Maximizing Your Combat Initiative

There comes a time in every adventurer's life when battle is unavoidable. Combat Initiative is the mechanic that governs who attacks first in combat with monsters. In the tradition of the other Dressing For Success articles, this is a guide to maximizing your combat initiative so you can make the first move on that cute monster next door.

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Legend
Ultra rares and Raffle House/Radio prizes	Tradable and still obtainable, but rare
Semi-rares and war hero drops
Mr. Store/KoL Con accessible derivatives	Tradable (directly or ingredients or zone access consumable), unlimited generation to those who own source, source no longer obtainable
Mr. Store/KoL Con items and inaccessible derivatives	Tradable, but no longer obtainable
Other limited time content
Clan Dungeon non-tradables	Untradable, but still obtainable
Other non-tradables
Non-tradables from past holidays and world events	Untradable, and no longer obtainable
*	Single-equip restriction, or two-handed/three-handed weapon
^	Equipment disappears at the end of the day or the equipment (or its associated enchantment) has a limited duration

Familiar	Hat	Back Item	Shirt
Oily Woim (Weight*2)% Happy Medium (Weight)%	Covers-Your-Head 50% (Disco Bandits only) Goggles of Loathing 50% zombie mariachi hat 40% (Accordion Thieves only) Mer-kin sneakmask 30% Boris's Helm 25% lynyrdskin cap 25% warbear plain fedora 25% crown-shaped beanie 20% sealhide hood 20% worn tophat 20% Crown of Thrones with certain familiars 20% crumpled felt fedora 10 lbs Zombo's skullcap 10 lbs (Turtle Tamers only)	sea cape 50% (underwater only) Buddy Bjorn with certain familiars 20% Rain-Doh red wings 20%	lynyrdskin tunic 25% Sneaky Pete's leather jacket (collar popped) 20% Unkillable Skeleton's breastplate 5 lbs (Turtle Tamers only) Colonel Mustard's Lonely Spades Club Jacket 1%-3%
Pants	Mainhand	Offhand	Accessory
Brimstone Boxers 50% foam naval trousers 50% mostly rat-hide leggings 40% pink pinkslip slip 35% Crimbo pants 30% Travoltan trousers 30% Tropical Crimbo Shorts 30% electronic dulcimer pants 25% lynyrdskin breeches 25% papier-mâchuridars 25% plexiglass pants 25% warbear party pants 25% weedy skirt 25% astral shorts 20% Grimacite greaves 20% oil slacks 20% penguin shorts 20% penguinskin mini-kilt 20% penguinskin mini-skirt 20% star pants 20% Galapagosian Cuisses 10 lbs (Turtle Tamers only)	Wrath of the Capsaician Pastalords 40% (Pastamancers only) costume sword 30% crowbar 25% Greek Pasta of Peril 25% (Pastamancers only) chopsticks 20% Grimacite gat 20% Super Magic Power Sword X 20% wiffle-flail* 20% Sheila Take a Crossbow 5% per Smithsness	card sleeve (Foil Coward) 60% little round pebble 50% pixel grappling hook 40% slime-covered compass 40% Wrath of the Capsaician Pastalords 40% (Pastamancers only) costume sword 30% rusty compass 30% tortoboggan shield 30% crowbar 25% Greek Pasta of Peril 25% (Pastamancers only) card sleeve (Coward) 20% chopsticks 20% Grimacite gat 20% hors d'oeuvre tray 20% Sheila Take a Crossbow 5% per Smithsness	Helps-You-Sleep* 75% rickety old unicycle* 50% Loathing Legion rollerblades* 50% Girdle of Hatred* 45% beaten-up Chucks 40% shark tooth necklace* 35% Bonerdagon necklace 30% cyborg stompin' boot* 30% furniture dolly* 30% pogo stick* 30% blackberry moccasins* 25% Lord Spookyraven's ear trumpet* 25% skeleton skis* 25% teflon swim fins* 25% warbear goggles* 25% tortoboggan* 20%
Familiar equipment	Outfit	Effects and buffs	Familiar weight Effects and Buffs
