The BEST Green Items in Risk of Rain 2

Green items range from awful, to game breaking. Which greens do you like the most?
Songs in order of appearance
Cheel - Sunset Dream
Cheel - Blue Dream
Lemmino - Cipher
Zelda & Chill - Tears of the kingdom

[@chuz1532]

To be honest my friend, I really wanted to see and hear it .... but I am a Silvergamer +45 years. You talk so fast and so much that I can not really follow ... or want to. I wish you all the best and I'll meet you on the battlefield ;-)

[@realsputnik1]

You can slow the video speed down if you need to👴

[@Zero11Alex]

I play my videos at 1.5x speed dawg cause I suffer from the opposite problem

[@lukeybear8756]

Ooookay

[@WinterGibbs]

lol

[@forefie979]

I'm a big fan of how you immediately jumped into it. No unnecessary 2 minute intro and channel plug.

[@zombieboss5178]

yes that was nice

[@theblobewab6844]

Iirc it was originally a mistake but everyone liked it

[@J.B_alpharius]

Grandpa forgot to edit it in

[@FrazzleFlib]

this really should be the norm, if you read the title then thats all the intro you need

[@ipbk8471]

Ur cmnt intro 2 lng

[@somepersonyt5178]

The best green item was actually the friends we made along the way.

[@fakename6123]

I'm gonna kill you with the power of friendship and this ATG launcher i found

[@lordmed9989]

I main engineer and my friends hate me and don't wanna play with me 😢

[@RottenHeretic]

Friends are white tier at best.

[@chad9074]

@@lordmed9989they hate you because they ain’t you. Engineer+bungus=power

[@AsaraBuck]

Once again one of the best intros of all time, 10/10 for our beloved gramps

[@damini7022]

Fun fact about ghors tome: if you leave a chunk of gold dropped from an enemy until just before teleporting to the next stage you can pick it up and it wont change into XP, basically giving you a free chest on the next stage after killing two or three enemies

[@jnut45]

It happens for any instance of gold too. From shrine hits, to killing enemies as long as you do it within a second of ending the stage

[@ruberine2086]

It’s any instance of gold, so another good one is if there’s a blood shrine by the teleporter, since you get a full heal when you teleport

[@jonathanhoward5284]

Bro, did you read the comment above yours?

[@ITheLeafGod]

Any other KZbinrs: 1 minute long intro Grandpa: Number 10: Ghor's Tome Also hes gonna see this and start doing intros

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

I hope not, the instant content is too funny and unique.

[@JaJaGamer05]

Warning: Ghor's tome jumpscare!

[@shadowmeister2081]

AAAAH AHHHH AAAAAAAAAHHH

[@TastyAxolotl]

It makes sense that the bands synergise so well since they are wedding rings, they’re fantastic individually but together they elevate each other to reach a higher potential

[@SSM24_]

It's funny how massive the quality range of green items is. You have some of the best items in the game, but also when I'm scrapping stuff I basically always end up with more total green scrap than white scrap. Yes, even despite the fact that green items are rarer overall.

[@Sunny_Haven]

Keep it up! Honestly I kinda like the top 10's, you're quick to the point and the format is neat and concise. Obviously I wouldn't want this for every video but I think it's very fitting for each category of items.

[@sunriizecloudz]

good list, I feel like either fuel cell, ruckler or predatory definitely deserved to be in the honorable mentions though as they are fairly solid options on just about every character and can be useful on most runs

[@sunriizecloudz]

@@shaunhayes3072 fair, I feel like all of them are usually more useful than something like guillotine though which I essentially always scrap, the other items have some use cases for me atleast, preds is pretty much half a crit glass + 2,5 syringes and can be a nice addition on most survivors once you have a lil bit of crit fuel cell obviously relies on ur equipment but it can really up ur damage output in a couple of cases like FMP, makes playing around recycler a lot quicker and can allow pillar skips with egg, also never feels bad on stuff like capacitor - considering how many bad greens there are I prefer keeping fuel cells on most runs unless its to hit thresholds for soup or if I have a better green printer on the same stage I barely ever loop though so maybe I underrate the honorable mentions and specifically guillotine

[@chexgex2834]

@@sunriizecloudz Yea, I understand the underrating of guillotine; If ya don't loop then ya barely get any elites, but once ya loop and get a few guillotines then ooo boy, it makes it a heck of a lot better for ya, especially with one of the artifacts where everything's elite, can't remember its name.

