Lore
Who are the Rift Runner?
It follows the cracks between the crown’s fragments.
Rift Runner belongs to The Crownless. What is left of the shattered crown’s host. They arrive only with the Endless Swarm. As a runner: Fast and fragile. Runners reach you first, so keep an instant or piercing skill ready.
Attack
Contact
Has no special attack: it hurts by touching you, and it is dangerous only in numbers.
How to handle it: Keep moving so the pack never closes the circle, and let area skills thin it out.
Floors
Where Rift Runner appears
Rift Runner never joins a floor’s regular horde. It arrives with the Endless Swarm that starts when the floor timer runs out, and its share of the swarm grows by the minute.
- Swarm minute 1: about 30% of the swarm
- Swarm minute 2: about 30% of the swarm
- Swarm minute 3: about 25% of the swarm
- Swarm minute 4 and beyond: about 22% of the swarm
Strategy
How to fight Rift Runner
- Fast and fragile. Runners reach you first, so keep an instant or piercing skill ready.
- Keep moving: a runner only wins when the pack closes the circle around you.
- Elite versions carry more health and hit harder; items that raise damage to elites pay off deeper down.
Skills that handle runners well: Lightning, Storm Surge, Frost Nova.
Family
More of The Crownless
