Royal Capacitor

Royal Capacitor
Call down a lightning strike on a targeted monster.
Call down a lightning strike on a targeted monster, dealing 3000% damage and stunning nearby monsters.
Rarity	Equipment
Cooldown	20s
Unlock	Ascendant

The Royal Capacitor is an equipment in Risk of Rain 2.

While equipped, a targeting reticle appears over the monster nearest to the player's cursor. Activating the equipment while an enemy is targeted in this way calls a lightning strike on it after a half second delay, dealing 3000% damage in a 3m radius and stunning monsters nearby.

Notes

• The lightning strike occurs 0.5 seconds after equipment activation. Character position is updated every frame for 0.2 seconds after equipment activation.
  • Therefore, the targeted character has 0.3 seconds to escape the 3m explosion radius, or move 10 m/s away from the last position update.

Tips

• The Royal Capacitor deals high damage in a single hit. Stacking CrowbarsCrowbar
  Deal bonus damage to enemies above 90% health.
  Deal +75% (+75% per stack) damage to enemies above 90% health. can significantly increase this equipment's damage.

• Using the Royal Capacitor with many Gesture of the DrownedGesture of the Drowned
  Dramatically reduce Equipment cooldown... BUT it automatically activates.
  Reduce Equipment cooldown by 50% (+15% per stack). Forces your Equipment to activate whenever it is off cooldown., Fuel CellsFuel Cell
  Hold an additional equipment charge. Reduce equipment cooldown.
  Hold an additional equipment charge (+1 per stack). Reduce equipment cooldown by 15% (+15% per stack)., and Crowbars will instantly activate the equipment with limited cooldown.
  • Be mindful of entering the Bazaar Between TimeBazaar Between Time (Hidden Realm)
    Hidden Realm: Bazaar Between Time
    This stage serves as the shop in Risk of Rain 2. Players can purchase various Items with Lunar Coins or exchange items for higher-rarity ones in two crucibles. with this combination, as it may damage NewtNewt
    HP: 500000 (+150000 per level)
    Damage: 12 (+2.4 per level)
    Class: N/A
    Speed: 0 m/s
    Armor: 100 and lock the player out of the Bazaar. Avoid this by looking away from Newt.
• Due to the Royal Capacitor's short cooldown, it benefits from the Soulbound CatalystSoulbound Catalyst
  Kills reduce equipment cooldown.
  Kills reduce equipment cooldown by 4s (+2s per stack)..
  • This is particularly effective with the aforementioned Gesture of the Drowned strategy.
• The Royal Capacitor is a strong item for Equipment Drones, as their innate cooldown reduction allows them to activate the equipment every 4 seconds with a target in sight.

Lore

Order: ZAP2-K “Royal” Capacitor
Tracking Number: 145***************
Estimated Delivery: 04/30/2056
Shipping Method:  Standard
Shipping Address: Power Plant 005, Route 10, Venus
Shipping Details: 

Here’s a replacement for your damaged equipment. Crazy how gang activity is starting up again – even crazier that they’d steal a capacitor from you guys. Anyway, you guys know the drill – make sure routinely discharge the capacitor’s storage cells, as it may hold on to latent voltage. Oh, and make sure not to point it at anybody when you do.

- The Saturn Reporter, Front Page Headline

Version History

Anniversary Update

• Major Content
  • Added New Lore Entry: Royal Capacitor
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed certain survivors not removing their limbs when picking up the Royal Capacitor

Early Access Artifacts Content Update

• Gameplay Changes
  • Lightning now strikes where the target was 0.3s before the strike lands, instead of where they currently are.
  • Add new visuals warning before lightning strikes
  • Add glow and improve visuals so it’s more noticeable (hmm…)

Early Access Patch (Build ID No.3703355)

• Bug Fixes
  • Equipment - Royal Capacitor now requires line of sight to use.

Trivia

• The Royal Capacitor is possibly inspired or referenced off of Sprague Powerlytic Capacitors, which have the same structure as the text on the texture for the Royal Capacitor.
• The text on the texture reads as:
  • Calorum - Company that made it
  • Powerlytic - The name that they called their capacitor
  • 3600DE - The type of Powerlytic
  • 40000-810000DC - The range of voltage in direct current
  • 910256L - Inductance
    • In reality, the capacitor should have a capacitance value listed, not an inductance.
    • Additionally, although L is the letter used to represent inductance as a concept, the unit of measure for inductance is actually Henris (H).

• When equipped by any survivor, their right arm is replaced by a constant streak of electricity

• The logbook entry contains a few references to the Legendary Electric-type Pokémon Zapdos.
  • The tracking number is the same as Zapdos' Pokédex number, 145
  • "ZAP2" in the order name may be a corruption of "Zapdos", with dos being the Spanish word for two.
  • The shipping address is to "Power Plant 005, Route 10". In the original games, Zapdos is found in the abandoned power plant on Route 10.