Yes but, once you get the mid-tier maxed out (good to do first if you don't mind 1/5 failure chance), you can get all of 'em in 1-2 battles, then you can max out reliability and just spam tier 3s for an easy final fight.
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That's an inherently flawed combination by nature, hex and shrink ray both do flat damage whereas splitter does percentage based damage, and since balls have more health based on how small they are you want the higher/percentage based damage for the higher health balls. Otherwise I'd say splitter on micro and hex on meter, just cuz hex kinda sucks
You're certainly right that only advantage items would make the game too easy, right now it's hard but not unwinable (is that a word?) it's just that I've played it quite a bit and without having a lot more or more interesting items there's not much replayability. Also, are you going to make starting shapes? Like if you kill 500 triangles you get a fast character with low health, or killing bombs gives you high health but only contact damage? Adding unlocks would massively increase replayability. Again, I do love the game and I've been playing it for months now, please don't massively change it, aesthetic and core gameplay are very well-made.
I love the synergies but I absolutely hate all the tradeoff items, there are very few situations in which I would take any of them. Items with downsides are fun like poison, but tradeoffs like damage up for a firerate down seem pointless when you could just have a damage up. Maybe add more mechanically interesting items like the piercing, bouncing and OT damage? These kinds of items are my favourites. Maybe enemies explode into bullets or just enemies explode on death, or maybe shocking bullets to complement the ice and fire bullets? Once you've established a larger and consistent playerbase these more technical items that synergise will become established metas, and at that point some of the small-time roguelike Let's Players like Ailensrock and Sifd might pick this up. It's got a lot of potential. Also, love the artstyle and the pixelation option, simpler art styles always lend themselves more to roguelikes and make the game mechanics seem more refined.