If you’ve ever wanted to absolutely destroy enemies in Borderlands 4 with endless rockets supply and saw blades, this guide is for you.
We’ll show you how to build the character Amon into a powerful artillery machine.
Many players think Amon is one of the weakest characters, but with the right setup, he can become an unstoppable force for you.
Introducing Amon
Most players write off Amon because his damage seems too low for the game’s hardest difficulty levels.
But that’s only true if you don’t understand how his skills work together with the right gear. The key is to build him like a living cannon—focusing on explosive weapons, never running out of ammo, and causing constant, rapid destruction.
The secret?
Using his skills to constantly get free ammo back and to massively boost the power of rocket launchers and weapons that throw saw blades. This build uses his passive skills, class mods, and equipment in a specific way to turn him from a weak character into an incredibly fun and powerful one.
How the “Ordnance” Synergy Works
The most important part of this build is how the skill “Endless Bombardment” works with explosive weapons.
Endless Bombardment gives you a free ammo refund every time your explosive weapon deals damage. This works best with weapons that hit many times with one shot, like a rocket that explodes into smaller bombs or a saw blade that bounces between enemies.
The game’s code treats these explosive weapons just like regular guns for many important stats. This means that skill bonuses meant to increase gun damage or critical hit chance will also make your rocket launchers and saw blades much stronger.
Once you understand this, every choice you make for the build—which skills to pick, which mods to use—is about creating constant, chaotic, and free explosive attacks
Building the Skills: Skill Tree Breakdown
To make this build work best, you need to be at the end of the game. Level 50 is the lowest level where it really starts to shine.
The Cybernetics Tree (Green)
You don’t use this tree’s main action skill, but it’s super important for dealing damage:
- Executioner (5 points): Increases critical hit damage, doubled after melee (not a focus here, but you get base crit bonuses).
- Gathering Storm (5 points): Kill skill boosting elemental damage, stacking for extra power.
- Vital Organs (5 points): Hitting an enemy with a gun gives you a better chance to score a critical hit with all your weapons. This works with your explosive weapons too!
- Cacophony (5 points): Raises ordnance damage—ignore detonation bonuses, just grab the damage.
- Endless Bombardment (5 points or more): This is the most important skill. You need 8 total ranks. Put 5 points here, then use a class mod to get the extra 3 ranks.
Tip: Your class mod must give you at least +3 to Endless Bombardment.
Vengeance Tree (Blue)
This tree houses the action skill and crucial damage boosts:
- Action Skill – Scourge: Puts up a shield that blocks enemy bullets and absorbs them most of the time
- Scorch Cairo (5 points): Makes your explosive weapons stronger and lets you hold more ammo before reloading.
- Cryionic Thrum (Augment): When you aim down sights, you move faster and do bonus ice damage. This also keeps your shield active to absorb attacks.
- Firewall Forge: Creates a wall that blocks enemy shots. Shoot through it to do more damage.
- Tail of the Comet (5 points): Has a chance to freeze enemies over time.
- Bullet Hail (5 points): Has a chance to make your bullets (and rockets!) ricochet and hit other enemies.
- Blackout (5 points): Gives your explosive weapons a better critical hit chance and shocks enemies.
- Tactician (4 points): Firing from the hip makes you shoot faster. Aiming down sights makes your guns do more damage.
Fine-Tuning Skill Points
If you’re lucky and get more ranks of Endless Bombardment on your class mod, move some Cybernetics points into:
- Stoked: Increases fire rate after ordnance damage.
- Tactician: Round out to 5 for full bonuses.
Specialization Tree: Unlocking Hidden Power
This tree makes everything else better.
First, put 10 points into Survivor for more health and shields.
Then, put 10 points into Brute for a straight damage increase for your guns (and rockets!).
Then, put 10 points into Gadgetier. This unlocks “Full Spectrum Arsenal,” which gives your explosive weapons an extra 50% gun damage.
