GluttonTier ADanger 5Build #3
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Explosive Frenzy Build

This build focuses on maximizing explosive damage through consumable pickups while prioritizing survivability and consistent healing. It leverages Glutton's high luck to load the field with consumables, triggering large area damage while maintaining health through explosive synergies.

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Plasma Sledge icon
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Score

85

Difficulty

hard

Why This Build Exists

This build differs by focusing on maximizing explosion damage with weapon diversity, moving away from purely melee-oriented setups.

Weapons

Plasma Sledge icon

The Plasma Sledge deals high direct and explosive damage, synergizing with Glutton's consumable abilities and allowing for crowd control.

Chainsaw icon
2x ChainsawcoreTier 4

The Chainsaw offers fast attack speed and explosive damage when paired with consumables, allowing for both healing and high output damage in close quarters.

Rocket Launcher icon

Provides powerful explosive outputs for crucial crowd control, particularly effective in managing hordes and dealing significant boss damage.

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1x BlunderbusscoreTier 2

This weapon ensures pierce capability and deals significant burst damage, controlling enemy waves while benefiting from Glutton's luck.

Main Items

Dynamite icon
Dynamitehighhigh value

Boosts explosion damage, enhancing the build's core strategy of maximizing damage from consumables.

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Explosive Shellshighmedium value

Further amplifies explosive damage and size, crucial for area control and lethal efficiency against waves.

Extra Stomach icon
Extra Stomachmediumhigh value

Increases max HP when picking up consumables while at full health, which synergizes strongly with the build's playstyle.

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Power Generatormediummedium value

Increases damage based on speed, helping to boost DPS while Glutton maintains traction on the battlefield.

Blood Donation icon
Blood Donationlowmedium value

Increases harvesting to boost materials collection while providing consistent healing and survival, essential for extended run viability.

Upgrade Focus

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Max HP

Increasing max HP till the end of waves allows for more sustainable health levels, enabling more consumable pickups.

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Damage

Damage improvements are essential to ensure the effectiveness of both melee and explosive weapon outputs.

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Crit Chance

Boosting critical hit chance enhances overall damage output, pairing excellently with explosive interactions with consumables.

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Life Steal

With explosive interactions, life steal from kills will be vital for maintaining health during dense enemy waves.

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Speed

Increasing movement speed is crucial for dodging quickly when engaging with elites and bosses in Danger 5.

Early Game

Focus on acquiring consumables like Spicy Sauce and early upgrades to health and damage to power through the first waves safely. Prioritize items that enhance attack speed and explosive damage.

Mid Game

Aim to collect as many consumables as possible while keeping movement agile to dodge higher-damage enemies. Acquire upgrades focused on max HP and overall damage for sustainability.

Late Game

Waves 16-20 will require optimal balancing of explosive attacks and mobility, focusing on consumable pickups to maintain health against heavy bosses. Positions should allow for effective dodging of their projectiles while maintaining pressure.

Build Reasoning

With Glutton's high base luck statistic, the explosive damage options combined with items increase the efficiency of the build in maximizing health recovery and dealing damage. The combined effort of selected weapons and items focuses on keeping the playstyle aggressive yet sustainable as he navigates through Danger 5.

Why This Build Wins

  • Glutton's ability to heal from consumable pickups complements the explosive damage output from selected weapons, ensuring a cycle of attack and recovery, particularly vital during waves with increased enemy numbers and strength.
  • Items like Dynamite synergize well with the core weapons chosen, augmenting their explosive damage potential for improved crowd control, which is essential at Danger 5's higher enemy densities.

Danger 5 Notes

Danger 5 introduces more elites and tougher enemies that require careful management of both health and positioning. The build is structured to keep Glutton agile and healing while dealing high damage.

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