Risk of Rain 2 Survivor Tier List - Survivors of the Void DLC 

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Survivor smash or pass tier list when?

"mult is the only ranged survivor that starts with armor" REX moment

Oh boy, thank you I really didn’t want a healthy sleep schedule tonight

Commando really is my favorite survivor at the moment. I know his playstyle is just pew-pew, but that's all he needs. He's one of those survivors where it really feels like you have to _work_ for that good run, you know? He also teaches you a lot about good item management. The new DLC actually made his runs more consistent.

Engineer actually can cheese the mithrix fight by placing his turrets outside the arena, in most cases Mithrix will aggro on them but won't be able to hit them, giving you a free win.

Personally I’d say mercenary underrated for eclipse and looping because slicing winds is way better than people think. Yeah you’re losing the s, but you’re getting a ranged ability that procs 8 times at a 1.0 coefficient. Maybe I’m crazy but I think it’s pretty darn good.

As Commando main, i feel attacked, I would also say hes the most FUN survivor too, whereas engi is bungus tier on the fun tier.

The anti woolie tier list

The more commando I play, the more I like him. He's probably in my top 3. Idk maybe I ate too many crayons.

> mains commando and acrid > refuses to elaborate > leaves... the arts & crafts store, holding twelve gluesticks

I started playing Commando recently because I wanted to stack Hella bleeds on things and I don't think he's as bad as I used to now. But holy fuck you're literally at the mercy of the RNGods if you don't get insane items you slowly get outscaled and it FeelsBadMan

I know, I know but... unironically merc gets a pretty substantial dps increase when you use all the different animation canceling and tech he has. Can literally reliably instakill floating bosses like AWU. Aside from that, totally fair list cool vid

Something I discovered on my own, but y'all might already know: power saw is agile, you can sprint while using it

I love merc because his base mobility doesnt make me want to cry so he's really fun, how good each character is doesn't really matter too much considering ror2 is just a game of surviving until you get enough items to carry you, the only thing that changes is how many items your character needs to function very well which is why the dlc characters are so good since they need very little.

Merc Main here. I agree with a lot of your sentiments, especially the Commando parts lol, but I feel one thing worth noting is that Merc is one of the least RNG-dependent survivors for killing Mithrix. Sure his damage isn’t great as the run progresses and he takes time to learn, but you can reliably rush TPs and get to the Mithrix fight with more consistency then any other survivor bc of s and low cooldowns.

The reason why i love Engineer so much is because he can make a use of an items that will be otherwise pretty garbage for rest of the survivors

As a Bandit main myself, he is 100% the most satisfying survivor in the game imo. Theres nothing more fun than flying around one shotting everything with Desperado by stage 3 lmao

You just gained a sub lol. That explanation of mobility, damage, and healing was great, and the fact that you read the survivors out loud for anyone listening to audio is so useful for me who has videos on while playing lol

Was just searching a tier list yesterday for SoTV dlc, your doing gods work 🙏

Loader, Acrid, and Merc should be way higher IMO. For most video games mobility and range > everything else. This also applies to RoR2. Mobility and range can just compeltely prevent death and make you faster at clearing stages. I'm like 90% sure that the mobility on those characters is more impactful on stage clear time than Capitan's hack. Acrid's range and mobility prevents him from ever having to actually fight anything. Loader is fast and tanky; she is hard to one-shot and only has to be in for a few seconds to do dmg. Mercenary can just be invulnerable 24/7 completely preventing death. Alternativley, you can run slicing winds and have one of the best ranged abilities in the game.

Most fun for me is Huntress/Railgunner/Artificier. Huntress for her incredible mobility compared to other classes. Railgunner makes the fun builds even better and actually rewards your skill (fast aim). And lastly Artificier, my favorite, for how it's gameplay is totally different from other classes, she abandons ground movement in all it's forms due to casting time on spells and knockback, it's objectively better and easier to just fly all the time, has kit that is basically made for duplication and spamming in succession instead of shooting/ occasionally using abilities, like other classes. And has a certain skill cap, some abilities have a very close range, but are rewarding and positioning is very important (ice walls, stacking them).

