Master the circus

Author's notes

Rank 1 Celeste

Item categories

1. 1Example opening

   Author's category · 14 items · 6.4k's, Restro and Shielding are the only swappable items

   1. 1

      Extra Regen

   2. 2

      Cold Front

      helps with clearing T2 camps, it does a surprising amount of damage in lane especially if you stack your daggers before using it

   3. 3

      Mystic Regeneration

   4. 4

      Radiant Regeneration

      Built from Mystic Regeneration

      you aim to have this before sinner's spawn, then never go base again

   5. 5

      Grit

   6. 6

      Torment Pulse

      this gives 100 health flat and a lot of damage, so it's a green item in disguise, the green spike is % based and celeste base hp is too low so no need to rush it

   7. 7

      High-Velocity Rounds

      with this build you care more about farming camps, so there is less reason to rush this but now you do

   8. 8

      Healing Booster

      Built from Extra Regen

   9. 9

      Mystic Expansion

      hitting daggers without this is too hard

   10. 10

       Restorative Locket

   11. 11

       Spirit Shielding

       Built from Grit

       replacable with weapon shielding against gun heavy comp

   12. 12

       Greater Expansion

       Built from Mystic Expansion

       = more big

   13. 13

       Scourge

       turns celeste into a frontline character, resist + debuff and a lot % health damage makes it even better vs tanks, green item in disguise

   14. 14

       Ethereal Shift

       can behave like counterspell, can stall debuffs hard to find a game where it's not useful and the buffs it gives is no joke, another green item in disguse

2. 2Situationaloptional

   Author's category · 8 items

   1. 1

      Warp Stone

      if all you need is to be a few meters away from where you are, think paradox bombs, holliday channeling a lasso

   2. 2

      Metal Skin

      Haze ult, but eshift does the trick

   3. 3

      Dispel Magic

      Removes *all* CC and debuffs can provide much more value than counterspell. perfer this over counterspell, unless if it's something like lash or rem ult

3. 3Encore Damageoptional

   Author's category · 9 items

   1. 1

      Boundless Spirit

      Pure damage with boxes and max spirit invest gives you max value, but go for escalting if they have large health pools or spirit res

   2. 2

      Spellslinger

      good against fat characters and fights that last forever

   3. 3

      Escalating Exposure

      at some point they will have spirit resist so you buy this item

4. 4Encore Survivaloptional

   Author's category · 9 items

   1. 1

      Witchmail

      if there is someone that can consistency proc it, it can be a good option don't over reach for it tho

   2. 2

      Phantom Strike

      disarm + get close to enemy, makes vindicta and grey talon easier to fight

   3. 3

      Unstoppable

      when everyone will die just by you being around and all you need is to be "Unstoppable" (skippable for the debuff stacking route)

5. 5optional

   Author's category · 9 items · for weird senarios

   1. 1

      Echo Shard

      don't you hate it when they Disple your Light Eater? then hit them with another one!

   2. 2

      Express Shot

      Built from High-Velocity Rounds

      GIga late game slot locked

   3. 3

      Suppressor

      if you're facing gun heavy comp

6. 6Debuff Stacking Routeoptional

   Author's category · 6 items

   1. 1

      Scourge

   2. 2

      Debuff Reducer

      debuff resist stacking vs pocket and comps with lots of debuffs

   3. 3

      Blood Tribute

   4. 4

Categories appear in the author's order. Only the editor's default Early, Mid and Late sections are marked as game stages; the author's own categories keep their names. “Built from” links come from the game's item recipes.

Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order

Light EaterLight Eater	Light Eater: Ability unlocked, step 1						Light Eater: 1 AP upgrade, step 71	Light Eater: 2 AP upgrade, step 82	Light Eater: 5 AP upgrade, step 9