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Ogryn’s main role in any game is to protect the team, take the bulk of the attention from enemies, and deal with all melee/hordes upfront and personal. Ogryn comes with a vast amount of health and wields some of the biggest weapons available. This is the Ogryn build for protecting the littles, purely focused on taking attention, taking a few extra hits, and using your shield to hold out against ranged enemies while your allies take them out. This is the best build to use to support your team, you won’t be killing many elites/specials on your own, but if played right, you won’t need to.
The Battle Maul & Slab Shield is a very strong supporting weapon, while it may not output amazing offensive damage compared to other options, it’s the best weapon to use here.
Confident Strike helps with your toughness replenishment by getting chained hits. Chained Hits are consecutive hits done in quick succession of one another.
Thunderstrike and Brutal Momentum are both valid options.
Thunderstrike helps deal extra damage on an already staggered enemy. You can easily stagger enemies with your shield pushback.
Brutal Momentum helps deal with hordes by ignoring the mass of enemies when hitting their weakspots. This effectively means you can hit more enemies at a time. The more enemies you can deal with at a time, the better you can protect your team.
Carapace and Flak cover a large amount of tough enemies to deal with, and helps your team deal with them effectively. If you want to deal with hordes better, swap carapace with unarmoured instead.
The Rumbler is an effective weapon to both Elites and deal with hordes. The Rumble can quickly be pulled out to deal bonus damage to monstrosities or Ogryns, or stagger an approaching horde.
Shrapnel is an amazing blessing to deal with hordes and while surrounded. It’s always worthwhile to swap to this to do a quick shot to apply all those bleeding stacks to the horde and go back to your shield.
Adhesive Charge makes this weapon ideal to deal with Ogryns and Monstrosities. When you’re not the one being targeted, or right before an engagement, use your rumbler to get that bonus damage on the big guys, then go back to your shield to tank them for your team.
Carapace and Unyielding are the ideal modifiers to deal with armoured elites/specialist. Unyielding is just a flat bonus damage against the big guys.
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Curios are really flexible, with only a couple perks that really benefit builds. In this case, Toughness can be substituted for Health if required, but Toughness is still recommended. You might want at least 1 Curio to have 1 Wounds on it, wounds increase the amount of health bars you have. This is beneficial, especially on higher difficulties, as it allows some leeway if mistakes happen, or you get overwhelmed.
Combat Ability is great so you can get your Taunt back faster. And having a bit of resistance against Gunners is also really good to have when you get caught off guard. If you want, swap Gunner Resist for Block Efficiency to further extend the capabilities of your melee weapon.
