ANOTHER Risk of Rain 2 Tierlist (speedrun edition)

[@Woolie]

poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma poly plasma

[@fnxbcn369]

Tenta syringe

[@FusionShadow54]

Xi construct Lazarus wings Xi construct Lazarus wings Xi construct Lazarus wings Xi construct Lazarus wings Xi construct Lazarus wings

[@zmeyka3310]

@@FusionShadow54 lmaoooooooooooooo

[@southboston9413]

When did you get a chair?

[@VeryBadPlayerTV]

26:29 AND if that crit you hit on the boss shoots an ATG O: and then a sticky bomb procs.

[@isopodhour8436]

Wooly looks like he has not slept since he lost the world record lmao

[@duewest1987]

He tried but had night terrors from that clover/polylute throw yesterday

[@El_Fling]

He looks like he didn't shave his gair since then D:

[@bluesteele5786]

He looks like he injected 500mg of Markiplier DNA

[@Sc4r4byte]

not sleeping is kinda working for him

[@aliteralfrog7005]

He wants that title back

[@ruiguimaraes7930]

Behold! The tierlist where Royal Capacitor and the Scanner are justifiably on the same tier.

[@felixherz2864]

32:05 Taking into account Mithrix's base armor of 20, Symbiotic Scorpion can multiply your damage by up to 2.4; with maximum adaptive armor of about 400, this increases to up to 10 times

[@popcore5579]

I get the thought process of ranking Safer Spaces low because "just don't take damage, dummy" but it should be bumped up a tier regardless imo because of the opportunity for free blood shrines / void cradles that'd you'd otherwise have to wait to use or even give up

[@hampa1]

Exactly what I was thinking. On eclipse 8 I always love getting them, not only for blocking damage, but also for massively speeding up/lowering the risk of grabbing blood shrines and cradles. I would put them in "nice" for eclipse 8 and maybe "eh" for speedrun (you have to remember, getting a safer spaces is stealing the spot of a shrimp/poly)

[@lizard6878]

His logic seems to be comparing items to what you could have gotten or same quality of item. I'm not great at the game but I'm pretty sure having a resonance disc would be better than a singular backup mag. Safer spaces is great, but looking at it only in the pool of void items it's usefullness in a speedrun is definitely below poly, plimp, or even needletick

[@teaandmilk7172]

@@hampa1safer spaces is common shrimp/poly are green

[@Woolie]

ye

[@popcore5579]

@@lizard6878 while that's true in the speedrun sense, i think it's odd to have it below PSG where it serves the same purpose and even does a better job of preserving your plasma shrimp shield... like many of those void items you get out of a cradle and you're just like "ew im just not even gonna pick that up" but im always picking up a safer spaces cuz 1 stack of it just provides so much utility and insurance to your run anyway im just throwing my 2 cents out there lmao im not nearly as experienced or good at the game as woolie lol

[@fern_itsyourboi]

Wooly aged 10 years from speedrunning

[@Cap_]

Happy the community has picked up speedrunning the gauntlet so much lately

[@El_Fling]

OooO its cap da bestest ror2 player

[@borq_345]

Why isn’t consumed trophy hunter’s tricorn higher? The equipment drone saying ahoy provides MASSIVE moral support, which could make you feel the need to go even faster to impress the drone and make it proud.

[@myAngelKei]

i know its a meme really, but overloading aspect is actually quite good, i got it with a watch printer and you can open every cradle after cause you are always above 50% health.

[@Woolie]

big brain

[@samakadamek1615]

8:40 - Royal Caffeinator is probably the coolest name for an item i have ever heard

[@coleyohley71]

The Wedding Bands and Sticky Bomb scale from Total Damage but they don't have a proc coefficient. That's why they Brilliant Behemoth doesn't make them explode as well. Still makes Plasma Shrimp and Polylute (most of your damage anyway) explode so it's a beast regardless.

