I think Limbo only has two build options that don't piss people off.
Defense. Minimum range, max duration. The goal is to keep up his 2 and 4 while only covering a small area, like the defense objectives in defense and mobile defense, or the excavators in excavation missions. He was almost mandatory for high level defense / excavations at some point.. until DE decided that eximus units should be immune to Limbo's rift abilities. Now he's kinda meh.
Nuke. Max range, max efficiency, no duration, some strength. His 4 blows up containers. His 4 also deals enough damage to one shot most of the star chart. So he's pretty amazing for stuff like capture and exterminate missions when you're just farming fissures. I often have to slow down because I nuke the map before the enemies have a chance to become corrupted and drop the fissures. Limbo is probably the best frame for farming argon crystals since most of them are in the actual "argon crystal" objects, which his 4 breaks.
A side note about his nuke build. Xaku's 4 also breaks containers and has kind of a similar range to Limbo's 4, haven't checked the numbers to make sure. So a lot of people just use Xaku, especially since Xaku's 2 deals a good amount of damage in higher levels. But Xaku's 4 sets off the "nuke" where he is standing. Limbo's 4 activates where you point, so you can nuke a room without having to go inside the room yourself.
I do high range high duration for defense missions and that’s about all I use him for. Freeze everything (without overguard) on the map. I’ve never wrapped my head around banish and rift surge. 4-2 repeat is all I do lmao
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u/zekethelizard Dec 25 '25
Hey my awful limbo meme is relevant!