He really hit us with the Planula jumpscare. No intro or anything

Ok, i get where the steak criticism comes from. However, when Acrid gets it, he holds it very cutely in his mouth

"It requires a good computer to be viable" most risk of rain 2 sentence ever

I've found exactly one use for Stone Flux, and it's super niche - in late simulacrum runs, or after many loops, eventually you'll pick up so many movement items that your speed becomes uncontrollable. Especially on ion surge Arti, where upwards mobility directly scales with MS. SFP becomes an emergency brake that can get you back under control quickly. Is scraping items better? Oh absolutely. But hey, technically a use.

I know I'm late to the party on this one, but Topaz Brooche actually synergizes with Aegis. The more brooches you have, the slower your barrier decays.

I always saw Stoneflux Pauldron as a solution to those loop runs where you have 105 goat hoofs and 87 energy drinks and are too fast to know whats going on, it’s also a big funny using it it with transcendence if you crave being an entire unit

It'd be cool to see this same format for the strongest skills in the game. love the lighthearted, but still informative take you have with these vids! Good shit grandpa

In simalacrum a lepton dazy or two is actually kinda good since the teleporter event is each wave of enemies for that mode.

Everyone mentions Stone Flux Pauldron for lategame but theres an unmentioned secret that either doesn't exist anymore or is really funny. Stone Flux seems to reduce your friction as well, once I had 18 (dont ask how) and I was able to ice skate using Railgunners primary. Fun times...

i like how one of the most recognizably, commonly agreed on worst items in ror2 before survivors of the void instantly became somewhat beloved and found out to be genuinely useful in a ton of situations, its the one and only, corpsebloom

stone flux pauldron has 1 use, when the run goes on for SO long and your character is so fast that you can barely control them anymore. thats it

I’d say the only use case for Void Bands is in multiplayer if one person is running loader, railgunner, or artificer and as such is snagging every band.

I think it's because Opinion CAN be used to carry, but you HAVE to find a fungus printer appear mid game or later when you have 10+ white items. Eventually each heal from fungus will heal over 100% hp per tick, and have a huge area, so you place your turrets down overlapping, as well as yourself if you're safe to sit still. So then every tick from each of the 3 fungus circles gives 10+ green orbs (one for every 10% of your HP when you are getting heals over 100% of your hp). So every tick of healing sends out 30+ orbs from each turret and yourself. Having an additional utility charge to have constant uptime of bubble shield truly gives an afk run.

I love learning how bad some items truly are in this game. "The healing flower only activates once per teleporter event" hitting as hard as when I learned "Oh yeah cautious slug just gives a flat +3 health regen per stack it does not scale."

I'd argue that void band has it's uses in certain builds. it's a large AOE that pulls everything together so that you can hit them with another AOE. if you have stuff like will-o-wisp or Sawmerang, you could probably benefit from it about as much as you'd benefit from fire and ice bands, and while it's true that it scales slower, you get 2x the amount of them because they corrupt both bands, so it's scaling isn't the worst. I still agree it's not great because you can just use the blackhole equipment, it opens up some combos that you couldn't do before due to blackhole taking the equipment slot, like the afermentioned Sawmerang, or perhaps forgive me please.

bro really did his april fools video late

I love me some planula. Imagine healing from fire damage, or hellfire tincture.

I actually really like the harpoon, especially with characters like railgunners, you one shot and get a small burst of speed to escape until your railgun recharges

Im a engineer player, aegis is one of the best reds in the game to me. It makes it so I can stand still next to my bungus turrets and eat crayons more effectively. (Same with N'kuhanas :) )

I get that he has the disrespect for healing cuz of his eclipse addiction, but N’Kuhana’s + Stoneflux Pauldron is probably one of my favorite combos in the game, you get a rejuve rack and some consistent healing like Wungus and you have a recipe for death on all directions. It plays quite slow but you can get some movement ups that can counteract the slowness and you don’t even really need to dodge since everything dies on spawning. It’s not good in eclipse, but you can loop in Monsoon for some huge fun and become an unkillable beast that constantly shoots skulls dealing damage based on your 20-40k health. Bonus is that this build combos well with Aegis and some of the other looked down on items in this video like bison steak. With 3 Pauldrons you get +200 hp per bison steak. It also scales well with stuff like PSG and infusion which are both generally rated lowly.

