History DemonicSpiders / Destiny2

* Scorn Chieftains are some of the most annoying foes you'll ever face due to not only firing off a plethora of projectiles to stave off your approach (chief among them being the Arc mortar that keeps erratically bouncing in all directions), but also deploying a totem that inflicts a nasty effect on you depending on their element; if it's Solar, you'll just get a static totem that produces fire that's easily sidestepped, but if it's Void of Arc, you'll really have to destroy the totem to avoid fighting invulnerable enemies and getting pulled towards the totem constantly, respectively. Thankfully, the totems are easily shot down, and the Chieftains are mostly relegated to ''Forsaken'' and ''Witch Queen''-related content.

* The Overload Captains are easily the most infuriating Overload Champions to fight against due to their TeleportSpam getting cranked UpToEleven, making it hard to even land a hit with the weapons mods designed to counter them. Hope you enjoy [[ThatOneLevel Exodus Crash]], because the Ordeal version features ''dozens'' of them!

* Cabal Scorpius Drones. They appear rarely, can't move (being Turrets) and have pretty low health, but can bring even a Player at full health using a Super to low health in just a few seconds of its constant fire even from a distance. It's recommended that you take these out first, as once they set their sights on you, you'll face a nonstop hail of bullets akin to a Colossus that just doesn't flinch. The only thing that can sometimes stop them is grenades, as they can go into a hunker-down state like some other enemies.
* Cabal Incendiors, especially on activities with high Power requirements. Because they deal damage over time, it's easy to forget you are staying still in their trail of fire, and the residual damage stacks up fairly quickly. Shooting their fuel tank also results in a violent explosion that's most likely to kill you if you're anywhere near them, and if you didn't instantly get blown up by that, residual damage will clean up whatever sliver of health you have left. Oh, and if you didn't vaporize the Incendior completely, its fuel tank will remain on the ground, potentially blowing up in your face if anything triggers it. Just to rub salt in the wound, even the lowliest Incendior can do a physics-breaking ShockwaveStomp whenever you approach them; the same damned ScrappyMechanic reserved for bosses and larger enemies! Bungie clearly knows how much of a pain in the ass they are, as they're one of the enemy types that can be an Unstoppable Champion - which means they have massive health pool and can't be staggered without the appropriate anti-Champion mods. Ouch.
* Cabal Gladiators are basically War Beasts except they're bigger, have more health, do more damage and are slightly faster. They also tend to single you out of cover while you're recovering health. They can also OneHitKill you if you touch a wall while they're hitting you.
* Hive Wizards. They're one of the few enemies that perpetually float in the air, making abilities and weapons that work best on the ground (such as swords) nearly useless against them. Having a shield also makes them tough cookies in activities with the Match Game modifier. Not only can they keep blasting at you with bolts of lightning that deal deceptively high amounts of SplashDamage, but they can also create clouds of black smoke that cancels your jumping ability, continuously damages you and slows you down within it, leaving you vulnerable to other Hive threats like [[ActionBomb Cursed Thralls]]; given that Wizards are considered supporting enemies and thus are never alone, this will happen all the time unless you go for them first.

* Fallen Scorch Cannon Captains. Like the first game, they deal a ton of rapid explosive damage and have high health AND shields. Unlike the first game, they'll now start teleporting a lot around you when at low health, making it harder to land shots (and potentially wasting Power or Energy ammo). They can also fire their shots like a Mortar if you decide to use a Barrier (as a Titan) in front of it or get into cover right in front of him.

* Hive Shriekers; while they no longer send out explosive homing projectiles once they're killed (this is now a special attack for rare Boss Shriekers), instead of firing in slow bursts they fire a neverending stream of Void projectiles once they target you. They're also escorted by many more Hive, and in the "Savathûn's Song" Strike they even have to be taken out by a energy orb that leaves the holder weaponless.

* Vex Hydras are completely overtuned in Gambit, dealing significantly higher damage with their Aeon Mauls than in any other [=PvE=] mode. This makes tackling them a very risky affair, even if they're the only enemy in the area.

* The Berserkers from "Scourge of the Past" are modified Fallen Captains that are both invincible ''and'' invisible at a distance, requiring you to close in to break their shield. Once you get close, however, the Berserker will deploy a field that suppresses all of your abilities, leaving you with only your guns to destroy two weak spots that are located at opposite ends (this usually requires two Guardians to tag-team the Berserker), else you get oneshotted by the Berserker's beam weapon. As if it wasn't enough, breaking the shield will send the Berserker on a very aggravating teleportation spree which would make even regular Captains faint, and the suppression field sometimes has a nasty knockback effect that can effectively turn you into a [[BlownAcrossTheRoom victim of physics]] or shut you mid-flight and into a hole.

* The Vex Wyvern introduced in ''Beyond Light'' quickly gained notoriety for being even worse than Minotaurs, outstripping their mobility and durability while having the firepower of a Hydra. Their Warp Lance is nothing to scoff at despite [[PainfullySlowProjectile their slow travel speed]], as it doesn't take many bolts to connect to utterly ruin your health. Then there's their Aerial Slam, in which they perform a divebomb on your location and inflict knockback similar to a Taken Phalanx's shield blast. On Ordeal Nightfalls, the Wyverns gained a nasty reputation of being more dangerous than even the Champions due to their attacks becoming a death sentence on all accounts.
* The Hive's Lucent Moths. Any type of Hive can now spawn with an elementally unaligned layer of shielding indicated by a blue bar on their health, even enemies that don't have any shields at all. If you break that shield, the Lucent Moth flits away and finds another Hive enemy to shield instead, so if you don't shoot them down they'll make every fight take about twice as long. Their flight is unpredictable, sometimes hovering in place and making an easy target, sometimes zigzagging like mad - and if there's no Hive hosts in range, they'll fly at ''you'' and explode like a grenade. On the bright side if you ''do'' pop them, they release that Arc explosion to damage ''everything'' nearby, potentially leading to a deliciously explosive chain reaction if there are other free-floating Moths or a few Cursed Thralls around.

** Fallen Scorch Cannon Captains. Like the first game, they deal a ton of rapid explosive damage and have high health AND shields. Unlike the first game, they'll now start teleporting a lot around you when at low health, making it harder to land shots (and potentially wasting Power or Energy ammo). They can also fire their shots like a Mortar if you decide to use a Barrier (as a Titan) in front of it or get into cover right in front of him.

** Taken Centurions. They don't appear too often, but they have a fairly tough Arc shield and a homing projectile that can seek you out even when you're behind cover. You can shoot it to destroy it, but that'll alert the enemy to where you are.

** Scorn Abominations are essentially reskinned Hive Ogres with a powerful Arc bolt attack that can snipe you ''very'' accurately and from an extreme distance, making fighting Hobgoblins a preferrable option. Fortunately, they're a one-trick pony; either they're sniping at you or smashing you up close, and that's all they can do, even their Elite versions.