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Borderlands 4
Elemental Weakness Chart and Damage Guide
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This is a guide and a chart to Elemental Weaknesses in Borderlands 4. Check out the Elemental Weakness chart and learn about each elemental weakness, elemental damage, and their effects here.
List of Contents
All Elemental Weaknesses
Elemental Damage Chart
| Element vs. → |  Flesh |
 Armor |
 Shield |
|---|---|---|---|
 Incendiary |
Very Strong | Very Weak | Very Weak |
 Shock |
Weak | Weak | Very Strong |
 Cryo |
Normal | Strong | Very Weak |
 Radiation |
Normal | Weak | Strong |
 Corrosive |
Very Weak | Very Strong | Very Weak |
Physical or Kinetic damage remains Normal across all health bars.
Elemental Weaknesses, on top of having its own effects, pertain to enemies being weak to certain types of Elemental Damage, and this has to do with which health bars (Flesh, Armor, Shield) will take more damage from an element.
- Enemies with Flesh health are often human, unarmored enemies, or beasts.
- Enemies with Armor health are often mechanical or fully-suited.
- Shields can be present on any enemy type (who have a way to generate them).
You can sometimes encounter enemies with multiple health bar types, so it's good to have an element for every situation when needed.
It would be good to note that the value of Elemental Damage is higher the harder the difficulty, so you'll want to plan around exploiting Elemental Weaknesses as much as possible in tougher fights.
Elemental Damage Sources
| Weapons | Skills | Barrels and Throwables |
Deal Elemental Damage with Weapons
Some weapons, noticeably guns from the manufacturer Maliwan, will come with an Elemental component. Stats for its element can be checked when you inspect the gun in the menu.
Maliwan weapons in particular tend to provide toggleable element types as part of its Manufacturer Part. This allows you to switch between elements, as shown by the Incendiary and Shock SMG above.
Deal Elemental Damage with Skills
| Element-Oriented Skills | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Element |  Vex |
 Rafa |
 Amon |
 Harlowe |
| Incendiary |
✔ (x3) |
✔ (x7) |
✔✔ (x18) |
✖ |
| Shock |
✔ (x4) |
✔✔ (x11) |
✔✔ (x17) |
✔ (x1) |
| Cryo |
✔ (x3) |
✖ | ✔✔✔ (x27) |
✔✔ (x19) |
| Radiation |
✔ (x3) |
✖ | ✖ | ✔✔ (x19) |
| Corrosive |
✔ (x2) |
✔✔ (x12) |
✖ | ✖ |
| ✔ = Has specific elemental skills. More marks = more skills.
✖ = Has no skills of a specified element. (x#) = Number of skills oriented towards its element on the left. |
||||
Vault Hunter Skills or Action Skills, such as Harlowe's Chroma Accelerator, can also deal or supplement Elemental Damage and its effects. What type of element they deal can be inspected from their skill description.
Each Vault Hunter has access to more or less elemental skills over each other. You can take the table above as a guide when thinking up of team compositions that try to maximize specific element damage and status effects.
Deal Elemental Damage with Barrels and Throwables
Barrels and throwables (used by your Grapple) can also be used as sources for dealing Elemental Damage. What type of Elemental Damage they deal is usually indicated by their color (ex. Red for Incendiary or Yellow for Radiation).
Elemental Damage Over Time (DoT)
Elements Can Deal Passive Damage
Each element deals a form of Damage Over Time (DoT), or passive damage, on an enemy. Incendiary, for example, has a chance to apply passive burn damage to red health, while Shock can afflict passive drain on shields.
The likelihood of DoT being applied on a target is dependent on the percentage chance indicated in the weapon's stats. The amount of DoT is indicated by the value per second beside the chance value. Some skills can synergize off of high elemental chance procs, such as Harlowe's Action at a Distance.
Elemental Resistance
Equipment Can Provide Resistances
Enemies also can deal elemental damage (and so can the environment), so you'll want Elemental Resistances as an extra form of protection against them. These resistances are often found on Shields.
Note that it is only the Shield that applies damage reduction against a specific Element. Running out of shields means you won't have the damage reduction you need when you're wide open against an elemental attack.
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