Builds - Desert

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## Builds

### MEDIC!!!!!!!

***"I wanna be a doctor!"***

* **Petals Used:** Many teammates with yggdrasil, Yggdrasil, healing petals, Mythic+ Missile, and dps petals.
* **How it Works:** You heal a bunch of people and they fight with you so scorpions are dead
* **Strengths:** EVERYTHING!
* **Weaknesses:** if all ygg people die everyone's dead
* **Variations:** NOTHING.
* **Tip:** Use Ultra Yggdrasil
* **Author:** no one

### **The Bane of (fire) Ants**

***"Poggers build hehe"***

* How it works is that you use a **cutter** of any rarity to ram mobs, **two Cacti,** **two Fangs** make sure you don't place them together**, two salt, two leaves,** the last petal doesn't really matter.
* Strengths: you have great survivability and can grind through antholes of common and uncommon rarity.
* Weakness: easily overwhelmed by mobs piling when they chase after you. (basically a ton of mobs)

### **The Living Cactus (with Leaves)**

***"The perfect Rammer Build, if used correctly..."***

* **Petals Used:** 2x L+ Soil/5x L+ Leaves/L+ Cutter/2x R+ Salt
* **Strategy:** Switch to a defensive position and advance toward the nearest mob...AND RAM INTO IT! The mob will take the amount of damage your body does + the percentage of the mobs' damage that is reflected with the salt, usually guaranteeing their death
* **Strengths:** makes you a GREAT defense unit for your team, and allows you to tank mobs repeatedly without any help
* **Weaknesses:** Base Speed is decreased and size is increased; this makes escaping from mobs a LOT more difficult. additionally, it may not do too well against Legendary and Mythic mobs UNLESS you are working with a teammate
* **Alternatives:**

1. Rather than using Leaves to heal, you can use Fangs or Rose-Like petals. But keep in mind that Roses and Dahlias are bad at combat, and Fangs don't allow passive healing.
2. instead of using a Cutter, you can use an extra Salt to inflict mass amounts of body damage
3. instead of using 5 Leaves, you can replace one of the Leaves with a Sponge to decrease the amount of damage you take from body damages (WARNING: THIS ALSO COMES WITH A RISK OF INSTANT DEATH!)
4. Otherwise, use a Basil to increase the healing power of your Leaves, but remember that the Basil isn't all that effective!
5. You can use Cactuses instead of Soil (that is, assuming you have a Cactus that is a higher rarity than the Soil you are using), since it retains your movement speed

* **Tip:** this build can also be used in Garden, since the Salt can easily take out Hornets

* **Author:** FoldingPapers

### "**Don't Touch Me**"

***"Untouchable baby"***

* **Petals Used:** In this specific order: (magnet/yucca/leaf), Lightning, (yucca/leaf), Jelly, (yucca/leaf), Lightning, (yucca/leaf), Jelly,(yucca/leaf),lightning
* **How it Works:** Yucca/Leaf for healing, Jelly to keep scorpions away, Lightning to kill. After jelly bounces, step up and lightning. Repeat with other lighting/jelly. Stay in defensive form unless you want to attack mobs.
* **Strengths:** Scorpions, Beetles, Small swarms. Works best in lower level waves, falls off hard once you hit around wave 25.
* **Weaknesses:** Too many Mobs, surrounded from all sides with mobs, DPS isn't very high. Any wave with mythics.
* **Variations:** Replace Jellies for Lightnings when most scorpions and beetles are killed.
* **Tip:** Try to use at least rare+ lightnings and jellies. At least rare+ yuccas/leafs/starfishes. Yuccas work best. (
* **Author:** wiem#2692

### **"The Great Rice Wall"**

***"You shall not pass..."***

* **Petals Used:** Yin Yang/E+ Pollen/Rice/Rice/Rice/E+ Pollen/(Dahlia,Leaf,Rose)/(Dahlia,Leaf,Rose). Secondary slot: In first slot, any petal of choice (ex. magnet, cutter, leaf, salt, not yin yang), rest does not matter (your choice)
* **How it Works:** Toggle pressing 1 (or whichever slot you have the yin yang in) to switch the rotation of your petals . Use this to control you petals so that the rice wall (pushed together by the pollens) is always facing your target. It helps to do some maneuvering so that the mobs are coming at you from one side only. For the majority of the time, stay in the attack mode, except when you are caught off guard by a mob approaching your undefended side, in which case the defensive mode can help the rice wall counter-attack quicker and minimize damage. When your Rice are in contact with mobs, this loadout is capable of very **HIGH damage.**
* **Strengths:** WALLS OF MOBS chasing you around the edge, legendary mobs (esp. with team)
* **Weaknesses:** Surrounded/crushed by mobs, being blocked off by desert centipede/cactus while having mobs chase you
* **Variations:** Can try different healing petals, swapping pollen with E+ lights, and different number of rice depending on your needs
* **Tip:** Be careful with your sides that are unguarded by the rices. They can be exposed to attacks. Thus, it is wise to stay near the edges of the map if solo or always having an escape plan in the case of a swarm approaching from many sides. Also, keep in mind that whichever petal you are swapping with yin yang will be switching out quickly and either not spawn or spawn for a short time, so choose a petal that makes sense (can be improved by Quick Hands Skill).
* **Author:** F1R3\_H4X

