I found a new starting build for rats. You need to prep Burn Salve + Bear Mace(optional) + Platemail + Binlor(mainly for PISORF, and is an alternative approach for getting knockback), and scum for 1st tower Golden Statue. The Platemail prevents incoming damage from Golden Statue and it has double health, so you can use it as a superior cueball. With PISORF and BURNDAYRAZ, it's very easy to kill a lv8 foe as a lv1 character. The main concern is actually healing the cueball, consuming quitamuch blackspaces. At this moment you are not afraid of Binlor's punishment. If the map layout allows or you find WEYTWUT, you can maybe kill all the lv8 guys without getting hit.
I'm not quite sure I can build enough resistances, but at least the beginning was possible. Hmmm... interesting. If someone succeeds to do this, he or she would win the 'Cheekiest Wins' VGT Olympics medal.
Maybe, the scum should target Golden Statue + Pactmaker level, and you kill one lv8, get to lv5, start to avoid punishment & build resistances through body pact while killing other lv8s. Still the exploration space seems to be too much, but who knows.
I'm also thinking about punishment-ish runs. For example, multiple punishments from Mystera, Taurog and TT are not a concern for a rat. So, maybe it's possible to play a run under thousands of punishments. Let's say I go for Taurog+body pact with a rat. My piety is always zero, but after I kill something my piety is 4. So I can hit something once to trigger a body pact. Then my piety goes back to zero, and I can freely use my glyphs. Oh well I can't convert to Dracul? Nevermind. Well anyway.
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I'm amused that I occasionally find some new builds around. There's some original builds I have found, like "Maximum CP Goblin Transmuter with GG" or "CYDSTEPPless Vine Form based Rat Monarch double bosskill" (though double bosskill itself is not my original) or... did anyone tried Blood Curse based assassinate combo? Inventing new power builds is always fun.