What Does Explosive Damage Do?

Explosive Damage is a new elemental damage type in the game Horizon Forbidden West. Read on to learn more about this new damage type and how to effectively use it in combat.

What does Explosive Damage Do?

Explosive Damage is an area of effect type of damage that can stagger and even knockdown an enemy machine. A machine afflicted with Explosive Damage will stagger and have smoke come from its affected parts, creating a window of opportunity for more attacks.

How to Effectively Use Explosive Damage

Scan and Aim at Explosive Components and Weak Spots

Use Blastslings and Spike Throwers against enemies with explosive components to detonate them. Explosive damage is effective against almost all enemy types, but even more so against enemies that tend to clump together in groups. This can cause a chain of explosions if they are grouped closely enough.

List of Explosive Ammo Weapons

Enemies with Components Vulnerable to Explosive Damage

These machines have components which are especially vulnerable to Explosive Damage. Much of these components are explosive, and some have weak spots that are more susceptible to explosive damage.

Vulnerable Machines
Spikesnout	Plowhorn	Widemaw
Acid Clawstrider	Fire Clawstrider	Bellowback
Fire Glinthawk	Glinthawk	Shell-walker
Grimhorn	Apex Snapmaw	Snapmaw
Sunwing	Clamberjaw	Rollerback
Rockbreaker	Behemoth	Dreadwing
Tideripper	Shellsnapper	Frostclaw
Scorcher	Slitherfang	Tremortusk
Fireclaw	Slaughterspine	Apex Slaughterspine
Specter	Specter Prime

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