The current data supports Lanny's coin and growth identity. It does not give us a measured answer for how many coins a successful run should hold at each stage, or whether her ceiling beats a direct damage Hunter. This page therefore focuses on the decision rule that makes the economy useful.
The economy has to buy something
Lanny's trap is easy to describe: a growing wallet feels like progress even when the run is losing fights. The correct loop has three parts. Earn coins, spend them on an upgrade that strengthens the current weapon or survival line, then keep enough reserve for the next shop or emergency choice. If the second step never happens, the economy has become a score rather than a build.
That makes Lanny a strong teaching route for opportunity cost. Every economy pickup occupies a slot that could have been damage, reload, or defense. Take the coin engine when it changes what you can buy; pass on it when the next boss is already the immediate problem.
Working skill order
- Lanny's Piggy Bank: establish the income loop before paying for more ambitious growth.
- Little Makes Mickle: compound small gains only when the run can survive the setup period.
- Sustainable Operation: keep the economy from collapsing into a single lucky purchase.
This is a working order, not a measured tier list. A direct survival skill can jump ahead of the second economy pick. The pool below is rendered from the same generated data used by the planner.
| Skill | Current route note | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lanny's Piggy Bank | Builds the coin reserve. | cross-checked |
| Little Makes Mickle | Compounds small gains. | needs-testing |
| Sustainable Operation | Keeps the economy loop stable. | needs-testing |
| All or Nothing | Lanny's signature gamble window: for several seconds your final damage doubles while incoming damage also spikes sharply. As a build anchor it defines a burst archetype — everything else in his tree either extends, safens or further loads this window, so take it expecting to invest more picks into it. | cross-checked |
| Big Winner | Converts each [Trading Expert] trigger into an exclusive forge-anywhere relic whose shatter payout permanently stacks [Ember], [Growth] and [Armor]. For build planning this makes repeated trading a long-term stat snowball rather than a one-off shopping trip — strongest in coin-rich runs that trigger trading often. | cross-checked |
| Buy Safety | Repeatable death insurance funded by your wallet, with the price doubling per use. Unlike the once-per-run alternative it can save you multiple times, but it quietly competes with [Trading Expert] for the same coins — a rich economy build carries it easily, a spend-everything build weakens it. | cross-checked |
Weapon choice
Use a weapon you can operate consistently. Vintage Musket is a reasonable anchor because its firing pattern is easy to read and it leaves room for the economy to do work. A slower weapon with a larger paper number is not automatically better if it stops the run from clearing ordinary rooms.
Choose the element that your early relics already support. Physical feeds Hemorrhage, Frost feeds Freeze, Lightning feeds Disruption, Acid feeds Corrosion, and Fire feeds Ignition. Lanny benefits from a stable element because the economy is already asking the run to spend attention elsewhere.
Where to spend the lead
Spend first on the bottleneck that is causing lost rooms. If the gun is waiting on reloads, buy uptime. If bosses live too long, buy a direct damage channel. If the run is taking unavoidable hits, buy survival. Only buy another economy piece when the current reserve can already turn that piece into a concrete advantage.
War Horn is a useful Embarkation direction when the run already values permanent growth. Magician's Hat is the cleaner support when reload downtime is what keeps the shop purchases from mattering. The Empress can make dismantling more attractive, but it is only valuable when items are actually flowing through the dismantle loop.
Three signs to stop scaling
- The next boss is close and your current damage cannot clear the room safely. Buy power or defense now.
- You have a reserve but no meaningful shop purchase available. Save the slot for an effect that fixes the run instead of padding the wallet.
- Your economy is growing while your health is shrinking. A dead wallet has no value, however impressive the number looks.
Lanny's fallback is a generalist weapon route with one economy engine and a real defensive line. If the run never offers the second half of the plan, do not keep collecting growth tags out of loyalty to the original blueprint.
Open the Lanny route in the planner
Evidence boundary
The coin, economy, and skill relationships are sourced from the normalized and curated planner data. Exact income breakpoints, fastest clear claims, and any DPS ranking remain needs-testing. See how evidence is labeled before using a community tier as a fact.