Can You Fight the Warrior Again Borderlands 2

I am a video game fanatic with over vi years experience every bit an online writer.

Here are the best assassinator and Cypher skill builds in "Borderlands 2".

Image made via Canva

The All-time Builds for Zero in Borderlands 2

Whether y'all're a newcomer to Borderlands 2, playing the assassin character, Zero, for the first fourth dimension, or just looking for some better builds to get the most out of combat, this article will help. I've listed my 4 favorite builds for Goose egg, each focused on a detail skill. They are:

1. Sniper: The best build for distance shooting and critical hit damage.
2. Slice and Die: The best build for melee action. The more enemies, the meliorate!
3. Close Range + Balanced: This build allows for both close and long-range gainsay.
4. Shotgun: Combines Null'south snazzy assassin skills with epic shotgun abilities.

Build 1: Sniper

This is the virtually effective sniper build in Borderlands 2. It has easy disquisitional hits, especially with Bore (TIER 3) revealing enemy critical spots. It likewise delivers enough of critical hit impairment bonus, resulting in lots of harm given and not much taken.

The Critical Ascensi0n (TIER 6) skill also provides for ridiculous impairment when facing bosses with big Crit spots.

Build 1: Sniper

Note: Skills in bold are more than of import in each build.

Tier 1
Headsh0t 5/five: Crit Hit Impairment +xx%
Ir0n Hand 5/5: Melee Damage +xv%, Max Wellness +fifteen%

Tier 2
Killer v/5: Killing an enemy gives Crit Hit Damage +50% and Reload Speed +75% for a few seconds
Precisi0n 3/five: Accurateness +15%
Grim 5/5: Killing an enemy regenerates +3.five% of your shield per second as well every bit Deception Absurd Charge per unit +seven.v% for a few seconds

Tier 3
B0re one/ane: Shots pierce through enemies and deal +100% damage, Enemy crit spots are shown when Deception is active
Vel0city five/5: Bullet Speed +100%, Critical Hitting Impairment +15%, Gun Damage +ten%
F0ll0wthr0ugh five/v: Killing an enemy increases Motion Speed +40%, Gun Damage +30%, and Melee Damage +40% for a few seconds

Tier 4
Kill C0nfirmed 5/5: Aiming down sights grants upwards to Crit Hit Impairment +40% the longer you aim

Tier 5
At One with the Gun 5/5: Sniper Hip-Shot Accuracy +125%, Sniper Reload Speed +50%, Sniper Magazine Size +5
Critical Ascensi0n one/1: Scoring a Crit Hit with a Sniper Rifle increases Crit Hit Impairment +6% and Damage +5%, stacks up to 999 times and slowly decays.

Build ii: Piece and Dice

Fast and deadly, this build includes skills such every bit Execute (TIER 3), making Zero a much more exciting melee character compared to Frontier ane'south Berserker. Endless melee bonuses and Many Must Fall (TIER half-dozen) make staying cloaked and killing many, many enemies like shooting fish in a barrel.

Build 2: Slice and Dice

Read More From Levelskip

Tier ane
C0unter Strike 5/five: Counter Strike Harm +250%
Ir0n Hand 5/5: Melee Damage +15%, Max Health +fifteen%

Tier ii
Ambush 5/five: Backstab damage +20%
Grim 5/v: Killing an enemy regenerates +3.five% of your shield per second besides as Charade Absurd Rate +vii.5% for a few seconds

Tier three
Death Mark ane/i: Melee Damage marks enemies for eight seconds, which take Damage +20%
Unf0rseen five/5: Rank v Shock Damage when coming out of Charade
F0ll0wthr0ugh 5/5: Killing an enemy increases Movement Speed +40%, Gun Damage +30%, and Melee Damage +40% for a few seconds
Execute 1/1: A lunge melee attack from within three meters that does massive harm

Tier 4
Innervate two/5: When Deception is active, Gun Impairment +4%, Regenerate Health +1.six% per second, Movement Speed +14%
Resurgence 5/five: Killing an enemy with a melee attack restores upward to +twenty% of your health; lower wellness = more restoration

