One Shotting Bosses on M4 with Zane

Borderlands 3 Zane the Operative
#1

I learned about Scourge/Violent Momentum scaling initially from hearing about Joltz 1 shotting GW. But I’ve since been shown several examples of other people already doing this. I took the idea further and applied it to a lot of bosses. I’ve officially killed every boss in the game using this build, many of them 1 shots or speed kills.

Build is shown in the videos. Passives are necessary, +heavy/splash/aoe etc. Snowdrift is necessary, anoint on Scourge is not. Can be done with other COM such as Executor.

Traunt:

Graveward:

Gigamind:

Billy The Anointed

General Traunt

Agonizer - Not a one shot, but a very reliable kill so I’m going to put it in since Agonizer is a pretty tough cookie. Normally 2 rockets does him in but I always shoot all 4 because I hate that commercial break! Take no chances!

GenIVIV- Another tough one! We have to get a bit creative for her. Using the S3RV-8OS-EXECUTE which is a tediore smg that debuffs if you expend the final bullet in the magazine and throw it.
I consider this one a one-shot still. Lots of setup here though.

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#2

Teach me master, how do I Zane. This is great.

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#3

I’m not a master of anything. Joltz is the master of finding broken interactions :slight_smile: I’m just someone with the gear and the time. Added clips of other bosses. I think I’ll mess around with some other bosses later too.

#4

I’ve been doing this for a while too, the interaction is great indeed… Here’s my one shot Graveward kill from a while ago:

#5

what is the point of dopplebanger in the end?

#6

He’s proccing his ASE anoints right before it hits.

#7

that adds to any projectile already in air? jeesh…

#8

Yes, it adds to the projectile already in the air, I wanted to do it without proccing ASE by trowing the barrier while falling down the shaft.

#9

yeah prolly 130 on swap in fire will one shot him easier without supersonic even

#10

Yeah, though the majority of the the damage is coming from Violent Momentum though… Without the anointments, you get through about 3/4 of his health.

#11

Very nice. Glad you posted this here to show there are other ways and setups to do it with!.

Have you managed any other cool oneshots? Would love to see clips!

Adding clips of Billy the Anointed and General Traunt to the OP.

Thanks to you @DagothUr I was falling a bit short on General Traunt, but I used your dopplebanger move and it put it over the top!

Just so you know I did that by accident in that clip, normally I cast it up top you can hear I’m spamming it but it just doesn’t cast in time on that one. Don’t need the ASE for the GW kill in that setup.

#12

Glad you found it helpful! I will do some other bosses soon, I’ll keep you posted :slight_smile:
And indeed, you don’t really need ASE with the right build.

Also, this can make a pretty great mobbing build too! I’ve seen my Scourge projectiles go up to 22k damage each, this clears mobs pretty easily.

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#13

Yeah it’s really fun for mobbing lol. Gotta carry an ammo solution though! I personally just swap in a cutpurse launchpad for that. Though I’m thinking for mobbing probably don’t even need snowdrift so I could probably just keep it equipped for ease of play, never even thought of that.

#14

Yeah I do the same, great for Slaughter Shaft as there’s so many easy spots to slam from.
Also cool to see you’re using the Executor instead of Anti-Freeze or Infiltrator, proves that Zane is really versatile!

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#15

Yeah I carry an Executor and Anti-Freeze depending on the boss. Though GTraunt just dropped me an Infiltrator with +splash so I’ll be trying that out too.

#16

Infiltrator and Anti-Freeze are very similar in terms of DPS, so it shouldn’t matter that much

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#17

Added to OP: Agonizer reliable fastkill(not 1 shot), and GenIVIV 1-shot with debuff.

#18

This is awesome