To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more One and 19 more Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip 21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron, big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
Here's a quick tip: get at least 1 Crowbar in the early game so you can one shot Wisps, Bettles, and Lemurians with your R even when they're at full hp. And If you get 2 Crowbars you can one shot them in their elite form.
Especially with the nerf to tritips, it was so weird to watch myself prioritizing crowbars over tritips in multishops lmao. Hot take, go all-in on a crowbar printer and just press R for the rest of the run :^)
i just spam utility and r. utility damages and r resets it. Bandit is busted, he can put out insane area damage with resets and crazy single target damage on bosses cuz of his right click
Fun fact: If like me originally you were having trouble unlocking Bandit's alternative for his dagger and can't get the 20 stacks on an enemy before they die.. your own friends can work as well, just as long as you turn on friendly fire. Truly earned the challenge name "Bandit: Sadist" indeed.
Alternatively use artifact of command and get 19 or so backup mags, then just dump on a boss. Takes a bit longer than some of these other methods though.
@@48Mei I got 19 backup mags and thought of this when the update first came out, but nope. I had 23 stacks on Newt and it didn't work, so I just looped after that
Extra tips: -Attack speed also increases the speed you shank and the windup of your R -Killing with R resets ALL cooldowns, including all stacks of backup mag and afterburner -Hardlight afterburner let’s you fly
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero I'd love to see more survivors that aren't from the first game. Maybe if they add 1 returning survivor and 1 completely new survivor in future DLC.
It is worth noting: M2 is scary dangerous if there is something that existed which could give you 1 additional use as a white item and be stacked near infinitely and you had something which could instantly refresh cooldowns. *Enemies will start to melt* Sure you won't be behind them every 4 secs like clockwork but since you're getting crits 90% of the time... you'll probably be behind them around every 4 seconds.
I had a run where I had 10 soldier syringes and 25 backup mags (I was trying to unlock his throwing knife) and I melted bosses like crazy I just had horrible mobbing and couldn't deal with imps and other dangerous close range mobs.
Fun fact: his original R fully automatic as long as you press the button and kill something, so you don't need to see another animation of him getting a gun out
@@cheeseman4199 Lol the game was basically shoving this into my face on my first run using him, had a crowbar 3d printer on the first stage and ended up leaving it with 6 of them.
Yeah, all the annoying wisp? Dead in 1 shot. Glad this skill is much stronger in RoR 2 since you can aim and not limited to in front of you like in RoR 1.
@@jbreitz87 I had two! COUNT THEM! 2! One on stage 1 and another on 4. And used neither, because I was (and still am) new to the game and a tier list I watched said they weren't all that great.
Focus crystals are also a good investment, as more often than not, you're going to be close to your enemy, especially bosses. It turns smoke bomb into a mini nuke with a ukelele.
Brainstalks syngergizes very well with Desperado (secondary special). A few stages in when there's a bunch of elites, just killing one of them will let you kill a bunch of enemies with Desperado, letting you easily get tokens. When you have a decent amount of tokens and/or crowbars, you'll also be oneshotting the elites, getting perma up-time desperado and gaining a lot of stacks.
@@kleox5452 "We’re also glad to announce that we have a new, internal team at Gearbox that is focused on continuing to bring all future content of Risk of Rain 2 to our console players with even closer parity to our PC version of the game. While the Anniversary Update will be staggered from PC releases like before, our goal with Expansion #1 is to ship on all platforms at the same time. We can’t guarantee 100% that we will achieve that - its something we’ve admittedly never done before - but that’s our goal." This is what he's referring to.
Man, I got distracted by how well this was made and had to rewind it 30 seconds. Like, wow. This is better than any official guide or tutorial any games company could hope to produce. You really killed it while keeping it entertaining, short, and above all: informative.
it's just information you find in the game. Idk what you are talking about. It's extremely basic you can discover most of this in within the first couple hours of gameplay
@@mercenaryman1102 I watched the Mercenary really rocks video to check if you actually typed the “I’m coming for you comment”. Also let’s go mercenary gang.
so not mentioned in the video is an interesting way to play bandit by getting a few purity you can basically permanently stay cloaked and be untargetable, you can even cancel your cloak with another cloak making you an untargetable splash damage machine.
yee and you can perma fly with cloak spam and if you stack 100% crit and 1 mag you can spam out hemorrhage stacks so fast. definitely my favorite way to play him
I had a multiplayer run where I got a purity and alien head to get perma stealthed. Then I found a couple loops in that you could use a crowdfunder while in stealth. Those were the 2 turning points in the run for me, where I started surviving stages and started doing non-negligible damage.
for those who like desperato, here's a bunch of tips that might be useful! -the 10% is multiplicative, not additive, meaning 10 stacks of desperato deals DOUBLE your 600% damage, not 700%. and 30 stacks means quadruple that 600% damage, this is why both bands are insane in this dude, but especially with desperato -if you manage to get a brilliant behemoth, the explosion from the behemoth also counts as desperato kills, meaning, if you black hole 8 beatles and one-shot them with BB, you'll get 8 stacks of desperato, this might with with ukelele but I havent tested it yet. -one commenter already said this, but 1/2 crowbars is more than enough to get your stacks going, especially against beatles and elite wisps -has much less range than his M1 rifle, you cannot reach sky meadows monsters till you get a bit close enough to them -get purity and this becomes your main source of damage
I love bandit, and his starting kit is probably one of the best in the game, aside from his secondary, which I always replace with the new heresy item anyways.