### **"intermediate dessert"**

***"for the people who are not new and not old"***

(NOTE: ANY RARITY WORKS HIGHER RARITY HIGHER WAVER)

(NOTE 2: LOW RARITY USERS CAN REPLACE POLLEN FOR ANY PETAL)

* **Petals Used:** web(2x), pollen, web, pollen, web, pollen, web(2x)
* **How it Works:** you simply hold click or right click (choice of player)
* **Strengths:** Can destroy beetle and scorpions
* **Weaknesses:** if the beetles and scorpions get past the webs and you try to run you are probably going to run into a sandstorm
* **Variations:** replace egg with stick if you're lucky
* **Tip:** try to team up with a full pollen or full egg
* **Author:** Your average io gamer

### Heavy Guy

***"Booster in florr.io??"***

* **Petals Used:** Full heavy
* **How it Works:** you knockback very much and have a super strong anti ram shield.
* **Strengths:** Strong Ram Mobs
* **Weaknesses:** Projectile Mobs
* **Variations:** Replace heavies with corns or rocks
* **Tip:** Don't go ramming with these against projectile mobs or strong ram mobs if you miss one petal
* **Author:** Enzogta

### Anti-Australia

***"Five-star exterminator"***

* **Petals Used:** Pincer/(Magnet, Stinger)/Leaf/Stinger/Web/Heavy/Leaf/Claw/Leaf/(Corn, Heavy)/(Leaf, Faster)
* **How it Works:** Pincer and Web slows down, Stingers and Claws go ouch, Leaf for healing when poisoned, Heavy and Corn yeet bad guys away. And Magnet ~~for stealing kills~~ as a decoration
* **Strengths:** A few big scorpions and beetles
* **Weaknesses:** Lots of big scorpions and beetles
* **Variations:** Leaves can be swapped out for roses and more dps like Light
* **Tip:** Don't yeet big scorpions and beetles at yourself, aka don't hold click all the time

### The big survivor

***"Ayo its that big kid, can't even go close to him..."***

* **Petals Used:** cactus/pincer/(jelly/shell[depends if you want health or knockback])/pincer/soil/pincer/leaf/pincer/leaf/pincer
* **How it Works:** the cactus gives you health(you really need), pincer does damage and keeps mobs away. Jelly, the reason it was made... or shell, if you are good, to give shield. Soil, more health lol. leaves to heal.
* **Strengths:** Avoiding every mob(except sandstorm)
* **Weaknesses:** when you are being chased and run into sandstorm
* **Variations:** In your bottom bar use (everything has to be legendary or higher or would not work good) light/pincer/light/faster/faster/powder/light/stinger/faster/light
* **Tip:** Use this build, you get VERY far
* **Author:** the build builder

### The Ant Grinder

***"Oh look a mythic fire ant! Not anymore!"***

* **Petals Used:** leg+ antennae, leg+ faster, leg+ faster, mythic+ stinger, mythic+ stinger, mythic+ stinger, leg+ heavy, leg+ pincer, leg+ iris, and epic+ magnet
* **How it Works:** The antennae lets you see mythic fire ants so you can kill them, the fasters for dps, the stingers for high damage, the heavy for knockback (jelly can also knockback, but it's too much knockback and someone could steal you kill), the pincer to slow the mythics and ultras down, the iris to poison the mobs (you have to deal at least 5% of the damage to the mob to get it's drops, so the iris will gradually do damage over time to one mob so you can kill other ones), and a magnet to collect loot.
* **Strengths:** Killing multiple high tier fire ant mobs at a time
* **Weaknesses:** **NONE.**
* **Variations:** In the bottom bar, do leg+ faster, yggdrasil, mythic+ rose, mythic+ sand, mythic+ sand, mythic+ sand, mythic+ web, mythic+ web, mythic+ rose, and leg+ clover. The fasters and sands is for dps, the web is for slowing mobs down, the rose is for healing, the clover is for getting better rarity mobs, and the yggdrasil is to revive **greedy beggars noobs who have a skill issue.**
* **Tips:** If you don't have a yggdrasil, replace it with a powder (to outrun mobs), a web (to slow mobs), or a leaf/rose (healing).
* **Author:** Bobz99

### **Senic**

**"Your too slow"**

**Petals used:** Bubble , bubble , powder , bubble, bubble(make sure that your bubble are all same rarity.), light, light, rose, light, light.

