I AM BECOME DEATH - Brotato Bull Danger 5 Guide

The Bull explodes! It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.
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 massive harvesting!

[@mazanakaUA]

Just the right amount of detail, no exsessive self-repetition, good diction, no BS, no clickbaits, no overacting. Excellent video. You got yourself another subscriber. Makes me wonder again and again why is it so hard to find quality content, with outright dogshit videos dominating search results.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Awesome compliments, thank you! Yes, it's unfortunate that yelling and fake excitement seem to so heavily dominate gaming content. I just want people being normal :P

[@razoriffrin5905]

Can confirm, high regen does save you from blood donation/ bloody hand

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nice! Yeah, I think from later testing that anything over 1/second saves you, so 11 regen or higher

[@makersmark00]

great video! I love how you give details on why you make certain selections. Most other people gloss over that at best.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! I try to make all my videos as helpful as possible, great to hear it's working :)

[@christopherbowen884]

Thanks for all the details, as always! I like pink. I wish we could customize our tater’s colors. Maybe unlock them with challenges. That would be cool.

[@liverpoolarmwrsetling]

I love these videos man , ur engineering one helped me get my first wins .

[@muhammadismailnorhashim7677]

Great guide as usual!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@flubbledubster8767]

Ive not had the chanche to check weird ghost with blood donating. But with tardigrade def safe (keep getting with explorer)

[@dannyalford1755]

Is there any reason you weren’t using the free rerolls from Dangerous Bunny when you didn’t have enough cash to buy anything and had one or two things locked already? Don’t think they roll over so might as well to see if you can find another thing worth locking!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nope! There's no reason not to use the free rerolls, so if I skipped them I just missed them.

[@jgray2718]

21:00 The HP regen _will_ save you. I'm not sure what the breakpoint is for the first regen tick to happen before the first Blood Donation/Bloody Hand/Scythe tick, but it works out even at pretty small amounts.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! Yeah, I think in later testing I've learned that it's just if you have more than 1/second in healing, so 11 regen should in theory be enough - that's still close enough I might not try it though :P

[@jgray2718]

@@Cephalopocalypse I've done it a bunch and it works totally fine. Late in a run Weird Ghost isn't worth it most of the time, but if I have problematically low HP, a fair bit of regen and good healing options I'll often take a Ghost. It's really not that dangerous on most characters. On Bull, though, I might be more cautious :-)

[@diegoaguilar7263]

Thanks for the guide it is very helpful. My favorite color is orange btw.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much, glad it helped! :D

[@JoshuaJohnson-hq3lx]

Love your videos! I am curious about Blood Donation and Weird Ghost combination. I had this same dilemma yesterday and opted not to risk it. Have you tried since to see what the result is?!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

If you have enough healing you do indeed survive!

[@user-zc2ks7pd3d]

This game has a lot of potential 😭😭 I feel like they can make it a wayyy better

[@richardabbott1571]

Why would you take items in the shop that increase dodge when you can only do damage when you take damage?

[@Wob288]

Definitely green, although i do like a nice curry yellow or red... Great content, keep it up man ^^

[@Wall-Might]

Love your video!

[@Arbie117]

My favourite colour is green Great videos 😄

[@pyrathna1153]

Audio seems to be significantly desynced. Is it just me?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Unfortunately yes, I had some audio issues in these earlier videos - sorry about that. Has been fixed since!

[@MrSniidy]

i was loosing and loosing because i avoided dodge. I took dodge this time and cleared my first d5 so easily that i was checking whatsapp while running arround on wave 20... Thanks for your guides they already helped me out a lot!

[@吃貓]

非常詳盡的解說，很棒!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it :) 太感謝了！(hope that translated okay)

[@lucasjones39]

this is great. loved the video

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much!

[@pdxcorgidad]

I found you die instantly if you have low Regen but can technically heal if it is higher than like...10-15 or so.

[@brendantreynor7876]

Lol, this whole video is comedy gold

[@thomasneal9291]

there seems to be a long delay in the explosion sound effect.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yeah, unfortunately I had some audio sync issues in some of my earlier guides, and this one is the most severe - sorry about that! I fixed it shortly afterwards though so the problem is gone now at least.

[@caldogg8851]

Hey man great video! How do you unlock pocket factory?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much! It should be unlocked by default I think :)

[@buffalovirgo]

greeeeeen

[@ZeroInfiniti2]

i thought this one was going to be hard...but it was pretty easy play through

[@spring4180]

My favorite color is Black or Purple!

[@jyy7]

WHAT IS HARVESTING DO?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Harvesting gives you that amount in materials and XP at the end of each wave, and then grows by a small amount.

[@Carpi_car]

I love orange colour bro np xD

[@SeenD]

My fav food is bang bang shrimp tacos.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Delicious!

[@mcbeamaan]

orange is my favourite colour

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Excellent choice!

