Bandit Character Guide (Risk of Rain 2)

[@Woolie]

YEEEHAWWW

[@francoantonio9936]

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more One and 19 more Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip 21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron, big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip

[@straightfacts4837]

HAWWWYEEEEE

[@abdullahbitar984]

YEEEEEEDAWGY

[@ballsgod9493]

Time to go into eclipse 8

[@acertainperson206]

Ye: Haw V et YEETHAW

[@lilili1807]

Here's a quick tip: get at least 1 Crowbar in the early game so you can one shot Wisps, Bettles, and Lemurians with your R even when they're at full hp. And If you get 2 Crowbars you can one shot them in their elite form.

[@strutr1250]

Absolutely. Found this out myself, and does so much for him.

[@pavaldatsack]

Especially with the nerf to tritips, it was so weird to watch myself prioritizing crowbars over tritips in multishops lmao. Hot take, go all-in on a crowbar printer and just press R for the rest of the run :^)

[@arifhossain9751]

One brainstalks and 2 crowbars makes Desperado into a minigun.

[@zeyeon2277]

Add the wedding bands + blast shower to the mix and you'll be one shotting most of them

[@H0ney166]

i just spam utility and r. utility damages and r resets it. Bandit is busted, he can put out insane area damage with resets and crazy single target damage on bosses cuz of his right click

[@tornadix99]

Haven't managed yet to unlock the second ability, but for the default, stacking mags, then crits, then predatory instincts, right click goes brrr. People believe it takes long for recharge 20 stacks of the secondary, until you realize you can kill a monster with lights out and refresh ALL of the stacks. I wonder if the secondary is the same but with range.

[@thefrogwannabe6895]

can confirm its the same with range but less initial damage , the strat you suggested is so strong with the shiv

[@ganescus]

Yep, it works the same way - a reset will reset all of the stacks; the main difference is that one is AoE and a bit more damage, while the other is much easier to land and use since it's thrown. Also, if you want the achievement, you just need to get 9 backup mags, go to a tanky boss, use them, reset with R and do it again; alternatively you can get 19 and just spam.

[@KoopaKrump]

Side side note - afterburner is wild as a mobility tool to supplement secondary builds with Bandit. Since using them doesnt break your sprint, you can have pretty amazing verticality by chaining stealth and knive usage to pop yourself up, and then Lights Outing to instantly refill your stealth charges (if you ever start getting low on secondary charges to stall your air time). It was unbelievably fun "flying" above a map without a single hopoo feather and only a couple of energy drinks to my name for movement items.

[@djdano92]

not played any games in a while so not been on steam and just loaded it up today and saw him so goin to try to unlock now and give him a blast, and glad i saw this as i wanted to see if he was same as the old bandit from the 1st game. :D

[@dimpy1661]

Love the video and the tips, It will be fun if you show the trick "Shift R (killing) shift R (killing) shift R (killing) etc.. and beyond

[@spartz117]

The hemorrhaging should be taken into mind that it procs from every critical strike, not from behind. If you stack glasses it is basically guaranteed bleed damage; additionally if you stack secondary mags, lights out will restore *all* of those stacks; I've found it majorly useful to gain the sadist achievement that way through dropping all my daggers into a boss, lighting out a wisp, and then pouring the rest in leading to some major damage output and quickly going over 20 stacks of hemorrhaging

[@spartz117]

All in all though, great guide as always! I'll keep items like the syringe in mind, I found that the predatory instincts really work miracles when it comes to reloading; pop an entire clip from behind and just watch that clip come back in instantly

[@sD-ug2de]

I found an Afterburner on one of my runs after defeating the Alloy Worship Unit. You can literally be in stealth the entire time and it made charging teleporters hella easy.

[@gamemincraft1234]

Hemerage is also good for the "Marked for death" requirement.

[@Raptor747]

Can you make guides for how to unlock the various locked abilities for each character? Frankly, I'm rather pissed off that I will NEVER be good enough to unlock Mercenary's locked ultimate, and I can't figure out how to get Acrid's "get the killing blow on a Scavenger" one since I've done that and it still won't unlock.

