Just lost a RR streak cause I got early B Kai and went for a shield build. Lost in Act 2 early. He just couldn't keep up. Is he bad?

I just had a degen day and got up here from 0 lol. wanna share some new(for me) ideas that seemed to work:

(1) Duelist reyna is broken early, also broken late, she's overstatted as hell 50%+ of my wins are with her. I was going vanguard previously for some god forsaken reason, now I'm dumping all my gold pre act 1 boss to find her C tier and rank her up. Yep that strong.

(2) Niklas and Ming were prioritized in that order to frontline. Both with the rush immortal rank up (super early and scared I would accept the hammer or the fire spin), 15 seconds immunity is a bit too good.

(3) there was a single win with a mage carry (Item Ratna) nothing new but reportable.

(4) Rush slop is also nuts, if you see Altar first event, both the item or the rush relic+nyx is damage solved, without nyx still strong, also notable mention the silly rush payoff relics.

(5) Never once did all 3 of my team feel necessary against dragon, because of multiplicative stuff, damage dealing is mostly a single carry, and frontline is best done as 1 due to splash damage, +L mystics suck.

(6) shard maximizer is broken, feel silly that I underestimated it.

(7) act 2 challenge is free a lot of the time, and sometimes it's super duper unfair, if I'm struggling in act 1 but have some scaling prospects, be it gold or power crystals or bossy whatever, I'm not opposed to skipping.

Overall 3 main ways to win in order of amount: Reyna, swimming in money, early momentus Logan.

Update: Died at 42 due to multiple brain off mistakes on the second to last shop and fight :).

Sometimes, you get lucky with an All-in Dragomir who hits B-rank in the first shop, and a C-rank Niklas. Then you immediately get a rare magic item that increases his activity ability by 150 crit in the following event.

Even when that happens, now and then you'll get even luckier to find two shard generation quests after the 2nd combat.

Of course, not having a B-tier Niklas in the challenge fight caused me to sweat a little. We'll skip the part where I almost lost with 32 gold in my bank because drago decided to use his much-needed ability AFTER the stall (15s) triggered.

All things are balanced, though, because I skipped Generation Conduit after the challenge fight and didn't see a SINGLE shard generation despite 30+ rerolls through the run.

Oh, and the two mystics did not make it onto the board for a single fight. I was rich, but should've used those shards for more rerolls

Started the run with sanguine Dragomir and searing Ming.

Spicy Pimenta bought at before act 1 dragon, and bought the vangaurd Reyna with scaling attack early act 2.

Swapped out Ming for Reyna and finished seals on Dragomir. Sold Dragomir at the end and put ming in, did not find good frost application, but Pimenta was still doing fine.

https://x.com/KowloonWarez/status/2110858567528186079 second try, hope it embeds >_<

Ming's The Enlightened upgrade marks as 0 + 2* Level, but he is showing 6 in game, and that is the number the game is taking in consideration, as Godspeed ends after 7 seconds, not 9. When I retrained Ming to this B upgrade, it showed 8 seconds on the Rush increase, not 6. Which one is wrong?

For the past week or so I have been doing the same build where I pretty consistently end the endless run between 15-21 (SSS)

I’ve tried different builds but I haven’t found anything that is as consistently strong.

what I generally go for:
Skorn (taunt)
Mystics
(Maybe one more tank)
Rowan (stall adds defense in reserve)
Max stall relics+items

For funsies are there any other synergies like this that you are able to consistently take well into endless? I can’t seem to get past combat 21.

Started with B rank Yuuna, got a Thief's Dagger in the first shop and another in the second shop. It was pretty much over from there.

I've finally hit a streak of 3 in Red Run. I know it's nothing crazy, but I just wanted to say the game is super fun! The "3rd" win was really memorable as I got the relic which gives 150% stat boost for Rush (1). And I had an upgraded Ming (extends rush duration) with a super strong (even at B Rank) Logan. I was actually really worried because I wiped on the Act 1 Combat 3 because I was trying to be greedy with only 2 heroes to clear. But I accepted my greed, and locked in. Sadly I didn't screenshot the page at the end. Would be cool if eventually they can add a match history.

I think each run you just need to solve (1) Survivability - because of the 10 death limit and (2) Exponential Damage Scaling.