I started playing commando a LOT after survivors of the void dropped… he’s now my absolute favorite survivor in the game, and it’s not even close. He feels so good to play imo. I can’t even remember the last time I lost a run on him, even in eclipse. I feel like a lot of the new items helped out commando a lot more than some of the other survivors.

Been waiting for this video, can’t wait to watch

"every time you use an ability that hurts yourself, safer spaces blocks it" then just don't pick up the water bear smh

"welcome to the salty spitoon how tough are ya" "i beat eclipse 8" "yea so?" "as REX" "uh...right this way sir."

Seeing people complain that railgunner is bad has been hilarious. It's basically a confession that you just can't aim.

Alright ill take the bait, you ARE playing mercenary wrong. Id rank mercenary as one of the few survivors that can excel without good items. Something a lot of people dont know, is that blinding dash makes you invulnerable even while chaining it. So a Merc can Dash>Dash>Evis>Dash and be completely safe. Meaning he can attack high priority enemies and escape without a scratch. Oh Did i mention there is a bug with merc/loader where any flying enemy, bosses included can be instantly killed if they fly into a wall. Mercs blinding dash can occasionally push even the allow worship unit, killing it instantly. I also use rising thunder to do high damage with bands and crowbar, Dash in> RisingT to apply bands/crowbar> dash straight down> Evis to stack on hits> and dash back out. Dont forget that blinding assault can stun enemies, so u can find a solo target, or stun a group, and get 2-3 free Rising thunders before they can react. Which gives you ample time to re-stun or run away. Its also a crazy good damage dealer that synergizes with itself, With enough Mags u can send most enemies straight to heaven, and with attack speed u can spam it so fast it can kill most heavy's before they can attack. Bezerkers pauldron is a must on on mercenary, and he has a clever way of getting it. it takes basically 2-3 Dashes to drop most small enemies, and lining up enemies to hit all of them makes it super easy. Not even taking on death items into account. And once he has bezerkers his basic attack passive lets him spam abilities way more often by resetting his cooldowns even faster. Another god tier green item is bandolier. Most survivors, cant go get the bandolier drop since it puts them in danger, and the risk outweighs the reward. Merc can use every 2 dashes>Evis and dash towards the bandolier to instantly reset his abilities, Late game Merc becomes an untouchable god, Blinding dash is deceptively strong crowd clearing move, with enough on hit/on death items u can kill bosses just from focusing down small enemies, which in turn drop bandoliers and boost damage, all cascading massive untouchable damage. On the topic of early game, his passive lets him out dps 75% of the survivors by letting him spam his abilities, and his passive can be applied to groups of enemies meaning he could get it all back in a single swing. There i said it, you are playing him wrong im sorry, please dont attack my family.

The joke about Artificers alt is why i use it over the flamethrower, I'd rather have that get out of jail free card if need be rather than a flamethrower that isnt that great in late game unless im able to find void corrupt battery cells or the gas tank

I know we give Commando a lot of gaffs - and rightfully so - but I don't think he's quite... bad... He's just underwhelming when you compare him to literally every other class in the game.

I'm a commando enjoyer admittedly. Yes he is very vanilla, but what I find fun about that is that instead of trying to find items that compliment him early on, I just take whatever and then try and find items that compliment the items I got early on and this leads to runs that feel very different each time compared to the other survivors imo. I think it's fair to say he sucks though, not gonna argue that.

Merc for me is all about the ranged playstyle and the techs like the triple exposed tech where you r with slicing winds get to your third m1 and dash as your m1 goes off, you get 3 sequential exposed procs and with more than 3 enemies you get essentially 0 CD on your skills

you are my favourite youtuber and this is the first video ive watched from you

Commando has okay consistentcy. I think i see myself falling back to him whenever im having bad runs that day. Its just a such a simple basic kit that makes him so comfortable to play. Will say that the pain i feel when dont pick up a focus crystal, wax quail, or ukelele by stage 3 is astronomical.

