IT'S TIME FOR THE GIGA GHOUL RUN!! GHOUL AT HIS BEST!! | Skul the Hero Slayer 1.9

[@imdeadassb3737]

wait a second… haxa?… on ghoul?… oh great heavens, my pants are being filled to the brim…

[@Senorgato029]

I’ll have to do some testing but in my experience what ghoul can rely on to be far more tanky than any other skull can is the way his chunk swallowing amplifies the value of damage reduction hence I believe his best dark ability is actually reckless posture

[@HaxaPlays]

Oh, fugg you're right I forgot Reckless Posture. Okay, yeah I'll have to test it again at some point.

[@Senorgato029]

@@HaxaPlays yeah the reckless posture it’s important. Anyhow I did my ghoul testing and here is the conclusion that I came to. The short is he is reliant on revenge but he is FAR tankier with it than any other skull. The long if you care to read (I had a lot of thoughts to get out) ghoul’s mechanics want you to intentionally tank damage while building chunks to then swallow at either max chunks or when at critically low health to restore huge amounts of hp. However this on its own tends to be net negative, anything that makes you have to swallow early results in damage the chunks can no longer heal. Revenge and piety give ghoul the boost this needs to be mostly net neutral if only slightly net negative to literally anything you throw at him (at unique and legendary obviously), meaning revenge piety on other skulls (which I tested in a dominator/rider run) makes them very tanky sure but ghoul with these things can quite literally stand in every ultimate attack in the game and come out virtually unscathed, the ghoul run I did with revenge sustained over 8k damage with reassembly intact

[@lVlalicious]

wide slash is the atk speed skill for ghoul it gets him atking so fast and the rhythm goes nuts with evil sword

[@artoriuslima]

What I got from this is that Ghoul's unsung praises weren't supposed to be at the healing, but at the ungodly freaking amp that the skills give with ridiculous uptime and refresh PLUS the healing So maybe not the tippy top best skull in the game but very confidently in the top 10 Also makes me wanna do a Piety Revenge D.Berserker run

[@superiorus999]

Hey geniune question, idk if there's a reason or if you just never thought about it, but after the act 4 adventurer you had a choice between a rare skul and a legendary quint, and you had scaled every shrine except for hp. You took the skul and that makes little sense to me, because 11 bone shards are a little worth a less than 10 hp (15 shards are 10hp) while the quint was 15hp in and of itself, and the aracna scaling is limited while hp scaling from quint is not. Just a little minmax you may think about in the future?

[@HaxaPlays]

That's a damn good point, unless it's a legendary skull of course which represents 20 max HP. You ain't wrong, my brain just tends towards skull shards = value, but objectively this is better. I'll try and remember this moving forward. I probably will still forget from time to time (and also this wont come up too often either way), but if you ever see the situation come up again and I choose wrongly feel free to pester me about it, and eventually I'll remember. Even if I'm scaling my Max HP but don't have my damage shrine or skill cd/attack speed shrine maxed and choose bone shards over the legendary quint, it's a wrong decision there as well.

[@t.a.o.n]

All this time i thought that ghoul's amp was 1% per chunk, it is actually 2% per chunk so that means ghoul is just packing around up to 60% physical damage amplificatiom with a fairly easy to achieve condition, in terms of amp(and as far as im concerned) thats second only to berserker who has 80% but needs to be one foot on the grave to make use of its full potencial.

[@TallnutEnjoyer]

You're supposed to keep getting hit, when you dont get hit for a few seconds your healing drains and you lose health more permanently. Keep getting hit as ghoul to give you time to fill the chunk meter and repeat.

[@TallnutEnjoyer]

Oh i forgot its much easier to sustain that with the wide slash skill for attack speed

[@Ghutcheson14]

I got a double cudgel run w ghoul this week and went nuts. Had like 620 HP and doing 2k damage by the end Shout outs to him for getting me from dm5-->dm9

[@super64xd_]

Silent runs might actually be cool extra content if your mic doesn't pick up

[@TheGamingGuyYT]

Beans

[@muhammed_musamir]

weakest ghoul run