A screaming JPEG turns the corner and your round is over in half a second. That is Evade in a sentence. This Evade nextbots guide explains how the chasers behave. It also covers every special round and where the smart money farms. Nextbots are not random. They path on a grid, they telegraph their arrival, and most of them are slower than you. Learn those three facts and your survival time climbs immediately.
What Are Evade Nextbots?
Nextbots are the walking PNGs that hunt you every round. Each one deals 125 damage on contact, which downs a player instantly.
The catalogue is enormous. The Evade Wiki tracks over 176 in rotation out of 278 built across the game history. Independent indexes count more once event and retired bots are included.
Here is the part that surprises people. Only two, three, or four spawn in a standard round. When the server is thin on players, a single bot handles the whole map. Special rounds are what change that number.
How Nextbots Hunt You in Evade?
Understanding the machinery behind the chase is worth more than any perk.
- They path on a NAV-MESH– an invisible grid marking every route they can walk. A map without that grid leaves bots frozen in place, which is why they never clip through geometry properly.
- They are slower than you– the average nextbot moves about 2% below player speed. On flat ground, a clean sprint simply wins.
- Jumping makes you faster– hopping forward while already at top speed pushes you to roughly 46.8 or higher. Bunny hopping down a straight is the single easiest survival habit to build.
- They telegraph everything– each bot loops a unique idle sound within range. Lights flicker, and a red or black screen filter darkens as the gap closes.
- They are effectively unkillable– around 500,000 health each. Weapons and vehicles can technically do it, but never in a public lobby. Bots that fall into the void die instantly, and a replacement spawns elsewhere.
That screen filter is your best early warning. If the edges start creeping darker, something is behind you and you have already waited too long.
How to Survive Nextbots in Evade
Standard rounds run three minutes. These habits carry most of them.
- Never stop moving– bots hunt until the timer expires. Looping the map beats hiding on nearly every layout.
- Avoid dead ends– one exit means one outcome. Favour rooms and corridors with two or more ways out.
- Break line of sight on corners– tight turns cost a bot more speed than they cost you. Hermes Shoes widens that gap further.
- Do not bunch up– a single bot can wipe an entire huddled group. Splitting off is usually safer than following the crowd.
- Revive from the safe side– approach a downed teammate from the opposite direction to the chase. Carry them with Q first, then hold E somewhere clear.
- Lead bots away from downs– already being chased? Take it far from anyone lying on the floor.
One more habit worth building. Keep your camera turned enough to watch behind you without steering into walls. Most deaths in Evade come from a wall, not a bot.
Evade Special Rounds List
Roughly every third round flips into a special. There are 43 in the public pool, and they split into four clean categories.
Player Modifiers (7 rounds)
These rewrite your body or camera while the map and bot pool stay familiar. Super Sonic and Upside Down both pay 1.4x. Reversed Controls sits at 1.3x, No Jumping at 1.2x, and Speed and Moon Jump at 1.1x each. Voices opens up server communication.
Slow your inputs during Reversed Controls and Upside Down. Panic strafing is what gets people tagged, not the gimmick itself.
Environment and Awareness (4 rounds)
These strip away the information you normally rely on.
- Darkness (1.2x)– black fog swallows the map. Night Vision earns its price here.
- Infection (1.2x)– every down spawns another bot. Early mistakes snowball across the whole lobby.
- Transparent (1.15x)– bots stay invisible until they are roughly 75% visible up close.
- Quiet (1.15x)– idle audio switches off entirely. Kill sounds still play, so you learn about deaths but not approaches.
Nextbot Modifiers (7 rounds)
The usual pool stays, but speed, size, or count changes. Super Fast Nextbots leads at 1.3x with a 1.4x bot speed boost. Triple Trouble triples the spawn count for 1.25x. Faster Nextbots, Double Trouble, and Tiny Nextbots all sit at 1.15x, while Big and Huge Nextbots pay 1.1x.
Size rounds cut both ways. Huge bots are impossible to miss, yet they smother entire corridors. Tiny bots are the genuine problem because you lose track of them in clutter.
Featured Nextbot Rounds (25 rounds)
Named casts replace the normal mix. This is where the biggest payouts live.
Plushie Hell is the top farm in the game at double rewards. It floods the map with CatJard and Wolf Rebel, two of the fastest bots around. Expect 5 to 6 spawns normally, and up to 8 on large servers.
Incursion plays differently from every other special. Rebels open fire the moment you cross their sightline, so cover matters more than sprinting. Mimic is sneakier still, since those bots copy a random player model and hunt while wearing a friendly face.
