Overview
A quick and easy tutorial for how to play Eyes to his maximum capabilities. I have been a fan of Nuclear Throne for 2 years and while I may not be the best player, I just want to give the best advice I know for how to play this character in the way I consider best.This guide will include tips for mutation choices, how to utilize his powers at the right time, and weapon choices.
Eyes basics in a nutshell
Active Ability (hold right mouse button): Eyes will begin to magnetize enemies, weapons, chests, and items (medkits, rads, and ammo packs) within a certain radius towards him at a slow pace, he also will slowly push bullets away, more on that later.
Passive Ability: Arguably the worst passive in the game, Eyes merely has a wider FOV in dark levels (only 3 of them per loop, so not much use out of it there). This may sound like it can be helpful to an inexperienced player, but it is ultimately not as the basic FOV for all characters in the dark isn’t that much of a hinderance.
Throne Butt (Character specific mutation): Expands the power of his active ability. Greatly expands the radius it effects, and also effects everything he draws and pulls to fly towards him at a higher speed. Greatly useful, but also something to be cautious about so you don’t draw too much enemies towards you at once.
Ultra Mutations (Character Specific Mutations you get to choose from once you hit level 10):
Projectile Style:
Originally posted by https://nuclear-throne.fandom.com/wiki/Eyes:“While using Telekinesis, your projectiles will be frozen in a stationary position on top of Eyes, in the direction of where you shot your gun. Projectile Style also pulls projectiles reflected by enemies towards you. Upon deactivating Telekinesis, all projectiles will continue to travel their initial destination and behave as normal.”
Monster Style:
Originally posted by https://nuclear-throne.fandom.com/wiki/Eyes:“Push away nearby enemies”
(Some information quoted from the [link])
Recommended Build
These are the six mutations I recommend most for Eyes: Throne Butt, Euphoria, Strong Spirit, Boiling Veins, Trigger Fingers, and Long Arms. 4 of these should be more self explainable for their usefulness, so I will mostly be stressing the importance of Euphoria and Throne Butt to fully realize Eyes’ potential.
Throne Butt will massively increase the range and power of his telekinesis, euphoria slows down bullets. Due to the fact that bullets travel slower while the Throne Butt pushes them away faster, you can make yourself almost immune to projectiles unless you get too cocky. However, not having to worry about bullets while using your telekinesis is a luxury.
For combat, I recommend a shovel as your main weapon. Stand behind a wall and draw enemies in with your increased telekinesis and mow through them with your trigger fingers powered shovel. I cannot stress enough how awesome his power with these mutations is. However, I will provide this image for justification…
WHO’S YOUR THRONE NOW!?!?!
That’s right! With a Euphoria and Throne Butt combo, as long as you keep a mild distance from the throne, all its bullets will almost never touch you as long as you hold down the telekinesis button! (Fair warning though, strengthened telekinesis does drag the throne towards you, so be sure to keep a decent distance to avoid its insta-kill contact damage).
Final Thoughts
This is just a great strategy I like to use, so feel free to tweak it and try out some other mutations with him. As for his Ultra Mutations, I would personally recommend Monster Style as Projectile Style I find to be annoying to use, but that’s just me. Thanks for reading my guide, I hope it helps!