Captain: Smushed

 is a challenge in Risk of Rain 2. It is completed by killing as the  by dropping an  on him.

Completing it awards the ability to select in the  loadout.

Tips

 * will begin to slowly pace towards the player once he's sufficiently weakened in his final phase. This makes him much easier to line up.


 * Avoid collecting items that deal damaging effects that are beyond the players control, such as items that inflict damaging debuffs such as Bleeding.
 * This extends to offensive Drones and other summoned allies as well.


 * Certain Artifacts can greatly help:
 * The allows one to stack items that affect the damage of the Beacon itself, like  or.
 * The halves the  health and provides two of him to kill if something goes awry.
 * The greatly increases the damage of your abilities, but opens up the certain possibility of getting one-shot by  abilities.


 * Coordinating with an  ability can open up the opportunity to hit  with some breathing room.

Bugs

 * This challenge is currently bugged on Playstation and Xbox following the Anniversary Update as does not refresh at the start of . To work around this and gain access to the  during the final stage, the player must either not use  on the previous stage, or have a , then die and respawn.

Version History

 * PC Patch v1.1.1.2
 * Quality of Life
 * Updated Captain: Smushed challenge to have a short window of leniency


 * Anniversary Update
 * Major Content
 * Added new class challenge: Captain: Smushed

Trivia

 * This challenge may have been inspired by Deep Rock Galactic, a similar horde-shooter sci-fi game where it is possible to kill large enemies by dropping Resupply Pods on them.