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[#2A] Becoming a Sentry God to Smite the Giant Soldier Boss on Mannhattan Valve Advanced 2 Wave 5

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Using the strategies found in video #2 and #8 you can use the invincible sentry gun to *totally* sentry block the giant soldier boss on Mannhattan Valve Advanced 2 Wave 5. When doing this, the giant soldier boss will cause self damage in its attempts to shoot the god sentry. This eventually whittles away its own health causing it to die.

By doing this, you can kill the boss on Mannhattan Valve Advanced 2 Wave 5 without firing a bullet.
You can also use this as a strategy for the solo completion of Mannhattan Valve Intermediate, specifically also wave 5's giant soldier boss start with a subsequent class swap.

This strategy may be performed in other situations depending on the setup. A low ceiling is usually required as giants will simply hop over your sentry if there is enough vertical space available. However, this may be done in places without a low ceiling if the sentry is placed on a slope that is higher than it causing it to not jump high enough to clear the sentry.

Note that for this demonstration the giant must be completely blocked and be actively shooting at the sentry for it to deal self damage. If it is shooting at something that does not deal self damage, such as a teammate in the vicinity, then it will not eventually die and may even become dislodged.

When performing the sentry god strategy, it is beneficial for the blocked target to be carrying the bomb, visible through the walls, or have a teammate relay information regarding the strategy. This is due to the blindness of leaving your sentry somewhere where you cannot actively observe its status. You may use the sentry's health bar to gauge effectiveness, however the damage inflicted on the sentry may be from attacks where the bots simply also walk straight past and avoid the sentry block. (This is useful if the goal of the sentry god strategy is to tank damage because the sentry often takes AI targeting priority).

Holding Wrangler out is preferably used to keep the sentry from dealing damage. This is because the wrangler allows the sentry to survive for much longer due to its reduced damage. Furthermore, this is also because sentry busters may spawn under the "damage dealt" threshold. While it is possible for a sentry to survive a sentry buster explosion (under special circumstances that may be demonstrated in a future video), it is unfavorable to the ease of this strategy.

Performing this strategy under pressure may be easily done using a single recall canteen. By running up to the bomb bot and quickly performing a *total* sentry block. You can immediately recall then run to the upgrade station to perform the strategy. You do not need to wait for your sentry to build even as it is a level 1 because upgrading building health forces maximum building health. The sentry's collision box also does not change with its level, so a level 1 is as tall as a level 3. It is beneficial to angle your camera so that the bomb is visible as previously mentioned.

In this demonstration, I used an AutoHotkey script that rapidly performs the sentry god strategy easily by quickly buying then refunding the building health upgrade. This makes the strategy extremely easy to perform sustainably due to the mouse movement required otherwise. Be careful not to spam the upgrades too fast or the server may drop the upgrade request and not heal your buildings due to ping. Therefore it is good to keep a rate limit in mind based off of your feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIE72MwUtdM

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