Note: You can use BASHO arms and KIKAKU boosters for greater melee specialization on Three-Punch Man build, at the expense of general mobility and shotgun accuracy.

In other words the Asuka (firepower), the Shinji (Mid-range stagger generator), and the Rei (almost suicidal devotion to going into melee).

For upgrading these builds, there are hidden cores with more generator output. I found these invaluable for making stun needles more comfy in a build. So after you clear your first playthrough, you still have upgrade paths!

You need to have done mission 14 for those legs, mission 27 to unlock the San Tai generator, mission 35 to unlock the VP44D head, and get hunter rank 10 for that core.

I find a lot of people are sleeping on the melee builds. I found quad legs (for the spin kick)+laser blade+laser lance+songbirds+Zimmerman shotgun is an absolutely devastating hyper-aggressive rushdown build that dominates most scenarios while keeping a very low resource cost. If you know how to time it, you'll never stop attacking until everything is dead. No worry of cooldown/reload time at all. I call it the swashbuckler build. Build ID: 2GVU4CW2468T

Dual plasma rifles + dual plasma missiles has been unbelievably strong in all scenarios for me. Disgusting DPS and way easier to use than dual songbirds / bazookas or zimmermans since there is no range requirement, lots of splash damage, and they can work well with a flying quad build.

Loving the colours you use for the AC. I'm surprised that myself as a big EVA fan I've yet to make an EVA in AC6; been too busy with my Zowort Heavy from Gundam Witch From Mercury. 🤣

One thing that stands out to me about the needles is the direct damage multiplier. I haven't looked at other weapons, but the high value encourages me to use it after an ACS break 💪🏼

I recently cobbled together something remarkably similar to the 3 punch mech. The main difference is I made it a little slower with more AP, mostly so I can use the SB-033M Morley instead of the Songbird. I find it makes the build more reliable on first mission runs, since the spread lets you more reliably land your melee hits as a follow up. Plus it can blow up clusters of small enemies, as long as they're kind of close together.

Man I can always count on you with the dope guides to push me through a boss

Amazing builds ! Thanks you ! Will definitely try them all out ! 😎✌️

Thank you so much for these. I've gotten through so much of the game with these builds, whether they are as they are or basis for new builds of my own.

All these builds are sick. Thanks! You be having the best ones

I used a melee build to carry me through the game, once I unlocked the moonlight and redshift it became even more trivialized.

I dig the Rebuild of Eva Ver. Unit-00, Unit-01 & Unit-02 liveries

I actually built the first example on my own when it was so damn fast. It got me through most of the game and all arenas no problem. I didn't build it precisely how you did, but I only ever really had trouble with a couple of the end bosses. No spoilers but when you know you know. Now that I have completed all story and have access to all parts minus some from logs and collectibles, I'll give the last build a shot. I really wanted to find a mostly melee build that really hit hard. I love this game for how creative it has allowed people to be with their builds.

Bro out here building Eva-00, 01 and 02

Wow that final builds weapons are exactly what I settled on for the end of the game into NG++ now. It's so fun charging at enemies and so satisfying to hit that Pile Bunker and shred a boss.

great builds and big props on the Eva paint schemes

im loving the references to evas 00 01 and 02. LOVE IT!

"Shinji get in the armored core, Kill the angels."

I love you're color choices makes me wanna try a few cosplay builds

This is an awesome guide! Also, I know I'm late to the game (just started playing recently) but the thing about melee weapons in general are freaking insane in terms of damage - most fights in rank match easily die with a melee damage, and I'm about to finish Chapter 3 still using the default melee blade most of the time and only using any range weapon to clean up the critters around.

For 2nd build if you want more mobility for out of shoulder shots you can equip a coral generator (technically also enables infinite flight due to the recoil suspending you a little)

Thanks for the video, I really wish you would have included a shot of the overall build somewhere for these though.

I have a build similar to the first two, where I use either dual shotguns or dual gatling guns on my arms and dual Songbirds/Stun needles on my shoulders and try to remain as mobile as possible (hate the tank and quad legs). It works like a charm for EVERYTHING (except for V.VII Snail, for which I had to go full tank and use some tank legs). But I'm interested to give the last build a try: could be interesting and fun.

I'll try this game later! Thanks for the tipss

I use dual shotguns main hands and Zimmerman a on my shoulders, when you switch them out the one in the back slot is reloading. So I’m basically double firing, swapping, double firing again, switch, then wait like half a second and repeat. I’ve stun locked all the bosses with this tactic, it made the last set of bosses a breeze. Plus with the kinetic damage and direct damage upgrade you just smoke everything that the game throws at you

The colors of the 3 main Eva pilots is such a nice touch

Oh hey it's Ermin! Thought your voice sounded familiar. Defs gunna try these builds out, thanks dude!

