I fought that scorcher guarding the cut like two days ago. Took me like an hour to take it down. Wasn't used to how much it lunges and takes so much space.

After watching this I am no long afraid of scorchers. Harvesting them in burning shoers with ease. Thanks a lot, and I really love your work and effort.

I absolutely agree, the scorcher is the toughest machine in horizon zero dawn. So far, fighting them was no fun for me. I hope your tips can help with that. To be honest, I feel a little stupid because I literally have a *lodge ropecaster* and I never even thought about using it against scorchers XD

It is honestly criminal how few subscribers you have! This is so so high quality and I’m proud to be a new subscriber. You go through so much depth and use actual strategies that most people are capable of. The way I like to take care of them is by first tying them down with a rope caster, then activating their generator, then freezing them, then just spamming sticky bombs or precision arrows. Once he thaws, I pepper him with freeze arrows and rinse&repeat

I killed scorcher at the Cut.. but it did take a bit of doing. don't go to the wilds until you've got a pretty good arsenal later in the game or are playing game+ ... nice to see video for the average Joe. instead of usual ones from other youtubers using legendary weapons and so on.. I bought a used copy of HZD about a year after it was released, i'd never heard of it until i saw a YT vid on it. i've been playing it ever since. i bet a lot of ppl picked it up when it was free in 2020 on psn. great game. so much to do in it. always something new to learn

Yeah for me Scorcher is i think the most powerful and toughest enemy in the Horizon zero dawn. Fireclaw and frostclaw is the toughest too but their movement was too predictable.

I ran into that first scorcher after finishing the gravehoard mission. Died so many times, I think I just bombed him into oblivion and used up every health potion and medicianal herb I had. Went up into Song´s Edge and talked to people then went back to the main game, didn´t come back until finishing the game. Scorchers were still a problem, but not so much after the video.

I usually used freeze and then pound it with hardpoints however I found on Very Hard difficulty you can't get it to freeze very well so I switched to hitting it with a ropecaster which stuns it and stops it's attacks and then continue until it is tied down and them pound it with the blast sling which keeps it down and stunned ...... The key is stunning it and keeping it stunned so it can't counterattack .... Also the one quest you get for the three hunters the very first part of that quest puts you at the spot with the scorcher and two longlegs so sneaking up is nearly impossible especially since you have to take out two towers which puts everything on alert and in the harder difficulties everything is alerted easier and is more aggressive ..... I think one of the more underrated parts of this game is they way they set up with difficulty levels, instead of just nerfing your DPS and protection and increasing the enemy's DPS and protection it actually changes the AI making the enemies more aggressive, more likely to gang up on you and come into the fight from a larger area and even affects detection making it harder to sneak without using one of the stealth outfits or at least a stealth weave. It makes replaying the game so much better and more interesting

Your guides are the best. I'm trying to get a Scorcher Heart and this strategy made it significantly easier and faster to kill them, even when there's two. I thank thee from the depths of my heart.

Love the content the freeze tie down Strat works a treat really appreciate the tips mate! 👌

Trying to beat the Cheiftans trial at hunting grounds in 4:30 for top prize. Impossible for me at moment. Two scorchers, two frost bellowbacks, then two Daeon frostclaws to finish things up. Best time so far 11:30 on easy. WTF. Will be watching all the master hunting guides.

I love fighting these things. They're so badass and challenging. I love dodging their lunge attack.

I used to love one of the unmarked northern sites where sometimes you could have 4 scorchers spawn at once, or even a mix of scorchers & frostclaws.

great video and commentary thank you

Most underrated channel

great guides. your voice makes me sleepy. haha it’s so soothing 😅

I went back into the Firebreak facility to retrieve the Heat Sink outfit modifier during a New Game+ Ultra Hard playthrough. Got pwned by these (two) scorchers! Thanks for the tips. Subscribed...

