ALL Monsters and Bosses Tierlist & Strategy-Guide (Risk of Rain 2)

Rankings of every monster and boss, as well as a quick guide on how to defeat them in Risk of Rain 2.
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[@Woolie]

beetles secret OP

[@maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa733]

My logs say I've died to them 6 times 🙃

[@9voltage]

your hair is cool

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

Thank you for bestowing upon us the fire of knowledge Mr. Streamer

[@grittytheg5077]

@@maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa733 nerd try dying to them 74 times

[@sellout8260]

It really do be like that

[@omegacalvin3383]

Uh, Mr streamer, actually, You forgot to rate the artifact boss, worst tier list ever, unsubscribed, unfollowed, actual pepega

[@underjord.]

damn

[@kingdonk369]

@Anden Wilkinson ok, what does that have to do with anything other than an artifact

[@The_Red_Master]

was grandparent mentioned?

[@vanquishedValiant]

I feel so vindicated that Vultures have made it up to high tier threat. Every time one of those bastards clipped me from a weird angle and ended a run or put it at risk I would always think about how they got stuck so low on your last list and being like "nah, that can't be right." Wasn't sure if they'd changed since that video, but it's good to see you finally recognize their terrible screechy horror.

[@Churahm]

Agreed, I was very confused as well on the last list, their damage is absolutely ridiculous and sometimes there's so many of them

[@Arachnocreep]

And their movement pattern is rly annoying, i generally stack wisps and kill any other enemy hopping that the wisp larvae stick onto them.

[@AurelianoShowsTheWorld]

Woolie, you're a legend. You're our personal wiki but better, because you make videos :)

[@kinetic_krown]

Mini mushrooms are a high threat because of their aoe and extremely high damage over time. If they spawn in the Void Fields then you are done!

[@fabfab9679]

watching this after the survivors of the void dlc, i have to say squid turrets CAN be terrifying enemies

[@raidbeam2510]

Your amazing at risk of rain 2!!! The best ive ever done was stage 7, on the easiest mode( it was with acrid) btw keep up the good work

[@light6666]

mini mushrooms should be killed first if you can there attack if unnoticed can one shot you

[@wiebitteichhabeesvergessen]

Actually overloading worm has a hidden ability of negating your fps and making the game stutter so you disorient and die of this. I've seen magma worms do that too but it seems they have a lower power ability wchich requires more than one worm to be present in order for the fps to drop.

[@ryandoan9953]

Ah but this is countered by a single item, a better PC

[@wiebitteichhabeesvergessen]

@@ryandoan9953 RoR2 pay to win confirmed

[@atomicbanana55]

As a switch player, I can relate to this. I dread the arrival of any worm. On a side note, the issue has got to be caused by all of the segments.

[@yoshibeara3446]

@@atomicbanana55 I physically can't get past stage 24 I have made it there 5 times now and the game always freezes

[@atomicbanana55]

@@yoshibeara3446 I've gotten there a few times, but I suck too bad, so I always get killed there. Because of this, I can't say I have the same experience.

[@ninjastar5221]

that elder lemurian animation is priceless!

[@Tivallia9010]

I can't believe Artificer is fucking dead

[@dannyherr6628]

Oh hi Matt

[@ObsoletePerson]

Mini Mushrums are weird. They're classified as a regular monster but they have the HP pool of a champion. They're absurdly tanky.

[@Bread-TM]

Then you fight their champion versions and it's like fighting a boss lol

[@XDisGood]

And they are called "mini" Mushrooms. I wonder how big normal size mushrooms is.

[@TheActualMrLink]

Their walk animation is dumb and funny.

[@zagqueenofchaos8352]

listen mister streamer, I don't think you realize how important pizza rolls are to me, so I'm going to have to ask you bump void revers up a tier

[@DiabloTraeluz]

always remember: wisps were a mistake

[@wanderingharlow6305]

*cries in Mercenary's Aetherial challenge*

[@cosmicgamer1262]

@@wanderingharlow6305 !!!! That challenge pissed me off so much

[@HoangPham-gw2eu]

When is thiccness tier list huh Mr Streamer???

[@underjord.]

yeah, when is it!??!

