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C'mon Shuff, we all know that the REAL #1 couple is Hellion and me Please let me have this I'm so lonely

I always found it strange yet wholesome for Leper and Jester. You would expect jester hating any monarchy for his treatment yet we all know that Baldwin would never go so low. Jester might even see Leper as a King he would still play to. And Leper in process has motivating taste of his own life to stand fast and protect his people.

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I'm surprised you didn't throw in Jester/GR as the second GR combo, with Jester's consistent token generation for GR's crits, and both never getting in the way of eachother's movement. Getting the other two team members right might be a bit harder because of their movement, but they play off of eachother incredibly well, in my opinion.

cadaver caravan is my favorite Team RN. It may not be the best, but it is so fun to have a character that studys the dead, a character that robs the dead, a character that wants to be dead, and a character that SHOULD be dead.

One thing I want to point out that I think gets overlooked is Man-At-Arms works really good with a Scourge Squad (Alchemist PD, Deadeye GR with Darts, and Scourge Flagellant) due to Strategic Withdrawal being an underrated complement for Mastered Sepsis vs high hp enemies. You don't need to spam it due to the longer cooldown of Sepsis, but it does give you a combo token for one big nuke on turn 2 or 3 after the rest of the crew has stacked up comical amounts of blight for Flagellant to abuse with Sepsis without clearing it while also having a tanky character to cover the lower HP of Alchemist & GR. Not something you need on all the time mind you but something to remember you have available.

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as someone still playing DD1, DD2 sounds so weird, but the possibility of running different archetypes of the same character seens really fun, i liked the idea of a damage oriented occultist for one

Watching after my jester beat the shit out of my plauge doctor. Bastard can land crits, but only on allies.

One duo I had a lot of success with is Vestal and Occultist, specifically with Burning Stars spam. Getting a Burning Stars with a strength token for like four turns in a row vaporises most encounters, and was how I beat Obsession for the first time.

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I want to name the duos here just for fun. Feel free to add your own to the comments. Obligatory big empty space for those who want to watch the video first without spoilers. Doctor and Patient. (PD+Flag, guess who is who.) The Bourassas (HWM is Chris Bourassas favorite and GR default name is the name of Bourassas wife) The King and the Clown (self-explanatory if you know both backstories). Science of Magic (PD is the scientist, Occu is the mage) The Helpful Advisor (Occultist looks similar to the Lepers old advisors, so it is not hard to imagine him as being the only good and loyal one Leper had). Cultural Exchange (Holy nun meats tribal warrior) The Survivalists (Both know how to survive on their own) The King and the Pauper (also self-explanatory) The Swiss Army Performer (ok, seriously this one is a cop-out) The Militia commander (yeah, naming "one + everyone else" comps is hard)

I think Jestal is way better than the first game. You can go T1 Solo and Light on rank 1, then turn 2 you finale and due to the speed token, you always go first, ensuring that someone else also gets the benefit of the light consecration since jester goes back to rank 4. It can be the shell of a neat dance team, and that's before you mention having both forms of recovery without being as passive as this combo was in the first game. Some things worth mentioning as well, GR plus HWM can enable double lunge if you want to go that route, and PD+Flag has the alternative route of flag going with Maniac, letting you concentrate all the negative tokens onto one guy for disgusting IS heals

Awesome idea for a video. I'm curious if you're planning on doing more region-specific guides like the one you did for the Sprawl? I'm finally feeling OK-ish with building teams and stuff but still not super comfortable knowing how certain enemy/boss mechanics work. Also I don't know how to route a lot of my runs since sometimes it's out of my control. Some kind of guide on which teams/skills to take for certain regions + bosses would be rad!

This is precisely why jester is the second best character in the game (second only to MMA) purely because of encore and all the shenanigans that it can help realize. Interestingly enough the helion-jester combo is one of my favourites because encore NOT ONLY ALLOWS FOR THE MOVE TO BE USED RIGHT AFTER HIM BUT IT ALSO TRIGGERS THE COOLDOWN ONE TURN EARLIER. Honorable mention goes to arsonist RW (i finally found a way to make her work!) that's placed on position two. Add in a plague doctor on position four and you have amazing coverage! My turn one is usually encore>swan>firefly (amazing move removes pesky dodge/ guard tokens)> plague grenade> howling end for the finisher. By turn two the enemy team is downright shredded and then the fire bomb on the iron swanned target (which gives a combo when upgraded!) comes in to finish the job. Thank you so much for your content, huge fan of your videos!

I just beat DD2 a week ago! Thank you ShuffleFM for all your guides, couldn't have done it without you. One duo I think is pretty good is Hellion + Occultist Hellion in position 1 can deal good melee damage to enemy positions 1, 2, and 4. But she can't hit position 3, and she doesn't have corpse-clearing abilities Occultist can Daemon pull enemies from the back to the front for Hellion to hit, clear corpses, and combo them for Hellion to hit for extra damage! And for boss fights, Hellion's Howling End combined with Occultist's Falling Stars, BOOSH, if you get CRITS, you will be doing 100+ damage with just these two!

Will try these combos, thanks for the tips.

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Great video as usual!

'Humble' is a loaded word shuffle

Cant wait to try these comps only do end up getting double shuffled from ambush and docker. 👌

Super helpful! I have to think how to apply this knowledge with the 3rd boss. It's KICKING MY ASS. Thrice so far

Looking forward to more tier lists like skills tier lists and enemy tier lists

17:10 shuffle had PTSD from wasting 3 turns just to have malediction get resisted

Really interesting video. seen the team i used to get Hard Mode and Grand Slam represented allot. PD alchem, Occultist Warlock, Man Van, Hellion Rav. Try it out if u havent

its path specific but jester and runaway has a really fucking neat combo. survivor + intermezzo whenever you want to heal someone, you can force a bleed using a play in or out skill. more fun yet is if you add highway man and graverobber to make a true dance comp.

