Sentient Meat Hook

The  is an item in Risk of Rain 2.

When the holder damages an enemy, there is a 20% chance (+20% per stack) that a burst of hooks will shoot out from that enemy, pulling in up to 10 other enemies (+5 per stack) within 30m and dealing 100% total damage to each.

Each hook has a proc coefficient of 0.33.

This item stacks hyperbolically in the chance to fire hooks, and linearly in the number of hooked enemies.

Math
The chance to activate is determined by the formula $$1 - 1 / (1 + 0.2 \bullet x)$$, with x being the amount of Sentient Meat Hooks.

Tips

 * Similarly to the, this item is useful for gathering up many enemies into one spot to strike them all with area-of-effect items or abilities.
 * Because a large number of enemies are hooked at once, it is possible for just a single activation of the Sentient Meat Hook to activate other total damage items easily, even though its own proc coefficient is low.
 * Due to the hyperbolic stacking, a single Sentient Meat Hook will activate more frequently when stacked with than additional stacks of Sentient Meat Hook. The only drawback to this is the number of enemies it can hook, but this is rarely an issue.
 * To get an even higher chance, you can get more meat hooks along with clovers.

Version History

 * PC Patch v1.0.1.1 (Build ID No.5440050)
 * Bug Fixes
 * Fix Meat Hook causing a cascade of issues, preventing certain on-hit effects from working when it would trigger


 * Early Access Scorched Acres Content Update
 * Gameplay Changes
 * Damage: 100% additive damage ⇒ 100% total damage