Maximum Damage Charge Rifle

Compare every surfaced partner effect at base rank and full condensation. Effects marked Unique can still scale by rank, but a second carrier of the same species adds nothing. Two different species carrying the same effect do add together.

Pal / role	Partner effect	Affects	Rank 1	Rank 5
FrostallionMounted Freeze setup	Trainer Attacks Become IceUnique	You	Active	Active
FrostallionMounted Freeze setup	Mounted Ranged AttackUnique	You	10%	40%
FrostallionMounted Freeze setup	Freeze InflictionUnique	You	Lv 2	Lv 6
Vanwyrm CrystWeak point core	Weak Point Damage	You	30%	50%
XenogardEnergy weapon amplifier	Energy Weapon DamageUnique	You	10%	35%
Cryolinx TerraWeak point payoff	Weak-Point Hit Damage UpUnique	You	30%	60%
SolenneParty-wide attack	Attack (all species unique)Unique	You	30%	80%

Values verified against current partner-skill rank curves

Everything on this page is trainer damage, so the pal-side element passives are dead weight: Ice Emperor raises the Ice damage of the pal carrying it, not the Ice damage of your converted shots. Player passives fill the raw Attack and uptime layers, but they do not replace the separate weak-point and weapon multipliers supplied by the party.

One weapon defines this build and one partner skill only pays out on a specific class of weapon. Get those two right and the rest is the standard trainer-damage kit. Materials shown are the first craftable tier.

The most attack-skewed ordering of any build on the site. Four of the five party slots multiply attack, and a missed weak point wastes all of them, so there is no argument for spreading points around.

1. 1AttackFirst and by a wide margin. Raise the player base from 100 to its 200 cap through level points, Might Remedies or Might Elixirs, then let weak-point damage, the follow-up bonus, the energy-weapon bonus and Solenne amplify it.
2. 2HealthSecond. Charging a shot means standing still, and standing still in a boss arena means taking a hit you did not dodge.
3. 3StaminaThird. Mounted flight drains it, and you are mounted for most of the fight.
4. 4Weight and work speedLast. Neither does anything in a boss fight.

This is a positioning build rather than a cooldown build. Nothing here has a timer, so the discipline is entirely about where you are standing and what you are aiming at.

1. 1Check that all five species are different

   Solenne pays 30% to 80% attack only while no two pals in the party share a species. The default lineup satisfies this, and so does swapping Frostallion for the base Vanwyrm, because Vanwyrm and Vanwyrm Cryst are separate species. What breaks it is running two of the same form, and the buff disappears silently rather than warning you.

2. 2Layer food, drones and one status before mounting

   Eat Mammorest Curry, deploy the Drone Launcher payload, then use the basic Crossbow to apply Burn or Poison if the target accepts it. Swap back to the Charge Rifle and mount Frostallion before the first real damage shot.

3. 3Mount Frostallion before you engage

   All three of its effects, the Ice conversion, Freeze Lv 2 to Lv 6, and 10% to 40% ranged attack, require you to be riding it. Dismounted, Frostallion contributes nothing at all. This is the single biggest constraint on the build and the reason it is not simply the solo carry party with a different gun.

4. 4Freeze first, then charge

   Freeze immobilises for around three seconds and interrupts whatever the target was channelling. That is the window a charge weapon needs. Land ordinary hits until Freeze procs, then commit to the charged shot into a stationary target.

5. 5Aim for the weak point, every time

   Vanwyrm Cryst adds 30% to 50% weak-point damage and Cryolinx Terra makes each connected weak-point hit boost the next by 30% to 60%. A body shot throws away both, and it also breaks the Cryolinx Terra chain so the following shot starts from zero.

6. 6Spend the whole magazine before reloading

   Six rounds per reload. Because Cryolinx Terra bonus applies to the next weak-point attack after one connects, consecutive accurate shots within a magazine are worth more than the same six shots spread across a fight.

7. 7Keep your distance and reposition between charges

   Nothing in this party mitigates damage. The Phantom Ring longer dodge window plus flight on Frostallion is the entire defensive plan, so treat range as a resource and do not trade hits.

This build sits next to the Unkillable Solo Carry in the library and the two get compared constantly. They are genuinely different, and the comparisons below are where the difference shows.

Chasing only the largest displayed Attack stat

The case for it
Every slot should add raw Attack because the character-sheet number is the clearest measure of damage.

Weapon power, weak-point damage, Cryolinx Terra follow-up damage and Xenogard energy-weapon damage multiply different parts of the result. Replacing them with more raw Attack can raise the sheet while lowering actual damage.

