Captain Abilities

 Here's a list of all captain abilities, how they work, and what they're useful for.


Captain Mercury

"Destroy block on collision." This captain effectively gives you up to five extra lives. When you hit a block with your ship, rather than failing the level, the block is destroyed and you get to keep going. Mercury is the cheapest captain, so he is very useful to get through missions with ease. There are many missions that you can pass with Mercury without firing a single bullet. His ability can also be helpful in tiers mode, giving you more chances for your crit mods to activate.


 Captain Venus

"Discount on rank promotion." In terms of raw damage in long term gameplay, Venus is the best. Her ability gives you up to a 25% discount on her rank upgrades, which can add up very quickly. As her ability only contributes to damage, she is useful in every mode and situation.


Captain Earth

"Increased captain abilities." Earth's ability upgrades the stats above this ability. In early gameplay, this is great for a quick boost in damage and for farming some YS. Later in the game, Earth is best used with the greed burst custom ship chunk, as his ability also increases the max greed multiplier.


Captain Mars

"Discount in shop." Gives up to a 25% discount on mods. Early in the game this makes mods affordable a little sooner. Once mods hit 9223P in cost, Mars is absolutely necessary to buy any more mods. Using his ability, you can buy as many mods as you want.


Captain Jupiter

"Lower minimum, faster maximum ship speed." If your ship is at the bottom of the screen, Jupiter's ability makes the stage take up to 50% longer. At the top of the screen, your ship will now travel 50% faster. Jupiter is very useful in tiers. If you have a good build and are one shotting every block, you can use her ability to go through tiers even faster. If you are pushing difficult tiers, her ability will give you 50% more time to destroy the blocks in the way. Jupiter's ability is useless in waves.


Captain Sacturn

"Chance to damage all blocks with 20% of damage." Up to a 1% chance to damage every block in the stage, but only at 20% of the bullet's damage. Stacks well with pierce, bounce mods, and rapid fire, as every impact has a chance to proc. Does not stack well with AOE. His ability is very useful for farming, as you can almost instantly clear stages, with some luck. His ability can also be extremely powerful late game with certain builds and a lot of patience.


Captain Uranus

"Interest on money per successful flight." Gives up to 1.1% of your current money after completing a level. You should buy this captain as soon as possible, as his ability makes farming money much faster. Mission 29 is likely the best place to use him at. Uranus becomes useless at high tiers, as you will eventually be able to earn absurd amounts of money from destroying blocks.


Captain Neptune

"Chance for 2x YS." Up to a 25% chance to earn twice as much YS. This includes the YS from "chance per flight" as well as YS from yellow dot stages on tiers. This ability effectively gives you 25% more YS, which makes it great for farming relatively low tiers.

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  1. TJSeptember 28, 2021 at 2:01 AM

    How to chenge captain to another. I bought first and there is nowhere any button to buy another one.

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    1. UnknownNovember 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM

      To buy another one, it's in the purple $ menu then the sub-menu with a bunch of up-arrow symbols, "^" (3rd from the left).

      To switch to a different captain, it's the orange pilot seat menu (second from right, between the yellow square menu and cyan missions menu buttons), and select one of the planetary symbols for the captain you've bought. Whichever captain when you switch to a different menu is your active captain.

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