Put another 10 points into Gadgetier to unlock “Fragmentation Payload,” which gives your explosive weapons more crit chance and crit damage.
Put another 10 points into Survivor to unlock “Best Defense,” which gives you up to 30% bonus damage when your health or shields are full (which they often will be).
Put another 10 points into Brute to unlock “Really You This,” which makes each gun hit stack up more gun damage (up to 50%).
Post-Lv 71 Optimization
Once you hit level 71, move some points from the Brute tree into “Sharpshooter” to unlock “Killer,” which boosts your critical and status effect damage. This is perfect for this build. You can switch points between “Killer” and “Brute” depending on what you need.
Choosing Gear: Weapons, Mods, and More
Here’s what you need to complete this destructive build:
Weapons
For Bosses: Tor Multi-M Missile Launcher
Fires lots of rockets very fast. Look for one with the “Twoot” modifier (fires 2 rockets for the price of 1) and a “fire rate” bonus. With your skills, you can almost never run out of ammo.
For Groups of Enemies: Disc Jockey
Shoots bouncing saw blades that chase enemies. Each blade can hit many times, which constantly refunds your ammo.
The best type is “Kinetic” (non-elemental) so its damage is never reduced.
How to get it: Farm the boss “Sydney Pointy Legs” at the drill site in Fadefields.
You can use either weapon for any situation, but switching between them is best.
RepKit (Grenade)
Warp Paint Rep Kit: Using it gives you 30% faster fire rate and movement speed, great for burning down a boss.
Look for one with the “Enrage” modifier for 30% bonus damage (but you’ll take 15% more damage).
This isn’t absolutely necessary, but it helps.
Class Mod
Calculating Cyborg:
It MUST have at least +3 to Endless Bombardment.
It’s great if it also has a skill that gives you overshields when dealing explosive damage.
Best Stats to look for: Explosive Damage > Critical Damage > Elemental Damage.
Shield
Super Soldier Legendary Shield:
This shield likes to stay full, which gives you 25% faster fire rate, 25% movement speed, and regenerates 1 ammo per second.
The “Siphon” modifier gives you a chance to get extra overshield when you deal damage.
How to get it: Farm the final story boss, “Vile Liar,” in Terminus Range.
Enhancement
Look for modifiers that give Gun Damage and Gun Splash Damage (both make your rockets stronger). Fire rate isn’t as important for launchers. Higher-level enhancements have better stats.
Firmware
Gadget A Hoy (3 ranks): Getting a kill with an explosive weapon reduces its cooldown and boosts your damage for a short time. Great for fighting groups or bosses with minions.
Air Strike (2 ranks): Makes the explosion from your weapons larger and more powerful
How to Play: Tactics and Combat Loops
This build is designed for high-level play, including Ultimate Vault Hunter 5. Here’s how to use it:
Mobbing
Equip the Disc Jockey (the saw blade weapon).
Aim at the ground near enemies, not directly at them. The blades will bounce and then chase your targets. More bounces mean more damage.
Keep your ammo above 3 or 4. If your ammo gets too low, your skills might go on cooldown.
Aim down sights (ADS) when you fire to get extra damage bonuses.
Your action skill shield, grenade, or damage wall are optional. You don’t really need them for groups, but they can help you out of a tough situation.
Boss Fights
- Equip Tor Multi-M Launcher.
- Set up your burst: Activate Scourge (action skill), place Firewall Forge at an angle, use Rep Kit for fire rate/enrage.
- ADS and fire through firewall for all buffs.
- Disc Jockey also works for bosses, but Tor Launcher is much faster.
Conclusion
With this setup, Amon is no longer a weak character. He becomes the best artillery expert in the game—an unstoppable force that crushes both groups of enemies and bosses with endless rockets, bouncing blades, and huge explosions.
Whether you want to melt bosses in seconds or just love the idea of never running out of ammo, this guide shows you how. Use these strategies, tweak them with your own awesome loot, and you’ll never see Borderlands combat the same way again.
