The Butcher
A hook, a cleaver and rage
- Health850
- Damage14
- Speed2.6 m/s
- Souls20
Where it lives
- Mini-boss room: Hell, floors 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28
- Mini-boss room: Ravaged Earth, floors 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29
- Mini-boss room: Gardens of Eden, floors 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30
And there was a butcher in the labyrinth, and his hook reached far. — Book of the Cast-Out 17:2
The Butcher carved carcasses for the fiends' tables, until Hell overflowed and there were more carcasses than tables. Now he is master of a room: he drags you in with a hook and chops with a wide cleaver. The fight is all about dodging.
Hook
Sees you between 4.5 and 13 m — chain overhead for 0.95 s, a line on the ground. A hit deals 5.6 and drags you to 2.3 m. The line freezes 0.3 s before the throw: sidestep.
He that stepped off the line shall not be drawn in.
Cleave
Closer than 2 m — cleaver behind the shoulder for 0.85 s, a 120° sector over 3.8 m that follows you and freezes 0.25 s before the blow. Deals 14. Step back out of the sector and for 1.2 s the cleaver sticks in the ground: strike.
Step back, and the cleaver shall enter the earth and not thee.
Spin
Get to his side or back closer than 2.8 m — cleaver swung aside for 0.55 s, a circle on the ground. Those hit take 11.2. Run out of the circle or jump. At most once every 3.5 s.
Go not behind the butcher's back: he remembereth what is there.
Leap
Keep your distance for 1.5 s — from 3.5 to 10 m he crouches for 0.6 s and leaps to where you will be. A 2.2 m circle glows until the blow; the spot freezes 0.2 s before the jump — change direction. Deals 15.4, and his cleave is ready at once.
Keep thy distance — and he shall come unto thee.
Frenzy
At 50% health he roars for 1.1 s and goes berserk: 1.4x faster, shorter windups, 1.3x harder blows. Once per life.
A wounded beast is fiercer than a whole one.