Risk of Rain 2 is an exciting third-person shooter game, and in this article, we have compiled the best items of the game in a tier list. The items in this list are ranked from tiers S to F. Here, tier S features the best items, and tier F features the worst. Let’s check ouit
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Risk Of Rain 2 Item Tier List
S Tier List in Risk of Rain 2
The S Tier in this Risks of Rain 2 tier list features the best items available in the game. These are items that we would absolutely recommend to you to use whenever you play the game.
| TIER | NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| S | Paul’s Goat Hoof | This item gives you an extra 14% movement speed. Each stack will give you an extra 14% movement speed |
| S | ATG Missile MK 1 | This item will give you a mounted missile launcher on top of your shoulder. It has a 10% chance of firing a missile at enemies. This attack will deal upto 300% damage |
| S | Soldier’s Syringe | This item will give you an additional 15% increase in attack speed. Each stack of this item will give you 15% extra speed added to the base speed. |
| S | Harvester’s Scythe | You will get an extra 5% chance to critically strike an opponent. For 8 hp, all Critical strikes attacks will heal you. You will get 4hp with each item via stacking |
| S | Tougher Times | With this item, your survivor will get a 15% chance to block damage, regardless of whether it is a minion or boss attack. Each stack will give you an additional 15% chance to block |
| S | Lens Makers Glasses | This item will give you an additional 10% chance to deal critical blows on your opponents. Additionally, the strikes will deal double damage too |
| S | Will-o’-the-wisp | You will find a lava pillar that deals burn damage in a 12m radius after you eliminate an opponent when you use this item. |
| S | 57 Leaf Clover | Using this item will roll out all types of random effects on items that are equipped |
| S | Predatory Instincts | After equipping this item will give you a 5% critical chance. Also, every critical hit will give you an increased attack speed. You will receive 12% for one item. You can get a maximum of 36% attack speed. |
| S | Gesture of The Drowned | This item will give you a 50% reduction in overall equipment cooldown. If you stack this item further, you will get a 15% increase in chance. Post-cooldown, your equipment will fire automatically. |
| S | Disposable Missile Launcher | This launcher will fire a total of 12 missiles. Each of these missiles will deal 300% damage |
| S | Soulbound Catalyst | All the kills that you make while equipping this item will significantly reduce the overall equipment cooldown by a period of 4 seconds. Each stack will give you 2 more seconds |
| S | Crowbar | Using this item will give you a damage buff of 75%. This buff will only apply if your opponent’s health is higher than 90% |
| S | Shattering Justice | If you use this item as a survivor, you will be able to significantly reduce the overall armor of an opponent after you hit them for 5 consecutive times |
A Tier
The items in this tier list of Risk of Rain 2 are quite great. They only lack in certain areas, which is the only reason they have not made it into the S tier. Nevertheless, these are great items to use when playing Risk of Rain 2.
| TIER | NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| A | Royal Capacitor | With this item, your survivor will be able to hurl a lightning strike at an enemy directly from the sky. This lightning will deal a damage of 3000%. Additionally, it will also shock the creatures in the surroundings |
| A | Backup Magazine |
Using this item will give you an additional usage charge. This charge will be applied on your Secondary skill. By stacking this particular ite, you will receive one more charge that you can use before the cooldown takes place.
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| A | Tritip Dagger | Your survivor will only receive a 10% chance to inflict bleed damage upon an enemy. This item will also increase overall damage by 240% |
| A | Fuel Cell | With this item, you will be able to reduce the overall cooldown of any equipment by 15%. It will also give you 1 extra charge to use the equipment before it cools down |
| A | Infusion | You can use this item to increase your overall health by 1hp after you eliminate an opponent. The maximum stack you can get is 100hp |
| A | Stun Grenade | With this item, you can get an extra 5% chance to shock opponents for a period of 2 seconds. This stun will offer you high-time to attack |
| A | Hopoo Feather | Use this item to double jump. With each stack, you will get an extra jump |
| A | Unstable Tesla Coil | With this item, you will be able to electrify opponents. You will be able to do so with the lightning of that particular item |
| A | Berzerker’s Pauldron | Using this item will see you get into frenzy mode. This will happen once you kill 3 opponents within a second. This mode will enhance your overall movement speed & attack speed by 50% and 100% respectively. |
| A | Halcyon Seed | With the help of this item, you will be able to summon Aurelionite. This helper will fight alongside you after interacting with a teleporter. |
B Tier
The B tier in Risks of Rain 2 features items that we consider to be average. These items are not the most powerful, nor are they the weakest. While they do not have what it takes to get into the higher tiers, they do manage to stand out from the items in the lower tiers of this list.