Evade Bobo Survival Tips
Bobo appears in more specials than any other nextbot, so learning his rounds pays off repeatedly.
- Survive Bobo (1.2x)– Bobo R6 packs with a small speed boost. Expect 5 to 6 spawns normally, and anywhere up to 16 on a full server.
- Survive Bobo Classic (1.25x)– the pre-Overhaul version with roughly 1.2x speed. Counts land around 6 to 7, rising to 12 on large servers.
- Angry Bobo (1.35x)– Angry Bobo R6 with about 1.1x speed. Fewer spawns at 4 to 5, but they hit harder in practice.
The tactic that works across all three is constant repositioning. Bobo floods fill corners faster than you can defend them, so treat every safe spot as temporary. Wide outdoor loops beat interior rooms during these rounds.
Watch the server size before you commit to a strategy. A Survive Bobo round with 16 bots on a large server is a completely different problem from one with five.
The Fastest Nextbots and How to Handle Them
A handful of bots break the “you are faster than them” rule entirely.
- Angry Munci– carries a 66% speed boost, which makes him one of the hardest chasers in the game. His special pays only 1x and the official tagline tells you to prioritise hiding over running. Take that literally.
- Super Munci– faster still, and headlines the Lurking special at 1.6x.
- CatJard– among the quickest bots available, fronting both Cat Jard and Plushie Hell.
- Gubby– jumps high while chasing, which makes vertical camping spots far less safe than they look.
Against any of these, open sprints lose. Short sightline breaks, tight corners, and pre-placed escape tools do the work instead.
Evade Best Maps for Farming
Evade runs well over 160 maps sorted into four difficulty bands. Rewards scale with that difficulty.
- Easy maps– Four Corners, Backrooms, Complex, and Art Gallery. Relaxed layouts, lower payouts. Ideal while you learn.
- Normal maps– the middle of the rotation and a sensible default once movement clicks.
- Hard maps– Maze, Desert Bus, and Poolrooms. Tighter layouts and better returns.
- Expert maps– Traprooms is the headline pick here and carries a hefty reward bonus.
Gamemode choice stacks on top of map difficulty. Casual runs at a 0.8x multiplier with infinite lives, which suits learning rather than farming. Pro Servers unlock at Level 50 and pay 1.1x on harder maps. Big Team packs in up to 50 players, while Social Space and Legacy Evade hand out nothing at all.
For pure earnings, the formula is simple. Hard or Expert map, Pro Servers, and pray for a high multiplier special. Reviving teammates adds cash on top of everything else, which makes support play quietly lucrative.
Loadout Cheat Sheet by Special Round
Matching your kit to the rule that just rolled matters more than owning expensive gear. All utilities in Roblox Evade have a round where they shine.
The common mistake is saving Radar or Night Vision for a rainy day, then rolling Quiet or Darkness with an empty slot. Buy them before you need them.
Latest Evade Updates
Evade crossed 9 billion visits this summer and celebrated its fourth birthday. Over 14 Legacy maps returned for the occasion, and they remain playable until the Summer Event closes.
That event runs on Bubbles, a collectible currency spent on cosmetics, emotes, and event items. It does not touch nextbot behaviour, though the extra activity means more chances at high multiplier specials.
The developers also rewrote the game codebase for stability and optimisation. Player Nextbots remains available too, letting you control the chasers yourself, including Angry Munci with his boosted speed and friction.
Where to Follow Evade Updates
Bot rosters and special round rules shift with patches. The official Evade Discord server posts changes first. The Hexagon Development Community X account handles teasers between updates.
For per bot detail, the Evade Wiki nextbots page documents behaviour and speed values. Jump into Evade on Roblox to see which specials are rolling today.
We at GoGachaGame update this guide whenever the special round pool or bot roster changes. Bookmark it and skip the guesswork.
Evade Nextbots FAQ
The Evade Wiki lists over 176 in active rotation from 278 catalogued overall. Independent trackers count higher once event and retired bots are included.
Not realistically. Each has roughly 500,000 health. They do die instantly in the void or to map hazards, and a replacement spawns afterwards.
About every third round on public servers, provided the run continues. VIP servers can force specials manually.
Plushie Hell at 2x, featuring CatJard and Wolf Rebel. Cat Jard follows at 1.7x and Lurking at 1.6x.
Angry Munci, thanks to a 66% speed boost. His own special round advises hiding rather than running, which is unusual advice in this game.
Three minutes. Special rounds run on the same clock but change the rules inside it.
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