In this guide, we will explore the best builds in Brotato and dive deep into what makes each of them powerful and how they actually work. There are a lot of mechanics in Brutato, and with an absurd amount of weapons, items, and stats it can get overwhelming and confusing. The idea of this guide is to bring each build closer to you and add more builds as time progresses.
If you are new to Brotato, check out our Brotato beginners guide for basic mechanics and beginner tips. In this guide, we’ll assume that you know the mechanics and overall gameplay. All that said, let’s dive into our best Brotato builds.
How Brotato Builds Work
While knowing each build from each character is essential, it’s also very important to know how to build in general and what makes each build work. This is not only for optimizing builds in each part of the game but also if you happen to find a new build you want to try and are stuck. There are general guidelines that we found worked. The idea is to optimize the early game in such a way that you can survive without too much trouble, that you have enough damage and firepower to kill most of the waves, and that you have additional resources like harvesting or luck in order to propel your game and get you more resources for those essential mid-game items.
Everything is about finding the balance. You don’t need too much HP, armor, and speed in the early game, but you need some of it. And each character has its own survival mechanism. Some characters rely purely on HP regeneration, while others rely purely on Lifesteal or picking up Consumables. It’s also important to note that some characters have a strong start, for example Bull, while other characters have a troublesome start, for example Glutton. This means that each of those characters will have a different strategy and focus in the early game.
So, with Bull, your focus will be to get a bit of Luck or Harvesting because you are already powerful enough to clear everything and you should focus on the resources first. And with someone like Glutton, your focus should be to get the tankiness up a bit and a few weapons in order to clear the waves without too much trouble. This is just a general rule, and of course, a lot of it depends on the RNG of the shop. Later in the game, you really should know what you’re focusing on, because a lot of things give you something while taking something away from you.
So, for example, an item that gives you 6 melee damage and takes away 3% of crit chance is good. If you already decided that you won’t have any crit chance in this run. This means that you really can focus only on a few key stats that work well with your built-in character mechanics that are unique. This is the main idea behind making a successful build. Finally, we should emphasize that although there are different requirements for different characters, stats like Armor, Speed, Luck, and max HP are always good.
Lucky Build
Lucky has a very different way of playing the game than a lot of other characters. The two special items Cyberball and Baby Elephant are extremely powerful on Lucky because of their scailing with Luck. The gist of the build is that you get basic weapons like Sticks because they give you a lot of damage without needing to “invest” in a build. Your investment should be primarily in obtaining the key items, getting Armor, Speed, and HP up, and picking up more Luck modifiers in between. Picking up Materials damages enemies, and with the two Items, killing enemies also damages others. This can create a domino effect and just clear out everything on a map when you got the build down right. For example, in the video above (iOS platform) we can see some variation of this build.
Don’t underestimate your need for Armor and Health. You will need to get into the fray a bit because you will have Sticks and will have to pick up a lot of Material. Speaking of picking up Material, getting Sidfs Relic is key and is the most synergistic item with this build. It will be extremely helpful because you will instantly deal damage because every material will just go straight to you. Also, in the beginning, try to avoid going overboard with Luck. You need to get the base down with the Armor, Speed, HP, and upgraded Sticks. Going too much for Luck early on will get you in trouble around Level 11 when elites come. All that said, Lucky is one of the most fun and unique builds in Brotato to play with and we highly recommend you try to make him work.
Engineer Build
Engineer build is pretty self-evident, you will need to go for a lot of Turrets. Essentially, you will just want to stack up Engineering and some Armor and HP first. Moreover, your primary focus should be to get a lot of Wrenches.
The Wrenches have 4 different Turrents spawning:
Level 1: Regular Turret.
Level 2: Elemental Turret.
Level 3: Laser Turret.
Level 4: Missile Turret.
In the early game, focusing too much on Speed and Lifesteal/Regen shouldn’t be too much of a priority. First, get all 6 Turrets up because you will be overwhelmed if you don’t. This will give you enough firepower so you can essentially stay in place and be surrounded by your Turrets. Regarding the HP regeneration, you will need to get at least 2-3 Medical Turrets. They are extremely good and will have a high regen rate that scales with Engineering stat. Later in the game, it’s still essential to build up Speed because you will need to evade a lot of attacks. All in all, a pretty straightforward build that is Turret-focused.
