Still, pretty impressive
How, trying 6 challenge runs and I just die. 50% of the time is getting killed in floors 1-3 because 4 enemies + they all get extremely high rolls; 10% of the time because goo’s arena is just… doesn’t get any place to kill it; 20% of the time because I do not get a good armor; 10% of the time because starvation (as soon as I play with these there are suddently no healing potions wtf); 5% because everything is already bad + I do not get Eye of Newt and 5% because, other… HOW
I don’t really have much of a strategy. I just try to focus on armors. With a good armor, even dwarfs can hardly deal you more than 5 damage per hit (in melee range) if you have a good armor. But in the early game when we only have a Cloth Armor, I will try to replace this armor with a better armor as soon as possible (as well as weapons). Once I have a Scale or Plate Armor, I will use all the Scrolls of Upgrade I find on these armors.
There are also a few other strategies, and they have all been mentioned. It helped me a lot and I think it will help you too.
(Since I rely too much on armors, I don’t think I can beat Faith Is My Armor).