Titan Beetle
The endgame bug. Everything else is a snack with legs.
Legendary bugs unlock with XP you earn playing online. The game shows how to get each one.
Passive: Apex
+30% food value, 50% knockback resistance, and a very long body.
A passive is always on: you never fire it and it never runs out. It is what the Titan 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 | Titan Beetle | Compared with the standard bug |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | ×0.86 | 14% slower |
| Turn | ×0.72 | turns 28% slower |
| Bulk | ×1.40 | 40% thicker |
| Growth | ×1.30 | 30% more from food |
| Boost | ×0.98 | boosts 2% slower |
| Boost drain | ×1.15 | boosting costs 15% more |
| Spawn mass | 34 | bigger than the standard 18 |
Power-ups
Every bug has 5 power-up slots. The Titan Beetle 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 giant, armored, predator, ground and spiky.
Venom Trail
For 8s you leave lingering venom clouds behind you that squish any head entering them.
From its predator trait.
Burrow
Go underground for 5s: untargetable, invisible to bots, 40% slower, cannot eat.
From its ground trait.
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 Titan 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, Elephant Beetle.
Skins
The Titan Beetle has 7 skins. A skin changes only how it looks, never how it plays. See them in the full skin gallery.
Gilded Titan Beetle
Old-gold armour with pale gold highlights, fit for a museum case.
Obsidian Titan Beetle
A giant in polished black, its jaws tipped with electric violet.
Rosalia Titan Beetle
Dressed as its alpine longhorn cousin: powder-blue armour with four velvet-black spots.
Harlequin Titan Beetle
The harlequin longhorn's livery: crimson armour, a chain of black diamonds and yellow jaws.
Emperor Titan Beetle
The endgame crown: imperial jade armour, gold medallions, gold jaws and gold eyes.
Jack-o'-Lantern Titan
A carved-pumpkin shell with two candle-yellow eyes and a candle-lit grin.
Grand Gala Titan
A platinum titan beetle with navy rings on its elytra, gold horns and eyes, and navy legs.
The real animal
The Titan Beetle in buggs.io is based on Titanus giganteus, and its traits come from what the real animal does. Read about it on Wikipedia.