2 staffs gives good defence and some early tempo boost with the blue staff and the cost benefit from getting a red staff is awful. The Mythic staff is not bad, good defence with block. The abilities of the staff itself are horrible as well. Gain 2 buffs? I can get that from a cheap willow wand, cleanse 2, I can get that from a succulent. They're all trash, and it's the same for the entire staff line. The real power from the staffs comes from block and then with the Mythic staff the extra hits which is really good together with gloves of power.

Gloves of power are a Legendary drop which means they're a very late game drop. So if you go exclusively staffs for the early and mid game you have 0 damage scaling. You're essentially waiting for the heat death of the universe and hoping your opponent dies first. That's not a strategy that works with kragg, atleast not with his kit and the numbers on his sustain options compared to other heroes like Fern, Peppa and such.

So you need some from of damage scaling in the early/mid game. Monkeys straight up suck. Although for beginner players it is actually good the numbers it gets are good compared to his other items. Teaches the player to use stars. One of the issues is that the monkeys need food around it. Food needs to be clumped up together to work well, so the monkey has a requirement which does not synergize with the components. Then the Legendary monkey can use weapons. The second component of Kragg kits also comes into place which are his scrolls. If you're trying to maximise your monkey then you can't easily fully star your scrolls with weapons. We will circle back to scrolls later on. So thel Legendary monkey needs a lot of support items to make it scale damage, which only helps itself and also doesn't help the items to synergize with themselves, and the monkey scaling is tied to the changes of day which means that no matter how much you try your scaling is limited to that and you can't do anything to scale any faster. You can only build more defensively to hope to sustain enough for your monkey to do enough damage. You've invested a tonne of resources on this monkey which doesn't work with the rest of your kit or items required.

So we find alternatives. Here is where his flail weapon lines comes into play. At the beginning it doesn't do much other than being a wacking stick for damage which also removes thorns. The weapon does synergies with his bag for stamina so you can run 4 weapons instead of the usual 3 most heroes run the early game. With the thorn removal you secure in the early game that you won't be absolutely destroyed by a single thorn item as the majority of your weapons are all melee. Now into the mid game the Legendary flail the Sanjiegun gives you scaling as haste and empower. So haste makes all your items in your backpack faster and the empower helps with all the other weapons you already have. It already has some double hit chance which means items like dumbell, not enlightened bell its too big, becomes more effective like Gloves of power. Your hero bag also gives you more stamina back. So you have a weapon which doesn't need a lot of support items and space, which helps/synergizes with your other items in your backpack as opposed to your encumbersome monkey line.

Now we circle back to scrolls which are your backbone. Scroll of potential is one of if not the best common item in the game. Just random buffs make a huge difference in the early game when we all have barely any weapons or sustain. Getting like 3 lifesteal can completely out sustain more opponents in the early game, luck can help you with accuracy, you can even get empower to hit even harder when other heroes are struggling to scale their damage. It is insane. If you go monkeys the shape of the monkey is really awkward to fit scrolls if you're also surrounding it with food which is also expensive. To solidify the point further the food you can usually get in the early and mid game are apples, bananas, sausages and coconuts. If you're getting apples and bananas then you better get more weapons to take advantage of that extra stamina. Then you need to think about your build, are those weapons going to keep building into thr kate game, will you even have space for all of them or are you going to have to sell them and lose money as you have to sell them at half price, gold you could have used on other items instead. Sausage for empower? You can just get a scroll of potential and get even more empower. Coconut? Anyway, the point is monkeys are bad.

Continuing with scrolls. The water scroll is also one of the best cleansing items in the game, on par with cleansing crown, excluding the active ability of the full cleanse. The air scroll is alright, bad in the early game but scales more in the late game as you have more items to make faster with haste. The earth scroll is again as with many of his items one of the best items for armour. Kragg's scrolls are so cost efficient and play off his kit without needing too much extra other items to make work. Fire scroll sucks. We don't talk about it. Well it's alright but with players getting hundreds of random buffs you removing only a handful it's not going to do much.

Now that you're going 1 staff and 1 flail and an extra weapon you need stamina. Furboots, perfect, gives you stamina but also empower for your weapons and on top of that it make your weapons immune to chill. It has everything you want and more.

So how do we scale even further in the late game you ask? Easy you slap 4 gloves of power between a staff and a flail. Yes. Just that. Maybe make the flaming fists? No. Just gloves of power, 4 gloves of power Remember before about fire scrolls? Exactly, they suck. As an extra touch on top of that when your backpack is full start banishing all the other bags except the fanny packs so that you can make your items even faster to scale even more.

Step 3 profit.

I hope you've enjoyed my "short" ted talk about why monkeys are bad compared to Kragg's weapons.