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GUNBOY | Card/Totem Gun C4SH (LVL 60 TUVH7)

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Updated on Jun 21, 2026
Jun 21, 2026

Build Overview

Gunboy C4SH!

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Shoot-reload. Hot Slugger. The Ante Up skill provides massive gun and skill damage boosts when holding 1-mag/low mag guns or underbarrels, which can then be fed into the Bleed status from Gamer.

  • Any weapons with COV (Unlimited Mag) license can also be used to good effect due to COV being considered '0 Current Ammo' and '1 Mag Size' for Ante Up, especially on the CSW build variant.
  • Other class mod options are also available.

The build is Soup Kitchen™ certified and made in collaboration with GIRTHQUAKE, wrw713 and AncientRune.

    • Many thanks to Iserrot, Nepta and the above for their C4SH testing contributions.
    • Interested in a From Gloam Till Glow build? Check out CR4SH!

GunboySleight of Hand

Gigantic peaks, but requires some prep/setup to bring the most out of it on bossing.

  • Action Skill: Sleight of Hand
    • Sweeten the Pot + The Cooler
    • Sweeten the Pot + Cowboy
  • Available Class Mods: Gamer, Prestidigitator, Gambler, Triggerbot, Whale

GunboyCleromancy

Lower peaks than card, however has the smooth and snappy gameplay of Totem spam and great damage regardless.

Gunboy CSW Cleromancy

Easiest to play, more weapon variety, but lower peaks. Goes for Can't Stop Winning for easier Windfall procs, and also lifesteal from Turn of Fate. The cost is Hot Streak and a decent amount of damage boosts, but this can feel excellent to play all the same, has its own flow and more than enough damage.

Strengths And Weaknesses

  • Extremely high gun damage for any activity
  • Cards and Totems have good damage output
  • Good survivability
  • Sleight of Hand or Cleromancy
  • Sleight of Hand requires some dancing and learning to achieve its absurd gun peaks

Build Variants

Sleight of Hand Gunboy

Shoot-reload. Hot Slugger. The Ante Up skill provides massive gun and skill damage boosts when holding 1-mag/low mag guns or underbarrels, which can then be fed into the Bleed status from Gamer. Other class mod options also available.

Skill Tree

Points Spent 0 / 59
LMB Allocate
RMB Unallocate
Sleight of Hand
5/5
5/5
3/5
1/1
1/1
1/1
5/5
5/5
1/3
5/5
5/5
1/1
5/5
5/5
5/5
5/5
1/1

Action Skill Sleight of Hand

Sweeten the Pot always stays on.

  • Sweeten the Pot + The Cooler has the highest damage potential achievable, and is perfect for bossing or general gun usage.
  • Sweeten the Pot + Cowboy has high utility and mobbing functionality due to the cooldown resets, plus the Acid Spray card is really strong.

Luck of the Draw

Note: If you want, you can use floater points from Around the Corner and Trick-Taker to grab House Edge and Go For Broke, respectively, for much easier Windfall triggers. However there's a tradeoff: those two skills are somewhat prejudicial to Hot Streak because they hurt its stack generation.

Ante Up is the ESSENTIAL skill of the setup. Whatever you do, don't give it up. It provides an obscene amount of Gun and Skill damage boosts while holding the Hot Slugger.

  • Formula by wrw713: [ Base x (Fortune Stacks + Current Ammo) ] / Mag Size

Alchemy is excellent for stacking Fortune with our bonus elements and utility grenade ordnance.

  • Alongside Insurance, Alchemy lets you generate Fortune stacks even during Windfall, meaning you can continue building up Hot Streak.

Insurance actually does not need a full shield refill like the card implies, meaning fast Amp shields like Guardian Angel make it very spammable.

Fast Hands for a big reload speed boost and easier Windfall.

Late Scratch enables easier Windfall fishing with Hot Slugger by spamming reloads since it will generate Fortune stacks while Windfall isn't active.

Wretched Shadows is nice for survival and can auto-deliver Groundbreaker when properly positioned.

Take the Pot can take care of your survival. If you feel like it's not enough, use a Kill Spring Repkit.

Vigorish + Sweeten the Pot grants an unethical amount of Bonus Element damage sources, especially when paired with The Cooler.

  • Cowboy is a valid choice over The Cooler for mobbing, since it has great utility with the cooldown resets and the Acid Spray card deals a lot of damage.

Ace in the Hole, alongside Payout and No Limit, is another big soup boost.

No Limit gives us more room to generate Hot Streak stacks for guaranteed critical hits.

