The COMPLETE ARMOR COMPARISON GUIDE! | Hypixel Skyblock

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Published 2024-03-08
Armor upgrades can be quite confusing in Hypixel Skyblock, as most people will tell you to go down the traditional shadow assassin route, despite there being a handful of other options. Due to the meta being extremely overpowering and the lack of information on other sets, I've decided to piece together this non-dungeon comparison, because this way, we can properly determine if shadow assassin truly lives up to the hype, or if it's highly overrated. I'll be putting this up to the test alongside a handful of other popular armor sets and comparing their costing, requirements, survivability, damage and versatility.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Important Details & Video Structure
2:45 What makes a GOOD Armor Set?
4:05 Costing & Requirements
8:22 Gear & Stats Used for Testing
10:39 Survivability Tests
15:50 Damage Tests
20:06 Armor Value Analysis
28:55 Which Armor Should You Buy?
31:13 Outro

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All Comments (21)
  • @ModernSoldier
    A couple of things to note that I left out of the video: - Pricing will be slightly off as of 01/03/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY). This is because of the recent changes to the end island, which is currently released on the alpha network and is yet to be released to the main game. This has drastically artificially inflated ALL dragon prices, so the pricing in this video will be cheaper than what you see right now, in game. Once this update is actually released and the game has time to settle down, the pricing should eventually go back to normal and be more accurate to this video. - Renowned Superior gives 32,564 EHP instead of the 26,346 that Ancient Superior gives. Renowned is more expensive though, and it has a 20% gap compared to Shadow Assassin instead of 10%, so generally I wouldn't say it's worth it bc now you're overcompensating EHP, while losing out on damage
  • @turnatle
    Bro, after taking a break for 2.5 years, your videos have made my life so much easier. Holy. They are perfect. 0 Yap, simple, easy to understand, and information packed. They also go super deep into detail.
  • Thank you modern! I just finished the minion progression guide and the weapon! And now Iā€™m watching the armor progression!
  • @lightified3815
    15:30 this guy really thought of every variable for testing. Huge props for doing everything that Iā€™ve wanted other YTers to do when testing items
  • @gautham5192
    Thank you for listening to your comments man. Last video i commented on an armour progression guide and u did it. if u can create some videos on ironman profile Anyways great video with amazing editing yet again:goodvibes:
  • @willemsamuel4068
    You never covered the best early game setup. The best early game setup is to start by building a cobblestone generator and mining cobble until you have a leg rock pet. That will get you you to 15m. Use the 15m to buy full strong dragon, an aspect of the end, and a warped stone. total cost, only about 8m. Now you can either go do a few commissions (mining xp is way easier to get than when we started) or you can find a random with mining 26 (or you can buy off ah for an extra 5m). In another video you said the best early game sword is aspect of the dragons. Combining your mixed setup with the aspect of the dragons costs you 9m and you get 225 damage, 186 strength and 76 crit damage. You can add an extra 60 strength and 40 crit damage with fabled for an extra 1m. With a warped aspect of the end and strong dragon you will have 340 damage, 365 strength and 150 intel for only 8m. If you include the dragonfuse glove and it brings mixed cost up to 19m and increases damage by 35 and strength by 50, still nowhere near enough to catch up with the aspect, which again is less than half the price. Plus if you want, you can spend 5m to upgrade it to an AotV for an extra 20 damage, and you could buy a rare enderman pet (for practically free) or an epic enderman (for just a few hundred coins) for 40 or 50 extra damage for 5 seconds after teleporting (pretty easy to just right click the ground every 5 seconds. I believe all of those numbers are correct, but feel free to reply with corrections and I'll edit if they aren't. This would make this the cheapest set (besides plain dragon with an aspect of the dragons) and better than practically everything on this list, for melee and lcm. I really hope you or other people see this comment, cus I never here anyone talking about it, but this setup is so good.
  • @ThePrettiestDuc
    Just before anyone says smt about epic blaze pet, yes, it does give the armor Stat buff still, BUT the damage will only be equal to necrons, not better. The 40% buff nolonger affects damage stats, so all the extra damage comes from the legendary 2x potato books.
  • @firestar9423
    for those who want to know as of 7/22/2024, unstable dragon armor is 2.1mil and strong dragon armor is 3.2mil (both cheapest combined prices on AH)
  • @xvzwm
    ive been looking for this for so longgg thank you
  • @TanJunKaiAvenChs
    Hey bro i love your guides Recommendations for future guides: armor progression inside and outside of dungeons and how to spend your coins wisely. Keep up the good work!!
  • @risoix
    In my opinion for the necron set you could have used a lion pet to make the comparison more fair since lion's price is similar to blaze and it is better than wither skeleton. But other than that, this video is pretty good and helpful for newer players. Keep up the good workšŸ‘
  • @underlinehd16
    Nah the quality of this video is something else... I don't see many YTrs making videos on Hypixel Skyblock but I'm sure u are 1 of the bests... Love ur video
  • @user-cutes
    Really love your edit best SkyBlock ytb
  • @377GhrHello
    Ow, this video hurt me so much. My first major armour set was unstable dragon, but i upgraded straight into full shadow assassin when it was the price of nercon and instantly soulbounded it when museum came out... and acrodding to how things went in the video....
  • I remember when some of these sets were late game lmao crazy times