Keep your core alive
Rotbone is the clearest common thread across all four creators’ principal approaches.
Biovore Incursion Guide
Chaos team cores, flex characters, and power-up priorities to help your roster survive the Biovore Incursion.
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Overview
Build for the whole run.
There is no single mandatory Biovore team. Build around roster preservation: use summons to take the hits, Rotbone to sustain your important characters, and a small core that fits the Chaos roster you already have.
Let summons take the hits
Losing a disposable body protects the valuable characters you need in later fights.
Choose your build path
Summons, durable melee, and concentrated investment all have documented examples.
Three Ways to Build for Biovore
Start with the path that fits your account, build around its core heroes, then use flex slots to adapt it.
Summoner
Start hereBuild around your summoning engine.
Core heroes
Rotbone + Abraxas + Yazaghor
Rotbone 
Abrax 
Yaz Flex choices · fit your roster
Ahri 
Archi 
Maladus 
Wrask Ahriman and Archimatos complete Caoryn’s demonstrated five. Maladus or Wrask can bridge toward the sustain and shielding approaches shown below.
How to play
Disposable bodies. A preserved roster.
Create summons with Abraxas, use Yazaghor to reposition him and extend the summoning engine, and let those disposable bodies absorb attacks. Rotbone keeps the actual roster in play. Start with this core, then shape the remaining slots around your account.
Melee / Sustain
Use your melee investmentA durable frontline with room for your strongest partners.
Core heroes
Rotbone + Maladus + Khârn
Rotbone Maladus 
Kharn Flex choices · fit your roster
Abaddon 
Corro 
Pesti Wrask Abaddon, Corrodius, Pestillian, and Wrask are possible partners; choose the melee damage and support your roster can already supply.
How to play
Hold the frontline. Keep it fighting.
Build around Khârn’s melee damage, Rotbone’s healing, and Maladus’s durable frontline. Use the remaining two slots for compatible damage and support from your existing Chaos roster.
Painhawk demonstrates Wrask alongside this trio in one finale, not throughout a full run.
Lower Investment
Concentrate your upgradesA bridge between sustain and summons.
Core heroes
Rotbone + Maladus + Abraxas + Archimatos
Rotbone Maladus Abrax Archi Flex choices · fit your roster
Wrask Wrask adds shielding and is the regular fifth in cpunerd’s Tier 12 approach.
How to play
Survive, summon, shield.
Combine Rotbone’s healing, Maladus’s resilience, Abraxas and Archimatos summons, and Wrask’s shields. Make Havocs part of the route. Concentrate upgrades in the main team while using situational, inexpensive characters to support or soften particular fights.
“Lower Investment” describes the documented approach to concentrating resources. It does not establish the cheapest possible clear or minimum ranks, XP, or ability levels.
Other demonstrated options
Yaz 
Angrax 
Volk Yazaghor, Angrax, and Volk appear as fight-dependent options in the Rare / Tier 10 research. Their presence is not a recommendation to upgrade every supporting character.
Power-Up Priorities
Choose power-ups to support your team and route. The reviewed approaches do not establish one universal pick order.
Summoner
Lifesteal + Extra Hits
Caoryn gives Yazaghor Lifesteal and later Extra Hits at Tier 10. At Tier 13 he uses Extra Hits on Archimatos and Yazaghor. He deliberately avoids Havocs in these runs.
Watch Yazaghor’s Lifesteal pickMelee / Sustain
Extra Hits + Havocs
Ouchkabibbles credits Extra Hits on Maladus and two Havocs. These are publisher descriptions of that approach; they do not establish the pick sequence for every melee team.
See Ouchkabibbles’ finaleLower Investment
Plan around Havocs
Havocs are central to cpunerd’s routes. The partial Tier 10 guide takes Regeneration and Havocs; the Tier 12 finale has three Havocs and Extra Hits on Archimatos.
Watch the Tier 12 Extra Hits pickCompare Extra Hits, Regeneration, Lifesteal, and Havocs
- Extra Hits
- Match the recipient to the approach: Yazaghor / Archimatos in Caoryn’s guides, Maladus in Ouchkabibbles’ descriptions.
- Regeneration
- A documented sustain choice in cpunerd’s partial Tier 10 route. That upload stops during battle 9, so it does not prove a full clear.