[@adreamer5920]

Bandit is my favorite melee character, just get 20 backup mags

[@kylemckell]

That's literally the only way to do the godforsaken challenge to unlock his second secondary skill lol

[@agaardadaar5650]

Purity also really helps if you’re trying that challenge

[@Syngraphaeor]

He's my favourite one-shot character too, just get 2 purities and 15 crowbars with the alternate R 👉😎👉

[@lula4260]

@@kylemckell there is another way, that is stacking purity, To get the cool down to half a second

[@kylemckell]

@@lula4260 this is fair. I don't know why I didn't think to do that lol

[@Z0mb13g4m3r88]

Fun fact: If like me originally you were having trouble unlocking Bandit's alternative for his dagger and can't get the 20 stacks on an enemy before they die.. your own friends can work as well, just as long as you turn on friendly fire. Truly earned the challenge name "Bandit: Sadist" indeed.

[@hardcas]

3 purities makes the cool down half a second, same with the revolver

[@nolan8226]

you can also play with other bandits to help each other stack the hemorrhage but only the one that last hits will get the unlock

[@48Mei]

Also works on the shopkeeper in the Bazaar if you’re fast enough before he kicks you out lol

[@ChaosWolfRider]

Alternatively use artifact of command and get 19 or so backup mags, then just dump on a boss. Takes a bit longer than some of these other methods though.

[@arjunmattewada4216]

@@48Mei I got 19 backup mags and thought of this when the update first came out, but nope. I had 23 stacks on Newt and it didn't work, so I just looped after that

[@p1terden]

Imagine what will be in the dlc if this is only the free update

[@aircoder6681]

I mean they did say new survivors meaning multiple and new stages and bosses so its pretty crazy

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

Hope enforcers one of them. I'd love to see how they'd handle turning it from 2d to 3d

[@kylemckell]

Bring chef back babyyyy

[@chridtian5470]

@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero I'd love to see more survivors that aren't from the first game. Maybe if they add 1 returning survivor and 1 completely new survivor in future DLC.

[@kappasunn7290]

chef gang

[@republicanhaircutman]

Recommendation: when canceling smoke bomb for a hop, do it with your dagger swing (M2) because it's agile and won't exit sprint/halt momentum

[@64_bit80]

thanks

[@tannohand8379]

thanks

[@TheActualMrLink]

Figured that one out the moment I started playin’ him!

[@NickMaovich]

thanks

[@soulslur]

thanks

[@pogumcpoggers4315]

Tip on bandit: If you say it's 12 o'clock when pressing R you get a 100% chance to hit and kill

[@abcrasshadow9341]

McCree: "It's High Noon"

[@joshuanoel8018]

The day is halfway over

[@BigFry9591]

It's mid-day

[@SulPonticellist]

it is not morning or afternoon

[@BigFry9591]

@@SulPonticellist Or night

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

It is worth noting: M2 is scary dangerous if there is something that existed which could give you 1 additional use as a white item and be stacked near infinitely and you had something which could instantly refresh cooldowns. *Enemies will start to melt* Sure you won't be behind them every 4 secs like clockwork but since you're getting crits 90% of the time... you'll probably be behind them around every 4 seconds.

[@mr.heccinkek8322]

Full crit, backup mags, lights out... Yea

[@GameBooAdvancePlus]

a purity shiv desperado bandit (capped crit if you can manage) just holds down m2 and R the entire run and melts everything.

[@PenumbraDev]

I had a run where I had 10 soldier syringes and 25 backup mags (I was trying to unlock his throwing knife) and I melted bosses like crazy I just had horrible mobbing and couldn't deal with imps and other dangerous close range mobs.

[@AegixDrakan]

Bonus if you end up capping your crit naturally in a run. It can get hilariously stupid. XD

[@user-ux4gu2lh8c]

That’s why you use the thrown knife. Cap your crit as well and you just yeet knives around bleeding everything

[@pultofcat8615]

Extra tips: -Attack speed also increases the speed you shank and the windup of your R -Killing with R resets ALL cooldowns, including all stacks of backup mag and afterburner -Hardlight afterburner let’s you fly

[@aaronstephen3058]

you didn’t suggest the Poglyp for the bandit even though it’s OP on him (and every survivor). Wow mr streamer.

[@owenbowen2222]

Yeah, best item in the game no questions asked

[@OhNoTheFace]

"Poglyp"

[@BoopinSnakeBandito]

What is that?

