Another thing to note: while mid-leap from shift, you don't need to activate any other abilities because you're about to slam right into every enemy and kill them all.
Oddly enough, I got my Monsoon skin by playing heavy melee. When you can time your jump to spam lock enemies you can just maul the shit outa them while spamming your poisons. Super fun. Definitely my favorite character in the game
I sure did - however, I've said many, MANY times in other videos to ALWAYS sprint, so it isn't too big a deal imo. but I definitely shoulda mentioned, still
@@Samuel-yg1pn as well, there are 4 abilities (m1, m2, shift, r) so if you take them all thats all 4 abilities, really hoping it gets an alt character, but they might just leave you as-is.
Brain stalks plus guillotine on Acrid is one of the most broken combos in the game, it let's you continuously use your "r" and proc all your on hits while doing damage on the spread plus the dot.
I had that combo yesterday and i got my first long road on monsoon with it and obliterated on stage 24 cause i was so broken that it was getting boring
Hell, can you even consider Mercenary a melee character 'really' because typically with the dashes and invincibility frames, you might as well be far away?
@@AstralDragn id say he is the most melee. I use the mercenary m1 way more than the loader punches. Haven't done much with acrid though. Commando is more melee for me than loader, because i usually stay closer to the enemys with him. On loader my enemys are on the other side of the map.
Doesn't really make much sense. "Melee" doesn't mean the character has to be in the thick of battle, surviving a million enemies spamming m1. Both of these characters are definitely still melee. If you wanna get the maximum damage on a target with acrid, you will have to use your m1. Even if you aren't cheesing it by auto cancelling. Kinda ridiculous to insinuate that you should only be playing these characters as "ranged damage dealers" when anyone with a sliver of intuition knows that's not what that means...
@@Jackenack As said in video, if you are meleeing after 2 times through the stages, you are dead. Same with all the other "melee" characters, none of them are given the right tools to survive melee besides the mercenary
Acrid's default utility skill, the leap's acid pool it leaves on the ground, has a proc coefficient. this was left out of the vid so i hope people will see this :D
I fell in love with Acrid's playstyle in RoR1, and this new playstyle is somehow even funner. His leap is one of the funnest mechanics I've ever seen and it mauls BUTT like no booty warrior to have ever lived. His M2 and R are great additions for rounding out the moveset since, well, otherwise he'd get swarmed so bad by wisps and other flyers, as I've had happen so often with more sheerly melee characters like Mercenary.
Little Disciple is ridiculously strong on him, seeing as 3 of his 4 attacks don’t interrupt sprinting, you can just have it as basically a permanent 360 degree homing attack to protect you while you run.
A comment on 1.0: M1 is still sprint cancellable as far as I can tell but the third hit of your combo now deals double damage and heals you, making it more useful in some situations
Might be worth mentioning, I found that strides of heresy proves extraordinarily useful since most of your damage comes from poison, actively attacking isnt quite as needed so if you are midway through a run and can trade out the mobility of leap, the invincibility and healing from shadowfade has saved me many times. You can pretty much just slam an epidemic down and use shadowfade to dodge big/scary hits like malachites or like, vagrant nukes.
i like acrid, he's super cute and the play-style of just trouncing around smashing terminally ill beetles and lizards is fun enough. though i still find myself wanting for the sheer damage and mobility of loader, i really am addicted to those big beautiful fists
There are two cool mods that make Acrid into a more like tanky leeching character (like Warwick if you play league). The first one makes you heal up with your M1 if you poisoned the target and the second one simply enables the poison to deal the killing blow.
Yesterday I just won the game with Acrid meele, I had never tried it and it works better than I thought, I used the secondary m2 and I was able to defeat Mitrix without problems in "rainstorm" difficulty with 1 loop, then I will try it on " monsoon" (Poison also helped me, but I think they should scale it better, for the late game) I recommend these items: 1.Foreign Fruit. 2. Gesture of the Drowned. (Various) 3. Look Urn. 4. Radiant Pearl. 5. Unstable Tesla Coil. 6.Aegis. 7. Rejuvenation Rack. 8. Tri-Tip Dagger. 9. Ukulele. 10. Shattering Justice.
I think that Acrid works WONDERFULLY with movespeed, since if you have no damage the 2nd best thing is to be untouchable and completely murder and entire map just by pressing 1 button and not getting touched.
Something my friend and i found is that, even far into a run, gunner drones are actually pretty useful on acrid. Their damage doesn’t matter when everything’s at 1 health. It’s actually pretty viable to just poison everything and then let like 2 or 3 drones clean up what’s left.
None of Acrid's abilities save his M1 interrupt his sprint. Can sprint forever so long as you don't M1. Rose Buckler for Acrid is S tier for this reason
acrid is amazing with Purity, as it turns his spit into a primary attack with NO COOLDOWN (.5 second integral baagh) and you can reverse the negative effect of purity with a single clover if you decide to use on hitnon 100 %s (uke, meathook, atg, etc.) but acrid benefits from on kill without 100%s just as well.
