Mitosis Mutations: Every Named Mutation and How to Tell It Apart

Mutations in Mitosis are easy to mix up by looks alone, but the game gives you two reliable tools: the MUTATIONS menu, which names every entry, and a hover tooltip that tells you exactly what any ball on the playfield carries. The directory names at least six value mutations — Yin-Yang, Galaxy, Frozen, Toxic, Gold and Stone — the traits Jackpot, Vampire, Echo, White Cell and Coin Ball, and other named balls such as Molten, Storm, Queen, Zombie, Speedy Ball and Rotten.

Read a ball's details before judging it

Open MUTATIONS to check your collection and inspect YOUR BEST BALL, which records the composition of your top ball. For anything on the playfield, hover over the ball and read its details panel:

• VALUE — its value mutations.
• TRAITS — the traits attached to it. A ball can carry both categories at once, with multiple entries in each.
• PAYS — the whole ball's displayed payout multiplier.
• 1/N — a probability-style label, separate from cash payout, VALUE multipliers and leaderboard score.

Treat a 1/N label seen during an event with care: event bonuses can affect the conditions under which these labels appear, so it is not necessarily the unboosted base chance.

The directory itself supports search by name or alias plus a category filter, and every entry has a More details view with its additional properties.

One appearance trap to know: wings and a halo can come from the Little Angel accessory equipped on a ball — including on Galaxy, Storm and Queen examples — and accessories do not identify a mutation. Always use the ball's name and tooltip alongside its looks.

The named value mutations

Toxic, Gold and Stone are recorded as value mutations on a Penta-Mutant Vampire ball's VALUE list, so all six above belong to the same category. Gold and Stone's looks are not described here, so confirm them on the ball's tooltip or its directory entry.

The named traits

Traits attach to balls alongside value mutations, and each has its own marker or label:

Vampire is easiest to place from the Vampire Toxic ball, which pairs the Toxic value mutation with the Vampire trait; the mutation mixes guide covers the confirmed recipe.

Jackpot also matters for your collection: Lucky Sevens requires one Jackpot ball, and High Roller requires five Jackpot balls included in a single sale. Both are tracked among the game's collection goals.

Molten, Storm, Queen, Zombie, Speedy Ball and Rotten

The directory also lists these named balls. It does not state a category for them, and each comes with its own tell or quirk:

Cure Rotten before it costs you

A Rotten ball pays nothing — its tooltip shows 0 cash — so treat it as soon as you notice the warning:

1. Hover over the affected ball and check its Rotten tooltip.
2. Click the ball before using SPLIT.
3. Look for the CURED! feedback to confirm the treatment worked.

Speed matters. Too Late describes attempting to cure a ball that has already rotted, so clicking is not a guarantee of recovery at every stage — only the CURED! feedback confirms success.

Read PAYS, not just the VALUE entries

Multiplier entries don't add up the way you might expect. In one eight-mutation YOUR BEST BALL preview, the VALUE entries read Yin-Yang ×16, Galaxy ×12 and Frozen ×3, while the whole ball's PAYS read ×85.25 — multiplying those three VALUE numbers together does not reproduce that payout. When you are judging what a fused ball actually returns, check PAYS.

The Yin-Yang → Galaxy → Frozen ordering applies only to those three entries in that VALUE field of that preview; it does not rank how hard each mutation is to get or how useful traits are.

Once you know the labels and trust the tooltip, every named ball becomes recognizable at a glance. When entries are missing from your collection, the guide to getting mutations covers how to find them.