Brotato Renegade Build Guide
Renegade Build, Waffen & Strategien
Is Renegade good in Brotato?
Renegade is a powerful but technical ranged character that shines once you stack many unique tier I items and multihit weapons. Early waves are rough due to huge damage and accuracy penalties, but your triple-shot, built‑in pierce and scaling damage quickly turn you into a screen‑clearing machine on higher difficulty.
Strengths
- Massive projectile count and innate pierce make every ranged weapon much stronger.
- Scales damage from every different tier I item, encouraging flexible shopping and strong economy.
- Pairs extremely well with multihit, piercing, bouncing and explosive ranged weapons.
- Built‑in ranged identity with great synergy for turrets and structures that benefit from extra projectiles.
Weaknesses
- Starts with -400% damage and -50% accuracy, making early waves weak and unreliable.
- Cannot equip melee weapons, removing many strong early‑game stabilizers.
- Damage modifiers are heavily reduced, so traditional % damage scaling is poor.
- Needs careful positioning and defenses to survive while your tier I item scaling comes online.
How to unlock Renegade in Brotato
Requirement: Get 10 different tier I items during a run
Complete the in-game challenge described below. If it feels tight, drop Danger level, prioritise defensive stats first, then pivot into the gimmick the challenge wants.
Unlocks when you win with Renegade
Complete any run with this character to add the following items and weapons to your global unlock pool.
Renegade Stats & Passive Ability
Renegade is built around spamming lots of weak projectiles and then fixing that weakness by hoarding different tier I items. The +2 projectiles and innate pierce turn any ranged weapon into a strong wave‑clear tool, while the +10% damage per unique tier I item slowly overcomes the brutal -400% damage and -50% accuracy. Because % damage is heavily nerfed and melee is disabled, you want fast‑firing ranged or elemental weapons, plus structures that benefit from multiple shots. Most builds rush economy and tier I items early, then stack ranged/elemental damage, attack speed, life steal and defenses to dominate high‑density waves and bosses.
Best Renegade Build (Danger 5): SMG spamming Renegade
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SMG spamming Renegade
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Weapon Setup
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Strategy
🌱Early Game
Focus on quickly filling your weapon slots with SMGs so your extra projectiles and innate pierce can clear early waves. Invest some early harvesting to build an economy that lets you buy many different tier I items later.
⚡Mid Game
Once your weapon line is online, start buying as many different tier I items as possible to rebuild your damage. Prioritize ranged damage and flat damage sources, since Renegade does not debuff those, and add Max HP so you can survive while your bullets ramp up.
🔥Late Game
In the late game, upgrade into more powerful items while keeping a wide variety of tier I pieces. With SMG’s extremely high bullets per second, life steal turns you nearly unkillable, and extra speed helps you reposition and collect materials and crates.
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Best weapons for Renegade
Shredder’s innate explosions and pierce combine perfectly with Renegade’s extra projectiles and built‑in pierce, turning each shot into multiple overlapping explosions that erase dense waves on Danger 5.
SMG fires extremely fast, letting Renegade’s triple‑shot and tier I damage scaling produce a constant bullet stream that fuels life steal and quickly overcomes the early -400% damage.
Minigun offers the highest sustained fire rate, multiplying Renegade’s extra projectiles and pierce into a wall of bullets that synergizes incredibly well with life steal and flat ranged damage.
Icicle’s strong base damage, elemental scaling and pierce benefit greatly from Renegade’s extra projectiles, and it pairs well with elemental items and turrets for Endless‑oriented runs.
Double Barrel Shotgun fires wide, piercing blasts that stack with Renegade’s extra projectiles and pierce, making it great for close‑range crowd control and synergy with bounce and explosive items.
Rocket Launcher turns every extra projectile into an explosion, which works fantastically with Renegade’s pierce and explosive items to clear huge clusters of enemies.
Shuriken benefits from bounce on crits, and when combined with Renegade’s multi‑projectile shots and high crit setups, it can chain through packs of enemies efficiently.
Some flexible templates start with no fixed weapon to let you pivot into explosives, shotguns, shurikens or Miniguns depending on what the shop offers.
Best items for Renegade (core item pool)
Bandana adds even more pierce on top of Renegade’s innate pierce and +2 projectiles, massively multiplying the number of enemies each shot can hit and offsetting the small damage penalty through sheer hit count.
Ricochet gives every projectile an extra bounce, which combined with triple shots, pierce and multihit weapons causes bullets to pinball across the map and clear entire waves despite the damage reduction.
Medical Turret adds strong, hands‑free sustain that complements Renegade’s aggressive playstyle and pairs well with life steal and turrets that already benefit from the character’s strong projectile focus.
