Risen Lancer Enemy type 4 of 15 · first met in The Battlefield

Counterplay for Risen Lancer, written from its move list, resistances, variants and drops.

Tips built from its data: what it resists, what it is weak to, which attacks to dodge and how to open it up.

• Watch for the red attacks: Melee Spin cannot be blocked, so dodge them instead of holding block.
• Its head takes ×3 damage, so aim firearm shots at the head.
• It can block and parry your attacks (block chance 100%, parry chance — as the game lists them), so mix in charged attacks and posture damage instead of mashing light attacks.
• Sneak up on it: a backstab deals a fixed 170 damage at level 1, 100% of its health (1 backstab kills it).
• It has a grab, and grabs cannot be blocked: step back when it lunges.
• Its toughest variant, Elite*, starts at 400 HP, far more than the 170 of a level-1 placement.

The game defines 3 versions of this enemy. Each has its own health, posture and defensive behaviour; elites are tougher one-off placements, summoned ones appear mid-fight.

* Variant names are built from the game's internal tier tags (the game shows no name for them). Block and parry chances are listed in the order the game stores them. Placed = how many level spawners use that variant.

Health of every variant by level

How fast each variant closes the distance, and how quickly its posture comes back once you stop pressuring it.

Its fastest variant moves at 1.75 m/s; your walk speed is 4 m/s.

Speeds are the AI's movement settings in metres per second. Posture recovery is the posture regained per second, and the delay is the wait before recovery begins (game fields posture_recovery_per_sec and posture_reset_delay). — = not set for that variant.

Enemy levels in Valor Mortis are set per placement, not by a difficulty setting (the game has a single difficulty): the same enemy is level 1 in one spot and level 6 in another, usually higher later in the campaign. This is the main variant from level 1 to 6.

Damage dealt multiplies every attack's base damage. Critical attacks (after a posture break) and backstabs deal the fixed amounts shown, whatever your weapon; the share column is our arithmetic.

Every damaging attack across its variants, grouped into moves, with base damage per hit, wind-up and whether you can block it.

* Attack names are built from the game's internal tags. Damage is the level-1 base; multiply by the placement's damage multiplier (up to ×2 at level 6), so Melee Spin goes from 40 to about 80.

It has no special resistances or weaknesses: every damage type works the same.

Weak points

Random drops on every kill, with the chance the game rolls for each.

Risen Lancer drops

Item	Type	Chance	Amount	On average
Protective Vial	Consumable	3%	1	1 in 33 kills
Crude Blade Material	Upgrade material	1%	1	1 in 100 kills

"On average" is 1 ÷ chance (calculated): the expected number of kills per drop, not a guarantee.

One placed spawner carries a scripted reward that always drops on the kill: Bottomless Well (City of Orphans).

Elite drops: Ambers and keys

Reward	Type	Location	Carried by	Nearest Lantern
Bottomless Well	Amber	City of Orphans	Elite* · Elite	Tribunal Square · about 52 m away

These are one-time rewards from specific spawners. The Lantern distance is a straight line from the spawner (calculated).

Placed spawners per region in campaign order: 29 in total, the most in Vale of Wrath (5).

Counts are the game's placed spawners; scripted waves and summons during fights are not included.

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Vale of Wrath

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• Lanterns5
• Bosses2
• Boss arena1
• Chests19
• Key1
• Letters23
• Item pickups99
• Ability altars3
• Echoes of the Past39
• Enemies137

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Everything placed in Vale of Wrath

Ability altars: 3

Bosses: 2 (Slaughtermill)

Boss arenas: 1

Chests: 19 (Butcher's Carnage, Pure Blade Material, Lucky Shot, Exquisite Firearm Parts, Perfectionism, Distilled Transmutation Material, Superior Firearm Parts, Empty Ferrofluid Flask, Wound that Heals, Distilled Blade Material, Pure Transmutation Material, Ferrofluid Flask Power Upgrade, Dilated Moment)

Keys: 1 (Basement Key)

Lanterns: 5 (Ship Graveyard, Under the Bridge, Poisoned Camp, Old Windmill, Wolfsbane Field)

Letters: 23 (Mirek's Note, Shrike's Appeal — Join the Resistance, Deserter's Friend Diary, Wolf's Note — Poison, Cryptic Note — Wolf, Wanted Notice, Shrike's Appeal, Medic's Letter, Shrike's Order — Cargo, Painter's Final Letter, Headquarters' Orders — New Troops, Beekeeper's Note, Captain Lefèvre's Letter — New Troops, Shrike's Appeal — Informants, Thief's Note — Loot, Thief's Note — Warning, Emissary's Letter, Headquarters' Orders — Poisoned Troops, Shrike's Orders — Cargo, Rebel's Note — Mistake, Cargo Manifest, Toothless Jack's Journal, Deserter's Diary)

Basic hits needed to kill a level-1 Risen Lancer (170 HP) with every blade and firearm at weapon levels 1, 5 and 10.

Hits to kill

Weapon	Weapon level 1	Weapon level 5	Weapon level 10
Pistol	630 per hit2 to the head	542 per hit2 to the head	360 per hit1 to the head
Musket	2150 per hit1 to the head	1210 per hit	1300 per hit
Blunderbuss	2150 per hit1 to the head	1230 per hit	1350 per hit
Saber	920 per hit	540 per hit	360 per hit
Rapier	725 per hit	535 per hit	445 per hit
Claymore	450 per hit	380 per hit	2100 per hit

Calculated from weapon damage × the first light attack's multiplier × (1 − resistance); firearms also show head hits. Upgrades, Ambers, coatings and the stat board are not included, and higher-level placements need proportionally more hits.

William's journal page on Risen Lancer, as written in the game.

Enemies found alongside Risen Lancer

Enemy types that share the most regions with it.

• HowlerThe Battlefield100 Health10 shared regions
• Risen SoldierThe Battlefield100 Health9 shared regions
• Risen MusketeerThe Battlefield70 Health9 shared regions
• CarrionValley of Ashes120 Health9 shared regionsWeak to Fire damage

Walkthrough for the chapter where you first meet it