Risk of Rain 2 is a famous game popular among players who love to play action-based games. The developers, Hopoo games, have added some excitement to offer an improved gaming experience for the players. Several new weapons, play styles, enemies, and progression systems are making the game more interesting. The game has around 12 players, each of which has unique skills, powers, abilities, weapons, and builds. Builds make the players even more powerful so that the players can beat their enemies. If you still don’t know about the builds for each character, go through this complete article, as here we have discussed all the Risk Of Rain 2 builds of the game along with the characters so that you can have a complete idea. Let’s start
Risk of Rain 2 Builds with the characters
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Commando
It will be your first character when you start playing the game. This initial character has a simple play style where you need to aim and shoot the opponents only. This character comes with some limitations in terms of abilities and because of some utility skills, you can consider this as the weakest character in the gameplay. In some cases, players don’t even use this character once it is unlocked. However, here are the builds for this character:
Builds
The builds will help the character to move in any direction. Also, if you are a beginner, using this Risk of Rain 2 build can create more damage per second for a long time. The builds for the character are:
- Critical hit chance
- Ukulele lightning
- Gasoline
- Attack speed
- And Kjaro’s band.
- There is also another build called Stun Grenade that can be useful to you as it works very well with suppressive fire when players try to kill their enemies.
Commando Stat’s
- Health: 110 (+33/level)
- Damage: 12(+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: 1/s(+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Double Shoot (Gives 2×90% damage to the enemy)
- Secondary Skill: Phase Round (The bullet will hit the enemies while standing in a row with 230% damage)
2. Captain
The captain is a hard-to-unlock character. Once you unlock this character in the gameplay, you can fight with the troops of the enemy. This character can easily help you to win the game by destroying the enemy troops within a few moments. The character’s amazing defense and destructive ability make it one of the best characters you can unlock. You can unlock this character by beating Mithrix, the final boss. This character uses a shotgun as a primary weapon to help you get rid of the enemies within a short distance. The secondary weapon of this character is the power tazer that offers 100% damage when fired.
Builds
Here we have mentioned the builds of the Captain that can be useful for you in the game.
Backup Magazine Build
This is the first build that you can use to save your armor as the armor is extremely important in the game. You can use your secondary weapon to protect your armor and kill the enemies who have surrounded you simultaneously. You can also use the shocking status effect of your weapon to destroy your enemies. This Risk of Rain 2 builds can be really helpful if you are willing to fight an Elite Monster.
Anti-Charging Build
It is another build you can use to shock your enemies by giving them some charging attacks. As the character comes with some orbital probes, this build can be helpful to you as it will allow you to go forward without getting any damage. You can use Brainstalks and the orbital probes. Both will offer you a strong defense. Remember that the Brainstalks will only be unlocked when you complete the ‘Decide Challenge’ and defeat the Elite Boss.
Captain Stat’s
- Health: 110 (+33/level)
- Damage: 12(+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: 1/s(+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Vulcan Shotgun
- Secondary Skill: Power Tazer
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Artificer
It is also a powerful character in the gameplay that has some amazing abilities to defeat your enemies. The only problem this character has is cooling down. You’ll need to understand how to tackle this issue and once you understand that, your gameplay will be easy.
Builds
Here we have mentioned the Risk of Rain 2 builds for this character that you can use in the gameplay.
- Defense and Mobility Builds
Though the character is extremely powerful, it is quite slow when it comes to mobility and defense. You can use the builds to cover this weakness. Here the drinks and add Wax Quail and Personal Shield generator can be helpful to you as these will make your character more powerful. Remember that you will need to do this from the start to gain experience.
If you want to cover all the other weaknesses of mobility and defense, you can use the mobility items first, followed by the defense items in other stages. The mobility items include the Paul’s Goat Hoof, Energy Drinks, and Hopoo Feather. On the other hand, the defense items include Old War Stealth Kit, Personal Shield Generator, and Medkit. All of the builds can be extremely useful for you.
Artificer Stat’s
- Health: 110 (+33/level)
- Damage: 12 (+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: 1/s(+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Flame Bolt
- Secondary Skill: Charged Nano Bomb
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Mercenary
It is another character in the gameplay that will help you to prevent potential attacks. You will have this character with rapid mobility if you consistently fight against your rivals and stay alive. This character comes with a technical play style. Players love using this character as this character offers a great deal of damage. Make sure to use proper strategy while using this character or you can die.
