The Bazaar Meta Builds (Season 14)

Tortuga is back and more consistent than ever before. With reworks to Sharkray and Piranha, there's a very easy path to assembly, especially now that Vanessa has access to the Friends vendor. It's a fast and powerful scaling build, with plenty of room for contextual setups and creativity.

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• Tortuga Vanessa

Slumbering Primordial is a powerful payoff that takes advantage of spammy Burn/Poison/Freeze triggers. There are a multitude of viable setups, many of which use staple items from Vanessa's pool. Common variants include fast Ammo + Heated Shells, Iceberg, or Elemental Depth Charge.

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• Slumbering Primordial Vanessa

Ballista tops off early to mid game Ammo builds as a powerful Multicasting threat. The recent buff to its base Damage (at Diamond) definitely helps its viability, and there are many different board combinations that can work.

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• Gunslinger Aggro Vanessa

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

Square Pyg is the classic beatdown archetype that takes advantage of Crook's Damage buff during the early game. After snowballing a lead, it can work towards heavy-hitters like Lion Cane, Regal Blade, and Cash Cannon to close things out.

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• Square Pygmalien

Money Furnace has a huge Burn output, especially alongside the likes of Billboard and Abacus. It's a powerful payoff that can be found early as a Bronze-tier item, and provides a real incentive to play around Spare Change.

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• Money Furnace Pygmalien

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

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

Weaponized Core is the classic self-scaling machine that can reliably play from beginning to end. While its output isn't the best among the top contenders, a great way to take over the game is through disruption items like Antimatter Chamber.

Potion Mak returns after the recent buffs to Athanor, bringing back another win condition for the archetype. The downshift to Silver-tier along with the built-in upgrade effect has added much consistency along the way (Show Globe downshift also helps). It's powerful and flexible, and there's plenty of viable variants.

Poppy Field is a powerful payoff to an aggressive Weapon setup, providing incredible speed and scaling. You can play for tempo with a wide board of Small items, or transition towards a one-shot build with Goop Flail or Plague Glaive.

Runic Blade is a deadly one-shot build that will destroy anything that can't win before it. It's often assembled off the back of Magic Carpet, so if you're unable to get the tempo win, there's still a viable path for the late game. Icicle + Invigorating Cold is a great way to kickstart the build.

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• Weapon Mak

Sky Anchor builds hit hard and fast, all while keeping the opponent at a snail's pace. You can play spammy Charge setups with Stelle's Workshop, or more defensive Shield variants including Cruise Ship.

Pillbuggy is a powerful one-shot build that scales absurdly fast once Hasted. In fact, the passive effect of Cloud Tanker actually scales infinitely, allowing the rest of the board to focus on speed control (ex. Weather Machine). Other strong variants include items like Sirens, Lowroller, and Launch Tower.

Space Laser is a one-shot (or two-shot) combo build that aims to Charge as fast as possible. There are several key items that can enable the loop, including the likes of Observatory, Hydraulic Squeezer, Altimeter, Propeller, and Sirens.

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

Freezer combines a fast offense with continuous disruption, making it a strong and reliable archetype. The improvements to socket RNG are a huge help, as the build could previously be bricked if things didn't line up properly.

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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.

Spice Rack has been reworked into a powerful Burn scaling support item (despite nerfs), becoming what's essentially Jules' version of Oni Mask. Combined with fast spammy Food, it gets out of hand very quickly.

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. When acquired early enough, you can also stack up a solid amount of Max Health, making them even harder to break through.

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• Regen Jules

Self-Slow has powerful combos that lean into the efficient Damage scaling of Chains. There's the Ammo variants that utilizes Tent with Shotgun or Bear Trap, along with Boa Constrictor setups that can flex multiple utility items like Hunter's Boots and/or Hunter's Blind.

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• Self-Slow Karnok

Anaconda is a scaling, Multicasting menace within fast Enrage spam builds. It fits naturally with Karst, creating a combined offense and defense. With support from Haste/Charge items like Flying Squirrel, Waterskin, and Messenger Sparrow, it doesn't take long to get going.

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• Karst Enrage Karnok

Pacifist Karnok is the real deal. It plays solely for defensive scaling and can outlast any build that can't race it down or go over it. The recently redesigned Furs provides massive amounts of Heal/Shield scaling. Combined with items like Karst and Stretch Pants, good luck taking it down!