Mercenary is so fun, especially on wandering jellyfish bosses. Chaining your shift ability to get on top, and using your when he uses his aoe, it just looks so cool. But bandit is starting to catch up to him, bandit is hella fun

I adore pure melee acrid, good damage w the bite, the healing from m1 and m2, and the geeling of just beginning a sprint and flinging yourself on any airborne enemies it's just -chefs kiss- weird thing tho I thought he was a horse at first, idk why I think he kinda sounds like one when he jumps

My go to way to build engineer is spider turrets + rushing visions. Those little things walking around shooting needlers just feels so strong!

Seeing Captain in B Tier just hurts my feelings

lmao just finished grinding eclipse 8 on commando then you released this, I really think his utility is underrated. Truly hard to take damage if you're using it off cooldown

Thank you so much for representing the audio listeners

Hey man. Been playing since it came out on ps4 all I can say is welcome to the community man. I hope you enjoy it for the long run.

RND: To be good, a survivor needs damage, mobility and healing. Also RND: Engi, a survivor who does not have 2 out of 3, is the best non-dlc survivor. ME: Sad plant noises for rex in this ranking, especially if you're talking about consistency. Not to mention the fact imo he is the single greatest survivor to take broken glass on, because you're not really losing anything anyway. bears > safer spaces for him, which feels kinda bad, but eh. Also me: 100% agree on rex being the worst in eclipse. That seemed just specifically made to not work for him >.>

9:18 Huntress mains when they actually have to aim

Really insignificant and not important to the topic, but that smallest detail of reading out the tierlist for people listening to audio only at 2:07 me smile lol, I have never seen any youtuber do that once. Sorry for rambling this much about it, but that's the smallest detail ever that made me happy for some reason.

So I've been playing eclipse lately and while I'm pretty bad at it, I've been trying to not pick up healing items, because of the later eclipse nerf that cuts healing by 50% and trying to cut the damage I take, because of the final eclipse buff, what I found is that healing is really not that important, especially cautious slugs, medkit can still be useful, leeching seeds really depends on the survivor, but I generally still think they are mostly useless, especially if you go straight to mythrix and don't loop, you'll probably not have a lot of leeching seeds, bungus is only good on one survivor but it's good to run away from a tough situation and heal up, wungus is just amazing for everyone except engi So my veridict, play however you like, but I've been finding that for the more "optimal" playstyle, at least for me, print everything that's healing, you'll get a ton of scrap that you can use on useful printers or the mythrix or newts item soups

Did so much damage to mithrix as rail gunner on eclipse it skipped his last phase.

Merc is my absolute favorite survivor cause like yeah he ain't the best, but damn is he fun and engaging to play. The feeling of slicing through enemies while just barely having your cooldowns recharge in time to save your ass is just so exhilarating for me

3:15 "I mean what survivor can do this?" Captain, for one. Arguably Rex as well.

I used to main Arti until SOTV came out, then I switched to Railgunner with a side of Hunt. I didn't really understand why I wasn't having a great time with Arti until I realised that Rail is just a better Arti: -Arti's M1 was always a weakspot for her while Rail's is annoying at times but way more useful both early and late is more runs -Arti's M2 was her main dmg but the Nano Bomb always felt sluggish to me so I'd stick with spear which is way under dps compared to either of Rail's M2s assuming you're hitting the weakspots (I usually run the HH44 over the M99 just so I can clear a bit easier earlier) -Arti's Utility is probably the only point I'd give over Rail just because of how strong that ice wall is while Rail's Concussion bombs are great mobility only being able to use 1 instantly without items weakens it imo (slow field feels too cramped to justify taking it while sacrificing mobility). Haven't tried it yet, but Strides of Heresy on Rail might be a good pickup but would hinder vertical movement height with the Concussion. But we can compare Arti's Utility to Rail's Special Cryocharge, which would need to pierce 4 enemies before dealing less dmg but can continue piercing to proc the freezing effect which makes it better imo -Arti's Special is her mobility (not taking flamethrower as range feels too short, especially with SOTV and the new flying enemies, and too limiting for her mobility with a restrictive use case in combat) which is good and all but requires movespeed to be able to effective, however I'd say it is still better than the Concussion bombs as a get-out-of-jail-free mobility, while Rail's Special Supercharge is one of the highest single-hit dmging skills in the game (exceptions being Captain's DIABLO Strike and a stacked up Bandit's Desparado) and Cryofreeze which deals half Supercharge while applying freezing and not putting the rest of your skills on cooldown Sad days for Arti mains; I still like her design and kit a lot more than the other survivors