**How it works:** The light is for protect and to close in the space so you can boost faster with only one shift. Bubble to move faster and powder does not stack so use only one.

**Strengths:** **FAST**.

**Weakness:** Not enough offensive petal so good luck dealing with the leg and above

**Variations:** Use pollen to replace light.

**Tip:** Be carful where you ram. You will go very far if you are careful, keep a secondary build for offensive.

**Author:** Senic the hedgehog.(no copyright(pls don't sue me))

### KnockBack

***"Knockback"***

* Petals used
* How it Works
* Strengths
* Weakness
* Variations

**Jelly, Pincher, Jelly, Pincher, Stinger, Web, Bubble, Bubble**

**The stinger harms them, the webs slow them down, the pincher also slows them down, the jelly blasts them away, and the bubbles are used to escape**

The monsters will probably get lost and go for someone else.

Hornets can blast though most things, it also doesn't work on crowds

Replace the stingers with more pinchers and stingers, or replace 1 with a ygg to revive puny spamming noobs.

Author: Seal-of-approval-2000

### Killer Machine

***"Survivor"***

* **Petals Used: Stinger (Epic+), Pincer (Legendary+), Corn (Epic+), Pincer (Legendary+), Stinger (Epic+), Egg (Legendary+), Corn (Epic+), Pincer (Legendary+)** Keep Roses(Rare+), Clams(Rare+) and a Antennae in inventory(required)
* **How it Works:** Use the antennae to see other mobs. Then use Clam to get Shield up. Go in for the kill and switch the antennae out. The corn will push the mob away if it gets too close. You can use fasters. The stingers do so much damage and the pincers will poison them. Make sure to keep a distance. Shield can only do so much. Use roses to manually heal.
* **Strengths:** Close range
* **Weaknesses:** Scorpions that keep on firing missiles.**Variations:** MAKE YOUR OWN!! This is your inventory, you can make it to suit whatever zone your in.
* **Author:** Gamer Ray

### **Bane of the beetles**

***"It's hungry and beetles are its favourite meal."***

* **Petals Used:** (leg+) bone/bone/wing/wing/bone/bone/pincer/web/leaf/magnet
* **How it Works:** bones give short range damage, wings give long range damage, pincer and web slows down, leaf heals, magnet collects drops.
* **Strengths:** beetles, shinies, fire ants(maybe), desert centipedes(maybe)
* **Weaknesses:** scorpions, sandstorms(maybe)
* **Variations:** replace bone with other high damage-dealing petals such as stinger or claw or others; replace wing with missile or egg(s), replace pincer/web with knockback(jelly, corn, heavy) or powder; put in plank maybe to defend against scorpions; put in antennae to see dangers
* **Tip:** Hit beetles with pincer first to decrease their speed and run around it; if there are many beetles this still works as one slowed beetle slows the others. If you find that pincer can't quite cope, find a cactus or a desert centipede and hide behind it... just make sure that the beetles can't touch you, they're very high damage mobs. Also try to evade scorpions or sandstorms while running to keep away from danger.

### **Flying Missiles**

***"Every wall can break. "***

* **Petals Used:** L+bubble/L+bubble/M+light/faster(rarity based on your reload speed)/R+magnet/L+antennae/M+missile/M+missile/M+missile/M+missile
* **How it Works:** Use bubbles often, with or without a large group of mobs. It can get you out of danger(or find mobs quickly), that's something 100% true. The reason that missiles must be M+ is that you need self-adjusting and high-damaging weapons to deal enough damage to get the drops. It's basically a combination of instant traveling and far-distance shooting.
* **Strengths:** Able to travel quickly, good at getting drops. (Believe me, I calculated that one)
* **Weaknesses:** There's no healing petals, so it requires a good skill set. Especially weak against scorpions, because you'll be dead when it hit you.
* **Variations:** The chance of being trapped in a group of mobs is small, so you can consider replacing the faster petal with a web or a pincer, for emergency use.
* **Tip:** Try to heal yourself before going into the final section of the desert.
* **Author:** (no account)