@@williammagsambol2143 hooks of heresy, it replaces your second skill with an orb that you charge and shoot, wooly mentioned it in one of his recent videos
Bandit's invisibility spoiled my muscle memory so much that I was spamming the orbital strike on the ground thinking that I will go invis and save my life from the overloading brass contraption chasing me.
Tip for Light's Out: Hold down the "R" key when clearing wisps. Bandit will keep his revolver out and continue firing as long as you maintain the kill chain. This scales with attack speed. [I lean towards Desperado, but both are amazing]
One really important part of his playstyle that I discovered that you didn't mention is that Smoke Bomb isn't just utility, its an incredibly powerful offensive tool. I consider it Bandit's strongest skill, and the best tool for groups of enemies. The most important tip is to make sure to use it in the air. Run at a group of enemies, jump and activate smoke bomb. This will send you sailing over their heads and hit most of them with the first charge of smokebomb. While still above them, hit your R, triggering the second use of smoke bomb, which will almost certainly lower an enemy within range of your execute. This then resets your cooldowns, letting you repeat this rotation over and over. Smoke Bomb is also incredibly powerful with on hit items, particularly ukuleles. Also don't forget that smokebomb is also triggered by backstab, which can make the 200% x 2 attack instead be 400% x 2.
hell yeah. my favorite part of bandit is running up to a group of wisps, using smoke bomb to double jump, and then combo-ing revolver --> cooldown rest --> double jump.
There is a red item that grands you two more charges and faster colddown for utility skill, man is insane, you can spam it, run away or anything you want since is literally versatile
Haven't managed yet to unlock the second ability, but for the default, stacking mags, then crits, then predatory instincts, right click goes brrr. People believe it takes long for recharge 20 stacks of the secondary, until you realize you can kill a monster with lights out and refresh ALL of the stacks. I wonder if the secondary is the same but with range.
Yep, it works the same way - a reset will reset all of the stacks; the main difference is that one is AoE and a bit more damage, while the other is much easier to land and use since it's thrown. Also, if you want the achievement, you just need to get 9 backup mags, go to a tanky boss, use them, reset with R and do it again; alternatively you can get 19 and just spam.
Side side note - afterburner is wild as a mobility tool to supplement secondary builds with Bandit. Since using them doesnt break your sprint, you can have pretty amazing verticality by chaining stealth and knive usage to pop yourself up, and then Lights Outing to instantly refill your stealth charges (if you ever start getting low on secondary charges to stall your air time). It was unbelievably fun "flying" above a map without a single hopoo feather and only a couple of energy drinks to my name for movement items.
I find that bringing 3 purities and desparato is a really fun build on bandit. Of course, you say goodbye to proc chance, but you get so much damage from desparato that it eventually doesnt matter.
Lights out is devastating when chaining stealth executions. The ranged dagger is just better than the melee. The single rifle does "less damage" but you don't miss pellets, it's 100% accurate, and it gives waaaaay better procs. Rifle all the way. Edit: also, you can fly if you time your stealth jumps right chaining lights out. Just get a crowbar or a bunch of wisps
@@erinbarr762 i mean the proc coefficient may be 0.5 but if you combine all five pellets it reaches something like 0.97 which is extremely close to the rifle. Plus the shotgun works better when you cap things since you’re looking at 40 health per shot vs 8 with the scythe as an example
@@thatguyyouhate3743 and that 0.5 per pellet demolishes the other one with one clover throw in the mix. Also more total damage in general, is true you are sacrificing the range, but up close the shotgun is the strongest. So they work as their gun type sugest.
I LITERALLY was just playing bandit and wanted to check your channel for any tips/tricks to be better. It couldn't have been any better timing, he's been my favorite character to play thus far ! edit: "get from behind" "dump your load"
I really like the hemmorhage (I don't think I ever wrote that word ever) because it's more of a addition to the bandit rather than an actual attack. Something to use when things are on cooldown and behind the monsters anyway so why not just give a nice slice and dice and bleed them out. Slowly.
2 purities and 1 hard light afterburner allows you to stay invisible forever and also gives you infinite jumps. Combine that with a shit ton of shaped glass. The build makes you invisible to enemies for as long as you want, allows you to fly, and also eventually allows you to oneshot everything including the final boss.
I've always found the M2 to be useful in clearing swarms of small enemies/fodder that build up around you while fighting bosses, since it's the Bandit's only real splash damage attack. (this is particularly useful when utilizing Blast over Burst)
Really big bandit tip! Hardlight afterburner gives you near infinite invisibility if you dont break the invisibility early with 3 charges of your shift for those sticky situations!!!!
ngl secondary actually becomes decent when you have 100% crit. stack it with backup mags, and/or a purity clover combo, and it becomes a lot more consistent. still yeah depend a lot more on that primary skill and Lights Out/Desperado and use the stealth to bail outta bad positions or get into good ones.
Hemorrhage encourages building crit. 2,000 base dmg per stack is nothing to scoff at, even if it takes a while to get through that all. If you use Dagger and a few Backup Magazines, that's easily 8k bonus dmg on a boss. PLUS all stacks get refreshed on Lights Out, leading to another 8k. As long as the boss would normally take at least ~20s, you'll significantly speed it up.
Bandit is such a fun survivor to play as, might become my main. Also using Lights out on a group of wisps makes you turn into McCree, it's so fun going on a shooting spree with your revolver, blasting everything away with one shot.