[@jofol1757]

Obviously REX will be #1

[@kribyy7784]

@@jofol1757 Engineer*

[@cosmicgamer1262]

Have y'all seen artificers legs

[@kribyy7784]

@@cosmicgamer1262 Guy's lets be reasonable it's huntress

[@timothytosser288]

Clay dunestrider, wandering vagerant, and imp overlord put in mid tier: Somethings wrong I can feel it.

[@gareth6956]

Imp and vagrant are mid I’ll give you pot boi tho

[@timothytosser288]

@@gareth6956 nah imp is harder than pot boi cuz when the bleed starts to stack it SUCKS and the vagerants explosion also is just annoying.

[@AttacMage]

@@timothytosser288 I'll have to check, but I rarely die to imp. Clay dunestrider gets me waaay more than him, but luckily I don't see it much

[@MrEvan1932]

Imp and dunestrider are upper mid and vagerant is really only threatening when there are multiple of them using their homing orbs or explosions

[@luisandrade6146]

I feel like every survivor has their own tier list for monsters. Like Mul-t struggles against some enemies way more than other survivors

[@DullahanJeff]

I feel like Minimushrooms should be bumped up a tier, their attack hits hard if it actually hits you and the ground AoE it leaves stays out for a VERY long time and hurts like hell + slows. For regular bosses I feel like Clay Dunestrider and Imp Overlord could have a tier of their own higher than the other 3 but to keep to your current tiers it makes sense. I think you could have talked about the different Twisted Scavengers and how they rank up against each other (Guragura and Wipwip are definitely more dangerous than Kipkip and Twiptwip ) but also not a huge deal. Great video man!

[@ricardosilveira3958]

DullahanJeff also special versions rip through one shot protecc

[@Liam-yl7pq]

Actually there is an Extra Low Threat special boss, the artifact reliquary

[@satsuryokoi7477]

depends on the artifact, and the state of the run, and it still does damage.

[@Liam-yl7pq]

@@satsuryokoi7477 well that's the stage and not the boss directly. all the boss does is fire the homing beams in an orbit and gets 4-shot

[@Bogeynator]

Unless you're doing the Trial of Glass, of course, in which case it subjects you to an endless bullet hell of increasingly fast homing shots that will almost definitely one-shot you.

[@Liam-yl7pq]

@@Bogeynator Yeah, but almost everything is threatining under the glass artifact. Additionally, that's the circumstance of you having 10% of your health and no OSP that you subjected yourself to (either by plugging in that code or selecting the artifact already), not the Reliquary itself doing that.

[@readyforlol]

@@Liam-yl7pq Technically, the Reliquary literally contains the artifact in question, so there's an argument to be made that they're the source of the artifact's effect.

[@KaneMartin1]

"Jellyfish are low-threat" *cries in MAAO*

[@dddmemaybe]

I was in the Void fields and the Jellyfish got triple Runald's Band and triple Red Whip. Suffice to say, Loader could only survive like 30 of em before getting two-shot.

[@Verlisify]

SSS - Contraptions A - Fire Elites F - Everything Else

[@mushroom4839]

Well hello there, didn't expect you

[@hyphen8d725]

p.o.s. alert

[@RadmanTheWise]

I disagree about the mushrooms. I've been gigaslapped by blazing mushrooms hitting me with 20+ stacks of burning when I accidently go into their pool. They also have a tonne of hp and stick around to cause problems.

[@Jayberisk3793]

Not to mention it absolutely sucks when you don't have a lot of damage and you run into a celestine or malachite cause once their health is widdled down enough, the basterds just heal in seconds again

[@soulknight5190]

It also sucks when you have the artifact of command they kill you while going through the items

[@mitchem2314]

Did you guys know on the stage 5 map if you get a really difficult horde boss, you can just run over to the flying rocks and the rocks will knock them off the map and instant kill them?

[@fuzzyface4515]

The true high tier: Your Australian friend hosting the server while you play in America. :)

[@thomasgeorge5810]

At that point you might as well search for servers on the moon.

[@Phox-in-a-Box]

Void Reavers also kill enemies in their blast radius, so it's good to take them out first if they're in a crowd. Also, I have more trouble with Beetle Queens than I do Stone Titans.

