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Borderlands 4 Build

Hot Shot - 1 Shot Amon

presentationAmon
presentationOnslaughter
End Game
Verified
Updated on Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025

Build Overview

Build focused around getting HUGE ONE SHOTS with the use of Amp Damage and Bonus elements like Berserk, Dragon's Breath, and Bolt Action along with a Double Dip and potential TRIPLE DIP


This can also be seen as like a Deputy Build

Strengths And Weaknesses

  • 1 SHOTS
  • High Damage
  • Easy Survivability
  • Raid boss guns are mainly underbarrels which can sometimes be hard to farm

Skill Tree

Points Spent 0 / 49
LMB Allocate
RMB Unallocate
Onslaughter
3/3
2/5
1/3
5/5
1/1
3/5
5/5
2/5
3/3
3/3
5/5
3/5

Action Skill:

Calamity - used for the easy bonus element. The movement speed and shield recharge helps with survivability

Force of Nature - insane for single target. Go to bossing damage dealer. Detonation is a double dip based on the strongest 10 shots that applied Primed. The detonations can also help with bossing.

Hoarcleave - ranged option for applying Force of Nature as well as getting

Red Tree:

Impetus - increased movement speed for Bullet Train & recharge rate for survivability

What Burns Within - increases Onslaughter bonus element

Gut Punch - Damage boost that double dips in Force of Nature detonation

Tritanium Knuckles - Skill damage boosts Berserk, Force of Nature Dragon's Breath, and Bolt Action

Forged In Steel - Immunity to damage which helps survivability. Not a focus for survivability just kind of nice. Most notable in bossing

The Best Defense - great Overshield survivability

Bloodlust - gain some lifesteal and reload speed which is nice but really to get down the tree for capstone

Berserk - Cryo bonus element for your guns and melee. Mainly here for the guns. Does not apply to Force of Nature nor DoTs.

There Is Only Red - Boosts your Berserk bonus element by up to 210% at 5/5. 420% at 10/5.

My Touch Is Death - Procced by Slippy. Mainly helps with There Is Only Red

Dragon's Breath - allows for a HUGE damage boost VS flesh enemies for those big shots and a focus to that "deputy" playstyle.

Fists of Stone - Using Slippy you can easily keep up your Forgeskill

Blue Tree:

The Thrill - Easy survivability skill

Green Tree:

Get The Lead Out - more reload = more dps

Bolt Action - nice bonus element for shields


MINOR FLEXIBILITY

You can take points out of The Thrill and max out Fists of Stone to get Stormcutter for better action skill and ordnance uptime. As well as Electrical Fire if you want to maximum Stellium dot stuff

Equipment

Weapons
Repkits & Ordnance
Utilities

Guns:

Oscar Mike - star of the show for bossing. Using the Space Laser underbarrel w/ big shot skills/mechanics. I've seen up to 24k base damage. Used 14k and 20k and both did great.

Hot Slugger

Linebacker - first hit is doing the big damage

Truck - w/ torgue sticky or impact part

T.K's Wave - w/ torgue or atlas parts

Hellwalker

Order AR Kill Drone - w/ Torgue part and use Headringer enhancement

Maliwan Shotgun Stellium - as high shock DoT as possible used with Primed Potency enhancement

Birt's Bees w/ Tasers - not a 1 shot but hits multiple times and boosted by Amp so it can really melt bosses

A LOT of underbarrels are viable on this build (especially for bossing) so go out and experiment!!!

Ordnance:

Slippy - Used to proc My Touch Is Death and Fists of Stone. Get + 1 charge part.

Shield:

Firewerks - mobbing only. It gets kills for you meaning better clear speed. Benefits from Berserk

Watts 4 Dinner - Used for bossing. Easy shock bonus element. Easy Overshield. Can be used in mobbing but just not as good for clear speed. Get w/ Amp (up to 150% on triple roll) for the most damage

Any other shield that can get Triple Amp will be good on here as well

Class Mod:

Passives to look out for: Damage Dealt, Elemental Damage, Elemental Type Damage, Gun Damage

Shatterwight - for points in Berserk. Go to for mobbing as it will boost your guns AND Firewerks shield making it get kills more often

Furnace - for points in Dragon's Breath and/or Raging Inferno (will proc a dot based on Force of Nature damage letting you hit for billions of damage)

Stormcaller - for points in either Bolt Action or Lightning Rod

Forge Master - get points in Smelter. Can be nice for mobbing if you want to activate your Forgeskill more often.

Repkit:

Triple Bypass - lots of activations for your passive and forNow With Caffeine which will cycle Onslaughter

  • Amp (Amplified) - mainly for bossing but also can just be used in normal play
  • Accelarator (Adrenalized) - saves a few seconds of Cooldown before getting Onslaughter
  • Enrage (Experimental) - double dipping damage

Enhancement:

Literally anything that helps your damage. Make sure your enhancements have Gun Damage or Gun Type Damage passives as they are a pure mult with most damage boosts (additive with High Caliber Gun Damage)


Firmware

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

2/3 High Caliber - The Gun Damage is additive with Enhancement passive gun damage and mult with the general damage boosts. Always take.

High Caliber is the only MUST HAVE firmware. Everything else is situational

3/3 Deadeye - Lots of crit damage. Only boosts weakspot hits and not crit chance hits. Crit chance hits does stack the effect.

3/3 Trickshot - the ammo return is fun

1/3 Oscar Mike and/or 1/3 Heating Up - reload speed is great since we are always reloading

2/3 Airstrike - for splash related guns (splash damage is only 10%).

Specializations

Specialization 1Bullet Train
Specialization 2I Am A Gun
Specialization 3Now With Caffeine
Specialization 4A Honed Mind

Now With Caffeine - reduces your action skill cooldown by 1/4 NOT ACTION SKILL COOLDOWN RATE

I Am A Gun - applies to Force of Nature, Berserk, Dragon's Breath, Bolt Action

Bullet Train - used to buff guns and put into I Am A Gun

A Honed Mind - crit chance will work w/ all skills and if you shoot with Dragon's Breath active

Other Options:

Overkill - for better mobbing

The Best Defense - bonus double dips into Force of Nature

One Shot, One Kill - for bigger hits

Riddle You This - good w/ multi projectile guns

In The Zone - if you ADS a lot

Gameplay

Mobbing:

Activate action skill for damage bonus and priming enemies.

Throw Ordnance to activate Dragon's Breath.

Use Repkit if using amp part.

Make sure Shield Amp is active if using.

Shoot gun.

Activate Hoarcleave when available to keep up Berserk.

When Onslaughter goes on cooldown use your repkit w/ Now With Caffeine to get it back.

Bossing:

Use repkit for Amp

Use Hoarcleave for Berserk

Throw Slippy at boss for There Is Only Red, Fists of Stone, and Dragon's Breath

Activate Onslaughter

Make sure amp shield is full

Shoot gun

If boss is not dead then you can activate Hoarcleave again (Slippy + Fists of Stone should have brought it back) to activate Force of Nature

If you can not kill a boss w/ that then you can pair it w/ Raging Inferno DoT via Furnace to get strong DoTs that proc from Force of Nature. You can use the crit knife instead of Slippy to get more crit chance to help consistency of crits to proc Raging Inferno. This does mean no kill skills or Berserk during bossing but if this can't kill the boss then you have a gear problem


Changelog

November 8th 2025 - Build and video released!

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