Wich is actually super annoying due to muscle memory from other characters. Hope they change it for consistency (or just add an auto sprint option ;-) )
As acrid, if you get too many syringes, his melee actually bugs out and you get stuck with his first melee attack rather then the 3 hit combo sometimes.
i'd use the default leap mainly myself, it's more flexible in the terms of mobility and even though alt-leap just gets better & better post-loop the default one still does decent damage (your main damage is gonna come off pandemic on--hit procs anyway)
I do super enjoy playing him as a super brutal bos deleter by jumpin on them and whaling on them. But i find i struggle getting the health back to safely sustain it
Single item I look for the most is bleed chance, actually. I find that being able to get 100% bleed makes it so much easier to deal with wisps especially
I'd love to see a "masochist's guide to melee in Risk of Rain 2." To me, it seems unreasonable. I see that everyone says it's fun, but I'm not convinced they're not getting some sick pleasure from the agonizing pain. I tried mercenary, and just got frustrated with wisps, and pretty much just wisps alone. I haven't figured out how to effectively take them down, yet. I know the secondary can do a vertical slash that can help, but there's gotta be a more optimal solution to situations like that. Loader is the last survivor I have to unlock, and after unlocking her, I'd like to become decent with pretty much all of the survivors, but melee just seems so impossible. Would love to hear more about specifically playing melee and how people go about it, and how they get around the pain of just being unable to reach flying enemies half the time.
The poison leap ability can be stupidly good early game. Go into a boss, spam Shift 2x , and just m1 cancel all the way. But The frenzied leap is so good if you want to get around by chaining your jumps towards your enemy, then jumping away. You can get 3 jumps if you hit an enemy with each jump while you can only get 2 jumps if you want to go around. Aside from that, thanks for the tips Mister Streamer.
Hey Woolie, Visions of Heresy cooldown is affected by alien head. Attack speed lets you dump your stacks faster. Getting multiple Visions of Heresy also has no downside from what I can tell, each adding an additional 12 stacks before you need to reload. e.g. having 3 Visions of Heresy lets you fire 36 shots before you need to reload. The cool-down does not seem to be affected. If an enemy dies before all of their stacks explode, the remaining stacks shoot off of them in the direction relative to where it stuck, and then explode for their normal damage. This also appears to have a slightly larger explosion radius than normal. Fun bonus fact: If you play Engineer, Visions of Heresy also replaces the turrets primary auto attack. This is both hilarious, and highly damaging for bosses and high hp targets. Not so great for hordes of lesser wisps as you still need to wait for them to explode before they change targets, greatly reducing your effective dps. They also need to reload, leaving small pauses in their fire rate.
Watched this video after unlocking playing through a run with Acrid. Found out about the sprint cancel on my own, which means even now, they haven't patched that, lol
Found a crystal printer on stage 2 my first game as him and was downing every boss in 2-3 seconds with the 4-5 crystals I had. He is absolutely insane melee if you get the stuff for it. The poison aoe keeps shields so high. If you have aegis you will not die late game as long as you are fighting. At least not until it starts to only spawn bosses.
Brainstalks feels great with Visions. I just hope they fix the interaction with Bandolier (Only gives 1 stack and refreshes the cooldown, which would really hurt anyone running 2+ stacks of visions)
Using the tonic plus the shell thing and à transcendance actually makes Acrid’s melee viable, at least it did for me. I coucou of just tank up, press r and shift, then melee away as as wait for my abilities.
As someone who plays this game medium casual. What the fuck man? How does one person dedicate themselves so completely to helping people get better at such a seemingly simple Alpha game? You are a LEGEND and should be getting paid by Hopoo for how instrumental you are at disseminating info about this game.
I seen you mentioned something about being interested in Hades in one of your other videos. That game is pretty dang cool, I would love to see you make some videos on it I really like what you do.
We unlocked acrid for our group and started messing around. One guy found a Shrine of Order and popped it for shits and giggles. His items sucked, as you can very much guess. But on that same level we found a Focus Crystal Printer and then later we found a Guillotine printer... It was kinda stupid after that.
Jade Elephant is pretty much necessary to get any use out of melee acrid late game, but if you get it then he will SPIKE since you can more easily get those on-hit procs with meleespam and power crystals can finally get some use.
I think the visions of heresy is insane for acrid because the impact of the shards does like 1 damage but if you have a crowd of enemies on one-hit from the poison it will insta kill all of them
you go upward when you land a melee so you can do safe melee attacks late loop if you have high enough firing speed because you will hover at the top of the enemy
Personally, I try to get fresh meat and sustain items to go melee and stay melee and jump out if things start looking hairy... like a tanky lifedraining build. I've not played enough to say if ranged is more successful, but I still think it has been fun to just stay amidst a huge group and just claw everything. It does turn out into mostly ranged after second and third loop though- and definetely don't even think about meleeing imp overlords. Even if you're flying above their head, just don't. Also you can hold both left click and right click simultaneously. The right click doesn't interrupt the melee combo.