[@gh0stlyonyoutube]

Samson Yeah, their explosion does infinite damage AND it bypasses 1 shot protection.

[@Arachnocreep]

Only dio's best friend can save you from that guys.

[@peguin3660]

Ror2 waifu tier list when

[@raptorpeep2622]

commando #1

[@oh033]

MUL T S tier

[@ballom29]

Waifu tier list ? Is it a global movement or what? just get drowned under it on r/calamitymod

[@alexb8433]

Beetle queen mommy gf

[@ballom29]

​@@alexb8433 search for "beetle queen risk of rain rule 34 on google" image :)

[@Alhazzred]

Until now, I didn't know the grovetenders spawned anything. guess I've been doing it right

[@TheFuzzyOcelot]

the only enemy that kills me consistently is fire damage

[@kingdonk369]

And bleed

[@yarro7428]

... as long as you're not standing completely still for some reason. Engineers: sweating nervously

[@chippysmol5178]

As Acrid, whenever I leap onto beetle queen, i mistake my leap poison for the splash beetle queen made.

[@raptorpeep2622]

the colours are slightly different. get better eyes

[@chippysmol5178]

@@raptorpeep2622 slightly, calm down, and it's also harder to see with the craziness around me.

[@MrEvan1932]

They need to distinguish them a bit more and buff beetle queen while they're at it

[@Djitterbug]

@@raptorpeep2622 Get better social skills.

[@raptorpeep2622]

@@Djitterbug i tried to joke. didnt work out. some stuff doesnt come out right on the internet, should have been more clear. just thought overexplaining would ruin the "joke". how did that comment make you think my wocial skills are whack? i mean.. they are.. but still i dont know how 2 sentences made you think that

[@Late0NightPC]

Interestingly enough, Contraptions are, in game, considered light monsters like beetles and not heavy like a golem or Templar. Loader's alt grapple drags light enemies to you, and you to heavy enemies, and it drags contraptions to you. It suprised me the first time I saw it, because design wise, and gameplaywise, they absolutely seem like heavy enemies.

[@Woolie]

Yeah, I found that odd too

[@raptorpeep2622]

stand near wall. grapple. enjoy a oneshotted brass boi

[@connorcraft5455]

"Soulless probes don't dish out a tonnn of damage..." I'M SORRY WHAT

[@Souppa]

Could we possibly see a video in the future about log entries for monsters and environments? I’m not sure if any other viewers agree but I only have log entries left to do in the game and I’d like to fill them out as fast as possible, but I do not know the spawn chances of radio towers or the spawn chances for special boss monster log drops.

[@Bepis-man]

you should make an updated version of this because now theres blind enemies, void enemies, gups and more

[@Naruhiu]

imagine dying multiple times to the fire trail left behind for elite fire beetles

[@HerobrineTNT]

Yeah...imagine...

[@Kaalish80]

Thank you for your videos, I love this game (RoR 1 was excellent too ^^) With theses videos I'm getting better at this game =)

[@tristanandrews9019]

Dangit woolie. I can't catch your stream often enough. You should totally do more gameplay videos. Very enjoyably 10/10

[@MasonAB]

Dragon Manifest just rewatch his streams on twitch I do it all the time

[@tristanandrews9019]

@@MasonAB I didnt know you could do that. Thank yiu

[@Liam-yl7pq]

8:23their debuff is called Beetlejuice iirc

[@jahimalnar7978]

Beetlejuice, huh? Sounds familiar

[@timothytosser288]

@@jahimalnar7978 hmmmmmm

[@94doodle]

Is it bad I've been having the most trouble with Beetle Queens than any of the other early bosses? I can't dodge that damn spray to save my life (literally). Titans are easy, Vagrants catch me in "oh shit I have no cover and am dead" every now and then, but rarely. The bugs just... shoot me. Over and over again...

[@numb950]

when are you doing the full MAAO guide? i´m struggling to get consistent runs

[@kinetic_krown]

You are wrong. Queen beetle is a medium or high threat because of her lasting aoe attacks and crazy damage when their acid ball things hit you.