Tender Hearts is an amazing passive crit damage damage boost. When Hot Streak is spec'd, it will provide double value when hitting Weak Spots/Headshots.

Hot Streak is our autocrit source. It's stackable per each Fortune stack gained, and consumed on hit, which means you want to generate as many stacks as possible because even damage instances that ride on your base damage will consume it.

  • Hot Streak has unlisted features. Its actual damage boost provided is much larger than what it tells the player, and you should ideally still be aiming for Weak Spots/Headshots when using it whenever feasible to guarantee the extra boost.

By this stage there's some floater points. I've picked:

  • Trick-Taker for some extra soup (it's not of much relevance in the face of Ante Up providing us 415% Gun and 520% Skill).
  • Dealer's Bluff to make cooldowns more comfortable, which allows you to not need any augment swaps between mobbing and bossing, if you find that annoying.
  • You can play around with these points to you heart's desire. More Alchemy, or some Stack the Deck or Legerdemain. Up to you.

Equipment

Weapons
Repkit & Ordnance
Utilities

WEAPONS

This build prefers frequent reload, 1-mag size guns due to Ante Up, which provides MASSIVE Gun and Skill damage boosts.

Any of your favorite weapons with COV (Unlimited Mag) license can also be used to good effect due to COV being considered '0 Current Ammo' and '1 Mag Size' for Ante Up.

  • The CSW variant has a better time with COV weapons due to Can't Stop Winning allowing you to enter Windfall easily. If you want to mainly use COV (Unlimited Mag), consider that variant.
  • Check out Borderlands 4 META Weapons Tier List for a general list of weapons. From there, pick weapons that can roll COV (Unlimited Mag) to try out.

Utility Weapons

Weapons with high hit rate and/or high DOT rate can be used for:

  1. Stacking effects like Prestidigitator
    • Pre-stack the Class Mod's effect and then swap back to Hot Slugger and proceed to enter Windfall as usual.
  2. Triggering DOTs for Alchemy
    • You can leave Alchemy procs to your grenades, though. But it's an option.

Some example weapons for this are:

Underbarrels

Bossing burst kings.

  • Spread Launcher Jakobs Shotgun
    • The classic Spread Launcher that simply demolishes any boss.
  • Beam Tosser Maliwan Shotgun
    • Personal favorite against Bloomreaper.
  • Space Laser Oscar Mike
    • Fun and strong.
  • Airstrike Torgue AR
    • Great for Bloomreaper crystals if you have enough radius boosts.

Other fun options include Rooker and Kill Drones Order AR, which you can shoot out then swap back to Hot Slugger and they will benefit from Ante Up.

REPKIT

Kill Spring,War Paint, Order Repkit andTriple Bypass are all good choices of Repkit with their own relative strengths.

Look for these effects, or combinations of them if applicable:

  • Amp (Amplified)
  • Enrage (Experimental)
  • Reload Speed (Dextrous)
  • Fire Rate (Spasmodic)

ORDNANCE

Waterfall, Countermeasure or any Epic with Lingering + Alchemic.

  • Ricochet + Artillery + Alchemic grenades are also excellent for the purposes of fortune stacking.
    • If you're using Prestidigitator, Exacting is preferred over Alchemic on these grenades.

Firepot and Countermeasure benefit from the massive Gun Damage boosts of Ante Up and are valid damage-oriented options.

Crit Knife Jakobs Grenade is always an option.

SHIELD

Guardian Angel

  • 150% Amp. Great for any activity.

Watts 4 Dinner

  • 150% Amp is good, and excellent if you want to setup boss one-taps. You can use a Siphon roll if you find it more comfortable.
  • The Bonus Shock is more damage also another DOT source for Alchemy. It can result in bleed overrides though if using Gamer, but it's not a big deal.

Firewerks

  • Great option for mobbing.

CLASS MOD

Stat rolls to look for on any Class Mod:

  • Gun Damage
  • Gun Crit Chance
  • Skill Damage
  • Skill Crit Chance
  • Fire Rate
  • Reload Speed

Gamer

  • +3 or +2 Trick Shot; +4 or +5 Tender Hearts

Bleed. Great damage boost, great mobbing and bossing burst power.

Prestidigitator

  • +1 Bloodstained Moon; +5 Tender Hearts; +1 Any

Very fun and involved once you learn to use it.

Gambler

  • At least +1 Can't Stop Winning, + the rest in O Fortuna or Red Moon Rising

Nice and comfortable alternative that makes entering Windfall much easier while still retaining all the great boosts from blue tree.

