The decoy is a device used to fool your enemies, sending them on a false trail. When activated, it will appear exactly under your ship, and float in the same direction as your ship is flying, with the same speed. It will show your name, banner, bounty and the number of flags you are currently carrying. If your ship rotates, the decoy will rotate in the opposite direction. Decoys will always show up on radar, even if you have stealth and/or cloak turned on. The decoy will show up as a normal blue dot to your enemies on their radar, and as a light brown dot for your teammates. The decoy can be obtained by collecting greens. Bombs and bullets will simply pass through the decoy, not altering it's course. A repel is the only thing that affects a decoy ; it will simply be "kicked" away like any other ship would. Decoys don't lose any speed when they bounce into an obstacle. They will also bounce off walls in a different way. Normal ships will bounce when an edge of the ship hits the wall. A decoy will bounce with the center of the ship, causing a part of the ship to move over the obstacle (it will look like the ship is on top of the wall for a second). It's a good way to see the difference between a decoy and a ship. The most used feature of the decoy is to throw one or more enemies off your trail, especially if you have flags. Let go of your arrow keys for a sec, and activate the decoy, which will show up right under your ship. Because you and the decoy are on top of each other, enemies will still see one dot on the radar. Now, if you turn on stealth, and quietly sneak away to the side, the enemy will still see one dot going in the same direction it went. Unless they can see you on their screen, or if they have xradar turned on, they will keep following the dot (they can't see you on the radar because of your stealth). If necessary, you can drop a portal somewhere, and get rid of those pesky enemies for a while too. Simply activate the decoy, and warp back to your portal. Enemies that are using Xradar will still see one dot, and assume you are still there, since they don't see anything flying away from the decoy, and you'll be happily flying around the spot you dropped you portal :) Another trick is to lay a pile of mines, and try to sit on them motionless. Drop your decoy and it will sit still on the mines. All you have to do now is fly away ; do what you would normally do. Chances are that a dumbass sees your decoy on the radar. He'll start flying towards it at full speed, firing tons of bullets and bombs hoping for an easy kill, only to run into your mines for a quick death. It's pretty difficult to sit still in open space, even for the most experienced players. If you want to do it the easy way, simply drop a portal on the spot you want your decoy to be. Head to the nearest safe zone and hit your fire key. You will now sit motionless in the safezone. If you warp, you will sit on the spot your portal was on, still motionless. Now drop your decoy and lay the mines, and watch those fools run into them :) In Warzone games, you can use decoys to save your own flags. If you are waiting in a base for your flags to drop, simply drop a decoy and sit on the other side of the room. If enemies are going to fire thors at you to get your flags, they are likely to waste their thors on your decoy, firing them into empty space.