Oooh… yeah, I am really sorry that you seemed to have gotten a really powerful rival… Not sure what else to say, hope that you manage to make a more “balanced” rival, so to say? I think that’s how you use it
We should do contest for strongest rival (jk)
he doesn’t have Magics so that’s good at least?
Cannon Fist Thermo Fist and usually a greathammer and/or spear weapon
but yeah he’s tough but the fights are usually fun on the right islands
Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty good :3
For my rival, our fights usually revolve around me trying to deal as much damage as possible before I die, respawn and finish him off. He has over 3k HP and deals insane amounts of damage when he only has dual flintlocks. Oh and also trying to run away and take cover, that happens a lot as well. Despite him obviously having aimbot with his shots, I do like the challenge he poses :3
i just run away till my Rush recharges then i hit him with it, comboing into a Smash if i have enough health to risk it 
Fighting my rival is literally just about balancing risk and safety. I need to deplete his 3700 health before he kills me with beams, but also if I attack too often I’ll stay still and it only takes a second or two of me being still for him to hit me for 700 damage. Not to mention he likes to use crash quite a lot to stay very mobile and not let me get to any cheap spots (and knock me away a considerable distance if I use surge)
I’ve got a cannon fist boxing rival, my rival just like me fr (hates the meta)
Pretty sure npcs have their own meta anyway
(despite that cannon fist + boxing is not their meta either)
I PRAY upgraded cannon fist doesn’t need as many cannonballs, the constant resource drain makes it unusable
Give it the efficiency of a mortar. We already have a thing that shoots considerably more cannonballs than it consumes, why not another?
Fairly sure that’s not how it works, and they only level when killed by the rival’s owner. Any other kill source will respawn the NPC and that’s it
Alright, I will accept the facts from the #1 expert on rivals (this is anti-levelmaxxing propoganda, hunt every npc in the game, make the world suffer)
Should we though?
Honestly rivals can be OP in different categories. From bloated HP stats (knight outfit vit build) to stupid high damage and AoE, it’s hard to tell what the definite strongest one is. And of course, you’d have to take into consideration levels, as not everyone has theirs at 260.
My main rival is fairly weak, I can kill him fairly consistently at 260, but there’s definitely some pretty bad combos out there that can all be deadly
You may not be able to level up other people’s rivals, but what you can do is hunt them so that your rival is the one in the server and not theirs. This means that they need to defeat your high level rival in order to fight theirs.