So, who are top #5 WORST characters in your eyes?

[Sdric]

Personally, I have a few in mind, but I'd like to hear everybodys' thoughts and counterpoints.

[thunda]

Chunky (worst class in the game), Entrepreneur, Gladiator, Soldier and the 5th is a toss up between Farmer, Ghost and Explorer. Ghost can get quite powerful but its such an annoying class to play. Very RNG heavy, but this time if the RNG fails you you die near instantly.

[Bumc]

By design:
* Ghost. Every run is a coin toss. Strategy boils down to stacking enough HP to survive 2 hits and be lucky enough not to take 3 in a row. When you win it doesn't feel like its deserved
* Wildling. When his own melee weapon is almost strictly worse than medical saw even including the inherit passive you know something is messed up.
* Soldier. Optimal gameplay includes breaking your keyboard, and stationary items in general are a mess.

Rest are fine imho even if some of them are weak.
And different people pointing at different characters being weak kinda proves that point.
For me Chunky is quite easy since its rework (just stack shields), Explorer is somewhat unreliable but relatively easy with good start (trees, luck and movement speed) and Saver was such a nightmare I had to cheese him with some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[ZeppMan217]

In no particular order: Ghost, Saver, Pacifist, Gladiator, and One Arm.

[Drifter]

Don't think I have 5, but so far:

Gladiator: This guy is just complete garbage. I am pretty sure you're suppose to ignore his garbage passive and just go for 1 or 2 weapons and play him like a standard character, because having 6 different weapons is completely trash.

Soldier: An immobile class in a game that requires constant movement (especially vs the bosses and elites), what more is there to say.

Ghost: Haven't attempted D5 with this guy yet, but just looking at his passive scares me.

One Arm: RNG fiesta, you either get your weapon upgrade or you lose. Not very fun. He is very strong when you get what you need, though.

Originally posted by Bumc:

* Wildling. When his own melee weapon is almost strictly worse than medical saw even

Am I the only one who thinks the sticks are underrated? Cheap, easy to stack and do a lot of damage when you find enough of them.

[thunda]

Originally posted by ZeppMan217:

In no particular order: Ghost, Saver, Pacifist, Gladiator, and One Arm.

One Arm is very good with Slingshot though

[ZeppMan217]

Originally posted by thunda:

Originally posted by ZeppMan217:

In no particular order: Ghost, Saver, Pacifist, Gladiator, and One Arm.

One Arm is very good with Slingshot though

Yeah, how about all the other weapons? That's why he's on the list.

[Moucheron Quipet]

Worst chars... hard to choose.

- Ghost and One Armed are a bit on the RNG side for sure.

- Hunter. I did some D5 wins with Hunter, but always struggled. He's way too squishy, and crossbows aren't that great. I didn't try with other weapons yet, maybe there's something better than crossbows.

- Artificer: because he has a hard early game. Planks are super risky to use because he doesn't have a lot of armor, and Shredders just lack damage. I never had an easy run with him (at least until late game).

- Entrepreneur. For the same reason: he really has a hard early game. Sure, he's the most broken character in the game if you survive until late-game. The problem is getting there.

Other chars I find tricky are: Saver, Explorer, Engineer and Bull. Again, chars that struggle in the early game (which is the hardest part of the game since the patch).


Soldier isn't bad once you know how to play it. Chunky is actually super strong since the patch. Gladiator is also quite strong. Pacifist is super easy and so is the Farmer if you play him like a Pacifist.

Wildling and Multitasker would be bad if Sticks didn't exist. Fortunately, they do.


But overall, no char feels really impossible to do. I completed all chars in D5 on the new patch and I never had to reset a tons of time for any char.

[Bouncer]

I would say Wildling, Soldier, Saver, Pacifist, and Artificer.

The first 4 take out a major element (weapon upgrades, movement, spending money, and playing the game respectively) and replace it with less fun.

Artificer I'd describe as awkward. Most taters are fun to play or powerful or easy or varied. Artificer is none of those.

[ajohnemus]

Ghost definitely, its a coin toss. Chunky after that.

I dont have an issue with any of the others power.

[Weekend Player]

Gladiator by far. Then ghost who is fine at lower difficulties but then really bad/RNG based.

[Mike]

I always considered ghost one of the most powerful, 90% dodge is insanely strong.
Scaling weapons have +10 damage which is amazing for early game scaling.

Recently I have felt that all the heroes were a lot easier to win after they added the extra money and elites. I won 3 diff 5 games in a row last night which I did not expect.

Entrepreneur
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886287608

Old
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886287629

Speedy
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886287683



Took me 2 tries for the Entrepreneur but then I won old and speedy right after in 1 try.

I don't think I was ever able to win that consistently in the past.

[Dan_The_Noob]

speedster, engineer, saver, pacifist and generic.

I haven't finished a run with Engineer (been doing them in order) because turrets and mines suck ass for bosses.

[Mike]

you don't need to kill the bosses btw, but I agree engineer is bad vs them.

I was able to win engineer difficulty 5 by focusing on tier 2 wrenches and then tier 4 wrenches. The tier 1 and tier 3 ones are not as good. I also bought no screwdrivers or other weapons to increase wrench drop rate.

[Drifter]

Originally posted by Dan_The_Noob:

speedster, engineer, saver, pacifist and generic.

I haven't finished a run with Engineer (been doing them in order) because turrets and mines suck ass for bosses.

Engineering is actually really good at D5. Engineering in general is trash, but it works well with him. Don't try and kill bosses, just kite around and stutter step the patterns.

Pacifist is also supposedly one of the strongest characters in D5, I personally haven't been able to make it work, though.

[flameDjinn]

Saver, Explorer, Farmer, Gladiator, Onearmed.

Also Ghost is not bad, but you probably want sell you starting Ethreal weapon at wave 1 and try to find something better.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886327223