The BazaarThe Bazaar Pygmalien Guide and Overview

Pygmalien has a wide range of Tools and Properties that can generate Gold and scale off of it.

If you didn't know, out-of-combat effects like the Cash Register can be triggered from inside your Stash.

So if you're playing Pygmalien right, you'll have to constantly pay attention to your inventory and makes sure no slot goes to waste.

Once you have your economic engine running, you can hit more upgrades more often, and make massive investments that would bankrupt other heroes.

Example Items

Rewards Card

Rewards Card is an Economy item that requires regular inventory management in order to captilize on its benefits. While it's great at generating extra gold, it can also be used to scale items that increase power based on their cost.

One of the more unique aspects of the item is that it can influence your pathing during the run. Note that it only activates when you visit a Merchant, which means you may opt for more vendors over events. All that said, on average it'll easily generate more value than it costs, making it a great item to pickup whenever you see it.

Fixer Upper

Fixer Upper is a Property item that upgrades itself for every 50 gold you spend. Given that you'll be actively spending during your run, this is a great investment that you can later sell for a solid profit.

Once at Diamond, it can also be further invested in to create a strong Value-scaling build. Either take advantage of a Burn/Poison enchant or use a Spiky Shield to convert the Damage.

Bootstraps

Bootstraps is a unique Economy item. It doesn't actually produce any gold, but instead provides a reliable way to upgrade your items, so long as your Income can support it. The more you spend, the more you'll be rewarded. Additionally, enchanting it will allow you to pass its enchant over to any item that it upgrades. With a strong enough Economy you can create a fully enchanted board!

While the upgrade target is random, it can be somewhat controlled with proper item management. Knowing you can only upgrade items at a lower tier than the Bootstraps, you can always sell any unnecessary items prior to your next 50 gold trigger. This increases the odds (or occasionally guarantees) that you'll upgrade the desired target.

While other Heroes have access to stacking effects, Pygmalien has the most.

This works in tandem with his economic strength since buying and selling items are often the triggers for his stacks.

Items like the Lemonade Stand let you gain Max Health every time you sell a Small item.

Be sure to prioritize upgrading these items as soon as possible, as their stacking amounts increase based on their rarity tier.

If you anticipate a potential upgrade (via nearby level-up reward or upcoming shops), consider holding onto any applicable items before selling them!

Example Items

Dog

Dog, just like Lemonade Stand, scales whenever you sell a Small item. This is great since Small items are cheap, and even better when you can take advantage of events that produce multiple items such as Gumballs or Chocolate Bars.

It's a great choice early on since it doesn't require a ton of gold to build up.

Pyg's Gym

Pyg's Gym is a little more specific in that it requires you to buy Weapons in order to scale. However, it shares the benefit of Lemonade Stand in that it increases your Max Health regardless of whether it stays on your board. As an added bonus, it grows in value every time you purchase a Weapon.

While it can't benefit from the likes of Chocolate Bars, it does remove the size restriction, making it actually easier to scale in some cases. It's definitely worth the investment if your Income can afford it.

Pawn Shop

Pawn Shop has the most flexibility of the bunch, allowing every sold item to scale the Property. However, it does take a bit of time to get going and doesn't provide any actual benefits (beyond gold investment) while just sitting in your Stash.

But once it's had enough time to scale, you can either take advantage of its huge Max Health buff by including it on your board, or cash it in for a ton of gold.

If you like to play defensively, Pygmalien has the most access to Shields, Healing, and Health stacking options.

In fact, you'll even see Pygs that opt for builds that have barely any offensive capabilities at all.

After 30 seconds during a fight, the sandstorm kicks in and does damage to you and your enemy, so if you're tankier, you can win by outlasting them.

Example Items

Spiky Shield

Spiky Shield is one of the most straightfoward ways to convert stacked Shield into huge raw Damage. As mentioned above it works great with Fixer Upper, but in general it's a great item to fall back on so long as Shield is key to your strategy.

One of its benefits is that it's extremely accessible as a Bronze tier item. Plus since the Damage conversion is all that matters, you don't need to waste any valuable upgrades (and/or gold) in order to improve it.

Uwashiwali Bird

Uwashiwali Bird is often used for its Multicast abilities, letting you proc adjacent triggers and/or Charge other items. However, it's also an excellent Heal item in its own right and can offer incredible sustain with scaling support.

You don't even need to invest deep into Properties. Even with 2-3 Multicast it's a respectable choice, as it generally outshines most other Heal items of its size. Give it a nice enchant and it gets even crazier!

Belt

Belt is as straightforward as it looks, but powerful nonetheless. Increasing Max Health can be a big deal in a fight, especially when combined with other forms of scaling such as Pyg's Gym or Pawn Shop.

If you want to take it a step further, you can pair it with Weapons like Lion Cane that deal Damage based on your Max Health.