Purple Is Powerful: Crawmerax is clad in purple, from its shell to its weak spots, including its large single eye.
It's saying something when these guys are considered to be just as dangerous, if not even more, than Crawmerax itself. To make matters worse, these three Elite Mooks are resistant to almost all forms of damage beyond their respective elemental weaknesses: Shock against Craw Maggots, Incendiary against Green Craw Worms, and Corrosive against Armored Craw Worms. The former two knock back players off of cliffs with their Dash Attacks, while the latter two spit globs of acid at said players. Flunky Boss: Crawmerax spawns a handful of unique and very annoying Crab Worms: the Craw Maggots, the Green Craw Worms, and the Armored Craw Worms.Attack Its Weak Point: An Invoked Trope, as attacking the various purple spots covering Crawmerax's body is the only way to damage this boss, including its massive purple eye.However, moving your position can break them out of their animation lock, and since you're next to a cliff, you can easily fall to your death if you're unlucky. Breaker: Running to the arena's ledge somehow traps both Crawmerax and its mooks in an animation loop, making the fight a complete joke. Only the toughest Vault Hunters are willing to slay this behemoth for great treasure, such as Pearlescents. Die.An absolutely massive Crab Worm so terrifying and powerful that it becomes a legend in Pandora. Aside from bragging rights, they have unique legendary gear in their loot-pool as well as occasional currency used to buy exclusive gear. Superboss: They are typically the toughest bosses available in the games who are only available after beating the main story.Rare Random Drop: The main reason these bosses are fought is because of the unique drops that they can produce.Marathon Boss: While soloing these bosses is possible, it's difficult to fight them on foot unless you're prepared and know what you're doing, or you're exploiting a glitch.The Sentinel and Scourge are Eridian Guardians.
The Ancient Dragons are, well, dragons.Hyperius, Master Gee and Pyro Pete are either armored humans or regular humans, the difference between them is their elemental resistances.Vermivorous and Hemovorous are fully evolved Varkids.King Mook: Almost every single one of them is a beefied up version of an already existing creature in the game:.Kaiju: Most of them tower at least twice the tallest playable character.Damage-Sponge Boss: Their huge health pool and resistance to almost every type of damage (including Slag, which evaporates quite quickly) is the reason why the recommended way to engage these bosses are with four or more players.In the Overlevel 10 of 2, some of them can reach all the way to level 102, a whopping 22 levels above the player cap of 80. And the bosses outnumber the player by several levels the moment they take them. Brutal Bonus Level: The missions that introduce them are the hardest of each product.