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Premium Boss Repellent is back, baby!

Repulsor was one of the best weapons in R1 and a personal favourite of mine. While its primary fire is decent, it really gets going when you Banish enemies, giving you a whopping 1.5x damage multiplier to your shots. Bosses don't get paralyzed, but do still receive the damage multiplier, which actually makes it even easier to use - for non-bosses, you'll have to wait for them to return from the shadow realm before damaging them.

Banish does have another use however - since non-bosses take 0 damage whilst banished, this means you can use it as temporary invulnerability for allies...including the Red Doe! This trick from R1 works like a charm, letting you beat the Ravager damage check for his alt kill with ease, keeping the Red Doe banished so she can't be eaten by the Ravager.

Utility aside, the Repulsor can do some serious damage, with great damage and firerate, but its main shortcomings are its small magazine and slow reload...sounds like a perfect candidate for a Provisioner Build! We're going one further - with Gunfire Security Lanyard and Bandit, we can keep that magazine going for ages and make the most of our Banish applications. Just make sure you take Handling and Mythic Weapon Spread - while the spread will shrink if you delay your shot, ain't nobody got time for that.

As always, Akari Warband and Zania's Malice are more for boss fights, so feel free to swap those out for stuff like Targeting Jewel or Braided Thorns for mobbing. For bosses, you can also replace Bandit and the Lanyard with a more traditional setup of Twisting Wounds and Abrasive Whetstone, but I found my killtimes were actually nigh-identical, so I went with Bandit-Lanyard for the more satisfying spam.

For our Hunter skill, we're taking old reliable Hunter's Mark - Hunter's Shroud won't last long enough for each of our extended magdumps, and Ravager's aggression makes Hunter's Focus a little more awkward. We're breaking from the "HUGS meta" though with our 2nd arch, Challenger - with my killtime being pretty short, around the 1 minute mark, Rampage ends up being slightly better value than the Gunslinger's Bulletstorm, having a longer uptime in exchange for a longer cooldown (which doesn't matter since we're only really going to get to use our skill once for the fight).

One last tip for Bandit - it does seem like aiming across different hitboxes such that you get multiple damage numbers gives you multiple chances to proc, which you may find worth it even if it means sacrificing a weakspot pellet or two.

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00:00 Intro
00:05 Ravager (alt)
00:40 Get away from her you BITCH
01:20 Build