[@ghoulbuster1]

Poglyp got buffed, it's now even more broken

[@akizafoxxe7395]

Polpy fucking sucks

[@prestonforman8112]

last time i was this early sticky bombs still had 2000% damage

[@samuelbento6804]

F

[@strutr1250]

F

[@raalzuune871]

F

[@dyllanfellows9051]

F

[@deformedsock99]

F

[@AlanStryman]

Chaining Light out like hell is the most fun I have in this game rn

[@cheeseman4199]

Especially with artifact of glass and/or a bunch of crowbars

[@jbreitz87]

@@cheeseman4199 Lol the game was basically shoving this into my face on my first run using him, had a crowbar 3d printer on the first stage and ended up leaving it with 6 of them.

[@Jacklin222]

Yeah, all the annoying wisp? Dead in 1 shot. Glad this skill is much stronger in RoR 2 since you can aim and not limited to in front of you like in RoR 1.

[@r2d2sp1]

Best thing when there's hundreds of wisps and you just R, Shift, R, Shift, R, ... Just pure satisfaction

[@vedal1358]

@@jbreitz87 I had two! COUNT THEM! 2! One on stage 1 and another on 4. And used neither, because I was (and still am) new to the game and a tier list I watched said they weren't all that great.

[@ActualAlienBoiiii]

he has a shotgun, he is fast and has a double/triple jump cuz of smoke screen mf is just the scout from tf2

[@screamingcactus1753]

He has a revolver and a knife, can turn invisible and does more damage from behind. He is also the spy.

[@Undechypheredcrab]

@@screamingcactus1753 spy is scout's dad, so...

[@thelindseys6423]

The spout

[@Heavouslicious]

@@thelindseys6423 And the Scy.

[@machination2166]

> has a shotgun > can phase out of existence (turn invisible) > has a melee weapon basically Ronin from tf|2

[@cheesymelon4752]

Get behind them so you can dump your load - Bearded Risk Of Rain 2 Player 2021

[@hypenite6958]

Fun fact: his original R fully automatic as long as you press the button and kill something, so you don't need to see another animation of him getting a gun out

[@alowbudgetharrypotter4068]

Yeah but it’s really fast so you have to have some amazing aim for anything far apart.

[@oreomanscookiesmilk7132]

@@alowbudgetharrypotter4068 Yeah you literally have to be cracked to keep that going for long

[@lula4260]

@@oreomanscookiesmilk7132 either that or, there is a horde of lesser wisps

[@creeperbc0254]

@@oreomanscookiesmilk7132 I have been able to do it with a bunch of lemurians but you need to know where everything is and yes be cracked to do it.

[@Norii_Majime]

was just thinking of playing risk of rain 2 and try out the new guy bandit so this is perfect timing

[@kleox5452]

Not on console yet

[@willdc64]

Its definitely a fun game

[@kleox5452]

@@ajgamez2728 I don’t think they ever will

[@LULULULUCAWCAWCAWCAW]

@@kleox5452 "We’re also glad to announce that we have a new, internal team at Gearbox that is focused on continuing to bring all future content of Risk of Rain 2 to our console players with even closer parity to our PC version of the game. While the Anniversary Update will be staggered from PC releases like before, our goal with Expansion #1 is to ship on all platforms at the same time. We can’t guarantee 100% that we will achieve that - its something we’ve admittedly never done before - but that’s our goal." This is what he's referring to.

[@4shar]

friendship ended with mercenary, bandit is new favorite character

[@mercenaryman1102]

I'm coming for you

[@pearlspring6328]

@@mercenaryman1102 Its to late bro hes already in your room

[@sleepyppl4286]

i like mercenary more because despite the fact that he doesn’t have an instant reset for all his skill cool downs he has way better combos

[@jboom1201]

@@mercenaryman1102 I watched the Mercenary really rocks video to check if you actually typed the “I’m coming for you comment”. Also let’s go mercenary gang.

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Mercenary sucks anyway

[@tominjsh9252]

Brainstalks syngergizes very well with Desperado (secondary special). A few stages in when there's a bunch of elites, just killing one of them will let you kill a bunch of enemies with Desperado, letting you easily get tokens. When you have a decent amount of tokens and/or crowbars, you'll also be oneshotting the elites, getting perma up-time desperado and gaining a lot of stacks.

[@grimstruck5300]

yes

[@fran2715]

Focus crystals are also a good investment, as more often than not, you're going to be close to your enemy, especially bosses. It turns smoke bomb into a mini nuke with a ukelele.

[@PastaLuke]

Man, I got distracted by how well this was made and had to rewind it 30 seconds. Like, wow. This is better than any official guide or tutorial any games company could hope to produce. You really killed it while keeping it entertaining, short, and above all: informative.

