The WORST Skills in Risk of Rain 2

Healing Beacons and Commandos roll got snubbed, not gonna lie

Dole is good if you're playing co-op because it can heal your friends :). But disputed doesn't play co-op so it doesn't suprise me he didn't bring it up.

How could you not put commando's grenade here

idk what i main, i mean i like railgunner and also bandit, but no desparado :,(. i think its railgunner.

I used to love Flamethrower when playing with Artificer the first few times in lower difficulties (normal basically). Then you actually recognize that you don't even use Flamethrower THAT often because you need to be in close range, you're slowed down by the ability and it doesn't even deal that much damage to justify all the risks.. Including it in the Skill rotation is not easy and it's not even worth it. Ion Surge can be used in the same scenarios of Flamethrower, deals lower damage but in a burst which means you're probably still dealing more damage with it and it's not even an ability designed for damage. You get much needed mobility that is even synergistic with Artificer's passive and active abilities because of their mechanics.

The only way to make great use of the Flamethrower is getting Ignition Tanks and focus on stuff that doesn't scale on total damage, but on base damage. Bleed effects for instance, Flamethrower is a good way to apply many of them. Does any of this justify Flamethrower over all the utilities of Ion Surge? Ignition Tank is a naturally good item on Artificer anyway if you pick the default M1, while Tri-tip daggers tend to be on the weak side for the Artificer but you're not really losing that much from this.

Basically, on top of being a bad ability, it also has such an high opportunity cost since you're not taking Ion Surge. This kind of thing is an huge design problem of Risk of Rain 2, it happens so many times in the survivors' design that it's baffling.

blight better
shut up runner get light flux pauldrons
poison is never better if you play acrid correctly

Blight kinda good if you speed running on acrid ngl as your dmg is insane with artefact of glass anyways. At that point I just want an ability to kill ebonies while I dip

Flamethrower isn’t the 2nd coming of Christ, but it is a great tool to fill out artificer’s combat loop. I get people hype it up, but putting it in the top half of bad moves is over correcting

I’m also offended but whatever, you already know that

Uhhhhh. The Directive abilities are the default for R.E.X.

like i know bubble shield does barely anything but at least it doesn't remove a quarter of your health bar

You can do A LOT of damage with flamethrower by stacking ignition tanks, will o the wisp and gasoline

Flamethrower is being trashed unfairly.

It's a good skill. It deals good damage, gives you lots of procs, synergizes very strongly with ignition tank, has a good cooldown, scales with attack speed, makes good use of the downtime while your primary is cooling down, and gives Artificer a good tool for handling swarms of enemies at close range.

The only thing that's bad about Flamethrower is that the other skill is Ion Surge. If Ion Surge wasn't one of the strongest abilities in the game, or even if Flamethrower was Artificer's only choice of special, it would not have made this list.

Additionally, while Ion Surge may be better in a technical sense, once the novelty of being able to fly wherever you want wears off, spending the whole game way up in the air shooting fish in a barrel gets pretty boring.

omg is that the escapist ost

I unlocked ion surge the first time I played artificer and haven't gone back. Every time I think about using flamethrower again to see if it's good, I just play artificer and remember why I love ion surge.

I always considered Arrow Rain to be a great crowd control piece. It's awesome when it comes to large hoards of enemies, or stationary bosses.

Hey chris

i love engineer

In terms of multiplayer, Dole can be pretty good for supporting your team. Apply harvest, then kill the enemy. Anyone who us damage can grab some apples. However, i do agree that Tangling Growth is far better in most situations.

That entire acrid section had me baffled. Bro found new exciting ways to make it clear he has no idea what tf he's talking about.