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I Am Legion: Stand Survivors mixes together gameplay conventions from autobattlers and survivor games to produce a surprisingly steep difficulty curve. If you want to go beyond the first couple levels you’ll need a concrete strategy and a good understanding of both the mechanics and the unique spins put on them in this game.
From getting the most damage to building your economy in the early game to opening doors in the right order, there’s a lot of space for optimisation. Here are a few tips for when you’re starting the game or if you find yourself getting stuck against a specific challenge or level.
Experiment Early And Often
Thebest upgrade for the situation often isn’t a flat upgradeof combining several of the same unit. Waiting until you’ve got a full loadout can help youfind fusions that aren’t immediately obvious.
Until you’ve learned a few basic synergies, the best approach is to justbuy out the shop at every opportunityand see what fusions you’re offered.
Once you’ve got more of the glossary filled out, you’ll want to take a narrower approach, but it can still beworth casting a wide net to startand then planning towards a more specific goal.
Prioritise Getting A Source Of Healing
You’ll typicallystart the game with little to no regeneration or life drain. Getting one or the other of these is vital to long-term survival, since taking some amount of damage is inevitable.
Commit To Either Magic Or Physical Damage
Plenty of games encourage you to foster a balanced team with a mixture of magical and melee damage. In this case, you want tospecialise hard in one or the other. Even theirsub-stats like critical rate are tracked separately, so it’s challenging to make good use of both at the same time.
Synthesis stands can be a useful asset or liability here. The rocket soldier has the same special attack as the fire elemental it’s made from, butconverts all the damage to physical. Mages will prefer to keep their fire elementals, while physical builds can do more with the rocket soldier.
Combo bonuseswill often ask you tomix at least one stand of the opposite damage type,but make up for it with large group-wise modifiers.
Don’t Neglect Secondary Stats
Your primary stats cover almost everything about surviving and killing stuff. Their role is obvious, but thesecondary stats are about thriving long-term.
Gettingearly upgrades to incomesuch as from a Blacksmith, will net you several pieces ofextraequipment by the time the first boss arrives. Stands that give stat growth will quickly pay for their decreased attack power and can be improved by skill cooldown upgrades.
Specialise In One Talent Tree At A Time
The talent trees are how youupgrade between runs, and it’s easy to opt for upgrading whatever you feel was missing in your last run, such as the basic upgrades to damage, health or starting resources.
The bottom row of upgrades in each tree are a large step-up in power thatencourage you to instead beeline for them.These are alsoupgrades that will help in any playstyle, such as free shop purchases or faster cooldowns.
You’re able to refund your choices at will and maintain multiple talent tree loadouts, sodon’t worry about making the wrong choices.
Use The Shop Filters To Plan Your Build
One of the most useful tools in the game is the ability toset synthesis targets in the shop, highlighting any stands you need to complete your build. you may do this for any synthesis you’re already reached, but it won’t help you in discovering new ones.
The filter will alsonote how many recipes a stand is used in, so if you find too many overlaps you may pivot your strategies or try to collect extras.
Defensive Builds Can’t Win
Lots of Survivor-style games are winnable with purely defensive builds.Brotato lets you stack health, dodge and lifestealuntil bosses can’t kill you quickly enough before despawning.Rogue Genesia lets you build towards functional immortalityby raising your healing factor above your max hp.
Stand Survivorsrequires you to build a healthy amount of damagealongside economy and defence, because allboss fights must be defeated in a set timeor the run ends.
When thetimer is nearly finished on a boss spawning, look for an opportunity to swap any economy-focused stands to the bench until you may deal with it, or fuse them into more focused damage dealers.
Backtrack Frequently
Try to avoid just staying in the most recent room you’ve unlocked.Chests, ore and eggs will respawn in rooms you’ve previously cleared,giving a reason to frequently double back and unlock new rooms whenever possible.
Try andunlock rooms in a sequence so that you may circle through themin order. This makes the most of the space available and the resources that spawn.
Evolutions Aren’t Always Direct Upgrades
When youuse synthesis to combine several units, you’ll typically getone that has bigger numbersattached. This is great when you’re looking at the damage numbers, but often they lose something in the process.
Each Character Has An Intended Archetype
Each of the characters has agroup of stands they specialise in.You’ll be rewarded for collecting stands of that type and their stat growth and level bonuses favour using their intended archetype.
Muscle
Non-duplicates
The muscle’s growth is split between both attack types and hitpoints.
Blade wielders
Vampire
Wolves
The vampire has increased healing as they grow, with a mix of damage types.
Zephyr
Dancers
The Zephyr gains scaling bonuses from movespeed, along with both physical and magic damage.
Always Invest In Movespeed
It’s a rare game where movespeed isn’t a valuable resource and Stand Survivors is no exception. The base movespeed you’ll start with is enough to get about and kite simple enemies, but the moment projectile attacks start appearingyou’ll struggle to dodge without good movespeed upgradesor years spent of shmup experience.
Mostboss fights are near impossible at base movespeedbut will struggle to land a hit once you’ve gotat least 80 percent bonus movespeed.
