Fallen Rusher

Fallen Rusher

Modern • Legacy

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This article is about Fallen Rusher (Legacy). You may be looking for other uses of Fallen, Rusher from Polluted Wasteland or Rusher from Polluted Wasteland II.

Fallen Rusher
Mode Appearance	Hardcore
Wave Debut	27
Statistics
Base Health	75
Base Shield	75
Defense	20%
Speed	Extremely Swift (15, With Shield) Fast (Without Shield)
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	None

• Current
• Version 1
• April Fools 2022

"The enemies are making a rush for it!
Quick, destroy their shields before they destroy us!!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 27 (Hardcore)

"The enemies are makinig^[sic] a rush for it!
Quick, destroy their shields before they destroy us!!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 27 (Hardcore)

"The enemies are makinig^[sic] a wush fow it! ε=ε=(っ*´□`)っ
Quick, destwoy theiw shiewds befowe they destwoy us!! (☉ㅅ☉U) "

―Commander dialogue on Wave 27 (April Fools 2022 Hardcore)

Description

The Fallen Rusher is an extremely fast enemy that only appears in Hardcore mode. Although it has low health, it holds a shield and moves extremely fast, being faster than every enemy currently in the game. This makes it a very dangerous threat if you do not have the right towers. It will lose its shield when all of its shield health has depleted, making it run at a fast pace.

Appearance

The Fallen Rusher's appearance is similar to the Rusher and Fallen. It has black reflective skin and granite, dark turquoise torso and legs. It wears a mask with purple neon parts, a chestplate with purple parts, and black and neon purple armbands. It also has black boots, gloves and knee-pads. While running, it holds up a shield in front of it with its left arm.

Strategy

• Destroy the Fallen Rusher's shield to slow it down as soon as possible.
• High DPS towers, such as the Minigunner, Turret and Engineer, can deal with these enemies quickly.
  • The Commander can boost the firerate of towers, making it easier to deal with Fallen Rushers.
  • The Accelerator is also recommended, however be aware that the Fallen Rusher may outrun its charge-up time if placed in a bad spot.
• Military Base vehicles, Elf Camp's units and Crook Boss minions can be useful against the Fallen Rusher if it gets past your towers.
• The Toxic Gunner can be useful to slow down these enemies to a slower and more manageable speed for a few seconds.
• As they have average size, the Electroshocker, Frost Blaster and Freezer can stop the Fallen Rusher.
  • The Sledger is generally not recommended against this, as the Fallen Rusher can easily avoid being hit by it due to its slow firerate and low range.
• A level 5 Golden Pyromancer can easily break the shields of a horde of Fallen Rushers.

Gallery

Corpse Variants

Second Corpse variant, current version (12 March 2025 – Present)

Promotional Videos

Entity System - Tower Defense Simulator

Fallen Rusher on a promotional video.

Trailers

Tower Defense Simulator Trailer 2020

Fallen Rusher in the game trailer.

Miscellaneous

Fallen Rusher on its Index icon.

Trivia

• The Fallen Rusher is the fallen version of the Rusher, but significantly weaker.
• A new version of the Fallen Rusher was added to Fallen Mode.
• This is the second fastest enemy in the game when it has its shield, with the Imposter being faster.
  • However, the Fallen Rusher is currently the fastest enemy in the game as the Imposter has been removed.
  • The speed of the Fallen Rusher is nearly the same as the player walk speed, having a speed of 15 while the player has a speed of 16.
• The Fallen Rusher uses a similar shield to the legacy Fallen King.
• The Fallen Rusher used a regular walking animation when it did not have its shield during Hardcore Testing BETA.
  • It now uses a similar animation to the Fallen when it loses its shield.
• The sound effect that plays when the Fallen Rusher loses its shield is a lower pitched version of the sound effect of the Lead Boss losing its covering.

Update History

• 29 October 2020 - Overhaul v1.0.0
  • Fallen Rusher added.
• 8 May 2021 - Overhaul v1.3.0
  • Defense changed from 20 to 20%.
• 16 December 2024 - v1.46.0
  • Bug: Has a broken animation in Sandbox mode.
• 12 February 2025 - v1.53.0
  • No longer copies the statistics of the modern version in Sandbox mode.
  • Bugfix: Animation now works in Sandbox mode.

Hardcore
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Shadow Boss Wave 23	Fallen Rusher Wave 27	Fallen Titan Wave 31