Disembodied Hand familiar with appropriate weapon equipped 40%-15% Snow Suit 5-20 lbs astral pet sweater 10 lbs sugar shield 10 lbs	El Vibrato Relics 20%-200% Seafaring Suit 100% (+50% from the foam naval trousers) Tapered Threads 30% 8-Bit Finery 25%	Hare-o-dynamic 300% Memory of Speed 200% Always In Motion 100% Flyin' Drunk 100% Frosty 100% Hiding in Plain Sight 100% Hoppyness 100% New and Improved 100% Digitalis, Dig It 75% Sizzling with Fury 60% (Seal Clubber item) Ass Over Teakettle 50% Cockroach Scurry 50% Fishily Speeding 50% (Accordion Thieves only) Hustlin' 50% White-boy Angst 50% Lustful Heart 2%-40% (does not stack with other love songs) Oleaginous Soles 40% Peppermint Twisted 40% All Fired Up 30% Discomfited 30% Lapdog 30% Old School Pompadour 30% Ticking Clock 30% Well-Swabbed Ear 30% Blessing of Pikachutlotal 30% Arse-a'fire 25% Scorpio Rising 25% Wax On Your Shoes 25% Abominably Slippery 20% Cletus's Canticle of Celerity 20% Heart of Yellow 20% Hombre Muerto Caminando 20% Metal Speed 20% Okee-Dokee Go! 20% Provocative Perkiness 20% Sugar Rush 20% The Glistening 20% Things Man Was Not Meant to Eat 20% El Tango de la Maldita Suegra 15% (Accordion Thieves only) 5 Pounds Lighter 10% Sweet and Yellow 10%	She Ate Too Much Candy 1-25 lbs Meteor Showered 20 lbs Puzzle Champ 5-20 lbs Robot Friends 20 lbs Smart Drunk 20 lbs All Is Forgiven 10 lbs Bureaucratized 10 lbs Chorale of Companionship 10 lbs Crocodile Tear 10 lbs (Underwater only) Cold Hearted 1-10 lbs (does not stack with other love songs) Down With Chow 10 lbs Healthy Green Glow 10 lbs Hip to the Jive 10 lbs Human-Fish Hybrid 10 lbs Joy 10 lbs Open Heart Surgery 10 lbs Pajama Party 10 lbs Spirit of Galactic Unity 10 lbs Thanksgetting 10 lbs The Inquisitor's Unknown Effect 10 lbs Unbarking Dogs 10 lbs Whole Latte Love 10 lbs A Girl Named Sue 5 lbs Billiards Belligerence 5 lbs Black Tongue 5 lbs (does not stack with other tongues) Blue Swayed 1-5 lbs Boxing Day Glow 5 lbs ChibiChanged™ 5 lbs Cute Vision 5 lbs Empathy 5 lbs familiar.enq 5 lbs Greased-Up Familiar 5 lbs (Underwater only) Green Tongue 5 lbs (does not stack with other tongues) Heavy Petting 5 lbs Human-Machine Hybrid 5 lbs Kindly Resolve 5 lbs Loyal Tea 5 lbs Man's Worst Enemy 5 lbs Optimist Primal 5 lbs Over-Familiar With Dactyls 5 lbs Shrimpin' Ain't Easy 5 lbs Spookyravin' 5 lbs Squirming Like a Toad 5 lbs Sugar-Frosted Pet Guts 5 lbs Sweet Incentive 5 lbs Toothy Grin 5 lbs Turkey-Friendly 5 lbs Video... Games? 5 lbs Warm Shoulders 5 lbs Work For Hours a Week 5 lbs You Can Really Taste the Dormouse 5 lbs Phairly Pheromonal 4 lbs Beastly Flavor 3 lbs Bestial Sympathy 3 lbs Happy Salamander 3 lbs Heart of Green 3 lbs Souper Vengeful 3 lbs (Turtle Tamers only) Thanksgot 2 lbs
Passive skills, non-buff skills and others
Avatar of the Storm Tortoise 100% (Turtle Tamers only) Kung Fu Hustler (grants Fast as Lightning-intrinsic on the 10th turn of unarmed combat) 50% Song of Slowness 50% Springy Fusilli 40% Gaze of the Trickster God 30% Soulerskates 30% (Saucerors only) Overdeveloped Sense of Self Preservation 20% Slimy Shoulders 2%-20% The Vole 20% moveable feast feeding 10 lbs Walberg's Dim Bulb 10% Amphibian Sympathy 5 lbs Leash of Linguini 5 lbs

Notes

• According to Combat Initiative, most monsters have a point where your bonus initiative will ensure that you can attack first. Once that point is reached, it will be beneficial to replace the configuration above with other equipment instead.
• Gaze of the Trickster God is an intrinsic effect that requires the Juju Mojo Mask to be equipped and a combat item or moxie-related skill used in combat to activate.

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