[@pham990]

I always just think of behemoth as stronger plasma shrimp (or plimp is weaker behemoth, I guess since behemoth existed first), obviously plimp has a proc coefficient and behemoth doesn’t but they’re basically the same otherwise

[@Karsh.]

@@pham990 Plimp is better because you actually have a decent chance of having more than 1 of it, which ultimately boosts your damage more than the Behemoth would at that point.

[@pham990]

@@Karsh. yeah, I was just comparing the first stack of the items, behemoth doesn't stack at all (only gets more radius, doesn't get more damage, which is kinda bs for a red item) while plimp does, obviously plimp has more potential and outshines behemoth very quickly, but if we're only comparing first stacks, behemoth is technically stronger (not by much cause again, plimp has proc co)

[@mcawesome9705]

31:01 the condition is that it has a proc coefficient bands (dealing total damage) don't have one so it doesn't scale them. bleed (dealing base damage) also doesn't have one, so it doesn't scale it.

[@c00LKIDsix9]

The issue with the green items is like half of them don't have a meaningful effect on their own. Predatory instincts and harvesters scythe are good if you actually stacked like at least 3 or 4 crit glasses. Death mark requires like 4 other items just for it to do ANYTHING (depending on survivor). Fuel Cell and War Horn are only really useful if you have an equipment you actually want to use often, which there aren't many. Ignition Tank needs gasoline, Molten Perf, or fire aspect to, once again, do ANYTHING (Besides for Artificer ofc). Squid Polyp is kinda useful but it takes Remote Caffinator to actually shine. The other 40% of them are varying levels of ok (Infusion, chronobauble to turn into tentabauble, razorwire, Red whip early) to 95% of the time better than literally nothing but doesn't really help much. (Beserkers pauldron, leeching seed, hunters harpoon, bandolier, lepton daisy, stealth kit, buckler). It's messed up how white items have a higher percentage of good items compared to greens.

[@appleofdoom]

8:36 Capacitor being bad tier again has made Woolie's old tier list come full circle

[@mcbanana1473]

31:31 behemoth doesn’t apply to moves that don’t have a proc coefficient. doesn’t scale off bleed and bands

[@daystormzx2733]

i cant unsee markiplier-vibe from woolie, and is your hair always this long ?

[@CaptainLance9]

finally when I am trying to backseat while making eggs I now will understand which items are bad/good to know if we actually are throwing a good run :D

[@Woolie]

Just remember the "bonezone" item is always the best

[@ruiguimaraes7930]

Sir, you placed the Head Stompers on the "nice" tier, yet a few days ago when there was a jumble that titled something on the lines of "Next red will be..." with the option "GOOD", "MID" and "BAD" and a Head Stompers dropped, you deemed the item to be "MID", which is upsetting because I had put my points into "GOOD". Now if you check a thesaurus you will notice how "good" is synonymous with "nice" so I better have my points back or there will be lawyers involved. Thank you and have a nice day.

[@noxriderash4174]

ik its already top tier, but I think its important to point out how strong fire band is for being able to skip the entirety of 4th phase if it kills mithrix in the center of the arena, seems like a really big time save for a speedrun.

[@xRagingxDemonx]

Scorpion is really good paired with plasma shrimp which is really good with icbm and polylute, and the white items enhance every aspect of the aforementioned items. Atk speed even enhances animations so all around it's the best stat to increase.

[@mingkey6726]

its ok when the videos are long. the explanations are the best part. theyre very entertaining and useful

[@turmspitzewerk]

2:03 hooves and edrinks actually provide a nearly identical movement speed bonus. edrink adds +25% to the sprint speed *MODIFIER*; which, after being factored into your overall move speed, is a ~14% horizontal move speed increase just like the hoof. a single hoof will ALWAYS be better than a single edrink, as edrink's ~14% movespeed bonus is only applied when spriting and going forward (though its a pretty meaningless distinction on huntress of course). but since they affect two different statistics; they scale off of each other multiplicatively and become very strong. the best thing to do to maximize speed is to right down the middle with 1:1 hoofs to edrinks, with slight preference towards hooves if you have to choose. if you search for the post "effective sprint speed as a function of hooves and energy drinks" on the risk of rain subreddit; there's a chart breaking it down with a bunch of different combinations of hooves and drinks if you're curious.