If you manage to get a Brainstalks (red) drop, and have decent survivability, and even one item that can finish off a poisoned target, Acrid becomes a nigh-unstoppable mob clearing machine. Get a chain going and that Epidemic is rarely ever going to be on cooldown.
All you need is a Hardlight afterburner and cooldown reduction. *AND THEN YOU JUST HOLD DOWN SHIFT TO LITERALLY JUMP EVERYWHERE AND ON EVERYONE* (use alternate jump to reduce need on cd reduc)
Even in RoR1 I found doing melee range to be kinda ballsy and relied more on his range skills so in all honesty it feels like he never changed, with the exemption of his utility skill leaving a trail of acid as he moved faster vs a pool of acid as he leaps and smashes the ground.
I just want to add a comment on a completely different topic. Stick your mines on beetle guards to give yourself kamikazes. Might also be an interesting synergy with the default mines, give them a chance to prime before sending them into battle on beetle back. Niche combo, but no more niche than getting rejuv rack with n'kuhana's.
it's so easy to loop with her, even on monsoon, you can play so far back and get so much done she's got range, one of the highest base damages in the game (from what i've heard), low cooldown AOE and single target abilities and decent mobility to boot even without any movement items only "negative" i could think is the average survivability (also a neat QoL update would be the size of the leap AOE/pool scaling with distance/height)
you can do well with acrid, even if behind, cause your main damage - poison - scales with mobs hp, rather than your items. All you have to do is run in circles and apply R and then just 1 kill while having some AOE item like gasoline.
Out of curiosity where is it said Acrid is a she? It doesn't say Acrid is a he anywhere either. I know it's not a big deal but these little things interest me a lot :>
like i said, i never was sure until i checked, its been years & years since i played the classic i can see this conversation derailing already so lets just end it here no?
no matter where I’m at in a run I can walk up to a stone titan or a beetle queen and destroy them with my melee. so I’ve had a surprising amount of success with melee doggo. but I will admit the poison is very good for aiding in that sweet sweet damage.
Acrid feels very good and a lot better than his ror1 version. Just watched this because i really like him. Didn’t think i‘d learn something new, but the M1 Cancel thing was absolutely worth it. I like the Merc skin best. Commando rank 2, rex recolor is ok, the others are just kinda lame
i have a question, i didnt see you mention that poison can critical strike? was that on purpose, or not? as crit poison does, well ya know, OVER 100 DAMAGE EVERY 3 TICKS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE GAME! which basically means... Ocular HUD kills bosses in about 0-10 secs, its very useful
From the future, they never fixed the animation cancelling...they enhanced it since now you can still make your attacks faster and it does all 3 animations so you get the heal. Based Hopoo
A melee character, with a damage over time mechanic themed like poison with a monster design? Im eating good tonight. (I know nothing about this game but my friend convinced me to buy it)
Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination And when he's tall He's what we call a dinosaur sensation Barney's friends are big and small They come from lots of places After school they meet to play And sing with happy faces Barney shows us lots of things Like how to play pretend ABC's, and 123's And how to be a friend Barney comes to play with us Whenever we may need him Barney can be your friend too If you just make-believe him!
Also, Brainstalks with acrid easily bumps it up from a B to an A if you are acrid, since acrids R is one of the only in the game that doesnt just reset itself if you use it twice while active (like how you cant have 2 pylons out at loader at the same time with brainstalks, but with acrid you can hold the button down and use it multiple times to rack up huge damage) Also Question on acrid, if you are getting to the point in the game where melee is essentially suicide should i take strides instead (assuming that I have visions already)
best skin 100% goes to commando. also personally i dont really like visions of heresy on huntress because you mostly lose the lock on that she has which can be annoying when youre trying to manage everything in her kit
Hay anyone else read the item vision of heresy talking about a being that was split in to 4 pieces? Here's some for shadowing I'm going to call right now that we will be getting the other two with in the next two updates and that the next character that will be unlocked by collecting all 4 at the same time and coinsadintly enough the next character unlock is two updates away. That of it will simply transform the character your using at the time and you can simply call it a extra character. My money is we get the M2 change next with the R being last.
Gotta say, I hope they hotfix that animation cancel out, the fact you need to crutch with it doesn't really tell me you really know he can be good with his melee, I do just find jumping in after sending out poisons getting some swipes off and jumping out or just keep jumping into bosses that you actually collide with to stay in the air with m1, you can use m2 and R WHILE swinging so it's just icing on the cake.
Could you please make a video on unlocking Rex's Dunked achievement and the mercenarys prismatic trial one, I know the trials change but I think itd be fun to see you do it again
When you get a dune Strider spawned finish the teleporter timer so there are no enemies spawning. Lure it close to one of the holes (The one in the open desert area is easier imo) Use your R against the side of the hole its close to. Then rush over and try to dunk it. Might need to redo the same step multiple times until its flung into the hole. For merc I can't give any advice though other than be mindful with your cooldowns, make a few runs to know which items you can find and prioritise topaz brooches at all costs. If the challenge lets you take the Preon go for it. Don't waste too much time on each map. Only collect the items which you don't have to backtrack a lot for and find the optimal crystals to destroy on your path to the teleporter. Also keep in mind the enemy spawns are always the same at the same time, depending on where you are on the map. It still took me multiple hours of actualy tries after I had worked out a route for me that seemed to work consistently.
