N'kuhana's Retort

N'kuhana's Retort is an Elite equipment in Risk of Rain 2. It can only be found as a rare drop from a Elite. The drop chance is 1/4000 from each Malachite Elite, but this chance is affected by and.

A player equipped with N'kuhana's Retort gains the power of a Malachite Elite; their attacks inflict the debuff for 8 seconds, and they will periodically release 3-4 spiked balls. On impact, the balls create a small explosion for 100% damage and sprout spike pits that deal 100% contact damage. Additionally, when the equipped player dies, a will spawn and shoot at nearby monsters, but even with  this effect is of limited usefulness.

Although N'kuhana's Retort is held in the equipment slot, it works passively and cannot be activated. Equipment cooldown reduction and additional equipment charges from do not affect its behavior.

Tips

 * can make considerably better use of this equipment than most Survivors, since his turrets can create their own spike balls and are expendable enough to trigger the on-death urchin.
 * can potentially be highly vulnerable to having their healing disabled, as they can spawn with (or pick up) healing items. This equipment is especially useful for Kipkip the Gentle, one of the who wields many healing items.
 * Giving this equipment to an Equipment Drone is a decent idea, as it will not only disable enemies' healing to help with synergies such as, but it can also deal damage by spawning spike pits.

Trivia

 * Survivors holding the item will show some signs of dementia, with their head moving in abrupt motions. The only exceptions are and, who will have their cannons moving abruptly instead.