This is the first time I played a survivor without a guide from Woolie beforehand. Before, there was either already a guide for them already or I hadn't unlocked them before Woolie's guide came out. This time, Bandit was already unlocked, so I jumped right in. I learned most of the tips on my own, but I still learned some things from this video, mainly the double tap tip. I am really enjoying Bandit. He's really fun to play. The fire and ice bands work really well with him btw. I'm not sure if you mentioned it.
not played any games in a while so not been on steam and just loaded it up today and saw him so goin to try to unlock now and give him a blast, and glad i saw this as i wanted to see if he was same as the old bandit from the 1st game. :D
For people who don’t, with Wandering Vagrants. There is a small triangle on their underside to signify their front, so just look at that when you are trying to get the backstab on them.
Sometimes, I just watch your videos because they're well put together and you have a flawless delivery... I don't even want to play RoR2 right now. Good stuff :)
3 things. 1. for those who like death mark builds with the artifact of command, hemorrhage is a valid debuff. That is why I use throwing knives. 2. purity on bandit too with 2-3 of them his special becomes primary fire. unlucky doesn't matter. 3. crowbars are actually meaty on bandit. if you find a crowbar printer, consider it. his special is very good with a few of them.
About hemorrhage. You will deal a stack of hemorrhage with any crit. If you have 100% crit chance, you will always get a hemorrhage stack on the enemy you hit with your secondary, whether or not you are getting a backstab. This is a good thing to know if you want to get the sadist unlock
Hardlight afterburner works wonders. Stacking crowbars w bandits secondary can 1 shot a lot of things. The name of the game for bandit is the crowbar for mobbing. Crowbar, AP rounds, Focusing Lense, ukulele, and gasoline. Nothing will live. Throw in hardlight afterburner and theyll never see you coming.
Artifact of command runs with desperado and crowbars are some of the most fun I’ve had in this game. Stack a brain stalks on that and you won’t even need to primary.
One thing I’d like to add to anyone coming down to the comments that didn’t seem like it was explained, your secondary ability (the knife) inflicts hemorrhage on any critical hit, not just a backstab. Meaning if you have capped crit, you can spam the hell out of your secondary for essentially another set of bleeds. I know this doesn’t become too relevant until later in the run, when this fact won’t be that important cuz stuff will be dying to fast anyway, but for any commandy andys out there, pick the alternate secondary, stack crit, and have fun with free bleeds
This character with his alternate kit is cracked. His alt primary is sooooo good, his alt hemorrhaging knife is much higher utility I think. I'm not sure his alt revolver is better than lights out but man stacking a bunch of desperados when you have low cooldowns is awesome. This guy is really fun.
purity x3 with desparado is basically a guaranteed win if ur not going for loops, especially since it's so easy to stack it up before the mithrix fight and then just spam a 3000% damage ability every half second
Bandit’s smoke bombs are easily his best ability. I ran a 5x purity stack and 20 x focus crystal stack and began shredding absolutely everything, and had the ability to fly. Plus, the constant invisibility and stunning meant that I never took any damage. A more optimal version could probably be made with brainstalks/afterburners but purity has an availibility factor if you go to the moon frequently.
Using lights out allows you to fly if you do this: - Use a smoke bomb mid-air - Cancel it with lights out - Kill an enemy with it to reset your cooldowns - Repeat It mostly works on stages like wetland aspect which has a lot of low health enemies that you can one-shot easily (Especially the jellyfish)
my favorite thing to do is run desperado and get 3 purity and one-shot everything and give up on proc items. works best when running command artifact and you don't even need to backstab to oneshot most thing.
I found the knife realy usefull at damaging and quickly killing a large number of small enemys around you thanks to its basicly AOE attack, Realy good swarm killer.
Purity on Bandit is mighty helpful since just one can decrease the cooldown on smoke bomb enough that its only 1s after the invisibility runs out and with 2 Purity you can use smokebomb immediately at the end of a full cloak. Grab on kill items tho since your proc chains will be shafted.
I have only started playing RoR for about a week, and have only unlocked Commando, Huntress, and Bandit, but goddamn Bandit feels so good to play. Chaining smoke bombs with Lights Out basically gives you a janky form of flight. I've still not gotten past my First loop, but I've only gotten to the 4th stage with Bandit
Get 3 purities with Shaped Glass on Desperado. You have a One shot .5 sec cooldown ability that gets stronger with each kill. Add in Bands, Crowbars and you won't mind the - luck as you're not bothering with on hit. 10x crit glasses is 100% for even more doubled damage.
I like to pick up a purity or alien head for him. Desperado on a half second cool down? Fun as hell, even if it's not practical the whole time. Not to mention the spamming of his invis, which doubles as a hopoo feather.
Something I'd like to add as a tip is not neglecting the smaller mobs while in a boss battle when you don't have enough dps to melt through the boss or not enough movement speed to dodge everything reliably without sprinting. Using your smoke bomb to get behind the boss and land 4 shots and maybe even a secondary if you're feeling like it is the ideal way to deal damage, but if you pop your R on the boss you definitely won't kill him right away, instead, quickly sniping a wisp/lemur/beetle or anything else you can oneshot to reset your smoke bomb makes it very easy to avoid a lot of damage, increase dps in the long run because of the higher frequency of R's and personally feels more badass. Of course, if you have enough dps to melt through the boss without him having a chance to pose any danger, or if you have enough movement speed to dodge everything without too much sprinting, it's not really relevant, but I prefer the safer method and it builds good habits imo.
