Suomuhauki
Suomuhauki (listen 
) (or Dragon, lit. Scale Pike) is a large worm-like boss who can be found in the Dragoncave to the east of the Underground Jungle. It has numerous projectile attacks on top of its powerful worm bite attack, and is summoned from a giant stone 'egg'. In order to spawn the boss from the 'egg', you must get within a short distance from the egg's center, which will require digging into it. If you do not get close to the center of the egg the dragon will not spawn.
Behaviour & Combat
The giant egg in the Dragoncave must be dug into and entered in order to summon the boss. When you are about a third of the way into the egg, the boss will spawn in its center and emerge.
The Suomuhauki itself behaves identically to a Jättimato with the notable addition of much better air control ("flight"). It will otherwise fly about in the same manner & pattern as a worm, deleting terrain as it goes, trying to collide with you in order to cause practically instant death via heavy bite damage with its jaws (1,900 - 2,000 damage per second). The bite damage is not actually melee damage, even though Melee Immunity blocks it.
In addition to its melee charges it also regularly spews 20 small fireballs at a fast rate, making up for its measly 2 damage, and regularly shoots 8 slow green orb projectiles in a octagonal pattern from the eye on its tail. It is quite relatively durable, but has little resistance to much of anything.
If you have the Melee Immunity perk, the only threat it poses to you will be the fireballs (2 damage) and orbs (19 damage). The perk Projectile Repulsion Field makes this boss significantly easier by effectively nullifying the slow tail projectiles and minimizing the chance that the flame breath attack will land.
When attacked with projectile and slice damage, it produces large quantities of blood, both before and after death. Upon death it always drops one Max health upgrade, one random Projectile Orbit spell, and a wand with powerful stats (usually of a quality similar to what would be expected a stage or two deeper).
Rewards
- Extra Max Health
- a powerful tier 6 No-Shuffle Wand
- Unlock the five Projectile Orbit spells, and drop one out of four (not Nuke Orbit):
Tips
- Touch of spells can kill this boss instantly
- Melee Immunity makes the fight much, much safer
- You may want to have a space cleared outside of the cave and fight the dragon there, the fact your space is normally limited is one of the most dangerous parts.
- A puddle of ambrosia, as with all bosses, is immensely helpful, if you have low damage or do not feel confident in dodging the dragon's powerful attacks.
- Consider drinking worm blood for
Wormy vision, unless you have All-Seeing Eye to see the dragon inside the walls. It is extremely easy to die if it catches you off-guard. - If you don't have through-walls sight, stay away from all walls as it can easily kill you instantly with a melee attack
- The dragon flies so it's not possible to get it stuck like other worm-type enemies.
- It has considerable turn speed, so stay further away from it if you're attempting to dodge it.
- It is not affected by the pull of Giga Black Hole.
- If you have any spells such as Freezing Gaze or Freeze Charge, you can freeze the dragon and fly into its main body for a kick, dealing massive damage, similar to other worm-type enemies. This will take away nearly all of its health, making the fight much easier.
- Using something that can pierce like Piercing Shot can prove very useful at dealing damage, as it has multiple segments that'll all get damaged.
- This also means using Note spells as damage can prove useful, as they do natural piercing.
Trivia
- The name translates from Finnish to "scaled pike". This is likely a play on words to the Finnish word for a dragon, "lohikäärme" - literally meaning "salmon snake".
- Additionally 'suomuhauki' is the pike in Kalevala which Väinämöinen kills and uses the jawbone of to create the first kantele.
- This enemy can seemingly detect you, even if you are
Invisible. (needs further testing)
Gallery
Nightmare
History
- Nov 28 2019:
- Explosion, Fire, and Freeze damage multipliers decreased from 1.0x to 0.5x.
- Electricity damage multiplier decreased from 1.0x to 0.3x.
