Easiest characters to squeak out a D5 win?

[Bellpepper]

Just trying to get my first D5 win without adjusting the difficulty sliders or doing something really gimmicky (rerolling until you start wave 2 with something ect).

Interested in what you guys would consider the easiest characters for D5, because D4 was very difficult for me!

Edit: Just an update, I followed many of your suggestions, but the one I had the most success with was with the mage, in case anyone was attempting to try this themselves.

[Zabuzan]

I got Pacifist on the first try and Demon straight after unlocking it as well, worth a go!

Knight took me 3 attempts, I tried shields at first but I switched to full swords instead. Many more to go, think there's still a few easy ones before things will get really grindy tbh.

[Linguistically Inept]

knight is easy (atleast on the live branch, nerf inc) and one of the only characters i didnt suffer with restartitus (on most characters if i dont get get harvesting within two rerolls on first level up i restart)

pacifist is a bit cheesy (in that you basically ignore everything) but easy

i found speedy easy but i kind of god rolled on the dodge>attack speed relic, which combined with the speed>damage relic and speedys natural speed>melee attack made it a cake walk

[Gift]

mage/farmer flamethrower

masochist with rock

[†MLS† KIRINAS ';,†,;' ;,,;]

Pacifist.

[Loir]

Knight is pretty op, first tried the D5. I got around 20 armor, 10 lifesteal and most important 3 medic melee weapon. It works very well with knight it seems !
I had much more difficulty at D4, but it depends for everyone and the class you tried I suppose.
Also remember you don't have to kill the boss, just survive 90second and it's gg (it's a bit lame imo but that's how the game is designed anyway !)

[Kotli]

My win was with Knight stacked armour and regen as high as could. PS shields are bad choice for knight since the set bonus is harvesting with nerfed on knight.

[ItsMrJP]

Taser Mage was the first and only one I have done it with

[chand3123k]

saver, multitasker, and lucky are consistent wins for me. Saver and Lucky gets a bit shaky sometimes.

I have trouble with pacifist in the early parts of the game. But once I make it more than halfway, it feels good.

[AtomicScout]

I did it with the knight.You become tanky and still do damage. In the last wave you need 30% speed and run around the map till the end.I hope they make the bosses optional cause its lame how thats the only way to win.

[anonymous316]

Pacifist I was able to beat D5 on the first try.

Solider on the other hand is probably one of the most difficult, I steamrolled through all 19 waves but one of the bosses puts you in a pretty unfair position of constantly following you and being resistant to knock back.

[KnuckleHead]

Ghost with ethereal scepters was insane. You'll have 90% dodge, close to 300hp, and with a few items basically become an immortal machine gun of death.

[Chris Goddard]

Guys, Saver is the most OP char, I really don't see why he isn't mentioned more here.. Nothing scales like it, I can kill the final 2 bosses in like 5-10 seconds.. Wave 15-20 you don't even need to move...

[Mike]

knight with all melee weapons or all shields
ghost with 4-5 spectral melee and 1-2 spectral ranged weapons
mage with flamethrowers
explorer
the potato that gets +30% enemies using spectral weapons.
pacifist

[Tall Dark and Gruesome]

masochist with shield. you start with + 8 armor so the shields quickly ramp up, you want to stack hp and armor as masochist anyway and you can laser focus on a single weapon.

[Salmon Snake]

Literally picked diff 5 on knigfht and one shot it, pretty easy stuff