Void Fiend Guide - Risk of Rain 2 Survivors of the Void DLC

Guide for the great lean fiend. Risk of Rain 2's survivor of the void DLC came with two survivors, void fiend is my fav.
Void fiend is a mixture between rex and artificer. He has Rex's survivability and (almost) the entirety of Artificer's kit, all in one.
Void Fiend's basic form is better than his corrupted form.
Good items for Void Fiend:
- Rejuv rack
- Weeping fungus
- Nuka
-every void item except lysate
Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00-0:49
Void Fiend's Abilities: 0:50-7:45
Void Fiend Item's: 7:46-
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survivors of the void DLC

[@rndThursday]

if ur wondering, that image is real, yes do ur part and subscribe!

[@vulpix9210]

Actually, Wungus helps for staying in corrupt to deal damage anyways, in melee ramge while using M1 you wont be sprinting, and if you are sprinting to do something youre running away, getting to control state faster is important in that situation anyways, so Wungus on Void Fiend S++ tier item.

[@lrdalucardart]

Can you please add the itens in the description?

[@Bacchus325]

They actually changed the crush mechanic in the patch. Focus Crystal, watch, and crowbar no longer affect it

[@rndThursday]

oi wtf hopoo dont fix my game

[@Draconis_Eltanin]

@@rndThursday Worst loss is the guaranteed red in the busted key TwT

[@ShadowNinja9620]

Wait crowbar effected it!?!

[@dragonix8527]

@@ShadowNinja9620 He said that at the end of the video...

[@Draconis_Eltanin]

@@ShadowNinja9620 Yes, it used to consider yourself as the attacker and therefore apply all the item effects

[@sey203]

5:59 Like a blood altar, his corrupted R ability's self damage can be negated through tough times/safer spaces

[@thomasdoncieu]

Yeah he already said it in the video though

[@sey203]

@@thomasdoncieu oh I must have missed it then, timestamp?

[@a.wosaibi]

@@sey203 11:15

[@rebillion9442]

in the update patch today, hopoo changed his corrupt m1 to scale the number of hits per second with attack speed so thats poggie woggie also, the corrupted suppress cant crit or crowbar yourself anymore

[@CowKirbo]

Well both of those are great changes

[@michaelcoleman2173]

I always said Void fiend would be great with some QoL

[@rndThursday]

wowza! hopoo broke my guide pls revert

[@GAAAAAAAAVINNER]

@@rndThursday Woolie had inside information about the patch so he only released his video after the patch came out YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST

[@chaddeus_marik756]

One thing I noticed, is that changing form will entirely arrest your momentum. If you are jumping, taking a jump pad, or using momentum from his dash in either form, becoming corrupted will instantly stop you.

[@marksutherlandjr.2121]

yeah thas the most painful thing for the toon that I've noticed as well..

[@marksteel1044]

This new Rartificer has been hitting hard for me, I haven't had this much fun since Loader first came out.

[@Bacchus325]

Dude Rartificer just made me laugh so hard

[@holynder3181]

Void fiend is what happens when artificer drinks too much lean.

[@marksteel1044]

@@holynder3181 They do love their lean

[@parkerdangaruss]

I found transcendence pairs very well as it allows you to potentially heal while in corrupted form without losing corruption

[@ZappyZ21]

Does that not mess with gaining corruption on the flip side of things?

[@parkerdangaruss]

@@ZappyZ21 no damage still gains corruption. But in base form your R doesn’t heal you but you can still use it to stay in base form

[@Plant_btw]

Found it super useful too, healing items are no longer required and your hp doubles, AND you get shrimp missile synergy

[@Zezol-]

I have never played this game nor seen much of it besides in some titles and I still found this video interesting! well done! :D

[@HKWHH]

3:33 If you get Ben's Raincoat and self debuff with slow there's a bug that it will cause you to remain slowed even when not firing. Haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else and I'm too lazy to go to the forums to tell Hoppo

[@penguins0392]

11:30 but thanks for bringing it up

[@ok_so_what1798]

found this out the hard way, completely ruined my run ☹️☹️☹️☹️

[@tcghosted]

I was playing coop with one of my buddies and this happened to me during a really great early start. Ruined the whole run.

[@de_gale]

great vid man just found you recently, i really enjoy your style of vids and your stream is great aswell. thanks for the guide

[@spacenai4461]

I found staying in corrupted form in late run is more desirable because how easy it is to heal up without your special and damage you dished out is absurd but early and mid run? Yeah, base form is still superior because healing.

