How to Defeat The Clown in REPO

REPO's strategy guide to avoiding or defeating the Joker

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• Basics of clowns
• Fight against the clown
• Choose your battle

REPO's Joker is a chilling guy who can destroy the entire team (and CART full of valuables) if it doesn't learn to predict its actions and deadly laser beams. While it's notorious, the good news is that it's much easier than you think to predict the laser beam and avoid it.

This guide will discuss the Joker’s abilities, some strategies to kill it, and how to avoid it if you don’t want to fight.

Basics of clowns

If you are not ready, the Joker is a rather dangerous enemy that can quickly kill teammates and destroy loot while attacking. Its main attack method is the deadly laser beam. This attack uses the clown squat, usually accompanied by a giggle (but remember you don't always hear it) as a signal, and then fires a beam of straggling lasers, targeting the teammates it is currently attacking. While it won't intentionally attack multiple teammates or valuables in the area, this laser beam's strafing will destroy everything in front of it and may clear the entire room. If you get hit by a laser, you will die. How to avoid this laser beam will be discussed in detail later.

This laser beam has cooldown, but it is not the only way for the clown to attack. The clown can run towards the enemy and kick them. This kick theoretically deals 50 points of damage, but it can often be fatal even if you have full health because when you are knocked back by a kick, you will most likely hit the wall or floor behind you and get physical damage. The Joker also has a kick attack that seems to be designed to ambush teammates, which sometimes squats in a position (usually around the corner) and doesn't move. Then, when someone enters range, it attacks.

The Joker has 250 health points and is heavy and requires 13 strength to lift, so it takes a lot of upgrades to lift it without the help of items. It is relatively fast, but it often pauses to emit laser beams during attack, so it is relatively easy to avoid. With its deafening footsteps, giggles and loud laser beams, it's usually easy to hear its arrival (but remember, it sometimes lurks for a short while).

Fight against the clown

If you are planning to fight the Joker, you need to understand how its laser beam works. As long as you pay attention to it, it is easy to predict when the laser beam will emit. The object of the clown attack should stand in front of it because it aims at the laser beam based on its height. Once it emits a laser beam, anyone nearby can crouch down, which is usually missed (assuming you're all on flat ground). Usually the easiest way is to move, notice that the laser beam is about to be fired, and then do a sprint crouch. This is a technique to press the crouch key while running and will cause you to glide at a low angle.

Remember that this laser beam can also severely damage items, and it will extend infinitely until it hits something (including walls and other surfaces). Therefore, you usually don't want to fight the Joker near your CART or any important treasure.

The easiest way to attack the Joker is to attack it quickly right after it fires the laser beam, or (like almost all monsters) attack it from behind without it realizing you. This can be done by slamming it with medium weight items (such as clown toys), attacking it with melee weapons (both baseball bats and sledgehammers are very effective), or even attacking it with explosives. Two deadly guns, guns and shotguns in the game, can also simplify combat by keeping you away from the range of kicks and causing a lot of damage.

Once it is attacked, the clown will briefly be paralyzed. The core part of fighting in REPO is learning how to exploit the monster when it is in this state without letting the monster jump out of this state and suddenly attacking you again. Suppose you want to kill this creature instead of running away, learn how to do as much damage as possible while the monster is in this state. You can stun monsters by repeating attacks, but it's also easy to indulge in attacks, miss a few swings of melee weapons, or make some other mistakes to make them jump up and attack multiple teammates while everyone is nearby trying to kill it.

Depending on your items and upgrades, you can also lift the clown, which can also make it useless as you can slam it. However, if you don't use items like feather drones to reduce the weight of the monster, this requires 13 points of power. At the time of writing, updates will also be made soon to reduce the effectiveness of this strategy, adding an "overload" mechanism that will explode if you catch monsters for a long time.

Choose your battle

The Joker is a dangerous enemy, not only because it can quickly kill unprepared players, but also because it can quickly destroy value. Even if you have mastered the relatively simple trick of predicting how its laser beam is fired (and how to avoid it), it is so difficult to control the flow of the battle that the laser beam doesn't have a high risk of destroying at least some of the items you're in the same room you're fighting with creatures.

That said, once you understand how it works, it's not that hard to deal with, and if you're looking for extra profit or just want some breathing space, it usually makes sense to kill it. With 250 health points, it doesn't require too many attacks to kill compared to a hit monster like Trudge. It’s also an enemy that often creates some “life and death” moments, because if you want to reduce the risk of destroying some (or all) of valuable loot, you may need to eliminate the angry clowns who are close to your CART as soon as possible. If the laser beam it emits sweeps across the entire CART, it has the potential to destroy a lot of value in seconds.

It is also important to remember that the orbs dropped by monsters are valuable, but not extremely valuable. Killing the Joker can get you thousands of dollars in extra income, but that doesn't mean it's so important if you use thousands of dollars of explosives to kill it. Even using melee weapons and guns will accumulate, as charging with new crystals can also become expensive. Monster orbs are also very fragile, so be careful to deal with.

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