Great video man!

Good builds. Even with the nerfs (1.03.1) to most of the weapons, i.e. Zimmerman and Stun Needle Launcher, they're still more than capable of cruising through the missions.

If you want a bit more of a mid-range version of Build #2, I recommend swapping the zimmies out for for ransetsu-rf's. Lower stagger on each shot, in exchange for more frequent shots at longer range. Got through the entirety of Chapter 4 and 5 with it, and cleared the arena.

Yoooo i absolutely recognized that voice and for a split second I thought "did Ermin use a text-to-speech program the whole time!?" and then i realized it was you! haha so random to see you here after years of sim racing content lmao

That last build looks fun.

The description for the first build was personal o-o

did anyone else notice that the Eva color schemes were used? That's awesome!

Awesome builds. Some look like the parts aren't unlocked until after chapters. Are these runs for S tier completions?

the last build is what I came up with for my first playthru. I used a lot of the wrecker parts for high stability which made it look like some industrial mech which I was really proud of the ascetic. I figured that the pile bunker did insane damage while they were staggered so I used the laser sword at first plus a shotgun blast but once I got the laser lance is was joever. it was so op in fact I started to use other builds bc I wasn't getting challenged. So I made a missile boat tetrapod (which is op as well) and a mech using late game parts it was basically all the end game bosses armor for the liberator ending plus the moonlight and a needle gun and the 10 round missile launcher. oh also I used scudder assault rifle to keep the enemies stagger from decaying plus to take out trash enemies. it was a good mech that didnt feel super op it was just right.

I loved that Eva-01 reference with the colors

The Zimmerman Shotguns and Songbirds are the best combo to start out with when they become available. They will take you far into the game into new game +.

My Main Setup for my Playthroughs was the Laser Lance with the other Pile Driver Melee along with the JVLN Alpha and a Song Bird. Great for Bosses and ACs. The Laser Lance is just too Good for getting in close for follow up attacks and it'll usually Stagger if you catch ACs at the Start. Id Put on a Multi Lock on rocket if dealing with lots of Enemies in a certain mission. I tried other Guns and such but once you find that Setup you like, its over 😂

my build was the last one, so satisfying getting the perfect poke damage on Bosses and Arena

I love that while these builds are OP, they all have their weaknesses to balance them out

5:38 you cant believe people struggled with this boss? Probably because those weapons arent unlocked until the end of chapter 3...

Dawg i didn't know you're so good at this game too

I naturally converged to build 1 and 2 during play. The game just rewards high stun/dps gameplay, which favors a build that can carry heavy weapons. Unfortunately I am not good and fast enough for build 3, though it seems a lot of fun to play a lighter build.

my favorite build is: missile launchers on both hands, those that look like a box (they are soo overlooked and yet they turn out to be the most useful missile weapon of them all, i even managed to beat ibis soo easily thanks to those) and for the shoulders the heavy laser shootguns, at close they do tremendous damage and thanks to the fire rate you can shoot up to 3 times during an active stagger. For the AC itself i found myself just using the ac you unblock after getting the good ending, the one walter used in his boss fight. Finished NG plus in just 3 hours with that build to get the bad ending so im on my way to the 3rd one to get the real ending.

These are also end game builds, most of these have parts that you don't get until after Balteus and the C-Spider

I used 2 gatlings and 2 songbirds with tetrapods for my first playthrough. It makes 90 percent of the game a no brainer.

gives builds to clear bosses that block the parts required for the build .....10/10 video.

Thanks for this video 😊👌🏾

Ok, I'm sold on that 3-Punch Man AC. Already have an all-rounder Zimmerman + Curtis AC and another AC similar to build #1 here for cheesing through certain 'handicap' missions and they've served me well. But that build #3 looks really exciting.

I randomly discovered double Zimmerman + double Songbirds in Arena. And Oh-boy it just works.

These are great keep it up

I found the booster blade plus pile bunker combo by just trying to deal with the cooldown of the booster blade, the damage potential is absolutely insane.

Very first AC is literally called bulletstorm due to the dual wielding gatling guns and double needle cannons that build literally gundown everything in the game with it

The fact that I used the exact same weapons as the first build when playing through the game amusing to see, mine was named lemon and pepper pepper spray

Tetrapod duel songbird and shotguns, that carried me through pretty much the entire campaign.