Tier 5
Like the Wind 5/v: When moving, Gun Damage +15%, Melee Impairment +15%

Tier 6
Many Must Fall one/ane: Killing an enemy with a melee attack while in Deception causes y'all to re-stealth and add time to Charade's elapsing

Build 3: Close Range + Balanced

This build is geared towards those who want to use Zero for close quarters gainsay, combining non-sniper gun damage with Deception and Execute (TIER 3). Velocity (TIER 3) and F0ll0wthr0ugh (TIER 3) both give very solid weapon DPS bonuses. If you desire to employ guns but don't want to surrender Nix's snazzy skills, this build is for y'all.

Build 3: Close Ranged + Balanced

Tier 1
Headsh0t v/v: Crit Hitting Damage +xx%
Fast Hands five/5: Reload Speed +25%, Weapon Swap Speed +50%
Ir0n Hand v/v: Melee Damage +fifteen%, Max Wellness +15%

Tier 2
Killer 5/v: Killing an enemy gives Crit Hit Impairment +l% and Reload Speed +75% for a few seconds
Fearless five/v: When your shield is depleted, Burn Rate +25%, Gun Damage +15%
Grim v/5: Killing an enemy regenerates +three.5% of your shield per second also equally Charade Cool Rate +7.5% for a few seconds

Tier 3
B0re one/1: Shots pierce through enemies and deal +100% harm, Enemy crit spots are shown when Deception is active
Vel0city 5/5: Bullet Speed +100%, Disquisitional Hitting Damage +fifteen%, Gun Impairment +ten%
Ascension Sh0t iii/5: Each assail gives yous a Impairment stack up to 5 total; Gun Damage per stack +half-dozen%, Melee Damage per stack +5.iv%
F0ll0wthr0ugh v/5: Killing an enemy increases Movement Speed +twoscore%, Gun Impairment +30%, and Melee Damage +twoscore% for a few seconds
Execute 1/1- A lunge melee attack from within 3 meters that does massive damage

Build four: The Zero Shotgun Build

This build is for players who don't want to give up the aforementioned snazzy Assassin skills just nevertheless desire to apply shotguns. Yous're going to be upwardly close after using Expiry Bl0ss0m (TIER 6) and Execute (TIER 3) anyway, so why not utilize shotguns? Tw0 Fang (TIER 5) is particularly effective with shotguns; every ten prune magazine basically shoots 13 bullets.

Build 4: Zip Shotgun. Assassinating has never been then loud

Tier 1
Headsh0t 2/5: Crit Hit Damage + 8%
Fast Hands five/five: Reload Speed +25%, Weapon Swap Speed +l%
Killing Bl0w 1/5: Melee Impairment +100% when an enemy is at depression wellness
Ir0n Hand 5/5: Melee Damage +15%, Max Health +15%

Tier 2
Fearless 5/v: When your shield is depleted, Fire Rate +25%, Gun Harm +15%
Grim 5/5: Killing an enemy regenerates +3.5% of your shield per second likewise as Deception Cool Rate +7.5% for a few seconds

Tier 3
Rising Sh0t five/5: Each set on gives you a Damage stack upwardly to 5 total; Gun Damage per stack +10%, Melee Impairment per stack +9%
Unf0rseen v/5: Rank 5 Daze Impairment when coming out of Charade
F0ll0wthr0ugh 5/5: Killing an enemy increases Movement Speed +40%, Gun Damage +thirty%, and Melee Damage +40% for a few seconds
Execute ane/1: A lunge melee attack from within iii meters that does massive damage

Tier v
Tw0 Fang 5/v: Every time you burn a gun, yous take a a +30% gamble of firing twice

Tier 6
Death Bl0ss0m 1/1: When in Deception, throw a handful of kunai that volition explode for random elemental damage. You can throw 5 kunai and it doesn't bring yous out of Deception.

Toby on Nov 18, 2018:

there's a bit of a problem grim isn't in the bloodshed tree its in the cunning tree

Anonymous on October 21, 2018:

Good

Eva on October xi, 2018:

very nice blog. thnk y'all for sharing.