i would also say that aegis is at least really nice on super long, looped runs where you have way more healing than topaz brooch can give you, especially against mythrix, and it also is amazing to stack whereas some other good reds aren’t really useful to stack like behemoth, head stompers, alien head, etc. Aegis is often useless but it allows for a LOT of otherwise unobtainable builds

Leeching seed is very good with engie's laser turrets. Very high fire rate allows them to regen quickly even with single copy of item.

I'm kinda surprised Bison Steak made the list and Infusion didn't when Infusion is basically 4 Bison Steaks in a green trenchcoat.

From what I can remember, the stone flux pauldron actually restores the one shot immunity if you have a shaped glass so that’s decent ig

One run I found first item: Aegis. Second item: Desk plant with engi. It was really fun. I also got a second aegis shortly after and even one of those things that doubles healing like 5 items later. I still agree its one of the worst items but can be fun sometimes-.

Planula has many synergies in general that work throughout the game. Razorwire + Hellfire Tincture + Planula allows every survivor to become a ball of death. A few stacks of razorwire allows you to hit enemies from quite a ways away, and it even has solid proc and on-hit scaling, meaning bleeds and proc chains are excellent on them. This isn't the hardest synergy to get online either. Planula is also disproportionally good on survivors with armor. Eg, powermode Mul-T can facetank the vast majority of the game with a planula and all of his armor. This also works very well with Acrid and Loader or while using the rose bucklers. The gravity bands are survivor dependent. On Rex, I really like it for pulling enemies together before I use my ulty on the enemies. It's very solid. It can do a lot of work on commando as well. It's awful on a lot of other survivors, however. One really powerful use of Lepton's daisy is with Corpsebloom. It doubles the heal but it also disperses it out over 5 seconds, making it a powerful regen aura versus an instantaneous heal. It can also store the healing until you take damage again. Imo, it's very powerful in the early game. I like this with Strides of Heresy for making survivors infinitely more survivable. Stone Flux Pauldron is extremely powerful with the correct survivor. If you get a ton of mobility, it can be useful for slowing your character down. Obviously, that's an edge case. I've used it to great effect with the Loader, Acrid, and Mul-T power mode with a transcendence. It's multiplicative with that and the spinel tonic. You can easily facetank enemies even at level 99 malachites with that combo.

I dunno, Planula, aegis, and a bunch of repulsor plates do mesh nicely on REX, leeching seeds on power mode MUL-T with twin nailguns, and n'kuhana's with medikits and some periodic intentional damage.

The title made me rethink my choices artifact of command runs

I think a list for eclipse 8 and 1 for monsoon would be a good idea because eclipse is nothing like the rest of the game in terms of how well some items perform

WHY DID THEY BUFF GRANDPARENT AND NOT PLANULA😭😭😭

stoneflux is great if you're on over two hour run and took all the movement speed you found. or used order shrine. that's the only use.

I like the no intro BS. Straight to the meat.

I appreciate the breakdown on why leeching seed is bad. I have somehow never read the description to realize that it worked like that. Everyone knows how health leech works, and it's not a straight +1 hp per hit! Good work me, undermining all my own runs!

Sometimes I choose to pick a Singularity Band, but I only do that when I’m playing with a friend and decide to feed him every green band that we encounter. A worse band is still better than no bands, and it has a good synergy with The Captain’s probes.

Mul-T's buzzsaw has such a fast hit rate and can be used while sprinting with buckler, so the leeching seed can actually mitigate a bunch of damage. Very narrow, but effective if you want to play RIP AND TEAR Mul-T.

As an engineer main i take great offense to N'kuhana's opinion. It hits enemies through walls, wich is gimmicky, but can keep you safer than normal.