[@greg1569]

it's just information you find in the game. Idk what you are talking about. It's extremely basic you can discover most of this in within the first couple hours of gameplay

[@IMTHATGUY-b3s]

​@@greg1569people are weird bro, youtube comment sections are just filled with people praising creators for normal videos

[@ukafalkowski5154]

I love bandit, and his starting kit is probably one of the best in the game, aside from his secondary, which I always replace with the new heresy item anyways.

[@williammagsambol2143]

Which heresy item?

[@ukafalkowski5154]

@@williammagsambol2143 hooks of heresy, it replaces your second skill with an orb that you charge and shoot, wooly mentioned it in one of his recent videos

[@nikoRa656]

I love how his alt skin is a direct reference to the main enemy in Deadbolt, Ibzan :D

[@dreamcastdazia4753]

I always loved risk of rain 2 but bandit alone made it my absolute favourite game to play everyday now

[@ExceedinglyFPR]

so not mentioned in the video is an interesting way to play bandit by getting a few purity you can basically permanently stay cloaked and be untargetable, you can even cancel your cloak with another cloak making you an untargetable splash damage machine.

[@MICROKNIGHT3000]

What does purity do for bandit smoke bomb?

[@joeyrentz9480]

@@MICROKNIGHT3000 lowers cooldown by 2 seconds

[@ExceedinglyFPR]

@@MICROKNIGHT3000 cuts cooldowns in half so with a stack of 3 you can infinitely cast it.

[@lemang1273]

yee and you can perma fly with cloak spam and if you stack 100% crit and 1 mag you can spam out hemorrhage stacks so fast. definitely my favorite way to play him

[@alasdairsinclair916]

I had a multiplayer run where I got a purity and alien head to get perma stealthed. Then I found a couple loops in that you could use a crowdfunder while in stealth. Those were the 2 turning points in the run for me, where I started surviving stages and started doing non-negligible damage.

[@scorpiloo]

I like Woolies "i made a bad joke/pun - hihi" it's so cute lmao

[@godslayer9000]

Bandit's invisibility spoiled my muscle memory so much that I was spamming the orbital strike on the ground thinking that I will go invis and save my life from the overloading brass contraption chasing me.

[@Steleaf]

for those who like desperato, here's a bunch of tips that might be useful! -the 10% is multiplicative, not additive, meaning 10 stacks of desperato deals DOUBLE your 600% damage, not 700%. and 30 stacks means quadruple that 600% damage, this is why both bands are insane in this dude, but especially with desperato -if you manage to get a brilliant behemoth, the explosion from the behemoth also counts as desperato kills, meaning, if you black hole 8 beatles and one-shot them with BB, you'll get 8 stacks of desperato, this might with with ukelele but I havent tested it yet. -one commenter already said this, but 1/2 crowbars is more than enough to get your stacks going, especially against beatles and elite wisps -has much less range than his M1 rifle, you cannot reach sky meadows monsters till you get a bit close enough to them -get purity and this becomes your main source of damage

[@nameless2746]

Woolie: Gives overview on all bandit skills Me: But which is betterrrrr?

[@erinbarr762]

Lights out is devastating when chaining stealth executions. The ranged dagger is just better than the melee. The single rifle does "less damage" but you don't miss pellets, it's 100% accurate, and it gives waaaaay better procs. Rifle all the way. Edit: also, you can fly if you time your stealth jumps right chaining lights out. Just get a crowbar or a bunch of wisps

[@kylemckell]

@@erinbarr762 shotgun gang

[@thatguyyouhate3743]

@@erinbarr762 i mean the proc coefficient may be 0.5 but if you combine all five pellets it reaches something like 0.97 which is extremely close to the rifle. Plus the shotgun works better when you cap things since you’re looking at 40 health per shot vs 8 with the scythe as an example

[@MrTeucro99]

@@thatguyyouhate3743 and that 0.5 per pellet demolishes the other one with one clover throw in the mix. Also more total damage in general, is true you are sacrificing the range, but up close the shotgun is the strongest. So they work as their gun type sugest.