The Mechanical Bow instead of the Charge Rifle

The case for it
The Mechanical Bow lists 20,000 attack against the Charge Rifle 12,500, and its arrows cost two Soralite Ingots for ten. On paper it is the harder-hitting and vastly cheaper weapon.

Two things close that gap. The bow is not an energy weapon, so Xenogard 35% does not apply to it, and it fires one arrow at a time against the Charge Rifle six-round magazine. Listed attack is also not comparable across weapon classes, because each class has its own damage formula. The bow remains the better pick if you have not reached technology 65, or if ammunition cost is the constraint.

Dropping Frostallion for a second weak-point stack

The case for it
Vanwyrm base form adds 20% to 40% weak-point damage, and it stacks with Vanwyrm Cryst because they are different species. That is a flat, unconditional 40% against Frostallion mount-locked package.

A real and defensible swap, and it is listed as an alternate for exactly that reason. What you give up is Freeze. A three-second immobilise is what lets a charge weapon land its shot on a moving boss, and no amount of weak-point percentage helps if the head moves during the charge. Take Vanwyrm when you are fighting something that already stands still.

Pal-side Ice accessories and passives

The case for it
Ice Emperor as a passive and the Cryolinx Ring, Ice Support Whistle and Frostallion Talisman all raise Ice damage by 18% to 30%, which looks natural for a build that converts your attacks to Ice.

All of them are pal passives or flagged Pal Only Equip. They raise the Ice damage of the pal fighting beside you, and your converted shots scale from raw attack instead. Run Dogen Emblem, Attack Pendant, Phantom Ring and Warsect Terra Belt.

Trusting the 200,000 damage figure

The case for it
The Reddit test that produced this lineup reported roughly 200,000 damage on a training dummy, which is the number that made the build popular.

Treat it as one setup on one dummy. Weapon schematic tier, condensation rank, implanted passives, food, stat allocation, shot placement and the target defence all move that figure by multiples in either direction. The build is strong; the specific number is not a promise, and a training dummy has no defence stat at all.

The gating item is the Charge Rifle at technology 65, and the gating pal is Frostallion, which is a legendary field boss rather than a breeding project.

1. Beat Frostallion, or breed for itFrostallion is a legendary encountered in the far northern snowfield. It carries the Legend and Ice Emperor passives innately, which is part of why it is worth the slot even before the partner skill.
2. Catch or breed the other fourEvery recruitment route is on the role cards above, pulled from the mapped spawn tables. Vanwyrm Cryst, Xenogard, Cryolinx Terra and Solenne are all breedable.
3. Condense all five to rank 5Every headline number is the rank 5 value: 50% weak point from Vanwyrm Cryst, 60% follow-up from Cryolinx Terra, 35% energy weapon from Xenogard, 80% attack from Solenne, and Freeze Lv 6 plus 40% ranged attack from Frostallion. At rank 1 the same party gives roughly half.
4. Reach technology 65 and farm CoralumThe Charge Rifle needs 200 Coralum Ingots, 25 Bio Batteries, 5 Thermal Cores and 15 Computers. Coralum is the bottleneck; the rest you will already be producing by that tech level.Charge Rifle materials
5. Raise schematic rarity after the party worksFarm Ancient Relic recycling and legendary treasure maps, then use the Drafting Table to combine lower-rarity schematics. Better rarity improves weapon power and magazine performance, but it cannot repair a broken party condition.
6. Buy the two player implants onceThe bounty officer sells Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist for bounty tokens. Buy each once, then apply to any pal for gold. Reload Master comes from the arena vendor for battle tickets.
7. Raid the time caves for accessoriesThe Phantom Ring and Warsect Terra Belt are both time-cave pickups and both craftable once you hold the schematic. Every accessory schematic also has a guaranteed Ancient Shrine location.

Keep the build's identity while adapting the lineup to the pals you own or the encounter ahead.

VanwyrmThe base form adds another 20% to 40% weak-point damage, and because it is a different species from Vanwyrm Cryst the two totals add rather than the higher one winning. Swap it in for Frostallion when you would rather stand on the ground than fight from a mount.Moldron CrystAgainst a Dragon-type target, replace Vanwyrm Cryst with Moldron Cryst to add 25% to 40% super-effective Ice damage. This is a separate elemental-weakness multiplier and only pays while Frostallion conversion is active.SilvegisCuts shield damage by up to 80% and shield-regeneration delay by up to 60%. Trade a damage slot for it when you keep dying mid-charge.LapureUseless here. Every effect in this lineup is a passive party-slot effect with no cooldown, so there is nothing for Lapure to shorten.Frostallion NoctThe Dark form applies Blind instead of Freeze and converts to Dark rather than Ice. Take it against Ice and Fire bosses, which are immune to Freeze and turn Frostallion into a plain mount.