How Many Dudes? Suit Dude DPS Build Guide

To run an effective Suit Dude damage build in How Many Dudes?, place your suited units in the deep rear behind cheap melee blockers and scale their damage with attack speed, flat damage, and critical strike modifiers. Suited units specialize in rapid, high-velocity projectile damage against single targets and straight lines. Because they lack defensive durability and wide area-of-effect coverage, they rely on a protected frontline to melt bosses and elite waves without taking direct aggro.

Formation Setup

Suited units have low base health pools and will quickly collapse if forced into melee combat. Position your squad using three distinct depth layers:

Frontline: Deploy durable blockers, such as brawlers or club wielders, at the front of your grid to absorb incoming wave aggro and intercept charging enemies.
Midline: Place secondary crowd-control or utility units directly behind the frontline to slow down fast-moving threats.
Backline: Position your suited shooters in the center-rear lanes so they maintain unobstructed firing angles across the board.

Keeping your shooters separated from the enemy advance prevents them from wasting volleys on adjacent melee targets instead of advancing priority threats.

Shop Progression and Milestones

Avoid rerolling heavily during the opening rounds. Float your gold to maximize round interest, buying suited units as they appear naturally while maintaining defensive stability.

Round Phase	Primary Objective	Unit and Relic Priorities
Rounds 1–10	Survival & Foundation	Buy baseline suited units; recruit cheap melee blockers to absorb swarms.
Rounds 11–25	Synergy Consolidation	Reroll for duplicate suited units; pick flat damage and attack speed relics.
Rounds 26+	End-Game Scaling	Secure critical strike and armor penetration; reinforce frontline defenses.

After Round 10, spend accumulated gold to consolidate unit duplicates. Upgrading suited units raises their base firing rate and projectile count. If the shop fails to offer unit duplicates, pick up general ranged stat increases rather than switching to an unrelated archetype.

Relic and Stat Priorities

Because suited units hit rapidly with individual ballistic shots, additive and multiplier relics scale their output quickly:

Attack Speed: Serves as the primary scaling engine by multiplying base projectile output per round.
Flat Damage: Enhances rapid-fire volleys significantly, as each individual bullet benefits from the flat bonus.
Critical Hit Chance: Converts high-volume volleys into sustained burst damage against high-health mini-bosses.
Armor Shred and Pierce: Prevents late-round armored enemies from negating low-base-damage bullet volleys.
Status Procs (Knockback, Bleed, Ricochet): Triggers frequently off high fire rates, staggering advancing packs while draining enemy health pools.

Handling Late-Game Swarms and Bosses

High-density swarms pose the greatest risk to this setup because suited units fire in narrow lines rather than wide damage radiuses. To protect against swarm rushes, recruit at least one dedicated slow or freeze support unit. This crowd control stalls the enemy vanguard long enough for your backline to eliminate targets sequentially.

During late-game boss fights, monitor summon spawns closely. If minion waves draw your suited units' aim away from the boss, position knockback relics or secondary frontline blockers to keep the boss centered in your primary line of fire.