[@samritz742]

I just want to know about the grandparents, I forgot this vid is too old lmao. I've gotten burnt too many times now

[@redtsun67]

Every strategy can be summed up as follows: sprint and jump around in circles while taking potshots at the enemy, occasionally hide behind a rock or something

[@quiettimegaming3642]

I would put the magma worm as extra low tier as well (not the overloading version though). I mean, has anyone actually ever died from one of those in this game? They were more of a threat in the first game. 90% of the time they aren’t even attacking you and are off somewhere figure-eighting inside of the walls.

[@PJSproductions97]

Beetle Queens have gotten a lot worse since they started summoning beetle guards along with beetles, at least in the early game before you have any good aoe

[@AttacMage]

killed my runs so many times lol. no more mountain shrines for me until serious AoE

[@ZedDiDragon]

What I find important to know about dunestriders is that their suction attack has a pretty hefty cooldown of 2 minutes before they can do it again. That's nice in general, but pretty crucial when you fight multiple of them with a melee character (and your items are bad). While the intuitive strat is to kill one boss at a time, it can be good to bring down the health about equally on striders, then GTFO. One strider entering suction will bring the rest with him which leads to two important things happening: 1. All the striders will cancel eachothers heal. 2. If they finish, you'll have a 2-minute window where you don't have to worry about ANY of them pulling the move and all still being at low health.

[@brick3ater930]

how does he get 4 items from the teleporter boss?? woolie what mod did you use?

[@allinairhanson6886]

For me I'd definitely switch brass contraptions and golems I just, never get hit by brass contraptions, can mostly just ignore them Golem on the other hand are one of the main dealers of damage against me, thus a primarily threat And while the elder lemurian can kill me if I get close, I don't get close to them, and if I do I'm dashing into and behind them to get some damage in before leaving Clay templars though are a real threat, if you're stuck in mid-range without cover then you're kinda screwed

[@Marhathor]

I really would place Greater Wisps over Brass Contraptions. I may, one day, maybe, have died to a Brass Contraption. Greater Wisps are so much harder to avoid without decent mobility. As an Artificer player, Brass Contraptions may hit hard, the thing is they just don't hit. Greater Wisps hit hard AND reliably.

[@JohnWhitneyTheFourth]

Wait I'm confused, aren't daggers on kill? Doesn't that mean it wouldn't do anything? Whatever I'm missing I'm really interested. Anyone know?

[@Woolie]

the scav's Thqwib attack (when they throw the orange balls) procs their on-kill items, so, gasoline, will o the wisps and, before Artifacts 2.0, ceremonial daggers

[@JohnWhitneyTheFourth]

@@Woolie Oh! That makes sense, thanks!

[@bostin1472]

Beetle queen with 4 mountain challenges then: very easy Beetle queen with 4 mountain challenges now: WHERE TF DID ALLT THESE DAMN BEETLE GAURDS COME FROM THEYRE ABSOEBING ALL MY SHOTS WHYYYY

[@kosmickalamity7071]

Worth pointing out that woolie showed us ON STREAM that he has 7 deaths to beetles :) ( I think it was 7 it was a while ago)

[@monkydance2880]

They were most likely malachite beetles that spawned a crap ton of anti-heal spikes

[@kosmickalamity7071]

Monky Dance yeah that or suicide, still thought it was kinda funny tho lol

[@nubby3050]

Keep in mind he has almost 1000 or more hours in the game and only 7 deaths to one enemy, even beetle is incredibly low

[@SUPERLEAF026]

You know you're shit when the Lemurian is your nemesis

[@ravenwarjoy]

I don't really agree on the placement of the jellyfish and mushrum. I'd bump the jelly up to mid tier because of how sneaky they are, and I'd also bump mushrums to high risk. Their ring of fire can really fuck you up due to how much it slows you down and how high the damage rate is on them. Especially if it's an overloading mushrum, you're gonna get swarmed by balls even if you walk on the edge of their AOE.

