Overview[]
Rocket King is the third boss the player encounters. It appears on mission 50 in the Classic Campaign.
The Rocket King is a larger rocket defender with white studs lining its sides, and four rockets equipped on the back of the turret instead of two. Like other bosses, Rocket King will start to flame up when low on health, and will create a massive non-harmful explosion when defeated.
While fighting Rocket King, its health will be shown at the top as a transparent, orange/red healthbar.
The arena the player fights Rocket King in is very unique to any other mission's arena. The player and the boss is placed on a large wooden platform suspended above a pit of lava. The platform has no edges, so bullets could fly off the map (and eventually despawn), and both the player and the Rocket King could potentially fall into the lava and be destroyed.
The Rocket King behaves very similarly to rocket defenders. The two main differences are that the rocket king moves at a noticeable slower speed than its normal counterparts, and instead of firing two aerial rockets in quick succession, they fire four instead. The aerial rockets can impact the wooden platform, and parts of the platform will eventually be impacted and damaged enough that they fall into the lava, leaving holes on the platform.
Strategy[]
- If you get close up to the Rocket King, you can try these:
- Spam the boss as much as possible! Rockets fired won't be able to reach you.
- Try and trick Rocket King into breaking the platform below it with its own aerial rockets. The Rocket King will fall into the lava, and you'll get an achievement!
- Try not to miss much shots, as you may easily run out of bullets due to the longer time it takes for bullets to despawn off the map.
Trivia[]
- Regular rocket defenders used to use the Rocket King's model, before the Rocket King itself was added in.
- There used to be a bug where aerial rockets multiplying themselves, resulting in the fight being nearly impossible due to many aerial rockets to dodge, and the platform breaking down faster.
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