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Dio's Best Friend
Dio's Best Friend
Cheat death. Consumed on use.
Upon death, this item will be consumed and you will return to life with 3 seconds of invulnerability.
Rarity Legendary
Category Utility
Unlock The Lone Survivor
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Pluripotent Larva
Get a corrupted extra life. Consumed on use. Corrupts all Dio's Best Friends.

Upon death, this item will be consumed and you will return to life with 3 seconds of invulnerability, and all of your items that can be corrupted will be. Corrupts all Dio's Best Friends.
Stats
Stat Value Stack Add
Uses 1 Linear +1
Internal
Name ExtraLife


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Dio's Best Friend (Consumed)
Dio's Best Friend (Consumed)
A spent item with no remaining power.
Rarity Untiered
Category Utility
Internal
Name ExtraLifeConsumed

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 Status Immune invincibilityStatus ImmuneImmune (Buff)
Become invulnerable.Become immune to all attacks.
, and the item is consumed.

Tips[]

  • Engineer Engineer'sEngineerEngineerThe Engineer is a unique class that requires planning and positioning to be successful.
    Class: Ranged
    HP: 130 (+39 per level)
    Damage: 14 (+2.8 per level)
    Armor: 0
    Umbra: Fortification Expert
    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 Artifact of Sacrifice Artifact of SacrificeArtifact of SacrificeSacrificeMonsters drop items on death, but Chests no longer spawn.
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    is enabled, making it a good way to farm items in the Void Fields.
  • If the Artifact of Metamorphosis Artifact of MetamorphosisArtifact of MetamorphosisMetamorphosisPlayers always spawn as a random survivor.
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    is enabled, the player will revive as a new survivor.
  • The item's invulnerability does not protect the player from being instantly killed by the Nullifier Implosion from a Void Reaver Void ReaverVoid ReaverVoid Reaver
    HP: 1900 (+570 per level)
    Damage: 12 (+2.4 per level)
    Class: Ranged / Self-Destruct
    Speed: 6 m/s
    Armor: 0
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    Void Jailer
    HP: 2200 (+660 per level)
    Damage: 14 (+2.8 per level)
    Class: Ranged / Self-Destruct
    Speed: 7 m/s
    Armor: 0
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    Void Devastator
    Destroyer of WorldsHP: 2800 (+840 per level)
    Damage: 12 (+2.4 per level)
    Class: Ranged / Self-Destruct
    Speed: 8 m/s
    Armor: 20
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    Voidling
    Diviner of the DeepHP: 2000 (+600 per level)
    Damage: 15 (+3 per level)
    Class: Ranged
    Speed: 45 m/s
    Armor: 20
    .
    • Voidling's Nullifier kills on contact, rather than through a single implosion attack. Invulnerability from this item will be bypassed, effectively killing the player repeatedly through multiple revives.

Lore[]

Hey Dio,

Wow, you have gotten older since the last time I wrote! How old are you now – 10? And so much grumpier, too. I’ve never seen a cat so grumpy. What do you have to be grumpy about?

Despite the fact that you are the pickiest eater I know – and love to meow all throughout the night, every night – it still makes me happy to hear you bounding down the stairs every time I come home. I like when I wake up and I see you sleeping across from me. I like when you sit at the dining table, like you’re going to eat with us too. I like how you hit the power button every time you walk across my laptop. I like how shamelessly needy you are.

Please live a long life – I’m needy too, and I’d like that a lot.

Love,
Duncan

PS would it kill you to purr for mama every now and then?

Version History[]

Anniversary Update
  • Major Content
    • Added New Lore Entry: Dio's Best Friend
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
PC Patch v1.0.1.1 (Build ID No.5440050)
  • Bug Fixes
    • Consumed Dio’s is now considered unremovable, and the scrapper no longer gets clogged if somehow there is an untiered item inserted
Early Access 'Skills 2.0' Content Update
  • Bug Fixes
    • 🌧Update Dio’s Best Friend on Huntress HuntressHuntressHuntressThe Huntress is an extremely mobile but fragile survivor with a high damage output.
      Class: Ranged
      HP: 90 (+27 per level)
      Damage: 12 (+2.4 per level)
      Armor: 0
      Umbra: Judge, Jury, Executioner
      to no longer clip into her scarf

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.


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