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Wyrmsplosion - Versatile Malignant Construct

Loveless

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By LazyData

Updated on Sep 16, 2026

Sep 16, 2026

Build Overview

Want your Wyrm pet to absolutely slay out? Here you go! Exceedingly strong Wyrm build with powerful Loveless support.

Strengths And Weaknesses

Exceedingly high Wyrm damage output
One taps most things it touches
Satisfying multi kill chain reactions
Wide play-style Variety (Gun, Melee, Grenade, Wyrm Support)
All capstones and augments are viable AND usable
Malleable to your liking

Wyrm AI is isn't good
Wyrm actions are unresponsive at times
Flying / Mobile bosses are frustrating

Build Variants

Massive long range chain reactions due to IHATEYOU shurikens.

Cycle Empowered Melees to flash your fancy Wolverine claws for big hits and character buffs. Can play around guns, melee and or grenades.

Symbiosis

Symbiosis skills have two major parts. The main effect that scales with points invest, and a sub effect that does not scale. The Sub effect is often the stronger of the two so many of these we only need 1 point and can dip.

Eg: Corrupted Path. 5% Radiation damage per point is on the lower end of damage efficiency, however a 4% bonus element per Symbiosis stack on just the first point invested. So at the initial 25 stacks thats an instant 100% bonus element for 1 skill point. After Fusion Friends-y to 5 for 50 stacks it becomes 200%, and +5 Fusion Friends-y to 10 points and you get up to 75% stacks, or 300% bonus radiation damage for that 1 point invested.

Skill Tree

Points Spent 0 / 69

LMB Allocate

RMB Unallocate

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INTERCHANGEABLE SKILL POINTS

Third Party, Finisher and Pure Fusion points can happily be redistributed to player choice. Though bare in mind some of these have to remain top red for tree progression.

Other candidates:

Neutral Special - Very high Empowered Melee damage and radius. Slows melee speed. Good for reaching hard to hit enemies Like Subjugator and Child of Terra.

IDKFA - Some novas and gun damage

Glass 'Em! - Better Rad-splosions but only for Wyrm kills. Opens access to enrag.exe.

The Sweet Science - Dot ontop of Empowered melee, but only every 100 Footwork stacks.

AUGMENTS

Solid State Destruction - My favourite. Responsive Function ability, amps the executable for big damage on them.

Intelligent Artifice - Decent basic attack damage increase, very high survivability on Wyrm. Loses Teleport function.

Hard Crash - Decent Damage though rarely is what gets the kill for cooldown reset. I use for hard to hit bosses like Subjugator.

Dark Web - Highest Potential, can be inconsistent. Most things function touches die anyway so gets better the tankier the enemies are. (Takedown / Thol potential)

Giga Bite - Worst of the Bunch tbh. Heals Wyrm on bite.

CAPSTONES

barrag.exe - Highest bossing DPS. High damage, high Devourer proc rate.

nuk.exe - Wide mobbing AoE. Hits all crystals on Vile and Ordonite enemies.

enrag.exe - Largely untested by myself. Wyrm seemed to struggle catching enemies to apply. Reports of solid damage though, i prefer barrag.exe

Equipment

Weapons

Repkit & Ordnance

Utilities

GUNS

Radiation guns are preferred for IHATEYOU chain reactions. Though not necessarily mandatory

Pragmate - Shoot enemies to buff next melee hit. Applies to Wyrm melee hits.

Devourer - Get in radiation to pop Rad dots for HUGE damage. Very helpful for hassle bosses like Subjugator and other fliers.

Mantra - Between melee effects like Flow State and massive boosts in Odium its got alot of potential power behind it.

Tediore mag for bit reload hits is a good option

Triplicate - This is just F U DPS slot. Use your favourite guns

Other options

Tempered Essence - Another Melee damage gun like Mantra

Convergence - High dot rate.

Crow-Sourced - High DPS

Swan Song - High DPS

Stealth & Seek - Fantastic Mobbing potential.

