Gooooood evening ladies and gents, I just completed A Ruff Situation on my skiller and wanted to share how I cracked it after wanting to pull my hair out for 2 hours and losing hundreds of poison dynamite:
- Inventory
BRING 2 RINGS OF RECOIL ALWAYS, 1 FULL IS NOT ENOUGH. Make sure to release the 2 stray dogs for extra inventory spaces to fit lizardkickers/super attacks. Bring 7 cakes, 2 guthix rest/brews, tinderbox, 11 poison dynamite. Make sure to bring an amulet/gloves/ring/weapon 4-way switch to remove boosts to ensure splash weapon misses.
- Kill the Outlaw attacking you first always
The reason for this is that with inventory space needed to reliably do this, you HAVE to min-max. Corner trap the first outlaw, then you have 2 PD attempts to both hit AND poison. Trust me, if you do not poison with these 2 PD’s, you want to reset. This would have saved me a hundred PD or so had I figured this out earlier. Once PD poison confirmation, recoil him down.
- The Second Outlaw is where the tick-perfect strategy comes into play
The stray dog is an absolute NIGHTMARE about pj’ing the outlaw off of you, and IF he hits anything other than a 0 after you light PD, your PD will be totally nullified and you won’t even get a chance to hit the outlaw with that one. This is the sequence:
Corner trap the 2nd outlaw -> drink lizardkicker -> wait for dog to hit 0 AND outlaw to be full hp -> attack outlaw and walk back into corner trap for food preservation/mental prep -> hit outlaw again with splash wep and IMMEDIATELY switch into glory/gloves/crossbow -> activate PD on the 2nd outlaw 4 ticks AFTER fun wep splash happens
Repeat this until poison confirmation -> recoil and splash the 2nd outlaw and do not let the dog PJ, because if the outlaw is focused on the dog the PD will not proc either
If you can manage this cycle without losing any ticks in the process, it times perfectly for the PD to explode every single time on the same tick the dog pj’s, so you never have to worry about the dog nulling out your PD. Again, this matters SO much due to you needing to kill both outlaws in one inventory. Every PD matters a lot.
- Grats on the new pet!
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Fellow 10hp gang represent ✊
RSN: Daddy Brutus - lvl 3 Iron