Apparently you can shoot the rear legs with an autocannon and two shot it as well. Nice!

I was bitching "chargers need a patch", now im like "damn, it was a skill issue all along"

Man, this game could really use a bestiary like the one in Deep Rock Galactic. It has information about weakspots, resistences and weakness of every enemy in the game. It even has a 3D model of the enemies that you can mess around.

Good for fighting the bugs.... too bad I'm stuck in Robot Nam, there's only about 10k of us keeping them in check, and we haven't even liberated a single planet.

Something of note, you only deal 10% damage to the chargers 'weakspot' (same with bile spewers) unless your gun deals explosive damage. The CEO clarified that bug weakspots work that way recently, which seems a bit unintuitive.

Great info the flamethrower is definitely an under appreciated weapon. It takes a steady hand, one guided with the fervour of liberty

Consider also the Orbital EMS It has a 75s CD, a very quick deploy time, and will paralyze both the charger and anything around it. This allows ~15 seconds of easy access to THE BOOTY, which you can rip apart with small arms fire or your likely early-game companion- the Machine Gun support weapon. To ensure accuracy, enter the stratagem code to hold the beacon, then evade the charger so that it stops to turn around. Now throw the beacon, and prepare to circle around to THE BOOTY if your teammates don't already have it covered.

Took a long gaming hiatus, then suddenly I'm playing this game clocking 32hrs in 4 days.

I dont play this game, but im pro-freedom, so i need to know effective ways to deal with freedom haters, so, here i am.

Very nice breakdown, if that's one thing the game doesn't always communicate effectively is what kind of armor the enemy has and what weapons are more ideal for removing said armor. I get not having to hand hold the players but it wouldn't be bad to have a compendium of enemies you can read up on to learn more about their weakness.

I was hoping to see this technique, but it was glossed over. To all Helldivers and to you, Ratatoskr, you can kill the Charger with an Autocannon. On nearly every plated spot of the Charger, the Autocannon will deflect off. However, the Charger is vulnerable to Autocannon fire in its rearmost legs. Not the fleshy butt!! Its rearmost legs. It is important to note that the angle of attack matters. Do not shoot the Autocannon on the *side* of its rear legs. The only part of its rear legs that are vulnerable are the rear facing plated leg armor adjacent to its butt. You hit that straight on, and in 2 autocannon shots, it goes down. The process goes as such: 1. Charger charges 2. You charge slightly to the side; Charger overshoots. 3. You turn around, hit the rear-plated legs. You only have a short window of time to line up the shot and nail him. For beginners of this technique, you may need the Charger to charge at you twice in order to nail thw technique. But with enough experience, you should be able to two-tap the Charger in one go! But to be fair, these techniques in Ratatoskr's video are *far* easier to pull off. But in a pinch, you'll have yourself the most versatile weapon to kill nearly everything in sight - the Autocannon!

I feel like people forget about the eat, so i'm glad you showed it off. 2 eats every minute is solid rocket power.

Hey! Appreciate this guide! I love how you included the fact to kill them sustainably rather than using a nuke and call it ggez.

Flamethrower seems legit. Thanks for the upload👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I like how you present multiple options, not just railgun. The recoilless is also very effective when used as a team. Buddy up with a friend though because random players you don't know are more likely to be allergic to teamwork.

I'd want to point something out here about the expendable anti tank. So firstly, you don't need to shoot its leg then shoot that leg with a primary weapon. If you get a headshot, it'll take the charger down in a single hit, no extra fuss. The easiest way to do a headshot is to aim the EAT and wait for the charger to turn around and start its charge. But a really effective strategy is to use the EAT pod itself to kill the charger. It takes some practice, but if you miss then the worst case scenario is that you use the EAT itself the same way you always would. So there's no reason to not try to land the strategem ball on the charger somewhere every time. If you manage to tag the charger around its body or head, you'll kill it with the EAT pod. You then have two EAT's that can potentially kill two additional chargers with a headshot. I've managed to take out three chargers with an EAT drop before and I can't tell you how satisfying the experience is

My friends and I did a meme run and did flamethrower + bonesnapper armor. Pop a stim and then go in a horde. It actually no joke, clears the armored enemies really well. If you start getting overwhelmed and are about to get killed faster than your stim can pop you back, swap to your primary (in our cases it's typically a shotgun. The breaker or incendiary shotgun will do) and spam to get them off of you. They'd be guaranteed dead since they're already taking damage from getting burned. It's stupid fun!

