Dead Cells Tips for Surviving 1-4 Cell Difficulty
General Gameplay Tips
Get 1% Heal Modifiers on Your Main Weapon: Because healing is so limited as the difficulty increases in Dead Cells, one of the best ways to keep your health topped up is by getting the modifier that causes you to take 100 percent more damage, but heals 1 percent of your HP with every strike you land. Of course, the trade-off is that if you do get hit, things are probably gonna be very painful for you. But in the long run, this is a great way for healing lost HP once you start getting better at dodging attacks.
Get Max Damage Reduction: In case you weren’t aware already, damage reduction in Dead Cells is capped at 75 percent, and there’s no point in stacking more equipment with damage reduction once you’re at the cap. Having said that, make sure you do cap it out for every run you do. One of my favorite builds is going for fast Brutality weapons, and grabbing both Stun and Ice Grenades. These give damage reduction bonuses, and also provide you with easy crowd control utility. Get the Fireworks Technician mutation, pump Brutality, and you’ll be able to continuously stun and freeze enemies and kill them before they even make a move. Lots of players favor Tactics builds with turrets, but your HP will be considerably lower than if you went for Brutality or Survival.
Grab Cursed Chests: Cursed chests are scary at first, but once you reach higher difficulties, they’re a great source of money and extra stat scrolls. Lifting the curse also becomes much easier when you can use your head to kill enemies safely. Just hit the R3 button to release the head and approach enemy encounters safely, and you’ll be able to lift the curse quickly. And speaking of the head, always use it in Dead Cells’ boss fights for the extra damage, it can make a real difference.
Start Going for Toxic Sewers on 3-Cell Mode: Once you get to 3-cell in Dead Cells, the Promenade becomes much more dangerous because you’ll start getting Bombardiers and Tracker enemies. On the other hand, the Toxic Sewers biome doesn’t seem to scale as drastically with the difficulty. On 3-cell, we vastly preferred going to the Toxic Sewers, Ossuary, then Black Bridge. Ancient Sewers are kind of a pain, so we generally avoided it when we could.
Don’t Get Hit: This probably just sounds like me saying “git gud,” but it’s definitely the key to your survival in high difficulty runs in Dead Cells. As you continue playing, you’ll start to learn enemy patterns and use your dodge roll more effectively. However, as mentioned previously, not getting hit doesn’t necessarily mean dodging. You can also avoid getting hit by stunning enemies before they can make a move. In short, learn enemy patterns, but also start to recognize which weapons will help you achieve that more easily. I’m a huge fan of the Ice Bow, the Ice and Stun Grenades, as well as Phaser, which lets you teleport behind an enemy. Use skills that help you avoid getting hit, and your runs will go much smoother.
Finalize Your Build Before High Peak Castle: Lastly, and I can’t stress this enough, try to make sure your build and weapon loadout are finished before entering the castle. The castle is the toughest area in the game as those enemies can wreck you pretty easily. Spend your money re-rolling your perks before entering the castle, and try to get as much synergy between your weapons as possible so you’ve got a final build for both the castle and the king.
If you have any other useful tips for surviving the higher difficulties in Dead Cells, feel free to sound off in the comments down below.
