How to Kill Chargers

The Charger is a Terminid enemy in Helldivers 2 that has a lot of weaknesses. See how to kill a Charger, its locations, the best difficulty to find it, its variants, and an overview here!

How to Kill a Charger

How to Kill a Charger
Charger Weak Spot Shoot the Charger's Head Shoot the Charger's Front Legs Shoot the Charger's Posterior Avoid the Charger's Attack Use Offensive Stratagems Hit the Charger with Stratagem Pods

Charger Weak Spot

The Charger is a heavily armored enemy that will be very hard to kill without an anti-armor weapon. Regular bullets will bounce off its heavy armor, and it has a charge attack that deals a lot of damage.

Shoot the Charger's Head

The Helldivers 2 developers lowered the health of the Charger’s head as mentioned in Patch 1.000.102. With this, the Charger's actual weak spot is its head.

Now, you can instantly kill Charger using a Support Weapon such as the Recoilless Rifle and the EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank by just landing a well-placed shot at its head!

Shoot the Charger's Front Legs

Shooting the Charger front legs is also a way to kill it. It will initially be armored like the rest of its body, but you can shoot the armor off with a few anti-armor weapon shots, depending on the weapon.

Shoot the Exposed Flesh

After you shoot off the armor, switch to a Support Weapon like the Machine Gun and then shoot the exposed leg until the Charger dies. We recommend just shooting the Charger's head since this method is more time-consuming and will eat up a lot of your resources.

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Shoot the Charger's Posterior

Another spot you can shoot Chargers at with regular weapons is at their posterior area, which does not have armor. It is much less vulnerable as their exposed legs, but you can deal damage to the Charger instead of your attacks simply bouncing off the armor.

Avoid the Charger's Attack

The Charger has a charge attack where it runs towards one direction. If the attack hits you, you will receive heavy damage and will fall down, making it deadly if you are surrounded by other enemies.

Run Away or Hide From the Charger

The simplest way to avoid a Charger's attack is to run in the direction perpendicular to its charge direction. You can also dive and jump out of the way, but this leaves you in a worse position than running.

The charge attack can also be avoided by hiding behind terrain. Just make sure that you are not on destructible terrain, like buildings since a Charger can easily destroy those!

Use Offensive Stratagems

If you want to make quick work of a Charger, you could use an Offensive Stratagem like an Orbital Precision Strike on it. If it does not kill the Charger, it will likely be heavily damaged and can be picked off with a few shots to its posterior.

Hit the Charger with Stratagem Pods

All type of pods can deal heavy damage to anything, including Chargers. It will take a few of them to kill a Charger, and it can be hard to make them hit, but it is an option you have at your disposal.

Reinforce pods that revive the player are great at this since the one who got revived can steer the pod. You can obtain the Caught them by Supplies! trophy if a Charger is killed with this method.

Trophy Guide and List of Achievements

Charger Locations

Where to Find Chargers

You can find Chargers in any of the sectors and difficulties mentioned above!

Eliminate Charger Missions

You are guaranteed to encounter Chargers in Eliminate Charger missions regardless of the difficulty you choose.

Best Difficulty to Farm Chargers

Clearing Eliminate Charger missions in Medium difficulty is the fastest way to complete Personal Orders related to it while also gaining some XP whenever you extract!

Difficulty Levels Differences

All Charger Variations

Charger Behemoth

The Charger Behemoth looks similar to a regular Charger, but its armor has more bladed edges. You'll encounter this Charger in the lower difficulty Eliminate Charger missions, but also in some higher difficulty missions.

Charger Overview

Charger Basic Information

Charger
Faction	Terminid

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