The Bazaar Meta Builds (Season 18)

Elemental Depth Charge combines its mass Freeze potential with its impressive damage-over-time output. It's a build that can be assembled flexibly, and has options to convert into Slumbering Primordial setups as well. Ultimately, just optimize for startup time with items like Rowboat, then lockdown the enemy.

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• Aquatic Vanessa

Lighthouse is making its return after buffs to Fishing Net, adding yet another multi-target Slow item alongside Dock Lines. You still need to solve Burn in order to make it work, but once achieved, it does a great job at halting the enemy (especially with Tripwire).

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• Slow Burn Vanessa

Wetware has emerged as Vanessa's premium Damage scaling item post-rework, creating a new way to scale to insane levels. The classic Bladed Hoverboard plus Dive Weights combo is back, but you can also play Sniper Rifle or Marlon as alternative win conditions (using the same Shield core).

Private Hot Springs is a spammy Burn item that can completely lockdown the board. Its three second Freeze effect punishes any build that can't one-shot it, especially since the Regen can counteract opposing damage over time (while the enemy still Burns!).

Pyg's Gym is back with yet another fresh coat of paint, now becoming a passive Damage buffing item. Now that it doesn't need to cast it's become a lot more aggressive, allowing items like Atlatl to punch through immediately. However, it does lose its ability to scale in longer fights (with items like Keychain).

Double Whammy is the classic late game powerhouse that uses its massive Health pool to survive and one-shot the enemy. It's a lot weaker after the level-up HP scaling nerfs, but still a solid choice when the opportunity arises. The newly reworked Fort also fits as a solid alternative to Pawn Shop.

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• Double Whammy Pygmalien

Weaponized Core and Critical Core are reliable threats alongside Dooley's abundance of Tech items. Motherboard and Tesla Coil are commonly part of the spammy setups, but you can also opt for Antimatter Chamber to shutdown opposing boards.

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• Weaponized Core Dooley

Launcher Core is a powerful enabler that can make just about anything loop incredibly fast. The most popular win conditions are usually Ice 9000, Nitrogen Hammer, and Terry-Dactyl, but you can make anything work if you're creative enough.

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• Launcher Core Dooley

Note: In the example board above, the Cog is a placeholder. Use this slot to put items with unique tags, and then opt for whatever you like during the final fight.

Hydraulic Press is a powerful one-shot build when it's available. If acquired early, it's well worth investing into, especially since it utilizes many of Dooley's core components. At worst you can always convert it into a Tech setup, but when properly assembled it can feel unstoppable.

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• Hydraulic Press Dooley

Eternal Torch has one of the highest Burn outputs in the game and can be picked up and worked towards from Day 1. While it takes a bit of time to get going, it's become far easier after the previous buffs to Blank Slate (which can carry the early to mid game). An excellent payoff for a fairly minimal investment.

Staff of the Moose has a unique line of defense with its passive immunity effect, allowing Mak to hold his ground against all the aggression. When armed with Ritual Dagger it creates an exponential form of scaling due to their combined abilities.

Vat of Acid can output an impressive amount of Burn and Poison, especially with the abundance of tags that now exist within the game. It's a lot easier to stack it up once found, making it a great pivot build if all else fails.

Wrecking Ball can quickly chunk down just about anything that opposes it, especially with the incredibly fast startup and cast time of Stelle's start-stop package. With items like MagShield it can also hold its own defensively, making it a very well-rounded build overall.

Chicken Cannon takes full advantage of the Shield scaling from Windbreaker, turning its innate defenses into a powerful one-shot kill. Cirrus Feather is one of the newest standouts, and with it the build can also feature and support Soul of the District (if you're lucky enough to find it).

Hang Glider remains as the reliable centerpiece of the start-stop archetype. Its wide range of usable items makes it very easy to assemble, and there are lots of shared components in case you decide to pivot elsewhere.

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• Start-Stop Flying Stelle

Note: Jules builds have extremely contextual positioning due to the RNG placement of the Stoves and Coolers. Your mileage may vary.

Farmer's Market builds spam fast Food items to gain massive amounts of Regen, allowing them to convert it into raw Damage with Bread Knife. With the recent rework to Refrigerator it's far more consistent to get online, plus the scaling is out of control.

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• Regen Jules

Note: Jules builds have extremely contextual positioning due to the RNG placement of the Stoves and Coolers. Your mileage may vary.

Froyo Cart combines with Ice Swan to create an endlessly spammy Freeze build. By scaling Crit with skills like Reaching the Summit or Tracer Fire, you can create insane loops with Zarlic and Sorbet.

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• Freeze Jules

Note: Jules builds have extremely contextual positioning due to the RNG placement of the Stoves and Coolers. Your mileage may vary.

Giant Sub combines Shield, Regen, and Burn to create a fast and durable build. Dragonmelon makes it naturally bulkier, and can also pair with Durian to give you a Shield conversion angle. Lots of good options within the Food/Tool package.

Trapvine fares well into the many of the Charge spam builds, creating an insane amount of Slow triggers to apply a ton of Poison quickly. Toxic Sigil now provides a huge amount of Poison scaling, which helps solve its offense a lot earlier than before.

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• Poison Karnok

Outlands Terror is an absolute monster, and is now far more available thanks to its downshift to Silver-tier. It can be utilized in a variety of setups, but a common variant utilizes the Flying package of Hunting Hawk, Messenger Sparrow, and Wing Sigil.

Aurora Vista now enables some ridiculous pacifist builds that take advantage of Crit scaling to become unkillable. Stretch Pants and Waterskin are super spammy, and the Rage gain from Eagle Sigil allows Snow Wisp to eventually reach perma-Freeze status.

Note: The Dragons builds have contextual positioning due to the semi-random placement of Notes. Your mileage may vary.

Guzheng has late game one-shot capabilities when combined with the Multimeter Crit Charge package. It's one of the most reliable ways to stack Tempo, and comes with built-in sustain, reducing the need for ideal enchantments.

Note: The Dragons builds have contextual positioning due to the semi-random placement of Notes. Your mileage may vary.

Pipe Organ outputs a massive amount of Burn even without additional scaling, making it a premiere new threat within The Dragons' Instrument pool. It pairs excellently with Keytar, but can easily flex into numerous Tempo setups.

Note: The Dragons builds have contextual positioning due to the semi-random placement of Notes. Your mileage may vary.

Superfan is a Multicasting machine that takes great advantage of spammy scaling triggers. Skills like Draconic Might, Draconic Resolve, Endurance, and Sharp Corners are all incredible, but now, it also has access to Hoodie.

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• The Dragons - Dragon Builds