Plasma Shrimp

The  is a void item in Risk of Rain 2, added in the Survivors of the Void expansion, and the corruption of the.

On hitting an enemy, if the player has any shield, they will launch a homing missile that deals 40% (+50% per stack) total damage with a proc coefficient of 0.2. In addition, the first Plasma Shrimp the player acquires gives shield equal to 10% of their maximum health.

Tips

 * Any damage with a proc coefficient greater than 0.0 triggers the Plasma Shrimp. This makes attacks with lower coefficients very effective, since it effectively increases the proc coefficient of them by 0.2.
 * The Plasma Shrimp can be especially useful on skills that can quickly fire multiple projectiles, such as, as well as skills with relatively high attack speed, such as.
 * Having the (or, more rarely, the ) will turn the player's entire health bar into shields. This makes the Plasma Shrimp always active, granting a consistent increase in damage output.
 * Removing the luck-based element of the allows a player to use the Plasma Shrimp without being affected by the downside of . However, if they have increased luck, the Plasma Shrimp is likely a damage loss instead.
 * Although the Plasma Shrimp is technically more effective at stacking status effects on enemies than the AtG Missile Mk. 1 in nearly all cases (since it adds +0.2 proc coefficient while the AtG adds 10% of the original), its low proc coefficient means that the extra stacks inflicted will have extremely low duration. However, this is still useful for attacks that have a low proc coefficient themselves.
 * Notably, because stacks of from the  and  are refreshed when a higher-duration stack is inflicted, the extra stacks of Bleed from the Plasma Shrimp can be reset repeatedly.
 * The triples the projectiles fired by the Plasma Shrimp, drastically increasing its damage. Pairing this with the Transcendence to guarantee the Plasma Shrimp is always active makes this even more effective.
 * The Plasma Shrimp is less effective than the AtG Missile Mk. 1 when paired with other total damage items, although it can still activate them more frequently.

Version History

 * Survivors of the Void
 * Major Content
 * Added New Item: Plasma Shrimp