BEST BUILD I've Ever Had - Brotato Cryptid Danger 5 Guide

This is not clickbait, this is the best Brotato Danger 5 build I've ever had. Can you get one to match? Let me know!
Detailed class guide and gameplay for Brotato 1.0 on max difficulty, including the unique mechanics, best build, and tips for this class. This run features very careful dodging!

[@louisboulton6296]

this is definitely proof that bag is an S tier item, not even breaking trees and it gives you insane value especially with those lures. god tier run nice job man

[@Cephalopocalypse]

It's true - Those items are incredible apart and even better together! Thanks :D

[@-42-47]

I actually prefer going turrets with cryptid because you get so many trees. The bonus for keeping trees alive is still awesome especially on early waves but once my luck gets high enough and I get my pocket factory it's time to start converting all those trees into turrets and crates.The build ends up being a more powerful version of Explorer with turrets and mines.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That does sound like a cool build! The old "turn against the forests and clear cut instead" plan

[@IsaacMorgan98]

I just tried that and died as soon as I bought pocket factory haha

[@IsaacMorgan98]

I just tried that and died as soon as I bought pocket factory haha

[@flubbledubster8767]

​@@IsaacMorgan98gotta do a lot more dodging cuz it immediately cuts off a bunch of regen

[@flubbledubster8767]

​@@IsaacMorgan98gotta do a lot more dodging cuz it immediately cuts off a bunch of regen

[@Bogrin]

I’d like to think the cryptid picked up the fallen limbs of his tree brethren to murder them aliens in this run!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Exactly! Mess with the tree, you get the.... beak, or whatever it is cryptid has

[@JC-zx5li]

Surely mess with the tree and you sget the stick?

[@ZSJan]

As always fantastic content. Love the narration and the calmness of your voice. Keep it up. ❤

[@theundaddy8037]

Awesome run, well played :D

[@rrc1993]

Just watched this one and got my first danger 5 win 👊 thanks for the videos mate

[@Straffus]

Just got my platinum trophy for the game, and beat it on danger 5 with each character. I used your charcter tier list to beat it in the best order and used each charcter's guide for an idea on how to beat it with everyone. Crypitd was my last potato to win with. Thank you for the help.

[@whisperingcrown591]

This is genuinely my favorite character to play. It's so much fun to me

[@Jellyhead9000]

Been watching a bunch of your class guides, super helpful! I like the conversation that's persisted through your vids about youtube's video naming quirks. Click bait sounding title wasn't clickbait here though ;)

[@Dabobbleboy]

Cryptid? More like CRIT-tid... I’ll be here daily

[@SgtPantz]

Thanks again. Almost done with them all :)

[@0Fate8Bound0]

have you considered doing endless runs? You build brotatoes so well I always wonder how far some of these busted builds can go. Keep up the great work, your vids are awaesome !!

[@eatmynoobfood7461]

I wanted to see you do this run on endless 😂 Great run and video 😜✌️💜

[@Fetid1337]

Great videos! I'd like to see you do these videos again making it to 40 in endless

[@patrickcarter1820]

This build was crazy. You were basically playing lawn mower simulator.

[@patrickoakley7890]

Thanks for the Sticks tip. Made it pretty trivial. I was melting Elites.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nice!

[@drgnearth]

cryptid is such a fun run. like glutton or mutant, or one armed with lightning shiv

[@thisisashan]

Honestly I opted to bust trees as Cryptic with a luck build and that was rather insane. I hit on like 5 +Trees early, which I curved into well by focusing on luck. The massive items is just too insane, and you'll always have 2-4 trees you didn't get when you have that many trees popping up. Perhaps not as intended, but it was also one of my strongest runs. Luck luck.

[@Pineapal]

I'm guessing you took harvesting more than usual to make up for the lack of material?

