Railgunner

 is a playable character in Risk of Rain 2, added in the Survivors of the Void expansion.

A lethal and skillful markswoman, the Railgunner fights with her M99 Sniper, using smart homing rounds in combination with powerful piercing shots that give her incredible long-range damage output and decent crowd control options, as well as the incredibly powerful all-or-nothing Supercharge.

Tips

 * The is an excellent equipment for Railgunner, giving her 100% increased weak point damage for the duration.
 * Since Railgunner already has extremely high single-hit damage, picking up, , and will boost her damage even more.
 * As Railgunner's critical strikes are tied to hitting exposed weak points with her secondary and special skills, acquiring both the and  will prevent her from getting any critical strikes.
 * synergizes excellently with the M99 Sniper secondary weapon, as it allows the Railgunner to fire multiple rounds in a row before reloading. Additionally, all charges of Backup Magazine reload at once (even if you fail a Perfect Reload). However, only the first shot will receive the perfect reload damage bonus.
 * However, the HH44 Marksman secondary is entirely unaffected by Backup Magazine due to the lack of a reload, rendering the item useless.



Trivia

 * After using Supercharge, Railgunner's primary and secondary skill icons become the same "no entry" symbol as skill icons for when he has used both.
 * Railgunner is the first character to have a proc coefficient higher than 1.0 on a skill.
 * Railgunner is the successor to the Risk of Rain 1 character, Sniper. Sniper was originally planned to appear in Risk of Rain 2, as weak point data for many enemies existed in the game unused, but he was ultimately scrapped and reworked later into Railgunner.
 * In reference to this, the Railgunner's Mastery skin heavily resembles the Sniper