Brute Reaper King

The Brute Reaper King is a Brute Creature in 's Expansion Pack Genesis: Part 1.

Combat
This section describes how to fight against the Brute Reaper King.

General
The Brute Reaper King appears in the mission "It's a Bug Hunt" on the Lunar biome. Unlike other hunts, it only appears at the end of the hunt at full strength as you are mainly hunting the Nameless in this mission. It is essentially a standard Reaper King and shares its traits, including its powerful melee damage, firing projectiles from its tail that slows the victim, using a tail swipe that causes considerable knockback, and being highly resistant to damage unless it's affected by charge light. It has around 240k-260k health and with its aforementioned qualities, is quite a challenge to bring down.

Strategy
Bringing charge light in the form of a charge pet such as a Bulbdog, Shinehorn, or Featherlight is pretty much necessary. You could alternatively bring Plant Species Z Fruits to make it vulnerable from a distance. The Brute Reaper King can be directly confronted with strong tames such as Rexes or a pack of Allosaurus but due to its ability to cause crazy knockback, you can expect a few tames to go flying off the area in which it is being fought. If you do have access to the plant species Z fruits, you can perch atop the many high areas out of the Brute Reaper King's reach and wear it down with munitions, though its high health pool will make this take a while.

Weaponry
If you're adamant about using creatures to fight the Brute Reaper King head-on then your standard hunting creatures such as the Rex, pack of Allosaurus, and a Yutyrannus will be needed, but getting through through the Lunar biome will be a challenge. It's recommended to have them podded and deploy them before you anticipate to fight it. This would require tribemates in order to deploy the creatures in a timely manner. Don't forget your charge pet either, otherwise this mission is nigh impossible.

Should you plan to keep your distance atop areas to where it can't reach you, bring your plant species Z fruits and your fabricated weapons.

Dangers
Most of its attacks can knock you around with ease due to the low gravity so falling off areas where it is to be fought is highly likely. This can make Its hunt troublesome. On beta difficulty its tail swipe can likely kill a survivor in one hit or at the very least, break their armor immediately. On alpha difficulty, getting attacked is a certain death in most situations. The Brute Reaper King is fast, deals considerable damage, controls its foes well, and without charge light affecting it, is nearly impossible to bring down.

Weakness
The projectiles it shoots from its tail do not deal very much damage and can't pierce terrain so as long as you can stay out of the range of its tail swipe and bite while also exposing it to charge light, it can be worn down and killed.