Gundam Breaker 4: Abilities

Comparing Gundam Breaker 4 Abilities

Let’s start by laying out just what Abilities are available, through parts and Ability Modules. You know already that there are a lot of Abilities which are only available on specific parts.

The Abilities table below has a couple of notable differences from the Gundam Breaker Miraheze:

• the same row is used for the same abilities across all part types
• maximum stats per part are listed
• Ability Modules are listed
• the column “1 AM” shows the theoretical maximum stat from a single Ability Module
• the column “AM>A” marks whether it is true⇡ that a single Ability Module has a higher ability score than maxxing the Ability score across all parts, counting weapons twice.

The downside of this table is that, because of the different lengths of Ability names, the table’s information density is all over the place, and you will need to scroll horizontally on smaller screens.

Optimizing Abilities for Skills

In general: the more-specifc the Ability, the more powerful it is. The more general it is, the weaker it is:

• “Attack Power: Left Gatling” maxxes at 10% per long-range weapon for a maximum boost of 20%
• “Attack Power: Left Long-Range Weapon” maxxes at 4% per long-range weapon for a maximum boost of 8%
• “Attack Power: Long-Range Weapon” maxxes at 3% per long-range weapon for a maximum boost of 6% — and at 3% per Ability Module, one Ability Module won’t make up for that.

You could get a max of 15% on “Attack Power: Long-Range Weapon” from 5 Ability Modules, but why do that when you could pull the following combo?

• max “Near Death: Remaining HP%” at 34% on head, body, arms, and legs (170%) so that you remain in the “Near Death” state at all times
• max “Attack Power: At Low Health” on all weapons (40%)
• add Ability Modules for “Attack Power: At Low Health” at up to 10% per

That caps out to 90% Attack Power, before you start adding weapon-specific modifiers.

As for weapons, so too for OP SKills and EX Skills. The Attack Power and Cooldown Reduction abilities for the general type are weaker (4% per part) than the sub-type (10%).

Notes on optimizing builds

“When Parts Lost” and “When Enemy Defeated”

I stay away from these Abilities, because those don’t work well in Boss Battles.

“Time Reduction: Charge”

Only useful if your weapon has a charging attribute; rapid-fire weapons like machine guns and gatling guns generally do not.

“Skill Cooldown Reduction: OP” and specific “Cooldown Reduction”

Get your per-skill reduction over 100% to enable endless spam of missiles or close-range attacks

“Awaken Gauge Increase: Hit Number”

The fastest way to keep your Awaken Gauge filled.

“Gatling”-type long-range weapons, “Vulcan” OP skills, or “Micro Missile” attacks from the Zeta backpacks or the Builder Parts pair well with this

“Flinch Gauge”, “Guard Gauge”, “Rescue Gauge”, dodges, invulnerability time

I don’t mess with these; I don’t really use these skills because I’ve got a 293% HP Capacity Ability Module and I’m fast on the Breakfall button.

“Hate: Up”

Pairs well with “Awaken Gauge Increase: When Damaged”

“Recirculate: *”

Some of these skills are useful.

Always 5%.

Purchase the “Gundam (Recirculate)” from the Shop. Then buy a few more. Synthesize these skills into your builds.

“Reuse: * on * Pickup”

It’s a neat gimmick, but requires a dedication to the “breaking” mechanic, which may not suit your playstyle. Useless in boss fights.

“Explosion Area: Left Long-Range Weapon”

This 10% boost from an Ability Module is only available on the left arm. If you have a Long-Range Weapon with “High Explosive” or “Mini HE”, put it on the left.

“Hyper Trance EX”

Trans-Am and Super Mode are cool, but they’re just a speed boost. Put your points into Awaken instead, for both speed and damage increases, and reduced gauge consumption.

“Long-Range Gauge Cost”, “Long Range Gauge Capacity”, “Long Range Gauge Recovery Speed”

If your gun takes longer to reload than it takes to fire off one whole OP Skill palette, you might want to consider investing in these as Ability Modules.

OP Skills

A 100% reduction in cooldown is better than a 10% increase in attack power, becase it lets you put twice the damage downrange per unit time.

