Best and worst character?

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Basically, what do you think is the strongest character and what do you think is the weakest and why?

Personally I think Loader is the strongest, insanely high mobility, great damage, and she has a built in barrier ability? She has literally everything, cept a ranged attack but that doesn't make much difference.

Weakest I think is either MUL-T or Artificer. Artificer is just insanely fragile and not damaging enough for how easy she is to kill. MUL-T has pretty good damage with rockets and rebar but my biggest issue with him is how slow he is. He's just insanely slow. If you get lucky and nab a goat hoof or two he's fine but if you get unlucky and don't find something to fix his terrible speed he's basically a sitting duck.

[Spoopy]

For me, Rex seems like the strongest, great damage output, weakens stronger targets, crowd control as well as great healing. He's also pretty mobile, and can get some instant kill knockback attacks. Also, insanely fun to play.

MUL-T seems to be the weakest to me, really slow and his damage is okay. I can't really think of much else wrong with him, not that I'm thinking too hard. I just don't play as him too much cause I don't find him very fun.

[Pixelsplitter]

Loader is great early game, but once you get past the first loop she falls off hard as it becomes more difficult to start big chains. High attack speeds let you make big damage chains, and the slow punch doesn't work that well with that. Still one of my favorites to play, though, just because the mobility is so rad. Overall, I'd think Hopoo did a pretty good job balancing the survivors out.

[Descending Minor Key Line Cliche]

Artificer can cheese the game really easily. Take the alternate R skill and just float super super far away from enemies. Launch right clicks. On levels where you can, float super far away from any ground. Randomly spawned bosses like worms will literally commit suicide. When you need to use the teleporter, lure enemies away from it then head over to it. To charge it, just repeat this as often as necessary to do it safely. You're pretty much invincible - but it's ridiculously boring because it's slow and you never really do anything.

[Bogan]

Best: Engineer/Acrid
Worst: Mercenary/Artificer

[Metal Arms]

I think rex, mercenary or engineer.

edit: i think commando worse character maybe both him and artificer.

[Fourlamas]

Artificer bad

[Baarko]

Best characters imo would be either rex or engineer. Rex has tons of sustain and very good damage with his seed barrage, engineer is great because you basically get 3x the value from each item + fungus aegis n'kuhana is an op combo.

Worst character I think would have to be artificer, she doesn't scale well with attack speed and on hits due to terrible primary, and most damage in most runs comes from things like atg, ukelele etc. The band changes seem like they'd be good on her thanks to most her skills dealing over 400% damage, and getting a primordial cube and lots of will of the wisps and just nuking everything pulled in is very fun. It's really hard to pick a "worst" character as all characters do perform very well

[Marcmaz]

captain............................ he got nuts (shotgun op)

[SomeBruh]

Just finished a game with Huntress, still managed to one-shot every elite after stage 20. IMO auto-aiming and good mobility makes her the easiest to pass the game.

[Gamecrazy009]

Worst character is Mercenary now.

This "rework" was utter trash. Just remove him at this point if you don't want us to play a melee character in a gun centric game.

[Zeddy]

Since a huge balance shift and extra character got introduced not even a week ago, this question is far too early to ask.

For beating the game solo, Artificer easily takes top spot. Not even a close contest. Infinite flight the final boss can't touch, skip all of the stage features, and even execute him at 30% health? Then ignore the final phase's gimmick again due to flight as well as the escape back.

I can't think of a worst character anymore, not even Commando or MUL-T since one or two tri tip daggers is all they need to never, ever be outscaled.

[Paul Bunyom]

Originally posted by Spoopy:

For me, Rex seems like the strongest, great damage output, weakens stronger targets, crowd control as well as great healing. He's also pretty mobile, and can get some instant kill knockback attacks. Also, insanely fun to play.

MUL-T seems to be the weakest to me, really slow and his damage is okay. I can't really think of much else wrong with him, not that I'm thinking too hard. I just don't play as him too much cause I don't find him very fun.

MUL-T got a big buff in the new updates and hes a lot of fun now. His Rebar is great for sniping and can one-shot basic enemies with a single crowbar, and the nail spewer is insane at proccing on-hit effects. Even with his base speed dodging most bigger boss attacks isn't much of a problem if you use his utility well.