A really fun thing you can do if there's a lot of wisps and beetles is to jump in the air cloak, Press R on the weak enemies, then cloak again and you can fly for a longggggg time
Dagger + a lot of mags = good short range clear at mid/late game. Can also be used while sprinting which can clutch save you when you try to get away from something dangerous and need to clear a path. Probably not a great skill to build for at the cost of other more useful items but still has some value.
You can get infinite hight if you pop smoke bomb and cancel it immediately by killing with the reset revolver shot, thus letting you repeat the smoke and kill
Getting one Hardlight Afterburner is super fun, you basically get infinite stealth if you let it last long, or you can reload the three stealth with one Lights Out
because he pretty much has guarateed crit and "bleed", i found it fun to stack a bunch of purity. bandit becomes the blinking assassin with how often i'm cloaking. downside is that there is still a split second where the monsters can detect you between smokes and will shoot at your last known location or general direction they saw you going. meaning there is still a chance of getting tagged and/or getting killed.
The hemorrhaging should be taken into mind that it procs from every critical strike, not from behind. If you stack glasses it is basically guaranteed bleed damage; additionally if you stack secondary mags, lights out will restore *all* of those stacks; I've found it majorly useful to gain the sadist achievement that way through dropping all my daggers into a boss, lighting out a wisp, and then pouring the rest in leading to some major damage output and quickly going over 20 stacks of hemorrhaging
All in all though, great guide as always! I'll keep items like the syringe in mind, I found that the predatory instincts really work miracles when it comes to reloading; pop an entire clip from behind and just watch that clip come back in instantly
I put this game down for a good while after I played it to death and sold my Nintendo switch. Realized two days ago that it's actually on all consoles now and I got it for my PS4..DIDNT EVEN KNOW THIS CHARACTER WAS ADDED...it is now my favorite hands down... I gotta unlock the captain
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To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more
One and 19 more
Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red
Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip
21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death
There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
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Here's a quick tip: get at least 1 Crowbar in the early game so you can one shot Wisps, Bettles, and Lemurians with your R even when they're at full hp. And If you get 2 Crowbars you can one shot them in their elite form.
Absolutely. Found this out myself, and does so much for him.
Especially with the nerf to tritips, it was so weird to watch myself prioritizing crowbars over tritips in multishops lmao. Hot take, go all-in on a crowbar printer and just press R for the rest of the run :^)
One brainstalks and 2 crowbars makes Desperado into a minigun.
Add the wedding bands + blast shower to the mix and you'll be one shotting most of them
i just spam utility and r. utility damages and r resets it. Bandit is busted, he can put out insane area damage with resets and crazy single target damage on bosses cuz of his right click
Bandit is my favorite melee character, just get 20 backup mags
That's literally the only way to do the godforsaken challenge to unlock his second secondary skill lol
Purity also really helps if you’re trying that challenge
He's my favourite one-shot character too, just get 2 purities and 15 crowbars with the alternate R 👉😎👉
@@kylemckell there is another way, that is stacking purity, To get the cool down to half a second
@@lula4260 this is fair. I don't know why I didn't think to do that lol
Fun fact: If like me originally you were having trouble unlocking Bandit's alternative for his dagger and can't get the 20 stacks on an enemy before they die.. your own friends can work as well, just as long as you turn on friendly fire.
Truly earned the challenge name "Bandit: Sadist" indeed.
3 purities makes the cool down half a second, same with the revolver
you can also play with other bandits to help each other stack the hemorrhage but only the one that last hits will get the unlock
Also works on the shopkeeper in the Bazaar if you’re fast enough before he kicks you out lol
Alternatively use artifact of command and get 19 or so backup mags, then just dump on a boss. Takes a bit longer than some of these other methods though.
@@48Mei I got 19 backup mags and thought of this when the update first came out, but nope. I had 23 stacks on Newt and it didn't work, so I just looped after that
Tip on bandit: If you say it's 12 o'clock when pressing R you get a 100% chance to hit and kill
McCree: "It's High Noon"
The day is halfway over
It's mid-day
it is not morning or afternoon
@@SulPonticellist Or night
Recommendation: when canceling smoke bomb for a hop, do it with your dagger swing (M2) because it's agile and won't exit sprint/halt momentum
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Figured that one out the moment I started playin’ him!
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Extra tips:
-Attack speed also increases the speed you shank and the windup of your R
-Killing with R resets ALL cooldowns, including all stacks of backup mag and afterburner
-Hardlight afterburner let’s you fly
Imagine what will be in the dlc if this is only the free update
I mean they did say new survivors meaning multiple and new stages and bosses so its pretty crazy
Hope enforcers one of them. I'd love to see how they'd handle turning it from 2d to 3d
Bring chef back babyyyy
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero I'd love to see more survivors that aren't from the first game. Maybe if they add 1 returning survivor and 1 completely new survivor in future DLC.
chef gang
It is worth noting: M2 is scary dangerous if there is something that existed which could give you 1 additional use as a white item and be stacked near infinitely and you had something which could instantly refresh cooldowns. *Enemies will start to melt*
Sure you won't be behind them every 4 secs like clockwork but since you're getting crits 90% of the time... you'll probably be behind them around every 4 seconds.
Full crit, backup mags, lights out... Yea
a purity shiv desperado bandit (capped crit if you can manage) just holds down m2 and R the entire run and melts everything.
I had a run where I had 10 soldier syringes and 25 backup mags (I was trying to unlock his throwing knife) and I melted bosses like crazy I just had horrible mobbing and couldn't deal with imps and other dangerous close range mobs.
