Lore
Who are the Thorn Runner?
A splinter of the crown drives each hurried step.
Thorn Runner belongs to The Rootbound. Bark, spores and roots — the forest that turned on its keepers. They fill the first floors. 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 Thorn Runner appears
The spawn weight says how common Thorn Runner is against the rest of that floor’s pool; higher is more common.
- Floor 1: Thornwood — from 1:30, spawn weight 15
- Floor 2: Mossbound Grove — from the start, spawn weight 15
- Floor 3: Withered Crossing — from the start, spawn weight 16
- Floor 4: Fallen Sanctum — from the start, spawn weight 10
- Floor 5: Cursed Ruins — from the start, spawn weight 10
- Floor 6: Hollow Citadel — from the start, spawn weight 10
Strategy
How to fight Thorn 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.
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