[@grovetender4713]

Neither. Play your preferences

[@vcalenis5172]

One really important part of his playstyle that I discovered that you didn't mention is that Smoke Bomb isn't just utility, its an incredibly powerful offensive tool. I consider it Bandit's strongest skill, and the best tool for groups of enemies. The most important tip is to make sure to use it in the air. Run at a group of enemies, jump and activate smoke bomb. This will send you sailing over their heads and hit most of them with the first charge of smokebomb. While still above them, hit your R, triggering the second use of smoke bomb, which will almost certainly lower an enemy within range of your execute. This then resets your cooldowns, letting you repeat this rotation over and over. Smoke Bomb is also incredibly powerful with on hit items, particularly ukuleles. Also don't forget that smokebomb is also triggered by backstab, which can make the 200% x 2 attack instead be 400% x 2.

[@gimmiewaffles6671]

yes i have been so strong that I meant to backstab an enemy but I ended up killing them with the smoke bomb and not the R.

[@64_bit80]

hell yeah. my favorite part of bandit is running up to a group of wisps, using smoke bomb to double jump, and then combo-ing revolver --> cooldown rest --> double jump.

[@tiorast650]

There is a red item that grands you two more charges and faster colddown for utility skill, man is insane, you can spam it, run away or anything you want since is literally versatile

[@jarrenbenin7553]

Bandit with a hardlight afterburner is pretty much my father, as in practically invisible nah but fr I love my dad

[@ishmerru]

ye, h, aw

[@Felaeris]

Tip for Light's Out: Hold down the "R" key when clearing wisps. Bandit will keep his revolver out and continue firing as long as you maintain the kill chain. This scales with attack speed. [I lean towards Desperado, but both are amazing]

[@MrRukrio1]

ngl secondary actually becomes decent when you have 100% crit. stack it with backup mags, and/or a purity clover combo, and it becomes a lot more consistent. still yeah depend a lot more on that primary skill and Lights Out/Desperado and use the stealth to bail outta bad positions or get into good ones.

[@jakub9681]

You wanna hear some pog news: Essence of Heresy "debuff" counts towards Death Mark (Im like 98% sure :v)

[@johnsirlancelot3213]

It does

[@rangerunner6274]

I found the knife realy usefull at damaging and quickly killing a large number of small enemys around you thanks to its basicly AOE attack, Realy good swarm killer.

[@Kmn483]

Hemorrhage encourages building crit. 2,000 base dmg per stack is nothing to scoff at, even if it takes a while to get through that all. If you use Dagger and a few Backup Magazines, that's easily 8k bonus dmg on a boss. PLUS all stacks get refreshed on Lights Out, leading to another 8k. As long as the boss would normally take at least ~20s, you'll significantly speed it up.

[@quantum174]

How to play Bandit Step 1: Finish Red Dead Redemption 2 Step 2: Pick Bandit Step 3: Channel your inner Arthur Morgan Step 4: OUTTA THE DAMN WAY

[@TheWholeBakery]

ALSO unsurprisingly Bandolier synergies well with Bandit, while running Lights Out. It's basically guaranteed unlimited skills!

[@zerpf2660]

I find that bringing 3 purities and desparato is a really fun build on bandit. Of course, you say goodbye to proc chance, but you get so much damage from desparato that it eventually doesnt matter.

[@cbhv4321]

so normally I disagree with most of woolies opinions (ahem ahem, huntress bad crowdfunder op, ahem ahem) but I actually agree with like 90% of the things woolie says here.

[@janputz4157]

I really like the hemmorhage (I don't think I ever wrote that word ever) because it's more of a addition to the bandit rather than an actual attack. Something to use when things are on cooldown and behind the monsters anyway so why not just give a nice slice and dice and bleed them out. Slowly.

[@greg1569]

man if I come to youtube for information I kind of already know these basics. I played a couple games and there was no new information in this video. Meh

[@gimmiewaffles6671]

my favorite thing to do is run desperado and get 3 purity and one-shot everything and give up on proc items. works best when running command artifact and you don't even need to backstab to oneshot most thing.

[@sondowver1]

Smokebomb not up all the time Might i introduce you to Purity Who needs proc chance when you're all the damage you need

[@AirDrifter77]

"That way you can easily get behind them and dump your load" don't know if intentional or not but that was hilarious to hear

[@WeaverOfDestiny]

Really big bandit tip! Hardlight afterburner gives you near infinite invisibility if you dont break the invisibility early with 3 charges of your shift for those sticky situations!!!!

[@Slim-yu1ud]

Always get blade of heresy when on bandit. Such a step up from his normal secondary.

[@sups9276]

Are you gonna do a guide on the heretic?