[@BrawlerGamma]

Also worth noting is you can charge Flood during Trespass as long as you start the charge before you Trespass. Then it's pretty much done by the time you're out of it, and then you can, I dunno, shoot it down at all the dudes below you, get that AoE.

[@literatemax]

Crush can also be started before Tresspass and processes during

[@makkin9445]

wait the song. omg. funiculi funicula. no shot my childhood. also youre quickly becoming one of my fav youtubers. keep it up ur cracked

[@crystoskitsune393]

Maybe I'm the crazy odd one out, but I find aggressive playstyles a lot more fun in this game, so I tend to try and go for a lot of Corrupted form up time, and Void Fiend has become my fav character because of it. For me, the normal form is just the utility form with it's vertical mobility and range for picking off a few things in the distance while trying to farm up gold. And now, I must speak the ultimate heresy: Transcendence is actually really good for corrupted focused void fiend runs, because you want to avoid healing entirely, but you don't want health whittled down. Sure, it may not have the immediate panic heals of the normal RoR2 meta, but between the armor and the high damage output, there's a lot of room to space yourself out to refill those shields.

[@curiosity_prime]

To add to your point, transcendence with the plasma shrimp is absolutely busted. And when you factor in void fiend's corrupted M1.... you get a cyclops laser that constantly has plasma missiles firing off of it and its delightful mayhem. I'm with you too, he's quickly become one of my top three favorite survivors (alongside rex and merc).

[@2911oscar]

strides of heresy is also great, plus 3 of them and transcendence means no need for healing items (although you won't get that often)

[@masonfoster7954]

you can also use his secondary ability as a sort of mini hoopoo feather by aiming at the ground can be very useful in combination with trespass for moving around the maps (especially frickin sundered grove)

[@wurmturm]

also, in the corrupted form, you can use Trespass and then shoot your Flood behind you to add on to the momentum. Works best with at least some movement speed increases since corrupt Trespass goes much faster with even a couple mochas

[@AlexAnderGD223]

I love how anyone who makes a risk of rain video always does a song from either, hollowknight, terraria, or mincraft. I love it!

[@BBBobby12]

Get here early as fuck and the first comment on the video is "I love lean" Good.

[@rndThursday]

lean

[@BBBobby12]

@@rndThursday You a big lean guy, RND?

[@AlonGamshi]

Very informative, thank you.

[@rndThursday]

thank you :3

[@gabrielrouleau6080]

really useful information thanks!

[@rndThursday]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JustOllieYT]

Very helpful, thank you sir

[@VeryRareEgg]

I like how the corruption theme starts playing when you start talking about the corrupted form.

[@kaley3280]

Does anyone else think that instead of void fiend getting an alternate primary,secondary etc it should get an alternate passive which gives it new forms based on different game environments like lunar

[@lastboss4268]

That'd be pretty cool. I actually thought he was a creature Mithrix made with Soul to spite/try to understand Providence during his teaser since his pod looks like a lunar bloom, and that would validate me...

[@literallyalois2966]

@@lastboss4268 bro it's just an old commando that got lost in the void and was imprisoned.

[@varietynic17]

goated mr streamer at it again, poggies

[@kingofgirth8609]

If you get the dunestrider boss item be prepared basically never be in your corrupted form for more than a couple seconds due to its healing

[@zapcat6029]

I don't know if this is common knowledge yet or not but you can sort of rocket jump with the fully charged m2, not so much rocket jumping because its moreso about the knockback you take from firing it rather than the explosion but the way you aim your movement is the same. It's an incredible way to move faster in early game since tresspass goes at a upward angle and doesn't have much forward movement. Another thing I found is if you spam the everliving crap out of r while suppressing to below 25% corruption you can suppress again despite not being at 25% yet

[@chryspyr]

I love how you used the Corruption music from Terraria given that you're talking about void corruption.

[@rndThursday]

ty for noticing

[@dinodubin9241]

Thx for the vid, it was really helpful, also nice terraria music :D

[@jazper8421]

Holy shit it’s the void fiend video. I didn’t think this day would come.

