Amalgam - Bunker Amalgam - MetaBattle

Amalgam basics

Engineers with the 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.
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

Cooldown reductions are a key part of the build, so are CC skills:
- Dodging reduces the CD of your elite, 流体状态 by 3 seconds and your toolbelt skills by 1 second.
- CC'ing targets reduces the CD of 进化.
- Dodging gives you 敏捷 via the relic for general CD reduction.
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.
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

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.
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.
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:
- is perhaps the strongest candidate for a chain starter, because of the extra cleansing.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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

There are no outstanding burst options on this Amalgam build, but every kit and weapon has at least decent damage.
Every CC skill grants and via traits.
Both kits can place Fire fields: on Bomb Kit and on Flamethrower. Blasting these fields grants .
- You should use these first when swapping to these kits so your Blast finishers don't go to waste.
Bomb Kit's does significant damage over a couple of seconds while is the most damage you can do in a single hit. The other 2 skills do negligible damage but offer CC.
- (the autoattack) can be a decent filler when spammed with .
On Flamethrower is a good opener not just because it's a Fire field, but also because it provides .
- Following up with in the field + in this order will give you Might while the Quickness covers Napalm, the hardest hitting skill on the set.
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

Your healing skill 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 is taken. It's a low CD mass cleanse that even converts conditions into boons.
- and can help with mitigating condition pressure a bit before having to use Elixir C.
- Your healing skill cleanses 3 conditions via Alchemy trait procs.
- Otherwise you're just going to have to power through them with healing and barrier spam.
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.
- Any successful CC you land also gives you and .
- Bomb kit has 3 CC skills, make sure you spread them out. Spamming them in rapid succession can cause the CCs to override each other!
There are 2 stunbreaks in the build: and :
- 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

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.
Flamethrowers's can be used to knock back enemies.
Bomb Kit's 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, (toolbelt of your heal) can be used to reflect projectiles that cause knockback, like or .