Also for when you really can't be bothered that day you can throw resupply, special weapon, minefields or sentry turret stratagems onto it's back and the drop pod will insta-kill it upon landing no matter the health (you'll want to hit the top of it's back/ass, anywhere else and ball may bounce off)

I have nothing to say but bravo on this production. Concise, informative, well organized, and filled with the spirit of freedom. Hell yeah.

Just got the game. First time running a medium mission I had to eliminate 2 chargers. I run to the first objective and throw in a precision strike first thing. Charger aggros onto me mere seconds later as it comes around… The strike hits it dead on and absolutely destroys it. “Objective complete” Fell in love with the game. It was so cinematic as the big monster rolled up only to receive an space destroyer artillery shell right in its face.

Hope you will do a lot of videos on helldivers 2 , you make great video content ! This game is a blast and pure fun and your guides and discussions are really simple and good for the community . For SUPER EARTH , DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY .

Great video mate. Will definitely be helpful for the community. I'd like to share an extra tip. With the expendable anti tank you can kill 3 chargers. 1 if you stick the stratagem on top of the charger so the drop pod kills it when it lands and 2 more with the weapon itself as you explained in the video. Let's go spread some Democracy now!!!

Worth mentioning that a single EAT will take out a charger if you fire it down their throat while charging you. If you want to get fancy, calling in a stratagem that lands on the charger will also kill it in one shot. Stratagem call beacon follows the charger if you land it on the charger. Means you can kill 3 chargers with a single EAT call-in.

Grenade Launcher also works very well if you shoot under the charger so the projectiles explode from below

Resupplies are also incredibly effective on chargers! So if you are lower than level 20 and haven't unlocked railgun and the other stratagems yet, throw your resupply beacon at the charger, the Hellpod landing will either weaken the charger greatly or just kill it!

I find that treating chargers exactly like hunters from halo very effective. Wait for them to charge you, dodge, swing around and unload. Aim for there behind

Glad to see this video about Chargers, i fought them for the first time yesterday and i never to fight them again if i can help it, they are by far the worst enemy ive come across yet.

I think this is definitely the best video I watched on this yet! Thanks and I love how you covered it as a whole.

I've only made it up to difficulty 6 , but chargers are by far the toughest enemy to deal with, so I appreciate you making this video.

This was one of the best videos I’ve seen covering this game.

Disposable Anti Tank can kill 3 x Chargers. But you've gotta land the pod on one. I'm not that good, but some of my drop-mates do this regularly many times a mission.

I'm an autocannon man at the moment, the versatility and ammo count are so fun to me.

Thanks for the great advice. I only just hit level 10 (started playing like last week) and the only way I've managed to kill any chargers is with the recoilless rifle, which is powerful, but has the huge weakness of taking forever to reload. I'd kill a charger maybe, and try to reload to kill another one, or another large powerful bug, then get swarmed and killed before I could finish reloading or even manage to run out of the way behind cover to reload first. Then obviously I get reinforced back in and I no longer have access to the rifle because my corpse is buried in bugs, and I don't have access to call another one back in yet. But I had no idea the anti-tank could be called in so soon

Can you re-up this video now that they’ve patched

HD2 has interesting damage. The grenade launcher does more damage to a charger if you shoot the ground under or next to it's rear weak spot, taking about 4 shots to kill it. While hitting the rear weak spot directly takes 6-8 shots. It seems the explosions in HD2 do more damage than the center point of the shot. the grenade hitting the rear weak spot vs the ground next to it. I rocked the grenade launcher with the ammo pack and it clears bugs like no tomorrow.

You know, I was wondering the other day if the flamethrower would be good against them, but didn't have the cash to try it out. Thanks for doing all this testing, looking forward to seeing more of this!

You've single-handedly saved my co-op group's gaming nights with this video. Two of my friends were starting to get REALLY upset with how much trouble the Crushers were giving us, and they were starting to talk about giving this game up. I didn't know what else to tell them other than "Maybe we're just too low level?" Hopefully this will get them a good reason to try again.

