"The Humble Approach"

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"The Humble Approach"
Pilot
	Jumbo
Ship Specs
Hull	20/20
Shield	0/0
Zone	Lazuli Nebula

"The Humble Approach" is a large ship with lots of cannons, that simply aims to obliterate you with high firepower and a wide area of fire. It is one of three possible Elite encounters in Lazuli Nebula.

It is piloted by Jumbo.

Layout

"The Humble Approach" is 9 tiles wide. It has two outer wings, a cockpit in the center, and 6 cannons fill out the rest. Parts from left to right:

1. Left Wing ( Hardest: Armored)
2. Cannon
3. Cannon
4. Cannon
5. Cockpit ( Brittle)
6. Cannon
7. Cannon
8. Cannon
9. Right Wing ( Hardest: Armored)

Strategy

"The Humble Approach" is an early gut check for your run, and a frequent loop-ender. You'll need a good, balanced defensive approach to survive this fight for long, as its pattern fires in ways that test both your

Shield - its first and second attacks are hard to dodge

Evade - its third attack is hard to block with Shield alone.

Its large size means that attacking it isn't too difficult, at the very least.

Alternately, this ship's Cockpit is Brittle, so an all-out offensive approach where you simply line up on that and attack can work too, though you'll usually take damage yourself doing this unless you're very strong at Evade, except for its first pattern. If you find the Extra-Planar Being event in Lazuli Nebula and intend to fight Elites, taking Ephemeral Blast for this ship specifically is an excellent idea - thanks to its Brittle point you can cash it in for 14 damage, ending this fight fairly quickly.

Note that on Hardest difficulty, its Wings will be Armored.

Attacks

"The Humble Approach" will always rotate between these 3 actions, starting with the first one.

Here, cannons are numbered from left to right, so the leftmost cannon is cannon 1, the second-leftmost is cannon 2, etc.

Image	Move	Details
	Move any number of spaces Aims at player	Attack for 2 from cannon 1 Attack for 1 from cannon 2 Attack for 1 from cannon 5 Attack for 2 from cannon 6
	Move any number of spaces Aims at player	Attack for 1 from cannon 2 Attack for 1 from cannon 3 Attack for 1 from cannon 4 Attack for 1 from cannon 5
	Move any number of spaces Aims at player	Attack for 1x3 from cannon 3 Attack for 1x3 from cannon 4

Dialogue

Before Combat

1st Encounter
//cat.exe What on earth is that ship? //cat.exe It has... so many guns. Jumbo Hey! Jumbo Did you guys know there's a big bounty out for a ship with your registration number? //cat.exe We did not! Thanks for letting us know! Jumbo No sweat. //cat.exe Well, we better be getting on our way! Jumbo Hm, no.

1st Subsequent Encounter with Drake
Drake Who's this guy? Jumbo Hello. I'm here to collect the bounty, again. Drake The wh- Are you kidding me? That's a fake bounty! That's MY fake bounty! Drake I put it on these nerds the day before the time loop started, so they'd be distracted while I robbed them! //cat.exe Excuse me? Jumbo You tricked me? Now my feelings are hurt... Prepare to die, et cetera.

Subsequent Encounters #1
Jumbo You're too easy to find.

Subsequent Encounters #2
Jumbo Weapons hot.

Subsequent Encounters #3
Jumbo Oh hey look, target practice!

Subsequent Encounters #4
Jumbo Dead or alive, baby! //cat.exe Alive! Jumbo No.

Subsequent Encounters #5
Jumbo I'm good at this.

Combat Barks

Intent: Fire 4 Cannons #1
Jumbo This is my big cool attack.

Intent: Fire 4 Cannons #2
Jumbo Check this out.

Intent: Fire 4 Cannons #3 (with Riggs)
Jumbo Do you think this is too many cannons? Riggs I do, yeah.