CHEF

Tactics

 * This character is easily unlocked by utilizing the to pick Meat Nugget, Bustling Fungus, Sprouting Egg, Bitter Root and Foreign Fruit in one run.
 * Boosted is extremely effective against Magma Worms and Gilded Wurms.
 * It seems that cleavers have slightly increased damage on their return path.
 * Boosted can be used to quickly create distance between the player and enemies.
 * Sear and Boosted Sear can pierce through the terrain.
 * To get the achievement for having 20 cleavers on screen, either the,  or the  are required.
 * Additionally, having very fast attack speed from items like, , , and with the addition of the previous items makes the achievement very easy.
 * Another way to do this is to fight a Magma Worm or Gilded Wurm with and high crit chance, as boosted dice can hit the Worm/Wurm's body even after defeat.
 * will not apply on-hit effects on a second hit to the same enemy, be it on the throw or return, however, both hits can crit.
 * The cleavers from (non-boosted) Dice cannot pass through terrain on the way out, but will on the way back.
 * When Glaze is activated, CHEF can't use any other abilities or change direction. It can still jump, though.
 * It is easy to do an immense amount of damage to multiple enemies with Chef's Glaze and Blaze skills. Glazing enemies, then using Second Helping and hitting them with Blaze deals insane damage. This is especially effective when using the, as both Marinate and Blaze can be used.
 * Combining and  will allow the Chef to screen wipe, clearing any boss instantly via double-cast mince.
 * Combining and  will allow CHEF to do insane amounts of damage just by throwing Boosted  four times in one use.
 * Stacking will remove the boomeranging feature respectively from  and instead replaces the cleavers with the regular  attack.
 * Items with effects highly recommended to aim for on this character:
 * All "chance for *effect*" items such as, , , , , and.