"Pinky Jockey" by TheDinosaurHeretic

[wraith root]

1 round, two ways to play. Any map, any difficulty.

Inspired by MAP07: Mancubian Candidate from Valiant, this Ripatorium encounter will test your skills in enemy prioritisation, arena awareness, and the relationship between runes, melee, and guns.

063XC03006L - in this challenge, you have to keep all Pinky Riders alive. If any Pinky Riders enter a glory kill state while there are other enemies alive, you have to restart; if you kill everything else and find less than 3 Pinky Riders or a Pinky is missing his rider, you have to restart, as you have unknowingly killed one. There are no restrictions on runes or weapons, and BFC is permitted. 3 minute time limit.

0180EPG8010CM8G - in this challenge, you have to kill all Pinky Riders first. If you deliberately kill any other enemies before all 6 Pinky Riders die, you have to restart (accidental kills are permitted, i.e. if a Hell Knight jumps in front of you as you're focussing down a Pinky Rider and you kill it, you don't need to restart). Heaven Splitter, Cycler, and BFC banned. 5 minute time limit.

If you would like an extra challenge, feel free to sub out the Pinky Riders with Cosmic Barons.

[foggy sierra]

cool concept

first one pretty interesting

I think its a good way to remind yourself to turn when parrying to send your shield rune where you want it to go

speaking from a ground fisure perspective

[foggy sierra]

second one was much more difficult but also pretty good practice for being able to dance around and through super heavys and pressure

[foggy sierra]

also fun to replace the pinky riders in the first one with a cosmic baron

or two

[wraith root]

I definitely thought about doing a Baron type of challenge like that, but I couldn’t pass up that stupid fuckin Minecraft meme

[foggy sierra]

extremely important

would be a horrendously missed opportunity

[wraith root]

Exactly it! But you make a fair point, a Baron challenge would be fantastic if you had the patience for it. At a point it becomes less overwhelming and more tedious

[foggy sierra]

playing it right now I think it works pretty well just taking out the pinkys and putting in barons

but yeah in a longer encounter or something with more dangerous demons it could definitely become tedious

doable within the 3 minute timer too

[foggy sierra]

done with three too and id say yeah too much longer than this and it probably starts to become more tedious rather than just a fun challenge/test since the strategy doesnt really change its just more inputs

time is still fine though, just over 2 minutes taken

[wraith root]

You’re a fucking G, I appreciate you testing new ways to play

[foggy sierra]

thank you

I appreciate you making these encounters since theyve all been pretty fun so far

I gotta be ready for whatever they drop next and if eternals master levels are any indication it wont JUST be more and bigger enemies

so things like this are good to practice with

[foggy sierra]

just tried it with cacos and found it to be more difficult than pinkys and barons. harder than pinkys just because theyre more dangerous and harder than barons because they are pretty fragile. the barons could take fissure after fissure and I only had one die on me once but the cacos my biggest issue was sending shockwaves their way and then ending up with only two at the end

I played both of your codes on ry'uul and the cacodemons were not diffcult until I took them to Khalim

[foggy sierra]

keep posting your presets though theyve all been fun/challenging/interesting

[true ingot]

when the auto turret is so dogshit it actually carries you through the challenge

I loved having to run around dodging all the other demons like I dont even care until I killed the last pinky after which I instantly equipped the ground fissure and dreadmace and started going ham on everything else finally