Once you get them, the Aperetif Missile Launchers destroy things. Lots of stagger, lots of damage, hits reliably.

I already had figured out the first 2 builds but the third is very interesting

I see what you did there with the color schemes ;)

love the evangelion references here in the paint

fun fact if you get an acs break while having the spinning dagger rusty uses equipped if you acs break then do a chain attack into assault armor it one shots ACs without the oppurtunity for them to repair

So, fun fact, on the melee build, swap the legs for the reverse ankled ones you get from hunter rank, swap the cannon for plasma rockets and the arms for basho. The basho arms have the best melee tracking by far, so you can go for heavy lance melee and as long as you are in range, you are gonna hit. And the plasma rockets are more for lightweight than anything else. Bc the jump distance from reverse ankled legs lets you dodge every melee attack and a lot of heavy boss moves with the jump, get sub 20 sec kills on the ibis-series with that for example. Also, use the boosters that have higher base boost speed than quick boost, makes you so manouverable, nothing can outrun you 👍 Got me s rank on almost all missions (except the goddamn strider escort gank)

Buddy and I try different things but whenever we get stuck we always switch to dual gattys and songbirds haha

I love the Eva mech painjobs

I found that Bullet Storm is a tiny bit more AFKbrained with the LG-022T Bornemizza treads, particularly vs bosses like enforcement system

I'm surprised you didn't include a MISSILES build. Works pretty well on anything that's not *too* fast, and even then. Pack the 10-cell missile launcher on one shoulder, the sextuple plasma missiles on another (the AOE is great for evasive enemies), the 4-cell missile launcher in one hand, and the 1-shot that makes 8 micro-missiles in the other. Use some digitigrade legs, because this build does great at spamming from the air, and make sure to pick the right FCS for the job - generally you want medium-range and long-range support, but don't neglect close-range entirely. Furlong FCS are great and available early. Aim for mid-to-low-weight and average AP (around 9k), but you don't need too much. Generator should be chunky, and pick some high-performance thrusters - you're going to be quick-boosting around the area circling your target while dumping missiles into them the second you lock on, and making it hell for any enemies trying to lock onto you. Coral generators work great once you unlock them, but so do those hexagon-y ones. In early-game, you can just use the 4-shots in both hands, the 3-cell instead of 6-cell plasma missiles, and the 4-cell missiles instead of the 10-cell; in NG+, you can pick up some new weird missiles to upgrade.

Second build is the exact same, except for the booster and FSC, that I had going once I unlocked stun needles, took I through NG+, NG++, and S ranking every mission, all but five of them first try, with that one build

Pile Bunker has, if I recall, the second highest Direct Hit Adjustment (stagger damage bonus without OS upgrades) out of all the melee weapons, second only to the Double Trouble

I am currently use similar light weight build like your last one except I use dual handgun and dual songbird.

Just remember: you have to get through the game to get these pieces. This is not a video about _that_

I used the duel shotgun, duel stun needle build and the V2 snail balteus boss first try after struggling for a day or so. Thanks

I like how your builds are based off of the evangelion and gundam mechs

I randomly made an op close range build I beat the game with, and S ranked several missions with. I call it the hornet, I utilize a low weight extremely high boost speed ac (use the Alula/21E booster, and your lightest parts), then after unlocking the weapon bay, equip 2 balem handguns and 2 shotguns on your back, stay close range use the pistols to stagger, and the shotguns to deal heavy damage on incapacitated enemies, or energy shields.

le me, casually using the exact third build:"oh... i guess i choose the right parts"

the shotgun + stun needle combo is literally a beast that can melt almost anything easy,, tho in my case, I switch either one shotgun or the left needle gun with melee weapon if I need it, mostly it's the laster lance

In my opinion the BEST parts also have to be considered based on when you get them. Based on that, gatling guns and tri-pulse rockets are the 4 best weapons in the game, you get them early on and with those 4, you clear the content around those parts way faster, dual gatlings also make me feel like an APU off the matrix so there's that.

All the Eva color palettes. Very nice

I love that AC6 still allows you to completely dominate people. Armored Core always had this sort of theme. Some ACs were fucking legends that did unbelievable things. Its awesome that you can be one!

Love the colour scheme you had there , maybe next time have builds with the colour scheme of Eva08 and the one Kaworu had in the rebuild series

it's very interesting to see a lot of people building a variation of the Three-Punch Man Build for the First Playthroughs. The damage output you can get out of the Pile Bunker is phenomenal, though I ended up using pulse shields so I can build for more dodging speed since moving around with the boss gave me a lot more survivability.