Bonus if you end up capping your crit naturally in a run. It can get hilariously stupid. XD
That’s why you use the thrown knife. Cap your crit as well and you just yeet knives around bleeding everything
Fun fact: his original R fully automatic as long as you press the button and kill something, so you don't need to see another animation of him getting a gun out
Yeah but it’s really fast so you have to have some amazing aim for anything far apart.
@@alowbudgetharrypotter4068 Yeah you literally have to be cracked to keep that going for long
@@oreomanscookiesmilk7132 either that or, there is a horde of lesser wisps
@@oreomanscookiesmilk7132 I have been able to do it with a bunch of lemurians but you need to know where everything is and yes be cracked to do it.
Chaining Light out like hell is the most fun I have in this game rn
Especially with artifact of glass and/or a bunch of crowbars
@@cheeseman4199 Lol the game was basically shoving this into my face on my first run using him, had a crowbar 3d printer on the first stage and ended up leaving it with 6 of them.
Yeah, all the annoying wisp? Dead in 1 shot. Glad this skill is much stronger in RoR 2 since you can aim and not limited to in front of you like in RoR 1.
Best thing when there's hundreds of wisps and you just R, Shift, R, Shift, R, ... Just pure satisfaction
@@jbreitz87 I had two! COUNT THEM! 2! One on stage 1 and another on 4. And used neither, because I was (and still am) new to the game and a tier list I watched said they weren't all that great.
last time i was this early sticky bombs still had 2000% damage
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Focus crystals are also a good investment, as more often than not, you're going to be close to your enemy, especially bosses. It turns smoke bomb into a mini nuke with a ukelele.
Brainstalks syngergizes very well with Desperado (secondary special). A few stages in when there's a bunch of elites, just killing one of them will let you kill a bunch of enemies with Desperado, letting you easily get tokens. When you have a decent amount of tokens and/or crowbars, you'll also be oneshotting the elites, getting perma up-time desperado and gaining a lot of stacks.
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I love how his alt skin is a direct reference to the main enemy in Deadbolt, Ibzan :D
was just thinking of playing risk of rain 2 and try out the new guy bandit so this is perfect timing
Not on console yet
Its definitely a fun game
@@ajgamez2728 I don’t think they ever will
@@kleox5452 "We’re also glad to announce that we have a new, internal team at Gearbox that is focused on continuing to bring all future content of Risk of Rain 2 to our console players with even closer parity to our PC version of the game.
While the Anniversary Update will be staggered from PC releases like before, our goal with Expansion #1 is to ship on all platforms at the same time. We can’t guarantee 100% that we will achieve that - its something we’ve admittedly never done before - but that’s our goal."
This is what he's referring to.
Man, I got distracted by how well this was made and had to rewind it 30 seconds. Like, wow. This is better than any official guide or tutorial any games company could hope to produce. You really killed it while keeping it entertaining, short, and above all: informative.
it's just information you find in the game. Idk what you are talking about. It's extremely basic you can discover most of this in within the first couple hours of gameplay
@@greg1569people are weird bro, youtube comment sections are just filled with people praising creators for normal videos
you didn’t suggest the Poglyp for the bandit even though it’s OP on him (and every survivor). Wow mr streamer.
Yeah, best item in the game no questions asked
"Poglyp"
What is that?
Poglyp got buffed, it's now even more broken
Polpy fucking sucks
I always loved risk of rain 2 but bandit alone made it my absolute favourite game to play everyday now
friendship ended with mercenary, bandit is new favorite character
I'm coming for you
@@mercenaryman1102 Its to late bro hes already in your room
i like mercenary more because despite the fact that he doesn’t have an instant reset for all his skill cool downs he has way better combos
@@mercenaryman1102 I watched the Mercenary really rocks video to check if you actually typed the “I’m coming for you comment”. Also let’s go mercenary gang.
Mercenary sucks anyway
so not mentioned in the video is an interesting way to play bandit by getting a few purity you can basically permanently stay cloaked and be untargetable, you can even cancel your cloak with another cloak making you an untargetable splash damage machine.
What does purity do for bandit smoke bomb?
@@MICROKNIGHT3000 lowers cooldown by 2 seconds
@@MICROKNIGHT3000 cuts cooldowns in half so with a stack of 3 you can infinitely cast it.
yee and you can perma fly with cloak spam and if you stack 100% crit and 1 mag you can spam out hemorrhage stacks so fast. definitely my favorite way to play him
I had a multiplayer run where I got a purity and alien head to get perma stealthed. Then I found a couple loops in that you could use a crowdfunder while in stealth. Those were the 2 turning points in the run for me, where I started surviving stages and started doing non-negligible damage.
for those who like desperato, here's a bunch of tips that might be useful!
-the 10% is multiplicative, not additive, meaning 10 stacks of desperato deals DOUBLE your 600% damage, not 700%. and 30 stacks means quadruple that 600% damage, this is why both bands are insane in this dude, but especially with desperato
-if you manage to get a brilliant behemoth, the explosion from the behemoth also counts as desperato kills, meaning, if you black hole 8 beatles and one-shot them with BB, you'll get 8 stacks of desperato, this might with with ukelele but I havent tested it yet.
-one commenter already said this, but 1/2 crowbars is more than enough to get your stacks going, especially against beatles and elite wisps
-has much less range than his M1 rifle, you cannot reach sky meadows monsters till you get a bit close enough to them
-get purity and this becomes your main source of damage
Get behind them so you can dump your load - Bearded Risk Of Rain 2 Player 2021
I love bandit, and his starting kit is probably one of the best in the game, aside from his secondary, which I always replace with the new heresy item anyways.
