The BEST Red Items in Risk of Rain 2!

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[@MemeRaiders-ex6sy]

Forgot the void reds

[@sorriiez]

​@@MemeRaiders-ex6sy void are voids

[@MemeRaiders-ex6sy]

@@sorriiez reds are reds

[@dragonlord4898]

Promotion Skip Button: 5:34

[@skelet8337]

If I remember correctly the reason that headstomper was hated was because it was actually bugged I remember seeing a max damage head stomper deal less damage than 2 atgs and yeah 57 leaf clover is worse now because bands aren't %chance items anymore and with more items in the game it is less likely to get the %chance items when it was considered the best item it was practically guaranteed to get at least 5 proc chance items before stage 5.

[@TheToasterWaffle]

I love describing why headstompers is so good to people because when most people think upfront damage they look at the funny 40k diablo, so when I tell them headstompers is a quarter of that every 10 seconds with very little cast time they always immediately pick it up from the soup

[@carterklassen405]

Still garbage

[@SilverFoxeGames]

@@carterklassen405 sir you are about as based as hydrochloric acid on the PH scale

[@noahldejong]

@@carterklassen405 literally the best item in the game

[@q6969]

​@carterklassen405 even ignoring the damage, it is extra mobility, the best thing you can have in the game, and an immunity to fall damage. No matter your level of understanding saying headstompers is bad is bad is an L take.

[@NotABean_]

@@carterklassen405 this is not a controversial take, considering how everyone else can agree it's just wrong lmao

[@FreyCloud]

I saw Jimmy slip and fall the other day. What an idiot.

[@crimsonartist5190]

i hope he doesn't become a lawyer, he's only good at destroying things

[@empranion]

is this a bo burnham reference or am i thinking too much

[@FreyCloud]

@@empranion it was a bo reference in disguise. I'm impressed

[@newzealand1706]

@@FreyCloud i saw that too. what a dingus

[@iamveryconfusedd]

​@@empranion Yoooo

[@matthiasbarish1296]

I did NOT just get jumpscared by a Ceremonial Dagger

[@grfrjiglstan]

Scorpion is omega-cracked against Mithrix. His adaptive armor means that if you attack him at a reasonably fast speed, the damage you do will steadily decrease - unless you have the scorpion, in which case you'll shred through all that new resistance he keeps cooking up.

[@SSM24_]

Yeah I think Scorpion is the single best red item cauldron to get on the moon just because of how much it helps against Mithrix.

[@Jarubimba]

@@SSM24_ And he can't get as much value from it on the phase four as well, so it's just extra convenience

[@Yeedede]

Additional benefit, scorpion stacks won’t be cleansed when mythrix jumps in phases 1 & 3, when everything else will be

[@Aver187]

Bro has personal beef with Jimmy 💀💀

[@ThatLazyyGuy]

As he should

[@xd-ko]

You dont??

[@Juexis5]

real ones don’t fw jimmy

[@teddymitch9842]

what did blud do ?💀

[@YCantIHaveMyPseudo]

​@@teddymitch9842He was born as his nephew /j

[@nathansatnarain9079]

Jimmy hate stamps 0:15 1:41 2:56 4:17 4:35

[@o3ohno123]

i hate jimmy

[@aperson4097]

I remember my first red item. I was like 10 hours in the game, (didn't know about the stage 4 stuff) and kinda confused on why I wasn't getting any red. Finally got a behemoth out of a chest, shot a beetle guard to death, and went "ah, this is why red items are so rare, huh". One of the best red items on feeling alone. So good.

[@Fivesallround]

I distinctly remember my first 2 red experiences. The first was me grabbing a Dio's best friend, which saved me the first time I ever beat Mithrix, but I like the second one more. I was playing loader for the first time, and I was trying to loop to obliterate and unlock mercenary, when I ended up on Siren's Call. Because I already beat AWU to get Loader, I figured it was fitting to beat it again with the new survivor. That fight took me way too long, but I was rewarded with a Hardlight Afterburner. The feeling I got after I picked it up and realized that it gave me 3 extra punches was the best moment I've had in this game. Needless to say the rest of that run was a cakewalk.