Fire content per usual

Been waiting for this one... Let him COOK

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i really like vestal and leper as well for the strength tokens

Love how two of the duos are just [busted-ass character] + [anybody else]

When I unlocked cruel intend (if I'm not wrong) the dark impulse trinket that gives a 66% crit chance if blind. I build a team of Leper, Rumaway, Jester and occultist and BOI it does feel good hitting crit Leper almost every turn

Running Cauterize on Runaway who's sole purpose is arson and NOT letting Plag write autopsy reports is fucking gross.

My Comp 4 = Vestal Seraph (Heal and Buffs) 3 = Plague Doctor Surgeon (Sup 2 / Clear Corpses / Melee and situational ranged damage) 2 = Jester Soloist (Stress Heal and Move Control) 1 = Dismas Rogue (a 40dmg Point Fkng Blank Shot)

Occultist + Runaway: Occultist tries to heal a teammate and they bleed Runaway can cure the bleed and get a extra heal on your tank so bleeding becomes a good thing. Also because they are good combo markers they synergize by feeding eachother tokens or giving tokens for other teammates. Highwayman + Man-At-Arms: Both have the only ripostes in the game and they can get a lot of damage output and tanking for the front, and Highwayman can use pointblank shot and then MAA uses strategic withdrawel to put Highwayman back to rank one for another point blank shot which would be good for his Rouge Path. Also MAA can token the second unit with strategic withdrawel and dismas can stun it with pistol shot or dismas use point blank shot and MAA stuns it with shield.

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Love your channel Darkest dungeon of the best games ever made

I'm so fond of jester, he's so cunty fr. So entertaining to watch him move! This game really is so beautiful to look at (and gross on most occasions (

I can see ShuffleFM is a fan of Lepper. Best duo for Lepper is MAA, because he removes blind, give strength buff, apply combo token and tanks better. Second best duo is OC and RW, great phisical and dot ranged dmg plus synergy in healing, one apply bleeding and the other removes it. Easy full life heal. Vestal and MAA, duo guard with mantra is great.

Really liked Hellion and PD, on ravager the hellion bleeds randomyl and then PD can heal and remove bleed. Blinding Gas lets Hellion just kill the front linwe with Howling End like she should be and if you are blessed enough to have a Jester then encore can let hellion Toe to Toe and is close to doing it all again

Jester and leper enough said also hellion and leper also work well together

And this is why Occultist - Runaway - Leper - Hellion is one of my favourite teams. Synergy up the wazoo. Blight is the other. Any other equally synergistic teams out there?

I only recently realised that the lore reason behind Leper having accuracy issues is because the leprosy messes with his vision/eyes. I just thought it was difficult to hit with that huge chunk of a sword. Speaking of, in the lore for the Leper, when he goes to his blacksmith to get his sword made, why does he get this huge ass sword, especially when he is already weakened and suffering from leprosy???? You don't need that big of a sword to fight some old puny traiterous advisors! Unless the Leper specifically requested for this size of a sword, just to flex on his assassins.

Encore into double plague grenade+ with favorite toy is just so fucking disgusting. What is that... 10 damage a turn for both backlines + around 4-5 from the 2 hits. Thats like both cheerubs turn 1

I know everyone on here's sharing about their favourite team-ups but I just wanna share that I beat the third act of the last boss with only Scourge Flagellant left alive and the boss at 700 hp. I had the Misstep trinket equipped that gives +75% max hp and -50% dmg so with a belly full of food Flag was sitting on 98 max hp and with some inn buffs to healing received he would not die. What did it was the amount of toxic meltdowns (prob. like 12-13 I think) I mean dude had a -130% dbr at the end of it but the boss just couldn't get him down to 0 hp without him healing from either More! More! or skipping a turn. Turns out the healing for skipping resets after meltdowns and sometimes flag gets lucky and heals from it. Blight dmg got up to 40+ dmg per turn and I was doing 54-90 dmg with Sepsis every couple of turns. I genuinely think you could consistently solo the last Boss with Scourge flagellant with a little bit of setup.

Sup shuffle it’s y’all

I still dont have an Idea why people think exanimate flagellant is Beter then scourge flagellant. Scourges deathless is Just so good and He is still a damage sponge with damage output

BH not being in this vid is quite sad, bro is alone

Doesnt hellion keep the damage boost from low health for the fight even if you heal her?

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you can put plague doctor anywhere to be honest

Idea for a video, best abilities in DD2, you take the 3 best of the whole cast is too long.

err...maaaalediction

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Shuffle is my dad

Enemies tier list when? 🤔

where is abomination?

Leper??? Slow?!?!

oh my god why does he just go on and on and on and on about the same thing, this man is a professional at stretching a 2 minute topic to 20 minutes and it's not even that fun to watch

Shuffle has the hustle that solidifies him as the premier educator for DD2. This game kicks your ass, even when your great at it and to make content weekly shows that the Resolute chance is high! Hope they freshen this up with updates soon, after having all candles and trying for stygian grandslam the game feels empty and just like a bad relationship 🥲

Wish they’d add housemaster or musketeer for another back line character because vestal is too busy casting concentrations instead of out putting dps