Tonbogiri



The Tonbogiri is a Hardmode Spear. It has a small chance to inflict the Poisoned debuff and is in the same tier as Tizona.

On the, the Tonbogiri was replaced with a Chlorophyte Partisan upon updating to the 1.3.0.1 equivalent.

Trivia

 * Even though the Tonbogiri's tooltip says "A legendary Japanese spear coated in venom", it does not inflict the Venom debuff, but rather the Poisoned debuff.
 * is the spear used by, a legendary Japanese general who was said to have fought in a hundred battles without ever suffering a single wound. The spear's name translates to "Dragonfly Cutter", due to allegedly being so sharp that when one landed on its tip, it was instantly cut in two.
 * Tonbogiri in Japanese is "蜻蛉切り". The first two characters mean "Dragonfly" and other two means "cut" which can also be translated "cutter".
 * Spike Chunsoft uses katakana name (トンボギリ) for this item in Japanese release.
 * On the Collector's Edition poster, in the description, it misspells the name as "Tobongiri".