Ranking Every Red item in Risk of Rain 2 (tier list) 

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fun fact about the mask, if you kill a dunestrider and it becomes a ghost, it's succ will succ you too, but obviously as an ally you can't kill it, this has ended THREE SEPERATE RUNS of mine

Hardlight Afterburner is the best red item in the game because you can finally let MUL-T achieve his dreams of becoming a car and running over Mithrix

A cool thing with bottled chaos is that if you have member card, every time you interact with a multishop it will activate.

Dio's Best Friend gives engineer turrets an extra life as well, which is pretty sweet

Something I forgot to mention in this video was the fact that im very biased, I primarily play eclipse 8, and that influences my perspective alot (mainly when it comes to healing items). I tried to make this list from a monsoon standpoint, but that bias is still very present. Lists like this are not meant to be taken very seriously; that said I think it's a good format to talk about items and their merits.

Seeing desk plant above raincoat cause of the nerf is funny. Watching this video really made me learn how much peoples perspectives on items change depending on play styles, experiences, playtime, etc. despite the things I agree with and disagree with its still a well put together video tho

I hate that Aegis is so bad. It looks insanely cool on Captain. I happily take it every time due to how cool it looks.

Most of the things that were rated poorly are basically auto wins on Engineer. (stationary turrets) Rack, N'kuhana's, and Aegis mixed with bungus turns them into near unkillable monsters with homing projectiles. Sure, that's not all easy to get, but you only really need any one of those plus fungus to see amazing results. All that said, pretty good list! I definitely didn't know that they boosted the damage output on Headstompers so much.

thanks Grandpa

I feel a good fix for aegis would be for it to also have a support mechanic mixed into it, so nearby allies receive a % of the shield you gain from aegis. of course this would work on summons too, so it isn't a horrible solo buff before you say this makes engi busted, engi was already getting max shields from aegis in ridiculous time frames. he's just a character that benefits from reds an insane amount due to his stacking nature. plus the devs have already stated that they don't care about balance too much.

I'd put Happiest mask lowest. All the other items here can be useful depending on the build, like aegis and n'kuhana's can be fantastic with lots of healing. Happiest mask never gets better, you can proc it more with clover but even then the ghost rarely do anything useful. You can get ghost of voidling and newt though, dunno bout mythrix, so thats fun.

Wake of vultures can kill you if you have a healing focused build and accidentally kill an electric creature

headstompers is really fun on artificer with ion surge and lysate cells, get to turn yourself into a human tunguska event

video felt like a fever dream 1/4 of the time

having the bottle of chaos with membership card early on is insane, you can activate it on all shrines, equips, chests, everything. just activates random equip items every chest, can get some nice outcomes

I'm glad I share my opinion on head stompers with someone

Resonance Disk actually has some pretty funky synergy with Forgive Me Please, as its stacks are a on kill effect, letting you spam the HELL out of it if you get lucky or command memeing

I think the cool thing about this game is that even some of the worse items, in the right situation can still be really strong, unlock some other rouge likes where the bad items stay bad

Aegis can be used for Rex and Engineer to make them unkillable, you can use it on anyone who shoots fast if you build for the crit healing. N,kunhanas opinion is the same deal as it'll add on extra damage once you have a couple scythes, that and bungus makes it endlessly fire.

I wish red items had extra special effects if you matched them to their designated survivor. Ex: rex and deskplant, laser scope and rail gunner, engineer and spare drone parts, captain and icbm, frost relic (maybe Tesla or behemoth) and artificer, hardlight afterburner and mercenary, scorpion and Rex (maybe? Both monsters kinda) Smook (sentient meat hook) and hunteress (she is a hunter after all I just feel like smook fits) headstompers and loader (maybe Mul-T) not sure for the other survivors but let me know what you think!?