Artificer is in dire need of a rework/redesign. M1 is just awful to use due to its gimmicky recharges and low damage M2 shouldn't be cast after charging to max Shift is fine, although its placement-system is terrible. I'd suggest making it as a projectile with expanding freeze-AOE on hit. That way you can at least hit fliers. The M2 frosty spear sacrifices too much of arti power, to consider using. R - flamethrower is total sh. It adds alot of damage, but it's worthless without mobility. The R-jump is nice mobility passive - 'floating' makes artificer too slow, which wasn't big deal before, but with new flying mobs this is a death sentence. I kinda like playing arti, but why would i ever, if Loader does exactly the same stuff (big combo hits) but so, so SO much better and safer? Acrid is my 'es numeros uno' favourite survivor. His mobility is great and i love DoT in general.. But yeah both poison and blight are too weak to carry him. It's more like a bonus damage. Would be nice if he had some buffs to it. Also acrid bite (m2) and other type of leap is just awful and shouldn't be used. My biggest problem with Rex is its shift inconsistency. It uses physics to push mobs away, the closer mobs are, the stronger the push. Sounds great on paper, but overall because of it it has "3 pushing modes": enemy on top of rex = strong push, enemy close = weak push, enemy still in cone but far = no push at all. It's just too inconsistent to be reliable. Commando shows that hopoo doesn't care about "balancing" all that much. His M2 piercing shot always was and still is terrible, just awful. And.. devs didn't bother to ever adress it. How did they "fix" it? By just giving him a much better M2. That was the fix to terrible ability, ignore it and make a MUCH better one to pick. I don't care if commando is "starting" survivor. He should be just as viable as rest.

Best survivor? Commando. Why? Soldier's Syringe. But that's an item??? y e s

I like all the characters, but I agree with most thoughts on Commando. Which is sad, because from a gameplay pov, he is fun af. So I guess kudos to being a stepping stone, commando 🥴

I feel as though artificer being S teir is perfect due to the fact that her nano spear, which freezes, can freeze mithrix, so just a few of the extra mags for multuple spears and mithrix cant do much

Huntress main here, I feel as if huntress is always a hit or miss, vertical movement isn’t normally an issue since I play with the normal blink rather than phase blink. I personally feel as if where huntress truly shines is multiplayer. I run around a ~70% win rate on Huntress, and nearly every time it has been on multiplayer, she scales incredibly well with survivors like engineer, where the turrets allow for more distractions for the enemy, drawing agro away from her, which she needs, as she is incredibly squishy like you stated. If you loop as huntress, I nearly always get the most damage out of my party members purely because huntress triple shot with near full/full crit is easily one of the most broken survivors in the game. Unfortunately, most items are quite poor on her, so I would personally put her at the bottom/near bottom of A tier for looping, especially if you go to AoC if you’re looping.

I love playing E8 and I think your eclipse tier list is pretty good, but I do think you’re underrating commando. His M1 is (arguably) the best in the game Like you mentioned, commando has damage and mobility. He’s missing healing but healing doesn’t really matter on E8 because damage is permanent anyways, it’s much more about playing careful and not getting hit, which commando is good at. Also totally go ranged build on merc

I love the merc gameplay on the commando segment LOL

thanks for saying their names. I always have videos in the background lol

i just realized the new glasses is a hidden buff for bandit, the crit passive always becomes useless within one loop but the removal of easy 100% crit increases its value

