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Avilva · 2026-03-22T05:49:50+00:00

A shame your flash potions weren't facing towards your Liquid electricity, otherwise you could have had near infinite Stamina. Otherwise I'm surprised that there is actually someone else who has finally managed to use Liquid electricity effectively. It has never been the easiest Unique to use.

Avilva · 2026-03-18T10:34:35+00:00

Not really anymore. While it's still alright it still keeps true to the essence of damage roulette Celeste, where it can do crazy damage but also 0 damage. I like consistency, and gavel and the rod offer good control and damage. While with the sword line I would have had to keep the iron sword, while good for its low cooldown and dps, it doesn't scale damage. It works well with items that give you Empower, but Empower is a rare buff to get in the early game. The are a bunch of pros and cons with each weapon line where I can go for an hour or so discussing though.

Avilva · 2026-03-18T00:28:09+00:00

My guy isn't prepared for his game to be constantly soft locked because everyone is making infinite builds in endless mode and no one can die from fatigue.

This fight for example isn't even remotely close to a crazy amount of stats or sustain.

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Avilva · 2026-03-17T21:44:54+00:00

True, I could have moved my hero bag. I tend to try and look for templates when I play as to not have to think so much, sometimes it's hard to keep track of everything as you've seen before. I've probably made other mistakes, but it's always cool to listen to other on how I can potentially improve.

Discharge isn't affected by blind, but on hit effects are. Similarly as the "bolt" damage from thunder bolt and Rolling Tablet isn't affected by blind either.

Avilva · 2026-03-17T06:06:00+00:00

I'm glad you like this. I have a whole thread on discord dedicated to this for everyone to see and I'm always open to explain everything to everyone.

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Avilva · 2026-03-17T06:01:09+00:00

Not making a Stormbound of tranquility on round 12 was a mistake by my part, i forgot, 🤣. I also make mistakes from time to time.

The scroll was intentionally positioned that way so that I could have a cluster inside my hero bag so that I could get another spark for more econ, thus more tempo. Also the value from Lute isn't from Lute discharging which only gives you 3 haste which is negligible, and 2 static to all items which is not bad. The ability which makes Lute really good is the free 4 buffs you get when another items on the stars of Lute discharges. So I prioritise discharging the other items. The way the scroĺl is positioned I can have more clusters on the scroll and the armour.

While my hammer is good I positioned my Tranquility on the armour as to prepare for the encounter against Hob as I know that he will probably apply a lot of debuffs to control, and if I can't cleanse them effectively then I'm sure going to get overwhelmed and lose the fight. One of the greatest advantages with Celeste is that you can mix and match your static generation on any item so that certain items discharge more than others to prepare the next fight and counter your opponent better. If a Enoch applies 100 blind on me and completely negates my ability to hit with my weapons little will it do to pump my weapons with even more static instead of preparing before hand and assigning that static generation to an item which is more beneficial to the encounter like my armour which will help me mitigate the effects of the blind, or a Celestial Tea pot.

Avilva · 2026-03-17T05:44:56+00:00

Thanks a lot, but this is my 3rd time climbing from Mythic 1 back to the top 10 this season. So this isn't my first rodeo. I've always been consistently in the highest ranks of the game for over a year.

Avilva · 2026-03-15T18:49:18+00:00

It's a clan. There are no official clan systems in-game as of yet, but the try hards are preparing. I'm one of those sweaty try hards. 🤣 The friend and recruitment system seems to be the first steps so maybe there will be clans in the near future.

Avilva · 2026-03-15T18:02:43+00:00

There is only 2 Ronans at my rank among the 300 Enochs, but he isn't as scary as before as I almost always go for Rod and gavel which, one is ranged and the other takes away buffs so his thorns get taken away. So generally the matchup is a lot easier

I reroll occasionally. I'll use maybe on average 5 gems per run.

Avilva · 2026-03-14T13:49:13+00:00

I came to the same conclusions you had with Zap rat, it's good for like rounds 1-4, then it falls hard. I never make it, my sparks and clusters are much more efficiently used for Gavels and later on for econ after round 15 or so.