[@tkmisere7591]

My first one was Afterburner, getting 2 more teleports with Huntress was amazing.

[@ImJustNes]

Huh, it seems like Behemoth being the first ever red is a pretty common thing. Interesting!

[@stagdragon3978]

Oh man mine is absolutely hilarious. So. First time playing risk of rain. My friend is introducing the game to me. I open my first chest. It's afterburner. The run ends about 3 minnutes later when I did a tactical roll into the explosion radius of the booby trap they got on their chest.

[@crow2596]

more red items should have "base effects" that make them exciting to pick up, even if you don't have the build for it. like the way headstompers (giving you a higher jump height so you can have a weak test-drive of the kinetic explosion) or spare drone parts (with col. droneman) do it. imagine if laser scope gave you a +20% crit chance on the first stack (with diminishing returns), or if ICBM shot out a trio of missiles every 10 seconds etc. like you said, items like brilliant behemoth really FEEL like legendary items: they give you that dopamine rush when you see them. all reds should feel like that.

[@yuuko6264]

underappreciated fact of scorpion: while armor reduction asymptotically approaches 2x damage (already huge), when you keep stacking it, you can nullify mithrix's (and voidling's) adaptive armor passives. for those who didn't know, sufficient burst damage can momentarily take those bosses up to +400 armor bonus. with enough scorpion stacks, your damage against them will be far more consistent. if you have a crowdfunder on loader or something, you'll notice your fire bands doing a lot more damage.

[@jimmyd7645]

hey man leave me alone

[@maddit_line]

0:18 I’ve used that exact same stock image in a school slideshow

[@_ygg24]

i think its always worth noting with a list like this, that item quality can be vastly different in an eclipse run and in a looped monsoon run. you touched on it a little bit, where clover is MUCH better in a looped run (so much so that i'd say its the best, even over HS which are SLIGHTLY less valuable in monsoon) i also completely agree that the behemoth is such a fun item, we need more silly reds (icbm too)

[@mr.newvegas1704]

Personally I think he’s overrating the hell out of behemoth. Behemoth is fun and has some cool tech, but 60% damage pales in comparison to the power of clover. Even in a single loop, not finding even just a couple proc items is a little unrealistic. Behemoth is literally just 3 watches. Would you rather have 3 watches or a clover? Lol

[@itioticginger9520]

I'm not trying to be rude here, but looped monsoon gets boring relatively quickly

[@ukaszanioowski9722]

@@mr.newvegas1704 depends if my skills have certain traits like Desperado Stacking or Desperado Slayer or even Lights Out Slayer i'll be taking behemoth over most other reds exceptions would be Clover if i had a lot of procs or ICBM if i had a lot of missile items or SDP if i was playing engineer / had more than 3 drones, the equipment charge on kill item if i had blast shower, bands and playing as loader it all really is situational

[@crystalflare0684]

​@@mr.newvegas1704He mainly plays eclipse without looping which can make clover no where near as consistently good as a pure 60% damage increase. You can easily have a run that goes to mithrix with only one or two proc items or even none.

[@_ygg24]

@@itioticginger9520 for experienced eclipse players this is probably a common opinion, but I know for a fact that a considerable chunk of the ror2 player base will stick to monsoon or easier

[@ShaeFur]

Head stompers my beloved ❤

[@MemeRaiders-ex6sy]

You forgot the void reds

[@paquixyz4000]

@@MemeRaiders-ex6sy why are you telling him 😭

[@MemeRaiders-ex6sy]

@@paquixyz4000 to lazy to delete the message

[@paquixyz4000]

@@MemeRaiders-ex6sy fair enough

[@SirDeathDark]

I think one of the bigger oversights with daggers is while they're not missiles in a literal sense, they ARE missiles in a mechanical and gameplay sense (alongside n'kuhana's opinion and little disciple) and should really combo with ICBM. This would also help patch up their diminishing performance as you get deeper into runs and small mobs become less common.

