A detailed video guide and transcript on how you can run the Reverse Orb Devo strategy for increased coins in the game and being 100% AFK.
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This video guide and my journey with Reverse Orb Devo builds on the great work by False Hope whom I have had many great discussions with and his work with the The Reverse Orb Devo Strategy. Be sure to check that out. This video (and transcript below) is my take on Reverse Orb Devo. — J Plays
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Hey, this is J Plays, and today we’re back with another Tower Guide, and today we’ll discuss the Reverse Orb Devo strategy.
So as someone who is well-known for running various Orb Devo strategies, and who have created several guides on this in the past, such as Orb Devo Guide for Increased Coin Gain & Progression and FreeUp Orbless to X Strategy where I did FreeUp Orbless to Orb Devo, it may come as less of a surprise to some that I’m next creating a guide on another orb devo approach - and this one focused on a late-game strategy.
Before we start, if you are less than 1 quadrillion in LTC, you’re probably better off checking the Orb Devo Guide, and if you haven’t unlocked all Ultimate Weapons yet, you may be better off checking the FreeUp Orbless guide. But feel free to continue watching to learn more about what the future may have in store for you though.
So today, we’ll be covering Reverse Orb Devo, or Swirly Orb Devo, as it is also known as.
So first of all, what is it?!
Well, Reverse Orb Devo is a late game Sync farming strategy that uses permanent Chrono Field (CF) and Chrono Loop (CF+) to hoard enemies outside Tower Range which later will be killed during the Black Hole (BH) activation by Orbs.
The way that this strategy works is with the powerful slow effects from CF and CF+ and the synergy it holds with other forms of Crowd Control.
Enemies will make a slow entry towards and otuside of your Tower Range and this cycle ends once Black Hole (BH) activates and pulls them into your orb line, killing the enemies.
What this achieves is preventing enemies from being killed by your tower until your econ Ultimate Weapons (UWs) and Golden Bot (GB) all activate together for massive coin gains.
The concept for the strategy works in a similar way to regular Orb Devo, except in reverse (hoarding outside tower range instead of on your wall or tower). That is why the strategy is usually referred to as Reverse Orb Devo.
Note that for most of the time in this guide, it will will assume that you are approaching Reverse Orb Devo as Glass Cannon - but it is worth keeping in mind that it can also be achieved as eHP or Hybrid, and I will cover relevant variations when relevant in relation to such. But you can assume that the default and main build that you want to aspire for with this is a Glass Cannon approach.
PS! When I refer to Glass Cannon I basically mean a build where you in theory could run at 1 hp and it wouldn’t have differed or impacted the performance of your run. Because you are not taking enemy hits and you rely on energy shield and cc to survive towards the end of your runs.