[@thisisashan]

@Pineapal perhaps, though killing trees also drops materials. And if you get a ton of luck each tree has a good chance of dropping an item. Sell items your build doesn't use

[@Pineapal]

First game with the cryptid and on danger 5 I used lances to make up for the bad range and it worked out pretty good

[@Wernerrrrr]

This video inspired me to do a run using thief daggers. I got insane amounts of money. Was a lot of fun.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thief dagger is so sweet, I wish it was just *slightly* better because it's so much fun

[@Wernerrrrr]

@@Cephalopocalypse I don't think thief dagger is underwhelming, yesterday I did a danger 5 thief dagger run with Cryptid and today I did a run with speedy. In the beginning I'm a bit behind the curve but once I start earning money from the daggers I have an easy game. Think I killed the last 2 bosses within 20 or 30 secs with Speedy.

[@jgray2718]

Stick is a good choice. I also prefer Thief Dagger to Claw for the extra money. Claw is a terrible weapon early on because it just doesn't hit hard enough. Later in the game when you have good crit and attack speed it's very strong, but if you're not doing Endless you should probably just use Thief Daggers if you want a Precise weapon. The dodge on Claw _(from the unarmed synergy bonus)_ is nice, but not necessary early, so again, may as well just go Thief Dagger. Stick is the same idea, just combat focused instead of economy focused, so probably better for just finishing level 20. One thing I do like with Cryptid is to break all the trees late in the run if you have a lot of luck _(don't break them too early in the wave or you might not have enough healing)._ Getting 12 materials isn't that exciting later on, whereas getting 3 or 4 crates is potentially hundreds of materials worth of items, particularly if you have Recycling Machine. Those materials don't count for exp, though. You can also go anti-Cryptid and get some engineering with Pocket Factory; it's not good, but it's cute.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

The lategame tree tech is pretty cool honestly, you're right that that will be worth more money overall, and levels come much slower late game so losing the xp isn't a big deal. Thief dagger is also a solid weapon for sure!

[@bobroberts2581]

Turrets don’t target trees when playing as cryptic, meaning you can start with screwdriver for the shop tag, then pick up pocket factory when the material gains start to drop off. Being able to have 20+ turrets on field with a focus on engineering is silly.

[@brandonharrington1422]

I just had an insane farmer run. Made it to wave 59. Lost on 60. Had almost 4k harvesting at wave 19

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Haha, sick - farmer is so good for endless!

[@benny4894]

Thief dagger seems pretty nuts with Cryptid. The materials gained from critical is clutch for negating the purchasing problems.

[@edistotiger82]

I really like pocket factory on cryptid. You can choose whether or not you want to use it on individual waves. It's nice for the more difficult elite/horde waves, and just in general later in the run as the tree economy falls off.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yeah, it's a really cool build option for the character!

[@GourangaPL]

i just did a danger 5 with cryptid, used pruner as my weapon + a lot of luck for consumable healing and was lucky enough to get two obliterators (lvl 3 and 4) so actually i managed to kill both bosses :D

[@giangargo669]

with high luck and 75 materials per crate i would have chopped those tree for sure, you also had recycling factory, this could have been even more insane if not capped at 20

[@grumpymcfearsome7195]

YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!

[@mjonkey3218]

I did D5 on cryptid today just essentially playing a pacifist run with hands. He was my 2nd D5 win!

[@dragonicbladex7574]

Just had a thought, what are you planning to do once you've covered every class?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Modded classes, endless mode, challenge runs, other games in the genre. Brotato is really deep though so there's a lot of stuff left to explore!

[@alveolate]

@@Cephalopocalypse will you do another in-depth video about lesser-known / hidden mechanics? things like first 5 levels of shop are guaranteed 2 weapons per roll... seem rather important in general.

[@bbbbbbb5579]

I would consider taking that cape for 40% attack speed since u got the hoodie

[@Cephalopocalypse]

True! I probably forgot I had the hoodie :P

[@SHINSEIYA]

Done thx

[@andrewkleist9579]

nice potato

[@Lu7cky23]

i finish it with engineer, in this genre, Army of Ruin is still my number one

[@woobilicious.]