| TIER | NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| B | Bundle of Fireworks | Whenever you open a chest or repair a bot, you will launch eight fireworks rockets dealing a total of 300% base damage to nearby enemies. |
| B | Ukulele | The item grants chain lightning attacks on three enemies for overall 80% of total base damage. Each stack gives you opportunity to attack two more enemies and overall 25% is the chance of occurrence. |
| B | Genesis Loop | If your health falls below 25% of overall health, you will explode and cause a massive damage of 6000% of base damage. |
| B | Titanic Knurl | Your survivor receives buff in overall health bar and health regeneration. Health increases by 40 and base hp regeneration increases by nearly +1.6 hp/s. |
| B | Shaped Glass | You receive a massive base damage buff by 100% by sacrificing overall health by 50%. |
| B | Kjaro’s Band | If you land greater or equal to 400% damage to an enemy, Kjaro’s band will cast a runic flame tornado. The item ability deals 300% damage as time passes. The cooldown is 10 seconds. |
| B | Ceremonial Dagger | Your survivor spawns three homing daggers whenever you kill a monster. Each dagger can deal up to 150% damage. |
| B | Focus Crystal | A red circle surrounds survivor indicating the buff zone to land a 20% increased damage on enemies. Each stack gives 20% more damage buff. |
| B | Old Guillotine | Equipping this item allows your to drop Elite enemies dead whenever their health drops below 13% bar. |
| B | Topaz Brooch | Your survivor receives a temporary barrier if you kill an enemy. |
| B | Jade Elephant | You get a fortification of armor by equipping this item. Receive an additional 500 armor that lasts for the next five seconds. |
| B | Rose Buckler | While sprinting, your survivor receives increased armor capacity. Each stack gives you 30 more armor whenever you only sprint. |
| B | Runald’s Band |
If you land greater or equal to 400% damage to an enemy, Runald’s band will cast a ice blast attack. The item ability deals 250% damage as time passes and slows down enemies for 80% for next three seconds. The cooldown is 10 seconds.
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| B | Gnarled Woodsprite | Your survivor gets a Woodsprite companion which can heal the overall health per second of 1.5% the entire hp bar. |
| B | Shaped Glass | You receive a massive base damage buff by 100% by sacrificing overall health by 50%. |
| B | Ceremonial Dagger | Your survivor spawns three homing daggers whenever you kill a monster. Each dagger can deal up to 150% damage. |
C Tier List in Risk of Rain 2
The items in this Risk of Rain 2 tier list can be said to be below average. These items only work well when they are combined with specific classes. This means they will only be useful to you as long as they are used with their relevant classes. Using them with irrelevant classes will not yield any productive results.
| TIER | NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| C | Pearl | Your survivor receives an increases health bar by 10%, and each item stack gives additional 10% health. |
| C | Transcendence | You get 50% max health and convert the remaining into regenerating shields. |
| C | Gasoline | Whenever you kill an enemy you ignite other enemies who happen to be in a 12 meter radius to the killed one. |
| C | Wax Quail | Whenever you sprint and jump, you reach further and cover a longer distance because of the item boost. . |
| C | Aegis | You get the ability the heal more than 100% of your overall health. Your survivor receives a 50% health barrier as an extra health. |
| C | Pearl | Your survivor receives an increases health bar by 10%, and each item stack gives additional 10% health. |
| C | Preon Accumulator | Your survivor can fire a preon tendril that electrifies and stuns enemies in a 35 meter radius The attack deals 600% damage per second. |
| C | Beads of Fealty | Player(s) enters the Celestial Portal to enter A Moment, Fractured and obliterates themselves at the Obelisk, they will be transported to A Moment, Whole before ending the run. |
| C | Energy Drink | The item gives you increases sprint speed and greatly improves it by 25%. Each stack of the item grants additional +25% of sprint speed. |
| C | War Horn | Using the item allows you to receive 70% increased attack speed for the next eight seconds. Each stack gives +4 seconds on attack speed. |
| C | Brilliant Behemoth | Land exploding attacks to the enemies who are in a 4 meter radius near you. |
| C | Queen’s Gland | Your survivor gets the ability to summon a personal Beetle Guard who fights enemies right by your side. |
| C | War Banner | Your survivor drops a war banner, significantly raising the attack and movement speed of all survivors by 30% as long as they remain in the radius of the war banner. |
| C | Preon Accumulator | Your survivor can fire a preon tendril that electrifies and stuns enemies in a 35 meter radius The attack deals 600% damage per second. |
| C | Sticky Bomb | You get a 5% chance on strike to attach a bomb onto an enemy while combat. The explosion damage causes 180% of the base damage. |
| C | Armor Piercing Rounds | The ability allows you to land 20% additional damage on the bosses only. The item has no effect on regular monsters in the game. Each stack of the item gives 20% more damage. |
| C | The Backup | Your survivor can call four strike drones that fight as an ally against the enemies. The drones aid for 25 seconds only. |
| C | Priomordial Cube | Your survivor fires a black hole that can draw and stick enemies together for up to 10 seconds so that you and your team can focus fire. |
| C | Fuel Array |
The item grants explosion damage whenever triggered. It deals nearly 150% damage of the a player’s health to themselves and all nearby enemies as well. The item is effective if used within 30 meter radius of enemies.
