9 Kings

9 Kings

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How to beat King difficulty /w King of Greed
By Milkyway
   
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Intro
This guide explains how I built a powerful start using Dispensers to dominate early rounds and ensure victory.

The plan is simple: quickly buff one or two Dispensers so the enemies are no match for the sheer amount of firepower.
Perk Setup
When picking Greed, make sure you have:

  • At least 3 levels in the Planner perk



  • 2 levels in the Oligarch perk


These perks help you scale economy and upgrades quickly.
Early Game Strategy
When the match starts, make sure a Dispenser is one of the first cards placed. This ensures it gets the most possible stacks of shooting speed for the round.

The early waves are manageable since your base laser can one-shot most enemies. Focus on maximizing your gold income so the Dispenser becomes fast enough to hold the line effectively.

Fountain Usage & Upgrade Path

Here’s what I did:

  • Upgrade the Dispenser to at least level 3
  • Throw every card into the Fountain (except some Vaults)
  • Use Mortgage whenever you can on useless units
  • Check if your first Policy grants x3 gold when cards are thrown into the Fountain — this helps a lot with turret speed


For damage boosts, watch for:

  • Quarry (from King of Stone)
  • Blacksmith (from King of Nothing)
Using the Planner Perk
The Planner perk is great for accelerating Dispenser upgrades. You may lose 1–2 lives early on, but it’s a worthwhile tradeoff for faster scaling.
Additional tips
When encoutering the King of Progress you can also grab 1 Converter for easy defending during the early phases.

That’s how I did it. Hope this guide helps you steamroll midgame waves with the Dispensers!

Extra Info/Tips (Community Insights)
As for feedback for the guide ive concluded some additional info here:

  • Play on 1x speed – attack speed scales with FPS → [CSGOD] MELV1N
  • Fully upgrade one Dispenser before building another → Azrael47
  • Stack the Salvage perk for massive gold gain → Zodimanc, Azrael47
  • Gambling perk gives 2 random Kingdom cards instead of choosing → Azrael47
  • Abuse Palace upgrades + Beacons for instakill DPS → ThetaDelta12
  • Spend lives for gold – works great with Salvage stacking → Zodimanc
12 Comments
Bregader 1 Jun @ 7:05am 
little tip about the palace from king of greed: Build the speed pylon as early as possible behind the palace. This will buff the speed of the beam attack reloading. it is possible to spam it the whole time in later game stages
༺Venix5༻ 1 Jun @ 6:29am 
doesn´t work
Killerdoll 31 May @ 1:35am 
not mentioned but also using beacons and the overclock decree helps a lot, especially if you are trying to get a lot of dispensers
Killerdoll 31 May @ 1:32am 
The tip from @[CSGOD]MELV1N is insane
Azrael47 30 May @ 6:56pm 
Getting this setup took me 1H30m to get the right plays, i managed to get SALVAGE 3 times, and got the GAMBLING perk too (you get 2 random cards from kingdom instead of choosing)

what i found helpful is to focusing on upgrading a DISPENSER fully, before making another one.

thank you for the guide MILKYWAY!!
ThetaDelta12 30 May @ 3:43pm 
Even with high speed I found the Dispenser to be lacking in DPS, perhaps I'll have to give this strategy another attempt. I found abusing Beacons w/ early Palace upgrades to get instakill DPS was more effective.
ITS TIME 29 May @ 12:40pm 
[h1] For people not being able to beat it even with the correct setup: [/h1]

Play on 1x speed

Attack speed is directly tied to your FPS, so lowering the speed will give your more frames and your dispenser will shoot more units.
Ceza3x 28 May @ 12:34am 
would love to see a video, doesn't get me through duke even with salvage x3 (248 gold per card)
I'm pretty sure attack speed is bugged in the game
zig 27 May @ 11:27am 
thanks, helped me beat Duke :OhSure:
Milkyway  [author] 27 May @ 3:51am 
Thanks for the input!
Sometimes I used Mercenary as well, but the problem was that when I was too late in setting up my dispenser, it couldn’t get enough shooting power for midgame. The Mercenaries are great, but not for this kind of build.