Oh man, I am watching this while getting my butt beat by that demonic scorcher at the beginning of the dlc. I am lvl 12, think I should just turn around

Dude, your videos are so good. Was able to kill a Scorcher without being hit and I managed to dodge all his attacks too! I remember starting the DLC and I encountered a Scorcher for the first time and was like, "What the actual hell is this thing" and while I killed it, it gave me a bad bad beating. This was all on normal BTW lolol

I would suggest after destroying the power generator to just instantly go for freezing it, but timing the freeze so that the shock timer runs out JUST before the freeze takes place (you can damage other parts of the Scorcher like the snout until the timer is roughly half empty). This gives you a small animation where the Scorcher will be locked in place, and that allows you to hit it with triple precision arrows on the cannon, dealing heavy damage to it.

Helpful vid. My only quibble: these boys like to ambush from time to time. They'll get you in areas where stealth isn't even an option; harder to hit the power generator that way. BUT...ropecasters are my best friend in those scenarios.

Thank you just killed the 2 scorchers in the arena, Subscribed !

I like destroying the power cell on the back and then hitting the tip of the snout with hardpoint arrows. It's a small target but does lots of damage and it's easy to hit while the scorcher is stunned.

Shoot power generator, lay into mine launcher when stunned, freeze then attack. Got it.

05:04 in my case two Scorchers with a bunch of mobs to annoy you (demonic scrappers), nearby is the bears (quest kill 5 bears is still active) 🥵

I just happen to be played HZD and TFW DLC like this last week (after i got the free claim 2 years ago in PS4 but have never played it), and when I'm going to play TFW after level 45 (before sun fall mission) i saw this beast first upon entering The Cut, silly me i thought it was like Sawtooth or Ravager, i just charge towards it ready to spear-dodge like usual, but damn man, this beast attack speed and range is insane, while Sawtooth and Ravager only take 3 rope shot, this beast take at least 8 or 9 idk, i died on the first try despite the shiel weaver 😂 Man, even 3 frostclaw at the werak mission wasn't that challenging 😅

Was cleaning up before finishing Zero Dawn for the first time, I enjoyed it but im curious if after two years if this and forbidden west are still favorites.

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Their are 3 sites for them, depending on the completed level of the game. Near the cauldron. And mountain side on very hard/ultra hard they spawn more often

Killed him on my first try thanks to you!

I was looking for a pigment and ran into 4 damn scorchers, it don't mark on the map but man that was scariest shit I've faced in the game I had to fast travel out of there

Wait you don't need to fully draw Banuk frost bow for full frost effect? I'm always fully drawing it on all bows

I thought you had to fight the scorcher at the entrance😂

You know it's Hard when fighting Three FrostClaw at the same time is easier than fighting one Scorcher.

Thank you! I'm trying to do the Banuk hunting trial (which I'm already not super good at, I'm a mediocre gamer at best) and it's taking me 3 of 4 and a half minutes to cut through only 2 scorchers The game tries to say that frostclaws and fireclaws are the hardest, but I'm not convinced

Was looking for a guide to deal with these in forbidden west but its not there. Would the strategy be somewhat similar in forb west too?

Guide for killing Watchers and Bandits please. /s

Ngl, I shot myself in the foot with the Scorcher trophy. I just realized that I need to fight them but I'm running the game on Ultra Hard so this is gonna run my pockets so hard.

I feel like Carja Blazon Heavy would've been better armor here, as its 50 fire resist certainly outclasses the 27 fire resist coil you have on.

Wish I'd seen this video years ago. I played the hard way and boy..... 😩

God Scorcher were the 2nd place of terror, with Fireclaws being 1st place

I didn't know you could sneak pass the scorcher or else i wouldn't had taken 30 minutes to beat it🤣🤣🤣

Are the banuk bows better than the shadow or carja variants?

Use the resist fire potion to have a good fighting chance Can use its own cannon against it, absolutely kills it Just keep yohr distance, take of all the main removable components Frost attacks work best, and/or ropecaster if you still have trouble

I play this series but i never encounter Scorcher. How do you do it?

wait you can sneak past the scorcher at the entrance to the cut...? I tried but failed miserably...oops. Also that was the easiest Scorcher I ever killed. None of the others were that easy ever again 😭

dude precision arrows really chomps on your wires, I use the hardpoint arrows instead

I literally forgot that scorchers are zero dawn because i haven't played it in 1 if not 2 years

Lol I just rushed to the frozen wilds right after I override my first strider and defeated the scorcher but spamming dodge and arrows but now I'm broke