[@TrainerRobo]

commented on an older video but still want to bring this up again for people who don't know: acrid can utilize headstompers super effectively without wax quail. unless its been patched recently, timing a jump and your utility straight up in the air with headstompers will launch you up into the sky - no trimping involved. This can be used to skip commencement and to utilize the slam without a quail or any movement items. I was a very early adopter for headstompers and knew about it's strength as soon as acrid came out when the game was still in EA. I've never seen anyone talk about it (though admittedly i haven't been into RoR2 youtube until lately so someone very well may have already)

[@TonyWimpole]

Glad to see Spare Drone Parts rated so high. I’ve seen some conflicting opinions on this item, but after it carried several of my runs (survivor dmg vs drone damage wasn’t even close), I could no longer deny its greatness.

[@ukaszanioowski9722]

Brilliant Behemoth is the only item which copies the proc ability traits, like Acrid Bite's Slayer effect which deals more damage the less health an enemy has, allowing for the explosion to deal more damage than the initial hit

[@Shhhhh183]

Both Desperado and Lights out also have Slayer, which I feel like isn’t talked about much.

[@danilsdoes1410]

I legit thought you were joking about head stompers at first. Didn't know it was so strong!

[@ThatPenguin]

Literally can revive a dead run

[@wackywoowar9249]

Haha I'm sure everyone goes through a sudden "transition" from hating to loving head stompers literally overnight

[@benaya3250]

fav item for artificer bc i can just stomp every boss lol

[@ThatPenguin]

@@benaya3250 if you use quail you can delete any boss with a small slope

[@taxevader2507]

Grandpa disputed the merc main forgot that half of the survivors can barely jump (stompers still top 3 though)

[@grantcole8898]

It is total bullshit that icbm doesn't work for Mul-t's rockets. Also spare drone parts + equipment drone with goobo Jr is insane

[@3cooo659]

not a missile, same reason it wouldn't work with say commandos grenades or void fiends secondary

[@thedarter]

Us Engineer mains needed this (no we didn't)

[@StormSurge10]

What is the interaction for drone parts and an equipment drone with goobo specifically?

[@grantcole8898]

@StormSurge10 drone parts gives the equipment drone a gun, and goobo Jr spawns another one that does 3x damage. And since drones scale off of enemy level...

[@pingupie7770]

I think aegis is better

[@VarioustinglesASMR]

Love this comment 😂😂

[@potato_bot6335]

thank you for getting right into the video without a long intro

[@sfordy]

I hate that small enemy

[@eliiNya]

personally, i'm a fan of the jimmy hate on this page. there's not many people that will stand up for what's right and do what you do, and i can respect that. you have earned my subscription fellow stranger.

[@willlouis6118]

I will say my only grip about hardlight afterburner on loader is the fact that the extra two charges don’t go on cooldown until after you stop holding punch. So I’ll find myself using/wasting all three then being stuck in the loop of only having one stacked up for a while

[@unamusedrohan1666]

Brilliant Behemoth was the first red I picked up back in the original RoR. It's the moment the game clicked for me and it stands as THE Risk of Rain item in my mind.

[@wyn9693]

The expectation of clover being higher on the list really comes down to an issue with the roguelike community. There's this idea that an item that will take your winning run and turn it game breaking has to be the best, and will act like it's stringer than items that will salvage losing builds. My favourite example is rock bottom vs libra in the binding of isaac. Stat downs are a thing that happens, but is extremely conditional. Normally you simply don't get stat ups, and when stat downs hapen it's typically either a one off minor inconvenience or it's a price you pay for an extremely powerful effect. So an item that means you don't feel the effects of stat downs is theoretically busted on said strong items but in a weak run won't do you much, where rearranging your stats and converting large amounts of your range and projectile speed into movement speed, fire rate and damage will salvage almost any weak run, and when your speed is high enough it will convert the remaining gains all to the dps stats, salvaging almost any bad situation. But the community refuses to believe rock bottom isn't a top 3 item because they can't imagine getting an item without a synergy

[@hardboiledchildren6126]

2:17 I had 28 unstable Tesla coils on one run (using void 57 leaf clover) and mythic insta killed me and my friend

[@ParkAir33]

Headstompers is literally the only item in the game that I kinda refuse to use when I get it because I feel it trivializes things so much (as long as you have a quail) and while there are other things that are like that as well, I just find headstompers unfun because you do the same simple thing of jumping and slamming over and over again. Although it still is satisfying watching the whole stage die.

