How do you play REX on Monsoon solo?

[Limekim]

I've tried for hours now without even reaching stage 6
It always feels like what kills me is unending wisp spawns that always originate behind me "cus why the ♥♥♥♥ not"

I always get medkits and backup mags, i play carefully and to try root multiple enemies at once, every boss fight is a hit and run regardless since his dammage is laughable almost imidiatly, im seriously out of ideas on how to play this character, it's like im always missing 500% dmg or something

[grimm]

You don't.

Rex got absolutely gutted due to the regen nerf. I thought he was garbage before, even with his """"insane"""" dps, but that was only possible because of passive health regen giving you room for error. Now that that's gone, Rex can't do that anymore, and now there's no reason to play Rex anymore.

I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who mains Rex.

[VerrucktMedic]

Honestly. Probably your only option solo is kiting and keeping distance.

[bryer]

If you accept the fact your pretty much always gonna be at 50% health or lower, maybe you'll have a better time?

[a e s t h e t i c]

1) Have you ever tried to rush for Corpsebloom? My primal target is always to take that item
as soon as possible. (1 is enough)
2) Healing chests should be your priority target on what to invest money instead of rushing for crit or other crap builds for early game (Fungus amazing for early game and Medkits as you noticed for main build). His damage is huge from Seed Barrage so you don't need to rush for ONLY damage items in first 10 maps (Backup magazines is also DPS item so its optional IMO, never relied on it and never failed without it)
3) From green always focus on Old War Stealthkit and at least 1 Hopoo Feather/ Wax Quail to combine with DIRECTIVE: Disperse
4) Primordial Cube is your best friend.
Now to other items that are going very well on him too:
Gasoline & Will-o'-the-wisp;
Rejuvenation Rack;
Bandolier - 1 is enough to spam your ultimate for more effective healing (you can even throw ultimate in same mob as many times as you want to gain stacks of healing);
Lepton Daisy - new very friendly item to this survivor;
57 Leaf Clover - to make Old War Stealthkit even more effective and trigger the effect more often
Aegis - the item shines together with Corpsebloom, Foreign Fruit/Gnarled Woodsprite & Medkits
H3AD-5T v2 & Hardlight Afterburner - combine those items with DIRECTIVE: Disperse to make your mobility way more effective
Effigy of Grief - can't recommend it at all, but this one is just my personal fun choise to combine with Tangling Growth
Lens-Maker's Glasses + Harvester's Scythe w/o Corpsebloom is a stable build for anyone if to talk about other side of healing but such method is uninteractive and makes runs so boring very fast.
Other notifications:
-> Seed Barrage resets the attack cooldown of DIRECTIVE: Inject at right timing when the third projectile fires out.
-> You can shoot Tangling Growth in flying units to catch everything in that air AOE spot instead of shooting it in ground or wall.
-> DIRECTIVE: Disperse is a mixture of escape & mobility as i said before, stun against any charging mobs, aggressive pushback to the walls to kill wisps or jellies. Using this skill on Wagrants homing Orb Bomb or any exploding barrel makes it disappear
-> When you using DIRECTIVE: Disperse right in mobs that are under the negative effect of Tangling Growth, pushback is way more powerfull. With such effect you can even push Dunestrider (I don't know is it a bug or intended to be like that).

[Rickety Stick]

Originally posted by Xili:

You don't.

Rex got absolutely gutted due to the regen nerf. I thought he was garbage before, even with his """"insane"""" dps, but that was only possible because of passive health regen giving you room for error. Now that that's gone, Rex can't do that anymore, and now there's no reason to play Rex anymore.

I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who mains Rex.

It's not just nerfed passive regen that made things worse for REX, the games enemy spawner was changed so that big enemy's like golems spawn more often and smaller ones spawn less often. So now REX gets less targets to heal from and also has to struggle more with dodging lasers (and good luck with that as the largest survivor).

[Rickety Stick]

A tip i can give that helped me alot unlocking REX's skin is to get the new lunar item Strides of Heresy. It replaces the characters utility skill with one that turns them invisible, heals them and allows them to float a few seconds. So you basically trade a bit of mobility for much better survivability and having an easier time staying near the teleporter.