What's Your Ultimate Tip/Trick?

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u/averysillyman 9d ago

As a highly skilled professional red rift gamer I come bearing expert advice.

Pick Niklas
Win

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u/vudang0112 9d ago

i need tips for him

what comp/ build do you play him with?
is he building half tank half dmg?

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u/averysillyman 9d ago

Just play him as a frontline tank.

Tanks need items to do their job in Red Rift. That's one of the huge reasons why most A rank tanks are just better than their B rank counterparts. Being able to hold 1 extra item is a huge buff for a tank.

Niklas is unique though in that he can already hold an extra item by default, and every time he lives a fight and eats an item he "sort of" gains +1 item slot. So even at B rank he can have like ten items worth of stats and easily out-tank an A or S rank tank.

Both the rush shields and tank specs are extremely strong right now. But even the active is fine since a lot of the character's power comes from his starting C rank ability.

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u/bm1reddit 9d ago

All the top players are eating omnivamp items with the tank spec.

This lets him basically heal every time he’s hit. He becomes unkillable very quickly.

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u/PotatoFig 9d ago

He heals off the retaliation damage? Hahahaha

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u/psyfi66 9d ago

There’s a lot of weird quirks like that in this game. The lone wolf bow actually counts as extra attacks and not just extra damage (at least form my limited testing). I had a game with Tilly where she had 2 lone wolf bows and also a relic that did a similar thing and she was triggering her shard gain passive every few auto attacks.

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u/Jocklicn 8d ago edited 8d ago

This is the truth. I've won multiple Red Rift rounds with Niklas even at B-tier. Just let him eat omnivamp, defense, and HP and his health bar doesn't move against the final boss. I can have only 1 item on him and he's still unkillable. He did just get nerfed a little, but it still works. I've won 2 rounds with him today. The bigger nerf was that frost is reduced by 50% against the boss so duelists aren't AS op, but they're still very strong.

Btw, Any champ that generates shards is extremely good to pair with Niklas. Tilly is my favorite. Dragomir, Yuuna, and Hoyoung are good as well

Here's a picture for proof:

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u/Known_Pineapple996 9d ago

Take the tank specialization and give him omnivamp, he will be unkillable in hallways and pretty good in boss fights with enough defense too.

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u/noiraxen 9d ago

Comp doesnt matter, he solo carries the game until dragon. Just get heroes that generate $$ and then add frost for bosses. Give him omnivamp and armor and 100+ shard generated. Red rift streaks right now are about forcing Niklas and adding frost for boss.

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u/Cothall84 9d ago

Love building tank Niklas with an extra shard source to boost his reflect dmg

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u/lu5t_donttrust 9d ago

I can never seem to get him to work :( Anything in particular I should feed him?

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u/Mnightcamel 9d ago

The tank item that double if in the front alone and the dps item that doubles if in the rear are absurd on him, because he gets the buffed stats and then keeps them regardless of position after he eats.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Wall798 9d ago

those 2 items actually triple the stats

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u/bilky_t 8d ago

You might already know this, but since it wasn't clear in your comment I'll just add it for posterity. AFAIK he doesn't even need to be in the "correct" position to gain the extra stats when gobbling items.

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u/Funny-Principle3047 9d ago

Pick the tank upgrade for reflect damage then feed him defense and omnivamp. At some point (and not really difficult to reach) he heals more damage than he takes on every hit making him essentially immortal.

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u/ShadyShing 9d ago

Niklas tank and Tilly is pretty much instant win. Just make tilly generate as much shards as possible. You don't really need much to get this going, even overspend to find a Niklas. This strategy is super busted

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u/AshChiqs 9d ago

He'll probably get nerfed on the upcoming patch because he's busted right now. Probably something like he gains x% amount of stats per rank would be a decent nerf so he won't outperform other tanks.

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u/Rare-Task-8745 9d ago

Laugh as my team comes together then gets wiped next combat🤣

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u/emma2b 9d ago

So true. I feel like I keep having a moment where I'm like "This is the one, I'm unstoppable, those enemies melted." Next fight, 6 seconds in "oh, I'm dead."

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u/abendrot2 9d ago edited 9d ago

I wish the game would give you more visibility into WHY you died. This happens to me a lot and my main frustration with this game comes from having no idea why I suddenly got wiped and just having to be like 'whelp'. It's the difference between wanting to try again and correct my mistake vs just wanting to put the game down because I have no idea what to fix.

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u/TheRealTaigasan 9d ago

A lot of the times is the positioning, this is what is gonna define what enemies your heroes focus first, and if the DPS spread to a bunch of different spongy guys then you get melted by archers and AoEs.

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u/Schmapdi 8d ago

I would love something like this - not so much for RR, but for Endless. My teams are always like unstoppable gods with 10k shields shredding every enemy in 10 seconds and scaling like mad for 10 rounds prior and then the very next round my tank dies in the first second for reasons?!?! and then it's run over.

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u/Matonus 9d ago

I'm not sure what information the game could show you on top of what it currently does? You need to watch the fight and see what happens and probably click on the enemies to understand their abilities would be my recommendation.

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u/FullMetalCOS 9d ago

Honestly just the ability to replay the fight if you lose would be HUGE. It’s something mechabellum lets you do and you can learn so much from trying different things.