Also, always reroll at least once per shop. That 1-cost reroll you can freeze if you get anything good. This is something I had to practice to be better about.

This is the quickest I have cleared the Dragon in RR. My other heroes did no damage lol. Picked up A Rank Ratna before the challenge in A1 and upgraded her to S rank the shop after. Very lucky with the shop. From there she snowballed.

Apparently I didn't how absolutely terrible Duelist's Emblem is until recently. Like maybe the bonus damage is flat and can't crit or whatever but man for 20g it's just absolutely trash.

Heroic Capacity Expander is another that I found to brick some of my runs, not in a sense that it's bad, but it's a greedy relic with no immediate value for 40g unless you already have all three of your heroes already fully geared with rare/epic. It's absolutely busted if you do though then again there's chance you are already winning anyway without.

I got salty after a losing my streak and ran a red rift without a boss token. I was throwing the run away almost intentionally by upgrading Reyna to the Champion and buying the rush relic in the 2nd shop, so I went into the third fight without three heroes and, of course, wiped.

I said screw it, bought a B-tier Rip, and every source of rush I could find.

Wasted shards on an A-tier Pimenta to provide attack speed to Reyna/Tilly, but obviously she made it all of two fights into Act 2 before a B-tier rip had to replace her (yes, pimenta lovers - Rip had 2 defensive items, B-tier and still outperformed her! He survived the dragon fight!)

So, yep. You can win a run with no shard gen, no boss token, and waste 55 shards on a mystic/pimenta who barely contribute then 33 on an S-tier Karsu who has barely any value. Rush OP.

Edit: Oh, and I never completed the unity quest because I couldn't get three warriors or duelists on the board safely. So that's -7 shards, too lol

Early Grace into relatively early on sale A Gustav...sure whatever, I'll go all in on that

And it is hilariously strong in hallway fights, or, rather, in any longer fights as long as you can start casting

Dragon fight on the other hand...got a bit chaotic. Gave Pollen all the tank items I had so she can try to tank until those first casts...she dies anyway. I thought that's it right there...until I remembered Grace can revive. So, 6 unit deaths and 3 revives later, the dragon does die in the end.

Fun run!

Feel free to change my mind but whenever I started a new run thinking "Let's not do a solo Logan again." It gives me combat 1 or 2 B Logan.

"Let's do something different and fun this time." - shop 1 B Pimenta ON sale + Sal

Sometimes I'd be rolling in the hopes to find just 1 mediocre omnivamp item... nope, no, sir. Gold down the drain.

Why is it doing this? Well, one could only ponder. Maybe it's just another tuesday. Maybe it's dying out of boredom and just trying to have a laugh, a kick, to feel something.

There's RNG, but only when IT's not looking at you. "Luck" and "Skill" barely exist. You didn't get that streak in RR because of chance or because you're good (lmao) Your fates are in the hands of a few lines of codes (if it hasn't evolved into a cosmic being with flesh and blood already)

Stay safe, runners.

Assassin's Ambush Engine had me full-send this 3-man all assassin team. With the help of Nyx's backup passive, people were melting. Crazy poison damage, too.

Not sure if this is a unique build, but it felt very unique to me!

Notably, "Most Threatening Enemy" seems kinda like a joke. Not sure if that part of the Ambush Engine really works. Lul

boss is demon if that changes anything for people. pretty sure i'm just slamming scaling speed but i could see scaling attack or golden eye.

Formation was Nik on the front with Kai and Drag in back to make use of the Backline Aggressor relic. Dragon went straight for Kai. I was hoping at a bare minimum Drag could tank with so much omnivamp, but by the time he got hit it was a one-shot.

Also garbage A-rank upgrade for Drag but that's just how it be sometimes.

The Rift Seal item was completed by Zuri alone, plus an item that made her a Mystic.

Reyna (A) wasn't available until the 1 battle before Act 1' boss. I got Tilly (A) after the 1st boss. I got lucky with the Relics. I have 2-3 relics that boosted Warrior's damage and crit. Also the rare item that permanently boosted Attack if I made Reyna and Tilly close to each other. Pollen was just an addition to make sure that Tilly tank enough while Reyna cleared everything else.