Which heresy item?
@@williammagsambol2143 hooks of heresy, it replaces your second skill with an orb that you charge and shoot, wooly mentioned it in one of his recent videos
he has a shotgun, he is fast and has a double/triple jump cuz of smoke screen
mf is just the scout from tf2
He has a revolver and a knife, can turn invisible and does more damage from behind.
He is also the spy.
@@screamingcactus1753 spy is scout's dad, so...
The spout
@@thelindseys6423 And the Scy.
> has a shotgun
> can phase out of existence (turn invisible)
> has a melee weapon
basically Ronin from tf|2
Bandit's invisibility spoiled my muscle memory so much that I was spamming the orbital strike on the ground thinking that I will go invis and save my life from the overloading brass contraption chasing me.
Tip for Light's Out: Hold down the "R" key when clearing wisps. Bandit will keep his revolver out and continue firing as long as you maintain the kill chain. This scales with attack speed. [I lean towards Desperado, but both are amazing]
I like Woolies "i made a bad joke/pun - hihi" it's so cute lmao
One really important part of his playstyle that I discovered that you didn't mention is that Smoke Bomb isn't just utility, its an incredibly powerful offensive tool. I consider it Bandit's strongest skill, and the best tool for groups of enemies. The most important tip is to make sure to use it in the air. Run at a group of enemies, jump and activate smoke bomb. This will send you sailing over their heads and hit most of them with the first charge of smokebomb. While still above them, hit your R, triggering the second use of smoke bomb, which will almost certainly lower an enemy within range of your execute. This then resets your cooldowns, letting you repeat this rotation over and over. Smoke Bomb is also incredibly powerful with on hit items, particularly ukuleles. Also don't forget that smokebomb is also triggered by backstab, which can make the 200% x 2 attack instead be 400% x 2.
yes i have been so strong that I meant to backstab an enemy but I ended up killing them with the smoke bomb and not the R.
hell yeah. my favorite part of bandit is running up to a group of wisps, using smoke bomb to double jump, and then combo-ing revolver --> cooldown rest --> double jump.
There is a red item that grands you two more charges and faster colddown for utility skill, man is insane, you can spam it, run away or anything you want since is literally versatile
Nice! I just searched for a guide on bandit bc I have no idea how to do well with him. You're the best content Ror2 content creator Woolie!
I like how straight to the point you are with these
Haven't managed yet to unlock the second ability, but for the default, stacking mags, then crits, then predatory instincts, right click goes brrr.
People believe it takes long for recharge 20 stacks of the secondary, until you realize you can kill a monster with lights out and refresh ALL of the stacks.
I wonder if the secondary is the same but with range.
can confirm its the same with range but less initial damage , the strat you suggested is so strong with the shiv
Yep, it works the same way - a reset will reset all of the stacks; the main difference is that one is AoE and a bit more damage, while the other is much easier to land and use since it's thrown.
Also, if you want the achievement, you just need to get 9 backup mags, go to a tanky boss, use them, reset with R and do it again; alternatively you can get 19 and just spam.
Side side note - afterburner is wild as a mobility tool to supplement secondary builds with Bandit. Since using them doesnt break your sprint, you can have pretty amazing verticality by chaining stealth and knive usage to pop yourself up, and then Lights Outing to instantly refill your stealth charges (if you ever start getting low on secondary charges to stall your air time). It was unbelievably fun "flying" above a map without a single hopoo feather and only a couple of energy drinks to my name for movement items.
Your videos make this game so much simpler. Also enjoy the streams always so much fun. :)
Thank you for making guides that get right to the point and are succinct in explanation!
I find that bringing 3 purities and desparato is a really fun build on bandit. Of course, you say goodbye to proc chance, but you get so much damage from desparato that it eventually doesnt matter.
Woolie: Gives overview on all bandit skills
Me: But which is betterrrrr?
Lights out is devastating when chaining stealth executions. The ranged dagger is just better than the melee. The single rifle does "less damage" but you don't miss pellets, it's 100% accurate, and it gives waaaaay better procs. Rifle all the way.
Edit: also, you can fly if you time your stealth jumps right chaining lights out. Just get a crowbar or a bunch of wisps
@@erinbarr762 shotgun gang
@@erinbarr762 i mean the proc coefficient may be 0.5 but if you combine all five pellets it reaches something like 0.97 which is extremely close to the rifle. Plus the shotgun works better when you cap things since you’re looking at 40 health per shot vs 8 with the scythe as an example
@@thatguyyouhate3743 and that 0.5 per pellet demolishes the other one with one clover throw in the mix. Also more total damage in general, is true you are sacrificing the range, but up close the shotgun is the strongest. So they work as their gun type sugest.
Neither. Play your preferences
I just started playing and this character has the most fun to play move set i have ever come across in a game.
Always get blade of heresy when on bandit. Such a step up from his normal secondary.
Just downloaded this game a few days ago, Bandit is definitely my favorite character so far thanks for the tips
your pronunciation was very good, so there was no need for subtitles. It helped
ALSO unsurprisingly Bandolier synergies well with Bandit, while running Lights Out. It's basically guaranteed unlimited skills!