I'm confused why it was a choice between the claw and sticks, you unlock claw from winning this run so it's a bit useless as a suggestion...and ghost weapons have natural dodge, building 5 flints and one axe will secure you all the damage you need, start transitioning to 6 axes after you've hit 100 AS, then you can just build for surviving, hit that 70% dodge cap quicker, and you can get some serious AS by the end of a round.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You can win the run at any difficulty for the unlock - lots of people unlock the item before playing the character on danger 5. Ethereal weapons can work on this character since it's very strong, but are pretty weak weapons overall so not something I would recommend for a guide.

[@KashiwaDaisuke]

Nice build :) Until this video, I didn't realize that trees always die after 8 hits, i.e., I thought the Lumberjack Shirt became useless if your damage was high enough. TIL EDIT: at 35:17, you seemingly kill a tree in one hit. Am I mistaken? :o Maybe crits kill trees in one hit?

[@timmietimmins3780]

trees have health like everything else. While trees always die after 8 hits, no matter their health, you can also just kill them. They gain 5 health per wave and max out at 110 health on wave 20. So a 280+ damage crit is just going to annihilate a tree at any point in the game. The 8 hits thing is more just so pacifists and other builds with no damage can still kill trees.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yep like Timmie said the 8 hits thing is just a failsafe. Lumberjack shirt can still be good even on high damage builds just to remove it from the pool or allow turrets/mines/burning effects etc to clear trees for you though!

[@AlejandroGonzalez-hg4cm]

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[@BRINDANI2000]

With so much luck and three bags wouldn't it make sense to harvest some of the trees? It would get you a lot of extra resources and items. Far more than the 12 for leaving them up.

[@Erlewyn]

My first run with this character, I went with the axe, just because of the meme.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That'll teach those trees! Gotta keep em afraid so they don't get in your way

[@krzysztof4827]

I'd like to see arm dealer, IMHO hardest potatoe

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You got it! Definitely on the list

[@notarobot4492]

I did a pacifist run for cryptid with hands, it never even occurred to me cryptid could be built for damage.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Also a great build! I should probably have mentioned that one in the intro

[@emileschmidt154]

wow hardcore build

[@Kaibatmnt]

Why don't you use piggy bank? Especially on a character like this who has low econ. I would see it as very valuable.

[@Fusionn_Studio]

Hello, I want to give you a private key for my gamejolt game(roguelike). How can I contact you?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! Unforutnately right now I'm not set up for business inquiries, but hang on to it! I'm planning to spend some time getting that available soon

[@SpaceRaven835]

7.5% achieved lol

[@timmietimmins3780]

Sticks actually level quite badly, because while it is true you get a higher multiplier for additional sticks, they are very much balanced around that. Going from common to rare, sticks don't actually do ANY more base damage, they just get the synergy multiplier increase, and going from epic to legendary, a stick (Assuming 5 other sticks) only gets 18 more DPS. This is about the same as most other serious melee weapons (i.e: not support, and I haven't run the math on the precise melee weapons), and MUCH MUCH worse than going from an epic to a legendary fist, for example (60 dps). Sticks fall off hard in the late game BECAUSE they level so poorly. Early game, they just blow everything out of the water. (6 common sticks do about 26 dps each, and the runner up in melee is the lance with less than 16 per lance). With sticks, I find I end up with 6 legendaries most of the time anyways, and I just focus far more on items early game. I still TAKE sticks, but I don't lock coffee to buy it later.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Great points, thanks for doing the math! Sticks do at least cost much less than (most) other weapons, so that's probably one reason you typically end up with legendary versions. The dps increase per material of a weapon is something I haven't really thought about until just now, but could be worth considering. Cool post!

[@DarinRamsay]

Ok seriously dude, how many materials do you need to be able to purchase that obvious horseshoe up your ass. Never seen anyone get shops like this. But as always, thx for the assist.