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Risk of Rain 2 Operator Ultimate Guide: Skills, Loadouts, and Destructive Combos
This comprehensive guide to the Pilot in Risk of Rain 2 covers all abilities, the best loadout, the best items, and a devastating combo that only the Pilot can perform. Primary, secondary, utility, and special abilities are analyzed, as well as the best drone and item options to maximize the Pilot's potential.
1. 🔫 Pilot's Primary Skill: H311 OCR Custom (Hell OCR Custom)
- ✅ Fires a pistol shot that deals between 150% and 600% damage, with charges that restore over time (8 second cooldown).
- ✅ Shots consume all charges, dealing 150% damage per charge.
- ✅ When killing an enemy, the bullet bounces and deals 75% damage to the nearest enemy with the lowest health.
- ⚠️ Attack speed affects the ability, but cooldown reduction does not.
- ✅ Bandolier reloads one charge per pack.
00:00 - 01:25
1. 🔫 Pilot's Primary Skill: H311 OCR Custom (Hell OCR Custom)
- ✅ Fires a pistol shot that deals between 150% and 600% damage, with charges that restore over time (8 second cooldown).
- ✅ Shots consume all charges, dealing 150% damage per charge.
- ✅ When killing an enemy, the bullet bounces and deals 75% damage to the nearest enemy with the lowest health.
- ⚠️ Attack speed affects the ability, but cooldown reduction does not.
- ✅ Bandolier reloads one charge per pack.
01:26 - 02:48
2. 🤖 Secondary Skills: Admin Override vs. Command Swarm
- ✅ <Admin Override (Default):> Commands a drone to activate its special ability. Gains one charge for each drone controlled (4 second cooldown).
- ✅ <Command Swarm (Alternative):> Enters target painting mode to order drones to ram enemies, dealing 450% damage. Critical hits also ignite, dealing an additional 50% damage over time.
- ✅ Command Swarm is very powerful with enough critical hit chance.
02:49 - 03:39
3. 🛡️ Utility Skills: Ascent Protocol vs. Firewall
- ✅ <Ascent Protocol (Default):> Commands a drone to lift you into the air for a controlled fall. Can be reactivated to jump to another drone (7 second cooldown).
- ✅ <Firewall (Alternative):> Commands a drone to charge a shield that blocks damage. Release it to fire it forward, dealing between 200% and 600% damage (8 second cooldown).
- ✅ Firewall can block many things, such as vagrant explosions and stone titan lasers.
03:40 - 04:51
4. 💥 Special Skills: Ejection Core vs. Ampcore
- ✅ <Ejection Core (Default):> Launches a drone that launches enemies into the air, dealing 300% damage. Enemies are nanobugged until they touch the ground (8 second cooldown).
- ✅ <Ampcore (Alternative):> Launches a drone that charges by absorbing damage. After a short duration, it explodes, dealing between 300% and 2000% damage (8 second cooldown).
- ✅ Shooting Ampcore increases the AoE and damage.
04:52 - 05:57
5. 🛠️ Pilot's Passive: Drone Tech and Basic Drones
- ✅ The Pilot starts with two drones.
- ✅ You can choose between three different basic drones that are better than the regular versions: Healing Drone, Gunner Drone, and Transport Drone.
- ✅ Drones automatically repair when downed.
07:07 - 09:16
6. ⚙️ The Best Loadout for the Pilot: Recommendations and Strategies
- ✅ Preferred loadout: Command Swarm, Firewall, and Ampcore, along with a Healing Drone and a Transport Drone.
- ✅ Transport Drones are very strong.
- ✅ Admin Override (default secondary) can be used with the Healing Drone to gain movement and attack speed.
- ✅ Firewall is useful for blocking projectiles.
- ✅ Ampcore does more damage on average and has better AoE than Ejection Core.
09:17 - 10:36
7. ⭐ Best Items for the Pilot: Priorities and Synergies
- ✅ The Pilot is a high-damage survivor who relies heavily on drones.
- ✅ Items like Backup Magazine give more charges to use the drones.
- ✅ Items like Crowbar, both Bands, and ATGs increase total damage.
- ✅ If you use Command Swarm, getting criticals is important to ignite enemies.
- ✅ Ignition Tank is a good addition.
- ✅ Pocket ICBM affects Missile Drones when using Admin Override.
- ✅ Luminous Shot can be very effective.
10:37 - 11:25
8. 💥 How to Break the Game with the Pilot: Void Sears Lenses and Deus Machina
- ✅ Void Sears Lenses corrupts all your Lensmakers Glasses, but adds a small chance to instantly kill an enemy.
- ✅ Deus Machina gives a chance to parry enemies and bless your next attack, causing on-hit effects to always trigger.
- ✅ A single blessed shot from the Pilot with Void Sears Lenses causes a chain of instant kills until no enemies remain.
- ⚠️ Does not work against teleporter bosses, Mythrix, or False Sun.
11:26 - 12:02
9. ➕ Additional Data: Drone Combination and Admin Override
- ✅ Drones combined through the drone combination station give the Pilot additional stocks of Admin Override and its alternative secondary.
- ✅ With Admin Override, a combined drone will give a damage multiplier of 1 + 0.25 times the level of that drone in any use of Admin Override.