"That way you can easily get behind them and dump your load" don't know if intentional or not but that was hilarious to hear
I LITERALLY was just playing bandit and wanted to check your channel for any tips/tricks to be better. It couldn't have been any better timing, he's been my favorite character to play thus far
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edit: "get from behind" "dump your load"
Bandit with a hardlight afterburner is pretty much my father, as in practically invisible
nah but fr I love my dad
Landing that Revolver shot is just so darn satisfying.
I gotta say I just absolutely love the font you use. Just epic.
I really like the hemmorhage (I don't think I ever wrote that word ever) because it's more of a addition to the bandit rather than an actual attack. Something to use when things are on cooldown and behind the monsters anyway so why not just give a nice slice and dice and bleed them out. Slowly.
Bandit is my current favorite survivor, I can't wait to see what's in the dlc and the next update!
Love the video and the tips, It will be fun if you show the trick "Shift R (killing) shift R (killing) shift R (killing) etc.. and beyond
2 purities and 1 hard light afterburner allows you to stay invisible forever and also gives you infinite jumps. Combine that with a shit ton of shaped glass. The build makes you invisible to enemies for as long as you want, allows you to fly, and also eventually allows you to oneshot everything including the final boss.
I've always found the M2 to be useful in clearing swarms of small enemies/fodder that build up around you while fighting bosses, since it's the Bandit's only real splash damage attack. (this is particularly useful when utilizing Blast over Burst)
been waitng for this! Thanks!
Really big bandit tip!
Hardlight afterburner gives you near infinite invisibility if you dont break the invisibility early with 3 charges of your shift for those sticky situations!!!!
Nice made the character guide on my birthday
ngl secondary actually becomes decent when you have 100% crit. stack it with backup mags, and/or a purity clover combo, and it becomes a lot more consistent.
still yeah depend a lot more on that primary skill and Lights Out/Desperado and use the stealth to bail outta bad positions or get into good ones.
You wanna hear some pog news:
Essence of Heresy "debuff" counts towards Death Mark (Im like 98% sure :v)
It does
another solid guide from our favorite solid streamer
5:18 word choice woolie
Great guide though, keep up the good work
Hemorrhage encourages building crit. 2,000 base dmg per stack is nothing to scoff at, even if it takes a while to get through that all.
If you use Dagger and a few Backup Magazines, that's easily 8k bonus dmg on a boss. PLUS all stacks get refreshed on Lights Out, leading to another 8k. As long as the boss would normally take at least ~20s, you'll significantly speed it up.
Bandit is such a fun survivor to play as, might become my main. Also using Lights out on a group of wisps makes you turn into McCree, it's so fun going on a shooting spree with your revolver, blasting everything away with one shot.
I beat the game with Bandit earlier tonight! He is definitely my main man now
This is the first time I played a survivor without a guide from Woolie beforehand. Before, there was either already a guide for them already or I hadn't unlocked them before Woolie's guide came out. This time, Bandit was already unlocked, so I jumped right in. I learned most of the tips on my own, but I still learned some things from this video, mainly the double tap tip. I am really enjoying Bandit. He's really fun to play. The fire and ice bands work really well with him btw. I'm not sure if you mentioned it.
not played any games in a while so not been on steam and just loaded it up today and saw him so goin to try to unlock now and give him a blast, and glad i saw this as i wanted to see if he was same as the old bandit from the 1st game. :D
For people who don’t, with Wandering Vagrants. There is a small triangle on their underside to signify their front, so just look at that when you are trying to get the backstab on them.
Sometimes, I just watch your videos because they're well put together and you have a flawless delivery... I don't even want to play RoR2 right now. Good stuff :)
Just started playing risk of rain 2 and I wanted to start maining Bandit. Nice guide :)
3 things. 1. for those who like death mark builds with the artifact of command, hemorrhage is a valid debuff. That is why I use throwing knives. 2. purity on bandit too with 2-3 of them his special becomes primary fire. unlucky doesn't matter. 3. crowbars are actually meaty on bandit. if you find a crowbar printer, consider it. his special is very good with a few of them.
About hemorrhage. You will deal a stack of hemorrhage with any crit. If you have 100% crit chance, you will always get a hemorrhage stack on the enemy you hit with your secondary, whether or not you are getting a backstab. This is a good thing to know if you want to get the sadist unlock
Hardlight afterburner works wonders. Stacking crowbars w bandits secondary can 1 shot a lot of things. The name of the game for bandit is the crowbar for mobbing. Crowbar, AP rounds, Focusing Lense, ukulele, and gasoline. Nothing will live. Throw in hardlight afterburner and theyll never see you coming.
Artifact of command runs with desperado and crowbars are some of the most fun I’ve had in this game. Stack a brain stalks on that and you won’t even need to primary.
I don't watch any other YT peeps except Dunkey, love your videos bud. Excited to try the new class and to try that new FPS game you are playing.
One thing I’d like to add to anyone coming down to the comments that didn’t seem like it was explained, your secondary ability (the knife) inflicts hemorrhage on any critical hit, not just a backstab. Meaning if you have capped crit, you can spam the hell out of your secondary for essentially another set of bleeds. I know this doesn’t become too relevant until later in the run, when this fact won’t be that important cuz stuff will be dying to fast anyway, but for any commandy andys out there, pick the alternate secondary, stack crit, and have fun with free bleeds
This character with his alternate kit is cracked. His alt primary is sooooo good, his alt hemorrhaging knife is much higher utility I think. I'm not sure his alt revolver is better than lights out but man stacking a bunch of desperados when you have low cooldowns is awesome. This guy is really fun.
purity x3 with desparado is basically a guaranteed win if ur not going for loops, especially since it's so easy to stack it up before the mithrix fight and then just spam a 3000% damage ability every half second
Bandit’s smoke bombs are easily his best ability. I ran a 5x purity stack and 20 x focus crystal stack and began shredding absolutely everything, and had the ability to fly. Plus, the constant invisibility and stunning meant that I never took any damage.