#1: "turns into Mario"

Cool tier list, I would love to see you rank all the green items next. My personal fav is the Wax Quail

Great vid. Ur scripts really come together in an entertaining way

2 hardlight after burners and 2-3 purities makes Bandit become not only a flying character but also you can just run into enemies and damage them

Opinion is pretty good on engi or void fiend, but otherwise really bad. Also iirc laser scope only increases damage by 50% max, as crits already deal 200% base. if you are killing enemies before roughly 8 seconds, but after you hit then 5 times, justice is just a better scorpion, so I'd put scorpion probably behind justice. I was mad when I saw clover at #2, but then I remembered headstompers. Completely right. So many runs carried by this.

Sometimes I legitimately question whether this man pretends to be old as a joke, or he's actually old and we're just being misled by how young his voice sounds

soulbound catalyst is my personal favorite (I'm impatient) me kill = more equipment

Happy birthday, Ezekiel!

you knew exactly what you were doing making that thumbnail, AND YOU FUCKING GOT ME GOD DAMNIT

I really like N'kuhanas with Weeping Fungus and little disciple. It's definitely weak if you aren't playing command because you have to hyper stack healing items

I think frost relic is at it's best on Rail Gunner. It increases her scoped fov.

im glad to see your grandson going on the right path 😁

id love to see a void item ranking of yours in the future

Are we gonna skip over the fact that he already has a 10 year old grandson despite sounding pretty young???

Benthic gave me 18 drone parts. Ive never played a run like that since

11:13 actually made me laugh dude you're too goofy

Best use for #26 Aegis I found was to help Huntress do the Piercing Wind challenge, along with Topaz Brooch, Forgive Me Please, and a source of healing such as Leeching Seed.

As REX or Engi, Aegis is hands down one of my favourite legendaries to get. Even without brooches, you're basically unkillable. Add them in and now you have permanent barrier.

I consistently use aegis in my runs since I if u take neuropathy and stack something like weeping fungus u can always have double health thanks to the barrier Had it so if I ran I could outheal and barrier health against most attacks was pretty insane

Where would you put the orbing ball thingy that blocks projectiles

How do I get rid of the cheats to make it so that i can get achievments, and everything else?

Is it possible to do the head stomper ground pound with loader's ground pound for even more damage?

Hey the cool down on the bands is applied as a debuff so Ben's raincoat give infinite tornados unless they changed it

i love combining aegis with harvesters scythe and crit glasses it makes me feel cozy and safe as i tear through enemies

this video was literally the reason why i stopped scraping headstompers

Aegis and N'kuhanas are god-tier on engineer, proving once again that he flips the game upside down

whats the song that starts at 4:50 ?

2:44 what song is this?

Happy mask is an item that will get you killed. I once got a grandparent ghost and he did a spirt bomb, which proceed to kill everyone in the party while we could do nothing about it

one of my first runs I got a Headstomper and I havent been able to stop using it. It's so amazing.

That was hilarious please do a tier list for white items :3

Double nail gun MUL-T has the best use of the symbiotic scorpion because of the high fire rate, plus enabling sticky bombs that you may have to deal double damage (sticky bombs are good on MUL-T because of the extremely fast fire rate of nail gun)

ok im sobbing irl because frost relic isn’t number 1 but yeah i think this list is pretty swag! I am also an E8 player, so I judge the items in a similar way to you. I think n’kuhana’s isn’t so bad and I’d probably personally put it higher because it’s like a budget little disciple if you can get some wungus, or it works nicely on crit builds/characters if you have a scythe, but it still takes a lot of variables to work well so I understand your placement of it. It’s kinda similar to the pocket ICBM where it is useless without the right handful of items, but N’kuhana isn’t nearly as impactful when it has the right items with it. Overall tho I would probably have a similar list if I made one right now, with a few minor adjustments for personal preference. Good video :D

There was one monsoon run where I was hesitant to fight Mithrix because I had 25 Safer Spaces. But, I also had 2 happiest masks and 1 clover. Every other enemy I killed became a ghost. And when Mithrix did take my items, I hid on a pillar, and the Chimeras killed him.

#22: Alien Head Mercenary mains who know: *"Who's gonna tell him?"*

6:30 what’s that wacky jet pack thing? i’m new to the game…

Nice persona 4 music in the background

What an absolutely wonderful outro

I do want to say, that Brainstalks is actually pretty nutty at loop 1 and onward or if you like using artifacts. Since so many enemies are elites, it then becomes easier to kill elites because you have more access to the higher damage and potentially mobility of your characters kit, but unrestricted. As someone who loves Rex, Brainstalks is an enthusiastic welcome to my runs.

