Switch Droid

The Switch Droid is a droid first found in Chill Hills or Crystalline Caves.

Appearance
The Switch Droid has dark purple skin, with a purple torso and wearing a Violet Guardia. It also has an angry face.

Its 2.0 counterpart has similar limb and head colors, but its torso and helmet are yellow-green.

Behavior
The Switch Droid has fairly high hitpoints and moves at an average speed, but teleports every 3 seconds. It will always teleport behind the player, although it will teleport some distance away from the player.

Combat Tips
Switch Droids can deal high damage to the player if they do not anticipate the droid's teleportation.

Switch Droids can be tricky to deal with as they frequently teleport behind the player, causing the player to run right into the droid if they are not careful. An effective way of dealing with this droid is to fight it while moving around in tight circles. Since your direction of movement is always changing, you are much less likely to run into a Switch Droid when it teleports. Additionally, when your direction of movement is constantly changing, the Switch Droid actually ends up teleporting to where your back was facing a short moment ago and not where your back is currently facing.

Another method of dealing with Switch Droids is to utilize a ranged weapon while having your back turned towards the Switch Droid. That way, it will keep following you and will consistently teleport behind you, allowing you to simply keep shooting it until it falls.

Trivia

 * Switch Droids cannot teleport if the player they are pursuing has their back against the side walls (as they would teleport off the map).
 * Switch Droids will not teleport if they are not pursuing a player.
 * There is a possibility that there are server delays between the time when the Switch Droid determines where the player's back is facing and the time when the Switch Droid teleports, leading to it teleporting to the player's side if the player is kiting it in circles due to the player constantly changing direction.