A more optimal version could probably be made with brainstalks/afterburners but purity has an availibility factor if you go to the moon frequently.
Using lights out allows you to fly if you do this:
- Use a smoke bomb mid-air
- Cancel it with lights out
- Kill an enemy with it to reset your cooldowns
- Repeat
It mostly works on stages like wetland aspect which has a lot of low health enemies that you can one-shot easily (Especially the jellyfish)
thanks for the awesome and consistent info vids!
my favorite thing to do is run desperado and get 3 purity and one-shot everything and give up on proc items. works best when running command artifact and you don't even need to backstab to oneshot most thing.
I found the knife realy usefull at damaging and quickly killing a large number of small enemys around you thanks to its basicly AOE attack, Realy good swarm killer.
Also worth noting, you can sprint and use M2, so you can use M2 to pop your invis to keep momentum for big jumps.
I didn't like the starter characters, but when I unlocked this dude the game got a heck a lot fun, love it.
Purity on Bandit is mighty helpful since just one can decrease the cooldown on smoke bomb enough that its only 1s after the invisibility runs out
and with 2 Purity you can use smokebomb immediately at the end of a full cloak.
Grab on kill items tho since your proc chains will be shafted.
i just want to say, picking up a shatterspleen for bandit is fun. 5 bleeds per shotgun blast is so fun to watch
I have only started playing RoR for about a week, and have only unlocked Commando, Huntress, and Bandit, but goddamn Bandit feels so good to play. Chaining smoke bombs with Lights Out basically gives you a janky form of flight.
I've still not gotten past my First loop, but I've only gotten to the 4th stage with Bandit
Get 3 purities with Shaped Glass on Desperado. You have a One shot .5 sec cooldown ability that gets stronger with each kill. Add in Bands, Crowbars and you won't mind the - luck as you're not bothering with on hit. 10x crit glasses is 100% for even more doubled damage.
Especially since while the bands are "on hit" they aren't random procs, it's just hit hard enough and it procs so Purity has no effect on it.
I like to pick up a purity or alien head for him. Desperado on a half second cool down? Fun as hell, even if it's not practical the whole time. Not to mention the spamming of his invis, which doubles as a hopoo feather.
Something I'd like to add as a tip is not neglecting the smaller mobs while in a boss battle when you don't have enough dps to melt through the boss or not enough movement speed to dodge everything reliably without sprinting. Using your smoke bomb to get behind the boss and land 4 shots and maybe even a secondary if you're feeling like it is the ideal way to deal damage, but if you pop your R on the boss you definitely won't kill him right away, instead, quickly sniping a wisp/lemur/beetle or anything else you can oneshot to reset your smoke bomb makes it very easy to avoid a lot of damage, increase dps in the long run because of the higher frequency of R's and personally feels more badass.
Of course, if you have enough dps to melt through the boss without him having a chance to pose any danger, or if you have enough movement speed to dodge everything without too much sprinting, it's not really relevant, but I prefer the safer method and it builds good habits imo.
I appreciate your content immensely :) big ups mens
A really fun thing you can do if there's a lot of wisps and beetles is to jump in the air cloak, Press R on the weak enemies, then cloak again and you can fly for a longggggg time
Dagger + a lot of mags = good short range clear at mid/late game. Can also be used while sprinting which can clutch save you when you try to get away from something dangerous and need to clear a path.
Probably not a great skill to build for at the cost of other more useful items but still has some value.
If you cancel the stealth for the jump with the secondary you keep your forward momentum and can make u cross farther jumps early game
You can get infinite hight if you pop smoke bomb and cancel it immediately by killing with the reset revolver shot, thus letting you repeat the smoke and kill
Getting one Hardlight Afterburner is super fun, you basically get infinite stealth if you let it last long, or you can reload the three stealth with one Lights Out
I finally finished everything in the update, now I can watch
so much quality, love ur vids!
because he pretty much has guarateed crit and "bleed", i found it fun to stack a bunch of purity. bandit becomes the blinking assassin with how often i'm cloaking. downside is that there is still a split second where the monsters can detect you between smokes and will shoot at your last known location or general direction they saw you going. meaning there is still a chance of getting tagged and/or getting killed.
Fun fact: moneymaker doesn't cancel your invisibility if it's enabled beforehand.
This means endless invisible strafes in mr Bandit's wacky circus
The hemorrhaging should be taken into mind that it procs from every critical strike, not from behind. If you stack glasses it is basically guaranteed bleed damage; additionally if you stack secondary mags, lights out will restore *all* of those stacks; I've found it majorly useful to gain the sadist achievement that way through dropping all my daggers into a boss, lighting out a wisp, and then pouring the rest in leading to some major damage output and quickly going over 20 stacks of hemorrhaging
All in all though, great guide as always! I'll keep items like the syringe in mind, I found that the predatory instincts really work miracles when it comes to reloading; pop an entire clip from behind and just watch that clip come back in instantly
I put this game down for a good while after I played it to death and sold my Nintendo switch. Realized two days ago that it's actually on all consoles now and I got it for my PS4..DIDNT EVEN KNOW THIS CHARACTER WAS ADDED...it is now my favorite hands down... I gotta unlock the captain
Epic bandit moment