Did you use remixes of the P4 OST for the bgm of this video?

Putting brainstalk below resonance disk is insane imo

I saw there's a mod that swaps item qualities of bottled chaos and gesture, what do you think of that idea?

can anyone tell me what remix of the persona 4 song is at 8:00 it seems slowed.

So about aegis, I used it for a bandit run where I also got leech and just a shot ton of healing items but I got the red hellishly early, (if I recall it was from stage 1 or 2 from a big chest) it made the run so easy and fun but yes it does need either building up or it comes too late but it shows how good red items are if gotten early

I think the reason your wife left you is you think Dio’s Best Friend is above #26

"Waaaaa tier lists don't account for different circumstances, survicors, etc." "Haha I'm ranking them anyway"

GREAT video disputed, I actually saw your grandson the other day, great guy, i don't know what he was doing in a fursuit tho

Head stompers just feels good to use after it was buffed. If you have it, it makes Mithrix basically a guaranteed victory.

Finally someone who puts alien head in its place. I swear everyone is convinced is a god tier item but it’s just really not great

> Clover > any item with % chance Not any item. Teddybear is an exception

topaz brooch can be useful if stacked with tons of gasoline, giving you almost full shield in a press of one button Really helped me on runs with loops

Im subscribing for whatever the heck that bit was

First time watching this guy but he seems to know a lot about the game and family conflict!

One of my best moments was a god run in Simulacrum with Engineer. A single stack of Desk Plant and the entire screen was green

is that a Your Affection cover in the background??

Brilliant Behemoth is honestly just, straight up #1 for me, it is an utter powerhouse, stack it a few times on something like Mul-T's chaingun and you've got the ability to splash the cash with needleticks, lost-seer's and other such things.

Imma need that remix of "Your Affection" old man.

I just miss the old Resonance Disc. It was so much more rewarding to play with because it incentivized a high risk-reward playstyle. The new one just adds random, skill-less damage independent of how you play.

NEW DISPUTED ORIGIN VIDEO???????????😳😳😳

how did you get 100 behemots on the 1 lvl

Woolie fans are gonna crucify you for putting frost relic above soulbound

WHY IS WAKE OF VULTURES SO HIGH???? half the time it does nothin and when it does the damage is so negligible, everytime I see it I just feel despair because it is undisputedly the worst red, and any other red would have done way better.

Aegis + N’kuhana’s are S tier on Engi if you have a decent amount of fungus IMO, trash on everyone else

Bens raincoat is a really good addition to a no cooldown blast shower build

Soul bound with recycler is kinda broken sometimes and I always try for it when I do a long run

frost relic is one of the BEST items with a melee character imo

Does shattering justice stack?

is that "your affection" playing in the background? great video btw

Im very new to the game but i love Aegis mixed with N'kuhana's Opinion. As engineer put your turrents next to each other while they have the funny shroom Since the rings overlay they will, heal to max, over heal to somewhere of 3 times their health as well as constantly spam the ghost skulls. As well as offering a little safe area to run to and quickly heal to 3 times your hp.

How was Ceremonial daggers not ranked higher? I have had multiple runs where I literally did not need to do anything after getting the daggers cause one kill would kill the entire map indefinitely. My longest run with Commando was literally me just walking to pick up items and going to the teleporter because the daggers were constantly killing everything on each stage without me touching anything. Add a forgive me please to the mix and it amplifies the power.

Why does everyone not use command? And personally I also use swarm and sacrifice with it

I think you're very funny and you remind me of car seat headrest songs

Ressonence disk is nuts on Engineer when all your turrets fire the lasers too

I love the persona music in the back ground I cant see anyone else talking about it

I like how you randomly mention your nephew

Can you remake all these videos for the new items?

Aegis with corpsebloom means you have max barrier most of the time

what happened to the spare drone parts and empathy cores video

engineer: watches video "nukahana or whatever tf its called sucks!" *angy*