Just went a second playthrough with large tank legs, two gatlings, two cant remember the name but huuuge canons. It was a breeze.:D

Favorite build right now is dual shotguns with a lance on my left shoulder and nothing else with the lightest speediest body parts. You don't even need the melee arms(basho arms I think?) for it to work.

first one could do with dual tri barrel miniguns on the shoulders instead of the songbirds, it absolutely shreds

Dual zimmers are so potent that they are a meme already

A head on build I like is dual shoulder machine gun then the iridium in main and any melee weapon that lunges you forward

Yknow what, I IMMEDIATELY jumped on the Pilebunker-Lancebunker+Zimmer and shoulder missile build before watching this when the lazelance became available, and this just confirmed my suspicion that it was an EZ-clear build that needed control.

The fact that you have to get through basically the whole game to get most of the parts.

Bazookas and the grenade shoulders of the first ac shown is legit burst mode

can confirm for cel240. the three punch almost ONE SHOTS

I play with a Variation on the "Shotgod" build you showed. Same 2 shotguns, but on the right shoulder I run with the 6 cell rocket pods and on the left, I have the Ashmead Stake Driver thing. My AC has as little weight as possible with maximum speed, so it can literally run circles around the AI while constantly pressuring ACS Stability. The rocket pods clean up lighter enemies, while pressuring your average AC, and then when you land a stagger, you can very quickly switch to Ashmead and do an uncharged attack to chunk the enemy down. If you get on top of them quickly enough, you can charge the Ashmead and literally one-cycle some of the Arena ACs. Finally, just having rocket pods on right shoulder means there's some nice wiggle room to use other weapons (or just a different flavor of rockets). Throw on a normal rocket or grenade Launcher to REALLY lay down the burst damage on staggers, or take a longer range option to have flexibility.

Loving all the AC6 vids I am getting from the reco feed. I hope one addition that FS gives later on in either an update for AC6 or for AC7 is the option or a set of weapons or parts that focus on electronic warfare to hack an enemy mech to disable them non lethally. Also opens up the option to harvest parts or weapons from enemy mechs so we can use them on our own mech or sell them for funds. Would be extra awesome if this was doable for boss fights too maybe just make it more tricky to perfectly pull off but still doable and lets us get special parts or weapons from harvesting from boss units! Up to FS if they decide to make that available from the start of new game or just give that option after NG+++++. Something that might let us go for what can amount to a pacifist run specially when we consider how FS played with the story for this game. Having to fight characters that we grow to like can suck so bad. Having the option to disable their mechs without blowing them up or having the capacity to pull off Kira Yamato style non lethal mech destruction BS moves would be a nice thing specially if they design it where it'd be extra tricky to do somehow. Dismembering a parts off the enemy mechs would be cool too. Pulling out the enemy FCS unit out of their mech or whatever lets them pull off the moves they abuse during their respective boss fights and letting players use a copied version of the Boss unit's moves would be nice too. Albeit adjusted for balance purposes of course. Also I hope Bamco lets FS make their next Gundam game or maybe the next Another Century's episode or maybe a FS tactics edition ripping off or straight up improving the style used in the Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 3. SEGA shat the bed so bad with that game series that it made me wish that style gets ripped off wholesale for the next Super Robot Taisen or whatever action game gets a tactical rpg spin off. OK I think I like this idea gonna go copy paste this to other videos and make a compressed version of this to FS/ Miyazaki's twitter or something hahahhah would be awesome if folks who like this idea would spread it around. Who knows FS might just do it!

I do love the songbirds.

3:49 Alright, so I got a Dark Souls build I been showing with JUST the starting set, lef shoulder shield, left base melee, a shotgun and shoulder shot for the quick stuns with speed legs. Funny thing, they get you through large levels in minutes and works well to avoid being heavy when using your shield to stroll up to fast or hard hitting bosses and enemy mechs and shotgun then charge melee then shotgun and it literally stuns everything, where the fast legs gives an extra stun by burst kick, where it cycles all 4 abilities just primo with the shield helping with timing. Where IF you wanna go Bloodborne, you can use song bird for the stun lock. only time I say switch is using a lazer for shoulder for shielded enemies.

My fav build is double prototype spIke weapons and double Gatling guns on a medium build. Crazy damage

Nice EVA colour's you went with.

you don't need pile bunker for the last built, using 2 melees are good enough but you might need to try to kick as the last attack in the combo

The Pile Bunker has always has my back. It and the Chainsaw's charge attacks on staggered enemies will never disappoint.