Pinky and Digit are the pet skags of Nine-Toes, and are encountered in Nine-Toes' lair during the quest Nine-Toes: Take Him Down.
Appearance
They appear in Nine-Toes' hideout
Strategy
Whilst basic anti-skag strategy can be applied to this pair, often additional measures need to be taken by less experienced players who find this fight a challenging one. Players using Mordecai have been especially noted for having their work cut out for them here, as this character is not able to deal large amounts of close range damage. Jumping up onto the sides of Nine-Toes' arena can place you out of harm's way. The skags are able to climb onto the first tier of the grandstands, but moving to the top level and fighting from there is the safe way to go. This is a bit of an underhanded strategy, but if it's required, it's available. Both Pinky and Digit are known to display a charging type attack usually only exhibited by higher level skags. This can be explained by the nature as co-bosses to their Master. Also, Pinky & Digit have been known to roar immediately as they appear. If equipped with a sniper rifle, it's quite reasonable to expect at least one mouth-shot right out of the gate, resulting in the fight being considerably easier. Both pinky and digit have a large amount of armour along their backs, leading to them having a lot of bullet resistance (possible greater than that of alpha skags). When this is combined with their small size, they are very difficult to get clean unimpeded shots onto, and therefore making them much harder to takedown.
Trivia
- Their names are both references to fingers, which contrasts both with Nine-Toes' name and the name of the gun he drops, The Clipper.
- While their Master does respawn during playthroughs, these skags only spawn once per playthrough, a rarity for most of the game's boss-type enemies.