Moldy Gloves item icon

Moldy Gloves

⭐ RARITY: Unconfirmed (commonly Uncommon)
Effect: Creates a lingering poison cloud whenever you hit enemies (on-hit area damage over time).
ℹ️ Quick note

Looking for more items? Browse the full Items Database to plan your unlock path and internal synergies early.

Type
Item (On-hit AoE)
Unlock
Microwave ×3 (Moldy Cheese)
Best Use
Poison/Amog builds
Patch Status
No changes found (as of 2025-10-31)

🧪 What Moldy Gloves Do

Moldy Gloves convert your successful hits into persistent poison zones, letting you control space and melt tightly packed mobs. The cloud is created upon hitting enemies and lingers long enough to punish grouped targets.

✓ Strengths

  • Excellent crowd control in corridors and swarm phases
  • Scales with hit count/attack cadence
  • Pairs naturally with poison-centric weapons and grouping tools

✗ Caveats

  • Value drops in very sparse waves or pure single-target fights
  • Positioning matters—keep enemies inside the cloud

🔓 How to Unlock Moldy Gloves

Requirement

Use a Microwave to duplicate Moldy Cheese three times in a single run.

  1. Pick up Moldy Cheese early when possible.
  2. Find a Microwave and duplicate Moldy Cheese. Repeat until you’ve duplicated it 3× in the same run.
  3. Finish the run or survive the requirement—Moldy Gloves will be added to your item pool thereafter.
Why the Microwave route?

Duplicating the same item consecutively is the intended challenge here—keep your pathing efficient so you can reach multiple Microwaves or revisit one safely.

🔗 Best Synergies & Team-Ups

Poison Flask weapon icon

Poison Flask (weapon)

Stacks more poison exposure. Flask applies poison while Gloves lay persistent clouds—together they blanket lanes.

Poison Flask page →

Black Hole weapon icon

Black Hole (weapon)

Grouping tool that keeps enemies standing inside your poison zones longer for higher damage uptime.

Black Hole page →

Amog character portrait

Amog (character)

Staple of poison builds. Moldy Gloves is frequently featured in Amog-centric loadouts.

Amog guide →

Aura weapon icon

Aura (weapon)

Commonly appears alongside poison setups for safe zone control; complements on-hit clouds with passive AoE.

Aura page →

Loadout Tips

❓ FAQ

How do I unlock Moldy Gloves?
Use a Microwave to duplicate Moldy Cheese three times in a single run. After meeting the condition, Moldy Gloves join your item pool.
What exactly do the Gloves do?
Every time you hit an enemy, you create a poison cloud that lingers on the ground, dealing damage over time to enemies inside.
What’s the rarity?
Not officially stated in patch notes. Community sources list it as Uncommon, but we treat it as Unconfirmed until an official source specifies it.