Risk of Rain 2 – Bandit – How to Unlock & In-Depth Guide – Now with Achievement Guide

How to Unlock

 
The bandit is one of the easiest to unlock if you already have the “Huntress” character then he is automatically unlocked when you load the game, for those without the Huntress unlocked he can be acquired by going and completing the third teleporter event. (Just go to stage 3 and teleport to stage 4) 
 
All the ability unlocks are underneath themselves respectively as well as how to unlock them 
 
 

Abilities:

 
All of the bandits abilities and suggestions on how to use them as well as synergies and 
combos. 
 

Passive

Primary – 1

Primary – 2

 
 
To unlock this you need to complete Bandit: Classic Man Challenge. 
As Bandit, successfully use ‘Lights Out’ to reset your cooldowns 15 times in a row.  
 
Self explanatory – See Achievements/Challenges section 
 

Secondary – 1

Secondary – 2

 
 
To unlock this you need to complete Bandit: Sad*st Challenge. 
As Bandit, kill a monster with 20 stacks of Hemorrhage.  
 
See Achievements/Challenges section 
 

Utility

Special – 1

Special – 2

 
 
To unlock this you need to complete Bandit: B&EChallenge. 
As Bandit, kill the final boss with ‘Lights Out’. Mithrix  
 
See Achievements/Challenges section 
 
 

Bandit Achievements/Challenges

 
Due to a fair amount of people wanting more info on getting the achievements to unlock the abilities I decided to make a paragraph or 2 about it. 
 
Bandit: Mastery – As Bandit, beat the game or obliterate on Monsoon. 
 
 
Beat the game on Monsoon difficulty, either by obliterating or killing the final boss. The final boss is probably easier and can get you more achievements. 
 
Bandit: Sad*st – As Bandit, kill a monster with 20 stacks of Hemorrhage. 
 
 
Collect the following items – 5x Back up magazines, 2-3x Purity, 3 Transcendence, lots of Tougher Times, 5x Fuel cells and Ocular Hud (Try not to stack damage items such as Crowbar, Armour piercing etc.) 
 
Your boss options are as follows: 
 
Overloading Worm – 12000hp + 3600 for each level 
Grandparent – 3625 + 1088 for each level 
Scavenger – 3800 + 1140 for each level 
 
Note: you may die so do it on drizzle. For Scavengers and Overloading worms you will have to loop but with grandparent you should be able to get on stage 5. 
 
if you have a better way of doing it please let me know 
 
Bandit: B&E – As Bandit, kill the final boss with ‘Lights Out’. 
 
 
If you really want the achievement you can go into drizzle and complete the game by killing Mithrix. Though this achievement should come fairly naturally and can be done while trying to get Bandit: Mastery and Bandit:Sad*st 
 
Bandit: Classic Man – As Bandit, successfully use ‘Lights Out’ to reset your cooldowns 15 times in a row. 
 
 
Go onto drizzle with Artifact of Swarms, Glass and Kin. Then activate serrated dagger before killing an enemy with “Lights out” and repeat this 15 times without missing a shot. (Make sure something is on cool down before you use lights out.) 
 
 

Items:

 
Its hard to come up with a list of items that the bandit should use especially seen as he is so unique and new. Here are some that will be updated the more I play with him and find new combos. 
 

White Items

Green Items

Red Items

 
These are my opinion you might want other red items depending on your playstyle 
 

Lunar Items

 
Again really depends on your play style. 
 

Boss Items

Equipment

 
 
 
This is my top equipment recommendation for Bandit, combined with a few gesture of the drowned you will be able to take out enemies during the teleporter event and be able to target the rest of your dmg towards the boss. 
 
 
 
The preon accumulator is quite good but its long cooldown doesn’t make it ideal, good if you like to spend time grinding each stage before doing the teleporter event. 
 
 
 
Royal Capacitor is similar to the missile launcher but it shines in the fact that you can target single enemies and focus your fire on a certain foe. 
 
 

How to play as Bandit – Gameplay

 
very quick and short points 
 
Bandit is similar to huntress in that they both do a lot of damage and get killed easily, at least as I have found. When playing as bandit you are going to want have movement items such as hopoo feathers and wax quails, these items should help you to get behind your enemies allowing you to crit them. Using wax quals to side strafe is very effective. Attack speed does increase the speed of the gun reload but it isn’t very necessary as you will be dodging most of the time, shoot, dodge, repeat. 
 
In terms of obliterating or beating Mithrix , it is generally better to go for the final boss as the bandit is manoeuvrable and can dish out single target damage very well. 
 
 

Conclusion/Outro

 
I will be adding more to this guide over time. If you have any questions just ask me and I can hopefully answer. If you enjoyed it then awards are much appreciated, 
 
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