Risk of Rain 2: How To Make A Overpowered Command Build

To begin, why would you want to make these kinds of builds? I will give you 3 reasons:
1. If you have a set build, it will make it easier to progress in the game, letting you go to higher stages and such.
2. It’s fun to break the game and kill Mithrix[riskofrain2.fandom.com] in 10^0.6 seconds.
3. This allows you to understand game mechanics[riskofrain2.fandom.com] and the math behind items better, allowing you to experience more.

To even be able to do this stuff, you need the artifact of command. Here is a list of things you need to do, plus recommended artifacts if you want to have more fun:
1. Find the artifact code. This is pretty easy if you go through the wiki[riskofrain2.fandom.com], or you can get it behind the newt in the bazaar between time.
2. Get to stage 5, instead of going through the teleporter, go below the island to a weird computer portal thing.
3. Put in the artifact code, it is a 3×3 table of code. Go back to step 1 if you don’t have the code.
4. Complete the artifact level and pick it up.
5. Once you finish, you can end game and go to your character select, the artifact will now be selectable upon the artifacts tab.

-Recommended artifacts that go well with command-
1. Artifact of sacrifice. This artifact is terrible early game as it prevents you from getting chests, but later on, it allows you to have an unreasonable amount of items.
2. Artifact of swarms. Only use this if you use sacrifice, as it doubles the amount of items you get.
3. Artifact of soul. This also goes well, as it would double the amount of items you get by spawning a wisp whenever an enemy dies.

To make a command build for a specific survivor[riskofrain2.fandom.com], you need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each survivor. Each survivor is different but similar to every single other in their own ways. Huntress[riskofrain2.fandom.com] has the highest m1 damage but only with guaranteed crits (3×100% > 6×200). Acrid’s blight scales off of base damage. Artificer’s[riskofrain2.fandom.com] ion surge can be used to hide away from explosions on the ground. etc.
This is more to just math and stuff, and I am too lazy to list out every pro and con of each survivor, so you just do this yourself.

To really get a good build, think with tunnel vision[en.wikipedia.org]. This might sound bad, because you want a good rounded character, but that can wait. First things first, once you know what your survivor is good at, expand on that. Again, huntress[riskofrain2.fandom.com] has the highest m1 dps with guaranteed crits, why not use that to your advantage and only use m1s.
This can be taken a number of ways, but to think this way and expand upon it would make your run gold. You don’t need to do a single build, you can do 2 or 10. The choice is up to you.

There are 3 parts to an item build:
1. Dps and damage[riskofrain2.fandom.com]
2. Health[riskofrain2.fandom.com] and defense
3. Mobility and movement[riskofrain2.fandom.com]
Each of these parts are important, if you have no health but a lot of defense, just that 1% chance of getting hit could ruin your run.
Like I said, you don’t need to only focus on one thing. It’s nice to have 360 bungi[riskofrain2.fandom.com], but what would that do against being oneshot by Mithrix[riskofrain2.fandom.com] cause you were too slow. You could make a build based off of another and expand upon it. There are a total of 38(148^148) total combinations of items (148 total items and 38 total equipment, please correct me if I got this part false) (does not take in the fact of item stacking)

Just go to the wiki[riskofrain2.fandom.com] if you want to see a list of all items. Items in this game play a key role in this game, as they are like the bread and butter to it. Each items has it’s own principles and math to it (ex: shaped glass[riskofrain2.fandom.com], x*2^y; y=amount of shaped glass ,x=damage)
Choosing the specific items can be challenging, but they are also able to be used to make a build for themselves. Take for example, the voodoo doll[riskofrain2.fandom.com]. It constantly plays all of your kill effects, which sounds mediocre unless you realize it can be used in conjunction with gasoline[riskofrain2.fandom.com], will o’ wisp[riskofrain2.fandom.com], monster tooth[riskofrain2.fandom.com], etc.
There are also items that work perfectly with survivor based off of unique mechanics given to them. Like how the engineer’s turrets inherit the engineers items and are able to have a healing aura of bungus[riskofrain2.fandom.com] around them.
Please use game mechanics and unique niche mechanics[riskofrain2.fandom.com] you see, they could really deepen your understanding within the game.

Conclusion

Also, please provide feedback. This is my first guide. I am a native English speaker, so I apologize for my lack of grammar.