I prefer the default shift because the field can take out enemies with only 1 hp left and can deal good damage to weaker enemies. Additionally, it is better for simple mobility, which is VERY important to gather items in the whole run, especially in the beginning. The 6 second cooldown makes it so worth it for me over the 10 second cooldown of the alt. (That isn't to say that the alt isn't insanely fun and effective on weak swarms though)
old video, but one thing that's absolutely ruining me to finding out about acrid that i just cannot seem to find the answer to anywhere: does his caustic leap stack? specifically the damage over time on his puddle. ex: of you stack 2 puddles in the same exact location, will the monsters standing in it take the double puddle damage over time? or just one? (i already know poison doesn't stack. and I'm not using blight)
I might be mistaken, but when I was playing Acrid it looked like the damage ticks from poison proc'd Leeching Seed. If I'm not crazy and that IS the case, it would be stupid good on Acrid. +1 HP (per stack) per hit while slowly smacking away at an enemy? Not great. +1 HP (per stack) per tick on a poisoned swarm of baddies? Now we're talking.
Mercenary has the best skin, it even adds in new textures to his character model. The only way I’d consider Commando better is if his visor had a skull painted on it like Raynor from Starcraft.
I'm not 100% sure but I'm like 90% sure, but I think leech seed is triggered by his poison as it's not an on hit effect, but rather just whenever you do damage
good thing Hopoo won't watch this video & put me in jail for the m1 spam
But they already saw u doing it on stream.... In fact your probably the reason it's gonna be patched so soon so way to go.....
You have the right to remain silent anything you do or say can be used against you hopoo take them away
as long as you dont show the fact that hellfire tincture proc's razorwire all will be well for my melee runs
@@curydude that's comin in the item tierlist :)
I'm sorry, but Hopoo mentioned yesterday in the Dev Thoughts 11 that they will "likely be fixing that"
One thing to note: while mid-leap from shift, you can’t activate any other abilities till you land.
Another thing to note: while mid-leap from shift, you don't need to activate any other abilities because you're about to slam right into every enemy and kill them all.
@@Paralellex Except flying enemies of which you cannot melee at all during the jump unlike mercenary.
@@dddmemaybe you can jump into them
Oddly enough, I got my Monsoon skin by playing heavy melee. When you can time your jump to spam lock enemies you can just maul the shit outa them while spamming your poisons. Super fun. Definitely my favorite character in the game
Aint that swell
Absolutely brother, i did the same thing. Lots of fun
How the hell do you get near Mithrix without getting immediately bonked to death?
@@pojinx at that point you just let your procs and use item (capacitor for me) do the work lol
Same here
You forgot to mention that you can use all abilities besides the melee while sprinting.
I sure did - however, I've said many, MANY times in other videos to ALWAYS sprint, so it isn't too big a deal imo. but I definitely shoulda mentioned, still
skulls for the skull throne,
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
Woolie i have literally never watched any of your other videos
@@RoxyRoomba MILK FOR THE CORN FLAKES
Ukulele actually works with them really well
The amount of times his R can bounce in a crowd makes it all the better to have such a solid aoe hit
Gone, Reduced to Atoms.... *Acrid snap*
I wonder how many Heresy items they will add. Maybe if you get all of them, you transform into a secret character? Maybe call it The Heretic?
In the description of visions, it says 4 parts
@@Samuel-yg1pn as well, there are 4 abilities (m1, m2, shift, r) so if you take them all thats all 4 abilities, really hoping it gets an alt character, but they might just leave you as-is.
I'd say it doesn't turn you into another character but it unlocks it for you
Giona Cantarutti I like both ideas...
Hi sorry for replying to a comment that's 6 months old but that's SO METAL. Awesome idea
Brain stalks plus guillotine on Acrid is one of the most broken combos in the game, it let's you continuously use your "r" and proc all your on hits while doing damage on the spread plus the dot.
I second brainstalks on Acrid. Turns r into the black plague and easily lets you escape or stunlock targets.
I had that combo yesterday and i got my first long road on monsoon with it and obliterated on stage 24 cause i was so broken that it was getting boring
So apparently to Woolie, 2 out of 3 melee characters are actually ranged characters.
Hell, can you even consider Mercenary a melee character 'really' because typically with the dashes and invincibility frames, you might as well be far away?
@@AstralDragn id say he is the most melee. I use the mercenary m1 way more than the loader punches. Haven't done much with acrid though. Commando is more melee for me than loader, because i usually stay closer to the enemys with him. On loader my enemys are on the other side of the map.
