To build Oli effectively in Otherworld Legends, equip Oli’s Flying Fish as both your primary and secondary skill, gather scrap parts from destructible objects and basic strikes, and build around follower-oriented items like Share Machine. This setup automatically deploys tracking drones that engage enemies from range, keeping Oli mobile and safe from close-quarters damage.
Core Skill Configuration
Assigning Flying Fish to both the primary and secondary skill slots removes the bottleneck of waiting on a single summon cooldown, allowing you to reach maximum drone capacity quickly.
- Primary Skill: Oli’s Flying Fish. Choose a style upgrade that increases drone projectile output or equips missile munitions.
- Secondary Skill: Oli’s Flying Fish. Stagger the activation of your secondary slot immediately after the primary slot to consume gathered scrap and hit your drone cap at the start of a combat room.
Unlike stationary Turrets that restrict fire to a fixed zone, Flying Fish drones hover near Oli, track targets across obstacles, attack flying or shielded enemies, and absorb stray hostile projectiles.
Scrap Management and Room Rotation
Oli requires mechanical scrap parts—nuts and gears yielded by hitting enemies, breaking scenery, or smashing containers—to activate her skills. Running out of scrap halts your ability to replace destroyed drones.
Follow this rotation to keep scrap reserves stable:
- Scavenge the Corridor: Break every vase, crate, and lantern in cleared areas before entering an uncleared room to build a full scrap reserve.
- Engage with Quick Strikes: Land a standard three-hit wrench combo on the nearest enemy to generate initial parts, then immediately dodge back to avoid counterattacks.
- Deploy the Fleet: Activate the primary Flying Fish to spend scrap on the first wave of drones, then trigger the secondary slot to finish capping your summon count.
- Kite While Collecting: Circle the arena while your drones draw target aggro and deal damage. Collect dropped scrap during combat so you can instantly replace any fallen drones.
If scrap runs out during a boss fight, wait for an attack animation to finish before stepping into melee range. Land a quick basic combo to break loose fresh scrap, dodge out, and recast your drones.
Recommended Items
Because Flying Fish drones attack rapidly and act as autonomous minions, Oli gains far more value from follower buffs and on-hit procs than from raw base attack increases.
| Item | Role | Build Synergy |
|---|---|---|
| Share Machine | Summon Core | Transfers your active on-hit item effects directly to all deployed Flying Fish drones. |
| Loupe | Critical Rate | Increases critical strike chance, triggering frequent high-damage spikes through fast drone fire. |
| Crowbar | Follower Buff | Amplifies the base attack power and direct damage dealt by your summons. |
| King Elf / Elemental Elves | Status Effects | Adds independent elemental procs (burn, freeze, shock) to supplement drone damage. |
| Hermes' Shoes | Mobility / Defense | Provides consistent movement speed to dodge floor hazards while your summons attack. |
Share Machine is the top priority in shops or peddler encounters. Once equipped, auxiliary items that trigger elemental burns, freezes, lightning chains, or lifesteal pass to every active drone, enabling the swarm to suppress elite enemies and multi-phase bosses.
Alternative Variant: Armored Suit Mech
Replacing your primary skill with Oli’s Armored Suit changes her playstyle from an evasive summoner into a direct brawler.
- When to use: Dense bullet-hell rooms or high-damage burst encounters where light drones get wiped out by wide area attacks.
- Trade-offs: The suit provides heavy armor plating, sweeping melee attacks, and artillery, but it replaces the standard dodge roll and continuously drains scrap.
- Skill pairing: Pair the Armored Suit with Oli’s Turret in the secondary slot to provide steady covering fire while maneuvering the slower chassis into melee range.
Boss Positioning Rules
Surviving high-difficulty boss arenas requires careful spacing so that stray attacks do not hit Oli while targeting her summons:
- Maintain Triangular Spacing: Never stand directly behind or in line with your drone swarm. Keep the boss at one point of a triangle, your drones at the second point, and Oli moving along the third point to avoid line-of-fire projectiles.
- Perimeter Kiting: Lead aggressive bosses in wide loops along the outer walls of the arena. This keeps the boss circling the edges while your drones maintain continuous fire from the center.
- Collect During Staggers: Pick up dropped scrap parts during boss stagger or transition phases to rebuild depleted drone capacity before the next attack phase starts.
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Good guide for Otherworld Legends players. The strategy part was useful.
The explanation is clear, especially for beginners.
I tried this today and it worked better than my old setup.
This helped me understand strategy much better.