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 Malachite 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; all of their attacks inflict the healing disabled debuff for 8 seconds on hit, 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, the player will create a on death that shoots at any nearby monsters, but even with a  this effect is of limited usefulness. Although the item 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.

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.