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| C | Irradiant Pearl | You survivor gets significant increase in all of the stats he/she currently rocks while fighting the enemies by 10%. Each item stack gives 10% more. |
| C | Pearl | Your survivor receives an increases health bar by 10%, and each item stack gives additional 10% health. |
D Tier
The D tier items are even less useful than those in the C tier of Risk of Rain 2. However, despite their many flaws and the lack of compatibility, they are still decent enough when it comes to running solo or while building damage-dealing builds.
| TIER | NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| D | Bandolier | Your survivor will receive an 18% chance on kill to reset every ability cooldown. You will get this if you pick up the ammo pack. |
| D | Ocular HUD | Your survivor can land frequent critical hits by receiving 100% Chance for the next eight seconds. |
| D | Old War Stealth Kit | Whenever your survivor falls below the 25% health level, you will get an increased movement speed and invisibility by 40% and 5 seconds respectively. The cooldown on the items is 30 seconds. |
| D | Fresh Meat | Each time you eliminate an opponent, your base health bar increases by 2 points. |
| D | Resonance Disc |
The resonance disc hurls itself towards monsters after charging it by killing four enemies within seven seconds. The disc deals damage and explodes at the end. After explosive damage, the disc returns back to the survivor while piercing all enemies on its way coming back.
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| D | Razor Wire | Your survivor bursts into razors whenever taken a hit by a monster. The item deals 160% damage and can strike up to five monsters in a 25 meter radius. |
| D | Rusted Key | The rusty box contains items with a combination of 80% uncommon and 20% legendary items to spawn if you open the box with a rusted key. The key is consumed if you open a rusty box. |
| D | Red Whip | Each time you run away from opponents, or avoid combat, your survivor will get a 30% increase in movement. Each stack of items will give you an additional 30% movement speed. |
| D | Leeching Seed | Using this item, you can heal yourself for 1hp for each damage dealt on an enemy. |
| D | Dio’s Best Friend | Whenever you die, the item will sacrifice itself and will resurrect the survivor, granting him/her invulnerability for the next three seconds. |
| D | Hardlight Afterburner | The item greatly reduces utility skill cooldown. The 33% reduction and two more charges of your utility skill allows you to spam them frequently. |
| D | Rusted Key | The rusty box contains items with a combination of 80% uncommon and 20% legendary items to spawn if you open the box with a rusted key. The key is consumed if you open a rusty box. |
| D | Brainstalks | Whenever you kill an elite monster, your survivor becomes frenzied for the next four seconds and all of his/her cooldowns have 0.5 seconds duration only. |
| D | Cautious Slug | You survivor’s base health regeneration speed is increased by +3 hp per seconds. The status effect applies if you go outside the combat. |
| D | Medkit | Your survivor applies medkit and heals for 20 health point. The status effect starts after 2 seconds from the point of receiving the damage. |
| D | Alien Head | The item significantly reduces the all skill cooldowns by 25%. Each stack gives 25% increase in the cooldowns. |
| D | Bustling Fungus | Whenever you stand still, a healing fungus zone appears which heals all allies in the radius for 4.5% of max health. |
| D | Happiest Mask | With this item, your survivor gets a 7% chance to spawn the ghost of the eliminated opponent who fights alongside you for a maximum period of 30 seconds. |
| D | Lepton Daisy | The Lepton Daisy heals all allies and yourself for 50% of the max health during a teleporter boss fight. It occurs one time, and for it to occur several more times, you need to stack more items. |
| D | Chronobuable | Whenever you hit enemies, they will be slowed down for -60% of their movement speed for the next two seconds. Each stack of the item grants additional two seconds. |
F Tier
As we mentioned earlier in this article, the F tier features the absolute worst items in Risk of Rain 2. These are items that we would not recommend anyone to use at all. Their extensive cooldown periods make them pretty useless as they lay in your inventory.
| TIER | NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| F | Monster Tooth | This item will drop a healing orb that can regenerate eight HP each time you kill a monster. Each stack of this item gives you +2 HP. |
| F | H3AD-5T v2 |
You will be able to jump vertically higher using this item. You will also get a five-meter to hundred meters kinetic explosion after your survivor touches the ground. The attack deals 1000%-10000% base damage and it increases with the fall distance. The item cooldowns in ten seconds only.
