggernaut
45% knockback resistance and 15% smaller slow effects.
A passive is always on: you never fire it and it never runs out. It is what the Elephant Beetle 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 | Elephant Beetle | Compared with the standard bug |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | ×0.88 | 12% slower |
| Turn | ×0.76 | turns 24% slower |
| Bulk | ×1.36 | 36% thicker |
| Growth | ×1.16 | 16% more from food |
| Boost | ×1.00 | the standard |
| Boost drain | ×1.05 | boosting costs 5% more |
| Spawn mass | 30 | bigger than the standard 18 |
Power-ups
Every bug has 5 power-up slots. The Elephant Beetle can carry 9 of the game's 18 power-ups: the 5 core ones every bug carries, and 4 more that its traits from the real animal allow. Its traits are armored, giant, ground, spiky and digger.
Burrow
Go underground for 5s: untargetable, invisible to bots, 40% slower, cannot eat.
From its digger and ground 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, giant and spiky traits.
Nectar Bloom
For 10s every mouthful is worth double and you regenerate 6 mass per second.
From its giant trait.
Horn Charge
Lower your horns for 2.5s: 1.5x speed, wider turns and hard to shove. A body you ram is knocked aside and stunned instead of squishing you (barbs still bounce you).
From its spiky 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 Elephant Beetle plays it as a Tank. Big-bug confidence: shrugs off heads that scare others, passes bodies closer and is slow to boost.
Other tank bugs: Bumblebee, Dung Beetle, Rhinoceros Beetle, Titan Beetle.
Skins
The Elephant Beetle has 6 skins. A skin changes only how it looks, never how it plays. See them in the full skin gallery.
Actaeon Beetle
After the Actaeon beetle: glossy jet-black armour with steel-blue highlights.
Mars Elephant Beetle
Rusty red armour with sunset-orange trim, the colour of the red planet.
Bronze Elephant Beetle
Warm bronze armour with creamy peach trim, polished like an old coin.
Moss Elephant Beetle
Mossy green armour with lime trim, as if it napped on the forest floor.
Atlas Beetle
Named for the mighty Atlas beetle: midnight-blue armour ringed in gold, with golden eyes.
Werewolf Beetle
Shaggy brown fur frosted silver, glowing golden wolf eyes and a moonlit glow, ready to howl at the full moon.
The real animal
The Elephant Beetle in buggs.io is based on Megasoma elephas, and its traits come from what the real animal does. Read about it on Wikipedia.