Enemies

In Risk of Rain Returns, Petrichor V is populated by many hostile monsters which challenge the player and attempt to impede their progress all throughout the game. Enemies give gold and experience on kill, and bosses will drop a single item. Most monsters that are enemies can spawn naturally throughout the game, though there are a few exceptions. Most monsters also have a Monster Log which provides some supplementary lore.

Monsters

Enemies

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  Lemurian

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  Rock Golem

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  Sand Crab

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  Wisp

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  Greater Wisp

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  Jellyfish

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  Trokk

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  Tuber

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  Mushrum

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  Spitter

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  Child

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  Parent

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  Black Imp

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  Clay Man

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  Mechanical Spider

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  Bighorn Bison

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  Swift

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  Whorl

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  Macrobe

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  Macrobic Predator

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  Gup

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  Evolved Lemurian

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  Elder Lemurian

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  Lemurian Cavalry

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  Temple Guard

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  Archer Bug

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  Bramble

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  Archaic Wisp

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  Young Vagrant

Misc Enemies

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  Tiny Imp

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  Lynx Tribe

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  Boarlit

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  Sanctuary Guard

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  Purple Imp

Bosses

Boss-type enemies will drop a common, uncommon, legendary, or equipment item on death. Magma Worms will spawn the item on the player's location to prevent stuck items. Bosses as the Teleporter boss will not drop equipment items.

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  Colossus

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  Wandering Vagrant

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  Magma Worm

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  Ancient Wisp

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  Lynx Totem

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  Imp Overlord

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  Ifrit

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  Toxic Beast

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  Cremator

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  Scavenger

Special Bosses

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  Acrid (NPC)

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  Direseeker

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  Imp Vanguard

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  Gilded Wurms

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  Providence

Challenges

Name	Requirement	Unlocks
Before Titans	Kill the Magma Worm, Wandering Vagrant, and Colossus.	Enforcer
The Experiment	Free the chained creature.	Acrid
Seasoned Wanderer	Collect 15 Monster Logs.	Pilot
Lizard Bait	Defeat 20 Lemurians in one playthrough.	GasolineGasoline Killing enemies sets the ground on fire. Killing enemies burns the ground for 60% (+40% per stack) damage.
Junk Collector	Kill the Scavenger.	56 Leaf Clover56 Leaf Clover Elite mobs have a chance to drop items. Elite mobs have a 4% (+1.5% per stack) chance to drop items.
Watery Grave	Drown 20 Whorls.	Filial ImprintingFilial Imprinting Hatch a strange creature who drops buffs periodically. Hatch 1 (+1 per stack) strange creature who drops buffs every 20 seconds. Buffs temporarily boost either movement speed, attack speed, or health regen.
Sixth Sense	Huntress: Defeat the Ancient Wisp without taking damage.	Predatory InstinctsPredatory Instincts Critical strikes increase attack speed. Buff stacks 5 times. Gain 5% critical chance. Critical strikes increase attack speed by 10% (+7% per stack). Maximum cap of 30% (+21% per stack) attack speed.
Cracking Claws	CHEF: SEARSEAR3s CD Secondary COOK CUSTOMERS FOR 260% DAMAGE UNTIL GOLDEN BROWN, KNOCKING THEM AWAY. SEARING GLAZED CUSTOMERS DEALS +78% DAMAGE AND STUNS. Survivor: CHEF/FLAMBEFLAMBE3s CD Secondary COOK CUSTOMERS FOR 520% DAMAGE UNTIL INCINERATED, KNOCKING THEM AWAY. SEARING GLAZED CUSTOMERS DEALS +156% DAMAGE AND STUNS. Survivor: CHEF 20 Sand Crabs.	Interstellar Desk PlantInterstellar Desk Plant Sprout a tree on kill, granting healing fruits. Upon killing an enemy, spawn an alien plant that heals you for 3% of your maximum health and recharges after 4 seconds. Plant lasts 15 (+5 per stack) seconds.
Snuffed Out	Loader: Kill the Overloading Magma Worm.	Gigantic AmethystGigantic Amethyst8s CD Resets all your cooldowns. Reset all your cooldowns.
The Hunt	Huntress: Defeat 3 unique hidden event bosses in one run. This includes Providence, Acrid, Direseeker, Cognation Golem and Imp Vanguard	PiercePierce Primary Hold to charge an arrow shot, firing for up to 750% damage. Move more slowly while casting. Survivor: Huntress
Siiick	Sniper: Kill Providence while backflipping.	Heavy RecoilHeavy Recoil3s CD Utility Fire at the ground, launching yourself up and away. Deals 200% damage. Survivor: Sniper