Commando was buffed and he’s actually really quite good no

haven't really got a "main" survivor i like to play, but it sounds like engineer is a fun pick. maybe i should play him once in a while 🤔thanks for this extraordinarily objective video that has now become my religion

I've been excited for this video :I

With this list I'm beginning to understand why you get so many doubters

Two things about the captain that don't think you talked about. One he is dog s*** in the void losing most visibilities and in an expansion steamed around void, that hurts. And if you have Mom's credit card you can hack multi shots and one go. Slightly better than trying to chance

On mercenary, if you get 6 purities, you can permanantly spam his default special for infinite s

As far as commando goes, I find he works REALLY well early game (at least it bumps his damage by a lot for when it’s needed) if you can get an essence of heresy

I would maybe bump merc up to bottom of A tier (assuming you know the exposed transfer tech) but other than that good list. And yes I know I'm immediately proving your point about merc mains, shut up.

Another reason why void fiend is good on eclipse is because self-healing negates eclipse 1's half health start and has 2 abilities that negate fall damage on eclipse 3 (m1 and shift)

Most people think artificial was nerd in this update, but she was actually buffed. Yeah, she is not the only person with the execute mechanic but now she can use her ion surge, combined with another item that starts with the letter H and is in the red tier to basically annihilate anything also becomes easier to do this things to void fuel cell because it allows more height and combining that red item will allow you to basically do as much damage as captains utility

As a commando main I agree with your placement for him on the eclipse tierlist [eclipse to hard :(] but I'd argue that he's actually quite good at looping. Early game he does low damage with his primary fire but the low cooldown on both his secondaries means he can either burst down golems or insta kill wisps. plus his barrage inflicts stun so he can stall and avoid damage well. He also has a very strong trait on his movement ability being that he can attack while sliding allowing him to maintain speed and dps. (also 1.0 proc coefficient go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

can someone explain to me how Captain’s nuke skips Mithrix pillars?

I like power mode nail gun multi, I like doing the shoot thing and the sonic boom effect of nail gun shot gun effect is useful for getting around and avoiding damage.

I love that loader gameplay you showed, I was like how is loader not higher? It’s literally a skill issue lmao

“These characters are the best, because I like them and refuse to learn others” bruh at least Woolley doesn’t straight up lie in his tier lists. Engi has NO movement and NO healing “but bungus.” What about loaders highest mobility in game along with extremely high damage? Not to mention her barrier for defense which admittedly isn’t healing but like come on bro Rex has all three stats you talk about but he isn’t good I guess although captain is who also doesn’t have healing OR mobility. Why did you make a big deal about healing, mobility, and damage and then not show information to even back it up other then void boy?

Can you please make a survivor feet tier list? It's for research purposes

Engineer carried me to my first few successful runs. Was using the mobile turret variant, and the things literally backwalked away from Mythrix and just bullied the guy. That was hilarious to watch.

Artificer is all around S for me because nobody can hit her when she's floating 5 stories above. And also because no, one execution after 5 second charge-up and with 15 seconds of cooldown on railgunner is *not* making artificer redundant. Just freakin stack backup mags and syringes, and you can execute *anything* in *any* quantities with spears. They also do a ton of damage in general.

Here is a cool little idea, maybe do some runs with those survivors you say you "can't think of a way to make them work" instead of just guessing, like why make a video about personal opinion that was formedwithout experience

It is honestly criminal how much you underrate commando so much. He's not anywhere near that bad. He isn't the best survivor but he's honestly one of my top 3 and is super fun for me so I completely disagree but I don't play eclipse so idk there

I tried playing mercenary again for once the other day. Hadn't played him for a long time, just basically enough to get all his unlocks. I was just astounded by how little damage he does. I was playing with artifact of vengeance and my umbra and myself couldn't even kill each other. It's such a shame because he'd have such a fun kit if he actually did any damage. Its nuts how there are some survivors that kill bosses from stage one in less than 10 seconds and some basically take over a minute.