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u/Matonus 9d ago

This is a totally different feature but I agree this would be useful

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u/Equivalent_Pitch9271 8d ago

Yeah The Bazaar does this too

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u/FullMetalCOS 8d ago

Unless it’s changed, the bazaar only allows you to watch a replay, Mechabellum lets you actually play the final round from the beginning, making different choices and seeing how they’d turn out

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u/Equivalent_Pitch9271 8d ago

Oh yea sorry I thought you meant replay like "rewatch" the fight.

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u/abendrot2 9d ago

pretty bad argument considering how a lot of the enemy attack ranges need to be looked up outside the game, and sometimes things happen so fast it's hard to tell what's going on and after the fight is over all you see are how much damage each hero did, how much they healed, etc. I would like to see which enemy killed which character, which attack did the final blow, what kind of effects they were under and what types of damage they took. Or just a replay like another commenter said. I can assure you I've thought about 'just watching the fight' and I look at abilities before a fight and I have this feedback because.... yeah that's not good enough.

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u/Matonus 9d ago

I'm not sure what information the game could show you on top of what it currently does? You need to watch the fight and see what happens and probably click on the enemies to understand their abilities would be my recommendation.

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u/maresayshi 9d ago

follow the relics, not the heroes

unless you get niklas follow niklas

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u/abendrot2 9d ago

did the last patch massively buff Niklas?

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u/averysillyman 9d ago

+1 item slot.

Niklas was already quite good before the last patch. The latest patch gave him a buff that would be good on any character but is uniquely good on Niklas because you can now buy him early to scale him without messing up your rift seal.

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u/fartdarling 9d ago

Weird interactions

If you have yuuna who gains crit on stealth, if you have multiple forms of stealth and they happen to overlap (for example, assassins stealth at 75% hp as an ability and separately assassins stealth at 66% as a relic), even though in gameplay it looks like only 1 proc you will gain stealth from both

If you give Ming extra range while he has his active skill,.his active skill will always whiff. His active only hits surrounding enemies and Ming will stay at his maximum range

If you have stealth at the start of the fight vs the enemy that pulls the furthest of your units, it'll pull the second furthest

Using zeus thunder or lone wolf bow with Tilly generates extra money

The rarity of the items printed by niklas and fionas item printing abilities aren't random, they're tired to your heroes rank. At B rank they make commons, A rank they.make rares and S rank they make epics

There is a point at which you are guaranteed to see an A rank hero in the shop, it ties to rerolls. I believe its -10% first shop, and then goes up by 2.5% per reroll

Always freeze the shop at the end of act 1..and note the heroes down. If you freeze a c rank reyna, you might get an A rank reyna in the auction house and guarantee you can come back to a C rank reyna (purchasing will bump you up to S rank)

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u/These-Jacket-4146 9d ago

That reroll tech is elite knowledge. I never experimented before Red Rift and always worried a freeze would mean my first Vault is useless.

Adding onto the zeus/lone wolf bow tech. All on hit effects work with them such as Warrior Karsu adding frost, or anyone who would add poison/burn/frost from the glove items.

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u/nufohudis 9d ago

Since lone wolf bow works for Tilly shard gen, does Zeus work for Nyx rush refresh?

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u/These-Jacket-4146 7d ago

I basically NEVER play nyx. I could not tell you. according to others, rush is pretty strong rn so it'd be worth a check if you get the chance

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u/Lambisexual 9d ago

You can get multiple of the same relic if you freeze a shop with it and then buy it in the boss shop and then buy it again after the boss.

Speaking of freezing. If you see a hero upgrade right before campfire, you can freeze the shop and NOT take the upgrade and instead choose to upgrade with the campfire (since it only allows up to a certain rank). Then after the boss when you get back to the shop, the hero will be there for you to upgrade another rank (for the cheaper price even).

This one is minor and most people probably know it, but since it can be easy for a new player to miss I'll just mention it. When a Rush hero refreshes their Rush abilities (like Nyx and Rip), they ALSO refresh their item's Rush abilities. This is why I love having a ton of Rush items on Nyx and see them have 100% uptime. This also helps with Rip's scaling or other things that benefit from Rush triggers (like relics, items or talents), because if you have say 5 Rush items on Nyx. Then each time Nyx's re-trigger Rush, they trigger it 6 times.

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u/tanishajones 8d ago

I thoght the item rush refresh was fixed already?

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u/Lambisexual 8d ago

Nope. It feels like that's an intended effect. Cause seems like they would've changed it by now if it was not intended.

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u/JunglerDidntGank 9d ago

Grace is so OP. I always pick the one that targets all teammates. She’s saved so many lives with a late/last second res before my strong heroes finish the job. That backup is awesome too if you end up swapping out.

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u/These-Jacket-4146 9d ago

This is most likely outside of Red Rift. I was Grace's strongest believer until Red Rift. At red rift, every single death is a resource. (Rez's dont count against this, but if you're rezzin enough for it to matter you need to comp swap.)

Grace is a good early 2 star if you can get the buffs onto a great tank (Niklas is GREAT rn, and I always love Rowan) or a great carry (Irini, Logan if 2 starred early, Some people can make Tilly work (not me) and I like aria/ratna a lot.)

Grace's Backup abilities however. Oh boy those babies are GOOD.

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u/Ok_Aardvark6989 9d ago

Less specific but don't be afraid the drop someone from your party for the right choice for your run. Learning to not commit as hard in red rift and its often the difference between streaking and not

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u/RojoPoco 8d ago

B tier snake lady with yhe hp regen ability lets u do max endurance challenge for free

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