Bandit: Sadist

 is a challenge in Risk of Rain 2. It is completed as by killing a monster with 20 stacks of.

Tips

 * A monster with a lot of HP, most likely a boss, will be required for this challenge. Players might need to wait for later stages in order to find an adequate target. Shrines of the Mountain can help summon stronger Teleporter Bosses early on, although it is more likely that multiple bosses will be spawned instead of an Elite.
 * A possible target is the . It is incredibly defensive and able to survive multiple stacks of Hemorrhage without dying before the required stacks can be applied.
 * Playing on higher difficulty will make monsters stronger faster, saving some time but requiring more skill.
 * The will force all bosses to spawn as Elites, guaranteeing they will have much more health. However, they will be more difficult to survive against.


 * will greatly help by stacking uses of.
 * resets all of Bandit's cooldowns, including every additional use gained by . 4-9 Magazines can be enough with proper resets.


 * Having 2 will reduce the cooldown of Serrated Dagger to 1 second, allowing the player to spam the attack repeatedly. (A third would lower it further to the minimum of 0.5 seconds, though this is overkill.)


 * also helps with spamming Serrated Dagger, which should give extra time to stack most of the necessary Hemorrhage stacks.
 * This is especially reliable when using the Artifact of Honor.


 * Serrated Dagger only causes hemorrhaging on critical strikes, so or  can help negate the need to perform backstabs to apply stacks of Hemorrhage.
 * Stacking a few can increase the uptime of the HUD to be more consistent.
 * Add a to greatly reduce the HUD's cooldown and eliminate the need to micro-manage it.