[@michaelbarnard8529]

Maybe a Lucky + Bull?

[@andrewkleist9579]

good potato

[@SgtPantz]

Bull

[@chunkymonkey3919]

nice i like the colour green

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks - good choice!

[@froggod7071]

hey my wife said she wanted to get one of those

[@jgray2718]

Skipping Alien Eyes and Baby Elephant on Bull seems insane to me. You have high health, decent luck, and good % damage, you're not abusing crit with Tentacle or Hunting Trophy _(and in fact have negative crit chance, which seems like a fine choice on Bull),_ and you really want to spray damage around. I genuinely have no idea why you skipped those amazing items to buy garbage like Insanity when you have negative crit with 3 waves to go.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

As you see in the last few waves, the crit chance ends up being 100s of damage per attack because of the high base damage of our explosions. Also, you'll tend to get better results when you have a question if you ask it politely!

[@jgray2718]

@@Cephalopocalypse Yeah, you're right, my tone was way too insulting, I'm sorry. I do take issue with your conclusion that the decisions were right, though. The question isn't whether the materials gave you positive results, the question is whether the opportunity cost was worth it. The Baby Elephants and Alien Eyes you passed were worth thousands of damage each. It's possible that the crit was worth it, but I'm skeptical. You were already 1-shotting the small mobs and crit isn't great for Bull in the first place. Those items are bad if (a) you have low scaling stats, which you didn't, particularly with the Eyes, or (b) you're abusing crit items like Hunting Trophy and Tentacle. Those reasons aside, Elephant, Ball, and Eyes are just about the most efficient buys there are, and are specifically very good for range-constrained characters. Anyway, thank you for the response, and in a politer tone than my original comment. Have a great day :-)

[@Riz29]

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[@Cephalopocalypse]

Something weird has happened and this comment is showing as blank for me - if it was a question, you can definitely repost it and I'll try to answer!

[@Ivory-f5b]

​@@Cephalopocalypsei think its on purpose you can glitch out yt comments on some Versions to do this.its rly cool

[@bonedragon7665]

Favorite color: FF:06:B5

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You reminded me I totally forgot to check up on that after Phantom Liberty came out, to the reddit mines.

[@dimitardimov3936]

✌

[@steveg8707]

Pity comment

[@Willingtons]

Hey, i just tried the combo of weird ghost and blood donation. You were right about that first tick of damage being after a second, you do survive!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Oh, awesome, good to know. Thanks for giving that a go! Guess I could have had a few more max hp for cheap

[@bjarkov12]

@@Cephalopocalypse Still a pretty poor item for the bull as your health is your main resource and ghost makes you start at essentially 0 resources

[@Cephalopocalypse]

@@bjarkov12 True, good point! Though since we were mainly using the blood donation ticks for damage it's less bad than it would normally be, but still not amazing.

[@napoearth]

Seems like tardigrade would help with that as well.

[@DrewPNeck]

Your videos have been really helpful. Appreciate the content

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much! Glad you're enjoying them :D

[@bgfreak402]

My favorite color is your guides, great job 👍

[@rizzo_is_so_bro]

Its crazy how you often say little tips that only apply yo what youe doing at that second. Idk how many people catch them but those alone have made me a better player

[@MikkaMakka00]

Great guide, as always, allowed me to do Bull D5 on the first attempt - ok, got extremely lucky with the items, but this guide was essential. Thank you!

[@kasperchristensen8416]

17:52 "Adding 25% to the radius increases the area of the circle massively" -- it is increased by 56.25% to be exact 😉

[@soopercozi]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Cheers! :D

[@Innero]

Oh my fav color, thank you for asking, is probably blue. cheers.

[@olek_tar]

At the wave 16th it looks like you're able to recover about 10 hp before the first tick of Blood Donation, so it could be fine with having that item which adds 3hp but you start a wave with only 1hp. But I'm not that greedy to check 😃

[@doglover3716]

Purple is my favorite color. Nice video

[@jamesnonn8794]

Tardigrade weird alien and blood donation. I think ultimately the first damage would cancel itself out due to the tardigrade, so you'd get the boost from weird alien and not have to worry about blood donation

[@King-Zoro47]

Would you try to make a chain reaction with the babyy with a beard item

[@bryancholak7327]

Great guide. All of them are great. Ty.

[@Jake-qb1yy]

Thank you so much. Nice to know which stats are worthless. Your guides are so good

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much!

[@alexbarnes8990]

For the algo! Good stuff, thanks!