[@stygiansilver9320]

Thanks for the video! Unfortunately none of these fictional green items could cure my massive internal hemorrhaging ): hope to see your next video!

[@Pikachu-vr6tt]

its worth mentioning that shurikens on engi allows your turrets to proc bands as well, usually they only do 100% damage i think on their shot.

[@festyferny4543]

Broooooo, I'm an engie main and though I've seen this I've never made this connection. That explains EVERYTHING

[@Soul_Twister]

woah man, you almost scared me with the ghor's tome jumpscare

[@be9579]

Cliche as top 10s are, they are fun watches and they definitely help newer players get a better idea of what to pick up or what an item exactly does. With your style of top 10s in particular you get right to the meat of things and I love that.

[@ArmageddonPhysics]

You said it wrong multiple times so I’ve gotta come in here and say something. It’s not exponential stacking when two stats are increased and multiply together, it’s multiplicative stacking. Exponential is a whole different kind of curve. Stacking shaped glass is exponential bc it doubles the current damage of your character each time, gas just has two independent linear equations multiplied together

[@wizdom224]

I agree with your number 1, 100%. I never feel like my build is complete without one. Unfortunately it always feels like I end up with a few Daisies, Harpoons, Stealth Kits, and War Horns before I get just one Feather. I really want a new way to obtain bonus jumps, like through a void item that corrupts Quails and Feathers alike while providing the effect of a Feather on every stack and just one Quail, no matter the stack. I also would have my top five be of the same items, but in this order: 1. Hopoo Feather 2. Runald's Band 3. Atg 4. Kjaro's Band 5. Ukelele

[@jacobjensen7638]

at the end you said that you felt bad about posting top 10s but honestly, they are really helpful and insightful to us new or casual players imo so please continue :)

[@stackix2054]

Just started getting into ror2 and it’s nice to see videos like this uploaded with in the last 8 months. I’m someone who will study a game and videos like this are the greatest

[@CrystallineAgony]

Wax quail is actually INSANE if you're playing as Loader. If you time the jump right with your grapple, you can get a ton of speed for your special.

[@MemeAnt]

5:04 ITS GODDAMN CIPHER AHHHHHHHH for context, I used to use this song as my way to calm down. I started hearing it in more and more videos. Its become my own personal among us

[@birdmustard7098]

I genuinely love these videos. Ive been binging them recently to learn more about the items in depth and you do an excellent job making a quick to the point summary of each one. Thankyou for this wonderful content. Hope you can cover alimony

[@adrianjimenez3150]

I love top 10 videos, thank you so much, you should make updated tier lists of characters and items more often since a lot of the content in the internet right now it's not updated and you are the only one updating it

[@elijahclaude3413]

Thanks for these videos! Perhaps they are overdone in general, but as a new player who doesn't have a ton of free time to do all this research or play a lot, this is super helpful to learn the game better!

[@cocobutter8389]

So top tens are amazing since when I was a newer player it was so hard to find just a simple this is good and why and you’ve done it perfectly and made it entertaining, definitely would love to see more

[@jackthompson2582]

1:50 just the kinda of jimi Hendrix reference I’d expect from grandpa 😊

[@aguywholikesfnaf3548]

Best KZbinr disputed origin upload

[@coldernebula]

Please keep milking the dead horse, you have the perfect delivery and humor/timing for these kinda vids so it really doesn't feel low effort at all

[@pibk7719]

Thanks grandpa

[@TigerT242]

Thank you for starting the video immediately 😭

[@bigmike8586]

jeez, starting right off with the Ghor's Tomb jumpscare

[@Mr_Squid13]

ghor's tome jumpscare

[@qwp1884]

No grandpappy you arnt "milking the dead horse" as you say it. We all enjoy these videos and quite frankly whatever you put out

[@RyanKudasik]

It's funny that you asked about top 10 videos. I was just thinking about that. I think this game is at that point in its lifespan where it's good to have long-tail kind content. Many of us wouldn't understand the numbers (damage, proc coefficients, etc) if we didn't have people like you to explain it to us. :)

[@jacksonallison4235]

just found your channel and the first two videos i watched are top 10 lists, and i instantly subscribed. for a person who’s just getting into the game these lists are very useful so keep it up👍

[@Katiedid2040]

I personally appreciate these top tens compared to some other ones because they're concise and informative first. I've got hundreds of hours in Risk of Rain 2 but it's always nice to potentially learn something new about the game. The horse you are milking is alive and well.