Anonymous on November 10, 2017:

@Hyberion My friends chose Commando and Gunzerker and obv I chose Zer0..

I am level xx and If yous play Zer0 right no i wants to mock y'all...

I have a sniper and a semi melee build which makes their jaws drop when I am only Killin people with my slag pistol and sword and but dancing between the enmies.

Don't bash other classes.

Gunzerker tin can Gunzerk and if he uses a gattling gun with a Daze then may God have mercy on yous.

And commando's can deploy turrets from which he can kill RAKK those birds flight which u tin can't even aim at and you can reclaim the scout too.

So Every class is overpowered if you play them right.

EXCEPT Mechromancer is actually OVERPOWERED.lol

Big game chase on Oct 15, 2017:

I beloved zero I take always played melee zero but I only tried out his sniping and I dearest it

Harry on March 25, 2017:

Where yous have put two fang for the shotgun build you lot take said every 10 round mag shoots 13 bullets, this is not how two fang works as information technology uses bullets when it shoots the second bullet, information technology does non grant a free shot im agape

Xerxes on March 21, 2015:

I love zip he was my beginning character, but in existent perspective melee is not enough at op 8 On my gunzerker and siren I reck enemies but with zero to impale things with melee you literally need to agree a grog nozzle and throw kunia to slag them to get enough damage to kill them

invitee on October 24, 2014:

Tw0 Fang uses ammo for the 2d shot, it doesn't grant you a gratis double shot.

Sarah Forester from Australia on February 05, 2014:

I've always institute this class difficult, every time I start I stop upward always feeling overpowered. Maybe I'll get-go a new ane from scratch and try follow this guide.

Nauth on December 30, 2013:

Should there be an social club in which I become the skills? Or shouldi just assume I showtime with all the their 1 skills then movement to the side by side tier? Should I cease ane tree then move on to some other?

geoff on November 28, 2013:

Question for anybody using Zilch (btw I have the extra levels so I have the extra 11 points to use): How exercise you lot guys feel almost utilizing the "Exist Like H2o" per? Instead of "Deadfall" using "Backstab" and getting more than melee bonus for your buck. So rather those points going towards "Ambush" I used them towards "Fearless" and being made of glass makes not having a shield a niggling more than bearable. Using "Rising Shot" to increase my harm as I try stabbing my way out of big badass fights, which then far has been working well. I have been having some issues with fighting Juggernauts and now I tin just shot them upwardly, gain the +5 stack, then stab them. I oasis't considered using the "Police force and Order" combo rather than "Resurgence" but that'due south a really adept idea. Because I was wondering how to end off my grapheme and am using the website to try different combos. I'm really excited to have "Death Blossom" along with "Many must fall", I'thou hoping with "Death Mark" and "Rising Shot" the Kunai will brand my melee attacks even more than ridiculous while in Deception.

luke on Nov 21, 2013:

loving playing equally zero with my friend who plays as gaige i like to snipe and

mele and apply other guns which class should i choose

Popito on October 05, 2013:

A slice-and-die build with a few modifications and the right gear is basically unstoppable past any crowd in the game. Instead of Resurgence, I use the Law and Society combination (bladed pistol and roid shield) which recovers wellness with every hit and has a +100% melee bonus. The points from Resurgence get to Killing Bl0w, so that virtually annihilation goes down with a single blow, and what doesn't die with a blow or two, will recover your wellness very apace (usually full health with each kill). Likewise, instead of Grim, I went full on Innervate, i on Headsh0t and one on Fast Hands (which paired with a Legendary Hunter mod, are crawly).

It'southward a pretty fun build considering information technology forces you lot to exist extremely ambitious, most suicidal. Sure, you lot may die here and in that location, but it makes for a actually fast paced and intense game.

Jimmy the chapeau on September 28, 2013:

@Hyperbion yup later reading your comment your probably an autistic 10 year old. There is no need to bash the other classes.

Z on July 27, 2013:

@Hyperbion

Hmm, so much for constructive criticism. A blatant troll mail service with a recommended skill attached to the bottom. Endeavour harder next time, no demand to bash other classes.

