Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <dishonored>
Title: What's the easiest/fastest way to kill a tallboy?
Question: It seems that aiming at their back, right in the whale oil tanks, is pretty efficient.  But it's not always easy to reach one of these 3 weak points, especially when the tallboy is patrolling (walking around).  Are there any other effecient ways to kill or trap them ?  Maybe with the razor blades or the sticky bombs ?

Answers:
sents: text: Razor Blades and Sticky Bombs both definitely work.
text: Alternately, you can just blink up to them and stab them for a one-hit kill if you're unnoticed on the approach, which is extremely satisfying.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3129/LessPop_MoreFizz
score: 17
sents: text: Around the time you run into them you can have Agility 1 and the Stealth boots which basically allows you to sprint up to them, jump to their height and perform an assassination without being heard.
text: There's no need to jump on any objects first if you are on the same ground as them:
text: Agility 1 allows you to jump right up to them.
text: Doing this you can Blink to behind their feet instead of mid-air
text: so there's no drop assassination aiming involved
text: and it's possible to kill tallboys in rapid succession with little to no chance of missing.
text: The stealth boots are nice for catching up to them while they're walking since it allows you to sprint silently.
text: You'll have to find the blueprint for them in the game and they are by far the best upgrade
text: there is if you enjoy kniving.
text: Beside that, you can possess one and steer it to a place nobody will see you as you come out and jump-assassinate them straight away.
text: When assassinating one of the whale oil tanks seem to produce noise when they shatter against the ground, but this noise isn't heard by enemies.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/35731/Niss
score: 15
sents: text: If there's any spare tanks of whale oil around - and there often is one or two, you can always pick it up and throw it at the tallboy.
text: Make sure to at the very least, catch the tallboy's whale oil in the (rather large) blast radius.
text: Not only are you depriving the enemy of a resource, but you're avoiding using your own!
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/35949/thanatos5150
score: 7
sents: text: If you have Agility
text: I, you can also jump up on anything nearby and use that as a leg-up to get high enough for an aerial stab (feels more satisfying than blinking, to me at least).
text: You can do an aerial stab while being basically at the same height as them, too, and it's quite a large (2-3m) radius.
text: Probably one of the coolest things in Dishonored.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/35528/iono
score: 4
sents: text: I found that the easiest way without effort and skill, is to possess them and as soon as you unpossess them by pressing the L1 button, immediately do a high jump (assuming you have Agility 1) and assassinate them with the R1 button.
text: This does not require skillful maneuvers.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/38520/Cheong
score: 4
sents: text: An easy way is just to shoot them with Incendiary Bolts .
text: Even if not a direct hit on the Tall Boy's whale oil tanks, you are still very likely to make the whale oil tanks explode due to the range of this ammunition's flames.
text: Another alternative are Exploding Bullets , which can kill Tallboys with just a few shots and also makes it easy to make their whale oil tanks explode.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/4797/galacticninja
score: 2
sents: text: If you possess a tallboy, you can walk it into water, where it will die.
text: You can also possess, then de-possess it, placing you directly under it.
text: Blink up to the level of the guy and do a one hit kill.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/47472/Corvo
score: 2
sents: text: You can use bend time level 2 and bend time right in front of them.next you can just blink to their level and take them out.
text: You may want to watch out for the other tall boys around you because if they hear you they will fire at you and can explode the oil tank from the other talboys back.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/41277/Sam
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Razor Blades and Sticky Bombs work. You can also stab them for a one-hit kill or shoot them with Incendiary Bolts.
The most common way to kill a tallboy is to reach their heigh either by blinking or jumping to nearby objects and then assassinate them.