[@ugotmauledd]

Tbh the only time I really struggle w wandering vagrants is on the first wave. If I get it first wave and I don’t have good items I’m almost guaranteed dead. (I only play monsoon)

[@greenie6583]

Had a great start, got 2 blazing clay templars at stage 3 :/

[@radoslavyordanov577]

I was about to get my first skin when on the last stage i got like 5-6 blazing templars as boss fight Thus spawning even more because of scorched acres

[@failedcatch5001]

Jellyfish are obviously low threats but one exception is when your in the null void and they get some movement based items. Then they are extremely hard to avoid (it might just be me being bad tho)

[@lordmcsmith]

I don't usually worry about jellyfish, but I think they become a lot more threatening on stages where they're the only enemy that spawns, like in the Void Fields. It's really easy for one to spawn close behind you, and because they only make noise when they're about to explode, I often don't notice them until it's too late to move out of the way. The normal ones do respectable damage on their own, but elites can put you in danger or outright kill you on higher difficulties.

[@mrmad9110]

I still think that lesser wisps are the most deadliest and scary monsters. (Totally not cause there so ANNOYING EARLY ON GAHDNIANSGAJSVWIBAB)

[@readyforlol]

Ok, how the hell is Imp Overlord higher on the list than Clay Dunestrider ? Cmon mister streamur. To avoid getting murderized by Dunestrider, you have to keep running AWAY from cover otherwise you won't see the tar balls coming and get blown up for absurd damage and slowed making subsequent attacks harder to dodge. But you also have to run BEHIND cover to avoid the pot barrage attack. And also far enough to avoid the *big succ* when you reach the threshold, and if you get caught as anything other than merc or loader you die. There's also the fact that they get exponentially dangerous with number, because they can succ each other off indefinitely meaning you're just done if you don't have enough damage to kill them outright when they rise. Meanwhile, to beat an imp overlord, you hold the "walk backwards" key and the "shoot" key while looking at them until they die. As melee you can pretty much stand on their heads, the only character i have a hard time with is engie with static turrets because their ground slam blows them up. I'd even put the vagrant above it.

[@anonymousmonkey9491]

I would have agreed with the jellyfish, except when i was at the void fields I had jellyfish, mini mushrooms and some kind of alloy-esque thing with goat hooves, stun grenades, and an AGT. it was annoying enough as is to be an acrid and having to deal with all the ranged units, but the mother fucking jelly fish rammed at me like a suicide bomber riding bull in a fiesta de toros with chilli stuffed up their arses. Guess how I died. edit: the alloy things were souless probes.

[@SnugJoiner]

Hey Woolie, now that the clock/difficulty scaling stops in the void fields, should I be doing it in my runs?

[@getergods2267]

Honestly the void reaver should be the least prioritized thing in a run because they aren’t a threat unless you kill them because of their instakill death explosion.

[@ninjapickle773]

What artifacts are you using in the background? And how were you getting so many items during the boss fights

[@Woolie]

sacrifice (enemies drop items - no items spawn) and glass (5x dmg, 10% hp)

[@darkcat013]

I like how badass are clay templars, like literally they won't stop shooting until you are dead

[@berchibal]

Mini Mushrooms = Omega-Threat

[@syndicatechris5458]

4 player matches = easier over time with, MAYBE, A harder time at stage 1 or 2. Definitely dont think this is the way to show off things.in videos

[@FaceD0wnDagon]

...Beetle queen acid is superb at bypassing one-shot protection for a sudden run-over when you least expect it, though.

[@1BYOB1]

If you have any ranges attack and the scav doesnt have regen or teddies with the beads. you can damage him from a distance with acrid and the poision. jello % bases damage and just sorting ther with and atg or a royal cap. if you dont got for the first oblitorationyou get thwy have always seemes easy if you have any ranges attack.

[@batosi111]

How did the ally mothership drop multiple rare items. I thought I was just per one person

[@cael5118]

he's using a mod to make the game act like 4 player mode in singleplayer

[@theohenriquedelimavasconce8563]

@@cael5118 oowwww i need thisssss

[@noahwalania5125]

The worst thing in this entire game in my opinion, scavengers with a primordial cube. Does not matter your build if it catches you, you are most likely ded

[@ThatGuy-n7w]

wdym the full release is coming faster than it looks? Im so hyped now

[@Tomohran]

Squashing Vagrants and Solus / Protect Units never gets old, easily my favourite bosses to fight with Rex / Mercenary.