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| F | Ghor’s Tome | This item will give you a 4% (+4% on stack) chance. With this item, you can receive a treasure of $25 when you kill an enemy. The overall money value increases over time. |
| F | Frost Relic |
Each time you kill an opponent, an ice storm will surround you. This attack will deal a total of 1200% damage per second. Also, it immensely slows down nearby monsters by 80% for the next 1.5 seconds only. Stacking more kills will grow the storm and its radius by 2 meters as well. Max Stack: 18meters.
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| F | Blast Shower | Your survivor gets the ability to remove all negative effects after equipping this item. |
| F | The Crowdfunder | You get to fire continuously for 100% damage at the expense of available gold in your inventory. Each bulltet costs $1. The overall cost also goes up the more you use it. |
| F | Milky Chrysalis | You get the wings and the ability to fly for the next 15 seconds whenever you are in air. You also get a +20% movement speed for the duration. |
| F | Little Disciple | Your survivor gets the ability to fire tracking wisps while sprinting. The overall damage of the wisp is 300% of the base damage. The fire rate in start is 1.6 seconds only and it scales with your overall movement speed. |
| F | Spinel Tonic | When you drink this item, your survivor will get different buffs that range from movement speed, attack speed, and increased health bar and regeneration speed as well. When the tonic wears off, your survivor gets negative status effects. |
| F | Brittle Crown | Your survivor will receive a 30% chance to get two gold at every attack with this item. Your overall drop rate will increase with time as you continue to use it. Also, you will lose the gold if you take incoming damage from the monsters. |
| F | Eccentric Vase | Your survivor gets the ability to create a quantum tunnel of up to 1000m in length. The tunnel remains open for the next thirty seconds only. |
| F | Volcanic Egg | Your survivor turns into a fireball for the next five seconds, dealing a total of 500% damage whenever you impact with a monster. |
| F | Radar Scanner | The ability allows you to see through all interactables available within 500 meters for the next ten seconds only. |
| F | Foreign Fruit | Using this item gives you 50% health instantly of your overall health bar. |
| F | Visions of Heresy |
The item replaces the Primary Skill with Hungering Gaze. Your survivor gets the ability to fire tracking shards that detonate after a delay, and it deals 120% of the base damage. You can carry up to 12 charges in total which reloads after two seconds.
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| F | Helfire Tincture |
Your survivor ignites him/herself along with allies and enemies for twelve seconds in a 15 meter radius. A 0.5time your damage of the burn damage is applied on to you and allies. While the enemies get 24x your damage onto them.
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| F | Strides of Heresy | The item can replace your Utility Skill with Shadowfade. Using the item grants you increased movement speed and heal for 18.2% of overall HP. The effect lasts for three seconds. |
| F | Corpsebloom | Your survivor heals 10% of max health per second. All sorts of healing is applied over time and health regeneration happens on the fly. |
| F | Effigy of Grief | Casts a radius and slows allies, you and enemies if caught inside the radius. It also reduced the overall armor by 20. |
| F | Glowing Meteorite | You get the ability to bring the meteor raining destruction on monsters. However, it also causes harm on you too so use wisely. The ability does 600% damage per blast, and it only lasts for the next twenty seconds. |
| F | N’Kuhanas Opinion | Your survivor can store 100% of healing as Soul Energy. Once the Soul Energy depletes and stands at 10% of max HP, you can fire a skull dealing 250% of Soul Energy damage. |
| F | Rejuvenation Rack | Your survivor gets to heal +100% more than the normal health. The item stacking allows additional 100%. |
| F | Effigy of Grief | Casts a radius and slows allies, you and enemies if caught inside the radius. It also reduced the overall armor by 20. |
| F | Wake of Vultures | Your survivor gets the ability to steal the power of any elite monster after killing it for the next eight seconds. Each item stack gives +8 seconds. |
This was the tier list of all of the best items in Risk of Rain 2. If you liked this list, check out our tier lists for your favorite games.