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C4SH Leveling Best Build, Skills, and Weapons

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C4SH Leveling Build
The C4SH Leveling build focuses on dealing Kinetic damage and Ricochet for C4SH in Borderlands 4. See the best builds, skills, weapons, guns, and gear to use for C4SH, along with the best skill tree abilities and character playstyle.

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C4SH Leveling Build Guide

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Skill Tree Skill Progression
Weapons Ordnance Repkit
Shield Enhancements

C4SH Best Skill Tree and Action Skill

Skill Tree Chaos Walking
Action Skill: Cross-Fire
Cross-Fire.png

Cross-Fire is C4SH's best Action Skill due to it's ease of use for leveling, with it's Auto Aim, and Ricochet Chance, allowing you to deal with mobs quickly.

Taking passives that further boost C4SH's damage also affect Cross-Fire, allowing you to fully utilize it on top of using your own guns.

C4SH Best Skills

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Skill Tree Skill Progression
Passives Capstone

Best Passive Skills

Chaos Walking
Roll the Bones
Skill Tree Priority Skills
Chaos Walking
Unleashed Icon Your Huckleberry Icon Shootist Icon Trick Shot Icon Ride to Ruin Icon Lawless Icon Pale Rider Icon Unshaken Icon
Skill Tree Priority Skills
Roll the Bones
Luck be a Robot Icon Red Moon Rising Icon Riding High Icon Luckless Icon Can Accursed Bones Icon

Prioritize taking skills from Chaos Walking that increase gun damage, and Fortune stacks. This allows C4SH to deal even more damage with his guns and action skill, and increasing Fortune Stacks makes getting into Windfall much more reliably.

After taking your core Red Skills, make sure to take passive skills that synergize with Gun and Kinetic damage from the Roll the Bones tree, to further improve C4SH's DPS output.

Recommended Skill Progression

Recommended Skill Progression
Unleashed Icon Lvl 2 Unleashed Icon Lvl 3 Unleashed Icon Lvl 4 Unleashed Icon Lvl 5
Unleashed Icon Lvl 6 Shootist Icon Lvl 7 Shootist Icon Lvl 8 Shootist Icon Lvl 9
Shootist Icon Lvl 10 Shootist Icon Lvl 11 Trick Shot Icon Lvl 12 Trick Shot Icon Lvl 13
Trick Shot Icon Lvl 14 Devil Lvl 15 Ride to Ruin Icon Lvl 16 Lawless Icon Lvl 17
Lawless Icon Lvl 18 Lawless Icon Lvl 19 Lawless Icon Lvl 20 Lawless Icon Lvl 21
Pale Rider Icon Lvl 22 Pale Rider Icon Lvl 23 Pale Rider Icon Lvl 24 Luck be a Robot Icon Lvl 25
Luck be a Robot Icon Lvl 26 Luck be a Robot Icon Lvl 27 Luck be a Robot Icon Lvl 28 Luck be a Robot Icon Lvl 29
Red Moon Rising Icon Lvl 30 Red Moon Rising Icon Lvl 31 Red Moon Rising Icon Lvl 32 Red Moon Rising Icon Lvl 33
Red Moon Rising Icon Lvl 34 Luckless Icon Lvl 35 Riding High Icon Lvl 36 Riding High Icon Lvl 37
Riding High Icon Lvl 38 Riding High Icon Lvl 39 Riding High Icon Lvl 40 Accursed Bones Icon Lvl 41
Accursed Bones Icon Lvl 42 Accursed Bones Icon Lvl 43 Accursed Bones Icon Lvl 44 Accursed Bones Icon Lvl 45
Can Lvl 46 Can Lvl 47 Can Lvl 48 Can Lvl 49
Can Lvl 50 Dusty Trail Icon Lvl 51 Dusty Trail Icon Lvl 52 Dusty Trail Icon Lvl 53
Dusty Trail Icon Lvl 54 Dusty Trail Icon Lvl 55 Unshaken Icon Lvl 56 Unshaken Icon Lvl 57
Unshaken Icon Lvl 58 Unshaken Icon Lvl 59 Unshaken Icon Lvl 60

C4SH Best Augment

Midnight Showdown Icon Midnight Showdown I Like Those Odds Icon I Like Those Odds

Due to C4SH's unique Gimmick of having multiple Augments and no Capstones, make sure to equip Midnight Showdown and I Like Those Odds when possible to further boost C4SH's mobility and DPS respectively.

