how to kill scav boss

[ShnitzelKiller]

I've managed to spear him many times, but so far I always get caught by a spear, since he throws diagonally, and can hit me while I'm in the middle of a bomb jump. Is there a particularly effective weapon? I have been using bombs and bomb spears, and once I managed to grab him somehow while he was still alive (but I didn't snap him).

Also am I gonna have to go back to a shelter, because I dropped down from the dome roof and there doesn't seem to be any other way to go except through the room with a million scavs on the left of the boss room. It would suck to finally manage to kill him and then just die doing that.

[Flyin' High]

From my experience in dealing with them, regular spears seem to be the way to go, after 2 or 3 good hits I ended up just stunlocking him to death, additionally at the start they kind of behave weirdly, allowing you to get a few free hits off, whereas electric and explosives will knock you away, making things a bit fairer.
Explosives seem to bounce right off and I didn't notice much good done by the electric spears.
Thankfully you won't have to worry about dying after that.
After you kill the boss as artificer the run ends, you can still load back into it however.

[Belt fed chainsmoker]

The cheesiest way is to throw all the spears in arena away to the left and leave only bombs and one spear for yourself. There's about 3 to 4 bombs in arena and that was enough for me. If it's not enough, finish them off with spear.

[scrimblo]

u just stun him with arti skill and then explode his ass with spears

[BowLuckie]

After I killed him i cant load back onto the save (probably cuz i have McDonald WiFi) but this has never happened to me.

[MadArtillery]

He's wearing red centipede armour plates. Gotta knock em off just like red centipede before you can hurt him. You can cheese it by just moving all the spears out of the way so he can't throw any,

[Kivit]

the chieftain isnt like the elite scavengers who can toss spears in multiple different directions, they can only toss them the same way you can. Use height and stun blasts to get hits on him and stunlock him with spears once the armor is chipped away.

Try to keep the fight in the center of the chamber. You can climb his throne and bait him into throwing missing spears and retaliate with your own when he's unarmed. There is a crowd of regular and elite scavengers who will immediately attack if you approach the exit to the left of the chamber and there is some level geometry that gives the scavenger chieftain the advantage as far less of their body is exposed and the artificer has to approach with no cover at all. This works both ways though if you want to use the right side for yourself.

You do not have to retreat to another shelter after killing the chieftain. Picking up his mask ends the game.

[CtenosaurOaxacana]

Originally posted by violence:

u just stun him with arti skill and then explode his ass with spears

This was how I went about it. It's a bit cheesy/easy, especially if other scavs aren't around to interfere. But it does work.