- Lifesteal
- Demonstrated on Yazaghor in Caoryn’s Tier 10 guide. Treat that as a specific use case rather than a universal first pick.
- Havocs
- Central to the lower-investment routes, credited by Ouchkabibbles, and deliberately skipped by Caoryn. Team context changes their value.
Rules for Success
Preserve your core
Choose positioning and targets with the next fight in mind. Rotbone is the sustain foundation across these approaches.
Spend summons before heroes
Let disposable bodies absorb enemy pressure wherever the fight allows it.
Keep sacrifices inexpensive
A character used to soften one fight is not automatically an investment target.
Build from your account
Pick the path closest to your existing Chaos strengths; flex slots are choices, not a shopping list.
Favor survival over aggression
Caoryn’s Mythic guide retreats and shields the roster with summons. Even that team has narrow survivals.
Plan your power-ups
Havocs, Extra Hits, and sustain choices are part of the build, not incidental bonuses.
Tier Caps & Shard Rewards
Compare rank caps and shard rewards for initial clears and raids at each Incursion tier.
| Tier | Rank cap | ShardsInitial clear | ShardsRaid only |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 |  | 8 | 8 |
| 13 | | 6 | 6 |
| 12 |  | 48 | 33 |
| 11 | | 45 | 31 |
| 10 | | 43 | 29 |
| 9 |  | 41 | 27 |
| 8 | | 40 | 25 |
| 7 | | 39 | 23 |
| 6 |  | 36 | 21 |
| 5 | | 39 | 19 |
| 4 |  | 34 | 18 |
| 3 | | 36 | 17 |
| 2 |  | 34 | 16 |
| 1 | | 34 | 15 |
Why We Recommend These Teams
4 creators 40 uploads
The September 2026 review covers 40 Biovore uploads from four distinct creators. Agreement is assessed by creator, not by upload count: cpunerd’s 23 videos remain one creator’s evidence.
- Rotbone appears in every creator’s principal approach. Abraxas appears somewhere in all four creators’ footage, with very different roles.
- Three of four creators show Khârn + Maladus + Rotbone together; one of those sources is a finale only.
- Both summon-focused and melee-focused high-tier approaches are demonstrated. No universal mandatory five is established.
Caoryn
2 uploadsTier 10 · Tier 13
Supports: Summoner
Abraxas, Yazaghor, Ahriman, Archimatos, and Rotbone appear in all 30 reviewed result panels across two guides.
Coverage & limits
Both cover all 15 numbered battles using edited or re-recorded branches. They are not uninterrupted, flawless runs.
cpunerd / kharnage
23 uploadsRare · T10 · T12 · T13 · T14
Supports: Lower Investment + Melee / Sustain
The lower-investment guides build around Rotbone, Maladus, Abraxas, and Archimatos, with Wrask regular at Tier 12. The 20 Mythic clips use Khârn, Maladus, Rotbone, and Abaddon as the principal four.
Coverage & limits
Tier 13 covers 11 numbered positions; Tier 14 covers nine. Rare and Tier 12 show selected routes. The Tier 10 upload ends during battle 9; the Rare finale has no held final Victory panel. Some Mythic clips expose staging interfaces, so their investments are not one live-account progression record.
Ouchkabibbles
14 uploadsTier 13
Supports: Melee / Sustain
Khârn, Maladus, and Rotbone appear in all 14 clips. Corrodius appears in 13, Pestillian in 11, with Abraxas and Abaddon rotating into some fights.
Coverage & limits
Battle 3 is missing. Extra Hits on Maladus and two Havocs are publisher-attributed where the selection footage was not retained.
Painhawk
1 uploadMythic · battle 15
Supports: Melee / Sustain with summons + shields
The finale shows Khârn, Maladus, Rotbone, Abraxas, and Wrask: a hybrid of durable melee, healing, summons, and shielding.
Coverage & limits
One finale establishes a demonstrated team, not whole-run persistence. The numbered Mythic tier and preceding power-up route are not established.
This is a bounded creator review, using source-specific visual sampling and available transcripts, not continuous viewing of every minute or a controlled cost comparison. The reviewed uploads span December 2025–July 2026. Observed ranks, XP levels, and creator-stated restrictions describe demonstrations; none establishes a minimum requirement or guaranteed clear.