I found SFP useful for Rex's challenge where you have to heal however much in one go. I used command to stack up medkits and stacked SFPs at the bazaar. It was pretty painful though, and I had to get a vase to provide some movement.

singularity band actually works insanely well with rail gunner since when enemies are pulled closer it makes lining them up a cakewalk meaning you can land insane damage with the piercing attacks

I still think N'kuhana is a bit overlooked, it just requires a proper setup. Just recently I had a crazy run where I formed Heretic rather early, and since her bas HP and HP gain is huge, I combined N'kuhana with several Wungi, Corpsebloom and got lucky with two Rejuvenation Racks. Oh, and some Plasma Shrimp and shield generators for some more proc coefficient and increasing my combined max hp, which N'kuhana depends on. After collecting several crit glasses all enemies started dying just because I kept running around. I was hitting for AT LEAST 2.5k per skull. At some point it became difficult to kill enemies with my normal skills because N'kuhana kept triggering from leftover healing that Corpsebloom stored.

2 Aegis combined with 40 medkits is an instant 100% barrier ( 50% overheal + 50% overheal = 100% overheal) + ( 40 medkits = 200% health ) = 100% barrier + 100% health on taking a hit (getting hit is what causes the medkit to activate) Obviously not going to get this on a normal run but it's possible with command and bazaar visits

me at 6:12 banging my fist at the screen yelling "NOOOO" like my favourite character just died in a movie

I agree with most of the list, if I had to replace one though idk which one it would be, but I'd replace one spot on the list for wake of vultures. WoV is honestly worse than just getting red scrap because especially in base eclipse, if you were to kill an overloading elite. It actually hurts you because it'll put your health back at half hp when the effect runs out. Besides that, the list is great. Love the videos

I think the case where Singularity Band’s Proc Coefficient stands out is with AOE items like Sticky Bomb, Sentient Meat Hook, Ukulele, Brilliant Behemoth, Voidsent Flame and Wisp, and Gas. The fact it can group a ton of enemies up and then activate those items can allow for greatly increased damage to all of them the more enemies there are. If it procs even 2 sticky bombs, that’s more damage to everything sucked in than Kjaro’s band deals, and sticky bombs are a white item! The 20 second cooldown still hurts, but it has a place with the right build.

What music is playing in the beginning? It's so nostalgic for some reason.

"Lepton is bad" people who use drones: people who actually activate the mithrix pillars: people who charge the cells in void fields:

Counterpoint for aeiges Transcendence makes all of your max health shield, making all (except psg) useless, unless you have aegis. It makes every healing item and drone useful (except medkits and leach seed)

What if Aegis also had a bonus to slow barrier decay, I bet that would make it a much better option. Something like: "Healing past full grants you a temporary barrier for 100% (+100% per stack) of the amount you healed. Barrier lasts 100% longer."

unironically best intro ever

Void Fields gave me an appreciation for Planula since the DLC. Suddenly turned the level from "oh god, where the heck is the next point" to basically before the DLC. Awesome for Artifact of Sacrifice runs and loops, at least for Monsoon and lower.

Stone flux pauldron is actually quite useful four hours into a run when you're so fast you genuinely cannot control your character

Stoneflux is so that when you're looping and have way too much movesoeed you can slow back down. It also doesn't do that well because increaseing your HP can do weird things to the one hit protection and healing back out of it.

get forgive me please and interstellar plant (or just monster teeth) with some gestures, and a soul bound catalyst, nkuhanas opinion will be very epic

Objection in defense of the steak: On acrid specifically, you want one! Just because he carries it in his mouth and poison doggo deserves a treat.

TL;DW: 0:00 #10: Planula 0:52 #9: Aegis 2:44 #8: Leaching Seed 3:43 #7: Bison Steak 4:36 #6: Defense Nucleus 5:17 #5: N'kuhana's Opinion 6:31 #4: Lepton Daisy 7:38 #3: Hunter's Harpoon 8:40 #2: Singularity Band 10:24 #1: Stoneflux Pauldron

Thanks for the Tips man I'll make sure not to make the same mistakes now

The void field item, the alternate kjaros band and runald does do damage after closing. The portal closes, hurting anything in the portal.

