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Chef is a long-range, high-damage robot cook in Risk of Rain Returns. Using his cleavers and oven, Chef can deftly glide around the battlefield on an oil slick, slicing through enemies and cooking others with fire.
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PostsThe Chef is a relatively straightforward Survivor to get the hang of, but in his simplicity comes strength. Below, we'll take a look at everything you need to know about playing and mastering the Chef, including his default and alternate skills, the best items to use, and some tips for learning him.
Chef's Skills
The Chef has the following skills unlocked by default.
Skill
Description
Dice
Mince (Second Helping boost)
Thow cleaver towards customers for 100% damage. Boomerangs back.
Throw 9 cleavers in a circle for 9x100% damage. Boomerangs back.
Sear
Flambe (Second Helping boost)
Cook customers for 250% damage until golden brown, knocking them away. Searing Glazed customers deals +78% damage and stuns.
Cook customers for 420% damage until incinerated, knocking them away.
Glaze
Marinate (Second Helping boost)
Ride a wave of oil, slowing customers.
Ride for longer on a wave of oil, slowing customers.
Second Helping
Prepare a master meal, boosting the next ability cast.
Unlockable Skills
The following skills can be unlocked by completing certain challenges, and replace Chef's Dice, Glaze, or Second Helping.
Skill
Description
How To Unlock
Slice (replaces Dice)
Butcher (Second Helping boost)
Stretch your arms and slash customers for 120% damage.
Fiercely tear customers apart, dealing 625% damage.
Complete the Providence Trial "A Fresh Harvest".
Collect 300 items as Chef.
Oil Jar (replaces Glaze)
Toss out a fragile jar of oil, spreading and slowing customers. Slide while in oil.
Simultaneously kill 15 oiled enemies using Sear/Flambe.
Cook (replaces Second Helping)
Rapidly prepare a meal out of customers for 6x80% damage. Slain customers become tasty temporary meal items. Cannot Crit.
Complete the Providence Trial "The Right Ingredients".
Defeat 3000 enemies as Chef.
Cook Meals
With Chef's alternate fourth skill, Cook, he will cook any meals defeated by the attack into a meal. Each possible meal and the temporary effects it grants are detailed below.
Meal
Effect
Big Bison Steak
Increase health regeneration and movement speed.
Marinated Lizard Loa
Increased damage.
Golem Essence on the Rocks
Gain barrier and increased armor.
Jelly Brain Salad
Reduces skill cooldowns by 1 second.
Fried Eyeball
Slow nearby enemies.
Best Items For Chef
Chef has very high innate attack speed, and each of his Dice cleavers hits the enemy twice as it boomerangs back, making items with on-hit effects very strong.
Item
Description
Why It's Good
Soldier's Syringe
Increases attack speed by 12%.
Increases overall damage and activation rate of on-hit effects.
Mocha
Increases movement speed by 7.5% and attack speed by 6%.
Increases overall damage and mobility.
Lens Maker's Glasses
Attacks have a 10% chance to Critically Strike, dealing double damage.
Increases overall damage and Critical Strike-based on-hit effects.
Leeching Seed
Attacking enemies heals you for 2 health.
Grants health sustain.
Harvester's Scythe
Gain 5% Critical Strike chance. Critical Strikes heal for 8 health.
Health sustain and increased damage.
Prison Shackles
Slow enemies on hit for -50% movement speed for 1.5 seconds.
Powerful slow effect, allows you to keep your distance from approaching enemies.
Predatory Instincts
Gain 5% Critical Strike chance. Critical Strikes increase attack speed by 10%, up to 30%.
Increases overall damage.
AtG Missile Mk. 1
10% chance on hit to fire a missile that deals 300% damage.
Increases overall damage through on-hit effect.
Thallium
10% chance on hit to damage by up to 2x500% damage per second and slow for up to -150% movement speed over the course of 3 seconds.
High increase to overall damage and slow effect.
Wicked Ring
Gain 5% Critical Strike chance. Critical Strikes reduce cooldowns by 1 second.
Increases overall damage and enables rapid use of skills.
As with any character, movement-increasing items like Paul's Goat Hoof or Hopoo Feather are great additions, allowing you to avoid attacks and get around each stage faster.
How To Play As Chef
The majority of Chef's damage comes from his first attack, Dice. Although the base power of this skill isn't very high, you can effectively double its damage by hitting the same enemy twice with the same cleaver. This will also increase your chances of activating on-hit effects.
Always try to position enemies between you and the returning cleaver for added damage and chances to activate on-hit items.
Covering enemies in oil from Glaze before using Sear or Flambe on them will greatly increase your damage while also stunning them for three seconds, allowing you to continue attacking safely or escape if you're low on health. This combo is great for dealing with larger groups of dangerous enemies.
Using Second Helping used with Dice will turn it into Mince, which will help when surrounded by enemies, especially flying enemies like Jellyfish. Having a Wicked Ring will allow you to activate Second Helping more frequently, further increasing your damage output.
Mince can also be used to hit enemies with larger hitboxes like the Colossus multiple times in a row.
Slice, which replaces Dice, is melee-ranged as opposed to Dice's long range, but deals more damage. Especially when used with Second Helping, which increases Dice's power to a whopping 625 percent. Stunning enemies with an oil into Sear combo, then smashing them with a Second Helpingpowered-up Dice will make quick work of almost anything in the game.
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