Elites

Elite monsters are monsters that have additional effects and powers, as well as some boosted stats. Elite bosses are tailored, not every boss can be every elite type, and some of them have special unique effects. Each elite type has a corresponding color, which the enemy becomes. Elites show their healthbars even when not in combat, and they possess an icon indicating what type of elite they are. The Artifact of Honor will force all enemies to spawn as elites.

All base elites have the following:

• 2.8x health
• 1.9x damage
• 30% cooldown reduction
• 2x more gold on death

Elite Types

• Blazing
  • Have 1.2x movement speed.
  • Leave trails of fire behind them.
• Overloading
  • Attacks cause bolts of electricity to shock nearby.
  • Passively shock nearby characters.
• Frenzied
  • Have 1.25x movement speed and 1.3x attack speed.
  • Can instantly teleport to the player's location.
• Leeching
  • Passively heal nearby enemies.
  • Regenerate health when dealing damage.
• Volatile
  • Every attack causes an explosion.
  • Passively fire red homing missiles toward the player.
• Blighted
  • Can only spawn on Monsoon.
  • Have the attributes of any 2 basic elite types (for a total of 10 combinations).
  • Have 7x HP, 3.2x damage, 1.1x movement speed (1.35x if Frenzied), 50% cooldown reduction and drop 37x more gold on death.
  • Turn completely invisible when stationary. Appear in writhing shadows when attacking or moving.
  • Always have the subtitle "Phantasm" when selected as a Teleporter boss.
• Cognant
  • Do not spawn naturally, only appear when killing an enemy with Artifact of Cognation enabled.
    • Cognant Teleporter bosses are not required to be killed to progress.
  • Have 1.25x movement speed and 1.3x attack speed.
  • Cannot drop items from Artifact of Sacrifice, but can drop items from 56 Leaf Clover56 Leaf Clover
    Elite mobs have a chance to drop items.
    Elite mobs have a 4% (+1.5% per stack) chance to drop items..
  • Fade away in 6 seconds if not killed, granting no money or experience.

Horde of Many

(MAY NOT BE VERY ACCURATE; NOT COMPLETE)

A group of elite enemies can appear as a Teleporter boss rather than actual boss-type enemies, subtitled "Horde of Many", when activating the Teleporter early enough, or after a lot of time passes. These will still drop an item, but rather only a few will, indicated by a crown above their healthbar.

Examples of early enemy groups can be:

• Overloading Jellyfish
• Blazing Wisp

On Monsoon difficulty, this has a much higher chance of happening mid-game due to the Blighted elite becoming more common.

Version History

Patch 1.0.4

• Most enemy attacks are now client authoritative.
• Fixed some monster attacks bypassing player invincibility.

Patch 1.0.3

• Reduced the range of overloading enemies.

Trivia

• The Achievement Name "Before Titans" may be a reference to how Stone Titans and Colossus are 2 separate entities and how they are absent from the first Risk of Rain which may mean that Stone Titans were created during the events leading to the second entry of the series.
• Commando is presumably the author of the in-game Monster Logs.
  • This has never been officially confirmed by Hopoo Games. However, due to the presence of a pistol and a knife being referenced in said logs, and Commando being the one to kill Providence in the Seekers of the Storm trailer, the wiki assumes Commando as the lone survivor who wrote these logs and escaped Petrichor V.