[@jazper8421]

I honestly have about 100 hours in void fiend and didn’t not need this video at all. But shiiiiiiiii I’ve watched the video twice now because his tutorial voice is just MMMH

[@Nenny3531]

Commando: I need proc items Engineer: I need bungus Loader: I need crowbar Void Fiend: I NEED SLUGS

[@bogdanyuriev1507]

I'd say that if you're trying to stay in your Corrupt form for as long as you can, the best "healing" item is Topaz Brooch/Aegis since Barrier will be consumed by Suppress before shields/HP, always. And If you've managed to get blessed and cap your crits, even a single Scythe becomes borderline detrimental to keeping up Corruption the moment you take your first (and, of course, consecutive) Plasma Shrimp, at least in my opinion. If you're good enough, casting Suppress into Safer Spaces is also a fantastic piece of tech. Right now, I just wish that casting Suppress would stop Corruption meter dead in its track for casting's duration so that those 25% gains would actually be 25%, at least early on before you get your syringes/mochas going. For me, VF is quicky becoming the best and most enjoyable character to go for multi-loop runs (also searching for void cradles is pain) as you only get stronger in any form as time goes by. P.S. Oh, and Mired Urn is either a must if you're playing base-form only or the absolute worst item to get if you're playing hybrid/Corrupt.

[@temoentertainingendeavors9730]

You love to see it! Wooo baby, that's what I'm talking about!!

[@jadedtrekkie150]

3:27 I love the terraria corruption music. good job.

[@failsleepy]

4:25 lol i used the !playlist command in offline chat while you were recording

[@SkunkfapGaming]

I should give void fiend another shot. I really didn't like him at first but I thought it might have been because I didn't know how to play him correctly so hopefully this guide helps

[@PrefabQuasar]

Massive note on void fiend, barrier and shield are not healing, and don’t affect corruption

[@judeau5320]

Personally enjoy the Lean Fiend entirely because he has two different playstyle options you can take depending on how your run is going. I've also personally found that I like to min-max my build towards one form or the other. I think if you go towards a Corruption build it's always worth it to fully invest into the 100% perma Corruption since at that point you can ignore having to working with requiring crits and avoiding healing to keep your Corrupted state. Otherwise, go for the 13 void minimum and stack some attack speed for the insane self sustainability in your Pure state.

[@-insanity-6810]

Can’t believe rndThursday is only 12 years old

[@LamesAMA]

Something cool about the Void Fiend is that picking up Heresy items only changes the ability for the current form that he's in. Might be something cool you can do with that.

[@literatemax]

Pretty sure they only affect base uncorrupted form not whichever you were in when you happened to pick it up

[@void-9572]

It effects both forms now

[@Omonomogon]

if you have perma-uptime blast shower you can litter the map with band-blast and always have safer spaces shield up

[@partywalrus6439]

Such an interesting Charakter!

[@DarknessEoL]

Regarding the patch that came out today the part about crowbars and delicate watches affecting the void fiend have been changed. No longer does additional damage

[@Sophie-Pilled]

Something that I find incredibly important that a lot of people don't seem to notice about Void Fiend is that his corrupted form decays over the same amount of time, no matter his minimum corruption, because the rate at which his corruption goes down will slow down with each additional void item. This means that the more void items you have, the more duration his corrupted suppress adds (since it will always give 25%, but that 25% will last longer with each additional void item). It also, through the same way, multiplies the effect of anything that increases/decreases his corruption by a flat amount. Also if anyone has an easier way to explain this that would be great. I've explained this quite a few times between friends and I always feel like my explanation is too wordy

[@durarada]

so i kinda broke the Void Fiend right after obtaining him. I got about 30 Void items (mix of the insta kill glasses, safer spaces, and neede ticks) and the mired jar boss drop, and then rolled into a wungus. With his base corruption up enough and his controlled healing massively increased, you can actually finely control when you enter corruption. In my run, since he healed while taking damage and sprinting, if i stood still he almost immediately went corrupted, which was great for boss fights and mythrix

[@pyrose3625]

okay okay, i like this but also, could you add an image of the items you recommand, started playing not too long ago and i am not too familiar with them yet

[@renno2679]

I've been trying to get 50 void items to see if he'll just be permanently in his alt form and I'm so glad that its possible.

[@shibasouls4422]

I love lean 💜💜

[@rndThursday]

lean i luv

[@mranderson9553]

i haven't done it yet but i imagine having 49 corrupted items is hell with the constant form changing

[@spacenai4461]

Having 50 void items he will stay in corrupted form for the rest of the run which is really good but having huge amount of number of Void items but not 50 is annoying I can assure you

[@MrHocotateFreight]

The void fiend screams dark Samus and I'm on board

[@KolyatKrios]

you can actually still heal 50% hp for less than 50% corruption with base form special from the very beginning of a run, but you can only do it between 25% and 49% corruption. if you spam the ability twice when you have at least 25% corruption you get to cast it twice, with the second use taking any extra corruption but not costing the full 25% very nice when you come out of corrupted form and need some healing. stall until 25% and then spam the button.