@@Z4ifir I think he was joking bud
Doesn't really make much sense. "Melee" doesn't mean the character has to be in the thick of battle, surviving a million enemies spamming m1. Both of these characters are definitely still melee. If you wanna get the maximum damage on a target with acrid, you will have to use your m1. Even if you aren't cheesing it by auto cancelling. Kinda ridiculous to insinuate that you should only be playing these characters as "ranged damage dealers" when anyone with a sliver of intuition knows that's not what that means...
@@Jackenack As said in video, if you are meleeing after 2 times through the stages, you are dead. Same with all the other "melee" characters, none of them are given the right tools to survive melee besides the mercenary
Acrid's default utility skill, the leap's acid pool it leaves on the ground, has a proc coefficient. this was left out of the vid so i hope people will see this :D
Acrid was my fav character from the first game. I feel like they didn’t quite do caustic sludge justice.
I agree :(
I fell in love with Acrid's playstyle in RoR1, and this new playstyle is somehow even funner. His leap is one of the funnest mechanics I've ever seen and it mauls BUTT like no booty warrior to have ever lived. His M2 and R are great additions for rounding out the moveset since, well, otherwise he'd get swarmed so bad by wisps and other flyers, as I've had happen so often with more sheerly melee characters like Mercenary.
Little Disciple is ridiculously strong on him, seeing as 3 of his 4 attacks don’t interrupt sprinting, you can just have it as basically a permanent 360 degree homing attack to protect you while you run.
I feel like Acrid has crazy potential with a Death Mark because of his r spreading (given you have the items required to reach 4 debuffs)
A comment on 1.0: M1 is still sprint cancellable as far as I can tell but the third hit of your combo now deals double damage and heals you, making it more useful in some situations
Might be worth mentioning, I found that strides of heresy proves extraordinarily useful since most of your damage comes from poison, actively attacking isnt quite as needed so if you are midway through a run and can trade out the mobility of leap, the invincibility and healing from shadowfade has saved me many times. You can pretty much just slam an epidemic down and use shadowfade to dodge big/scary hits like malachites or like, vagrant nukes.
i like acrid, he's super cute and the play-style of just trouncing around smashing terminally ill beetles and lizards is fun enough. though i still find myself wanting for the sheer damage and mobility of loader, i really am addicted to those big beautiful fists
There are two cool mods that make Acrid into a more like tanky leeching character (like Warwick if you play league). The first one makes you heal up with your M1 if you poisoned the target and the second one simply enables the poison to deal the killing blow.
Alt shift is so fun spamming into a group of enemies past first loop
I really like playing Acrid and I'd love to officially main him, hoping to find some helpful tips here!
Yesterday I just won the game with Acrid meele, I had never tried it and it works better than I thought, I used the secondary m2 and I was able to defeat Mitrix without problems in "rainstorm" difficulty with 1 loop, then I will try it on " monsoon" (Poison also helped me, but I think they should scale it better, for the late game)
I recommend these items:
1.Foreign Fruit.
2. Gesture of the Drowned. (Various)
3. Look Urn.
4. Radiant Pearl.
5. Unstable Tesla Coil.
6.Aegis.
7. Rejuvenation Rack.
8. Tri-Tip Dagger.
9. Ukulele.
10. Shattering Justice.
Acrid is a good boy, change my mind.
I think that Acrid works WONDERFULLY with movespeed, since if you have no damage the 2nd best thing is to be untouchable and completely murder and entire map just by pressing 1 button and not getting touched.
Acrid Meat
So... acrid + fresh meat or the other thing?
@@Joryho both
Something my friend and i found is that, even far into a run, gunner drones are actually pretty useful on acrid. Their damage doesn’t matter when everything’s at 1 health. It’s actually pretty viable to just poison everything and then let like 2 or 3 drones clean up what’s left.
We know you grew a mustache for your new project and now you're trying to do reshoots and CGI it out, don't lie to us
None of Acrid's abilities save his M1 interrupt his sprint. Can sprint forever so long as you don't M1.
Rose Buckler for Acrid is S tier for this reason
oh thank you
acrid is amazing with Purity, as it turns his spit into a primary attack with NO COOLDOWN (.5 second integral baagh) and you can reverse the negative effect of purity with a single clover if you decide to use on hitnon 100 %s (uke, meathook, atg, etc.) but acrid benefits from on kill without 100%s just as well.
I think a simple fix to make his Melee attack better would be to make it like the first game and let his primary do some poison damage as well
also it only does 1 swipe for me, never the 3 hit combo
Also, when sprinting, using the leap won't remove your sprint afterwards.
Wich is actually super annoying due to muscle memory from other characters. Hope they change it for consistency (or just add an auto sprint option ;-) )
As acrid, if you get too many syringes, his melee actually bugs out and you get stuck with his first melee attack rather then the 3 hit combo sometimes.
Acrid is also not a bad choice for buying drones with, as they can finish off weak enemies that you aren't paying attention to anymore.
