Risk of Rain Returns: How to Unlock Chef

Risk of Rain Returns released this week and fans new and old have already unlocked a bunch of fresh and familiar content. One such case is CHEF, the robotic cook from the original Risk of Rain game. In this guide, we’ll go over how to unlock CHEF as well as some of the specifics of his kit. 

How to Unlock CHEF

Unlocking CHEF is pretty straightforward but there is one small nuance which we’ll explain in a bit. 

The requirement is that you have to unlock a Meat Nugget, Bustling Fungus, Sprouting Egg, Bitter Root and Foreign Fruit in a single run. Having all of those will give you the completion for the “Gourmet” challenge and permanently unlock CHEF. 

Here’s some useful information about all the items. Take note of the Bitter Root item, as it’s the only item that comes with prerequisites:

• Meat Nugget: Drops chunks of healing meat. White item (Common).
• Bustling Fungus: Heals you while you stand still. White item (Common).
• Sprouting Egg: Heals you outside of danger. White item (Common).
• Bitter Root: Increases max health by 8%. White item (Common). This item needs to be unlocked by completing a challenge to reach 650 health. 
• Foreign Fruit: Heals on use. Orange item (Equipment).

As you can see, all of the items except Bitter Root are unlocked by default, and even the Bitter Root unlock requirement isn’t that hard – all you have to do is just reach 650 health, which is easily attainable by just playing for a few stages with the Infusion item. 

If you don’t want to worry about the items randomly dropping, you can activate Artifact of Command which lets you choose which items you want to get from a chest. 

Knowing all of this, you should find it easy to unlock CHEF. After you’ve collected the items, it’ll just appear as an option in your character selection screen. Good luck! 

Overview of the Robot Chef – CHEF

CHEF is a returning character from the original Risk of Rain, and retains pretty much the exact same set of abilities with a few additional alternate abilities: 

1. First Ability
   1. Dice: Throws a boomerang cleaver toward enemies dealing 100% damage.
   2. Slice: Stretches CHEF’s arms and deals 120% damage to enemies hit by the attack.
2. Second Ability
   1. Sear: Deals damage to enemies for 260% damage and then knocks them away. 
3. Third Ability
   1. Glaze: Throws down a wave of oil which slows enemies.
   2. Oil Jar: Throws down a jar of oil that spreads a slowing oil on the ground. 
4. Fourth Ability
   1. Second Helping: Boosts your next ability cast. 
   2. Cook: “Cooks” nearby enemies for 6*80% damage and turns them into temporary healing items. 

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