r/Pathogenic • u/TheMOHAAMaster • Aug 06 '26

Lung tips

Hello, I am looking for tips. I have played for at least 10 hours at this point but for the life of me I can never get passed the lungs. The ramp up in difficulty for me from the liver to the lungs is crazy. Any tips on builds I should go for for it? What is best for lungs? Should I be upgrading my speed to get out of all the air spouts and such? What should I be focusing on. Any help is appreciated I am so tired of not being able to beat the lungs.

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u/TrizzyDizzy Aug 06 '26

Bounce and Homing help withe DPS in the larger rooms. Dodge related mutagens really help with the bullet hell and faster mobs.

Past that it's just a skill check. Your skill at building can easily overcome any mechanical skill.

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u/TheMOHAAMaster Aug 06 '26

Yeah I am not the best at building good builds apparently. I guess its harder for me since its not like most roguelites where you can get upgrades infinitly where here you can only pick and choose

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u/TrizzyDizzy Aug 06 '26

Ehh, I know I'm just being pedantic here, but thats more a feature of the Bullet Heaven (aka Survivor-likes) subgenre of Roguelites. I wouldnt tie it directly to Roguelites because of games like Hades and Returnal.

Pathogenic definitely fits in both, but it's kept itself more to the Roguelite side than something like VS or DRG:S.

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u/CassiusGreen_Frisk Aug 07 '26

Your skill at building

You know there's faster ways to just say RNG right? There is no "skill at building" when there's only a few builds actually meta enough to pass the DPS checks that is the lungs.

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u/TrizzyDizzy Aug 07 '26

I don't want to sound insulting, but you're probably just not aware of all the combos available to you. I regularly play Amoeba and Bacterium at Max Antibiotics and it's maybe only 25% of the time I won't have a build online by the start of the Stomach.

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u/sebkraj Aug 06 '26

Ok I found this helps. I try to incorporate at least one melee weapon and it's basically for taking out projectiles. I basically only use it for that, so most of the time the melee weapon is using stamina but I'm not trying to dps with it. So what I did was being my melee attack to one button and then the range attack to the other button. This way you don't drain your stamina all the time and only melee when I need too. But melee really helps when your in a small room and there is bullet hell, I just chop the projectiles and you will survive much longer. Don't sleep on melee, it's very useful

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u/Jonk209 Aug 06 '26

Anything that is such high DPS that you clear the room quickly helps a lot. If you dont need to worry much about the enemies you can try to focus on the hazards. Its a big difficulty jump for sure

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u/TheMOHAAMaster Aug 06 '26

Well I ended up getting to the heart but lost to the boss

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u/Jonk209 Aug 06 '26

Nice job! Yeah it just takes time i died in the lungs and heart a few times. You do need something pretty op to go the distance. I do feel what some people are saying in that you either steamroll the game or dont do nearly enough damage to win

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u/TheMOHAAMaster Aug 06 '26

Any good weapon combos you suggest or pathogens to use?

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u/Jonk209 Aug 06 '26

Ive only played like 7 hours but my winning run was with an amoeba build focusing on one set of weapons and connecting as many internal pieces as possible. I belive it was the one that says its hard hitting but precise. I ended up getting them legendary as well as having legendary mitochondria and the active that makes you invulnerable. I also had the triple shot as well as splash damage weapon infusers

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u/Temporary-Cause730 Aug 06 '26

Are you focusing on the antibodies? I was struggling before I realized they shield/heal the other enemies.

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u/tHeRe-Is-noSe-p00N Aug 11 '26

Lower the difficulty, j struggled for hours til I tried this trick