Which leap ability do you prefer? And why?
i'd use the default leap mainly myself, it's more flexible in the terms of mobility and even though alt-leap just gets better & better post-loop the default one still does decent damage (your main damage is gonna come off pandemic on--hit procs anyway)
default due to more mobility. don't need it for the dmg
I’ve used both default is definitely better in more scenarios but Alt shouldn’t be neglected or never used
Ok so... New guy here.... There are alternate habilities?!
@@phoos4029 there's character challenges in the logbook, once you complete one it will unlock an option in the character's load out.
I do super enjoy playing him as a super brutal bos deleter by jumpin on them and whaling on them. But i find i struggle getting the health back to safely sustain it
Same. Did you figure out a method to deal with the health?
Single item I look for the most is bleed chance, actually. I find that being able to get 100% bleed makes it so much easier to deal with wisps especially
I'd love to see a "masochist's guide to melee in Risk of Rain 2." To me, it seems unreasonable. I see that everyone says it's fun, but I'm not convinced they're not getting some sick pleasure from the agonizing pain. I tried mercenary, and just got frustrated with wisps, and pretty much just wisps alone. I haven't figured out how to effectively take them down, yet. I know the secondary can do a vertical slash that can help, but there's gotta be a more optimal solution to situations like that. Loader is the last survivor I have to unlock, and after unlocking her, I'd like to become decent with pretty much all of the survivors, but melee just seems so impossible. Would love to hear more about specifically playing melee and how people go about it, and how they get around the pain of just being unable to reach flying enemies half the time.
0:37 my mouth when im explaining why Poison Doggo is the best waifu
The poison leap ability can be stupidly good early game. Go into a boss, spam Shift 2x , and just m1 cancel all the way. But The frenzied leap is so good if you want to get around by chaining your jumps towards your enemy, then jumping away. You can get 3 jumps if you hit an enemy with each jump while you can only get 2 jumps if you want to go around. Aside from that, thanks for the tips Mister Streamer.
Hey Woolie,
Visions of Heresy cooldown is affected by alien head. Attack speed lets you dump your stacks faster.
Getting multiple Visions of Heresy also has no downside from what I can tell, each adding an additional 12 stacks before you need to reload. e.g. having 3 Visions of Heresy lets you fire 36 shots before you need to reload. The cool-down does not seem to be affected.
If an enemy dies before all of their stacks explode, the remaining stacks shoot off of them in the direction relative to where it stuck, and then explode for their normal damage. This also appears to have a slightly larger explosion radius than normal.
Fun bonus fact: If you play Engineer, Visions of Heresy also replaces the turrets primary auto attack. This is both hilarious, and highly damaging for bosses and high hp targets. Not so great for hordes of lesser wisps as you still need to wait for them to explode before they change targets, greatly reducing your effective dps. They also need to reload, leaving small pauses in their fire rate.
Watched this video after unlocking playing through a run with Acrid. Found out about the sprint cancel on my own, which means even now, they haven't patched that, lol
I like sticky bombs because the slight delay gives the poison a chance to work, increasing the chances they'll finish the enemy off.
I think if they made the radius of the slime dot-trap area a bit bigger, then Acrid would be perfect.
Found a crystal printer on stage 2 my first game as him and was downing every boss in 2-3 seconds with the 4-5 crystals I had. He is absolutely insane melee if you get the stuff for it. The poison aoe keeps shields so high. If you have aegis you will not die late game as long as you are fighting. At least not until it starts to only spawn bosses.
7:46 what he is saying lines up eerily well with the facecam it jumpscared me
Brainstalks feels great with Visions. I just hope they fix the interaction with Bandolier (Only gives 1 stack and refreshes the cooldown, which would really hurt anyone running 2+ stacks of visions)
What's visions?
Using the tonic plus the shell thing and à transcendance actually makes Acrid’s melee viable, at least it did for me. I coucou of just tank up, press r and shift, then melee away as as wait for my abilities.
I love acrid because he's a monster doggo and his crowd control is good and I like playing as characters that slap the shit out of enemies
As someone who plays this game medium casual.
What the fuck man?
How does one person dedicate themselves so completely to helping people get better at such a seemingly simple Alpha game?
You are a LEGEND and should be getting paid by Hopoo for how instrumental you are at disseminating info about this game.
You should also point out that all his abilities exept M1 can be used while sprinting, even shift does not cancel your sprint
Cool vid btw
I seen you mentioned something about being interested in Hades in one of your other videos. That game is pretty dang cool, I would love to see you make some videos on it I really like what you do.
I may make some content on it in the near future :) right now, RoR2 is gonna keep me quite busy, tho
Interesting that you suggest a range build for arcid. When I played with my friends, we fed acrid focus crystals, other melee items and aoe items too
We unlocked acrid for our group and started messing around. One guy found a Shrine of Order and popped it for shits and giggles. His items sucked, as you can very much guess. But on that same level we found a Focus Crystal Printer and then later we found a Guillotine printer... It was kinda stupid after that.
Jade Elephant is pretty much necessary to get any use out of melee acrid late game, but if you get it then he will SPIKE since you can more easily get those on-hit procs with meleespam and power crystals can finally get some use.