Explorer Build
Explorer character has a districting playstyle that relies on you chopping down trees. The idea is to get your Engineering up, as well as regular survival stats like Speed, Armor, and HP, and then get a Pocket Factory with a few purchased “Spawn more Trees” in the shop. With this combo you will have a lot of Trees and by cutting each tree down, you will get a Turrent. The style of gameplay will be you running around the map, avoiding enemies, and trying to find as many trees as possible.
This will in turn set up a lot of turrets and with your Engineering up, the Turrets will do all the work. Keep in mind that with Explorer, the map will be a lot bigger and you will need Speed to get to those Trees as soon as possible. Moreover, having a Medical Turrent is super powerful because naturally, you will have a lot of Engineering. However, it isn’t ideal since you have to keep in mind that you will already have a lot of Consumables, and getting items that up your Consumable Heal is essentially here. Overall, a very fun build with a unique playstyle of running around the map, cutting down trees, and placing Turrets in their place.
Speedy Build
Speedy has a pretty interesting playstyle and as you may have guessed it, it’s all about running around the map at high speed. This of course is synergistic with the Lance weapon and it’s a pretty good playstyle. Obviously, in the early game, you would want to acquire as many Lance weapons as possible and some basic tankiness stats. Moreover, doubling down on speed is the only option you have in order to make this build work. Lance works well with speed and you will need a good amount of it in order to deal a lot of damage.
This build is kind of skill-based because you can’t just avoid a few things and stand in one place. You really have to take advantage of the enormous amount of speed that you have and that means that you can in theory dodge literally everything on the map. Every elite and boss that spawns, if you can’t kill it you can escape because you will have a lot of speed. You will also be able to pick up materials at a higher pace. It’s a relatively straightforward build but it takes a few tries to get used to the playstyle.
Glutton Build
Glutton can have a very rough start and in the early stages and levels it can get a bit overwhelming. The point here is to build up your luck and trees on the map in order to get a lot of consumables around the map. This will in turn trigger the special ability each time you pick up a consumable. In the later stages of the game, you will essentially have a lot of Armor and you will be running around the map just eating consumables and making explosions everywhere. Focus on Armor, Luck, increasing Exposion Size (later on), and Melee Damage.
The focus on Melee damage is especially important because the explosion from consumables scales +500% with explosion damage. Moreover, the special ability has an interesting effect of increasing the % of your explosion damage each time you pick up a Consumable at max HP. This is very important because you will want to have at least 30-50% Explosion Damage after Level 10 from this mechanic. Later on, it can be tricky to focus on it because the game gets harder. The final build is to have enough Luck so that there will always be Consumables on drops, enough Armor/HP so you can sustain going in the masses of Enemies, and enough Explosion Size/Damage so that the enemies will just keep dying.
Bull Build
Bull is one of the most unique builds in Brotato. The essence of the Bull is that you don’t wield any weapons and the primary way to kill enemies is to explode when you take damage, a unique mechanic to Bull. The best thing about Bull is that you get a lot of tank stats from the start. +20 Max HP, +15 HP Regen, +10 Armor makes you almost unkillable in the first few levels. That is why you need to prepare and build up more of these tanky stats from the get-go. Luck/Harvesting is also nice since you get more resources early on since you will be very powerful and don’t need to focus on offense too much in this stage of the game.
That said, in the mid-game, Bull will need a lot of additional melee/range/elemental damage since everything scales with his special Explosion. Don’t think just because you have the initial tanky stats that it’s enough. It is not. Bull needs more HP Regen, more Max HP, and more Armor. The trickiest part is around 10-12 Level because you probably won’t have enough tankiness to sustain the waves. The tactic should be going in the masses, triggering a few explosions, and going out to regen the lost HP. At later stages, you should have enough “tanky stats” to essentially just outregen enemy attacks. Also, get Speed up since there are a lot of situations with Eites and Bosses where you really don’t want to take those extra heavy hits.
Final Thoughts on Best Brotato Builds
While there are a lot of builds in Brutato, each one of them has a very distinct playstyle. Combining the unique characteristics of each character with all Brotato items and weapons, there are so many builds to experiment with. That said, getting the basic idea of how to make a build work is what we suggest you learn first. Balancing stats like Armor, Speed, HP, etc. can be tricky. Make sure you follow the basic how-to when making a build because a lot of it depends on the RNG of the shop and the general trajectory of the run. We will be updating this guide with new Brotato builds and improving existing ones. We hope this guide inspired you to try some new builds and ways of playing the game!
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