Builds
Here are the builds for the character.
Speedy Boy Build
This build will help you attack your enemies at high speed, offering them a lot of damage. To use this, you will need some mobility and defense items. We have enlisted the items you will need for this build:
- Rose Buckler and Tough Time: To increase the damage-giving ability
- Backup Magazine: To get more whirls hands
- Soldier’s Syringe: To deal with high proc harm and increase the attack speed
- Bandolier: To get high mobility and the ability to tackle damage to the character
- Foreign Fruit and Dio’s Best Friend: So that the character can heal himself and have some extra life
Invincible Build
This build will help the character to play longer using the mercenary. This will make your character invulnerable and unconquerable to attacks. Just like the previous build, you will need some items from this one as well. Here we have enlisted the items:
- Alien Head: To help the character deal with high air damage
- Predatory Instincts: To increase the attacking speed of the character
- Dio’s Best Friend: To gain an extra life if killed in a single strike
- Bandolier: To reduce every item’s cooldown time to move fast
Mercenary Stats
- Health: 140 (+42/level)
- Damage: 12 (+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 20 (16.67% Damage Reduction)
- Health Regen: 1/s (+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Laser Sword
- Secondary Skill: Whirl Wind
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Engineer
This extremely powerful character comes with TR12 Gauss Auto-Turret to give your enemies around 200% damage. You will get a lot of power in the game if you use the Turrets, Mines, Bobbing Grenades, and Air Pocket Shield. Players can also use Dio’s Best Friend to get an extra life. This will allow you to come back to the game within 3 seconds.
Builds
This character comes with specific Risk of Rain 2 builds which you can use in the game.
- Tesla Coil: This build will stun all the nearby enemies so that you can get enough time to do damage to your enemies
- Old Guiltoine: Whenever the elites reach a particular HP edge, this build will kill them on it’s own
- Hardlight Afterburner: This build offers 100% uptime to the shield
- Caffeinated Drinks: This will help your character run faster and consistently
- Red Whip: It will help you to get your character out of battle quicker
Engineer Stat’s
- Health: 130 (+39/level)
- Damage: 14 (+2.8/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: 1/s (+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Bouncing Grenades (100% damage)
- Secondary Skill: Pressure Mines
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Bandit
It is a fast-paced character that can amazingly use it’s abilities. It will help you to kill the monsters when the opponents are not within range. The character was not available previously, but now it is available to the players of Risk of Rain 2. The character also can reset the cooldown of his abilities.
Builds
It is an amazing survivor that initially focuses on it’s abilities. You can use builds like:
- Purity
- Shatterspleen
- Brainstalks
- Crowbar
- Harvester Scythes
- Bandolier
- And Backup Magazine to extend it’s power and performance so that you can use them and win the game.
Bandit Stat’s
- Health: 110 (+33/level)
- Damage: 12 (+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: 1/s (+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Burst
- Secondary Skill: Serrated Dagger
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Mul-T
This powerful character comes with 200 health and 12 armor. Though it has some limitations in terms of mobility, a transport mode is available for the character that will help you get the character out of the enemy troops. The transport mode will take more than or less than 6 seconds to cool down, which can be an issue if the enemies surround you. This character also comes with some retool skills which can help you to switch between the equipment slots and primary attacks.
- Mobility Builds: This build will help your character to move faster than the opponents
- The Hopoo Feather: This will offer the extra jump feature
- Goat’s Hoof: It will increase the pace to 40% per stack
- Energy drinks: Can be used to get a 30% improved sprint speed
- Wax Quail: It will help your character jump 10m ahead when you sprint
- The Old War Stealth Kit: Another Mul-T build that will help you to make the character invisible for 3 seconds and increases the character’s movement speed by 40% on taking damage
High Primary Ability Damage
There are some other amazing builds that will power up your character. These are:
- Will-O-The-Wisps
- Sticky Bomb
- Lens Maker Glasses
- Leeching Speed
Mul-T Stat’s
- Health: 200 (+60/level)
- Damage: 11 (+2.2/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 12
- Health Regen: 1/s (+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Auto-Nailgun
- Secondary Skill: Blast Canister
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Huntress
The character comes with amazing mobility. This glass canon character comes with high damage per second and low HP. It is the perfect character that you can use for single target damages.
