Defeating the Destroyer on Playthrough 2

[BackdireinEis]

How am I supposed to defeat this enemy? I constantly run out of ammo. AFAIK, there are noe ammo drops.

The boss is Lvl. 56, I am 54.

A friend helped me to beat him who was Lvl. 69.

But I want to do it one time in solo.

Does he scale in Lvl. if you go beyond Lvl. 56?

[Draekus]

some tips on beating the Destroyer.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1629162941
there are two, one on each side.

shoot it in the eye, that's it's Crit spot.

use a Class mod that has ammo regen, 'cause you're gonna use a lot of it.

[BackdireinEis]

I hide behind that stones. The ammo is my problem.

Has every char a class mod with ammo regen?

Also:
I read, that enemy scaling starts, when entering the vault. Does this refer to the Destroyer too?

[Draekus]

yes, every Character has Class mods that have ammo regen.
Roland has 3
Mordecai has 2
Lilith and Brick have 1

those are not including the ones from the Knoxx DLC.

[BackdireinEis]

Originally posted by Draekus:

yes, every Character has Class mods that have ammo regen.
Roland has 3
Mordecai has 2
Lilith and Brick have 1

those are not including the ones from the Knoxx DLC.

Ok, understood.

What about the scaling? I read, it begins, when entering the Vault. Does the Destroyer scale too?

[Draekus]

Originally posted by backdireineis:

Originally posted by Draekus:

yes, every Character has Class mods that have ammo regen.
Roland has 3
Mordecai has 2
Lilith and Brick have 1

those are not including the ones from the Knoxx DLC.

Ok, understood.

What about the scaling? I read, it begins, when entering the Vault. Does the Destroyer scale too?

have no idea..

[Draekus]

here's a list of the different class mods :
https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Class_Mod_(Borderlands)

[Dionyzen]

eridian weapons may solve your problem

[BackdireinEis]

Tried it with Eridian Weapons: 3 shots, 20 seconds waiting till reload. The Destroyer would take by this about 6 hours to defeat.

[BackdireinEis]

Can I somehow force ammo regen mods to appear?

[Draekus]

Originally posted by backdireineis:

Can I somehow force ammo regen mods to appear?

no, just keep looking.
check everything. containers, vending machines, etc.

[Nakos]

Or .. use an Eridian weapon. Infinite ammo, they just need to regenerate.

Originally posted by backdireineis:

Tried it with Eridian Weapons: 3 shots, 20 seconds waiting till reload. The Destroyer would take by this about 6 hours to defeat.

Different weapons have different shot/loading cycles. Use two, swap between them while one is recharging.

[Top///Lobster]

I just defeated him yesterday. I hid behind those blocks, I had an ammo regenerating revolver with no ammo class mod, Berserker Brick playstyle 4 me. I played as brick. I cycled between my revolver, smg, shotgun, and sniper rifle. I also had a quick health regeneration shield so I had infinite ammo and infinite health, technically.

Shoot the purple tentacles when they spawn to stop the airborne needles being shot at you, then you can hide behind cover from the Destroyer's lazer beams and other attacks without worry. I think destroying those tentacles also spawned ammo as I was getting ammo packs drop near me. If you have perks that give you benefits when killing an enemy, those perks trigger when killing the tentacles.

Once all purple tentacles are destroyed you have a long time to just shoot at The Destroyer's Eye as much as possible until they spawn again. As long as you take cover when it shoots the lazer or whips you with its orange tentacles/tongue you will be fine. It becomes a battle of attrition but with infinite ammo and health due to regeneration you can do it.

In between the tentacles spawning I did run low on ammo for my other weapons, so I relied on my ammo regenrevolver until the tentacles spawned and I could get ammo drops again from killing them. Unless the revolver was causing these drops but I don't think it did, I think it was from killing the tentacles. It wasn't an exciting boss battle at all, just a long one, one revolver shot at a time.

Don't get close to the Destroyer, don't use melee, Although on my first playthrough as Brick I used the Sting Like a Bee ability where you shoot forward when you punch and glitched into the Destroyer's mouth where I couldn't take damage and just punched it's tonsils to death. I couldn't manage that on this playthrough so had to actually use some effort :/

[Toasted Sunshine]

I'd say use your usual shooty-killy-bang tactics but bring an eridian weapon/ammo-regenerating gun or two, so if you happen to run out of ammo in your normal guns you have some guns to fall back on and finish the fight with.

[BackdireinEis]

Until now I haven`t found the ammo regen mod or ANY weapon, that regenerates ammo.
But maybe I didn`t look closely.

[LNTC]

Throw Bouncing Betty nades into its mouth. This should drain a lot of its health early on. Then an Equalizer Revolver or a Savior SMG would be a great find for ammo regen.