Risk of Rain 2 MUL-T: All Abilities And Best Items

Do you know how to play the best with MUL-T? Check out our MUL-T guide here and know the best items and combos of this robot.

By Irfan Ansari July 25, 2023

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Risk of Rain 2 MUL-T: Best Items, Skills and Combos

MUL-T is an effective playable class in Risk of Rain 2. Not only does it offer ranged attacks with decent damage, but this robot is also capable of landing serious stun, heavy, and average damage in close proximity as well. For us, the Transport Mode and the Blast Canister of MUL-T are the two favorite abilities. The movement speed is a tad bit of a letdown, but you can always equip items to compensate MUL-T in this department.

Key Takeaways

MUL-T is one of the unique survivors in Risk of Rain 2 who carries more than one piece of equipment at a time because of his Retool skull.
Completing the teleport event five times will automatically unlock the MUL-T character in the game.
MUL-T has a total of 8 Abilities that help the player survive in the game.
Power Mode is the best ability of MUL-T, which gives you more strength and double the player’s damage per second which makes him unique.
The other abilities include Auto-Nailgun, Rebar Puncher, Scrap Launcher, Power Saw, Blast Canister, Transport Mode, and Retoot.

How to Unlock MUL-T In Risk of Rain 2

First and foremost, let’s check out the overview of MUL-T:

Stats	Items	Abilities
Armor: 12 (80) Speed: 7 m/s Damage: 11 (+2.2 per level) Health: 200 (+60 per level) Health Regen: 1.5/s (+0.2 per level)	Crowbar Backup Magazine Harvester’s Scythe Tri-tip Dagger Soldier’s Syringe Paul’s Goat Hoof	Auto-Nailgun Rebar Puncher Scrap Launcher Power Saw Blast Canister Transport Mode Retoot

Unlike the Artificer, who has a long questline tied to unlock and play with the character, MUL-T is probably the only playable class that unlocks without much trouble in ROR2. All you have to do is complete the first teleporter event five times, and you’ll find MUL-T sitting in your character roster.

MUL-T Abilities

MUL-T robot is equipped with all the tools and equipment to survive the harsh environments and deranged monsters of the hostile alien planet. This survivor has four primary types of abilities, one secondary and a utility, and has two special abilities.

S. No.	Skill Name	Type	Description	Cooldown
1	Auto-Nailgun	Primary	MUL-T can rapidly fire 12 nails, dealing nearly 840% damage per second on enemies.	1.152s after releasing the fire button
2	Rebar Puncher	Primary	MUL-T can attack enemies using its piercing rebar and deal a total of 600% damage on monsters.	1.8s time between shots
3	Scrap Launcher	Primary	MUL-T can fire a rocket, dealing 360% explosion on monsters. You can hold a maximum of four rockets.	1.5 seconds
4	Power Saw	Primary	MUL-T can grind and saw through monsters, dealing 1000% damage per second.	–
5	Blast Canister	Secondary	This is Stun damage, as a MUL-T launches a canister, dealing 220% damage. The five small Stun bomb bomblets deal 44% damage. Max Capacity: (Canister: 1, Bomblets: 0.3)	6s seconds
6	Transport Mode	Utility	Using this ability, MUL-T gets 200 armor and 220% movement speed, dealing overall 250% damage to the monsters. Capacity: (Charge:01, Ram: 01)	6 seconds
7	Retool	Special	MUL-T can hold up to two pieces of equipment at once while battling enemies. If you use the ‘Retool’, it switches the active Equipment and MUL-T’s primary attack between each other for greater flexibility.	0.5 seconds
8	Power Mode	Special	MUL-T enters a heavy stance using its Power Mode. The ability allows the robot to equip both primary attacks at once. Additionally, MUL-T also gets 100 armor, but sacrifices on -60% movement speed.	5 seconds

MUL-T Best Items in Risk of Rain 2

All the best items for MUL-T mentioned here below strengthen its ability to survive longer while taking the fight head-on. Most of the items increase a significant amount of damage MUL-T lands on enemies. However, there is one item on my list that steals life from the enemy. If you use it just the right way, your health bar should never come below 20% health.

Crowbar

This item grants 75% bonus damage on an enemy or a boss if their health is above 90%. Since MUL-T deals the highest damage using slow but lethal Rebar Puncher, equipping Crowbar only makes sense to give your robot the extra attack power it needs. The cherry on top is that when you stack two or more crowbars using MUL-T, the total damage sometimes will be more than a critical hit.

Backup Magazine

The blast canister of MUL-T is an excellent weapon for crowd control and taking down big enemies quickly. However, the availability of a single canister only is straight-up a bummer. However, you can equip more than one canister at a time and empty all barrels in a single go if you equip a Backup Magazine item. This item increases (+1 only) the amount of charge a secondary skill offers. After equipping Backup Magazine, MUL-T will unleash two blast canisters, dealing a more significant AoE damage. A must-have item for players who want to do runs solo.

Other than MUL-T, Huntress also takes advantage of Backup Magazine. She can use Laser Glaive without worrying about the long cooldown.

Harvester’s Scythe

The life-steal item every playable class in ROR2 wants to exploit, but it is your friendly robot MUL-T who gets the most out of it. On second thought, I think Engineer also takes great advantage of Harvester’s Scythe. Using the power saw skill, players can land multiple hits in a short duration of time. Equipping Haverster’s Scythe allows MUL-T to steal life (+8 health) in every critical hit of the power saw.

The Proc Coefficient multiplies the healing capacity of Harvester’s Scythe.

Tri-tip Dagger

A great addition in item loadout to cause bleed damage and deplete the enemy’s life over time. Tri-tip Dagger has a 10% chance to bleed an enemy for 240% base damage. Besides, three seconds is the base duration of bleed damage. However, Proc Coefficient can increase the longevity of the status effect. Furthermore, every time a new stack of bleed is applied to an enemy, it refreshes the previous duration.

Soldier’s Syringe

To Top off Harvester Scythe and Tri-tip Dagger’s effectiveness by increasing attack speed further up a notch, U recommend equipping Soldier’s syringe as well. Additionally, MUL-T has a high-powered Power Saw, and using this item can increase the attack speed by 15%.

This item does not increase the overall damage per se. However, it only speeds up the animation of the skill attacks by a factor of 1.15, resulting in a drastic increase in the overall DPS. You could also use Kjaro’s Band, but that is primarily restricted to Acrid, as per my testing.

Paul’s Goat Hoof

Last but not least, I recommend using Paul’s Goat Hoff item. MUL-T has incredible speed whenever it is in the Transport Mode. However, the robot significantly lacks mobility while it is outside this mode. Furthermore, to counter the said situation, equipping a Paul’s Goat Hoof item will increase the movement speed by 14%. It comes in handy in situations whenever your Transport Mode is on a six-second cooldown.