[@jamesbarnett5799]

Haven't played with VF at all, but he sounds cracked

[@boblinthegoblin9670]

Enough stacks of back up mag in corrupt form can be used for crazy mobility

[@user-zi8rl1zn6v]

I found that 3 purity’s can make his trespass cool down to one second and gives him a lot of mobility

[@literallyalois2966]

That actually is good on him, because most void items take away the % of chance items, just look at shrimp (void atg) that works when you have a shield!

[@marksutherlandjr.2121]

Best guide ive seen on this toon, Ive been playing him a lot, and NOT like this.. When I get home from work,. I'm getting NO SLEEP tonight.. New Sub here!

[@rndThursday]

Have fun!

[@TheMantisLord50]

Can we please just get an artificer buff :(

[@TheTERMUS]

Fun fact: you can basically double jump in your normal form if you throw your secondary underneath yourself and use the shift ability.

[@SurrealTurnip]

A small thing i think you missed is that you can charge and fire your (base form) m2 while trespassing.

[@kadinr4725]

Seeing Notch just gave me childhood flashbacks

[@lordcirrhosisofliver]

both of the new survivors are great, but I suppose it says something that I have thus far only bothered to get the mastery skin for the void fiend. I love them both so much though

[@BastardMaxxing]

What i see a lot of ppl doesn't take on Void Fiend, is stacking Backup Magazines for bonus M2 stacks. Why its actually good? Well cuz ur corrupted form resets all ur skills, meaning every time u change, u instantly gain the N amount of M2 shoots. There also more to it. If u didn't notice, ur M2 lets u use rocket jump in base form while corrupted can do that too, but u ain't getting as high as in normal form. With Backup Stacks u can basically Fly in corrupted form by just spaming those (but u need to spam these after the jump so u don't lose momentum from falling down). So if u are fan of mindlessly flying around and like corrupted version, i recommend to stack at least 5 of Magazines. Also some pro tip: If u falling down and have shift in CD, charge it before the fall and shoot it where u land so u don't get the fall dmg. U can also do some little tricks with at least 1 Backup Magazine like: Do rocket jump with M2 > Start charing second one > Press Shift (yes it keeps charged in shift) > and use it before landing to ignore fall dmg. Really helps early game and its also lets u being more agile than what he usually is. Dats what i got so far by playing this character.

[@TheBelleNades]

You can also Uncorrepted M2 + shift

[@dontdoitdan7965]

I want to note that your right click pushes you back quite a bit, so this character can sort of blast jump with higher attack speed and back up mag and it's a ton of fun

[@lifelymagic1930]

I love the terraria themes in you vids or streams

[@light6666]

*items you want to avoid* void cells despite having more corrupted r charges you are better of using crits to keep it going and void fiend doesnt have cooldown on r *direct healing items* as you might have guessed these keep you in your low damage state longer when you dont want to regen is the way to go with void fiend

[@MarelWhite]

1 harvest scythe is ok if you want to stay corrupted. it doesnt overpower the crit, but dont stack them

[@jokeofacity6717]

Welp, should've watched this first before going on the struggle of finishing Void Fiend monsoon run and beating it Still very helpful, didn't know about the armor. That explains my high survivability when crammed by a lot of elder lemurians and parents

[@jokeofacity6717]

@@noivern1380 shit, forgot the name of the enemies

[@vert3432]

I think Strides and Essence of Heresy are both pretty valid on a void fiend run, essence mostly only on corrupt form runs when you're already min corruption 100%

[@Oatsnhunny]

Had a god run with 3 nkuhanas, 5 racks (thanks to 7 stacks of regen scrap), 20+ infusions, stone flux pauldron and 30 wungus where I spammed the heal and sprinted around nuking everything with many, many thousands of heals every second. Still died at void locus to a black hole and bottled chaos, gesture rolling volcanic egg when I was getting 1 fps. Very fun build that was almost invincible.

[@strutr1250]

Well… wanna be Acrid but Commando? Purity and Lightflux. You turn your m2 into your M1 by spamming it and you have perma shift in both forms. Pretty sick, if you ask me.

[@gebcrafter]

10:50 Ah yes some collapse AND some bleed very true

[@toomethodical]

i love how hopopoo wont due a terraria collab but every ror2 vid ive watched had terraria music, mostly calamity

[@HallowedPurple]

I haven't had the chance to play yet cuz of the army, but so if u have let's say 48 void items, do u just constantly switch between the corrupted and normal forms every second?

