Scrapper - Burst Gyro Scrapper - MetaBattle

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage, Mobility and Control

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty: Normal

This build was last updated on May 15, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

A high risk, high reward PvP Scrapper burst build that's just as deadly in melee as it is in range. Scrapper relies a lot on tools like 奔驰疾速, CC and 潜行 to avoid taking damage while pressuring targets with 手雷包 from range and Hammer + Gyros in melee.

Skill Bar

Mechanic

Hammer

Utility

Optional

Skill Variants

Utility

Viable choices for the optional slot:

漏油跑鞋 - great CC and a stunbreak on toolbelt, it's both a defensive and offensive pick.
绞肉机械 - higher burst damage and a CC on toolbelt. Much less forgiving option than Slick Shoes.

Template Code

[&DQMGORUqKyXZEgAAJxMAAIYAAAATAQAAgxIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABCQEA]

Specializations

Variants

强力扳手 makes you slightly worse against conditions but significantly reduces the CD of 潜行机械.
弹药拆装 increases your burst damage.
动力电池 improves 急速 and 奔驰疾速 uptime at the expense of survivability.

Variants

万物运动 trades sustain for higher damage.

Equipment

Hammer

Empty slot

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Sigils

洁净法印 over 勇气法印 - lower damage, better defense against conditions.

Runes

机械师符文 - a more defensive pick.
学者符文 - more damage, lower sustain.

Relics

圣地古物 - adds new 保护 sources to the build. Worth considering especially when playing with 2 utility Gyros.
烟花古物 - higher burst potential, could also be activated by 手雷包 skills and 功能机型.

Usage

General

Role: roam the map and +1 fights, aim to overwhelm enemies with your burst damage before moving on.
While Hammer is a very strong offensive option, it can be just as defensive. The build is rather squishy so CD management is very important. Try to pressure targets mostly with 手雷包 if you want to play it safe and keep Hammer ready for situations where you'd be forced into melee or have to defend yourself.
If you want to get the most out of 手雷包 set up a keybind for About Face.
- Go to Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement, About Face should be at the bottom.
Grenades can be thrown at targets behind your character. You can kind of abuse this with About Face by quickly turning around to move away from your target while targeting them with grenade attacks:
- Keep moving forward then hold left click briefly while pressing about face - you should now be moving in the opposite direction as long as you're holding down the movement key.
- Hold the same movement key (W for most players) and right click once to turn back to where you were originally facing once you've built enough distance.
- Repeat these steps to stay at the edge of 900 range while throwing grenades.
功能机型 (F5) has massive utility value as a skill that can stomp enemies and revive allies from range.
- This toolbelt Gyro grants 奔驰疾速 like any other Gyro while also cleansing 1 condition. In desperate sitations you could use this for personal survival instead of as a group utility tool.
- You can stealth the Function Gyro with 潜行机械.
Feel free to use 功能机型 while roaming between capture points for easy 迅捷 access.

Damage

Most of the damage comes from 手雷包 and its toolbelt skill 手雷弹幕, the latter being the best burst skill in the build.
- 破片手雷 and 冰冻手雷 do the most damage, followed by the autoattack 普通手雷 which is a solid filler skill.
- 冰冻手雷's Chill Chill is ideal for snaring enemies while pressuring them from range.
- 毒气手雷 doesn't hit very hard but the 中毒's good for pressuring bunkers and delaying rez attempts as it reduces healing received by enemies. It's also unblockable.
- 闪光手雷 is something of a defensive skill, low damage but the 目盲 could enable you to keep throwing grenades at your target without getting counterpressured.
Using Leap, Whirl and Blast finisher in combo fields is how you maintain 激怒 from 动能加速. Always try to use 火箭冲锋 inside a combo field as you can't afford to let a double Leap finisher go to waste.
- Using 功能机型 is a quick and effective way of obtaining 激怒 as it's both a combo field and finisher.
Try to make sure that your burst lands by using CC and 潜行 beforehand:
- Sneak up on your target with 潜行机械.
- Stun them with 雷霆一击 or 爆破机械.
- Knock them down with 漏油跑鞋 (if taken).
爆破机械 takes a few seconds to charge up, use 奔驰疾速 and 火箭冲锋 to stay on top of your target.
电子回旋 and 火箭冲锋 on Hammer both do great damage in melee.

Sustain

奔驰疾速 is your best friend, use your superior mobility to leave enemies behind and get away from danger. Also provides a steady stream of healing via 疾速再生 along with 迅捷.
潜行机械 is often a life-saver because of the AoE stealth. 火箭冲锋 could extend the duration of stealth but it's also a skill that does damage so be careful not to reveal yourself.
- 爆破机械 could extend stealth duration for allies too but because of its huge radius this can't be used for that when enemies are near, otherwise you'd only break stealth by accidentally hitting someone.
The only stunbreaks in the build are found on toolbelt skills: Blast Gyro's 分流涂层 and Slick Shoes' 奔驰疾速 (not to be confused with the effect of the same name).
Both 医疗机械 and 重建力场 are Water fields, use 火箭冲锋 and 爆破机械 in these to combo extra healing whenever you can.
- 爆破机械 is both a combo field and a finisher, it has to be used after the creation of a Water field if you want extra healing. Therefore this only works with Medic Gyro as Reconstruction Field's field doesn't last long enough to fit an entire Blast Gyro cast into it. Rocket Charge works with both fields and it's a double finisher.
Condition cleansing is limited only to toolbelt skills via 机械部署 synergy and 医疗机械 from 应激镜片. Be very careful against condition specs - try to stay in range, use CC as much as possible and avoid their attacks with Hammer. Bail out with 奔驰疾速 and 潜行 at the first sign of trouble.
Every Hammer skill except the autoattack could be used defensively.
电子回旋 does great damage in melee while reflecting projectiles, 火箭冲锋 has a lengthy evade frame on top of being a double combo finisher and having high damage, 雷霆一击 stuns enemies while leaving behind a pulsing damage field.
电击护盾 is the most defensive thing on Hammer, being a block skill with barrier. While the damage is mediocre it's still worth using it in melee as you gain barrier whenever the skill strikes an enemy, but even if you don't do that the block is still very useful.
If taken 漏油跑鞋 is great at turning things around. The instant unblockable AoE CC could stop most burst attempts made by enemies without 稳固 while also creating the perfect opening for counterpressuring targets. Really good at immediately punishing teleport skills like 位面穿行 or 顺手牵羊 too.
When it comes to this build the best defense is a good offense. Your survivability isn't great but your damage is, so try to keep enemies on the backfoot with constant pressure.

Stack 迅捷 for your team before the game starts!

Drop 功能机型 on the spawn exit gate.
Immediately follow up with a 爆破机械.
Allies may contribute to this too by throwing their own blast finishers into the mix as well.

Top Streamers

Twitch Drazeh
Twitch: Hollow
Twitch: Floody
Twitch: CarolinDnB

Related Builds

Scrapper - Superspeed Grenadier Roamer - WvW Roaming version of the build.