[@dragonicbladex7574]

I like the guide but no matter what i seem to do i die before the second half of the run, feel like this needs more early run tips

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Bull should have a pretty strong early game, so I think you might just be trying to build too many stats at once. Not focusing in on the most important stats is what usually gets me if I'm dying in early waves

[@pedrorodrigueziii4859]

Focus on Health Regen early and temper that with plenty of melee damage. There's some great items that lower life steal that you can grab since we ignore that stat. If you get your HP Regen high enough, you can bum rush the pack for some currency, then just skirt the outside of the map to recover. Try and keep your HP at or above 50% just in case you take a couple shots. Keep building HP Regen and buying melee damage items and you'll curve into the second half of your run nicely.

[@helloimcool2887]

how do i get bull?

[@MartinLucaq]

My favorite colour is water

[@daveconnor6174]

Green gang

[@necoparx2687]

Favorite color is yellow.

[@theishgalaxy]

My favorite color is color

[@abucugudusi921]

just here to make comment

[@AdamAriana-l8k]

My fav color is Ariana

[@doodlecrazydc]

Engage the algae rhythm.

[@ColinDavidChen]

My favorite color is EXPLOSION.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

The only reasonable choice!

[@preflex3502]

If blood was green, green would be my favorite color.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I think there's some invertebrates that have you covered there

[@rinnsbebelindegrombe]

my fav color is beer

[@sleepy82779]

Green! Thx Dude!

[@TheRealRWS]

This is great! How would mammoth work on this character?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! Mammoth is excellent for bull - tons of damage and regen, you just need to be careful not to lose too much speed.

[@ManduhBear]

Thank you!

[@TheRazZPlay]

Dropped a like and commenting to help out with the algorithm :D :D Still loving the content over here :D

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much!

[@Frothmeister]

You ever think the potatoes in this game look more like eggs?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

All the time

[@eightinnn]

Black !

[@King-Zoro47]

Purple

[@jodi3694]

Blue

[@mdee2561]

Superb playthrough with Bull, my fav char 👏👏. Using Bull has enjoyable "Explode & Run" playstyle. 😂😂 Hope you good as always. Appriciate your video.

[@BigBuda666]

I've watched a few of those guides so far and I have to agree with the other comments. Very good delivery. Nothing screamy or cringy like it's often the case. Two thumbs up. My favorite color is teal. 😅

[@sheptorious]

The Blood Donation was a huge tip! Absolute game changer. This ended up being one of my most fun runs yet once I picked that up 😂

[@dannyalford1755]

Dude I have attempted Bull at least 10 times now. Not gotten a single blood donation and it’s like… impossible.

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

Bullheimer

[@MadsFeierskov]

The regen ticks before the damage from blood donation, so it's not an issue to grab the ghost.

[@Kyugon]

Algorythm comment😅

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Cheers!

[@madsli]

Why do you care for speed that is locked?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

It can sometimes be worth going over the cap just so you can buy items that decrease it without losing any

[@madsli]

@@Cephalopocalypse OH! I hadn't really read the description, I thought it read "your speed is locked at its current value [#]"

[@bcmbilly]

Great video

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks!

[@30andBoard]

Great work on these videos!

[@1TieDye1]

Fuel tank and mastery are pretty bad on this guy. Damage positive but really inefficient. At one point, in the same wave, you bought an item for 2 hp and 2 damage for like 40 and then mastery, 3 net damage, for 107. A few waves ealier you got fuel tank for 2 net damage for 80. More good examples at the 18:30 shop. Fuel tank for 100 then several items with the same benefit for half the price and items with more benefit for the same price.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yeah, very true - this character is so damage starved though that I think sometimes you need to make inefficient buys just to make sure your total is keeping up. All depends on the shop rolls

[@1Sylux]

Blue

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nice choice for sure!

[@MrTaucher007]

Also in the blue team

[@voaneves]

I finally did it!!!! Thanks man

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nice, congrats!

[@zxzx24th]

Hey! Thank you for the video guide! Fun to learn about this character.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it :)

[@scottmyers4065]

Good Videos! Keep it up. Thanks

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much! Definitely intend to ;)

[@Soros95]

Just bumpin the algorhythm

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Cheers! Appreciate it :D

[@reyemile7562]

good vid

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! :D

[@billyfuckenbob]

why were you looking for speed in the late game after it was locked at 1? or am i missing something

[@nymad7054]

He was at -8 Speed so he was able to increase his speed by up to 9

[@billyfuckenbob]

The speed was locked as 1 with an item, no? It means that the speed is always 1

[@nymad7054]

@@billyfuckenbob no it means that it can never go ABOVE 1, so his speed was reduced still and he wanted to get it back up to the cap of 1

[@billyfuckenbob]

@@nymad7054 ah so it is capped at 1 not locked at 1. thanks. it makes sense now

[@andrzejwysocki609]

tried this guy, got to the wave with the tons of dudes who go faster the longer they live, they just outsped me n killed me XD it was a failed run but it was still fun

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yeah wave 11 is the hardest for this character (and almost every character). The trick is to group them up since you can't avoid getting hit by them so the explosion at least hits them all at once.