Hard Hitter

Hard Hitter (#180)
Released		21 July 2021 (Update)
Members		Yes
Description		Kill the Giant Mole with 4 or fewer instances of damage.
Tier		Elite
Monster		Giant Mole
Type		Mechanical
League region		Asgarnia✓
Advanced data
ID		180

Hard Hitter is an elite combat achievement which requires the player to kill the Giant Mole within four hits that deal damage.

Misses (0 hitsplat) do not count towards the 4 or less hits. The giant mole has 200 Hitpoints, so each hit must deal an average of 50 damage to complete the task. The easiest method is to use Dharok the Wretched's equipment with 1 Hitpoints, a higher Hitpoints level will increase damage, and the highest melee strength items possible — an amulet of rancour, amulet of torture, or amulet of strength, Avernic treads (max) (dragon boots are acceptable), a fire cape/infernal cape or equivalents and barrows/ferocious gloves to hit as hard as possible. The Soulreaper axe will also provide similar possible outcome.

Use the aggressive hack-slash combat option on the Dharok's greataxe against the mole's slightly lower slash Defence compared to crush Defence.

Without access to Dharok's, another option is to use a high hitting special attack weapon with a single hitsplat (Armadyl godsword, Bandos godsword, dragon warhammer, Voidwaker etc.) and teleporting to a player-owned house to recharge special attack energy so that the only 4 hits on the boss are special attacks. If the first 2 hits are not high enough, either kill the boss normally or hop worlds to reset the task. Note that hitting 0 damage on the boss does not count as a hit for the purposes of this task, so if one of the attacks missed, the task can still be completed by going to a house for special attack energy and then speccing again.

Another option is to use a poison weapon since poison splat damage does not count towards the 4 hits. For this method, serpentine helm with toxic blowpipe, trident of the swamp, or toxic staff of the dead works best to guarantee a poison hit. For this method, disable auto retaliate, attack the Giant Mole so there is at least a hit higher than 0, wait until the poison hit goes down to 1, and attack the mole again. Dragon dagger (p++), abyssal dagger (p++), or any other poisoned weapon also work; however, there is no guarantee that the Giant Mole will be poisoned on the first hit. Emerald bolts (e) are especially useful for this task, as they have a 55% chance to poison (compared to 25% for melee poisoned weapons and 12.5% chance for ranged poisoned weapons). Speccing the Giant Mole twice with Bandos godsword or dragon warhammer first, then following up with 2 hits with poison weapon (after waiting for the poison damage to go down to 1) could speed up this process as well. Note: if you have failure notifications turned on, you will get a message on the fourth hit that you have failed the task. If the Giant Mole dies from poison damage after this, you will still complete the task.

Alternatively a player can use the Arkan Blade special attack. This weapon regularly hits over 50 damage per special attack, teleporting out of the mole's lair to restore special attack energy does not fail this achievement.

Damage from a Thrall counts towards the 4 hits and therefore they shouldn't be used.

There are 6 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 15 points) available for Giant Mole.

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	Ghommal Laidee Gnonock Bosses interface
Tiers	Easy Medium Hard Elite Master Grandmaster All tasks (sorted by tier) Free-to-play
Rewards	Antique lamps Easy Medium Hard Elite Master Grandmaster Ghommal's hilt 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dragon hunter crossbow Black Turquoise Slayer helmet TzTok (imbued) Vampyric (imbued) TzKal (imbued) Other Ghommal's lucky penny Ghommal's avernic defender 5 Ghommal's avernic defender 6