Some of Destiny ii'southward all-time PvE content can be found in loftier-level Lost Sectors, Master Raids, and Nightfall Strikes that offer a more challenging experience. Within these activities you're also likely to run into Champions, tough opponents who can easily wipe you out if you bring the wrong gear to a fight. Barrier, Overload, and Unstoppable Champions can be found in Destiny 2, and each one is a unique antagonist that tin melt through your defenses before you take a take a chance to realize that y'all're horribly outgunned.

Champions aren't invincible though, and once you lot know what to equip your Guardian with, they can be decisively dealt with. Here's how yous tin can plow the tables on some of the deadliest foes in Destiny ii.

What to equip

The Season of Plunder seasonal artifact
The Season of Plunder seasonal antiquity

Defeating Champions requires either specific Exotic weapons or special armor mods, which change every season. These can be acquired from the seasonal artifact, and you'll demand to level up this item to unlock the Champion-killing mods in the commencement column.

Each mod is designed to combat the special abilities of a specific Champion with a certain weapon type, such as auto rifles for Bulwark Champions in Flavour of Plunder. In one case you have these mods equipped on your arms armor, your weapons will automatically load anti-Champion rounds that can stop these enemies in their tracks. For example, anti-barrier rounds will pierce a Barrier Champion's shields and anti-Overload rounds volition preclude these cunning foes from teleporting around you constantly.

Once you've done plenty impairment, Champions volition exist left in a brief stun-lock state and you can start focusing on cut them down to size.

How to defeat Unstoppable Champions

The juggernauts of Destiny two, Unstoppable Champions tin can soak up a ridiculous amount of damage, won't flinch when y'all throw everything that you have at them, and will chase you lot to the ends of a map. Y'all can wait the beefiest enemy-types in Destiny 2 to designated every bit a durable Unstoppable Champion, including the Conduce Incendior, Hive Ogre, Scorn Anathema, and Taken Phalanx. To terminate them, you'll need to equip a seasonal Unstoppable Champion stagger mod, which stuns these enemies and lowers their damage output.

The weapons that can take advantage of these mods will change every season, but there are a few Exotic weapons that take intrinsic anti-Unstoppable capabilities built into them:

  • Breastwork -- Fusion rifle
  • Devil's Ruin -- Sidearm
  • Leviathan's Breath -- Bow
  • Malfeasance -- Hand cannon

For season xix, you'll be able to utilise shotguns and pulse rifles to eliminate these champions:

  • Anti-Unstoppable Shotguns -- Arms mod
  • Anti-Unstoppable Pulse Rifles -- Arms mod

Additionally, Hunters can equip the Exotic gauntlets Athrys'south Embrace, which can grant stagger Unstoppable Champions with an empowered Weighted Knife.

How to defeat Overload Champions

Tenacious is one family-friendly word that can be used to describe Overload Champions, equally these foes tin be a nightmare to deal with if you're ill-prepared for them. Constantly regenerating health, teleporting around the battlefield, and unleashing a volley of gunfire at whatsoever given fourth dimension, Overload Champions are an agile menace. You lot'll need to stagger them with the appropriate mod that'southward unlocked on the seasonal artifact equally you level upward, and you can expect to meet several varieties of these Champions.

Expect heavy resistance from Fallen Captains, Scorn Chieftains, Taken Hobgoblins, and Vex Minotaurs who display highly aggressive beliefs. To brand the hunt easier, you can also equip these Exotic weapons which have anti-Overload Champion intrinsic perks:

  • Divinity -- Trace rifle
  • Le Monarque -- Heavy bow
  • Thunderlord -- Machine gun

Warlocks can equip the Exotic boots Secant Filaments, which volition disrupt Overload Champions so long as you and your allies stand within an Empowering Rift.

Bows and motorcar guns are the weapons of selection for flavor 19 if you're looking to stop Overload Champions in their tracks:

  • Anti-Overload Bows -- Artillery modernistic
  • Anti-Overload Auto Gun -- Arms mod

How to defeat Barrier Champions

I of the more annoying enemies--especially if you're facing a Servitor--Barrier Champions won't waste matter whatsoever time in popping an almost-impenetrable shield one time you knock their health bars downwards. The simply manner to get through that defense is with the proper seasonal mod, granting a specific weapon shield-piercing rounds. You'll want to quickly swap to that anti-shield weapon as well because once a Bulwark Champion activates its defence, it'll start regenerating health. The anti-Champion mods only works on them in one case they activate their shield, and popping it will leave this enemy briefly stunned.

In addition to Servitors who have a nasty habit of constantly shielding their allies around them, you can likewise await to run into a Cabal Colossus, Hive Knight, and Vex Hobgoblin who all bear the Bulwark title. For Exotics, y'all tin use these weapons which take congenital-in shield-piercing rounds:

  • Arbalest -- Linear fusion rifle
  • Eriana's Vow -- Mitt cannon
  • The Lament -- Sword
  • Wish-Ender -- Bow

Titans tin can equip the Exotic gauntlets 2d Chance, which grants a second accuse of the Shield Throw melee and adds a shield-piercing stun effect on Bulwark Champions.

As for seasonal mods, yous'll be able to utilize mid and long-range weapons when dealing with these tough enemies:

  • Anti-Barrier Scout Rifles -- Arms modern
  • Anti-Bulwark Car Rifles -- Artillery modernistic
  • Anti-Barrier Sniper Rifle -- Arms modernistic

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