LastCamp : Defense Plague Goblin Boss Strategy Guide

To defeat the Plague Goblin in LastCamp : Defense, anchor the boss away from your central truck with a forward tank, absorb poison damage using preemptive shields or cleanse skills, and save hard crowd control and high-impact burst abilities for its low-health rush phase.

Team Composition and Role Requirements

The encounter challenges defenses with continuous biological damage over time (DoT) that bypasses standard armor mitigation, combined with an accelerated advance toward your truck. Pure melee brawler lineups take heavy attrition from lingering toxic mist. Balance your defensive slots across four core functions:

Ranged units ensure steady damage delivery even if your frontline must step back to avoid stacking poison. Give priority to crowd controllers with knockbacks or slows over pure area-of-effect attackers lacking boss-stopping power.

Positioning and Lane Control

Allowing the Plague Goblin to drop poison pools against your base structures creates an unavoidable failure state where defenders and the truck take simultaneous damage.

1. Deploy your frontline forward: Place your main tank and secondary defenders out in the lane rather than against the truck perimeter. This forces the boss to spawn its initial toxic pool far ahead of vital structures.
2. Rotate through fresh ground: If your frontline absorbs heavy poison stacks, cycle barrier skills or temporarily fall back so the boss walks out of its existing cloud rather than fighting inside it.
3. Isolate flanking swarms: Accompanying standard goblins can divert single-target sniper shots and automated turrets. Use mid-range crowd-control defenders to sweep flanking trash mobs, ensuring your highest-damage skills track the boss directly.

Phase Execution and Skill Timing

Conserve energy and high-impact ultimate skills rather than unloading them the moment the Plague Goblin enters the lane.

• Phase 1 (Initial Approach): Strip preliminary shields and clear flanking adds with standard attacks and low-cost slows. Hold high-cooldown nukes.
• Phase 2 (Toxic Pool Deployment): Trigger shields or defensive barriers the moment the boss halts to drop its poison zone. Preemptive mitigation prevents rapid health spikes from poison ticks.
• Phase 3 (The Enrage Rush): At lower health thresholds, the Plague Goblin speeds up to ram the truck. Fire hard stuns, roots, or knockbacks immediately to freeze its movement, then unleash all saved single-target damage abilities to finish the remaining health pool before the stun expires.

When allocating wave currency between rounds, invest in crowd-control cooldown reduction, attack speed, and single-target damage upgrades over passive truck repair stats.

Recovery Tactics

If your primary tank falls early, immediately switch to manual targeting on the Plague Goblin. Use secondary knockbacks and utility barriers to kite the boss along the lane. The truck can endure moderate direct physical strikes, but it will collapse quickly if the goblin remains parked next to it inside an active toxic pool. Once the boss is down, rely on automated turrets to eliminate any remaining regular goblins, then rebuild frontline defense before the next wave begins.