Shooting Mode

Useless in half the maps due to terrain.

If you have time to set up a sniping position, you and your teammates aren’t firing enough Guided Missile OP attacks.

An optimized build

8 abilities per mastered part.

Head

1. HP Capacity
2. HP Recovery: Per Second
3. Near Death: Remaining HP%
4. Awaken Gauge Increase: Performance
5. Extended Activation: Awaken
6. Recirculate: Reduced Gauge Consumption During Awaken
7. 2 option slots:
   • Max Duration: Hit Combo
   • Item Drop: Quality
   • Time Reduction: Charge

Body

1. HP Capacity
2. HP Recovery: Per Second
3. Near Death: Remaining HP%
4. Max Duration: Hit Combo
5. Item Drop: Quality
6. Recover HP on Attack Hit
7. Thruster Gauge Consumption: Boost
8. Time Reduction: Charge

Right/Left Arm

1. HP Capacity
2. HP Recovery: Per Second
3. Near Death: Remaining HP%
4. Awaken Gauge Increase: Hit Number
5. Awaken Gauge Increase: Over Time
6. Awaken Gauge Increase: When Damaged
7. 2 option slots:
   • Recirculate: Reduced Damage
   • Time Reduction: Charge
   • Awaken Gauge Increase: When Parts Lost

Legs

1. HP Capacity
2. HP Recovery: Per Second
3. Near Death: Remaining HP%
4. Awaken Gauge Increase: Hit Number
5. Awaken Gauge Increase: Over Time
6. Awaken Gauge Increase: When Damaged
7. 2 option slots:
   • Recirculate: Reduced Damage
   • Time Reduction: Charge
   • Movement Speed: Run

Backpack

1. HP Capacity
2. HP Recovery: Per Second
3. Movement Speed: Boost
4. Recirculate: Reduced Thruster Gauge Consumption
5. 4 option slots:
   • Thruster Gauge Consumption: Boost
   • Thruster Gauge: Capacity
   • Thruster Gauge: Recovery Speed
   • Time Reduction: Charge
   • Recover HP on Attack Hit

Shield

1. HP Recovery: Per Second
2. HP Capacity
3. Damage Reduction: Critical Condition
4. Damage Reduction: For Each Enemy Targeting You
5. Recirculate: Reduced Gauge Consumption During Awaken
6. 3 option slots:
   • Parts Lost: Defense
   • Reuse: Gain EX Gauge & Reduce OP Cooldown on Shield Pickup
   • Flinch Gauge: Capacity
   • Recover HP on Attack Hit

Long-Range Weapon

1. Attack Power: (this specific weapon)
2. Attack Power: At Low Health
3. Attack Power: Funnels EX/whatever your big EX Skill is
4. Cooldown Reduction: (long-range OP Skill)
5. Cooldown Reduction: When Parts Lost
6. EX Gauge Increase: When Parts Lost
7. 2 option slots:
   • Attack Power: Parts Lost
   • Attack Power: (OP Skill)
   • Attack Power: (your backup OP/EX Skills)

Close-Range Weapon

1. Attack Power: (this specific weapon)
2. Attack Power: At Low Health
3. Cooldown Reduction: When Parts Lost
4. EX Gauge Increase: When Parts Lost
5. Recirculate: Reduced EX Gauge Consumption
6. 2 option slots:
   • Reuse: Gain EX Gauge & Reduce OP Cooldown on Close-Range Weapon Pickup
   • Attack Power: Parts Lost
   • Cooldown Reduction: (close-range OP Skill)

Add to that some Ability Modules:

• HP Capacity > 290% (1)
• Long-Range Gauge Cost 30%
• Long-Range Gauge Recovery Speed 30%
• Long-Range Gauge Capacity 30%
• Extended Activation: Awaken 30%
• Skill Cooldown Reduction: OP 30% (3-4)

My builds tend towards the funnel/missile type: 4 EX skills all funnel types, 4 Guided Missile OP Skills. With high OP Cooldown Reduction and a pair of machine guns or gatling guns, my EX and Awaken Gauges stay full, and I rarely need to switch to the second OP Skill palette.

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