The Bazaar Meta Builds (Season 17)

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).

Submarine takes great advantage of the recently reworked Wetware, giving it a reliable source of Damage scaling that simultaneously improves its defenses. It's always been fairly fast and efficient, but now the numbers grow a lot faster.

Tortuga is a powerful and consistent threat that can easily pivot from both Aquatic and Weapon lines. Ever since Vanessa gained access to the Friend vendor, it's become very reliable to assemble. It's fast, flexible, and hits hard enough to get the job done.

Build Guide:

• Tortuga Vanessa

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!).

Skyscraper capitalizes on the Value game plan, providing a reliable win condition if you can find it in time. It's a great pivot option with a stacked Abacus, as you can essentially run whatever else you'd like (ideally optimizing for speed or sustain).

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.

Build Guide:

• Double Whammy Pygmalien

Weaponized Core is a reliable threat 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.

Build Guide:

• Weaponized Core Dooley

Armored Core has been a reliable choice since the buffs to Wallace, often finding itself on a variety of Shield-based boards. With Bunker and the right enchantment it can even solo carry on its own, but otherwise Welding Torch or Force Field are great alternatives.

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.

Build Guide:

• Launcher Core 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.

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.

Build Guide:

• Start-Stop Flying Stelle

Ramming Balloon has become a new build around for Stelle, allowing you to convert Shield triggers into impressive Damage scaling. As a Bronze-tier starting item, it's far more accessible than the average build, while having more than enough staying power for the late game.

LavaRoller converts self-destruction into unmatchable amounts of Burn. The Drone Crusher package combined with Hydrogen Tank and Flare Gun make it insanely fast once the pieces are in place.

Build Guide:

• LavaRoller 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.

Build Guide:

• 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.

Build Guide:

• 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 is a powerful Burn scaling engine as long as you can solve Crit. Combine it with fast spammy Food and things get out of hand very quickly.

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.

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. Black Mamba now provides a solid amount of Poison scaling, which helps solve its offense a lot earlier than before.

Build Guide:

• Poison Karnok

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.

Build Guide:

• The Dragons - Dragon Builds

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.

Bass has impressive scaling potential thanks to the abundance of Slow triggers that The Dragons have. While it's reasonably fast on its own, it takes great advantage of Multimeter to help accelerate the entire board.