[@RiverWilliamson]

OMG, the endless fireworks! Beautiful! My favorite thing about Hammer is that Acrid holds it in its mouth ((chef's kiss))

[@Tachyon322]

13:33 if you don’t have diablo strike, be the diablo strike

[@olive8047]

Another disputed upload, it's a good day.

[@EverythingChannely]

Olive

[@friendlynightmares]

its crazy coz I love the ceremonial dagger, but I do understand why it's not extremely useful overall

[@druidofnosleep1513]

It's one of the best for looped runs

[@Loretic42069]

Yeah I just did a run with acrid and I chose headstompers because I had never used it before, little did I know I would be jumping thousands of feet into the air and slamming down with acrids ground slam + the stomp and one-shotting everything including Mithrix

[@Bonelord69]

Glad to know the best ways to deal with Jimmy when he gets introduced as a new enemy in the dlc

[@SeroGrave]

You've changed my mind on head stompers. I thought it was a mid gag item with a mario reference.

[@ianchandler3282]

When I was new to the game I always found head stompers lack luster and tricky to use, preferring the instant gratification of stuff like Behemoth or Daggers. But man when you learn how to use it, the entire game completely changes as you just become a god.

[@BlindSpectet]

Acrid headstompers is some of the most fun i've had in this game

[@andrewfirth9858]

brilliant behemoth was my first red item in my first run ever. it was so awesome

[@benro6564]

I think the reason clover is considered *the* Ror2 item is because it is the best item in the entire game for looping, and during early access the only way to beat a run was by obliterating or you just went for a long run until you died

[@maximustorr5090]

clover was widely considered the best because it was back when there was alot more chance items such as bands being chanvce and had more op chance items like sticky bomb peak

[@juliandurant7559]

I'd like to add that while he does mention crit, Clover does in fact work without Glasses since every character except Railgunner has an built in 1% crit chance on every attack. That means you can kinda sorta stack Clovers instead of Glasses.

[@alicetheaxolotl]

I doubt you're gonna find 11 Clovers (~11.4% crit chance) before 1 Glasses (11% crit chance) lmao

[@juliandurant7559]

@@alicetheaxolotl devotion begs to differ lmao

[@Nextia_]

Been listening to a lot of C418's stuff recently and when I heard Click fade in here, I loved it 😄

[@tealordd]

Hey, grandpa! Thx for the vid. Miss ya, man

[@ceddavis7441]

The hardlight after burner is kinda gimmicky to stack, cause only the initial item reduces cooldown.

[@Thisisaname-yf5fl]

They need to add Jimmy as an enemy in seekers of the storm

[@tobi_versace]

Ceremonial dagger and shrimp combined is so broken

[@ratdistributor8549]

I'm still trying to beat monsoon on all the survivors and almost every single time I win. It's because I have headstompers.

[@MetalVampire91]

I think the Headstompers is a good item. No fall damage, extra jump height and a mini nuke on standby? Sounds wonderful! HOWEVER, there is an issue with it for me. What usually keeps me away from it is what I describe as the "floatiness" when you have one. If it didn't feel like I was floating in the air for an uncomfortably long time; I'd probably would pick it up every single time I saw it.

[@Shhhhh183]

I sometimes just stomp to the ground if I’ve been in the air for too long. It’s not all that optimal, but it helps.

[@a_cats]

the increased jump height does feel a little weird at first but it has the side effect of making it really hard for enemies to hit you if you keep jumping that alone improves your survivability so much

[@unity3169]

Your choice in music is sooo good it’s all from games Ik

[@nery2981]

YEAAAAAAHH!! all my friends say H3AD-5T v2 is useless, but it's always been my favourite item. i'll show them this video, thank you. words can't describe how happy i was seeing it in first place.

