How to make the Grave Robber worthwhile?

[Pimpin Pippin]

Across some guides and streams of this game i have seen a pretty universal stance of "replace Grave Robber ASAP with something else".

Looking at the skills she can unlock they feel all over the place, with some seemingly meshing together but others having severe overlap or outright pointlessness.

Also some of her abilities seem utterly not worth upgrading, since they gain borderline minimal benefits.

What are your experiences with the Grave Robber, is she worth all the skill unlocking (instead of using on other heroes) and needed team building around her to make her work?

[Coffee Cat]

Gave Robber is a stable in my blight team:
Man-at-Arms, Flagellant, Grave Robber, and Plague Doctor.

She's got a good self heal and can reach anyone on the field (very helpful for boss fights).
I wouldn't call her a bad hero by a long shot.

[The Face]

Can be always in good shape for health and stress while clearing corpses with dead of night. Deadeye hits all ranks with knives and darts. Pick to the face ignoring blocks can be huge.

And a moving team GR is pretty awesome. Lunge and pirouette can do work

[Mister Sir]

She is on weaker side but not useless, you can hit basically any position with her from any position and can upgrade her ranged with deadeye and she got some nice trinkets. Also really good vs damn act 3 boss since she can dodge+ till end of time.

[glenn3e]

Originally posted by Mister Sir:

She is on weaker side but not useless, you can hit basically any position with her from any position and can upgrade her ranged with deadeye and she got some nice trinkets. Also really good vs damn act 3 boss since she can dodge+ till end of time.

Yea she survived that run for me by dodging over and over while on DD. Gave her a shiny new memory and weapon skin as reward.

[Mister Sir]

Originally posted by glenn3e:

Originally posted by Mister Sir:

She is on weaker side but not useless, you can hit basically any position with her from any position and can upgrade her ranged with deadeye and she got some nice trinkets. Also really good vs damn act 3 boss since she can dodge+ till end of time.

Yea she survived that run for me by dodging over and over while on DD. Gave her a shiny new memory and weapon skin as reward.

Good, got to reward that gold digger.

[Ben bitmişim]

She's my favorite hero but I'm not going to lie. If occultist didn't exist she would easily be the worst hero. The only thing she's good for is spamming poison dart. She has such good sustain tho just a few small buffs away from being a good hero.

[HighLanderPony]

Absinthe+, Poison Dart+, Pick to the Face+. I don't use much else on the default kit.

I once had her at 12 speed and a trinket that gave extra actions when at high speed. I got that trigger once, it was awesome.

You could build her with stealth and lunge in mind, dancing around but that takes more unlocks and planning.

She also has ways to get around stealth and guard (and dodge?), so one could build around that.

[Ashfelt]

I dunno about Grave Robber tbh I find her to be my most unused character her style just does not click with me probably because there are more entertaining characters I like to use in my teams. Maybe at some point I will play around with her a bit more because she does have some nice potential if she is built right.

[Son of Satan]

She does not need teambuilding tho. If you are referring to the combo synergy, that can be used with minimal effort and is not mandatory for her to be good at all. Darts tend to deal more damage than pistol shot(which is an attack with a similar purpose) for example and has better reach. She is self-sufficient and tanky with the dodge tokens. Unlocked abilities are good too. Do not mimic streamers, but rather find you own way to play. Generally, if someone tells you something is bad and shouldn't be used, they are probably not experienced players, trinkets and combat items have a big impact and can change weaknesses/negatives (like cursed skills from negative relationships) into powerful benefits.