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Best Amon skills and build

Optimize Amon's Calamity and Vengeance skills in borderlands 4. Focus on Molten Slam, incendiary damage, and aggressive mobility for rapid takedowns.

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Optimize Amon's Calamity and Vengeance skills in borderlands 4. Focus on Molten Slam, incendiary damage, and aggressive mobility for rapid takedowns.

Amon's Calamity Skill Tree:

This tree leans into maximizing incendiary damage, melee strength, and aggressive mobility. Higher speed allows Amon to maximize his melee strength and take down enemies rapidly. Close-range weapons also add versatility.

  • Scourge (Action Skill) - Amon equips a Forgeshield that absorbs all frontal damage as Vengeance. Whenever the Vengeance meter is filled, Forgeshield provides damage reduction instead. Vengeance drains rapidly if it has not been gained recently. Reactivate your action skill to launch a Forgewave, dealing cryo ordnance damage to enemies it passes through, consuming Vengeance to increase damage dealt.
  • Firewall (Forgeskill) - Deploy a shield that absorbs enemy projectiles while granting friendly projectiles increased damage and velocity. Absorbed damage is converted into Vengeance stacks if Scourge is active. Enemies near the Firewall take incendiary status effect damage over time.
  • Impetus (3/3) - Kill Skill: Amon gains increased shield regeneration rate and movement speed for a duration.
  • Discombobulate (5/5) - Amon gains melee critical strike chance.
  • Tritanium Knuckles (5/5) - Increases Amon’s melee and skill damage.
  • Gut Punch (1/3) - Melee damage and ordnance damage have a chance to apply weakness to enemies for a duration. Weakened enemies deal reduced damage and take more damage. Weakness is affected by status effect duration, and is itself considered a status effect.
  • The Best Defence (2/5) - Amon gains a super shield when dealing melee damage.
  • Berserk (5/5) - Whenever Amon activates his Forgeskill, he becomes berserk for a duration, gaining slow immunity and bonus cryo damage with guns and melee.
  • There Is Only Red (3/3) - Kill Skill: Whenever Amon kills an enemy while Berserk is active, partially restore its duration and increase the bonus cryo damage effect.
  • Brimming Vigor (3/5) - Amon gains increased maximum health capacity and deals increased melee damage the more full his health is.
  • My Touch Is Death (3/3) - Whenever Amon deals melee damage, there is a chance to activate Kill Skills.
  • Into The Fray (5/5) - Amon gains increased damage dealt and damage reduction based on his distance from the enemy. The closer the enemy, the greater the bonus.
  • Harbinger (1/5) - Kill Skill: Amon gains increased melee damage and maximum shield capacity for a duration.
  • Wrath of Nature (2/5) - Part of the Vengeance skill tree. Amon gains increased status effect chance and cryo effectiveness.
  • The Thrill (3/3) - Part of the Vengeance skill tree. Amon gains missing health regeneration. Every time you take or absorb non-status effect damage, you gain a stack of Resolute, which increases this effect.
  • Cryonic Thrum (Augment) - Part of the Vengeance skill tree. While Scourge is active, Amon taunts enemies and sends out a cryonic pulse every second, dealing cryo damage to enemies and restoring allies’ health. While aiming, Amon’s movement speed is reduced, but Amon gains bonus cryo damage with guns and consumes vengeance on each gunshot.
  • b (5/5) - Part of the Vengeance skill tree. Amon gains increased action skill duration and gun swap speed.
  • Warrior’s Cup (3/5) - Part of the Vengeance skill tree. Whenever Amon uses a repkit while his action skill is active, partially restore action skill duration.

Amon's Vengeance Skill Tree:

This skill tree focuses on amplifying the amount of damage done by ordnance, which includes heavy weapon adjustments, grenades, and associated equipment. It also leans into regenerating ammo at a rapid rate. While any action skill can be chosen, Scourge is recommended for additional protection, especially when combined with the Crucible augment for the fastest cooldown time. Using the Berserk effect from the Calamity skill tree in this build grants immunity over time and additional cryo damage when your Forgeskill is activated.

  • Scourge (Action skill) - Amon equips a Forgeshield that absorbs all frontal damage as Vengeance. Whenever the Vengeance meter is filled, Forgeshield provides damage reduction instead. Vengeance drains rapidly if it has not been gained recently. Reactivate your action skill to launch a Forgewave, dealing cryo ordnance damage to enemies it passes through, consuming Vengeance to increase damage dealt.
  • Firewall (Forgeskill) - Deploy a shield that absorbs enemy projectiles while granting friendly projectiles increased damage and velocity. Absorbed damage is converted into Vengeance stacks if Scourge is active. Enemies near the Firewall take incendiary status effect damage over time.
  • Scorched Kairos (2/5) - Amon gains increased ordnance damage and magazine size.
  • Tail of the Comet (4/5) - Whenever Amon deals ordnance damage, there is a chance to apply a cryo status effect that deals cryo damage over time for a duration. Tail of the Comet is affected by status effect application chance.
  • Cryonic Thrum (Augment) - While Scourge is active, taunt enemies and send out a cryonic pulse every second, dealing cryo damage to nearby enemies and restoring allies’ health. While aiming, reduce your movement speed but gain bonus cryo damage with guns, and consume Vengeance on each shot.
  • Battleborn (1/5) - Gain increased gun damage the more full your health is. This effect is doubled while at full health.
  • Bullet Hail (5/5) - Gunshots have a chance to ricochet as an elemental shard, dealing cryo damage.
  • Icy Rage (5/5) - Kill Skill: Killing an enemy with cryo damage will grant a stack of cr

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