I noticed that red whip was NOT CANCELLING when I took damage from ENEMIES. It's not just fall damage as you said in a recent video.
Yeah, red whip is actually viable. Woolie is pepege
yep, I will fix this when I put out my item tierlist :)
I think the visions of heresy is insane for acrid because the impact of the shards does like 1 damage but if you have a crowd of enemies on one-hit from the poison it will insta kill all of them
Oh god his alt skin looks like something out of Spore.
you go upward when you land a melee so you can do safe melee attacks late loop if you have high enough firing speed because you will hover at the top of the enemy
Personally, I try to get fresh meat and sustain items to go melee and stay melee and jump out if things start looking hairy... like a tanky lifedraining build.
I've not played enough to say if ranged is more successful, but I still think it has been fun to just stay amidst a huge group and just claw everything. It does turn out into mostly ranged after second and third loop though- and definetely don't even think about meleeing imp overlords. Even if you're flying above their head, just don't.
Also you can hold both left click and right click simultaneously. The right click doesn't interrupt the melee combo.
If you manage to get a Brainstalks (red) drop, and have decent survivability, and even one item that can finish off a poisoned target, Acrid becomes a nigh-unstoppable mob clearing machine. Get a chain going and that Epidemic is rarely ever going to be on cooldown.
All you need is a Hardlight afterburner and cooldown reduction.
*AND THEN YOU JUST HOLD DOWN SHIFT TO LITERALLY JUMP EVERYWHERE AND ON EVERYONE*
(use alternate jump to reduce need on cd reduc)
Even in RoR1 I found doing melee range to be kinda ballsy and relied more on his range skills so in all honesty it feels like he never changed, with the exemption of his utility skill leaving a trail of acid as he moved faster vs a pool of acid as he leaps and smashes the ground.
I like the fact that every move you make the sfx is that of a real horse lol
i love rex's new push ability
Also, for Visions of Heresy, you don't have to use the full clip before it reloads. It just starts reloading the moment you stop using it.
(Though I don't see why not just pewpew the entire clip haha)
Can't wait for you to get 1M+ subs and still promise to read all comments :) nice vid as always tho and thanks!
"Best AOE in the game"
Laser Glaive: SWEATS PROFUSELY
Coming from a Huntress main, he wasn't wrong, laser glaive doesn't jump to 20 peeps, no items were mentioned.
Acrid is viable with just speed items. Fight me.
No you're right
Ayy, the caustic beast came back from the rain, this is gonna be awesome
I just want to add a comment on a completely different topic. Stick your mines on beetle guards to give yourself kamikazes. Might also be an interesting synergy with the default mines, give them a chance to prime before sending them into battle on beetle back. Niche combo, but no more niche than getting rejuv rack with n'kuhana's.
An item you always take, is 57 leaf clover.
Not because it is good, but because it looks adorable.
(But it is still very good.)
thanks for the video really helped me +1 subscriber lol. Gonna try my best at melee doggo ill let you know how that goes if I see you on twitch.
Question, what's your opinion on blight, and which of the 2 do you think is better?
it's so easy to loop with her, even on monsoon, you can play so far back and get so much done
she's got range, one of the highest base damages in the game (from what i've heard), low cooldown AOE and single target abilities and decent mobility to boot even without any movement items
only "negative" i could think is the average survivability
(also a neat QoL update would be the size of the leap AOE/pool scaling with distance/height)
you can do well with acrid, even if behind, cause your main damage - poison - scales with mobs hp, rather than your items. All you have to do is run in circles and apply R and then just 1 kill while having some AOE item like gasoline.
Out of curiosity where is it said Acrid is a she? It doesn't say Acrid is a he anywhere either. I know it's not a big deal but these little things interest me a lot :>
not sure but i think people caught wind somehow that acrid is a she, was from ROR1 iirc, wiki states acrid is an "it", though i digress
What are you talking about? Acrid is gender non binary...
like i said, i never was sure until i checked, its been years & years since i played the classic
i can see this conversation derailing already so lets just end it here no?
Only grab visions of heresy if you're planning on Looping
no matter where I’m at in a run I can walk up to a stone titan or a beetle queen and destroy them with my melee. so I’ve had a surprising amount of success with melee doggo. but I will admit the poison is very good for aiding in that sweet sweet damage.
Acrid feels very good and a lot better than his ror1 version.
Just watched this because i
really like him. Didn’t think i‘d learn something new, but the M1 Cancel thing was absolutely worth it.
I like the Merc skin best. Commando rank 2, rex recolor is ok, the others are just kinda lame
i ironically liked the old rex skin the second one the most
i have a question, i didnt see you mention that poison can critical strike? was that on purpose, or not? as crit poison does, well ya know, OVER 100 DAMAGE EVERY 3 TICKS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE GAME! which basically means... Ocular HUD kills bosses in about 0-10 secs, its very useful
Poison is unaffected by crit, as it has no proc coefficient.