[@leafoftales4098]

For me I usually have more of a 2 halves run 1st half, play mostly ranged base form get void items and abuse suppress 2nd half: (once enough void items are obtained) go sick mode, beam everything proc it all to hell and if something's in the way blow it the fuck up. Oh and get damage resistances and items that heal if you want tbh

[@selasbessa4142]

Got the void fiend mastery today! this vid would have been a lot more helpful before I died on monsoon so many times, LMFAO!

[@occultvalor8716]

I was literally playing Runescape when I hopped over to watch this.

[@diegods1291]

A thing you missed: Corrupted flood radius is x2 bigger than its normal counterpart

[@spuddy7]

I LOVE LEAN

[@SCP-up4ot]

I want to point out in my playthroughs with him u got one bit abt void fiend kinda wrong, although pretty sure it was just a mix up. Void fiend in normal form is meant to tank dmg and act as a tank, with his basic attacks doing piss dmg even with their range, and his secondary having a lot longer charge up time. While in corrupted form you stay in the fight at close range, but must avoid getting hit as you have no way of healing yourself and can die very VERY easily if you aren't paying attention.

[@blakebaxter8570]

Damn, you really typed all that out huh.

[@Corrupted-Sun]

3:10 Bullet magnetism it's called :) It'd be god awful if you had to line up on an exact pixel to hit your shots while going 1M m/s

[@Danstrikera]

Notch item is crazy

[@user-jm8sy5ox2j]

I feel like the corrupted form of void fiend is just a massive contradiction of itself. You need to take damage to stay in corrupted form, but you can't heal or you get kicked out of corrupted form. You can't heal but you also have to stay in close range to use your primary and your special is just a suicide button. It's like they're penalizing you for doing too much damage in the non corrupted form (which is honestly pretty good overall) by sending you to corrupted mode

[@MurdockCakeLie]

Noid Fiend guide when?

[@rndThursday]

sorry roid fiend guide next

[@MurdockCakeLie]

@@rndThursday RIP my pizza.

[@unknownentityenthusiast6765]

I feel like in his corrupted form / wrath form he should have different ability names to fit the more agressive nature of the abilities

[@DemonSpawn678]

Idk, flood, drown, trespass and supress sound pretty aggressive to me

[@somedude4087]

neat thing his head can go 360 degrees around

[@joelteodoro2848]

That pigstep though

[@EbroGame64]

Can you believe that void dlc came out 2 years ago 😭😭

[@faer2766]

Having the Occular HUD item boost your crits to 100%; thus you can stay in corrupted form as long as you hit something. You can add Predatory Instincs to boost your attack speed and having a leech seed allow you to : crit, stay in corrupted form, AND HEAL, while doing massive ammounts of damage.

[@uwujettabuser-.-]

7:18 also when fiend running he fly like the arti

[@vulpeszerda39]

suggestion: if you haven't already done this, do railgunner with 17 soldiers syringes (you'll see why)

[@PCGonline]

weeping bungus weeping bungus

[@fluxxi5289]

I haven't unlocked void fiend yet because im determined to unlock him through Voidling but I also suck at the game. However, the idea of having two different potential build paths, to either go lots of healing normal form or max damage corrupted form depending on what you feel like, seems really cool to me. I look forward to playing him in 30 years when I beat voidling EDIT: Just did a drizzle command run as railgunner and beat voidling. easy game honestly

[@goon4744]

epic thumbnail

[@Barronofsomething]

dang man I really love being on console

[@dominikkorbely5809]

correction: mul-t has 200 armor in transport mode

[@alexalt1215]

Did he play the terraria corruption theme when talking about corrupted versions?

[@crumpuscrump]

Some dumb "tech" I found With 3 gesture of the drown and tonic, you can abuse the tonic afflictions as you can remain in trespass during the tonic down time, and depending on how many afflictions you have, you can "heal" back to full as you hp durring down time will likely be full, and tonic buff scales hp based on percentage

[@cplroebuck22]

i hear the fucking woodwind rendition of the Pizza Theme from Spider-Man 2. You're not fooling anybody, buster brown.

[@n30sp4rk]

Yesterday I got the Bloom as the first item of the run. From there, I let RNGesus take the wheel. By stage 6 I could actually just stay afk

[@luiscarlospachecorivadeney59]

Does someone know the song in the background in 7:09 ??? I know ive heard it in some videogame but i cant tell exactly wich one is ittt

[@somewade6820]

Pigstep

[@flydeis1353]

Wheres the soundtrack from that starts at 5:55 ?