The Destroyer

## **Military and political information**

### Attack(s):

The Destroyer Uses the Large Heavy Chunks to throw victim down* Punching the fist down Attack & Grabbing the hand down in Surface Attack

## Death Scenes

* Should Abdullah Grabbed By the Destroyer's Hands To Ripping Him Apart nothing left of him If Abdullah Failed To Shoots In The Destroyer's Eyes. or swept with one of the Destroyer's Fast Charge To Kill Him while he is on low health, he will be utterly ripped apart with nothing left of him.
* If Abdullah is hit with one of the Destroyer's Lifting Large Heavy Chunks of cement with low health, he will either be dismembered or completely torn in half.

## Strategy

* First, never stop moving.
* The Destroyer has two methods of attacking. Firstly, it uses one of its three tentacles to sweep across the area Abdullah is standing on. Since the fight occurs in Zero-G, he can dodge the attack from jumping from floor to ceiling or vice versa. Abdullah can also reliably dodge hand attacks by moving continuously left or right as the Leviathan swings them at him.
	+ The trick here is to make Abdullah's jumps as short as possible to allow more time to fire at the tentacle's weak spot. Aiming just above the Leg when it begins its attack is a good tactic. The Contact Beam weapon is also a worthy choice for this.
		- After destroying a Leg, The Destroyer will use a new attack, which consists of Throwing out Large Heavy Chunks of cement through its central Hands where its core, that resides within, becomes briefly exposed.
* The Destroyer usually Throws out five Heavy Chunks of cement at a time. It is possible to use Telekinesis on the first and third pods to destroy the second and fourth pods, but it is usually easier to strafe from the left and right. The Heavy Chunks of cement can be used as a projectile to hit The Destroyer's Hands in order to save ammo.
	+ Shooting at the core after it finishes throwing out a Heavy Chunks of cement, or using Kinesis to grab a pod and hurl it back into the The Destroyer's Hands, is a good strategy. The Heavy Chunks of cement will either collide with another pod The Destroyer has fired, causing an explosion, or will collide with The Destroyer's core, dealing damage. There are also Gas Canisters floating around the chamber that can be hurled with Kinesis.
	+ Alternatively, shooting directly at the pods themselves will also hurl them back, if not outright detonating them inside The Destroyer's Hands, dealing massive damage. This is arguably the most efficient method for getting rid of the beast. On lower difficulties, The Destroyer can be killed in a single Lifting Large Heavy Chunks of cement cycle if one manages to detonate all of them inside of its Hands, thus finishing it off in less than a minute. A reasonably upgraded Plasma Cutter is well-suited for this job as it will detonate the pods in one hit. On higher difficulties it may require two successful cycles to destroy the Leviathan, yet the method's viability remains unchanged.
* The Flamethrower's secondary fire seems to cause extreme damage to the Leviathan's mouth.
* The Ripper's primary fire has too short a range to hit The Destroyer, and the projectiles of its secondary fire are too slow to be reliable. The Ripper is, in consequence, not a good choice against The Destroyer.
* Likewise, the Force Gun is also poor against the Leviathan, due to the primary fire being way too short-ranged and the secondary fire's bombs being too slow (unless if you are fast enough to launch a grenade).
* The Contact Beam's high damage is devastating against this boss. One blow will sever a tentacle instantly and a few shots to the mouth will kill it quickly, especially if the weapon is maxed out.
* A more direct tactic that can quickly defeat The Destroyer is to attack with a fully upgraded Pulse Rifle, easily dispatching both the tentacle pustules and explosive pods with quick aim.
* A second set of tentacles will spawn when the Leviathan is near death. Apart from dodging them, these are unimportant as they will die when the core mouth is killed.
* Before engaging the Leviathan, which occurs when Isaac leaves the airlock to Food Storage, items in the area — boxed and otherwise — can be retrieved using Kinesis. Even a stock Kinesis module can reach all items inside.

## Appearances

* *Dead Space Remastered*
• *Chapter 6: Environmental Hazard* (First and only appearance)