Backpack Brawl – Gameplay Tips for Ronan

Ronan Tips

Be Aware of Traps if you can!

Crowns – Need 10 Mana to activate. Who else needs Mana? Yes, Chana and opponent Amethyst swords. Only buy a crown if you have Mana using weapons. Having 2 succulents might be better.

Knights Aegis / Unbreakable [Late Game] – So you are able to create the best Mythical defensive item there is. Make sure that you can use the Mana being generated from the shields or else, Chana will steal it!

Sale Items – In times of desperate need, we will buy anything powerful we can find. It’s difficult to resist the allure of Legendary or Mythical items on sale. Be careful! Below are some examples on how these items might be counter productive and would make you lose easier:

  • Stamina Weapons – With a fair number of weapons that uses stamina, it could cause stamina deprivation without endurance, wrath potion with belts and unholy skull with its friends. Make sure to at least have a banana or an apple in the end game if you’re too unlucky
  • Runes of R’lyeh – the promised buffs given by this Accessory are pleasing to the eyes, but remember, these buffs can only be obtained after 12 seconds. Opponents like Harkon or a fellow Ronan user can easily burst you before that time frame
  • Mimic/Treasure chests/Eggs – When you’re in your last heart, would you be greedy for gold that may or may not come?

These are only situational occurrences and not guaranteed to occur in every game. I hope this helps in increasing your perspective of the game.

Anti Chana:

Nymphedora also gets stronger the longer time drags on so aside from damage (weapons) we have wing clippers (scissors) to combat her haste stacks.

Anti Nymphedora:

As a Ronan player, we don’t have much explosive Empower buff, so my solution is fight fire with fire… wrath potions. The more stamina-consuming weapons we have, the more Wrath potions activate so we also need belts. Boom! Burst of Empower stacks.

Anti Harkon:

For Ronan, we need sustain so Amethyst blade with a few Royal seux’s is recommended aside from the Piercing Lance which is a pure Ronan slayer item.

Sadly… Also Anti Ronan:

This also works better with 1 or more frost emblems and Frost axes with crit packs for higher crits.

Level Up Progression

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Star Patterns

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Early and Mid Game Tips

Focusing too much on thorn Thorn will ruin your Econ. You can win most games (till 5 trophies) early with 2 cactus, 2 weapons of all kind in your exclusive amor backpack (3×2 Ronan Pack) as long as you have a little extra health than your opponent.

(Amor backpack small shild sth like that) therefore DON’T roll more than needed (Just once or twice).

Take lucky clovers for a chance to obtain rare stuff and every Econ item you can get. (cheese only on sale).

You will most likely lose a lot in mid-game till you have your weapons ready therefore also here don’t roll too early or you wouldn’t be able to stop and most of the time, you just lose more money.

Therefore roll when you have 2 health left (you should have the exclusive item by then and you can see wich weapon build suites the best.

For example:

  • If you generate spikes with the exclusive get that lance and some more kit) weapons rack amethyst or stun dagger builds etc. At this point most items you will see are rare therefore you can roll for the weapons there quite well especially when you have some money left. (Check if rare items are more likely in the shop than common. If they are, sell your clovers or take them out till you got the needed rare items).

And another big early tip:

  • Your weapon/s doesn’t have 100% accuracy the best dmg/money optimization you can buy is strait up some luck. If you have 80% accuracy and buy items with 4 luck in total (rose costs 2 on sale) you get instantly a dmg boost of 20% cause the accuracy is at 100% + 4% krit chance so another 4% dmg on total 24% more weapon dmg with just 2 gold.

Mastering Econ in the early and mid will give you a great late-game. Once you have Econ items you can also afford more from time to time.

Get a feeling for your strength before each game tell yourself how likely you will win and what counters you before you start the match this way you learn the best and get a feeling for your items and strengths and also you can optimize your Econ with that knowledge.

Volodymyr Azimoff
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I love games and I live games. Video games are my passion, my hobby and my job. My experience with games started back in 1994 with the Metal Mutant game on ZX Spectrum computer. And since then, I’ve been playing on anything from consoles, to mobile devices. My first official job in the game industry started back in 2005, and I'm still doing what I love to do.

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