Best Perks in Dungeon Clawler

As you explore the dungeon in Dungeon Clawler, you can add an assortment of new items to your deck. However, this is not the only way to strengthen yourself for the battles ahead. From time to time, you’ll get the opportunity to select a Perk.

Perks can have a variety of effects in Dungeon Clawler, from adding armor at the start of a fight to making sure the Claw Machine always has some water in it. Picking the right perks to supplement your chosen playstyle can make runs much easier, so here are a few you should always be looking out for.

Best Defensive Perks

Blockmaster and Bulwark

Starting each fight with 15 Block, courtesy of Bulwark, can make you a lot more tanky and help you deal with some of the trickier fights in the game. Blockmaster, meanwhile, ensures that you can build up Block much more efficiently by allowing you to retain 25% of your block between turns. This can quickly snowball and give you a ton of block.

Hedgehog and Spikes

This duo is fantastic when working with any defensive build, allowing you to stack the Spikes effect on your character and dish out damage to the enemy whenever they hit you. Hedgehog gives you 5 Spikes stacks whenever an enemy attacks you, while Spikes gives you 3 Spikes at the start of combat. When you are attacked while you have Spikes stacks, you’ll deal damage to your attacker equal to the number of Spikes stacks you have.

Plenty of enemies attack multiple times in a single turn, which means they’ll take the Spikes damage multiple times while increasing your Spikes stack with each attack, a loop that will quickly overwhelm your foes as they continue to strike. If you have block or dodge you can easily tank the enemy’s hits while they break themselves against you.

Catsuit & Dodgy

The Dodge version of the Blockmaster/Bulwark combo, the Catsuit allows you to retain one Dodge stack between turns, making it easier to build up stacks and dodge dangerous attacks. Meanwhile, Dodgy ensures that anyone who attacks you while you have Dodge stacks will take 10 damage for their trouble, which is a great bonus if you’re already stacking up Dodge. This combo is especially useful for Count Clawcula, who can’t block.

Best Offensive Perks

Natural Strength and Berserker

When it comes to boosting your raw damage, Natural Strength and Berserker are fantastic options. Natural Strength allows you to start each fight with 3 Strength, which adds 3 extra damage to all of your attacks. Berserker will add one more Strength stack whenever you get hit in battle. If you’re playing as Felina or using Felinas Pet Carrier, these Strength buffs will become even more potent as they apply to your cat allies too.

Deep Cuts & Hard Hits

Crucial to Critical Hit builds, Deep Cuts boosts Critical Hit Damage by 20% while Hard Hits boosts Critical Hit Chance by 20%. Paired with items that have a higher than normal Critical Chance, like the Sickle, these can be used to guarantee critical hits and deal a ton of damage.

Weaklings

Simple and effective, Weaklings reduces all enemy Health by 25%, making it much easier to take them down.

Best Miscellaneous Perks

Deflation

Deflation is a simple but effective perk that helps out when you want to make lots of attacks in a turn or collect lots of items at once. Each turn it will shrink four of the items in the machine, making it much easier to grab multiple items. Scrappy and Count Clawcula both benefit greatly from grabbing multiple items at once, but this tends to be very powerful on almost any build.

Hoarder

Another great choice for players who like grabbing lots of items at once, Hoarder will add 10 extra items to the machine at the start of each turn, allowing the machine to quickly fill up with all kinds of knives, shields, and other assorted implements of murder.

Picky

On the flip side, Picky is excellent when using items like the Longsword, which gain benefits from being the only item you collect with that claw. Picky will cause items you pick up on their own to trigger twice, making those sorts of items doubly effective and also allowing you to double up on powerful buffing or debuffing items if you’re able to pick them up on their own.

Magic Mirror

The Magic Mirror Perk is similarly helpful, but more versatile than Picky, as it makes the first item you use each turn activate twice. This needs no further explanation, as it makes your first action each turn more effective under almost all circumstances.

Bargain

Bargain reduces the cost of all services by 20%, making use of the Shredder, Blacksmith, and Alchemist much less costly and allowing you to better manipulate your deck’s contents and power as a result.

Reroll Coupon

The Reroll Coupon lets you reroll your options after a fight once for free. This makes it easier to search for specific items when you’re trying to assemble a particular build, so if you see it early on you should nearly always pick it.

Lucky

Lucky gives you an extra option whenever you find the Perk Machine, improving your odds of getting the Perk you want. If you see this early, picking it up will make future visits to the Perk Machine much better.