Forum:Deathclaws

What works best against deathclaws I heard you use only ap ammo against them and a riot shotgun with slugs works well to.68.229.224.66 01:59, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

Yes, armour piercing ammunition works quite well through my experience. Sneak attacks is what i use to take everything down. 2 shots from the anti-materiel rifle took them down (without the armour piercing). I also loved using Abilene Kid BB gun to toy around with them. The critical on that gun does around 75 dmg I believe. So it's funny when you start pegging a deathclaws face with little BBs and all of a sudden a critical shot takes his entire head off. Taking out quarry junction was so much damn fun. Not entirely sure how to take em out in a cave, like the one where the legendary deathclaw is, but I use the cliffs in the mojave to take them down without being touched. Oh, and all this, I did while playing on very hard.--OhMyParry 03:15, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

I killed a family of Deathclaws with a Sniper Rifle without mods and without being touched. Sometimes you can kill a Young Deathclaw with one bullet of Sniper Rifle in the head.--Miguifp 19:33, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

Anti Material Rifle with Incendiary rounds works nice with a fairly high guns skills 75 and up Birchman34 17:39, March 21, 2011 (UTC)

Knock-Knock and Super Slam perk own them fast; simply walking inside the Quarry and mow them down with the almighty Minigun (upgraded) equipped ammo piercing is very fun to do; alternativelly you can use the Plasma Caster; you can also be a explosive courier and use the Grenade Machinegun, it's another approach; or if you favor light armor, you can find one, let him see you and when he charges you drop 3 or 4 plasma mines while running away, they always step on those mines.

There's a lot of ways to kill Deathclaws, using stealth boys or a sniper rifle is for kids. >:D Brfritos 19:25, March 21, 2011 (UTC) THE BEST WAY. and I mean this. put up your unarmed to 60-80 and get PUSHY you'll destroy them. TheWolfoftheNorth 19:28, March 21, 2011 (UTC)

Grab your Q35 matter manipulator, quaff some psycho, kneel down and prepare to kill some deathclaws!146.74.1.99 23:43, March 30, 2011 (UTC)user willshake 16:43 March 30, 2011

Bekked 00:21, April 12, 2011 (UTC) Deathclaws... Horrible horrible things! I'd allways reccomend running away rather than fighting them. However, if you're up for a fight, I've found a few usefull ways to deal with them. For one, they wont follow you into water. I found a deathclaw gang on the east side of the river, and managed to make it into the water before they ripped *all* my limbs off. if you've got the patience, lobbing a few explosives and taking a few well aimed potshots before legging it can be a (slow) but effective way to fight them. If you use companions, EdE and Boone can be great, as boone will stay back and shower the deathclaw with bullets whilst you and EdE run distraction. If you're lucky the deathclaw will start on EdE first so you'll have those precious extra few seconds before you get ripped limb from limb to do some extra damage.Bekked 00:21, April 12, 2011 (UTC)

I cleared out Quarry Junction once before using the AMR with AP ammo. I want to try again, this time with the Tesla-Beaton Prototype. If a Tesla Cannon could kill a fully armored Enclave soldier in FO3, then it's gotta do something significant to a Deathclaw in FO:NV.--Ryker6106:51, April 29, 2011 (UTC)~11:50pm 4/28/2011

I used a fully modified Hunting Shotgun with normal ammo and the Shotgun Surgeon perk. After huffing some Jet and using a Med-X I was easily good to go. Great Mara 07:04, April 29, 2011 (UTC)

Hello Mr Deathclaw *punchs deathclaw in face with ballitic fist* now thats how the profensials do it and oh baby plus super slam equal alot of dead deathclaws--Kanto&#39;s Champion 11:27, May 21, 2011 (UTC)

I like either the Anti-Material, or the Tesla-Beaton, depending on which skill is higher (gun or energy). When I took out the ones in the cave, the legendary got stuck in the small hallway type thing. He couldn't touch me, and I had Boone who used an anti-material I bought for him.Pappy002 07:11, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

Brush gun with hollow point ammo and they drop like flies. ReapTheChaos 03:11, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

From experience Deathclaws on normal=can be killed with anything in quick succession if you're not completely incompetent. Deathclaws on hard=can be killed with anything as long as you're not completely incompetent Deathclaws on veryhard=an actual challenge if you're not a sniper if you are a sniper then good job you win. if not you have to either disable the legs or be very good at timing and positioning so you rapedge doesn't occur from those 6 inch talons and even then they're atleast 2 times faster than you so plain old luck helps.

To answer you're question I always found characters that have a high critical chance with the Better Criticals perk to work the best against tough enemies in any Fallout game. Remember a critical hit bypasses dt. And characters with high critical chances should aim for the head because headshots multiply crit chance by 2. Add a correctly chosen weapon with a decent crit multiplier and you can shred most monsters. Other than that most Deathclaw encounters take place with multiple Deathclaws. If you can't get it no matter what try Turbo. It gives you bullet time and for the most part lets you shred anything without VATs.