The Bazaar Meta Builds (Season 9)

Oni Mask offers some of the strongest Burn scaling in the game, provided you can reliably Crit. This is quite achievable with various Small Crit items, along with powerful skills like Tracer Fire that benefit from Incendiary Rounds spam. Worst case, it's an easy pivot into other Slow Burn builds like Lighthouse.

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• Slow Burn Vanessa

Slumbering Primordial emerges as a top end finisher for Vanessa. It slots in well alongside many of the universally popular components like Clamera, Dive Weights, and Incendiary Rounds. Heated Shells setups enable the fastest startup, but you can also pair it with Elemental Depth Charge.

A Full Ammo setup is definitely viable as long as you pickup some Damage and/or Ammo skills. It packs incredibly fast burst that can take out its foes before they even get started. Post Orange Julian nerfs, it's generally the faster and more reliable option compared to the previous combo-centric builds.

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• Gunslinger Aggro Vanessa

Freeze Pyg has become a bit more accessible with recent buffs to Steam Ladle, Ice Cream Truck, and Gavel. This opens more potential lines during the early to mid game, which is exactly what Freeze builds need. Play whatever you find, then let Yetarian Club or Steam Ladle carry you across the finish line.

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• Giant Ice Club Pygmalien
• Steam Ladle Pygmalien

Riceballer + Textiles is a tried and true infinite combo that spams endless amounts of Burn. It can be assembled in a variety of ways, ultimately aiming to have the fastest startup time possible. PenFT is an easy enabler, but you can replace it with better options once your out-of-combat Value-scaling is achieved.

Landscraper defines the latest iteration of the classic Shield conversion archetype. Its core game plan is fast and efficient, and having Shield helps it contest against the large presence of Burn builds.

Dooltron is an absolute powerhouse due to its flexibility and raw numbers. There are a wide variety of efficient engines, often taking advantage of contextual enchanted setups (with lots of Small items), or Cooldown reduced Haste spam with items like Monitor Lizard.

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• Companion Core Dooley

Critical Core has an incredibly fast loop that can quickly get out of hand once the pieces are in place. It's all about ensuring you have proper Damage scaling, usually via a combination of skills and/or enchantments (ex Improvised Weaponry, Shatter).

Launcher Core has an absurdly high ceiling when it comes to speed, allowing it to effeciently Charge powerful scaling items like Nitrogen Hammer, while making up for their otherwise slow startup. Launch Pad can carry the build on its own, but with enough Cooldown Reduction, anything is possible!

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• Launcher Core Dooley

Poppy Field is a powerful payoff to an aggressive Weapon setup, providing incredible speed and scaling. It fares well against the ever-present Shield builds, while outpacing Burn, unlike the Self-Poison archetype. Goop Flail, Plague Glaive, and Test Subject Alpha are all viable variants.

Magnus' Femur is Mak's notorious Slow archetype that packs high scaling, sustain, and well-rounded late game potential. Despite experiencing several buffs and nerfs throughout its lifespan, it always finds its way back onto the surface.

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• Magnus' Femur Mak

Calcinator is a powerful payoff as long as you can invest into it early. Combined with Strength Potion it can apply huge amounts of Burn within a matter of seconds, often winning with just a single activation. Retort functions more or less the same and can be played as an alternative, or alongside Calcinator.

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• Calcinator Mak

Space Laser takes advantage of the incredibly spammy Charge potential from items like Altimeter and Observatory. Its supporting items are all about creating the fastest loop possible, and the recent buffs have made it faster than ever before!

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• Space Laser Stelle

Stelle's Workshop + Angle Grinder Drone is an incredibly fast Charge loop that takes advantage of Spotlight for Damage scaling. It's a similar shell to the classic Molten Ball Blaster, but instead leans more into a combo setup with a much higher ceiling.

Lightning Rod + Weather Machine is a powerful duo, as long as you can solve the Damage scaling. The addition of Cloud Tanker makes this far easier than before, but if you manage to get Slow and Steady, feel free to lean into more Slow support with Fire Hose.

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• Lightning Rod Stelle

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

Jules has countless viable Burn setups. There's the Food spam builds like Grill, Feast, and Gingerbread House, along with the Slow Burn core of Hot Box and Imu. Honestly, there's several more beyond that, allowing plenty of room to work with what you get.

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• Burn Jules

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

Giant Lollipop hits hard and fast, putting out absurd numbers with the likes of Dishwasher. Its Quest is easy to fulfill with Excellent Vintage and fast Food items, then once online it becomes a massive threat. Cutting Board and Bubblegum Floor are other solid alternatives.

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

Freeze can be oppressively strong, but does have a bit of whacky positioning issues depending on where the Coolers spawn. However, once assembled, it can effectively lock down opposing boards while dealing a ton of Damage. Pastry Cart and Blender are both great choices.

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• Freeze Jules