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Here is a list of all the best builds for the Phantom Liberty expansion in Cyberpunk 2077. Check out our selection of the best overall builds with their recommended perks, attributes and relics skills in this guide.
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| Best Attributes | Best Perks by Playstyle |
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| Build Element Lists | |||||||||||
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| Best Builds Overall | ||
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| Blunt Weapons | Assassin | Gunslinger |
| Netrunner | Assault Rifle | Blades |
| Smart Weapons | Tech Weapons | Tank |
| All-Around Build | ||

Wallop your enemies with ease with this Blunt Weapons build to inflict the greatest headaches ever in Night City. This build has been improved with relic skills that aim to turn up the performance of your Projectile Launch Systems as well as show vulnerabilities on enemies!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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This Stealth build allows you to stay within the shadows, unseen and undetected, while picking off enemies one by one with either a silenced pistol or throwing knives. This build has included relic skills that improve your stealth and offensive capabilities!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| 50 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 20 |
| 60 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 20 |
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This Gunslinger build lets you play as the meanest cyber-cowboy in Night City. The build includes relics that show enemy vulnerabilities while shooting, so aim away!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 9 |
| 50 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 20 | 20 |
| 60 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 20 | 20 |
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Quickhacks will allow you to chip through your enemies' defenses which can be useful in combat. This build focuses on allowing V to upload as many quickhacks as they can to wipe out mobs of enemies before they even get the chance to see who did it. This also includes relics that improve the overall performance of your cyberdecks, even allowing you to spread hacks between multiple enemies!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| 10 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| 50 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 15 |
| 60 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 15 |
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This Assault Rifle build pairs up Power Assault Rifle gunplay with a nearly undeterred run and gun playstyle! This build has the new relics system from Phantom Liberty that shows your enemies' weaknesses so you can maximize your damage!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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Full Assault Rifle Build Guide

This build is extremely strong when used with a Katana and a Sandevistan which slows time. This allows you to quickly dispatch any enemy even if they are in a group! Phantom Liberty introduces the new relic system that improves your overall damage by showing you enemy weak spots!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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This Smart Weapons build combines the "aim less, shoot more " gunplay of smart submachine guns and the dubious power of quickhacks to deal as much damage as possible. The build includes additional improvements by showing enemy vulnerability and improving monowire quickhack performance via relics!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Int | Cool |
| 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| 10 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 3 |
| 50 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 20 | 3 |
| 60 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 |
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Full Smart Weapons Build Guide

You're (literally) hacking when you kill enemies through a wall! This Tech Weapons build maximizes the damage you can do while shooting from behind covers. What's more, the addition of relics shows you the enemy's weaknesses, increasing your damage even more!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 10 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 6 |
| 50 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 20 |
| 60 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 4 | 20 |
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This Tank build is made for those who like leaving a gory, explosive mess of corpses while shrugging off damage from various enemies. Get close and personal with your enemy and shoot their vulnerability as you can now see them with the new relic skills added in this build!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Int | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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This build focuses on a general playstyle that can be used throughout V's story. It's ideal for players who want to be a jack of all trades rather than master a certain playstyle. The build also has additional relic capabilities like showing enemy vulnerabilities and improved stealth!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| 10 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| 50 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 15 | 15 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 15 | 15 |
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Full All-Around Beginner Build Guide
| Unique Builds List | ||
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| Lucy Build | David Build | Adam Smasher |
| Sandevistan | Monowire | Gorilla Arms |
| Mantis Blades | ||

Become Lucyna Kushinada, or simply Lucy, from the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime with this build! It focuses on two major playstyles: Monowire and Quickhacking. Though this character does not have a relic, the build was improved with monowire-improving skills making it more dangerous than before!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 9 |
| 50 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 20 | 20 |
| 60 | 18 | 20 | 3 | 20 | 20 |
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Full Lucy Netrunner Build Guide

Chrome up and burn the city with this David Martinez-inspired Sandevistan build! This Phantom Liberty build also includes improvements on the capability to see enemy weaknesses!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Int | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 15 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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Full David Martinez Build Guide

This build lets you play similarly to the legendary Adam Smasher, Night City's metal boogeyman! Also with Phantom Liberty, slot in relics to improve on the already menacing loadout of Adam Smasher!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Int | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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Roam Night City and neutralize gonks with the Sandevistan Build. This build can neutralize mobs of enemies before they realize where you came from! Improve on your blades with new blades-improving relics in Phantom Liberty!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Int | Cool |
| 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 50 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 3 | 15 | 60 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 20 |
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Who knew a thin piece of wire could be so deadly? Disable enemies and prove the power of this piece of wire in the Monowire Build, improved with quickhack spreading capabilities via relics in Phantom Liberty!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 4 |
| 50 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 20 | 15 |
| 60 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 20 | 15 |
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Take advantage of powerful punches, devastating superhero landings, and cannonball-like charges with this Gorilla Arms build for Phantom Liberty. This build changes the way Gorilla Arms is played by incorporating better mobility as well as increased punching power via relics!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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Using the fearsome Mantis Blades in combat will make wiping a mob of enemies an easy feat! Increase your damage even more by slotting in Mantis Blades improving relics available in the Phantom Liberty expansion!
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| Lv. | Body | Reflex | Tech | Intel | Cool |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| 60 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 18 |
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Full Mantis Blades Build Guide

The Phantom Liberty expansion brought in the all-new Relic Skills system. This improves the already powerful cyberware loadout of V by introducing improved effects that will make sure Night City remembers your name!
Relic Skill Tree Guide and List

Phantom Liberty also introduced a new level cap for players. From the maximum of level 50 in the base game, it now goes up to level 60 once you purchase the Phantom Liberty expansion.
With an additional level comes more points! The new level cap brought additional perk points and attribute points to distribute on your builds. There is a total of 10 perk points and 10 attribute points to be added in the expansion.

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