[@ThePanPanda11]

could you do a ranking on every pillar skip and maybe a short demonstration for them?

[@ilsu2178]

I mean, if it works to skip pillars then it works. Don't think there needs to be a ranking on what is the most effective, just depends on what you get.

[@mr.newvegas1704]

1) h0st skip with headset 2) vase 3) wings 4) h0st skip with safer spaces + 2-3 movement speed items 5) egg with fuel cell 6) trimping up with tons of movement speed or with quails 7) hardlight afterburner for merc/rex/non-blink huntress 8) captain nuking himself

[@itioticginger9520]

There is already a really good video on all pillar skips out there, but it is not up to date with the new h0st skips

[@ThePanPanda11]

@itioticginger9520 yeah I mainly just want a good video on how to do the Head Stompers skip along with a few others. None of the ones I found really explained it

[@Shhhhh183]

⁠@@mr.newvegas1704 I know I really don’t need to tell you this, but both of Huntresses mobility abilities have blink in them. The alt is called “phase blink”.

[@N3OWeeZY]

Ceremonial dagger works really well with razor wire and crowbars

[@mizuchi6022]

I feel like drone parts are better on runs where you’re going to kill mythrix, cuz if you plan on looping a bunch those drones you have are for sure going to die off. And I generally don’t fight mythrix, I just loop a bunch till I can obliterate on stage 23.

[@ar.71944]

Symbiotic scorpion seems more like a void varient of shattering justice

[@_kartofeleek]

Jimmy is not getting a break in this one

[@shane-dz6ul]

Trying to fight that laughter back while saying teletubbies had me rolling

[@brassbeast8582]

gotta love behemoth finally getting the respect it deserves

[@AenimaToolhead]

Getting right into without intro is the best format

[@henrymunafo8207]

Great video but crazy takes on ranking. Never thought of head stompers like that

[@PoorEdward]

Headstomper against mithrix is the worst without actual horizontal mobility if you get caught in the air or mid animation during blue plasma of death

[@JohnCena-fd5yw]

for some reason whenever i use headstompers to land on an enemy, i just instantly die. no explanation, no obvious source of damage, i just somehow die to the enemy i was landing on. this mostly happens with lemurians. stompers have instantly ended multiple eclipse runs this way so i normally dont pick them up when i see them

[@uhhmary]

Can't believe Jimmy manifested himself as a real enemy to get revenge

[@tythus654]

As much as I understand why Headstompers got #1, I still hate them. It just throws me off to an extent that it feels kind of like playing with extreme lag. I honestly wish they just implemented the original headstompers instead, though understandably that would be much more complicated to implement in a 3D environment

[@abcrasshadow9341]

Crazy person, I was like you once but then I received enlightenment. Try playing Eclipse more :D

[@Riley-ye3gf]

Learning so much about Jimmy today

[@bsmig5450]

it’s a shame I always have to scrap the spare drone parts because I use artifact of devotion to get an army of unstoppable lemurians

[@Lubloom]

headstompers will always be the goat

[@Duwahkeen]

i feel like jimmy are the small beetles, it only makes sense because jerry is the beeble guard

[@Zoranurai13]

Please do a crazy run with artifact of devotion, and shipping request form. At like the fourth stage you start getting reds left and right

[@bladethewaffle]

Surprised clover wasn’t higher but yeah reasoning was solid

[@knockdoubt]

We play this game very differently...

[@igimaster5872]

glad to see you siding with your grandson in the jimmy beef! such a great grandfather.

[@istimagyar53]

I love op dlc items, all my homies love op dlc items.

[@lundylank3669]

I thought they were adding Jimmy in the new dlc. Didn’t realize he was here already.

[@cloudy_jewels]

triple arrow huntress with attack speed items (specifically pred instincts and syringe), max crit, and knives is broken. did this run a while ago so that might not be exactly correct

[@jaden577]

No, you’re right. I run this build all the time on huntress. It gets even more cracked if you get a shatterspleen boss item, behemoth as well

[@gnarkaaga]

no way he said the ta ta thing what an awesome catchphrase

[@contagious_noob3651]

I honestly think drone parts is the best red its the only red that basically guarantees a win on any survivor you just need to not get terrible luck on drones.