### **The Beetle Busters**

***"They wanna bite you, but you won't let them."***

* **Petals (Noob):** Antennae/Faster/Powder or Web/Rose/Orange/Lotus/Faster/Jelly/Magnet/Orange **(Recommended Legendary+)**
* **Petals (Pro):** Antennae alts Third Eye/Faster/Pincer/Any healing petal except Yucca/Stinger/Lotus or any damage petals/Faster/Any damage petals/Magnet/Stinger **(Required to be Mythic+ except magnet)**

* **How it Works:** Fasters make you be able to deal damage quicker and rotates to a safety petal (like pincer and jelly that slows down a beetle) quicker, antennae makes you see further since beetles have huge aggro ranges, powder speeds you up, pincer/web slow the beetles down, healing petals -- you need them, lotus is useful when an M scorpion is after you (absorbs damage of its poisonous pincers), stinger/oranges are the main sources of damage, magnet makes you pick up drops that are further away from you, jelly either bounces away a scorpion pincer or bounces off a beetle for a short period of time, third eyes are not required but they help you stretch your petals further out, especially helpful when you have stingers (because oranges are just a lazy noob alternative for stingers)
* **Strengths:** kills beetles effectively, heals you, makes you be able to solo an army of M beetles sometimes, good enough to deal with any types of mobs that can potentially spawn in Desert 5.
* **Weaknesses:** not good enough for ultra beetle tho (:Facepalm:)
* **Tip:** Stay away from ultra beetle or don't be the person who aggros it first (:HyperFacepalm:)
* **Author:** *Paindemic*

### **No more cacti please.**

***“ow spiky"***

* **Petals Used:** 2x L+ Rice/L+ Bur/2x L+ Rice/3x L+ Light/whatever/whatever
* **Secondary:** 4x L+ Light/4x L+ Bubble/1x Yin Yang/ 1x M+ Antennae
* **How it Works:** The rice petals deal tons of damage every second to the cacti, the Bur allows them to do even more damage, the lights clump the petals closer together, and the Yin Yang is for the Rice to stay in the same spot, leading to even more damage.
* **Strengths:** Cacti, and swarms of lower rarity mobs.
* **Weaknesses:** Swarms of very high rarity mobs and trolls.
* **Variations:** add another rice in the place of a light! or add a lightning in the place of a rice if you get swarmed by mobs!
* **Tip:** Use this build for Mythic+ Cacti especially.
* **Author: @Justin1209 (a guest in florr.io)**

### **No more Beetles**

***“Bane of Beetles v2"***

* **Petals Used:** Pincer, light, faster, light, pincer, faster, jelly, magnet, leaf
* **Secondary:** Anything you want, put light and faster under magnet and leaf for more dps
* **How it Works:** Pincers slow beetles down, lights and fasters do dps, and jelly helps keeping beetles away
* **Strengths:** beetles following you, including ultra beetles (it could kill a ubeetle relatively fast with mlights and lpincers)
* **Weaknesses:** stuff in front of you with a high rarity beetle behind you, and scorpions: stuff in front of you can push you into the high rarity beetle and kill you, and scorpions are just annoying.
* **Variations:** maybe replace a light with a lightning, or use rubbers (not tested)
* **Tip:** try not to have a L or M scorpion seeing you, if it does, you're dead unless you have something that can kill it quickly. Also, it's basically a modified deathwheel so it works against cacti as well.

### Ultimate Desert Build

***"(Enter Slogan Here)"***

* Primary Build: M+ Pincer, U+ Leaf, U+ Rock, M+ Iris, U+ Rock, U+ Leaf, M+ Cactus or M+ Powder, M+ Pincer, M+ Antennae, L+ Magnet
* Secondary Build: 5 bubbles, 2 M+ Lights, M+ Cactuses for the other 3 petal slots
* How it works: Pincers slow down Beetles, Rock does good damage, Leaf for heals and damage, Antennae and Magnet are self explanatory, Cactus for if you get hit by Ultra Beetle and Powder for outrunning Beetles if needed, and Iris for poison damage.
* Strengths: Beetles Scorpions and Cactus
* Weaknesses: Hordes of mobs and Mythic Sandstorms as they have good body damage
* Variations: Add Third eye instead of Antennae or Magnet. Use Wings instead of Rocks and Iris for Sandstorms as they need to be dealt with from a distance. Use Lightning instead of Rocks or Iris to deal With Hordes.
* Tips: If you don't have a M+ Iris use a faster to increase rotation speed.
* Author: Florr.io Nerd