Route purpose
Ability-scaling poison, Stinger routing, and ranged uptime. This route wins by applying damage safely and letting status ticks finish what raw burst cannot.
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Poison Trickster public records: 15. Starting genetic coverage is 5/15, and numeric result coverage is 7/15. The most repeated related routes are Poisonous Saliva, Spit, Stinger.
Ability-scaling poison, Stinger routing, and ranged uptime. This route wins by applying damage safely and letting status ticks finish what raw burst cannot.
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daniladriki's Russian result card records a Pressure 10 poison-tagged run eradicated at EX6: 0 minutes after completing Extinction 5, with level 154, 1,141,714 damage, 1,194 kills, 21,692 damage taken, 1,343 mutagen, and 72 POIs.
Read guideAn August 5 screenshot from a first Endless run shows level 403 at Pressure 10 Extinction 8 with 999 Max HP, 999 Social, 865.9 Physical, 411.6 Ability, 438 Plating, 75% Dodge, and 452% attack area. The player reports roughly 10,000-damage Body Slams and about 1,500 damage per poison tick.
Read guideA July 25 Steam discussion comment adds a fresh long-run poison benchmark: Pressure 20 carried into Endless 10 with Snout poison scaling, Shifty and Overwhelm support, roughly 13k to 16k total damage on the visible estimate, 3k poison ticks, and more than 134 plating.
Read guideA July 21 Steam discussion logs a first-try Pressure 20 clear from Kronos and adds one useful live checkpoint: poison still looks like the dominant build family, while Body Slam or tank-style shells can still carry wins.
Read guideA July 9 Reddit post documents a small-body poison build that reached a first Extinction attempt before dying after popping out of Burrow while eating Krabken, with public text explicitly naming Pollinator, Tentacles, Slither, a poison Antlers plus Snout shell, low-cooldown Slide, and mushroom POIs for extra poison ticks.
Read guideA June 20 Reddit result post logs a first Endless unlock run that pivoted from an unfinished poison plan into quills plus Body Slam, farmed the sea-serpent boss for levels, reached 999 HP, and reported about 400 quill damage plus about 200 Body Slam hits.
Read guideA June 10 higher-pressure discussion records a Pressure 20 clear built around Sprint, tiny size, about 80 HP, a strong Spawn of Chaos opening roll, an early Golden Tail Stinger, dodge stacking, and upgraded Reach.
Read guideA June 1 screenshot-backed Pressure 7 clear turns a Pacifist plus Expert start into a poison-fed HP engine: Slow Metabolism accelerates evolutions, triple Golden Hump scales health, and Forager keeps the health-food loop running.
Read guideA June Reddit Build Master post records a poison-focused Endless run that reached Extinction 10, where Toxic Sequestration plus Poisonous Saliva and Spit were ticking for about 1100-1500 damage on normal enemies and about 600 on bosses.
Read guideA player who cleared all pressures reports that most wins, including Pressure 20, leaned aggressive, usually toward ability builds that could also go full crab.
Read guideA source-linked Pressure 10 clear that continued into Extinction 16, using Spawn of Chaos, Beak or Spit pressure, Tail, Hump, Leech, Nomadic POI routing, and extreme speed scaling.
Read guideA level 305 Extinction 12 screenshot report with legendary-tier evolution planning, Poisonous Saliva plus Virulent scaling, 3.2M damage, 2112 kills, and 551 POIs.
Read guideA Japanese post-clear note says Pressure 20 stopped rewarding big-body brute force and instead favored Ruminant economy, mushroom XP, poison uptime, terrain adaptation, Wings, and burrow-style final-boss survival.
Read guideA screenshot-backed endless run reached Extinction 5 at level 311 with Body Slam over 7k, poison ticks over 700, 3.8 million damage dealt, 2300+ kills, and 136 POIs.
Read guideA screenshot-backed Pressure 10 clear credits an early Venom Sting pickup, making it a compact poison-route example for players searching Pressure 10 and Sting/Stinger builds.
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