This guide walks you through one of the most chaotic, broken, and hilarious builds in Risk of Rain 2—the Artifact of Command + Hellfire Tincture + Razorwire synergy. This setup deals damage by hurting yourself and turns the entire game into a passive, self-fueling loop of destruction. If you’re looking for a fun and overpowered run that warps Risk of Rain 2 into a spectacle, this guide is for you.

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The Core Concept

At its heart, this build focuses on dealing damage by taking damage, and then healing that damage back, all while proccing a web of destructive item effects. Here’s how it works:

• Hellfire Tincture: A Lunar equipment that ignites all nearby enemies—and yourself.
• Razorwire: Activates when you take damage, sending out a burst of spikes to nearby enemies.
• Planula: Heals you whenever you take damage.
• Repulsion Armor Plates: Reduces incoming damage by a flat amount, eventually letting you reduce all hits to just 1 HP.

The synergy? Tincture burns you → you take 1 damage → Razorwire retaliates → Planula heals you → you do it again. With enough stacks and items to scale procs, you annihilate everything around you just by existing.

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Recommended Items

This build shines under the Artifact of Command, where you choose your own items. The key components and supporting cast include:

White Items:

• Razorwire (Core): Procs AoE on self-damage.
• Repulsion Armor Plate (Core): Flat damage reduction.
• Planula (Core): Flat healing on taking damage.
• Energy Drink / Goat Hoof: Movement speed to stay mobile.
• Backup Magazine: Works well for loader’s punch but not essential.

Green Items:

• Ukulele / Polylute: Chain lightning or multi-hit synergy with Razorwire.
• ATG Missile Mk. 1: Procs frequently off Razorwire.
• Gasoline / Will-o’-the-Wisp / Ignition Tank: Chains damage further.
• Needletick / Charged Perforator / Sticky Bombs: More proc chains = more destruction.

Red Items:

• Aegis (Optional): Healing beyond max health into barrier.
• N’kuhana’s Opinion: Converts healing into AoE burst damage.
• Sentient Meat Hook: Pulls enemies together, enhancing AoE.

Lunar Items:

• Hellfire Tincture (Required): Equipment that fuels the build.
• Gesture of the Drowned: Reduces equipment cooldown and auto-activates tincture. Stack at least 3–5 for full uptime.

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Execution Strategy

Early Game:

• Prioritize Razorwire and Armor Plates.
• Get Planula ASAP from boss fights using Trophy Hunter’s Tricorn.
• Use Loader for fast map traversal.

Mid Game:

• Acquire Hellfire Tincture at the Bazaar Between Time.
• Stack Gesture of the Drowned for full uptime.
• Build out your proc chain: Ukes, ATGs, Gas, and Wisps.
• Consider N’kuhana’s Opinion to convert healing into damage.

Late Game:

• Stack Razorwire for massive range.
• Get Aegis to turn excess healing into barrier.
• Spam more Green procs (Polylute, Perforator).
• Add Focused Convergence to speed up teleporters.

Optional: Gilded Coast

• Use the Gold Shrine to access Aurelionite.
• Kill him and get Halcyon Seed for even more passive support.

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Warning: Voidsent Flame Mishap

Avoid Voidsent Flame if you’re using Tincture. This item creates screen-filling explosions when you’re at full health and take damage—which this build guarantees. The result is a flashing, seizure-inducing nightmare that can hurt your eyes (and your framerate). Just don’t do it. You’ve been warned.

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Boss Strategy (Mythrix)

Despite all your power, Mythrix can still be a threat. If he steals your Razorwires and starts proccing them off your own damage, things can go south quickly. Try to burst him before he reaches the item steal phase, or recover fast enough to tank through it.

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Final Thoughts

This build is a wild ride—self-inflicted pain turned into screen-wide obliteration. It turns the game’s systems inside out. You become an untouchable inferno, healing from the very flames you set yourself on fire with, and killing everything just by standing near it.

While not ideal for epileptic players or performance-sensitive systems (thanks to visual spam), it’s a hilarious and powerful experience you won’t forget. For chaos lovers and command mode fans, this is one of the most fun meme builds that can actually dominate Monsoon difficulty.

Just don’t expect to see much. Your screen will be filled with hit markers. And fire. A lot of fire.

Enjoy the hellfire.