I started the game fairly recently, but so far, i can say that Bandit is my favorite, but then again, he is the only hero I have that isn't commando or huntress, so far

I've been maining the Void Fiend since I unlocked it and definitely one of the strongest options available. Really great for multiplayer too since you can leave some healing items for friends on early stages and rely on suppress.

I was in a 16 player simulacrum server, and everybody decided to go engi except for a single loader. the server also had item sharing on, and somebody got bungus. the run ended after some umbras spawned and, well, ended the run.

11:10 The Captain has Agile attacks for the most part. The Artificer also charges her normal moves during sprint too.

Oh boy the bit about Mercenary's invincibility reminds me of RoR1 Loader runs. One of his abilities was literally just invincibility

In the looping tier list huntress and merc should definitely be in S tier, huntress has one of the best mobilities in the game with her triple blink and does great damage with balista and her bouncy attack, super easy to use and incredibly strong. Merc takes a little more time to learn but once you get brainstalks on him you can have perma uptime on his i frames because youre constantly killing elites, its literally one of the most broken ability - item interactions in the game and makes you invincible, just saying. (I've heard this is possible with other item combinations too so...)

I really hope they fix REX popping safer spaces by his own abilities... Like Tougher Times doesn't ever proc on you when you use abilities.... so why does safer spaces? Also can they increase the threshold on the Wanering Vagrant legendary item? I always try and abuse it when I play REX but find myself dying a lot.

released on a Thursday. classic. engi is my favorite too and I just have been too distracted with Elden Ring to play the expac. viend looks super dope and I am looking forward to reaping the benefits of my money.

Appreciate the readout for the “background noisers” out there

As engi, I ranked every boss in the game without moving. All I had to do was get the mushroom that heals when standing still, and just stand with my turrets.

My two fav survivors are the bandit and captain as I love the mobility and damage of bandit and lights out can be really satisfying if you get some high streaks going and I love the captin because tactical nuke

Personally my favorite thing to do as the bandit and why they are my personal favorite is To what I call pistol Pogo where you use his dash while in air so it launches you up a bit more and then you take out a weekend I mean using your pistol and if it insta kills it really charges your pistol and your dash and you dash again jumping up higher again and then you continue the processing how high you can get just make sure not to use your dash if there's no more enemies around else you'll fall as an addition to this if you have an enemy which you can get weakened in a few shots of the shotgun you can try and do those mid-air dad a little bit of flair.

captain has one movement abilty. you can skip pillers on moon with the meme strike.

Bro you have fun playing engi, I take literal short naps when so get my setup

As someone who likes rex, when Eclipse came around, you have no idea how much it hurt to read the later effects because its just WHY. Why completely fillet one of your survivors like a fish to be conpletely irrelevant. It hurts so much, Rex easily belongs in C tier for elcipse 8 runs.

Played the hunter with the new blue that reduces cooldowns by 50%. Literally was just invis the whole entire time

We have very similar tastes. I essentially agree with nearly all of this (the exception is that I don't enjoy melee and up-close characters).

I used to main commando until I got tired of losing and played mul-T I do wish they would buff some of the worse characters like giving commando agile for his M1 and M2 or changing huntress auto aim to instead just be homing projectiles and regular aiming just minor changes like that

quick question I just installed risk of rain 2 is there a way to keep the survivors base look like without items(it looks weird having a mushroom on captain)while still having items,i would like to know if there is a way with out mods

This might sound stupid but honestly I sometimes like commando. Not because I think he's strong he isn't. But I feel he most embodies the idea of the game where you start out with nothing and depending on items, gain more and more power. Where some survivors are just looking for one or two items that make them broken, commando loves attack speed, bleed builds, great at proc chains, needs mobility, needs healing, needs survivability, likes shorter cooldowns. Essentially every item you get makes him better and playing him can end up a few different ways depending what is enhanced. Then you feel so much better when you get good items and start to turn him into a beast.

mercenary is at least low a-tier looping, even with bad item rng it’s easy to do the first and second loops, plus you basically get to start the game with 7 teddy bears, though a minor damage buff would push him up to mid-high A-tier