The Best Predator build

These days when I put something here it’s 99% me shitting on the game. So I figured I’d change it up a bit here.

Now I’m aware most people think Hunter is just the best plain and simple, and now with fervent that could even more so be the case. BUT. Stick with me here.

Alpha might be the best. Considering hit and run is not only the best but basically the only thing that’s viable, having literally 100 less HP seems like a worthy trade off for all the stamina. Plus you can run large pouch impen and down range which are undoubtedly the best 3 perks.

Now here’s where people might get even saltier still. You can run Bow, or Disc if you’re a beast with it. For solid consistent damage you’ll be using your plasma caster, but here we go, what’s gonna rape everyone’s brain. You NEED to bring the net gun on every single class every single time to be able to win against solid 4 mans. Here’s why.

Let’s say you kill all 4 in no time, awesome that worked out. But you don’t need combi and bow, the bow does combi throw levels of damage and you don’t have to go retrieve it after every throw, and you don’t wanna use your combi for melee, one cause it’s damage is bawd and two is cause melee lol parry and die. And stacking disc and bow also seems redundant. At that point you’re using them both for style points. The net gun brings actual utility you might need.

What’s mind blowing is if a Dutch is the last man standing, and the chopper pulls up, and you have no net gun. He’s guaranteed the escape. You physically can’t do 180 damage to a mudded Dutch in 3 seconds. And he WILL shoot out your bear traps. Only way to stop him is netting him or he just leaves in your face.

So, run alpha, wear the smallest mask possible for maximum sweat. Bow, net gun. Down range. Impenetrable. Pouch. And I guess the do more damage from behind specialization as that’s where you’ll be wanting to hit people anyways. And that’s as sweaty and consistently oppressive as you can be.

Just kidding you read all that loser Hunter is the best

Elder with stalker

There are different variations of perks, but downrange is necessary.
With that you deal 151 damage with full charged plasma, which is really impressive.

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Or y’know throw disc at Dutch then call it back immediately, it’s a guaranteed down.

He’s gonna hear you throw it and move. Knew someone would say this though lol

Elder is not that good. Law stamina is kinda bad in my opinion

Not a problem at all, use trees and adrenaline boost, if low stamina bothers you that much.

Damage boost is worth it.

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It’s not that it bothers me it’s that you have to stay leaping against good teams or you’ll get melted

Don’t know mate, playing on elder constantly against good teams, seems pretty effective.

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Okay but i’m pretty sure that Elder Stalker is the strongest pred currently but i could be wrong.

I’ll have to check it out. I just can’t imagine not leaping against good teams that has always led to getting blasted in my experience

I used elder stalker against a full team last night. Good players too. The damage output is what saved my ass. Yes the ability to reposition was wanting, but the build isn’t made for that. Bow and pistol (disk worthless on backwater and against good players IMO). Modified reserve dithered lense and down range. Stayed in the trees almost all the time for that damage buff. It definitely did it’s job. @i_R_Old_Gregg what were your thoughts

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I mean I can get behind this. Alpha is just my personal opinion at the moment I haven’t played much elder since they wacked his stamina. He literally has berserker levels of stamina. And Down range plasma does shat loads of damage by itself so it’s still extremely effective on alpha

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Fair enough. I think against Greg’s team my other builds could have been better. Hunter fervent katana bow traps modified reserve down range adrenal. That ones nasty.

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stamina is never the problem. As thunder said, if you really need the stamina you can take adrenaline boost. But since melee isnt a thing in this game, you dont really need stamina. Elder is one of the best imo too. But I think City Hunter and Elder are on the same spot. CH with analytic is very strong too. But for a current top tier meta the Elder is the best

Stamina is used for leaping. And if you want to not get shredded you need to leap constantly in combat and you constantly need to be in combat or they will just rush down obj

Actually, leaping can be dangerous, cause your trajectory is easy to predict and because of that you might receive a ton of damage.

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I read just because you said you weren’t gonna shit on the game. 1%-er. Most of us are 2.5%-ers, maybe 2%-ers. Why so uptight?

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Hahahahah lol

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I’ve been playing since the beta and without question leaping while cloaked and using downrange with bow or caster is the best way to deal damage and avoid damage lol. Yes a set trajectory so don’t be boosted and leap right toward them or nothing. But do to the games bad frames you more often than not just disappear and they can’t even tell you’ve lept till you land and are firing again. Being in the trees also locks you into a set path. So really this door swings both ways

Alpha has been looking really good, especially since he has bullet damage resistance. His specializations are good, his stats are good, his perk points are good, he’s my boy