C4SH Best Weapons

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Hot Slugger King's Gambit

Weapon Slot 1 - Hot Slugger

Weapon Gun Overview
Hot Slugger Type: Shotgun
Manufacturer: Jakobs
Recommended Mods:
• Jakobs-Licensed Accessory

The Hot Slugger is a great DPS weapon for C4SH, since it benefits from C4SH's Gun Damage, Kinetic damage, and Critical Hit passives.

On top of this, Hot Slugger's Unique Ability also increases its damage after scoring a Kill, which is extremely easy due to the increased Ricochet chances.

How to Get Hot Slugger

Weapon Slot 2 - King's Gambit

Weapon Gun Overview
King's Gambit Type: Pistol
Manufacturer: Jakobs
Recommended Mods:
• Jakobs-Licensed Accessory

Similar with the Hot Slugger, King's Gambit also benefits greatly from all of C4SH's passive skills, but has a slightly bigger magazine, which can be used more effectively against weak swarms of mobs.

Additionally, both the King's Gambit and Hot Slugger benefit from Windfall, since these have small magazines, and can automatically reload quickly.

How to Get King's Gambit

C4SH Leveling Best Ordnance

Sho Kunai

Ordnance Type and Overview
Sho Kunai
Grenade Ordnance
Ninja Speed: Grants +10% Movement Speed for a short Duration with each consecutive hit, for a maximum of 7 Stacks.

Sho Kunai is a great Ordnance for C4SH, due to the increased movement speed after hitting targets, which you can easily receive since C4SH can throw Grenades while using his Active Skill.

How to Get Sho Kunai

C4SH Leveling Best Repkit

War Paint

Repkit Stats and Overview
War Paint Chrome: On use, grants +30% Fire Rate and +30% Movement Speed for 15s, and reduces Repkit Cooldown by 2s each time Damage is taken.

Shiny War Paint is an excellent Repkit since it increases Fire Rate, which makes it easier to trigger Windfall, and Movement Speed, which allows C4SH to move around faster during his Action Skill.

How to Get War Paint

C4SH Best Shield

Firewerks

Shield Type and Overview
Firewerks
Shield Type
Bonus Properties:
Bundled: On kill, spawns Missiles that home in on nearby enemies and deal Damage each.

Firewerks is the best Shield option for increasing DPS, since it deals damage after killing an enemy.

Additionally, Firewerks benefits from Ricochet chance, allowing C4SH to deal even more damage passively through the missiles.

How to Get Firewerks

C4SH Best Enhancement Mods

Enhancement Effects
Blind Box Leaper: Guns with Jakobs parts gain 40% Chance to Ricochet non-Critical Hits.
Bounce Pass: Guns with Jakobs parts increase the number of possible Ricochets by 1.

Blind Box further improves the Ricochet chances of both Hot Slugger and King's Gambit, and further increasing it's Ricochet chance.

This Enhancement Mod makes up for both weapons' low magazine size, allowing you to still perform effectively, even against swarms of enemies.

C4SH Leveling Build Overview

C4SH Leveling Build Summary

Skills
Cross-Fire
Unleashed Icon Your Huckleberry Icon Luck be a Robot Icon Shootist Icon Red Moon Rising Icon Trick Shot Icon Ride to Ruin Icon Riding High Icon Luckless Icon Can Lawless Icon Pale Rider Icon Unshaken Icon Accursed Bones Icon
Weapons
Hot Slugger King's Gambit
Repkit Ordnance
Shiny War Paint Sho Kunai
Shield Enhancement
Firewerks Blind Box

C4SH uses Cross Fire to auto aim against enemies, with Hot Slugger and King's Gambit serving as alternate guns you can use for the Ricochet Chance.

Best C4SH the Rogue Build Playstyle

Fast Run and Gun Playstyle

C4SH's Leveling build focuses on a fast-paced Run and Gun playstyle, making use of either his guns or Action Skills to deal damage and quickly move around the battlefield.

Make sure to make use of C4SH's Repkit to increase his mobility, and remember to use C4SH's dash during Action Skill to slide around!

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