Very useful information here.. other videos have mentioned removing the leg armor but none have showed it done so clearly

Fun side note: charger's limbs are vulnerable to any damage - including small arms fire - during their post charge and turning around animations. So if you're down on the big stuff, you can pew pew them down this way. :P

One thing many people dont know is that if chargers hit a wall they get stunned for several seconds, which means you can kill them even if you cant penetrate their armor as their weak spots become exposed

I love dealing with them now with the flame thrower. It takes a bit to get used to it where you do t kill yourself. But once you master it, you become a one man army

You can also stick an orbital strike to it on occasion, and the strike will follow it around like the orbital laser. That plus the rail gun or anti-tank is good in a pinch if you have two going at the same time.

I didn't know this game existed before this weekend and now I'm completely hooked. Its suprising how great it is, especially for someone who loved watching starship troopers as a kid. Its a dream come true.

Just unlocked the railgun today, it feels like a blessing from god

I LOVE GENERAL BRACSH, MY LIFE FOR SUPER EARTH, RAHHHHHHH

Nice summary of strategies. I knew the (free) Railgun and expendable anti-tanks made short work of them, but I was shooting them in the face or the butt. I did not know I could strip the armor off of the legs and pop them with my pistol a few times. Now if only I could figure out how to deal with Spitters before they melt my face off.

I'm currently stationed on Erata Prime, we have the fewest helldivers out of any location on the eastern front, but we're fighting hard and making progress! Once I unlocked the railgun and learned some stuff, chargers became a small annoyance rather than a horrifying threat.

You can actually damage charger's legs with any weapon no matter armor pen but it needs to be done when charger is doing certain animations

Great info and well delivered and edited! 👍

Definitely want more videos like this. Going through and teaching players how to take down enemies at all levels is top tier content. I think you should also go over other weapons like the Spear.

While using the recoilless rifle or EAT you can one shot to the head straight on. Its effective on challenging when you get the drop or avoid the charge and line it up while its running at you. Only downside is missing the shot and having to spend 5 seconds reloading. Personally though, finding out about the railgun method for the leg sounds more effective for higher levels when dealing with 3-5 at a time. Great video, learn something new everyday👍

You can headshot a charger with a Quasar cannon for a one-hit kill. Problem is the cooldown time but that gives you an excuse to clear the swarm with your primary. 3-second charge + 15-second cooldown = 1 charger every 20-ish seconds.

I knew there had to be a trick. Dam bugs weren’t this hard back in my day, but now!

Need a guide for Titans, cause it's pretty silly to dump half ammuniton of a railgun in the head to kill it. I'm not sure, but maybe there is small weakspot in the head, like big Automotons have (flashing red light), because I've been one shooting Titans with or without safe mod, but more often it takes 7-10 shots to take them down.

They can also appear in Hard difficulty maps as a mission objective. Just had that while running a friend, it was clear 2 Charger nests

Thanks for the guide. I was at first using unsafe mode to try and kill them. Now that I know safe mode is enough, the enemy management will be more easy for me.

Auto cannon can hit the leg weak points if u hit the underside of his back legs, even when armored. If you miss you can still blast off his butt so it will bleed out shortly after.

I was literally sitting on the toilet thinking about much I hate these things. I open KZfaq and this is the first video recommended to me

One thing I learned is that sticking your drops onto the charger breaks their armor and chunks them. Saves you a expendable rocket if you stick their call down on the big boys.

I’ve grown fond of the spear rocket launcher as it can 1 shot them depending on where it hits, though they usually survive for another 30 seconds or so before bleeding out.

I don't know anything about these bug aliens, but we can assume this. They stand for everything we don't stand for!

Actually ! If you use the Arc Thrower properly it can bypass any Terminid Armor and blow there armor way to expose a better weak point and it has unlimited ammo.

4 Impact grenade can also kills charger super fast, it doesn’t matter even if you nade its frontal armor, it’s very profitable especially when multiple chargers or bugs are kite and naded close together.

Bile titan are really good at killing Chargers when they spit their bile ^^

I felt like I was doing something wrong when dealing with chargers. This helps a lot.

2 Shots from the rail gun to the weak point is the face of the Bile Titan. Kills it instantly and is so satisfying

I've been running the railgun recently and its great. I like how you can stun the chargers for a second if you shoot them in the head and stop them from charging. I combo it with the jump pack and use light armor for super mobility.

Grenade launcher is often overlooked. You can target the ground beneath them and it'll bounce to their weak spot.