Xereau on Apr eighteen, 2013:

Personally if I'm sniping I always go up to two fang 5/5 with a +5 class mod making my gun shoot twice 60% of the Time if using the ammo glitch or using infinity pistol dmg is insane

Victor on Apr 17, 2013:

@Hyperbion

god, is then relieving to see i'm non alone in here :')

still im looking for builds since i did my ain build sniper mostly a and a the rest on bloodshed, i totally forgot the cunning tree since i don't meet annihilation useful there, now i can't kill badassosaurus.

anyway, respect to you, is nice to see that still there are some warriors out there :D

Hyperbion on Apr 03, 2013:

My friends mock me because I chose Zero, the 'underpowered' grade. They say I should have chosen annihilation only him.

They, on the other paw, chose:

one) a siren who can phaselock once every 30 seconds, and gets another endeavour at phaselocking an enemy if the starting time attempt failed,

2) a commando, who's turret plays the game for them.

At that place is fiddling award in playing these classes. Go for it, but don't ever criticize someone for choosing Nada when you play commando. Nothing is not underpowered; he is difficult to play, strategic, and yes, perhaps not as overpowered as the other classes. At least he kills his enemies by himself rather than relying on a turret or robot to fight for him.

On a side note, the Killing BlOw + shotgun is ridiculously powerful. Just blast them in the face, then terminate them off with a melee attack.

CombustiblSquid on March 27, 2013:

Only 1 question. Why not put points into Killing BlOw for the slice and dice build?

Jokbok on March 01, 2013:

Thanks for the guide! really helped me a lot!

113114 on February 01, 2013:

If you lot can't use Ascension Shot with a sniper burglarize, your bad at this game. I can keep stacks at 5 with no At One With The Gun and only five points of Fast Easily. It'due south not hard. Just don't suck.

Snippy on January 17, 2013:

the slice and dice build is really good

Xyalon on November 04, 2012:

@denroaspis A slight problem I find with this build is that Ascension Sh0t and One Sh0t I Kill are somewhat mutually sectional; I'm working with a +98.4% reload speed (v in At One, 8 in Fast Easily from Mod, 8.4% from Badass rank) in sniper rifles and can only but manage to keep the stack at 5, only with my shotgun (3 ammo per shot/3 mag size - to benefit from OSOK), the first stack falls off just before my next attack. I assume that this is less of a trouble with guns with a faster reload speed, but that makes this build a little more gear dependent, no?

shadowninja on October xxx, 2012:

i get 1000k damages ... cheers for guide

longfellow101 on October 18, 2012:

@dendroaspis...cheers for the build...level 22 even so alive..thanks again

Dendroaspis on Oct 15, 2012:

Here's a thought:

Zero Sniper-Shotgun build

v/5 Headshot (I don't see the point of Optics, really. the zoom is fashion too loftier for my liking already)

five/5 Precision

5/5 One Shot I Impale (this would work great for shotguns and snipers especially if you utilize those kind of depression ammo shotguns)

5/v Velocity

ane/1 Bore

five/5 At One with the Gun (buff up that sniper rifle)

1/one Critical Rise (you don't say)

5/v Fast Easily

v points in full for tier 2 of cunning (ambush if you play co-op a lot or you use charade to flank, fearless if y'all similar directly, headon battles)

5/5 rising shot (yeah, more damage for them sweetness guns)

three/v Innervate (yous wanna escape those pesky enemies in case they get too tough, health regen and motion speed. useful for flanking too)

This build is basically a not-melee build for you folks who don't like melee. I don't. Snipe for longer ranges, shotgun the closer, Deception becomes a tool for flanking and escaping. Call back to aim for their disquisitional spots, cos that's where the strengths of zer0 comes in

A Roman on September 23, 2012:

Good work, I only returned a re-create of borderlands ii, I'1000 gonna' buy it really presently. I noticed that I was going for the counterbalanced type since information technology was the best choice I could idea for starting, but I think I volition change for the melee type.

huntleyquould.blogspot.com

Source: https://levelskip.com/action-adventure/Borderlands-2-AssassinZero-Skill-Build-Guide

Share this post