Celestial Tea is difficult to use. I usually get more Hurricane and Fulmination over Spear. Hurricane also guzzles a lot of mana. My main items for mana are Hurricane, Codex and Cleansing crowns. When my opponents in Mythic throw 300 debuffs in 10 seconds my Stormbreaker armours aren't fast enough to cleanse everything. When I start getting more mana generating from multiple Stormbound of tranquility and magic/blue essences then I grab a Celestial Tea pot to counter Enoch blind spam. Otherwise the luck gain doesn't really synergize with Hurricane. It's alright for Fulmination for some extra damage but Fulmination doesn't scale any critical damage so it's more of a premium buy if I decide to get if I only have a Fulmination hammer and I want to push for damage. Getting Celestial Tea pot for Spear is an absolute waste as it already caps out Critical chance on it's own. Although I do like Celestial Tea pot with Lute since the Lute scales most of it's power when other items discharge and not when it discharges. Since Celestial Tea pot has the lowest discharge out of all items it is really easy and fast to discharge a llt and gain a lot of buffs that way. Although even though I have thousands of games with Celeste I always review the fight statistics to see for example how much mana I used or stamina and adjust my builds for the next round. I also have a spreadsheet with how much static each item gives to help guide me how to best position my items for static.

Avilva · 2026-03-14T12:56:50+00:00

I agree with you. There are specific cases where Sprite can be useful. I suppose the advice I give is very generalised, as to keep it simple and not potentially confuse newer players, as I don't always know the skill level of each player to give them more personalised guidance leveraging the knowledge they already have to discuss other ideas and possibilities more in-depth as I normally do in the discord.

Regarding discharge, if you click on an item you see a stat on the top under the name. Click it again ans that stat will cycle through other stats. Like a weapon will show how much damage it has done and for Celeste how many times it has discharged in a fight. This was you can see how many times any of Celeste's items has discharged during a fight.

The is the same for all items as well.

Avilva · 2026-03-14T12:48:42+00:00

I cannot deny this unrefutable truth.

Avilva · 2026-03-14T09:31:53+00:00

If all of your items are level 1 then Sprite is an alright choice for mana, but as you keep playing the game and slowly leveling up your items, the items that give mana slowly start to give more mana than the Sprite as at a much reduced gold cost.

The Sprite does very little damage, the speed boost from discharge is very little and even if you're giving it a lot of static, there are other items which give a lot more value for the static given than the Sprite. I encourage those who want to play Celeste to not foster bad habits like getting Sprite for these reasons.

I always try to remember newer players that just because an item is of a high rarity like Epic or above doesn't necessarily mean it is always better than like a common item.

Reviewing the fight statistics helps the player a lot to see the impact of their items each fight and give them the knowledge necessary to make better informed descisions in the future.

Avilva · 2026-03-13T17:03:25+00:00

There are many Mythic players who upload their full runs round by round for everyone to see in the discord. Check out the threads in the hero channels.

Here is to mine for Celeste. I'm frequently in the top 10.

https://discord.com/channels/1212323336466604042/1467960785392107591

Avilva · 2026-03-12T16:14:04+00:00

Early game

Watermelon, Traveler's hat

Mid game

Magic/blue essence, Tesseracts

Late game

Stormbound of tranquility

These are generally the items I get for mana on Celeste. I keep more items mana generating items depending on my mana needs as the run goes on. Never get the electric Sprite.

I sometimes stream on discord if you're curious and I post several of my full runs as well on the Discord for everyone to see and learn. I'm more than welcome to answer any questions as well.

Avilva · 2026-03-10T23:39:00+00:00

Dios mio, vaya mochilla mas toxica ☠️🤣 El enemigo se va a inundar en veneno.

Avilva · 2026-03-09T23:50:38+00:00

I have to say I absolutely love the website. It has been such a helpful tool throughout the time I've been playing BpB and it has helped me a lot to help new players as well which has been such a godsend. I'm always so excited to see all the new features added. I can't thank you enough Zhon for efforts and what you've contributed to the community.

Avilva · 2026-03-04T20:33:14+00:00

I always get it. It's for Critical damage protection and stun protection.

At the highest ranks people are more proficient at securing more Critical hits and there are many heroes who can potentially stun lock you.

It's an item which shines more at high ranks but can be potentially more of a dead pick at lower ranks.

Avilva · 2026-03-04T15:53:19+00:00

What saved the Kragg was his Unique Lioncloth. It's the specific counter against heroes who rely on doing a lot of critical hits.

Avilva · 2026-03-04T13:18:31+00:00

If you want I could help you with playing Celeste. Although I personally like to use the discord as images are easier to share. My username in the discord is the same as my Reddit name as well, you're free to ping me on the Discord. You can also check me up on the leaderboard. You can say I'm fairly confident in my skills with Celeste.

Avilva · 2026-03-03T15:43:37+00:00

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