[@OKCarbon]

I really like the tierlist videos since it gives me an insight as to what a more skilled player looks for in runs, I never thought that Tome was a good item due to losing late game value, really.

[@turnipus]

Am I crazy or is there half a sentence on Ghor's tome about teleporter event mobs giving half gold that's been cut out at 0:31?

[@henrysullivan5218]

yeah i noticed that too

[@christianvujnovich6052]

I think it’s about the eclipse 6 modifier which reduces gold drops by 20%

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

E6 nerfs your gold income and some enemies on the first two stages won't give gold at all. The Tome bypasses this and the Teleporter nerf. Below is a paragraph from the Wiki about gold: "Enemies that are spawned before the Survivor first arrives on a stage are worth the least. Counter-intuitively, although monsters spawn fastest during the Teleporter event, those enemies are worth significantly less than enemies that spawn before the Teleporter is activated. This is especially true for the Teleporter boss, who will drop hardly any gold. The most valuable and cost-effective naturally-spawned enemies are therefore the ones that spawn around the Survivor while the Teleporter is inactive.”

[@turnipus]

@@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis cheers, good info!

[@MedoTryToo]

0:32 edit mistake: bro forgot to add the line talking about eclipse 6 effect that reduces gold per mob.

[@Airbigbawls]

Thanks for the new video disruptive onion, hope the arthritis is treating you better lately old man.

[@cadesummers5866]

Top tens are good as are tier lists, content that’s quick to point and quick to your great humor 👍

[@ZeroKami86]

You mentioned a few combos in this video, but I'd love to see a combo top 10 or tier list from you ♥

[@josharko111]

I definitely agree on the vertical movement stuff. I'm fairly new to this game and the one time I've beaten Mythrix is with the wing cocoon and artificer basically turning me into an AC130. Also he, unlike the teleporter bosses, freezes with her ice ability, which was very nice

[@KaihanFidaiy]

Not to be this guy but artificer is a girl

[@josephbaldwin9472]

His music was electric is actually so iconic tho

[@bowreed]

Love the new intro 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mrseaweed88]

Fuel cells very quickly become incredibly powerful when paired with the disposable missile launcher

[@forlackofawetterbird]

0:31 you forgot the part where u mention eclipse income debuff lol

[@kyrizzledrizzle5485]

Could also be referring to the income debuff from being in a teleporter event

[@AdvayBasavaraju]

went to comments to say this, would be nice to get that clipped in, although idk how that'd work

[@liber2350]

Getting more gas does not increase the damage of the burn, only the base hit, which does the same damage as the total burn damage of one gasoline. However, I will say, burning more enemies will get you more stacks when you have a ton of weaker enemies softened up and ready to blow up when you want them to, its a nice item to stack but theres definitely better whites for later game. I still enjoy it because it can reveal healthbars behind cover to prevent silly snipes from annoying enemies when you just want to turn around every now and then instead of constantly, like in sundered grove when being pursued by gups.

[@b.yoshisaurus9363]

Personally I put ATG at number 1 and Hopoo at 2nd with Bands interchangeable below the two While Hopoo is undeniably powerful I feel like it's usefulness varies too much for it to be number 1 Like how much value are Loader, Huntress, Mercenary, Acrid, etc getting out of one extra jump when they already have so much more in terms of mobility built in While ATG can be used by every survivor in any situation for notable amounts of extra dps while also being a big part of some of the most powerful builds in the game

[@jimkas3606]

I don't understand how ingition tank can even be on this list, when 9 times out of 10 it does literally nothing

[@fogsster]

My delicious green slop has finally made it,,,,,

[@nahrikkon]

you missed number 0 squid polyp

[@auberginepomegranate2742]

I feel like ruckler, and regen scrap could easily go into the 10 spot over ghome

[@milkcartonchild4060]

unlike my other grandpas you teach me things thanks gramps

[@TheIlikeboys99]

grandpa your are killing the content, please keep it coming

[@catlass]

I started a fresh file for fun and the way I unlocked bands was 20 minutes of struggling on railgunner followed by oneshotting both elder lemurians at once when my charge shot procced ukelele best feeling of my life

[@goofyahh8759]

that alimony joke was hilarious ngl

[@Arcanephoenix]

Runald's band also has a 3s 80% slow effect.