[@michaelh.9686]

Safer spaces deserves to be up at least one tier? You praise slug for being able to speed up looting void cradle/blood shrine but safer spaces does the same thing. Not to mention it has the potential to save you from dying to a mistake in the mythrix fight. Sure it could have been plute/plimp, but if it’s spaces and there are 3-4 other void cradles for the rest of the run then that saves you 1-1.5 minutes of healing

[@Woolie]

ye it should be up

[@phasemat4140]

He still somehow continues to teach me more about ror2.

[@a_cats]

Honestly stombs are just good in general, not just for speedrunning. If you're full looting you're gonna get huge value out of them too because ATGs and other proc items can proc them too

[@Qwerty-tk5xr]

wooly is a top tier comfort creator

[@mr.newvegas1704]

As someone who’s been trying this out and just recently got a 25.5 minute run the other day, I only got that because of safer spaces saving my ass like 16 times. You need to bump that up to atleast the nice tier ( if not the top tier). It allows you to make some really stupid plays in order to maximize your damage potential. Tanking pizza shots, hitting shrines void cradles without need for healing, fall damage mitigation, etc. the list is endless and trust me you DO take more damage than you’d like in these runs, especially on runs with low damage.

[@EspyMelly]

No mention of how fire band can skip Mythrix's final phase immunity+item suck, saving a nice chunk of time.

[@mroofity6594]

31:32 isn’t like, Behemoth’s explosion a different damage source entirely with a 0 Proc coefficient? Quite certain that’s why it’s 60% damage bonus isn’t added to like, any total damage calculations. The damage bonus is a separate instance of damage.

[@kajetanbadura9129]

I just beat prismat trial with merc full hp, it took me 3 days 5 hours left I was pissed and I saw your video and it made the rest of my day now

[@JnJGaming]

Shurikens, as nice as they are, can proc bands when you dont mean to (granted, a few things can, but they are pretty consistent at doing so). If youre using them FOR proccing bands, yes very nice. But if youre a heavy hitter like Railgunner, you could possibly send one out early and it would proc bands before you get a charged shot off, missing out on a lot of damage. IMO theyd be in "eh" cause theyre good for some characters but not great for others

[@rileychupp138]

I never thought id see the day. This does put a smile on my face.

[@makaalburnfanboy]

Seeing you sitting down has shattered my entire world.

[@druidofnosleep1513]

Reminder that the captain gauntlet record is better than every huntress gauntlet time.

[@ryank5350]

Very fun to listen to the talk through each shot. Excellent video as always Rick. Can't wait to see you take on Henrik Stenson!

[@meep2k]

bands don't have proc coefficients that's why they don't work with behemoth

[@lknight1266]

Why Woolie lookin kinda dreamy with his hair not pulled back

[@luhcsgrimm8857]

Woolies looking pretty handsome today, somthing with the hair

[@silentgaming5010]

safer spaces in the worst tear, guess this was made before the skip was found

[@USBYDProductions]

Didn't submit it yet cause its not wr, but I've gotten a run to be good enough for 5th, and have been doing a crazy amount of math the last couple days to determine all items' functional dps increases and the bare minimum to kill mithrix quickly and early. Unfortunately im up against that absurd captain run....so the goal is 19 min....

[@natekite7532]

I would really love to see an updated tierlist for eclipse 8 and the races! I played the game quite a bit, took a break just after survivors of the void, came back recently, and I feel like everything I know has been turned upside down. If you did another tierlist for eclipse, I'd definitely watch it!