Beyond this it's player choice.

REPKIT

Triple Bypass - Good healing, high availability, will always have a charge on hand. Works with Now With Caffeine for Action skill restore.

Accelerator Order Repkit as a budget option.

ORDNANCE

Player choice mainly.

Waterfall - High DOT and Damage potential with Lingering and Alchemic.

Lingering + Alchemic Ripper / Vladof grenades are good for budget.

CLASS MOD [Important]

Devourer - Your be all end all. Best in most situations. The devour mechanic scales up to 80% proc rate at 75 stacks.

Roll with as many Fusion Friends-y points as you can for max Symbiosis stacks.

Passives to look out for: Action skill Duration. Crit Chance. Skil Damage. Melee Damage. AS Damage.

Hoarder - Good for a gun damage focus in boss fights. Empowered melee spam is required to upkeep the gun damage bonus.

SHIELD

Open choice

Onion for Survivability

Firewerks for aggressive mobbing

AMP shields +/ Watts 4 Dinner / Super Soldier for gun focus

ENHANCEMENT

Open choice. Match your chosen weapons.

A TRANSFUSER Enhancement while holding a Radiation Beam Tosser becomes a DoT spreading option if you don't need to hold other guns. Great for a Melee / grenade playstyle.

Firmware

Repkit & Ordnance

Repkit FirmwareSkillcraft

Ordnance FirmwareSkillcraft

Utilities

Class Mod FirmwareAction Fist

Shield FirmwareAction Fist

Enhancement FirmwareSkillcraft

Skillcraft for Wyrm

Action Fist helps Wyrm while also providing help for Empowered Melee

Other options (replace Action Fist)

High Caliber 2 / Active Fire 1 + Heating Up 1 for Gun play

Reel Big Fist for better empowered melees

Get Throwin 1 for Grenades

Specialization

Specialization 1Bullet Train

Specialization 2Now With Caffeine

Specialization 3Bear Arms

Specialization 4Groundbreaker

Fixed slots

Now With Caffeine. AS cooldown

Open slots

Bullet Train Synergises nicley with Pragmate for run and gun into melee

Groundbreaker bigger Empowered Melee hits. Best in boss fights. Damage is Kinetic so may eat IHATEYOU procs

Bear Arms Boosts Empowered Melee and Wyrm damage

A Honed Mind Wyrm crit chance and damage

Riddle You This For more gun focus

Fragmentation Payload for more grenade focus

The Best Defense if you're really unsure and just want something. Low uptime with melee playstyle

Gameplay

Open with Wyrm spawn and a grenade throw / DOT gun to stack your RAM bar for your first empowered melee. You want to use Empowered melee more early on to stack up Symbiosis through Storage Upgrade.

Use Function ability on groups to stack up Solid State Destruction.

Once the rotation is going Empowered Melee should be looping into itself provided you have enough Fusion Friends-y. Now just bounce between guns and Melee as you desire. Use nuk.exe on big groups. barrag.exe on more stationary bosses.

Vile Wisps and crystals count as enemies for IHATEYOU. So a stab through should slice right through them, sometimes one shotting them.

HIGH DATA RATE

High Data Rate has alot of damage potential, it provides a guaranteed super DOT on your first instance of Elemental (non DoT) damage after your Empowered Melee, the High Data Rate can be seen on the buff bar, so identify that so you know you have it ready.

Try to line it up with your Wyrm Function attack. Remember that Wyrm basic attacks or lingering grenades can steal the super dot so be careful. Thankfully Empowered Melee is quite spammable so using it often allows Wyrm to just naturally apply HDR dots around.

DEVOURER (The gun)

Devourer is a gun that upon shooting an enemy, you'll consume all DoTs of the same element and deal massive damage, far beyond the potential damage of the Dots themselves. The damage scales higher the longer the DoT has left so be fast. Shooting enemies you've hit with a focused High Data Rate dot or a boss you've hit with an executable is the best way to use this.