[@MetaSolaray]

Get 3 purities with Shaped Glass on Desperado. You have a One shot .5 sec cooldown ability that gets stronger with each kill. Add in Bands, Crowbars and you won't mind the - luck as you're not bothering with on hit. 10x crit glasses is 100% for even more doubled damage.

[@Animemom96]

Especially since while the bands are "on hit" they aren't random procs, it's just hit hard enough and it procs so Purity has no effect on it.

[@Alyeh]

Fun tidbit, Bandit's mastery skin looks to be based off of Ibzan from Deadbolt

[@co11in__18]

I've always found the M2 to be useful in clearing swarms of small enemies/fodder that build up around you while fighting bosses, since it's the Bandit's only real splash damage attack. (this is particularly useful when utilizing Blast over Burst)

[@minusskydiver5039]

I’m still annoyed that this only released on pc and not on console😡

[@DonTheCrown]

Nice video YEP

[@summar-ice]

Using lights out allows you to fly if you do this: - Use a smoke bomb mid-air - Cancel it with lights out - Kill an enemy with it to reset your cooldowns - Repeat It mostly works on stages like wetland aspect which has a lot of low health enemies that you can one-shot easily (Especially the jellyfish)

[@hugw4567]

purity x3 with desparado is basically a guaranteed win if ur not going for loops, especially since it's so easy to stack it up before the mithrix fight and then just spam a 3000% damage ability every half second

[@beefyburrito2860]

Your videos make this game so much simpler. Also enjoy the streams always so much fun. :)

[@hackmaster124]

Hardline afterburner is OP on bandit lol.

[@dolphin6756]

I think your undervaluing hemorage a bit. The absolute best part of hemorage is the fact it lasts 15 seconds. overloading/perfected eleits can *never* heal against bandit. because hemorage lasts 15 seconds, you never really have to think too hard about getting a backstab every singe dagger/shiv. Hemorage also beats bleed in the mithrix fight because it lasts long enough to stay during his long shockwave attack, and he stands still for a while after so you can get an easy refresh.

[@someflyguylul]

He said YEEEE and I cannot stress this enough HAWWWWW

[@Anonymus1921XD]

I had a lot of success with Purity/Brainstalks + Desperado. Weird that you didn't mention those.

[@ZireaelX7]

"get behind and dumb your load" XDXDXD

[@Haamuhai]

So far the bandit is my main :D love the invisibility + i like doing Invisibility,burst,melee, 360 spin Then the snipe shot and then 2 bursts on bosses 😭

[@K4RN4GE911]

Bandit's backstab is literally this game's version of the "Nothing personal, kid" meme.

[@BananaNationTV]

Invisibility doesn’t not stop enemy tracking 100% of the time. It’s more like in dota 2 where projectiles are disjointed but especially in multiplayer a lot of lemurians will just track you through it regardless

[@christopherrichmond3310]

Hardlight afterburner works wonders. Stacking crowbars w bandits secondary can 1 shot a lot of things. The name of the game for bandit is the crowbar for mobbing. Crowbar, AP rounds, Focusing Lense, ukulele, and gasoline. Nothing will live. Throw in hardlight afterburner and theyll never see you coming.

[@gwyndolin5485]

Woolie... you didn't mention the fact that Kjaro's and Runald's can negate Bandit's pistol. When they proc, you don't reset cooldowns or give you a desparado stack.

[@dexterity494]

Just going to point out that Hemorrhage does more damage per second than bleed Hemorrhage: 2000% per 15 = 2000/15 = 133% Bleed: 240% per 3 = 240/3 = 80% Hemorrhage does 60% more than bleed, and you can double it every 2 seconds (0.5 if you have a SINGLE purity). I very much think this is by far one of the strongest parts of Bandit's kit

[@manboi98]

I put this game down for a good while after I played it to death and sold my Nintendo switch. Realized two days ago that it's actually on all consoles now and I got it for my PS4..DIDNT EVEN KNOW THIS CHARACTER WAS ADDED...it is now my favorite hands down... I gotta unlock the captain

[@Mazurecki56]

On my second day playing the game (today!), I got together with 3 friends who all played Engineer for memes on Drizzle. I chose Bandit because I couldn't participate in the meme (didn't unlock Engineer yet). For most of the time, I felt pretty useless, with them obliterating everything just by being there with their turrets and drones and such. But when we arrived at Mithrix and he just straight-up run up to them and killed them all with a single strike, I clutched the boss and the escape event, earning the "Bandit: B&E" achievement in the process. Felt fucking amazing. Now to repeat that on higher difficulties. :v

[@midnightproductions3442]

I have only started playing RoR for about a week, and have only unlocked Commando, Huntress, and Bandit, but goddamn Bandit feels so good to play. Chaining smoke bombs with Lights Out basically gives you a janky form of flight. I've still not gotten past my First loop, but I've only gotten to the 4th stage with Bandit

[@skypris974]

I've liked getting a few crowbars and then just jump, Smoke Bomb, Lights Out, Smoke Bomb, Lights Out, on and on and on. Literally just flying around the stage until the screen is dead.