[@philcoast1031]

1:41 technically, you don't need the Headstompers to trimp. They help in gaining height and with the stomp attack, but you can trimp with just Wax Quails (or a lot of movement items, or just a lot of speed like in 9:43) and a ramp.

[@connorv.b8382]

Yeah, but outside of headstompers all it does is give you an incredibly high jump, which isn't nearly as useful

[@ike459]

I was dumbfounded that ATG wasn't first, but feather makes a lot more sense. please do a white items video!

[@totallynotpaul6211]

2:43 An increase in both damage and duration would be quadratic scaling, not exponential.

[@LightningLS54]

Once I almost beat the game, just needed to charge the spaceship thingy but I accidently jumped into a void reaver death bomb with wax quail, so sad

[@thiccum2668]

I never stop stacking wax quails. One run I went all in on a quail printer and had 14. Very good mobility

[@manuelalejandrocaceresfari5997]

Pretty sure that at 0:33 you missed a line on the script, one were you mentioned that the teleporter event gives less money on enemy killed.

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

The Teleporter and E6 do that, some people picked up on it. From the Wiki below: "Enemies that are spawned before the Survivor first arrives on a stage are worth the least. Counter-intuitively, although monsters spawn fastest during the Teleporter event, those enemies are worth significantly less than enemies that spawn before the Teleporter is activated. This is especially true for the Teleporter boss, who will drop hardly any gold. The most valuable and cost-effective naturally-spawned enemies are therefore the ones that spawn around the Survivor while the Teleporter is inactive."

[@justarandomperson9741]

Ghors tomb isn’t affected by the teleporter

[@Cap_]

wtf put my name back up at the end

[@DisputedOrigin]

youre not a member anymore, go back to watching young Sheldon

[@somepersonyt5178]

Im not gifting you another sub.

[@sebastienrodin8329]

Fun video, but none of what you described is actually exponential stacking. If you have n items exponential stacking would mean your power is k^n where k is some number. An example of this is shaped glass where your damage is doubled every time you pick it up. Everything you described increases power by n^2 or n^3 which is still better than linear but not exponential.

[@a_cats]

quadratic/cubic scaling my beloved

[@HouoinKyouma]

Great video. A question tho, why does your game sometimes look different, slightly better or different art? Like on the mithrix fight or some stages 1. Is it a mod? Or my computer sucks?

[@leonardocoutomaciel4997]

Every clip of this guy playing artificer itches my brain. How can you just unload 4 primary and wait for the 4 to recharge to do it again

[@tingasthefriendlyfish2902]

One day Disputed Origin will pronounce Kjaro properly...

[@blevs2301]

10 ghors tome 9 wax quail 8ignition tank 7 Sheridan 6will o wisp 5 ukillaly 4atg 3kjoro band 2 Ronald's band 1hopoo feather

[@pedroca1273]

Amazing video as always grandpa

[@boxcart4533]

Best white: goat hoof(mobility) Best green: hopoo feather(mobility) Best red: headstompers(mobility) Coincidence?

[@jimkas3606]

spare drone parts

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

Speed is war.

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

​@@jimkas3606 Drone doesn't negate fall damage.

[@jimkas3606]

@@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis yes it does

[@Kvltklassik]

Corrupted will o whisp + electric guitar

[@dampviceral6963]

the hendrix reference is awesome

[@captainbromane]

I like your top tens because you explain why the things are good with facts and logic, not opinion. Regardless of whether or not I agree with your rankings, I learned more about how the game works.

[@kostistsesmelis7220]

Since youre doing a lot more of these tier list/ranking vids you can also do an "enemies/bosses tier list" as another small tier list !

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Top 10's are not good only if you drag them out with a bunch of junk. You didn't do that. You went straight into it and kept each point concise while still informative.

