Crown of Love
	Area:	Loop Vaults
	Pro/Con:	Ammo Chests Only

• Weapon chests & rad cans will be replaced with ammo chests.
• This means there will be 3 ammo chests on normal levels, or 4 with Open Mind.
• These ammo chests can still convert to IDPD chests and mimics.
• These ammo chests CANNOT convert to present chests or health chests.
• As Rogue, portal strike canisters will still spawn as intended.
• As YV, the giant weapon chest in his crib will convert to a giant ammo chest instead.
• Fish's Confiscate and Robot's Regurgitate are not effected.
• Steroids' Get Loaded will effect all ammo chests as intended, however his Ambidextrous ultra will not work at all.

Strategy Guide

Crown of Love's downside can be extremely situational, as once the player has optimal weapons the need for weapon chests diminishes greatly. For this reason it should be considered a challenge crown for weekly starts, but otherwise largely vanilla gameplay once desired weapons are obtained.

In preloop such as for weeklies, the lack of weapon chests will be immediately noticable as the player will be entirely dependent on their starting weapon(s). Certain weapon starts can be incredibly frustrating and runs may have to be attempted multiple times until one takes off. The only guaranteed weapon drop in the game is from Big Dog, and there are some level generations in which weapons may not drop at all up until that point. If just going for the weekly unlock, Oasis skip can even be considered if the starting weapon is particularly awful.

The loss of rad cans is much less of an issue. Early areas will see slower leveling similar to Rogue gameplay, but is far more worth the trade-off for more ammo.

Ammo chests will always give two ammo drops' worth of the currently held weapon, so a general strategy can be to exhaust excess ammo before opening a chest. For example an ammo chest would give 14 bolts and the player can have 55 max, so bolts can be fired wildly until 41 bolts are reached, in which a nearby ammo chest could be opened. This applies to all modes of play, but from excess ammo chests this especially applies here.

During loop play, the downside of Love becomes neglible as enemy cluster spawns make weapon drops frequent. The main upside of Love is reliable sources of ammo in every level, so weapons with high ammo consumption are more easily picked up and allows for more aggressive play. The crown is mostly supplementary to runs around this point.

For meta runs (loop 3+) the crown is even less noticable as ammo drops are everywhere and plays vanilla. The only noticable difference is for Throne / Throne II fights. Without weapon chests there is no weapon to hotswap, which can cause the fights to drag on. If any weapons drop on 7-2 it's suggested to try to save the last enemy where possible to tactically kill them near the weapon drop, otherwise dragging it into the portal if Eyes/Chicken. Without any extra weapons be prepared for particularly difficult Throne 2 fights without the ability to hotswap.

• Back Muscle is good to build sets around as the extra ammo from chests can be wasted easily otherwise.
• Open Mind is not an optimal mutation here, but can be a decent pick if running weapons with high ammo consumption.
• YV's Crib has a notable downgrade, but otherwise as a DPS-heavy character he can benefit well from Love.
• Steroids excels with Love using his dual weapon builds. Get Loaded synergizes very well.
• Chicken is the worst character to run Crown of Love on as her primary way of regaining max HP is removed, thus limiting her passive.