bandit is the worst character in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game

[SewnTogether]

he remains the only character i have yet to clear monsoon on, both of his m1s suck and they have worst dps than artificer who is the only other survivor with a reload and even she gets innate status proc or aoe on m1s with a complimentary m2 that hits like a truck with a massive aoe. Harvester scythes, daggers, needle ticks, chrono-baubles and their void version, predatory instincts, leeching seeds, stun grenades, and sticky grenades are all agony to keep their procs up due to his horrible rate of fire once you hit empty in under half a second of spamming, both of his m2s make me want to slam my head through a wall because of how inconsistent being "behind" an enemy is; some times i crit a sideways facing mob other times i get nothing from fully turned mob, and the hemmorage status is literally a glorified bleed, his shift is outclassed in everyway by strides of heresy, which makes you invulnerable, heals you, give you a movement speed boost, and allows you to fly which even lets you pillar skip with afterburner. The only remotely good thing about bandit is his alt special NOT in his base kit and you need to kill the final boss with his base version in order to unlock it. He is a horrible, horrible character thats torture to play as. ♥♥♥♥ you bandit

[Ph3onixleader]

sounds like a skill issue ngl, just learn to play bandit smh

[sun6000]

idk, i always found bandits mobility to be pretty good, as it basically is a speed boost, gets some heat off you for a moment, and allows you to triple jump once you get the hang of it without hopoo feather.

just you gotta take the lack of PURE safety and healing as trade off for being able to jump out of stealth at any time

[nul]

Early bandit relies on properly using all your skills to quickly reduce threat and mobilize around the map, and also using all your skills to VERY quickly burst down bosses and other big targets. (Early bandit, from my experience, can output the most burst damage in stage 1, maybe even 2)
Later bandit relies on proc spam. Just like every other character other than Acrid.

[MTLVMPR]

This isn't even about Eclipse. Clear skill issue.

[Bogan]

he was one of the harder character to beat eclipse 8 with for sure. his m1 having a capacity of 4 severely limits him

[カミル]

The shift stuns and deals dmg both on entrance and exit, you can also triple jump with it which is a lot of fun. There is a few weaker characters than him imo, he's middle of the pack.

Rifle is just worse than the shotgun, so stick to the shotgun.

[TrumpetBoiTrey]

Bro bandit is op idk what you're on about

[A.J.]

Every attack is an automatic crit behind enemies not just his m2. I frequently kill the teleporter bosses (lil bit longer if its wandering vagrant) in under 15 seconds early on. His shift is basically Red whip, Stealthkit, and 2 hoppo feathers combined. You go faster while in stealth which makes it easier to get behind enemies and then you just unload onto them to get automatic double damage. I say 2 feathers because entering stealth gives you a hop and exiting stealth gives you a hop. My first God run was with bandit. Lights out resets all your cooldowns on kill so if you play it right (and with the right items of course) you can keep your uptime on his shift almost constantly.

[Drax]

Tell me you're bad at the game without telling me you're bad at the game...

Bandit's a really solid character. His first M1 doesn't suck. It's great at getting things to proc. Especially plasma shrimp. In fact, he gets a lot more utility out of void items in general. Lysate cells are extremely strong with him and allow you to replace his primary fire with his special, while needle tick's delayed damage pairs well with his reload. His reload is reduced by stacking rate of fire items which doesn't happen to Artificer. This makes his rate of fire superior to most characters as his fire rate otherwise is as fast as you can click. Hemorrhage is a BETTER bleed, and it being a unique status effect to apply to enemies makes death mark far easier to apply. You can just max out your crit glasses (which you should be doing anyway) to apply it. Having guaranteed crits early is just a plus for getting past the early game. His movement ability is better than a LOT of characters in the game. Strides of heresy being better than it doesn't really matter when strides of heresy is considered better than MOST movement abilities in the game.

He's not my favourite to play, but he's a solid character that has no reason to struggle with Monsoon...

[Spookypizza]

Originally posted by Drax:

Tell me you're bad at the game without telling me you're bad at the game

i play artificer but i can't beat drizzle yet

[Nitro Toxico]

If you are having a problem with one character on Monsoon, you are likely having a skill issue in general, regardless how you played them.

[yesnt]

sjkill issue

[󠀡󠀡]

yeah bandit is one of the strongest survivors in the game honey child. i havent played ror2 in a minute but i used to be very good at the game. i would recommend saving up some lunar coins and stack double purity with some transcendence. basically, purity is extremely viable on Bandit out of ANYONE else of the cast because he gets free crits and bleeds without having to own any proc items. you'll have extremely low CDs so that means perma invis, so stacking a few transcendence is very ideal as a failsafe; you get massive shield XP scaling and when you get low you can just go invis and wait it out.

[KaleShibata]

Stack crit, crit damage, bleed damage, make things explode when they die from bleed/ wisp and roll the ghost daggers. i tend to clean out an entire map as bandit mid late game and his early game is pretty simple enough if you have patience. I've not really had an issue with bandit and im not even good with rouge type characters. make the character benefit you in some possible way...then it gets a lot simpler.