Played one match with Dooley. Dooley vs Pyg/Venessa is the hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby meme.
Decided fuck it, I'll finally try Dooley. Based on almost always losing to it days 2-5 chose the burning core. Knowing very little about his items or skills I put random fire bullshit on the right and quick bullshit on the left. If an item had a higher burn number and lower or similar CD it replaced the old fire bullshit with the new. Similarly, if an item on the left had a lower CD or multicast, it replaced old quick bullshit.
Didn't upgrade any other items except the core and the burn ray (once). Almost always fought the hardest NPC fight, barely considered the positioning of my items and at one point I was autopiloting so much I started choosing the wrong vendors.
Result: a perfect run.
Maybe some Dooley experts will say that many of the items are perfect and I got lucky, which is certainly possible. However, even the most perfect Pyg/Venessa builds were never this effortless. It's a shame that multiple patches in a row, Dooley feels miles ahead of the other characters. I mean, if you want chests, coins, and skins, why play anyone else?
Anyways, fuck Dooley, all my homies hate Dooley, and shout out to my fellow Pyg/Venessa enjoyers. We're basically running a marathon with broken kneecaps.