Six SOULs, a keyboard, and the Omega Flowey fight

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Names the battle never prints

He makes his move only after Asgore's battle on a Neutral Route. Six human SOULs go into him, the save screen fractures, and the face on the other side of that crack still wants a seventh. The earlier chat in the Ruins, pellets and all, is a separate scene and a short one.

No caption in the encounter spells Omega Flowey. Objects tied to the form are prefixed floweyx in the files. The other name, Photoshop Flowey, comes from a Neutral credits line for Everdraed that reads "Photoshop Flowey Battle Co-design" and breaks after Photoshop, so a reader can split it into two jobs or hear it as one title. One place the Omega wording shows up is the tarot card Fangamer printed. Everdraed has used that wording too. Toby Fox has said merchandise is not canon, and during the tenth anniversary stream he and Everdraed both keep saying Omega Flowey anyway.

Beat him once and a fresh Neutral run leaves the giant form packed away. He still counts on the SOULs turning against him, and the television, the tubes, and the cactus arms never come back.

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How the passes actually arrive

There is no ordinary command grid of FIGHT, ACT, ITEM, and SPARE. The round is a dodge, and those two prompts appear only for the beats that need them. HP stays pinned at 50 for the whole encounter, with LV left out of the math.

The humans interrupt six times. Their bullets can wound you and are not allowed to kill you. When ACT finally shows, it is a shout for help. Leave it alone and that human comes around again after his attacks. Take it, and the pattern flips green and starts giving HP back.

Eyes own the opening pass and the fourth. The lower pair sprays seven X-shaped pellets in a wide fan. The upper pair sprays them as triplets crowded around you. Brief fire bursts from beside the arms. A circle strobes, friendliness pellets trace it, and those pellets then shoot away along the circle's paths. Vines paint a flashing aim-line on you. About a fifth of those vine patterns run long enough for the mouth under the monitor to cut a beam across the center. Once he is weakened that beam never fires, because every attack is chopped short.

Plants own the second pass and the sixth. One cactus hand grows a flytrap that sucks flies inward. Bombs fall from above, deal damage on contact, and explode on the floor. Stems ending in finger-guns enter from the sides, his face sitting on the fingertips. Three toothy rings called dentata rebound off the walls, then fly off.

Pass three, and pass five after it, drop down to the upper eyes plus the vines. Between a pair of those attacks he may store FILE 2. A clean dodge lets him load that file and catch you standing where you felt safe. A second clean dodge and he does not load it again.

The six humans attack with the gear associated with them. Light blue sends knives on a slanted path, then green bandages with a heart. Orange sends spinning gloves, then a green thumbs-up. Blue pins you under stars while ballet shoes rise and fall, then turns the stars into notes. Purple walls you in with books that scroll harsh words, among them DEATH and DESPAIR, then swaps those for kinder ones, among them LIFE and HOPE. Green flips fire out of pans, then fried eggs. Yellow aims a gun with a red crosshair, then four-petal flowers. Somewhere in each pattern the ACT prompt replaces one shot.

Once all six shouts for help have landed, defense hits 0. The pellets thin out and slow down, the green heals continue, and your hits start harder and keep climbing. After roughly sixty seconds the plant pass becomes the only pass left. While FIGHT or ACT is on the canvas in this build, Z is the key that takes it.

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Dodge tips for the six-soul flower

Direction keys move. Z takes FIGHT or ACT on the short stretches when either prompt is drawn. The real battle is not turn-based. You dodge the whole time, and you always have 50 HP, whatever your LV was. pp920921 marks phases 1 through 6, the human segments, and the finale as done.

• Phases 1 and 4 belong to the eyes and the arms. The lower eyes fire seven X-shaped bullets in a wide arc. The upper eyes fire triplets around you. The arm flamethrowers loose three blasts. A red and yellow flashing circle collapses into pellets, so step out of that ring. Vines are marked by flashing lines. Get off the line. A blue glow in the second head's mouth is a laser across the center, and it only comes after vines.
• Phases 2 and 6 are the plants. A flytrap pulls flies in, so stay away from the mouth. Bombs fall and explode at the bottom, and the bomb itself hurts before it bursts. Finger-gun stems shoot from the left and the right. Three dentata snakes bounce off the walls a few times.
• Phases 3 and 5 keep only the eyes and the vines, and he saves to a file between attacks. If you dodge, he reloads to catch you standing where you felt safe. He only does that once per pair.
• A TV warning and a siren mean a human SOUL. Those bullets can hurt you and are not allowed to kill you. Find the ACT button hidden in the pattern and press it. Skip it and that same SOUL comes back. After ACT, the bullets turn green and heal.
• Light blue throws knives. Orange throws gloves. Blue throws ballet shoes under a star ceiling. Purple scrolls words. Green throws pans and fireballs. Yellow aims a gun. Each set resembles one of the fallen humans' weapons.
• After all six souls, his defense hits 0 and the pellets weaken for about a minute, then the plant patterns return. You can take roughly 13 hits before a death. Damage hits harder at high HP, and the heals are bigger when you are low.