Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25108505-20141012034815

tl;dr - shoot the hell out of the boss and his ghost buddies with the AK while sometimes using the rambo knife to avoid his lava wave, he'll die eventually.

It seems a lot of people are having trouble with this boss in comparison to King Cake, so let me try to help best I can:

I'm gonna start with my recommended loadout: Rambo Knife, AK-47 (Tommy Gun if you don't own AK), your choice of vest/items.

But what about the Minigun?

Unlike King Cake, this guy is not someone who can just lose all their health by one Minigun user pelting bullets at them. Lord Pumpkin has 50,000 HP, all of the Mingun's ammo (360) only chips off about 19,500 or so HP. That is not a lot, unless you have more than one Minigun user, or are confident in your teammmate's abilities to survive and keep dishing out damage, avoid it.

Why these weapons?

The AK is simply the best refillable weapon in terms of DPS, with the Tommy Gun only slightly behind. With this boss you're going to be moving around a lot since Soul Fetchers are gonna be on the move trying to sweep up you, and your teammmates in order send you to a firey death. Also you're gonna be constantly reloading in order to keep the heat, while staying mobile. The Rambo Knife on the other hand is mostly needed for traversing the map and jumping over the lava wave in case all of the fortifications have burned away already/you're too far away from the ledge of the right side of the map.

The Arena

The arena itself is a bit different from that of King Cake's, since you're on a rather wide platform instead of something that would like more like your run of the mill boss arena. Said platform is surrounded by lava which will either burn off your limbs, or instantly kill you if you're too slow to get back to the platform. Many wooden buildings also reside on the platform, these are used to gain a temporary vantage point on the boss before they are inevitably destroyed by either Lord Pumpkin's explosive fireballs or the lava wave which will destroy the supports of them instantly. There are two ammo tables on the very left of the map, and somewhat on the end of the right end, also on this side is a small cliffside which leads to a platform in the back of the map, but I wouldn't recommend going over there since if you go over there alone, you're likely in trouble.

Moves

This boss has a few different moves, but they aren't all that complex. The main one he'll do is randomly turning transparent and summoning Soul Fetchers in groups of 5-6, what the hell are they exactly? They're "sociopathic seahorse rapists" which will attempt to grab you and either A. send you into the lava or B. drop you off in a safe spot, kind of. They can also go through walls too, yeah. Lord Pumpkin will usually either summon these guys from either one, to the point of just spamming them. After this he'll usually follow up with a lava wave which will disintigrate anything caught in the way of it. Except the ammo tables, for some odd reason. As long as you can keep the Soul Fetchers at bay, not be unlucky enough to be blown up by the fireballs, and Rambo Jump over/avoid the lava wave, this guy should go down eventually.  