Scrapper - Burst Gyro Scrapper
This is a test build. You may comment and rate it.
Focused on: Direct damage and Mobility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on February 17, 2023.
Overview
A low sustain, high damage PvP Scrapper burst build.
Skill Bar
Hammer
Utility
Template Code
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Specializations
Equipment
Hammer
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Usage
To be added.
Ratings
The latest updates have created some challenges for this build. When facing opponents with strong burst negation, sustain, and control, it can be tough to compete or feel useful. In high-level play, this build is no longer competitive unless you're up against specific team compositions. Most of the time, enemies know you've got a single stun break, and you'll find yourself getting targeted and shut down often. If you do choose to swap out one of the gyros for another stun break, you'll sacrifice what feels like too much damage and sustain from the barrier gen. In today's meta, condi and control are very strong picks, which means Scrapper can struggle to keep up without sufficient self-condi cleanse. Unfortunately, losing quickness when taking Antitoxin or any other relic feels frustrating, as it limits your burst speed and damage which is arguably your biggest strength. While this build can still shine in certain situations, it may not be the best choice for ranked play atm. You might find that enemies are surviving your burst more often, and you're struggling to deal with chain CC or condition stacks due to a lack of cooldowns or innate survivability.
I'm not sure where the "high risk" comes from in this build, because it doesn't feeel very high risk at all. In practice, this spec feels like it plays almost like a Thief. Pop out of Sneak Gyro and delete someone, do massive cleave damage via Nade Kit and free stomps with Function Gyro while you keep hitting everything in sight, warp around the map and evaporate people, laugh as you get top kills and damage for free every match. There are more buttons to press than there are with most builds, but once you get into the flow of it, this Scrapper spec will hard carry most matches, with very little counterplay potential. Feels like ANET just can't get this one adjusted quite right, as multiple tuning passes seem to have had little effect. Fun and hilarious to play - demoralizing to play against.
Still one of the most popular burst builds in 2024, even after getting nerfed several times. Sustain's relatively low but it has enough cleansing and defensive CDs plus stealth and CC to not be a complete pushover, especially in competent hands. Might take some practice to get it right but it's worth investing into.
Anet keeps nerfing scrapper but the problem isn't even scrapper it's nade kit. Hardcarries the entire build, it's still a beast. But once anet finally nerfs nades they'll need to buff scrapper or it'll disappear.
Very broken dmg and sustain, you will need to massively outplay in order to go anywhere while the build itself is fairly easy to use
Insane damage and escape available to it through super speed and invisibility. However with the rise in popularity of condi reaper and other powerful confdi specs you will struggle. Condi cleanse has always been a struggle for engi, and this build is no different. Also gets countered by cc because of limited stun breaks and no stab access. Still giving it a 4 despite these weaknesses because of how strong its disengage and damage is
This build has a very similar place as sic em sniper. It will farm new players but against people that know how to play around scrapper it is much more middle of the road. However, the perma superspeed allows a good player to really control a match and avoid the players that know what theyre doing while farming the peepos. Fun build but nade and tools holo are better engi builds with a higher skill cap.
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