Flawless Strats (or more accurately my journey to a flawless run)

[toshvert]

I've been trying to get the flawless achievement for a few days now, and I keep failing somewhere between worm and biker, usually to a fish or a swath of adds. I'm following the advice from someone in the obligatory secrets thread, namely maxing out rerolls for gamble statues and filling out the item slots as fast as possible. My item shopping list typically goes eye2, injection, missles, eel, C4, shrapnel, shinobi, digiwatch, plasma (for consistent shocks, especially on worm), satellite and overcharged engine.
Anyone whose successfully flawlessed have suggestions for the skill tree and the items to build?

[one-room survival]

Why not just carve your own path? That build sucks for flawless IMO, but I know that cause I've just been checking stuff out for myself and making it work. Anyone can read a strat and replicate it.

[The Worker]

Gotta keep snaking the worm tbh, that's the b est advice

[Th3.Madjackal]

I mean, you use plasma for stun when Eel do the same and affect all your weapon, not requiring you to be in short range.
Then you pair it with element crystal, fire lighter + flamethrower and you have more damage just from this alone with . Plasma is more of a close range help, you could slap eel along but not necessary if you use the later.

[toshvert]

Originally posted by Th3.Madjackal:

I mean, you use plasma for stun when Eel do the same and affect all your weapon, not requiring you to be in short range.
Then you pair it with element crystal, fire lighter + flamethrower and you have more damage just from this alone with . Plasma is more of a close range help, you could slap eel along but not necessary if you use the later.

From what I've seen the range on plasma is pretty large, to the point it practically works like satellite, but I may be stupid. Also considering that biker in particular has partial stun and slow immunity now, the thought of running plasma on top of eel is a bit less appealing. I guess I'll try a fire build, might also run the buffed hunter's blow, we'll see if it's earned the right to not be memed on.

[toshvert]

Just had a run where I left out injection, plasma, engine, and satellite for flamer, lighter, hunter's bow, and a statue of discipline, and I only got hit during the demon and picayune's fights. The demon was mostly a problem because I had to spend a lot of black holes on the adds prior to it. Reliance on fire made a pretty big difference in taking out adds and damaging the first four bosses, but picayune herself appears to be immune to it. It does seem like injection is a lot less effective than I make it out to be. Eel and stun altogether might prove obsolete, seeing as I'm not struggling as hard with worm or biker as I used to be, so I could replace those with parasight and satellite for more boss DPS.
I can definitely feel my knowledge issue being replaced with a skill issue, which hopefully means I'm getting closer to the flawless.

[toshvert]

I got my flawless!

Total Enemies Slain: 123716
Total Bosses Slain: 6 (I triggered Yuki on accident lol)
Time Survived: 29:19 (Mortality: 25.00)
Upgrades: 313

Digiwatch x21
Injection x39
Core x21; Damage: 1101603; Kills: 4773
Defense Turret x25; Damage: 1505918; Kills: 6471
Slime Spike x29; Damage: 1998140; Kills: 12133
Wicked Walkman x24; Damage: 583193; Kills: 2995
Missile Pack x29; Damage: 13992805; Kills 66975
Pleonexic Crown x27 (not sure if I needed this tbh)
Angel Wings x16; Damage: 958791; Kills: 5196
Hunter's Bow x18; Damage: 1313428; Kills: 7666
Energizing Battery x18
Element Crystal x21
Flame Thrower x20; Damage: 2257856; Kills: 6817

The effectiveness of the defense turrets surprised me the most, I wrote them off as not great for crowd clear, but it turns out they were a single target weapon all along. They really do melt bosses. Turns out a lot of weapons go nuts with extra projectile speed too, like the spikes and the walkman. The biker and first phase of pikayune were the most stressful, they have the bullets that come from nowhere, I know I spent some black holes on them almost preemptively. The surprise yuki fight had me shook, but it wasn't a problem.
I feel like I should have more to say, but idk, it kinda just happened lmao. I'll answer any questions if folks have them. I also have recorded my reaction and stat page thanks to nvidia shadowplay, I might upload it to youtube at some point.