Rate that Reaver!: Mimic

[Buster Cannon]

Name: Mimic HP: MML1: 160 (Normal) MML2: 80 (B), 100 (A), 160 (S) Location: Various Ruins

Overview

Welcome to the 7th installment of 'Rate that Reaver'. This topic's spotlight is shining on Mimic, a reaver that everyone loves to hate! Mimic looks like a treasure chest until opened, in which case diggers are in for quite a shock.

The first variations encountered were littered in the sub-ruins of Kattelox. When opened, they would fire multiple bombs at a rather high rate of fire. If you didn't (or wouldn't) move out of the way quickly enough, you'd be in for quite a bit of pain. There was also a message that popped up saying, "It's a trapped box!"; bet you wished they would've told you that before you opened it!

Come Legends 2, Mimic could still be found in various ruins. There were a few key differences here that made tackling them a bit different, however. First off, there were now two variations of this creature; the first one acted similarly to the ones in the first game, but they fired a bit more slowly and their bombs were actually homing now. The second variation is a lot more infamous, as the crazy thing actually grows legs and starts running around! It's quite a scary sight, and is actually one of the 2 things that kept me away from the game when I was younger (Shoebafun's the 2nd).

I should note that there's actually one in Saul Kada's Ruins that stands up, sort of bites you (that's what it looks like to me), and spits out some zenny. These things are weeeeeiiiiird...

Dealing With It

In MML1, opening these beasts from the side tends to work a bit better if you are unsure about them. You have enough time to make a quick reaction and avoid the blasts. These things actually drop a nice sum of zenny, and they also respawn whenever you surface, so killing them is actually recommended.

In Legends 2, there are more ways to deal with these things. First and foremost, the Item Data feature on the map helps you to avoid these things altogether, as the radar notifies you of treasure chests that actually contribute something useful. However, Item Data only works on the 4 major ruins as well as Elysium, so you're clearly out of luck there.

The running Mimic's bark is actually worse than it's bite (literally in case of Saul Kada), and they aren't really too hard to take down. Again, they drop rather nice amounts of zenny, as well as a health item or two.

Coming In For A Landing

Overall, Mimic did it's job functioning as the series' Chest Monster, and the running versions particularly had their shock value. I give these guys a 9/10. Annoying, yes, but they overall help to contribute to the charm of the Legends series, and it wouldn't be Legends without them!

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[mirak]

These things gave me the willy wonkers in legends 2, the first time one sprang them legs i hit the tv with the controller while screaming AARGH WHAT THE FCUK IS THAT ?? It's too bad that the scare passes quickly and then they become a bit boring.

Still, it was a nice addition to the whole series. I <3 the mimics.

[Qwertman]

Yeah, first time I saw one of these was a scare too. Definitely an improvement over the MML1 mimic (although those managed to scare me a few times too).

[bdk336]

Yeah I definitely like this enemy. Mimics may not be really strong or incredibly interesting but the game would fee emptier without them. The first time I encountered a mimic in MML1 I started looking around for the enemy that had spotted me (I didn't notice the warning at first), got a face full of bomb and went "huh...?" In MML2 I was ready for them but I didn't realize that the bombs would come out faster or that they would be aimed at me so I got another face full of bomb. As for the running ones I was only surprised when I got hit since it blindsided me in the middle of a firefight.

The placement of the MML1 Mimics was great and in most cases came as a total surprise, though you usually didn't get hit thanks to the warning message. The MML2 ones were much more dangerous, which I liked, but they, like many things in MML2, were overused so there were very few times that they surprised you.

Actually talking about trap placement just gave me an idea for a game.

[Traingham]

Talk about paranoia. Its bad enough when they play that creepy atmospheric music
in the background when you're in a ruin, but they dialed up the feeling to category five as
soon as I tried to open a chest and it chased after me! At that point I wasn't sure if I could trust
anything in this game. I half expected to be met by a reaverbot posing as Data.

--Would you like to save.
--Yes.
(Barrage of bombs)

Trust issues aside, an 8 out of 10 for me.

[blayze16]

The 'throw bombs at you' and the 'get up walk the ramp/get up and hide in the corner (for Manda Ruins)' treasure chests were pretty much basic, imo, so I give them a 6 out of 10.

Although the one in Saul Kada actually did its homework with the way it spits out a small amount of Zenny as bait then bombs you when you get nearer, deserves an 8 out of 10.

[bdk336]

Of course the one issue with the Saul Kada one is that you can pick up the Zenny quickly and still get out of the way in time, and doing the same trick over and over is only effective the first couple times.

[Deleted]

I simply love the Mimic. It quite ingenious how it would sit so quietly while an unexpecting Digger approaches, then *wham*, it sprouts legs and chases you/ bombs you.

The Mimics in Saul Kada are my fave, TBH.

A 9/10

[Fokkerwolf]

I never fought the MML2 version but the MML1 was easy. Just open the chest, walk too the side, Shoot it. 7.5/10 from me.