[@chrisg5219]

Nice! I just searched for a guide on bandit bc I have no idea how to do well with him. You're the best content Ror2 content creator Woolie!

[@dpPepperWasTaken]

Also, tip for those, who's localization sucks: bleed from hemorrhage and bleed from daggers are not the same thing. You want to stack M2 bleed to get the achievement. Learned the hard way, after stacking 10 daggers and not getting the achievement for 2 runs. Russian localization sucks

[@TheKaratejesus]

his second ultimate is seriously disappointing. I think if it had a much smaller scaling (think 1% or lower) per kill, then it might be fine to carry over on stages. A better idea in my opinion is to make it similar to the Bazaar Bargain sniper rifle from Team Fortress 2. That weapon had benefits that stacked up for every headshot you got, but if you missed you lost them. I think if he had a similar stack system on his R as he has now but then you lose the stacks upon missing the shot it could be pretty balanced and skill expressive. Might still be overpowered but who cares? It's a PVE game, OP is fun.

[@magnusm4]

I found him to be an interesting issue. Engineer and Artificer relies heavily on items and setup. While Bandit is very single moment loner. He burst bosses faster than any other character I've tried and honestly, items don't affect him as much early game. He's the perfect character for multiplayer since everyone will just rush for all the items and rush the damn boss. If you're not gonna get anything and they're gonna be jerks like any co op player. Then be the BIGGEST jerk of them all.

[@gaspachoo5046]

Bandit’s smoke bombs are easily his best ability. I ran a 5x purity stack and 20 x focus crystal stack and began shredding absolutely everything, and had the ability to fly. Plus, the constant invisibility and stunning meant that I never took any damage. A more optimal version could probably be made with brainstalks/afterburners but purity has an availibility factor if you go to the moon frequently.

[@PoneDtheGuy]

I'll just copy paste my thoughts I gave to my friends. The Bandit and his abilities: fun and powerful but also lacking in ways. My biggest complaint is that it feels like they just threw in another bleed because they didn't know what else to do? stacking the bleed isn't very practical without backup mags or always having something in kill range for your Lights Out. Basically his M2 is another "oh right that's technically a thing I have" like Captain's (this goes for either version). I hope we don't get even more "unique" bleeds on future DLC survivors or items tbh. In fact speaking of his alt skills, I find them all... disappointing. The m1 alt isn't worth using over the shotgun. If they wanted Bandit's alternate m1 to really feel like the original like the challenge suggests they should have it remove the 4 shot limit and reduce the accuracy penalty for rapid fire. They'd probably have to reduce the damage even more to balance that out so I can see why they made it the way it is, I just don't think it's worth using over the shotgun and I'd still like to see the accuracy penalty reduced. Desperado, it's fun to build your stacks in the early game but doing so slows down your run a lot, you do all that work just for it to reset on the next stage. the fact it resets basically makes trying to stack it up past your first loop a death sentence unless you have a really good run already. I feel like it could easily keep it's stacks and still not feel like it scales too fast compared to the monsters, especially with minor tweaking. Also the fact that you don't get stacks if the monster is killed by an item it procs is no bueno.

[@RevolverRez]

Nice. I haven't played since the official release but having Bandit in RoR2 (legit and without mods) will be neat. Also, CHEF WHEN HOPOO?

[@creeperbc0254]

3 things. 1. for those who like death mark builds with the artifact of command, hemorrhage is a valid debuff. That is why I use throwing knives. 2. purity on bandit too with 2-3 of them his special becomes primary fire. unlucky doesn't matter. 3. crowbars are actually meaty on bandit. if you find a crowbar printer, consider it. his special is very good with a few of them.