Singularity band is basically just a band for people who still don't haven't unlocked it because they have no friends and also don't play any of the characters where you can unlock it with one player

I love doing silly healing builds with harvesters aegis wungus and N’Kuhanas, that is the only reason I like these two reds and they really do work… literally just here.

Stone flux counterpoint: it resets your movement speed back to acceptable levels when they get out of hand during long runs. Rather than avoid the extra movement speed items, you get to double your health for free

If you’re grandpa does that mean Cap is grandma?

Ok theres actually a hidden upside to the steak... Acrid has it in his mouth and he looks precious :)

Me and my 3 friends were going to beat the game one time. The only person left was a Mul-T.... with a stone flux pauldron. Needless to say he blew up.

The one item that spawns the little triangles i used it and had like 15 of those guys my screen was filled lmao

I had this run a few years back where I managed to find not one but TWO aegis by stage 2 which provided me precisely zero utility lmao still haunts me that I could’ve had some kind of god run had it been any other red items

as good as normal bands are, void-bands are decent with mercenary. it helps pull in all flying enemies in an area and makes them incredibly easy to kill all at once.

I had an amazing run once that relied on 3 items that are on this list… I was playing railgunner and picked up an aegis pretty early in a run and then was able to get a stack of 10+ weeping fungus along with N’kuhanas and stone flux. Characters like Rex and railgunner can move just as far with their movement abilities when they are slow, so I was still able to survive pretty easily, and it was basically impossible to die when my health was almost always at about 5k. Also how is squid polyp not in this list lmao

Ohh thanks for clearing it up! Dude im a new player and i got the brooch and the aegis in seperate runs and i was LITERALLY saying "this just feels like the brooch but worse, but its a red item so it must be better right? Maybe im just using it wrong." Thanks for proving i WASNT using it wrogn

Lepton Daisy can also potentially make blood pillars easier, especially if you're lacking any kind of meaningful healing.

I know lepton is supposed to suck, but it has saved me too many times for me to betray it. I've theorized that willingly prioritizing lepton's is equivalent to getting good karma, and the more you believe in lepton, the better it is :)

Singularity band is so much fun but it's sooooooooooooio bad

Aegis corpsebloom goes hard

so the planula when paired with the regenerating scrap for some racks of rejuvenation can make you entirely immortal thanks to one tap protection, I know it's not very likely to happen but the potential is there

once had a pretty fun tank mul-t run with stone flux. just double rebarring for shits and giggles, found myself with enough health, armor and healing that enemies just flat out could not kill me. genuinely impossible to die if i put so much as half a braincell towards shooting things and moving in straight lines. that was just on rainstorm though

Don't you diss Lepton Daisy! In Void Fields, Lepton Daisy will trigger on each of the zones you have to capture. Because of how confined the area is on Void Fields, and how powerful the enemies can get, Lepton Daisy has saved my ass MORE than a few times. Even just one will trigger 9 times across Void Fields. I won't defend it outside of Void Fields, but if that's your goal for a run, it's definitely worth grabbing one.

Disputed would have a heart attack if he ever saw old console aegis

I pick up void bands when I see the,. 1, there’s no guarantee I’ll see regular bands in the run, so it’s overall better on average to pick it up if I don’t have regular bands already. One vand is better than zero bands. 2, between the big AoE and the proc coefficient I’m not losing *that* much damage even if I do find a band or two, and I still have enemies clustered together to AoE down with other attacks/items. 3, none of my favorite survivors have any strong band proc moves, but they all have some solid AoE, so the band proc that’s losing a chunk of its damage wasn’t a strong proc in the first place.

I would like to defend the Planula. If you have the artifact of command on, you can get a tricorn to kill the stage one boss and then pick the planula as your item, which stops you from getting Swiss cheesed by the minigun guys in the early stages. Which is very helpful for new players.

I like hunters harpoon on captain with wax quail. Unless you have a ton of attack speed there is a significant amount of down time between each shot and the harpoon quail let’s you boost around the teleporter after each kill.

