Kripp's Hammer Exodia Pygmalien Build

Double Whammy

The bonk. Double Whammy saw a surge in popularity when Pygmalien players realized they didn’t need to force Weights + Vineyard every run and started stacking health instead. The main comparison for the item is Lion Cane, which deals the same amount of damage at Diamond tier with half the cooldown, but Whammy has the difference of multicast.

If you hit the correct enchantment and skill combo, which is what Kripp was going for in this run, you’re much better off with the Whammy, since it just straight up deals more damage because of its Multicast and the combo ignoring the item’s cooldown.

Note that if you’re just playing health stack Pyg, the Shield enchantment isn’t needed, and you’d rather have Radiant instead. If you’ve stacked enough health, though, you don’t really need an enchantment.

Pawn Shop

Pawn Shop's potential is limitless. It’s an even better item then Vanessa’s Cove because Pyg has tons of small item generation in the form of Spare Change, Gumballs, and Chocolate Bars.

There’s many use cases for Pawn Shop. In today’s build, it’s there to massively increase Pygmalien’s Health pool during combat. When you’re playing Pyg, if you have the stash space and economy for a Pawn Shop, you can actually juice it up and move the item to the board when you Level Up if you happen to get the +10% Max Health boost since it will recalculate the buff with Pawn Shop's added health.

Balcony + Stained Glass Window

The items that enable the big combo. Balcony redesign made it only double the Property’s value during combat just like Stained Glass Window. The specific interaction with Pawn Shop makes it so you only quadruple Pawn Shop's value after the fight starts, which makes you gain max health after combat starts as well.

Since the act of gaining maximum health doesn’t “heal” you - as we can observe with Dooley’s Walter Cooler -, you’ll end up quadrupling your maximum health pool but stay with the same amount of health as before.

While that’s generally a very bad interaction, it enables some pretty specific combos that are game breaking. Specifically, the interaction of Items and Skills that activate when your character is under a specific health threshold. Let’s talk about those next, shall we?

Emergency Shield

Kripp didn’t get this skill in the run, but it was the combo he was aiming for. Emergency Shield alongside a Shielded Double Whammy will make you use it and deal damage.

Since the build is all about starting the fight and gaining Maximum Health, it will cause the Double Whammy to strike immediately, essentially winning you the fight regardless of what the opponent has. Since the Whammy has Multicast, you will win even against players that have Radiant Corsair’s Fiery Rebirth .

On top of it, Emergency Shield is a force-use skill, which means you will get to hit with the Double Whammy even if it’s frozen.

Petrifying Gaze

Petrifying Gaze will go off immediately in this build since you start the fight with less than 50% health. Technically, it won’t go off instantly on the Start of Fight since you need to take one point of damage for it to activate, but it’s pretty much a Start of Fight effect in this build.

You can get Petrifying Gaze from the Gorgon Noble PvE encounter at Silver rarity on day 5 or from the Lich PvE encounter at Gold rarity on day 6.

Rapid Thaw

Rapid Thaw is an incredible skill to get since it will fix the Freeze spam issue on later days and pretty much neglect most Freeze enchantments. Freeze skills generally last for a bunch of time and Rapid Thaw is really good to set them off but it really shines on Freezing item effects and enchantments, since those generally last 1 or 2 seconds.

You can get this Skill from normal Skill vendors like Nufu or drop it from Joyful Jack’s PvE encounter on both days 7 and 8.

There are a number of alternative win conditions for this build, but most of them involve Healing, with the only one that doesn’t being Lion Cane as an alternative damage item.

Subscraper

Subscraper finds space in this build since you are quadrupling the value of Pawn Shop which probably already has a lot of value. It’s the win condition Kripp uses in the video while Double Whammy isn’t prepared yet.

Hogwash

Hogwash will basically be a different Subscraper that doesn’t add extra value to your items but will heal for more. It’s a pretty decent alternative but it’s only better if it’s at Gold or Diamond Tier

Lion Cane

Lion Cane charges faster than Double Whammy for half the intended damage. If you get your hands on a Radiant enchantment instead of Shield or you can’t find the Emergency Shield skill, it might be a better idea to use it - unless, of course, you’re going for the big bonk memes.