Hollow Saint

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A cracked devotional icon that answers only to the storm.

Chain lightning through a pack, pin the biggest threat with a spear of lightning, and bank every Electrocute as a Static Charge.
Then spend the bank: on a Thunderbolt that rides your next spear, or on a charged Gaze that opens with a blast.

Install · What's new in 1.2 · Skills · The storm · Feedback

What's new in 1.2

Gaze of the Hollow is rebuilt around your Static Charges.

• Charge it up. Hold Special and your stored charges spiral into the crown one at a time, each with a rising power-up sound. Aim while you gather.
• Open with a blast. The beam opens by firing every charge you drew in at once. The crown flares and kicks back, a wave rides down the beam and the hit grows bigger and wider with every charge (600% per charge).
• Surge on demand. During the beam, hold Primary to load up to three charges and release to fire them as one surge (400% per charge).
• Watch your feet. Every surge also drops a bolt onto the closest enemy within 14 m, so whatever closes in under the hover gets hit while you aim elsewhere.

Also in 1.2: a 3D Stormspear impact that grows with charge, Static Charges that wait for you instead of discharging on their own, an Open Circuit crown whose lightning crawls over the terrain, a new mastery skin (Crimson Vow), a sound and visual cleanup and shorter, clearer skill text. Full list in the changelog.

Early access: Hollow Saint is still being tuned, so expect balance changes and the occasional bug. Your feedback shapes the next patch. In-game skill descriptions always show the numbers for your current settings.

The kit

	Skill	Slot	In short
	Answered Prayer	Passive	Hits build Static; Electrocutes bank Static Charges.
	Arc Bolt	Primary	A fast bolt that chains through a pack.
	Stormspear	Secondary	Hold, throw, stick, burst.
	Arc Step	Utility	Two blinks, on the ground or in the air.
	Gaze of the Hollow	Special	Charge up, hover, burn a line through them.
	Open Circuit	Alt. special	A striking crown while you keep fighting.

Answered Prayer _Passive

Your hits build Static on enemies. Full Static Electrocutes: the enemy is shocked and the arc jumps to its neighbours. Every Electrocute stores a Static Charge (up to five). A full bank turns your next Stormspear throw into a Thunderbolt, and Gaze spends charges on its blasts and surges. Charges never go off on their own.

Arc Bolt _Primary

Snap a bolt that chains to up to three more enemies. It is your steady pressure and the fastest way to spread Static across a group.

Stormspear _Secondary

Hold to form a spear of lightning, release to throw. It sticks in what it hits, then bursts in a dome of lightning that grows with charge. A full charge also calls a lightning strike, and a full Static bank turns it into a Thunderbolt.

Arc Step _Utility

Blink a short way in any direction, even mid-air. Look up to climb, and jump out of a step to keep its momentum. Two charges: one to find an angle, one to get out.

Gaze of the Hollow _Special

Hold to draw your Static Charges into the crown, then rise and channel a piercing beam for seven seconds. The beam opens by firing everything you gathered in one blast. While it burns, hold and release Primary for surges, each with a lock-on bolt at the nearest enemy. You take less damage while you gather and channel. Tap Special to skip the charge-up; Special or UI Cancel ends the beam early, and Utility exits straight into your Arc Step.

Open Circuit _{Alternate special}

Open the halo into a crown that strikes everything around you for ten seconds while you keep fighting. Stormspear charges much faster under it, and a fully charged crown spear calls a Thunderbolt. Enemies that stay inside for three seconds take an extra zap.

How the storm works

1. Static. Every hit charges the enemy. Bigger hits, critical strikes and high-proc items charge it faster. It fades if you stop hitting.
2. Electrocute. At full Static the enemy is jolted (not bosses) and Shocked, taking extra damage for a moment. The arc jumps to nearby enemies and charges them too.
3. Static Charges. Each Electrocute banks one charge. Spend a full bank on a spear-borne Thunderbolt, or pour charges into Gaze.

Keep hitting the same pack and the storm feeds itself.

Put it together

• Bolts into spear. Arc Bolt the pack to spread Static, then charge Stormspear and throw it into the middle.
• Bank, then Gaze. Fill your bank, Arc Step to an angle that lines enemies up, then hold Special and open the beam on the whole line.
• Crown into pressure. Open Circuit near a group, keep Arc Bolt firing and throw fast-charged spears while the crown strikes around you.

Skins

Six skins, each with its own halo and lightning colour. Crimson Vow is the mastery skin: win or obliterate on Monsoon as Hollow Saint.

Install

Mod manager (recommended): install with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager; the dependencies come with it.

Manual: install the dependencies listed on this page, then copy the package's plugins/HollowSaint folder into BepInEx/plugins/. Keep HollowSaint.dll, hollowsaintassets and HollowSaint.language together in that folder.

Options

Every balance number is in Settings → Mod Options → Hollow Saint (Risk Of Options, installed with the mod) and in BepInEx/config/com.johnstonstu.hollowsaint.cfg, along with presentation toggles: spear hand, item displays, arm motion and impact feel.

Languages

The mod follows the language you set in Risk of Rain 2. Simplified Chinese, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese are included (machine-translated; corrections are welcome in a translation issue). Any other language shows English. The Mod Options menu stays in English.

Feedback and known limitations

Bugs and balance notes are welcome on GitHub issues. For a bug report, turn on Verbose log (Mod Options → 6. Misc), reproduce it and attach BepInEx/LogOutput.log with the stage and what you were doing.

• Multiplayer has not had a real playtest yet. Skills are server-authoritative and networked, but expect rough edges. Every player should run the same version and config.
• Physical controller acceptance is unverified. Mention your controller and input setup with input reports.
• Item displays borrow Commando's placements, so a few items sit slightly off.

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Credits and license

• Created by JohnstonStu: design, code, model, animation and effects.
• Lightning strike sounds built from Pixabay samples (Pixabay Content License). Other sounds are original.
• Built with BepInEx, R2API and Risk Of Options.

MIT © 2026 JohnstonStu.