LOVED the golden corral segment, very informative

only use case i've found for void band is as an alternative to primordial cube, which is great utility against single targets or small groups of enemies, such as on the mithrix fight (although other immobilizers like tentabauble or freezing outclass it on mithrix fight). this is at almost no downside if your build's main source of damage is tri-tip, gasoline (benefits greatly from the cc to make a gasoline bomb near boss) etc. in general, though, the item won't be of much help, especially when compared to the regular version of it, and there are other items that can do its job without making that sacrifice.

The void band used to be good when the blast shower build still existed Unfortunately they killed it for 0 reason

I have found use for stone flux. If you're playing a survivor with mobility, and you're like 2 loops in, you can pick it up with shape glass to double damage for half mobility. Assuming at this point you have more than plenty of movement, it eases the pain of glass

"What does void band do? It turns it into poopy kaka" caught me so off guard

Put Stone Flux on Mul-T with Power mode and double Nailgun. Now just stay in power mode forever and use the knockback from the nailguns to fly around. Get literally as much stone flux and attack speed as you can and you become unkillable and have BETTER horizontal and especially vertical mobility than everyone else in the lobby. Stone Flux does not deserve the number one slot for *the worst item in the game*. Even in the case where you accidentally pick one up, you can still combat it by getting more speed items and you can potentially turn it into an Irradiant Pearl, or at least some very useful yellow scrap. You might still be thinking that the item is bad because it's a one trick pony, but it does actually have some other builds that can potentially make it effective! Many items deal more damage based on your max hp, like N'kuhana's opinion, Hellfire tincture, and even Fuel Array which can be "safely" used offensively with Engineer's turrets. You can also use the item to offset the HP down Shaped Glass gives you, sacrificing speed and your one shot protection for double damage instead of your health which may be preferable in situations where you already have an excess of speed items. I think there is a huge problem with saying that any lunar item is bad, because they are all extremely good but in specific circumstance. You wouldn't say Shaped Glass is bad because it's not very good on Commando with no speed items, would you? Or you wouldn't say that Gesture of the Drowned is automatically a bad item because you had a run where you could only afford one Gesture and you were running Preon. Saying that Stone Flux is the worst item IN THE ENTIRE GAME is overly harsh, and undermines the extremely potent ability it does have whenever taken in the right circumstance.

N'kuhanas opinion + Interstellar desk plant + Transcendence is a great combo

I love that this man never lies with the thumbnails

i will not stand for hunter's harpoon slander, literally one of the most based items

5:05 damn RIP Newly Hatched Zoea most forgettable item ever

no foreplay, straight into the content. thanks for not wasting my time, grandpa!

Ive found lepton daisy to actually be okay during void fields, especially in multiplayer. A friend and I both got 2 from a teleporter boss and it kinda saved us.

Funnily enough, my first ever win was Engineer with Stoneflux Pauldron and the Bungus+Nukahana on stationary turrets synergy. When I picked up the Pauldron and realised what it does I was legit thinking of scrapping the run, but fortunately that stage had a Goathoof printer. Needed to sacrifice all of my damage items just to move 😭 idk how I won that

I once used stone flux and it was extremely useful for 1 reason: I had way too many hoofs and mochas

refreshing to see a video like this without padding

PLANULA FUCKING BALLIN

"Haha! Using my singularity band, I can trap Mithrix in place for a few seconds!" *Band activates* Mithrix: thats cool and all but teleport/dash move

I absolutely despise N'kuhana's Opinion, not only because its pretty bad, but because everytime I have gotten the item, I am destined to die during Mithrix's final phase by getting 1 shot by this fucking item.

N’kuhana’s Opinion is GOATED! 😩

I've never had a negative experience with hunter's harpoon. It's not a great item, but it's never been a detriment to me.

Why would you use Stoneflux Pauldron when you can literally get Transcendence which is also a Lunar item

10:28 This item F*CKED my best run as a modded character called “Ravager” (Big man with big sword with walljumps), and I didnt know it would do that until i picked it up !