[@punkabooiscool1111]

Shurikens work well on engineer turrets, get like 5 with a spare scrap box, you have 3 weapons on one turret

[@firstername]

shout out to the lemmino music

[@ChildNightmare]

5:27 why thank you I will go plug in my Nintendo because I only own the definitive edition of ror2

[@hunterogue]

Love the vid it was great just a small side note does merc really strugle with flying enemies he can either dash up and strick them, dash up and hide inside them, (pause), or throw his alternative ultimate. But still love the vid

[@SSM24_]

I'd say flying enemies are easily Merc's biggest weakness as a character. Most other characters can just shoot them out of the air or otherwise have better ways of dealing with them, but Merc almost always has to commit to using his utility or special just to take down one or two, let alone a whole group of half a dozen or more. It's even worse if you're using the alternate versions of those skills, because you only get a single dash with Focused Assault and you have to actually aim Slicing Winds at them (which is a lot harder against flying enemies than just kind of homing in with Eviscerate).

[@spookifyr]

The Better UI mod is basically mandatory

[@hiyathere]

very surprised not to see scythe on this list.

[@Santakaiser]

Time to try 500 wax quail

[@meep2k]

you skipped "enemy gold drops are decreased in eclipse 6 and above" straight to "ghor's tome is not affected by this decrease"

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

Also not affected by the Teleporter decrease. From the Wiki, about gold, below: "Enemies that are spawned before the Survivor first arrives on a stage are worth the least. Counter-intuitively, although monsters spawn fastest during the Teleporter event, those enemies are worth significantly less than enemies that spawn before the Teleporter is activated. This is especially true for the Teleporter boss, who will drop hardly any gold. The most valuable and cost-effective naturally-spawned enemies are therefore the ones that spawn around the Survivor while the Teleporter is inactive."

[@totallynotpaul6211]

It hurts me every time he says"exponential" when he's referring to something quadratic.

[@a_cats]

good video but you keep mixing up exponential and quadratic exponential is when each additional stack has a strength calculated by multiplying the strength of the previous stack by a number (e.g. shaped glass) whereas quadratic means each stack has a strength calculated by multiplying 2 scaling values together (e.g. shuriken)

[@3xample]

Good video, but im surprised to see Old Guillotine as a runner up. If you actually run the math Guillotine comes out worse compared to whites like Delicate Watch and Focus Crystal, and it comes out much worse than ATG (just over half as good as ATG, but this is also ignoring sub 1.0 procs). And, as you mentioned, within the first loop this damage buff applies to few enemies. This item is overrated.

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

It's a considerably smaller threshold than the Freezing from Artificer and Railgunner (both sitting at 40% X 13% from the guillotine)

[@alexandruturtoi1983]

Fuel cell left the chat The fuel cell is very useful for spamming royal capacitor or preon accumulator (or radar)

[@isaackaumeyer6847]

I really don't like how so many greens and a good chunk of red items are straight up trash in this game

[@cr4yon464]

these videos are awesome

[@Drench_Bluff]

In some of the clips used, the lighting, ambience and sky were different from the normal game. Is that a mod, and if so, which one? It looks cool, especially during Mithrix

[@KevinClark798]

nah, I love your top 10's

[@angelablue2761]

10 gorths tor (the money book) 9 wax quail 8 ignition tank 7 shuriken 6 will o whisp 5 ukulele 4 atg missile thing 3 kajaro bands 2 runald bands 1 hoppo feather

[@Abyssrian]

Yoo the lemmino cicada 3301 song

[@blitz342]

Did the few seconds about the eclipse modifier get cut out? Somethings jarring

[@devastatheseeker9967]

I don't think mentioning void items in a video on green items is bad. It makes sense to talk about it since getting the void item turns all of the green item into it.

[@criscecka4409]

Hate to "um, actually" but all of your "exponential growth"s are actually quadratic/polynomial.

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

Also the calc is just linear, right? Just simple additions or multiplications, no buts or ifs.

[@fusi0nr0ck]

Exponential functions are quadratic though

[@cam7565]

Ghor’s tome has to be there to get clicks 😭

[@neato2765]

Top ten worst greens next plz

[@anonmisfit]

#1 - squid polyp just kidding #1 - benthic bloom