Parent

The Parent is a returning ogre-like, sprite/spirit monster added in the Artifacts Update, and is part of the monster family.

Skills and Behavior
The Parent is a monster native to Sky Meadow. While unprovoked, it slowly lumbers around along with its fellow monsters. Upon death, it will stop in place and fall forward, disintegrating into ash.

Primary: Seismic Smash
The Parent attacks by slamming the ground with its two fists, dealing 400% damage with a proc coefficient of 1.0 in a radius of 10m with linear falloff. This can also knock players back depending on their positioning from the center of the blast.

This skill has a cooldown of 2 seconds. The animation duration is 3 seconds, which scales with attack speed.

Utility: Teleport
The Parent can teleport to instantly travel a moderate distance, similarly to. However, unlike Imps, a Parent only teleports once it has spotted a player, and the Parent can't store multiple charges. The blink look-ahead distance is 30m.

This skill has a cooldown of 4 seconds.

Behaviors

 * 1) Use primary: the Parent must be within 18m from its target.
 * 2) Use utility: the Parent must be within 20-200m from its target and have less than 80% health.
 * 3) Chase: no requirements.

Version History

 * Anniversary Update
 * Gameplay Changes
 * Health: 900(+270 per level) ⇒ 585 (+176 per level)
 * Update visuals to match closer to RoR1 design
 * Update animations


 * Early Access Content Update 5
 * Gameplay Changes
 * 🌧 Base Health: 1200 (+360 per level) ⇒ 900 (+270 per level)


 * Early Access Artifacts Content Update
 * Major Content
 * Added New Monster: Parent

Trivia

 * In Risk of Rain 1, Parents lack the natural ability to teleport, and can only do so if they are a Frenzied Elite. Incidentally, Frenzied Elites are yellow in color.