Talk:Commando (RoR2)/@comment-107.77.205.43-20200423173156/@comment-71.200.120.235-20200727203434

Number 1 tip is to try your absolute best to keep every stage at 5 mins max. Game simply outscales you if you start taking longer, no matter how good your build is. Prioritize red (damage) chests, muti-shops with damage items, and large chests/green multi-shops. I know it's painful but sometimes you will have to simply walk by a chest you can't afford and ignore it, because stopping to farm for it would simply doom the run.

Commando is basically like playing the game on hard mode, you need every single optimization you can get. Make sure you're moving torwards the next chest while fighting enemies, try to path so you don't have to double back and waste time, use your abilities off cooldown, etc.

If you're going for incorruptible on monsoon like a true gamer, then the best strategy that worked for me is to go for a stage 2 void fields. It may sound daunting if you've never done it but it's really not that bad, as long as you have the right setup. All you need is at least one healing item (bustling fungus, medkit, or cautious slug) and preferably a damage item like dagger. If you see tesla on round 9, just make a beeline for the portal and leave, it's literally unwinnable. Nkuhana's opinion with medkits is also really hard but not as bad as tesla.

As for items, the three best whites are obviousy crit glasses, syringe, and dagger. Glasses and syringe scale extremely well, and dagger is probably my favorite early item (along with gasoline). You also want to get as many teddies and brooches as possible mid-late game. And don't underrate healing early, an early medkit or monster tooth can actually be very helpful. The best greens are obviously atg, guillotine, ukelele, runalds/kjaros, and wisp. Hopoos are very nice too, and you will want at least one death mark (which means you'll also want a chronobauble). As for reds, most are really good, but the absolute best is without a doubt clover. After that I'd say tesla and behemoth are great at all stages of the game, and brainstalks, aegis, and dios are really good mid/late game. Soulbound catalyst can be really good with the right equipment. And speaking of equipment, my favorites are cube, woodsprite, and royal capacitor, but honestly it's very build-dependent. Woodsprite and capacitor work really well with some warhorns and fuel cells, while cube is really good with wisps/gasoline/ukelele.

TLDR: keep stages under 5 mins, I literally cannot stress this enough and I promise you it will be noticeable. Don't go for every chest, prioritize damage chests and large chests. Void fields gives 4 whites, 4 greens, and a red, so doing it early (stage 2) can really help commando through his rough early game. Learn which items work well and which don't, and try to prioritize accordingly. Oh yea and don't buy drones early, waste of money, I don't care what RedRiot tells you xDDD