[@LunaTulpa]

check out disputed origins video on eclipse 8, he covers evvvvveerrryyything that it seems like you need

[@phantom9312]

Woolie looking extra spicy with that new camera

[@lknight1266]

Only woolie would speedrun a speedrun item tierlist 😂

[@licious6033]

Forget the tierlist, Woolie looking like a snack ngl

[@mago474]

A Risk of Rain 2 tierlist??? At this time of year? In this part of KZbin? Localized entirely within your Channel??? May I see it?

[@personreadingthisblushinge835]

I'm a simple shrimple, I see ror2 tierlist I'm in.

[@LeToplache007]

Woolie catching onto the trend of instagram reels with having GTA V drifting footage over a Family Guy clip with this tierlist/stream gameplay footage mix.

[@grevist]

I will forever play melee mercenary

[@Snowy0428]

Just got transported back to 2020 Woolie

[@joshuamoniodis6555]

"Out of my mind." This is what a master of his craft looks like.

[@KujiArgisia]

“If you’re running melee mercenary… for some reason.” More damage doesn’t matter when the only reliable thing I did on ranged Merc runs are missing my slicing winds. Edit: I cant speedrun neither so there’s also that

[@BeaningtonHeinz]

Listen to him say yeyeyeyeye in x2 speed 25:21

[@derstick]

Behemoth is like 1.5 plasma shrimp, it will only proc off something that has a non-zero proc coefficient, so no band, sticky bomb or bleed procs for eg

[@junahsutton1602]

thank you, woolie gamer

[@Thatguy-rc2ei]

For a split second in the first second of the video, I thought he was Markaplier

[@witepeoplegames7961]

Another certified woolie classic

[@Shikafau]

Now for the longest Engineer run

[@frozi1541]

"Speed is war" -Mithrix, King of nothing.

[@StickyCat398]

Spare drone parts is still really, really good dps and getting it can result in a faster mithrix fight, less dangerous TP bosses, and arguably the strongest power spike you can get in the game.(Excluding Head-Set ofc) Edit: Even if you aren't picking up drones, getting empathy cores in combination with drone parts will give you a ridiculously good shot at a record if you have even a relatively good pace

[@dhaxiskhadhammer]

There's probably a lot of great niche combo's that are true. This list is clearly based on what's the most consistent.

[@StickyCat398]

@@dhaxiskhadhammer You are very much correct about this! Drone Parts empathy cores are a VERY niche combo, however, the great part about speedrunning, especially in roguelikes is that to win, you're gonna have to get a little bit lucky. Combined with the fact that you can use tricorn (if you find one) on AWU, you can guarantee empathy cores in quite a few drone parts runs. Also, before people start to complain about what I said, I'm not saying that Woolie's wrong. I'm just bringing up, that in some situations, drone parts can be extremely useful. I thought it might save some people from resetting if they get this as their red.

[@StickyCat398]

@@dhaxiskhadhammer Lmao, I think this proves my point kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpqQoqt-pr55ldE

[@Oblivion9873]

It doesn't make too much sense to have energy drink and goat hoof 2 tiers apart. If the argument is you only really want a couple in a speedrun, the movespeed diff between 2 energy drinks and 2 goat hoofs while sprinting (so not taking into consideration that using ballista and glaive will halt your sprinting) is a minimal amount (less than .7 speed. for reference, huntress' starting WALK speed is 7, her sprint speed is 10.15 at the start). Logically, therefore, either energy drink should be in "eh" or goat hoof should be in "eh". there's also the rare case of having quail+stompies+a handful of MS items to get a pillar skip without needing to take an equipment slot, but I understand that this is a very rare case in a speedrun environment

[@feller2028]

Missed opportunity to call it a "Moon Walk"

[@jarzz3601]

I guess this was before headstomper pillar skip was known

[@heronvitor6886]

i just realize that polylute has the same effect that ukulele in the original Risk of rain

[@DogsWithPurpose]

Top tier needed more “yea”s

[@danyaawiin]

Speedrun so fast he couldnt even hit the signature "HHEEELLLLOOOOOOOTHEREEE" intro

[@pwritten]

Bro got Subway surfers on the bottom

[@pon47k66]

This tierlist is so INCREDIBLY survivor biased its insane. You should have named it a Huntress gauntlet tierlist. The game changes so much when you try to speedrun on other survivors. (Btw top 1 and 2 on merc gauntlet are done with eviscerate so shame on you for thinking that range merc is better)

[@Me_Sean]

move perfected aspect up 1. You can get to the moon with a pillar skip(Specifically eccentric vase), and take a perfected aspect in the mythrix fight after makin the tunnel. 🤡

[@tripodman322]

Woolie it's been 6 years...please wake up....

