Survival Build Tips | How to not suck at Dead Cells | Part 2 

One other good piece of advice for Survival builds: As stated in the video, Survival main-hand weapons are typically slower than other Brutality or Tactics main-hand weapons. If you feel confident enough in your “don’t get hit” skills, going for a cursed chest or a no-hit boss fight and getting a colorless or legendary weapon out of it can be a huge boon to a Survival run. Some of the strongest Survival builds are ones where you don’t even have equipment that originally scales with Survival, since, with a fast attacking colorless weapon, you get the strength of extra health without the weakness of slow attacks!

You forgot the best survival thing: our best boy, mushroom boy

One thing to consider is the route that you are going to take, based on your equipment. Meele stuff only? Maybe skip the Ossuary, which is full of Thornys and slashers. Ranged build? Skip biomes with closed quarters an lots of monsters. An for the Survival build: You need some way to deal with flying monsters like bats and biters.

I once got a legendary lightning bolt after beating the concierge no hit and I reforged it to 100% more damage and 50% more damage on max hp. I used it on 2 bsc and won my first no hit hand of the king fight. Full survival with the punishment, sinew slicer and wolf traps.

Nice work! Something important to note is the utility of AoE shields (Blood, Punishment, Thunder, etc) in providing important mob management since Survival's slowness can often struggle in these situations. Shields also give you status inflictions which can better help with building synergy with your main hand weapons.

I am starting work on the Brutality build video today. I will have it completed this week. Maybe even today if I REALLY get into the groove!

Here's a TL;DR for quick reference: 1. Survival is the best build for practicing your shield skills. 2. Be mindful of crit combos. Nutcracker crits when the target is frozen, rooted or stunned. Picking Frost Blast as secondary and Ice Bombs, Stun Grenades or Traps as skills is a good combo with the Nutcracker. But keep in mind that freeze doesn't work so well on bosses. 3. It is recommended to stick to survival or colorless mutations, and get the Ammo mutation if you wish to use the crossbow. Necromancy is a great mutation of newbies.

Great content man. You deserve way more exposure!

as stated bellow by someone else colorless weapons exsist for every weapon. so you can have a weapon thats normally brutality only, but when its colorless it will stack with survival. colorless weapons stack with what ever skill is the highest making some really good meshing.

I did a really nice Nutcracker build once though it was a brutality in where I had a Nutcracker with a colorless Frostbreath, Ice Grenade and Root grenade with 175% extra damage to frozen enemies and 20% extra damage on a critical hit for my Nutcracker.

I tend to go tactics builds, love repeater crossbow with armadillo pack mutation

10:09 not a single hit until...

I'm still on 0 bsc, but I've been having fun spamming Ice Shards with the DoT from the Frostbite mutation

I got to the hand of the king the first time on my like 5th run (took me much longer to get back, I didn’t even have all the upgrades yet, I had an invisibility collar as well) with a survival build by getting a poison based pair of boots that had like an auto parry when attacking somehow? Also had some crazy attack animations, then had a shield that did 80-100% extra damage when poisoned, and every enemy I hit was poisoned and when they died they exploded in a cloud of poison so it was just a chain reaction. It was nuts, haven’t been able to replicate the insane luck again though, only like 30 runs into the game though.

Not sure if the game is easier or something but started playing last night and already making it pretty far, Was going for a Frost Genade and hammer build just doing massive damage, Got super lucky and when I killed one of Golem Guardians I got a stun/frost shield at every block

i maxed out my brutality with some occasional survival and i somehow beat the hand of the king lmao

So you said in another video that you should pick a color and stick with it. So I did. I had mostly green items and I went all in on green scrolls. But by the time I reached the Hand of the King, I only had maybe 5-6k health. I did decent damage but I was nowhere near the “Tank” that was insisted I would become. He took me out very fast and I was only able to get him down to about 60% health. This game is rough....

based on the likes these appear to be severely underrated videos

Im playing brutality, so idk about survival builds, it does sound good but i cant go with slow weapons.

the survival build is the best build in the game and what i us all the time actually.

Tip: if you have bad seed dlc, and you wanna do a ton of dps and you’re not great with shields, use the scythe claws build.

I suck at this game lmao 50+ runs and i still haven't beat the last boss im watching this video to get better

ty bro

Hey only new to the game as of yesterday, can you choose which weapon you have unlocked from the very start??? Cause when I go to options it says weapons available, just wondering am I missing something

OOF 10:09

‘Heart of ice doesn’t get a lot of love’ Isn’t it widely regarded as one of the best mutations in the game?

I recently got into Dead Cells (better late than never lol). Is the advice in these videos still valid 2 years later?

I don't like how dead cells is kinda rng based because unless you find a power scroll or a tonic early you won't survive or at least that's what's happened to me so far

I'm playing on the android version (using a BT controller) and I did not get the Flint after defeating Concierge. Isn't a guaranteed drop?

Wen I start playing on dead cells I used survival scrolls and I balance weapons Wen I unlock katana I use brutality in main I love Ty’s game I played 210h I started playing one year ago hahaah

How about how to survive dead cells 3BC

Just bought this game and it's tough. I've only beaten the bridge boss once 😒

i just start this beautiful game, i have just on question what is your though about curse chest ? Worth it ?

Tonic + root, bam!

I think Survival was EZ mode pre-1.9. Bosses might have been more tricky, but all you really needed to do was sneak up on all the enemies and get some CC skills like Ice Grenade as your subs while Necromancy healed you back up really easy in the late game. Also, Dual Scythes and Bouzouki was way too good and easy to unlock. My BSC 1-3 wins were all Survival. This is totally irrelevant now, though.

Your sword doesn't need to be able to hit twice if you one shot everything

I dont know how but in my 5 run I won a boss fight lol 😂.... I myself didn't even expect that i would win

How to have 17k health? I just played the game, survival build, havent cleared once.. Run easy through the dungeon but last boss always 2/3 shot me to 1 health.. Do i really need perfect run fighting the last boss?

I'm confused... I can use both crossbows and shield ?

What is the room with the pipes at 5:15

We gonna talk about the mistake at 10:08?

Use✍ shield✍ use ✍shield ✍used ✍the ✍goddamn ✍shield✍

4:47 Voice going down xD

1:24 you missed a rif

5:48😂

There are basically three survival builds: 1) Shield plus some one-handed weapon 2)Crossbow bang bang 3)Whatever the Tick Claw is

Really bugs me you passed up that rift at 1:24 lol

I really appreciate the tips but the truth is I really suck on the game!!😣

And then the baseball bat came and there was no reason not to play survival

Whats the best weapon to kill the king of hand or whatever

i...i'm n o t going on the dead cells subreddit = P