[@deraal86]

Am I missing something or is Burst way better than Blast? 5*100% + 5*0,5Proc is better then 330%+1.0Proc... even hitting 3/5 bullets on the shotgun is better then hitting one shot on the rifle

[@happyhippo1043]

I believe his default R (don't have the alternate one yet) is currently bugged. If you press R and then start springing before the shot happens - the shot doesn't happen. Your R just completely vanishes and you have to wait the full cooldown. Also noteworthy: Drone AI is absolutely messed up and they *will* fly in front of you and block your R

[@aclkeba]

Hard disagree with the comment at 4:15 about not waiting to get the final kill-shot with Desperado (at least on first loop). If you can stack up ~20-30 tokens, you can do some serious damage to the teleporter boss. You do take a time hit, but on some runs when you're ahead, that's okay

[@leinadlink]

you say hemorrhage isn't that good and that the right click is useless, but pairing that with a bunch of backup mags, which is a relatively common item, and the lights out reset makes you have insane dps. Just blow all your M2s in a tanky target's back and your entire mag, then look for a squishy target to get a reset and get ALL your M2s back. It probably looks weak by itself because once you take that into account it becomes super busted.

[@xanderwright6113]

One thing I’d like to add to anyone coming down to the comments that didn’t seem like it was explained, your secondary ability (the knife) inflicts hemorrhage on any critical hit, not just a backstab. Meaning if you have capped crit, you can spam the hell out of your secondary for essentially another set of bleeds. I know this doesn’t become too relevant until later in the run, when this fact won’t be that important cuz stuff will be dying to fast anyway, but for any commandy andys out there, pick the alternate secondary, stack crit, and have fun with free bleeds

[@TheAnimeLurk]

I feel like Mr. Streamer did Hemorrhaging dirty. It procs on crits, not just attacks from behind, so capping crit means you always proc Hemorrhaging when you use your secondary.

[@dude_homie]

Bandits alternative special skill is nasty - cool down can become useless if you get a god run with purity/alienhead/hardlight afterburner. I was literally flying around the map with smoke bomb too. Never felt more like a God than with bandit 😂

[@РођакНенад]

Something I'd like to add as a tip is not neglecting the smaller mobs while in a boss battle when you don't have enough dps to melt through the boss or not enough movement speed to dodge everything reliably without sprinting. Using your smoke bomb to get behind the boss and land 4 shots and maybe even a secondary if you're feeling like it is the ideal way to deal damage, but if you pop your R on the boss you definitely won't kill him right away, instead, quickly sniping a wisp/lemur/beetle or anything else you can oneshot to reset your smoke bomb makes it very easy to avoid a lot of damage, increase dps in the long run because of the higher frequency of R's and personally feels more badass. Of course, if you have enough dps to melt through the boss without him having a chance to pose any danger, or if you have enough movement speed to dodge everything without too much sprinting, it's not really relevant, but I prefer the safer method and it builds good habits imo.

[@makiito4170]

i use his serrated dagger to one shot large crowds of small fry had an army of like 15 beetles chasing me in a very tight formation, stunned them with smoke bomb and went behind them, pressed R and they all died in one fell swoop

[@ashlehuman4948]

About hemorrhage. You will deal a stack of hemorrhage with any crit. If you have 100% crit chance, you will always get a hemorrhage stack on the enemy you hit with your secondary, whether or not you are getting a backstab. This is a good thing to know if you want to get the sadist unlock

[@sjeggy6]

In my opinion attack speed is so much less important for this character so i consider the syringe absolutely pointless Reason being because using lights out also fully reloads the primary. Basically no non-elite enemy survives 4 shotguns + execute so you can just rinse and repeat. Lesser wisps (if you have maybe one or two crowbars later on) die from lights out at full health allowing for a very easy recharge too!

[@mellified6500]

Your sleeping on bandits best item. Purity, one makes invis around half a second cd and two or a hardlight make it permanent. pair that with a cautious slug, and you literally will never die if you're careful not to get oneshot. also opens up some other dumb combos, such as did you know use items don't break invisibility? you can permanently shoot crowdfunder with purities and a crown. Only problem with this is there's a very small window when recasting your shift that you turn visible once again.

[@Leeminlimer]

Bandit is the best melee survivor. Focus crystal, crowbar, and mag stacks op. Get a will-o-whisp and fuggetaboutit.

[@withers102]

Quick thing about the primary Rifle has no fall off and is better for longer range playstyle Shotgun DOES have fall off and is better for short range but does more damage assuming 4/5 of your shots hit at mid-short range.