[@ghostofdeth2864]

Is ukulele is so good how come there’s no ukulele 2 🤨

[@Anthaneus]

But der is though ☝️🤓

[@stephencharkoudian]

POLYLUTE BABY

[@KevElv]

You know that this is going to be good when Mr.Streamer is sitting down.

[@Rubyllim]

Woolie looks like he's slowly turning into markiplier

[@sal1764]

Huhhh??! What’s this?? WOOLIE SIT??!?11!

[@Marci568]

These tiers speak to me

[@7chicken]

just like what young man

[@myAngelKei]

thank you, might get wr later

[@nessnayr]

Would you ever make a mod item tier list?

[@arcubi487]

I think Behemoth is a total damage, since there is a funny interaction with behemoth and Lost Seers. Since Lost Seers sort of deals infinite damage, the behemoth's explosion is going to oneshot anything in it.

[@ToniFalck]

Its not total damage, however the lens has a synergy with behemoth because it allows you to hit more enemies

[@arcubi487]

@@ToniFalck oooh okay thanks :pp

[@SenpuuNoMa1]

What is this energy drink in A-tier, red whip in B-tier and goat hoof in F-tier? I'd argue it's AT LEAST comparable to red whip, probably better, since you're in combat 90% of the time anyway.

[@superninja4526]

Something something rambling man. Or however the song goes

[@brepi312]

woah.. ive never seen safer spaces that low

[@am-180]

bros lookin kinda fly

[@cast5439]

I LOVE TO HERE YOU RANT ON.

[@alextaylor3670]

Markiplier looks a little different in this video

[@BloodySteak]

I didnt know Markiplier was a risk of rain 2 speedrunner

[@MrHippoe]

I read the title and thought he was just ranking them really fast Oh and behemoth only activates on hits with a proc coefficient higher than 0. The bands have a proc coefficient of 0, and so does bleed

[@TruestAura]

i want curses like isaac, imagine curse of the blind, then they add items that can hurt ur run

[@dylana8788]

I wonder if the host skip changes this at all? At least void bear is better, but I bet the damage equipment gets a lot better too.

[@roznai]

1:52 for focus crystal am i wrong in thinkin that as engineer, with the lil following turrets that get your items, if you shoot something in their proximity to their focus crystal the damage buff applies?

[@blunot6941]

Idk how to feel about Wookiee putting a run at the bottom of the screen likes it’s a tiktok vid lmao

[@pseudocoffee4829]

On sniper, the laser scope does technically give 100% crit chance so there is that.

[@azelynhirano7737]

This tierlist is mainly for Huntress runs so there is that.

[@pseudocoffee4829]

@@azelynhirano7737 makes sense

[@titotortuga151]

Thank you for the video mr. Streamer, next time can you put subway surfers at the bottom instead of the risk of rain gameplay

[@Chupo69]

I love that you're making videos around this new speedrun category, hopefully we see an increase on interest and players

[@jamescalder1991]

If you see this Woolie keep the great content up man always love the vidssss

[@zyke612]

good video woolie :)

[@DaltonGoesSlow]

with the three 5% crit items, you still need 9 glasses for max. if laser scope gave 5% you could have only 8 crits. kinda annoying lol

[@R_TERRA916]

Ongezellig-🇳🇱

[@dahaut]

how did you manage to make eccentric vase look so green on the thumbnail lol

[@Mythicosis]

you look like keanu reaves

[@Aurora.Astralis]

Wait thats how you say creme de le creme