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| Crown of Risk |   |
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| Area: | Preloop Vaults | |
| Pro: | More drops when at Full HP | |
| Con: | Less drops when not | |
Tech
- Enemies gain 50% to their drop modifier (WIP) while at max HP.
- Enemies lose 50% of their drop modifier while not at max HP.
- Rads and weapon drops are not effected by this modifier.
- As Fish's Confiscate is based on drops, it should be effected. (Needs confirming)
- Mechanics unrelated to droprates are not effected, such as Bloodlust or Lucky Shot.
Strategy Guide
Crown of Risk's core gameplay is having higher DPS potential while at max HP, while at low HP having lower DPS potential and making regaining health more difficult. Compared to other preloop crowns this puts Risk in the middle of the road - not worth taking, but not completely unusable.
The most important mutation to take here is Bloodlust as it is not effected by the crown, making returning to max health incredibly easy. Any run using Crown of Risk without this mutation will struggle to regain max HP.
The main strategy for preloop and loop is to try to select a primary weapon that can help the player avoid taking damage (like melee) and a secondary weapon that has a high ammo consumption to fully take advantage of the excess ammo drops. This especially goes for starting new levels, weapons can be fired more recklessly as while at max HP regaining to full ammo is almost guaranteed.
An additional strategy could be to try to run dual weapons that use the same ammo type, such as dual energy Energy Sword + Plasma Cannon, as all ammo drops convert to energy if not at max. Both weapons can be used with wild abandon in order to dish out high damage while protecting against projectiles.
For meta runs (Loop 3+), Risk can boost SPC damage output in similar ways to playing Fish or running Rabbit Paw, and Bloodlust procs are frequent enough that full HP is common to stay at. In other words these runs play fairly vanilla, besides maybe leaning more into mutations like Back Muscle to allow for more weapon shots.
Character/Mutation Notes:
- Bloodlust is top priority to work around the crown's downside.
- Rabbit Paw as an alternative can mostly negate the crown's downside, while turning the player into a DPS monster while at full health.
- Back Muscle and Plutonium Hunger feed really well into weapons with high ammo consumption.
- Rhino Skin is still a great mutation to take, so long as the build has a healing mutation.
- While not high priority, mutations like Euphoria and Boiling Veins can help be at full health more frequently.
- DPS-focused characters such as Fish, YV and Steroids naturally go well with this crown, especially if paired with Back Muscle.
- Melting is frequently at lower HP so Risk isn't a terrible idea to take, and actually has some niche usage if going for the Everything Hurts achievement. (Link to guide later)
- Rebel's active is naturally at odds with Crown of Risk and the two should never be run together - if going for the unlock, just avoid using her active for that run.