Wendigo



The Wendigo is an enemy in Ion Fury. It is a massive monstrosity capable of leaping through large distances at a high speed, and has a powerful melee attack. They're hulking, genetically modified beasts by Heskel. By appearance they are bipedal beasts that balance themselves on their long piston work arms and short back legs, attacking with eeriely long metallic claws enhanced by cybernetic augments. They seem to have tubes at their back for injecting them chemicals and a metal visor enveloping their creepy skull like face. They're capable of leaping forward at great distances. Looking at their characteristics, it can theorized that Wendigos are a fusion of different wild animals living in the tropics to appear humanoid and highly mobile also cybernetically enhanced and armored.

By standard, Wendigo deals 20 damage with each hit and ignores armor just like Mechsects, when combined with other enemies they'll be troublesome with their speed and will always have company around them. Their movement speed, attack speed and leap distance scale up with difficulty making them deadlier to take head on. Getting cornered by one when off-guard, means a sure death most of the time because their attack speed gives a very small frame to recover.

It is highly durable, and can most easily be killed with a few single or slightly charged headshots from an Ion bow even at confined spaces. When you lack ammunition or have space to dodge, albeit slow a few bursts of Chain gun, Disperser buckshots or grenade shots to the head can kill a loner Wendigo easily once you bait them to leap forward and away from you. Explosives like Bowling bombs and Clusterpuck can be effective as latter can be set on walls to lure them toward the blast, showering them in shrapnels and bombs can seek them out while staying behind cover.

Any repetitive bursts like Chain gun and Disperser has the capability of flinching them for a small moment as long as you are accurate, however they seem to shrug off Penetrator flechettes and recover from tazed states quickly. They seem to have a refined resistance against flechette bullets from Penetrator and can not be set on fire despite looking semi-organic. They can get soaked in a full magazine from both sub-machine guns yet stay alive and bodyshot Ion bow bolts and Electrifryer has little effect on them.

They're mildly rare enemies that roam alone instead of hunting in packs. Multiple Wendigos only faced at secret levels or bossfights.