Grounded: Every Mutation Ranked (and How to Unlock Them)

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In this video I discuss every mutation in Grounded and how to unlock them.

0:00 Intro & Lil Fist
1:18 Chopper
1:50 Smasher
2:28 Javelineer
3:18 Assassin
3:47 Sharpshooter
4:38 Barbarian
5:44 Blademaster
6:46 Whittle Wizard
7:55 Parry Master
8:49 Meat Shield
9:39 Buff Lungs
10:23 Daredevil
11:11 Grass Master
11:44 Rock Cracker
12:24 Ant-nihilator
13:21 Coup De Grass
15:21 Juicy
16:27 Natural Explorer
17:20 Merteen
18:21 Cardio Fan
19:36 Reliable Friend
20:05 Fresh Defense
20:50 Spicy Safety
21:39 Mom Genes
22:22 Mithridatism
23:11 Truffle Tussle
23:46 Guard Dog
24:29 Trapper Peep.r
25:48 Mansterious Stranger
26:32 Apex Predator
27:52 Corporate Kickback
28:28 Shocking Dismissal

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[carterchampagne]

I wish all of these statistics were in the game somewhere instead of just the vague descriptions

[allanbriggs]

Javelineer is VERY useful if you have throwing spears alongside your main spears. It wrecks things. The only downside is finding those thrown spears afterwards lol

[bigfuzzy]

The chopper is awesome very early when all you have is an ax. The shocking dismissal is great in boss fights while being attacked by several enemies, the blast will hit them all. Couple buff lungs with explorer and aphid slippers and you'll fly across the map

[Mosi_L]

Blademaster got updated, to where it is VERY good, at tier 3, it reduces your exhaustion timer by 90%

[narwhalsever]

everybody needs to know that if you have 1 mutation slot left and you’re using widows fang or spider fang dagger, MOM GENES OVER ASSASSIN ALWAYS, the bleed doesn’t mean as much on those weapons as they already do poison, but mom genes buffs said poison and also summons spiderlings incredibly fast due to their high attack rates. also, spiderlings are incredibly useful against any hard-hitting enemy as not only can they distract them, but even if they don’t distract them they will still end up getting in the way and fully blocking an attack for you (a very noble sacrifice)

[jeremyjedlicka]

Cardio fan was actually pretty easy and quick to unlock and max. Keep your hunger low so it keeps your stamina bar maxed at 50%. Then chop or use a bow. takes about 3 hits to deplete stamina, rinse and repeat.

[jefferylewis]

It's sad to see so many mutations have such a low chance of actually doing anything. And sometimes for a very mediocre effect when they actually activate.

[ill_steal_your_pbj]

For cardio fan, you can just spam heavy weapons and blocking. It counts for draining your stamina bar and you can do it basically instantly over and over as soon as you get a club or even a hammer.

[TheNinjaman]

daredevil actually just allows for a "cap" of fall damage to be reached. you can fall from unlimited distance, and it will only hurt you so much. and it stacks with Gnatchos fall defense buff too! if i need to post a clip, lemme know.

[Godeias]

I just beat the game, so now I'm finally looking up tips and things I missed. I used Chopper through the entire game and now find out it was basically useless lol

[Thetravelingmonke]

26:11 gotta love the reference to the mysterious stranger perk from fallout

[Some_Dude]

Just a heads up assassin in my opinion is one of the best builds becuase with lvl 1 assassin you will always inflect bleed that does 30 dmg over 5 seconds but at max lvl it does 75 dmg as well as lowers enemy’s resistance to bleed by 25% put that with the black widow dagger late game or wolf spider dagger for the venom makes most things easy to kill

[calGunslinger]

Wow I didn't realise how underwhelming the stagger effect for Chopper actually is, it's just a little animation effect that interrupts the target. About the only enemies this would be useful against are ones with big wind-ups like the stinkbug or bombadier, to maximise your chances of actually interrupting something useful when the effect procs. Other bugs like spiders it would be VERY risky to try and interrupt their combos or wind-ups unless you're exceptionally good at blocking.
I'd even go as far as saying this mutation might be kind of broken, since it would explain my experience of spiders and larva occasionally dropping straight into another attack sequence as the stagger could interrupt their "move around and wait a bit" sequence.

[ButtyBoyB]

Reliable friend is the best. Through the dangerous trenches in the haze, the dark, eerie undershed, and the underground maze-like dungeons, it is nice to know that your reliable friends have your back in the dangerous adventure through the yard.

[ChoTiK]

Don't underestimate a full fist build.
Fire Ant armor/boots + broodmother helmet + Fire Ant Shield
Power Droplet (More fist damage + fists inherit all weapon mutations that are equipped such as Assassin and so on)
Lil Fist
Truffle Tussle
Coup De Grass
Assassin
Whatever other mutation (PEEP.R for better crit damage, Chopper for extra staggers on top of Coup De Grass, or a block effect like Shocking Dismissal or Parry Master, whatever)

This build = fists that do decent starting damage, can lower enemy defense and also has high % chance stacking damage buffs + crits, adds multiple dots with bleed, poison and explosive AoE poison clouds, and another AoE crit variant via infected explosions, and then has an extra mutation slot for whatever else you want on top of that. Fists have only decent damage but attack speed close to, though more stamina usage, as daggers - but with these stacking effects fights can snowball unbelievably fast in your favor.

One of my favorite builds (I call it Petey Marciano, Rocky Marciano reference) alongside Candalf (The usual Whittle Wizard mutation + some complimentary ones, Wizard Hat + Ox armor/legs for the charge speed, usually Compliance Badge just because I am a parry beast and I love the heals even after the nerf, but whatever you want).

[kingmasterlord]

Chopper isn't a combat mutation, but alongside Grassmaster you're gonna be doing single-hit harvesting

[Darkendragon]

something that should be noted is that mom genes and I believe the mysterious stranger, they are summoned on the enemy when you attack and when you block or at least it seems to summon on blocks as well. but the fact that they summon on attack means if you use a bow, they will be summoning at the enemy's position, making them great distractions to help you kite them. I really want to try to build a summoner archer build where I use the moth set, with both summons and the brood mother trinket. where I can just keep shooting, summoning units to help distract them and the summons applying lots of stacks of poison. sadly I haven't gotten many of them so I dont know how viable it is, but in theory it sounds pretty fun.

[spee]

Thanks for the info I've been using a lot of the mutations that suck thinking they were benefiting me when I could have used the other better mutations.

[thymerhemann]

I'm devastated. I just found out that parry master doesn't increase the window for perfect blocks anymore. I've still been using it instead of actually useful mutations because I have grub armor rn.

[Gunthersby]

I'm noticing a lot of the mutations in the video have been changed; chopper gets armor sundering and removing exhaustion timer, sharpshooter now massively reduces stamina drain on sprinting and unlocks bonuses for different arrows, and blademaster lowers enemy attack and removes your exhaustion timer