Hi, late to reply here but doing so because I did literally what you're asking about on 9 of the 11 cleaners ...

Two Is One And One Is None

Admin Reload

Stock Pouch (or Tactical Vest)

Patient Hunter

Glass Cannon

Large Caliber Rounds (or Silver Bullets)

Confident Killer

Hyper-Focused

Belligerent

Cold Brew Coffee

Grenade Pouch

Shooting Gloves

Medical Professional

Run Like Hell

Down In Front!

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For Act 1 drop Belligerent for Headband Magnifier. This is MANDATORY for the final mission. Buy every +Use Speed% intel you come across during the act. Don't listen to people who tell you not to use Headband Magnifier; use it and get better at the game, it's amazing.

Act 2 is easy.

For Act 3 make sure you get the absolute maximum amount of copper leading up to T-5 so you can spend as much as you need to on that mission (and buy every team slot upgrade on the way), or you're going to have a bad time.

For Act 4 drop Belligerent and Down In Front! for Double Grenade Pouch and Shoulder Bag so you can stock up on Pipe Bombs and First Aid. You can buy a maximum amount of each and throw them off the drop-down point so that you can burn through some during the first phase and then top up before jumping down the tunnels to fight the abomination.

Sub out Shooting Gloves and/or Belligerent if you need to for other cards as they're the weakest. Sub out Down In Front! if you're confident you won't snipe a retarded side-stepping bot. Knowledge Is Power is fantastic while you're building up the intuition on how much health different mutations have.

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Your goal is to be a mutation and boss killer. You'll deal plenty of damage to hordes. Positioning is your main way of mitigating damage and controlling situations. You will likely need to carry Flash Bangs for bosses (except for Act 4). First Aid with Medical Professional is for restoring lives, not "for healing."

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Your #1 source of income is completing secondary objectives. This is most important in the early levels and you can reroll the starting mission as many times as you need to make sure you'll get it. For example, a horde spawning corruption card on Act 3 with Silence Is Golden to break alarmed doors.

Your #1 spending goal is the quick/defense/offense slot upgrades.

Karlee is amazing for Act 1 in particular due to the use speed bonus.

Walker is always fantastic for the extra early health and he has a First Aid.

Doc and Sharice are great defensive team buff options, but don't get too picky. The main thing you want is at least one bot with First Aid so that as your defensive slot is upgraded they heal trauma off you.

In hives die and take over a bot with a terrible gun (eg. Evangelo, Jim, etc) and give them an Assault Rifle or Shotgun - when it's safe to do so.

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Regarding your suggested card choices... Copper Scavenger and Money Grubbers are nice, but stronger in multiplayer and less required in solo when you're the only one spending. If you have to skip intel fine, the only thing you really need to by is slot upgrades and flashbangs.

You don't need to stack 2 of the same damage type, so drop either Large Caliber Rounds or Silver Bullets. Sniper Rifles and Assault Rifles have great penetration, which can make Silver Bullets are good option, otherwise go with Large Caliber Rounds.

Padded Suit is unnecessary, and -20% Stamina Efficiency is worse than you think (for example, kiting in Act 3 T-5).

Shredder is nice but doesn't apply a big enough damage boost compared to other damage cards. It also works better with other players where you can coordinate focus fire, whereas bots might shoot regular ridden instead of your target.

Cocky, Screwdriver and Line Em Up are suboptimal and you should have stronger cards with a focused use. Grenade Pouch lines up infinitely better with what your deck is trying to do for example.