Dio's Best Friend

Dio's Best Friend is a returning item in Risk of Rain 2.

Upon dying, the holder will be revived after a few seconds. This will trigger any on-death effects, such as the ice explosions from Glacial Elites. Upon reviving, the holder gets 3 seconds of, and the item is consumed.

Tips

 * turrets can be revived by this item. Redeploying gives them a new, unused Dio's Best Friend (as long as Engineer's is unused).
 * While activating the final cell event in the Void Fields, it is possible for enemies to receive Dio's Best Friend as a Legendary item. Players should be careful if this happens, since each enemy will be revived after death once with invulnerability. They can even be revived from death when the completion of the cell event kills all enemies.
 * Revived enemies can drop items if the is enabled, making it a good way to farm items in the Void Fields.
 * If the is enabled, the player will revive as a new survivor.
 * The item's invulnerability does not protect the player from being instantly killed by a Nullifier Implosion.

Version History

 * Anniversary Update
 * Major Content
 * Added lore entry


 * PC Patch v1.0.2.0
 * Bug Fixes
 * Fixed monsters revived via Dio’s Best Friend potentially respawning into out-of-bounds kill zones that make them miss the trigger, never die again, and potentially cause a softlock in this way if they are a boss

Trivia

 * The name Dio is a reference to Duncan Drummond's cat. He is one of the developers of Risk of Rain. This can be found under the "Team Section" on the official site.
 * In Risk of Rain 1, the achievement to unlock this item is known as "Sole Survivor". This is a reference to a lyric in the song 'Holy Diver' by Dio, the artist from which Duncan's cat gets its name.
 * The logbook for this item, added in the Anniversary Update, is also written from his perspective as a letter to his cat.
 * Before the Skills 2.0 update, using a Shrine of Order made all consumed Friends disappear due to not having an item tier. Now, it simply leaves them alone.