[@lavaguava2648]

i like how when you give the option to dislike, nobody does.

[@sterioben1731]

Void reverse are insta kill, doesn't matter how much he, teddy bears or clovers. Idk molded though but thats the only reason I think they should be high threat, not them but their death.

[@Kalgori]

You get an automatic thumbs up for making it low/medium/high tier vs S/A/B/C ranks

[@hanginman2715]

Can I be honest, I think the only thing I disagree on this list is the brass contraptions, they hit hard but they are incredibly easy to dodge and in my opinion to kill, the Templar and elder are way harder in my opinion

[@gabriellopez6039]

I find greater wisps to be a greater threat than the brass contraptions. Sure the brass and greater wisps attacks are very predictable but considering the blast damage I'd say that's harder than dodging slow moving spiked brass balls.

[@aurelionite1]

true

[@alexdavidson239]

It's fun to get a couple shaped glass and crowbars as Bandit so you can just delete Brass Contraptions with your R ability. In fact, mass deletion with the R is just fun in general.

[@alexdavidson239]

Also a sidenote that Woolie forgot to mention: unlike other mid tier champion monsters where being hit is dangerous but not instant death, being hit by a void reaver explosion is instant death. Yes, even with your OSP up. You can't afford to get careless with dodging them, ever, which puts them above Brass Contraptions in terms of danger for me.

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

How did you remove that annoying genesis loop effect? Is it in Artifacts 2.0?

[@inestrix7377]

The only thing that bothers me about worms is that they always fuck off out of the tp zone to take down that one turret you bought that spawned on the opposite side of the tp. :)

[@drakootherat1735]

Bettle queens are high treat if bad computer cause they will lag out yo game so hard with thyer beatles OMG

[@penguinpower3835]

You could also do something like this with void fields since a bison with goat hoofs is actually pretty dangerous especially with focus crystals

[@gallowglass8307]

So uh... today I had a really good run on Loader and I saw a Malachite Beetle. I wanted to see what it did, so I let it hit me. I died instantaneously.

[@MrAskmannen]

SSS tier clay templar Ends almost all of my runs smh

[@ogilow3291]

Fuck the jellyfish when I’m nowhere near cover and I see it charge up and I get instant one hit lol

[@Carraway-]

This is just 12 minutes of someone saying "To kill the Cyber demon, shoot it until it dies"

[@cosmicgamer1262]

I have more lesser wisp and brass contraption deaths than any other monsters, not including bosses.

[@co5micwaffle742]

Mini Mushrums are champions and brass contraptions are really powerful normal enemies.

[@quillfy_evans]

How did you get so many red items after you killed the AWU?

[@conrad.c3330]

I'm pretty sure the first scavenger I encountered was a twisted one I died in like 2 seconds

[@smack1]

9:37 “Heat seaking balls” I don’t I’m mature enough for this

[@rubberduckyoverlord6300]

everyone laughs at beetles until you play acrid and a elite one spawns right next to you.

[@OMalleyTheMaggot]

Thank fucking God they cut the spider tanks from the first game lmao

[@Quatrosin]

bruh i ha djust finsihed a stage and got teleported right next to a celestial ulture and it one shotted me

[@kinetic_krown]

r/bruhmoments 7:33

[@dontknowwhattocallmyself9453]

artificer : looting ninja elder lemurian : im about to end this mage whole run

[@nokaccino]

Lesser Wisps do actually miss sometimes to inaccuracy, but it is rare.

[@readyforlol]

Not that rare. You just have to move fast. If you time a jump with a couple of quails correctly you should be able to get out of the way.

[@repstylegaming9730]

Nah overloading worm is significantly more dangerous than the regular ones. Don’t sleep on that thing. But nothing is more powerful than elite elder lumerians

[@Scazoid]

Malachite Elder Lemurians

[@WereDictionary]

did you honestly get 4 wax quails for beating the first boss?

[@reidepperson8534]

How was he getting multiple red items from the alloy worshipper thing

[@chill8362]

I've died to jellyfish more than i've died to probes but ok.