Slaver

The Slaver is the first boss in the canyon and can be found at the end of the first area. He is a fat and evil man with a huge whip, who enslaved most of the workers in the canyon and is now using them to maintain his farmland that is spread throughout the canyon. To him the people of the canyon are not worth anything, so its no surprise he uses some of his slaves as human shield.

Behavior
The Slaver only has only one basic stage where his only attack is swinging his whip while moving slowly towards the player. The attack has a rather limited range. However, after losing health the slaver will spawn more and more slaves more frequently. Therefore it will become harder and harder to hit the Slaver from afar.

The slaves will always try to get between the player and the boss, but when the player is getting too close to the boss the slaves will make room and no longer protect him.

If the player is killing slaves newly spawned slaves might spawn with a knife equipped to engage the player. If the player is not killing any slaves no hostile slaves will spawn.

He is 25% resistant against explosives in a regular run and 50% resistant in looped runs.

Tactics
It is important to avoid killing too many of the minion slaves or the amount of hostile slaves (slaves that will actuall attack you) will increase drastically, which wastes a lot of ammo and time and can obviously be deadly, even after the boss is defeated. It's best to get close to the Slaver to directly attack him while dodging his melee attacks. This is possible because the slaves will not attack unless spawned equipped with a knife, which only happens after other slaves have died.

A different tactic is to simply use dynamite to bring the Slaver down before he gets the chance to spawn too many slaves. This is possible because he does not have a lot of health and is moving slowly. However, this will cause some innocent slaves to be killed.

Another tactic is to have companions or a second human player in order to get behind the Slaver's human shield while still keeping a distance. Because the slaves will not be able to cover all sides of the Slaver this tactic can be very effective.

Trivia
In the alpha version of the game the slaver was the second boss instead of the first one because the farms were actually the second stage.

The Slaver will have more slaves when looping.

The total health of the Slaver is scaling with the amount of players in Co-op.