Builds:
Speedy Girl Build
This build will help you to make the character faster, so that, that character can give more damage. At the same time, the build will also protect you from damages. Here we have mentioned some items that you will need for this build:
- Rose Buckler
- Soldier’s Syringe
- Cautious Slug
- Harvester’s Scythe
- Lens Maker’s Glasses
- Predatory Instinct with Ukulele
The Gaze of Death Build
This build will power up your character. Here are the items mentioned below that you will need to use this build.
- Spinal Tonic or Royal Capacitor: To do 3000% damage to the monster by striking lightning on it. This build can also be used for stunning the monster.
- Multiple Fuel Cells: To decrease the cooldown time of the Royal Capacitor from the 20s to 4s around.
Huntress Stats
- Health: 90 (+27/level)
- Damage: 12 (+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: 1/s (+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Strafe with 0.5s fire rate
- Secondary Skill: Laser Glaive
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Acrid
This is a unique character that comes with poisoning skills. The poison of this character is so powerful that it can even melt the tanky enemies. The character uses the poison to burn it’s enemies.
Builds
The best builds for this character are:
- AOE
- DOTs
Besides them, there all also some other builds that are mentioned below:
- Will-o-Wisp
- Gasoline
- Back up Magazine.
- Old Guillotine can also be used to kill the elite monsters ( 20% health)
Acrid Stats
- Health: 160 (+48/level)
- Damage: 15 (+3/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 20
- Health Regen: 2.5/s (+0.5/level)
- Primary Skill: Poison
- Secondary Skill: Ravenous Bite
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Loader
This character deals good damage and can also survive for a long time. It has a high mobility, and the character comes with Knuckleboom, which is also capable of causing 320% damage to close enemies. It uses M551 Pylon as the primary weapon, which allows players to destroy 6 opponents within a range
Builds
One-Shot Build: This build will help you to deal with a lot of damage.
Attack Speed Build: It is another powerful build for which you will need an artifact of command, up to 7 lens marker glasses, and 2 fuel cells. As you combine all of them, it will come out as a perfect combo that you can use to make the spinal tonic eternal.
Loader Stats
- Health: 160 (+48/level)
- Damage: 12 (+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 20
- Health Regen: 2.5/s (+0.5/level)
- Primary Skill: Knuckleboom
- Secondary Skill: Grapple Fist
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Rex
It is a unique plant-robot hybrid character in the game with some unique abilities.
Builds
Agile Build:
As it is a slow character, you can use this build to boost it’s speed. You can use Paul’s Goat Hoof for the purpose as well. It is also advised to use energy drinks.
Tech Savvy Build:
It is another equipment-oriented build for making, which you will need to get the Soulbound Catalyst. These features will only unlock once you complete the Newest challenge. It will also lessen the cool-down time by up to 4 seconds.
Rex Stats
- Health: 130 (+39/level)
- Damage: 12 (+2.4/level)
- Speed: 7 m/s
- Armor: 20
- Health Regen: 1/s (+0.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Inject
- Secondary Skill: Seed Barrage
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Heretic
It is the most powerful character in the gameplay, which is quite hard to access. It is a female character to unlock, which you will need to get the achievements. The character comes with a health of 440, which is undoubtedly higher than other characters in the game.
Builds
- Shadowfade is a nice build for this character that you can use for survival reasons. It will save the character from losing more HP.
- You can balance negative health regeneration by getting two cautious slugs.
- Gnarled Woodsprite can also be used. You will only get it after reaching level 6. It will allow your character to have some extra healing capabilities.
Heretic Stats
- Health: 440 (+132/level)
- Damage: 18 (+3.6/level)
- Speed: 8 m/s
- Armor: 0
- Health Regen: -6/s (-1.2/level)
- Primary Skill: Hungering Gaze
- Secondary Skill: Slicing Maelstrom
Ending words
Here we have mentioned all the Risk of Rain 2 Builds that you need to know. We hope that this article was helpful to you and you have successfully understood which builds you can use for which character.
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