You can use secondary while sprinting by the way
From the future, they never fixed the animation cancelling...they enhanced it since now you can still make your attacks faster and it does all 3 animations so you get the heal. Based Hopoo
A melee character, with a damage over time mechanic themed like poison with a monster design? Im eating good tonight. (I know nothing about this game but my friend convinced me to buy it)
I miss REX's alt skin from before, I liked the contrast of color
It'd be Pog if we get the Scepter again just to have Pandemic, just imagine poison flying fucking everywhere
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Also, Brainstalks with acrid easily bumps it up from a B to an A if you are acrid, since acrids R is one of the only in the game that doesnt just reset itself if you use it twice while active (like how you cant have 2 pylons out at loader at the same time with brainstalks, but with acrid you can hold the button down and use it multiple times to rack up huge damage)
Also Question on acrid, if you are getting to the point in the game where melee is essentially suicide should i take strides instead (assuming that I have visions already)
I like to use the black hole to group up the enemies and use the r ability and use the shift to finish them off
best skin 100% goes to commando. also personally i dont really like visions of heresy on huntress because you mostly lose the lock on that she has which can be annoying when youre trying to manage everything in her kit
Hay anyone else read the item vision of heresy talking about a being that was split in to 4 pieces? Here's some for shadowing I'm going to call right now that we will be getting the other two with in the next two updates and that the next character that will be unlocked by collecting all 4 at the same time and coinsadintly enough the next character unlock is two updates away. That of it will simply transform the character your using at the time and you can simply call it a extra character. My money is we get the M2 change next with the R being last.
Great video as always. Btw guess what type of Bullets engineer turrets shoot when you pick that lunar item that makes you shoot lasers ^^
Gotta say, I hope they hotfix that animation cancel out, the fact you need to crutch with it doesn't really tell me you really know he can be good with his melee, I do just find jumping in after sending out poisons getting some swipes off and jumping out or just keep jumping into bosses that you actually collide with to stay in the air with m1, you can use m2 and R WHILE swinging so it's just icing on the cake.
Could you please make a video on unlocking Rex's Dunked achievement and the mercenarys prismatic trial one, I know the trials change but I think itd be fun to see you do it again
When you get a dune Strider spawned finish the teleporter timer so there are no enemies spawning. Lure it close to one of the holes (The one in the open desert area is easier imo) Use your R against the side of the hole its close to. Then rush over and try to dunk it. Might need to redo the same step multiple times until its flung into the hole.
For merc I can't give any advice though other than be mindful with your cooldowns, make a few runs to know which items you can find and prioritise topaz brooches at all costs. If the challenge lets you take the Preon go for it. Don't waste too much time on each map. Only collect the items which you don't have to backtrack a lot for and find the optimal crystals to destroy on your path to the teleporter. Also keep in mind the enemy spawns are always the same at the same time, depending on where you are on the map.
It still took me multiple hours of actualy tries after I had worked out a route for me that seemed to work consistently.
@@gosucab944 Thanks man, I got Rex's done but now i'm working on merc, appreciate you
Thoughts on alt shift vs. the default one?
I prefer the default shift because the field can take out enemies with only 1 hp left and can deal good damage to weaker enemies. Additionally, it is better for simple mobility, which is VERY important to gather items in the whole run, especially in the beginning. The 6 second cooldown makes it so worth it for me over the 10 second cooldown of the alt.
(That isn't to say that the alt isn't insanely fun and effective on weak swarms though)
The alt is bigger and does more damage, but the original is better for items
old video, but one thing that's absolutely ruining me to finding out about acrid that i just cannot seem to find the answer to anywhere: does his caustic leap stack? specifically the damage over time on his puddle. ex: of you stack 2 puddles in the same exact location, will the monsters standing in it take the double puddle damage over time? or just one? (i already know poison doesn't stack. and I'm not using blight)
yup! it stacks
@@Woolie damn you weren't kidding that you read every comment. 2 years later.
By the way stacking brooches is insane since you can't kill enemies really fast with poison and melee
Melee doggo is indeed, best doggo
I might be mistaken, but when I was playing Acrid it looked like the damage ticks from poison proc'd Leeching Seed. If I'm not crazy and that IS the case, it would be stupid good on Acrid.
+1 HP (per stack) per hit while slowly smacking away at an enemy? Not great.
+1 HP (per stack) per tick on a poisoned swarm of baddies? Now we're talking.
Nobody is gonna talk about the fact that you can spit while slashing with Akrid?
Mercenary has the best skin, it even adds in new textures to his character model. The only way I’d consider Commando better is if his visor had a skull painted on it like Raynor from Starcraft.
emile form haloreach got skull carved out on his helmet
Yeah, or that, skulls on visors are badass
Could you revisit this? Maybe discuss the other ability’s, or at least what’s your opinion on blight
Three years later and can still AC his primary 😁
I'm not 100% sure but I'm like 90% sure, but I think leech seed is triggered by his poison as it's not an on hit effect, but rather just whenever you do damage
7 months ago, still can sprint cancel 😁