The autocannon weapon can also 2 shot chargers if you hit the hind leg where there isnt armor, will blow off the armor and then one more shot kills

When I run out of grenades I use sos or any support stratagems to kill bug holes. Nice tip for ya

Good video. I tried flamethrower once but not enough on charger. Thank you for doing the testing now I can go back to it! Good music in intro. Intense commentary with it

Remember that in highter difficulties, the best charger (and any bug) killer is tye bile titan own spit attack. You can clear off horders of chargers if you're careful enough (shield generator pack recommended for this strategy)

I really hope an alien collab would happen, imagine fighting xenomorphs and all the outbreaks. They’re called bugs too and the pulse rifle and marine armor would be nice cosmetics/gear

an important thing to mention is that chargers and titans will ALWAYS go for turrets even if theyre 100m away and youre right in front of them. this can be great if the turret is far enough away and you need some breathing room, or horrible if you cant kill them before they get there as they will instantly destroy it.

So the thing about the disposable AT rockets is they're entirely built around it's low cooldown. Don't lug around that thing, drop it on site, have a buddy with you, coordinate shots, and that's one dead charger with no problems and you can go back to whatever support weapon you had originally. Doubly so for Bile Titans, which die to 2 rockets straight to the face. No longer will you need to have prolonged fights with either, just fire and forget. Besides, later you get things like the orbital laser and rail cannon shot which deal with heavily armored targets, but a simple rocket to the face solves all problems.

Thank for this! I just started playing yesterday and picked up the anti-materiel rifle, thinking it would work well against chargers. I guess my next purchase is the exp. anti-tank.

After 20lvl I just get used to launch orbital railgun one-shot into chargers that keeps annoying my matchmaking teammates. Super effective, easy to use. Negative side: long reload and ineffective vs several chargers. Orbital laser beam can solve problems with 2-3 chargers by stratagem use. Negative side: longer reload and 3 uses only per ship. If your squad playing well without bug reaches, a mix of expendable rocket launchers, orbital railgun and armor-pen shotgun are enough to dance with several chargers near nests or 1-2 reaches. Killing pheromones bugs to prevent hellua reaches with hordes of armored enemies is more profitable in Extreme+ difficulties.

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I tried running some challenging missions solo and got absolutely bodied. Definitely gonna give the flamethrower a try

These are good tips! I like the video! With the current defensive war against the bots, people are really struggling with the evacuation missions. I'd love to watch a similar video on how to effectively fight the swarms of bots lol

Is this video Outdated?

the normal autocannon is also pretty good at killing chargers. You can kill them in 3 shots with it if you hit the right spots

Save for gatling turrets, supply box for team players/self support, minefield (used wisely with comms) and laser cannon pretty early on. Great stuff. The cannon uses no ammo when used wisely

The EMS strike is nice for chargers because it will keep them still. It only has a 75 second cooldown and is useful for crowd control as well as killing chargers.

Honestly, i've found that for all enemies in the game that you would use a railgun on, the only one that benefits from you using unsafe mode is the bile titan

The grande launcher is another one that can effectively deal with them but it take a whole clip and maybe some shots in its bit to kill it. But its overall usefulness is perfect for all the other bugs, bug tunnels and eggs.

Hitting the leg with the ap round is wild, i didnt even think of that

The Breaker shotgun can deal with them in a couple of clips if you get caught without a support weapon.

Now this person is helping spread freedom and democracy!

Thanks for the info. The orbital laser is quite effective as well but limited in uses. Keep up the good work !

Amazing tips! The only thing I would recommend is to just ignore the Rover's existence when in a group. That thing is efficient only in lowering your teams HP. I have no words to express how much I hate that stratagem in group play, I call it "the stim drinker".

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I think it's outdated now. If I railgun a charger in the leg it just bounces off

Apparently stun + flamethrower to the leg is also very good as well.

I would recommend the standard orbital bombardedment (the one you start with) as if you stick it on a charger it can one shot them

The Strategems should be given hotkeys instead of a lengthy key sequence. I have had to fall back from shooting bugs just to enter the 5-step sequence while avoiding being staggered by a melee attack.

The amount of times I’ve had a bug literally leap in front of my railgun shot so that I can’t hit a chargers leg is insane

Was sleeping on the flamethrower appreciate showing its effectiveness

I'm just going to appreciate the use of HD1 soundtrack man of culture

I didn’t think the souls guy would be doing videos on helldivers 2😂