Best Harlowe skills and build

Explore borderlands 4 Harlowe builds: Creative Bursts for radiation damage and Seize the Day for cryo effects. Maximize your skills.

Creative Bursts Build

This build for borderlands 4 focuses on Harlowe's Chroma Accelerator action skill to deal elemental and radiation damage, inflict status effects, frequently activate her action skill, and boost outgoing damage. It enhances elemental damage, rate of fire, and raw damage numbers, with a particular lethality against enemies affected by radiation due to her affinities. Skills from the Cosmic Brilliance tree are used to further increase DPS.

Skills:

• Fuzzy Math (5/5): Increases status effect chance.
• Neutron Capture (Augment): Stores damage dealt by Harlowe’s unstable energy pocket. Upon explosion, a portion of stored damage is transferred to Harlowe’s gun, granting bonus radiation damage.
• Elementary (5/5): Increases elemental damage and status effect damage.
• Enriched (3/3): Increases radiation damage.
• Test Subjects (5/5): Applying a status effect to an enemy grants increased action skill cooldown rate.
• Carry the One (5/5): Grants a chance to entangle another nearby enemy when Harlowe entangles one.
• Poisoned Sun (5/5): Increases radiation damage and chance.
• Glow Up (5/5): Grants increased critical hit chance with guns against irradiated enemies.
• Fissile Launcher (3/3): Damaging an irradiated or entangled enemy shoots a radiation dart at another enemy.
• Demon Core (Capstone): While Harlowe’s unstable energy pocket travels, it shoots radiation darts. Entangling an enemy while her action skill is active automatically irradiates that enemy.
• Chain Reactor (3/3): Deals bonus radiation damage to entangled enemies.
• Dirty Bomb (1/1): Irradiating an enemy creates a radiation explosion on that enemy.
• Action at a Distance (2/5): From the Cosmic Brilliance tree. Applying a status effect to an enemy grants a chance to apply that status effect to each entangled enemy.
• Momentum (3/5): From the Cosmic Brilliance tree. Entangling an enemy increases critical hit damage for Harlowe and her allies.
• Neutron Decay (4/5): From the Cosmic Brilliance tree. Irradiating an enemy grants increased gun damage.

Seize the Day Build

This borderlands 4 build utilizes Harlowe’s Zero-Point action skill and focuses on cryo-based damage. Enemies are entangled to share damage, and this build adds the ability to freeze them and increase damage output. It is heavily focused on large area of effect attacks, making it less ideal for boss fights. Initially, Harlowe can only freeze one enemy, but with more skill points, she can quickly freeze and entangle entire groups. The focus then shifts to increasing Harlowe’s damage output to amplify the shared damage pool.

Skills:

• Parallel Circuit (5/5): After triggering or retriggering an action skill, Harlowe gains increased gun damage.
• Strange Attractor (Augment): Shooting an enemy with a gun causes bullets to ricochet onto all enemies in stasis. A critical hit on an enemy entangles them.
• Periodic Table Flip (5/5): Increases elemental damage, status effect application chance, and cryo effectiveness.
• Ripple Effect (1/1): Kill Skill: Killing an entangled enemy automatically entangles another nearby enemy.
• Precision Engineering (3/3): Increases critical hit damage.
• Too Coolant for Schoolant (4/5): Dealing cryo damage grants increased action skill cooldown rate.
• Cryodynamics (3/3): Increases cryo damage.
• Concurrence (5/5): Increases action skill duration for every entangled enemy.
• Control Group (5/5): Kill Skill: Killing an entangled enemy restores a portion of action skill cooldown and action skill duration.
• Freeze Frame (1/1): Harlowe’s guns deal bonus cryo damage for every enemy she has in stasis.
• Falling Bodies (Capstone): Action Skill: Places an additional enemy in stasis at the cost of action skill duration. When stasis ends, all enemies are slammed down.
• Unstable Ice-otope (5/5): Kill Skill: Deals bonus cryo damage with all sources.
• Keep Ice On That (1/5): All cryo damage Harlowe deals gains lifesteal. If Harlowe’s health is full, she gains overshield instead.
• Heat Sink (3/5): Freezing an enemy grants increased action skill cooldown rate.
• Endothermic Reaction (1/5): Freezing an enemy creates an endothermic aura dealing constant cryo damage to nearby enemies. The aura's damage increases based on Harlowe’s overshield.
• Triple Point (1/1): Dealing non-cryo damage to an entangled enemy deals bonus cryo damage. Dealing cryo damage to an entangled enemy deals increased bonus damage.
• Cyclotron (4/5): From the Creative Bursts tree. Increases fire rate.
• Fuzzy Math (2/5): From the Creative Bursts tree. Increases status effect chance.