Triggerbot

  • +5 Vigorish; +2 Any

Very powerful option for burst damage.

Whale

+5 Payout; +1 Turn of Fate; +1 Any

Fun passive effect, enables a lot more spam. Turn of Fate is great sustain too.

ENHANCEMENT

Stat rolls to look for on any Enhancement:

  • Gun Damage
  • Gun Type Damage
  • Gun Crit Damage
  • Gun Equip Speed
  • Gun Splash Radius
  • Gun Type Splash Radius

Quintain | Bounce Pass Jakobs Enhancement

Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement

  • Exellent boost for the underbarrels that are can be present on Torgue or Torgue-licensed weapons.

Firmware

Repkit & Ordnance
Repkit FirmwareDeadeye
Ordnance FirmwareDeadeye
Utilities
Class Mod FirmwareHigh Caliber
Shield FirmwareDeadeye
Enhancement FirmwareHigh Caliber

3/3 Deadeye or 3/3 Skillcraft | 2/3 High Caliber

  • Deadeye if you want better gunplay, Skillcraft if you want to potentialize bleed to the max.

3/3 Active Fire | 2/3 Skillcraft or 2/3 High Caliber or 2/3 Deadeye

  • Very powerful, mainly for Order weaponry and underbarrels.

3/3 Daed-dy O | 2/3 High Caliber

  • Can bring out the most of some underbarrels, like Kill Drones Order AR, Space Laser Oscar Mike etc.

3/3 High Caliber | 2/3 Skillcraft

  • If the projectile has splash and works with the piercing effect, then you can use High Caliber for doubled hits. Spread Launcher Jakobs Shotgun is an example.

Other Options

2/3 Rubberband man is a decent pick if you find yourself struggling with sustain.

Specialization

Specialization 1Groundbreaker
Specialization 2A Honed Mind
Specialization 3I Am A Gun
Specialization 4The Best Defense

Groundbreaker is here because we can scale it very well through Ante Up and I Am A Gun. You can deliver it through Wretched Shadows, The Cooler or simply a melee attack.

Other Options

Riddle You This is decent but depending on the loadout you might not have good uptime on it. The build is also already quite loaded on soup. Still a good pick.

Bullet Train can be nice QOL, and usually better than Riddle You This for boss bursting unless it's a longer fight like Bloomreaper and you're shooting Hot Slugger a lot instead of using underbarrels.

Contamination is alright for Alchemy but mostly not necessary.

CQC to be triggered from Wretched Shadows and The Cooler.

Gameplay

MOBBING

Sweeten the Pot + The Cooler or Cowboy

Throw grenades to start Fortune buildup, Repkit if you want, shoot Hot Slugger until you enter Windfall, then activate Sleight of Hand.

During Sleight of Hand, throw cards of different elements, and specifically look out to throw the Sweeten the Pot Color Spray card. It will grant a lot of bonus damage through Vigorish.

Keep on repeating this process during your mobbing cycle and that's it. Remember that Action Skill activation also has chance to proc Windfall.

  • Swap to Spread Launcher/any other big splash option if you want to quickly dispatch Crystal enemies. They don't really deserve any sympathy anyway.

If you want to be funny, you can introduce Amp Repkit + Needler Rooker or Kill Drones Order AR in your cycles.

BOSSING

  • You can skip having to throw grenades by simply pre-stacking some fortune through reloading a few times before entering the boss arena, which in turn also lets you use other grenades if you want. There's no way to avoid some gambling though and you may accidentally Windfall.

Sweeten the Pot + The Cooler

Throw all grenades to buildup Fortune. Shoot Hot Slugger until you enter Windfall, Repkit for your boosts then activate Sleight of Hand.

  • During Sleight of Hand, throw cards of different elements, and specifically look out to throw the Sweeten the Pot Color Spray card. It will grant a lot of bonus damage through Vigorish. You can then end the skill early if you want to go back to gunplay.

If you instead want to burst the boss with one-shots/underbarrels while getting the max damage possible, then the rain dance is a little more complicated:

Throw all grenades to buildup Fortune. Shoot Hot Slugger until you enter Windfall, quickly swap to your intended weapon (if not doing a Hot Slugger one-shot), Repkit for Amp then activate Sleight of Hand.

  • During Sleight of Hand, throw cards of different elements, and specifically look out to throw the Sweeten the Pot Color Spray card. It will grant a lot of bonus damage through Vigorish. As soon as you get a few cards to hit or even just one Color Spray card, end the skill and perform your one-shot.

Changelog

Jun. 4th 2026 - Included Prestidigitator, writeup updates.

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