What would y’all call the best totem combination

[Noob Fam]

Im pretty early in the game, I just beat the guy once so don’t spoil anything ridiculous. But what would be the best totem combination for you?

I heard that you can have an unkillable squirl with the goat thing where it drops 3 blood when it dies but I only had a totem of “can sacrifice infinitely” on the squirl

If this is true, how do you get it???

[RequiemsRose]

totems only give one effect, and your squirrels cant be sigil swapped, so unfortunately you cant really stack those effects. If working with the squirrel totem, I always liked: unkillable, worthy sacrifice, fecundity, hoarder, or sometimes trinket bearer. To break that down a little more; unkillable means it returns to your hand when it dies, so infinite squirrels. Worthy sacrifice means it's worth 3 blood when sacrificed so you can drop almost any card with a single squirrel. fecundity is you get a copy of that card in your hand when the card is placed so again its infinite squirrels. hoarder lets you search through your deck and handpick whatever card you want. Trinket bearer gives you an item anytime a card bearing it is played (if you have room for that item). I dont tend to like many lives (can keep sacrificing it without killing it) because it clogs up a lane. Yeah you can use a single squirrel to play multiple 1 blood cards, but you cant get rid of that squirrel if you wanted to put something else there unless it gets killed.

Edit: it is worth noting that you dont HAVE to use the squirrel totem. So if you do have a black goat or two, and you pick the hooved totem (deer head) with an unkillable base, that would indeed result in an unkillable black goat, and unkillable anything else hooved like the moose, elk, and pronghorn.

[StayPuftMM]

Fecundity (the field mouse one) is definitely the best.

[Ｓｅｎｎｙツ]

Originally posted by Señior Gato:

Im pretty early in the game, I just beat the guy once so don’t spoil anything ridiculous. But what would be the best totem combination for you?

I heard that you can have an unkillable squirl with the goat thing where it drops 3 blood when it dies but I only had a totem of “can sacrifice infinitely” on the squirl

If this is true, how do you get it???

Squirrel with 3 Blood worth is super OP, I beat one of runs with that.

[YetiChow]

Originally posted by ツＳＥＮＰＡＩツ:

Originally posted by Señior Gato:

Im pretty early in the game, I just beat the guy once so don’t spoil anything ridiculous. But what would be the best totem combination for you?

I heard that you can have an unkillable squirl with the goat thing where it drops 3 blood when it dies but I only had a totem of “can sacrifice infinitely” on the squirl

If this is true, how do you get it???

Squirrel with 3 Blood worth is super OP, I beat one of runs with that.

The squirrel head totem is, by design, super OP no matter which of the "good" sigils you put on it. In fact, even if you get terrible RNG and don't have any good sigils to put on your squirrel totem, any of the "bad" totem sigils (like waterborne, flying, guard, etc. which neither increase the Squirrel's power, utility, or sacrifice worth) are still vaguely useful -- if you have flying squirrels then you can still chuck an alpha (or a card with pack leader) between two of them and get some free chip damage; waterborne squirrels allow for lane-blocking if you have a moving card that you don't want to move (like a pronghorn or elk) and squirrels with guard are at least the ultimate chump blockers.

I'd argue that Fecundity or Undying are the best sigils to combine with the squirrel totem purely because they allow for much easier sacrifice building (who needs a Worthy Sacrifice when you can just build up 3 squirrels over 2-3 turns while also being able to spend your squirrels each turn anyway?) and also because they allow for large hand sizes to make the Hand Tentacle into a beatstick.

[Grim]

In the base game, Squirrel—Fecundity is almost certainly the best totem. It allows you to freely block every lane that isn't being used for another creature, gives you as many blood as you need to play anything that you drawn, and gives you all this without you ever needing to draw from your squirrel deck since you start with a squirrel in your opening hand which will just infinitely multiply, meaning you can just focus on drawing solely useful cards.

Most Squirrel totems will be fairly good, as others have pointed out, but Fecundity is definitely the best.

Originally posted by Señior Gato:

I heard that you can have an unkillable squirl with the goat thing where it drops 3 blood when it dies but I only had a totem of “can sacrifice infinitely” on the squirl

If this is true, how do you get it???

You've clearly already unlocked the squirrel totem head, so you don't need to worry about that. The totem bases are randomly selected each time you visit the Woodcarver; There's no specific way to get a Worthy Sacrifice (or any kind of) base. More powerful sigils will appear less often.



Since Kaycee's Mod (the optional challenge mode you unlock after beating the story) removes the squirrel totem head, it's much harder to pick a "best totem" for that mode. However, most Insect totems will give you a lot of value, since insects are usually easy to play and have very useful sigils on their own, meaning they can combo very easily. Insects—Ant Spawner is a very strong combo, since every ant you play will spawn another ant, as long as you can keep sacrificing something to play them; I would argue it's the strongest totem in KM.

[Cygnet]

I think it really depends on what else you've got in your deck at the point you're able to obtain it.

I once was able to access the woodcarver extremely early on, before making many other choices. I got to chose the Worthy Sacrifice and put it with squirrels, and I was able to make every decision from then on around the idea that a cost of 3 was the same as a cost of 1, and was able to keep my deck small and expensive and that was the first run I made it to the final boss. Sadly I made some mistakes in the boss battle and had to retry without the Worthy Squirrels.

But the next time I was able to get the Worthy Squirrels, it wasn't until later in the run, and I had a more bone-centric deck built up so far and would have been fairly useless.

Fecundity is otherwise hard to beat, though.

[Someone101]

Dude, I got triple blood squirrels and I just annihilated with that

[Ragnaman]

Amalgam is also a "squirrel", all those sinks want in.

[Sir, this is a bakery]

Unkillable squirrel was easy mode

[Dr.Drake]

The one thats gives your squirrels for playing squirrels (squirrel)

[Mikay]

Originally posted by Dra(CAT)ula:

Im pretty early in the game, I just beat the guy once so don’t spoil anything ridiculous. But what would be the best totem combination for you?

I heard that you can have an unkillable squirl with the goat thing where it drops 3 blood when it dies but I only had a totem of “can sacrifice infinitely” on the squirl

If this is true, how do you get it???

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Pack Rat, definitely - Infinite items.

[Maaykov]

As bad as it sounds I actually won my KM full skull run all because of the corpse eater totem on reptiles.