Dynamite boosts explosion damage, making Shredder, Rocket Launcher and other explosive sources much more devastating when combined with Renegade’s extra projectiles and high enemy density.
Explosive Shells greatly amplifies both the damage and size of explosions, turning explosive‑focused Renegade builds into screen‑wiping machines that don’t rely on regular % damage scaling.
Plastic Explosive enlarges your explosion radius, which is especially strong with Shredder and Rocket Launcher where more enemies get caught in each blast multiplied by your extra projectiles.
Silver Bullet helps patch Renegade’s single‑target damage against tanky elites and bosses, leveraging your bullet spam to burn them down faster on high difficulties.
Hunting Trophy synergizes with high crit elemental and Icicle builds, converting your many crits into extra materials that accelerate buying more unique tier I items for even more damage.
Scared Sausage adds consistent burning to your rapid‑fire projectiles, scaling with elemental damage and giving Renegade extra damage over time that doesn’t rely on conventional % damage.
Pumpkin improves piercing damage, which is ideal for Renegade who already has extra pierce and piercing weapons like Icicle and Shredder, squeezing more value out of every shot that travels through enemies.
Bag is a simple but effective early economy pick that also counts as a unique tier I item, simultaneously strengthening your income and Renegade’s passive damage scaling.
Turret adds reliable, scaling structure damage that complements projectile spam builds and benefits from engineering, helping cover space while you kite around with your ranged weapons.
Renegade Danger 5 Strategy
Early Game
On Danger 5, Renegade’s early game is defined by the crippling -400% damage and -50% accuracy. Prioritize filling your weapon slots with fast‑firing guns like SMG or Shredder and pick up harvesting or economy items such as Coupon and Bag when available. Buy every different tier I item you can afford, even if its stats are mediocre, to quickly stack the +10% damage per unique tier I bonus. Position carefully so your extra projectiles and innate pierce hit as many enemies as possible.
Mid Game
Once you have several unique tier I items and a full weapon line, shift towards scaling flat ranged or elemental damage and attack speed, since these are not heavily penalized by Renegade’s passive. Aim for around 15–20% life steal using high fire‑rate weapons to sustain, and build core defenses like armor, dodge and Max HP so you can survive elites. Consider adding structures such as Medical Turret, Explosive Turret, Turret, Pocket Factory or Tyler from relevant builds to add safe damage while you kite.
Late Game
In the late waves, focus on upgrading your best weapons (SMG, Minigun, Shredder, Icicle or Rocket Launcher) and improving your key items rather than chasing more duplicates that don’t advance your passive. Add Bandana, Ricochet and Pumpkin to supercharge pierce and bounces, and explosive items like Dynamite, Plastic Explosive and Explosive Shells if you use Shredder or Rocket Launcher. Top off defenses with Tardigrade, extra Max HP and life steal so you can face‑tank chip damage while your bullet storm and explosions erase bosses and elite waves.
💡 Renegade on Danger 5 revolves around surviving a weak early game until your tier I item scaling and multihit ranged weapons come online. Buy as many different tier I items as possible, lean on fast‑firing or explosive weapons and structures, and then convert your projectile spam into strong life steal and stable defenses. Once set up, you comfortably mow down waves and bosses while your screen fills with bullets, bounces and explosions.
Renegade FAQ
1How do I unlock Renegade in Brotato?▼
Renegade is unlocked by getting 10 different tier I items during a run. Focus on buying a wide variety of cheap, level 1 items early to meet this condition.
2What are the best weapons for Renegade?▼
Based on existing builds, Shredder and SMG are the most popular choices, with Minigun, Icicle, Double Barrel Shotgun, Rocket Launcher and Shuriken also performing well thanks to Renegade’s extra projectiles and pierce.
3Which stats should I prioritize on Renegade?▼
Prioritize flat ranged or elemental damage, attack speed and life steal to overcome the -400% damage and benefit from your rapid‑fire weapons. Add Max HP, armor and dodge later so you can safely stay close enough to hit enemies consistently.
4How does Renegade’s tier I item passive work?▼
Renegade gains +10% damage for every different tier I item you have. This counts unique level 1 items, so you want many different tier I picks rather than stacking duplicates, especially in the early and mid game.
5Can Renegade use melee weapons?▼
No. Renegade cannot equip melee weapons, so you must build entirely around ranged and elemental weapons plus structures like turrets for extra damage.
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Curious rewards collecting many different items for scaling bonuses and punishes duplicates, which mirrors Renegade’s reliance on stacking unique tier I items for damage.
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