10 Cheapest One-Hit Kill Enemies In Gaming History
Instant death in any game is always a pain.
Sometimes a game is hard because you turned up the difficulty. You’ll have limited health, enemies will be tougher, ammo will be scarce and maybe the puzzles and pathways will change.
No one minds that, but what can really throw a spanner in the works is an enemy turning round and just obliterating you in one.hit.
In fairness, these types of enemies can be seen as a rarity, and lucky for us, a lot of developers will save the one-hit bad boys for higher difficulties.
Perhaps this sounds better from an outside perspective but now you’ve got tons of enemies able to kill you in one as you go through your legendary or expert completion. Achievement hunters get the worst of it, I swear.
From the original Mario titles to The Last of Us, Skyrim to Resident Evil 2’s remake, these fu**ers continue to crop up even to this day. As a result, we’re here to raise awareness against the cheapest, most downright awful one-hit kills out there, difficulty and gameplay alike.
10. Clickers - The Last Of Us
There are some dastardly enemies among this list and the clicker, from The Last Of Us, most certainly ranks up there in regard to stopping power. However, I quite like them.
They have legitimate counter-play and are absolutely devastating, regardless of what difficulty you play on. If you hadn’t guessed by the name, these enemies click.
Their entire head has been overtaken by the cordyceps fungus, meaning they have to track their surroundings through echolocation. The bloater ties for difficulty but can be dispatched like any bullet sponge, the clicker is much trickier.
If you have a shiv, you might be able to sneak up to it and get your own personal one-hit kill in. Though, bear in mind, shivs can be used to open up secret areas for more loot. You could also pull the trigger of a shotgun until it, too, clicks. The issue here is that, on the higher difficulties, most specifically Grounded, you will be lucky to find a brick laying around on the floor, let alone bullets.
Then, factor in that you’ll be facing numerous clickers, complemented by runners and now we’ve got a party ready to rip your face open.