Part of the current metagame
Part of the current tournament metagame
Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage, Sustain and Control
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: Secrets of the Obscure builds Visions of Eternity builds
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A tanky sidenoder PvP build for Amalgam with extreme CC.
Skillbar
Skill Variants
Utility
投掷地雷 - You can run this for more stuns over 
C型试剂, however you are giving up a semi-large heal for a stun and minor boon removal.
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Equipment
Equipment Variants
Relics
血石古物 - viable damage alternative, synergizes with the builds multitude of blast finishers.
Usage
Amalgam basics
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Engineers with the Amalgam Amalgam elite specialization lose access to most of their regular toolbelt skills. Amalgam toolbelt slots are fully customizable with their own set of skills, acting like a second utility bar.
- Your healing skill is exempt from this rule, as it retains its regular toolbelt skill.
- The elite toolbelt slot is always
进化, but you get to customize this skill through traits.
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Much of the specialization revolves around
进化. Your selection of toolbelt skills directly impacts Evolve, as Evolve gains bonuses on activation based on what toolbelt skills you're running.
General
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Cooldown reductions are a key part of the build, so are CC skills:
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Because you're so good at recovering the CD of your elite and Evolve, you're incentivized to use them early in fights, otherwise the CD reductions go to waste.
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进化 is always useful as it can be used for both defense and offense. On this build Evolve grants a passive stat boost,
敏捷 for CD recovery, stuns nearby enemies and heals you. -
Swap kits if you need
迅捷 when roaming between capture points, 
快捷工具 is your only real mobility tool.
Shortbow
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Shortbow's main mechanic is chain reaction. Skills 2-5 can act as both chain starters and chain finisher, depending on how you sequence them.
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When you use any of skills 2-5, it becomes a chain starter. Then you have a window of 4 seconds where the next skill you use will be a chain finisher, that triggers a bonus effect based on the chain starter. After that, your next skill will once again be a chain starter.
- If you don't use a chain finisher in the 4 second window, your next skill will once again be a chain starter.
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Basically you want chain starters to be the skills with the strongest bonus effects. There's a good argument for any of skills 3-5:
影流精华 is perhaps the strongest candidate for a chain starter, because of the extra cleansing.
液怒精华 is decent, especially against Power builds because of the extra protection. It also creates a combo field, which makes it an ideal chain starter for a different reason.
苟且精华 causes your chain finisher to CC enemies. This is strong, but you need to be careful with the timing - the initial impact stuns targets, and you can override that with a daze that happens as a result of using chain finishers with this as chain starter.
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流沙精华 is your best candidate for a chain finisher. Its chain starter effect is the weakest of the 4, plus it's a Blast finisher, which makes it even better as a followup to other skills that put down combo fields.- 苟且精华 could also be a good candidate for a chain finisher. Partly because it's a Blast finisher, but also because the chain reaction of this skill can sometimes override a stronger CC from the initial cast.
Damage
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There are no outstanding burst options on this Amalgam build, but every kit and weapon has at least decent damage.
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Both kits can place Fire fields:
爆燃烈焰 on Bomb Kit and 
燃烧弹 on Flamethrower. Blasting these fields grants 
威能.- You should use these first when swapping to these kits so your Blast finishers don't go to waste.
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Bomb Kit's
燃烧弹 does significant damage over a couple of seconds while 
电流弹 is the most damage you can do in a single hit. The other 2 skills do negligible damage but offer CC. -
On Flamethrower
爆燃烈焰 is a good opener not just because it's a Fire field, but also because it provides 
急速. -
烈焰喷射 is only really worth using with Quickness. A big niche of this skill is that it can hit through obstacles, allowing you to pressure enemies on the other side of pillars and walls.
Sustain
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Your healing skill
分裂状态 heals more if you have barrier - every toolbelt skill grants barrier, it's recommended that you use them for extra healing. -
Condition cleansing is decent but not the best, which is why
C型试剂 is taken. It's a low CD mass cleanse that even converts conditions into boons. -
CC skills remain instrumental here too. If you can keep your opponent stunlocked, you're making it a lot harder for them to pressure you.
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There are 2 stunbreaks in the build:
防护协议：净化 and 
防护协议：荆棘:- Both of these are medium CD toolbelt skills.
- In condition matchups use Thorns first, so you can keep the other for emergency condi removal.
Decap
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The build has minor decap potential, meaning you can win fights even without killing your opponents, as you can just keep pushing them off the capture point to neutralize and eventually capture it.
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Flamethrowers's
气流爆破 can be used to knock back enemies. -
Bomb Kit's
磁力炸弹 pulls enemies to the bomb's location when it goes off. To pull enemies off the node, you have to leave the capture point yourself. This is ONLY beneficial when you're still trying to neutralize a node, as 1 second off node hurts the defender more than it does the player trying to take the node. On a neutral capture point it's better to just go to the edge of node, place the bomb there, and once they've been pulled by the bomb use a knockback skill to push the enemy player as far off the node as possible. -
With good timing,
共生护盾 (toolbelt of your heal) can be used to reflect projectiles that cause knockback, like 
近身平射 or 
疾风爆发.