[@Niftyturnip-]

never know what reds to chose (i like doin command runs sometimes cuz its fun to just blow everything away without question), usually i take 57 leaf first as a safe bet, and after that its whatever jumps out at me, now i think ill take far more headstompers, droneparts, and scorpions.

[@victorgomez4827]

Thank you for this list I was having a lot of trouble against jimmy

[@mollysmoshingtankcrew9441]

There is no possible way you legitimately ranked Tesla coil above daggers 💀💀💀💀💀

[@jasonhayes2904]

Bosses, bro. Mithrix kinda just…. Doesn’t gaf

[@idkwhat01]

I am in disbelief how there are people that still think HeadSetV2 is bad

[@TSUNAMI_0707]

5:59 you did not need to say that lmao

[@xaynerd]

I love how there was no intro at all

[@MoldyCrowChannel]

Has anyone noticed (this might be only on console) that Headstompers jump height got hella increased with the devotion update? I’ve been playing since the update came out and realized with no movement speed and no quails I was jumping higher than the central spire on sirens call (the one that the reds spawn out of after defeating AWU)

[@Shhhhh183]

Yeah I got that and it was basically a free run. Such a ridiculous bug, but I’m not complaining.

[@MoldyCrowChannel]

@@Shhhhh183yea it makes the pillar skip require far less quails and movement items it’s essentially free

[@Shhhhh183]

@@MoldyCrowChannel it also just allows you to essentially one shot everything with the stomp because the jump is so high.

[@cyprusmiraque]

Did I miss the crit damage one?

[@StickyCat398]

Ranking behemoth over droneman is a crime. Imagine having an item that literally wins the whole game for you regardless of character, and then imagine having 3 watches. That’s the difference, except the watches don’t break

[@itioticginger9520]

I agree that it should not be higher, but behemoth is still insane for both damage and aoe, I would put it 4th and move droneman and clover up

[@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli]

To be fair, Behemoth makes your AoE quadratic because enemies in range all get hit by each other’s detonations (I assume.) That said, hard to beat a survivor-agnostic “your free win, madam” from your army of robot maids.

[@pissmice]

Yall are no fun

[@ianirwin8501]

If you don't get the RNG of getting drones each stage, it is useless. Behemoth is always useful. The end.

[@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli]

@@ianirwin8501 pretty sure you reliably get drones in any run you don’t Artifact them out.

[@stanman3192]

Head stompers is definitely a top 5 item but i cant agree with it being 1, again its offensive capability is situational and its defensive capability is imo sloghtly worse than just a hopoo feather. Always super nice to get but a lot of the time you wont be able to make the most of it

[@baval5]

Headstompers can be as strong as they want to make it, could clear the whole stage and the complete the teleporter in one stomp, and I still wouldnt use it because its annoying lol

[@angellik_]

Yo disputed, what mic do you use?

[@FreyCloud]

Opinion accepted (it correlates with my own)

[@trizick5379]

i fucking love brilliant behemoth since game one it was always my favourite and not matter what character what ability's what your skill is it is always fun to have and and makes character just funner from the auto weapons to shot guns to explosions and flashy mulity hit moves or the singles ones if it do damg theres always a little blast from behemoth

[@calvinjordan3624]

Rip meat hooks, free my boy

[@booh5453]

i was a headstomper lover from the first time i got it

[@martyballamore2760]

I felt scammed when I got my first 57 leaf clover and elites didn't spawn items like the 56 leaf clover from RoR1 did

[@therealohead]

love the cookie clicker soundtrack :)

[@bloodtrigger6668]

If we get new Artifacts in the upcoming dlc, would you do MAAO again?

[@Gucci_Lou]

Is Jimmy just a placeholder for the children in SotS? Edit: 5:06: Aye my man is cultured 😎

[@AN4ROK]

W Kaggers Jumpscare

[@quentin9676]

BABE WAKE UP DISPUTED FINALLY POSTED THE RED TIER LIST

[@Apoch_Final]

What did jimmy do to you Dio?