Borderlands Claptrap Skill and Gear Guide 

One thing you forgot to mention is that you can get the full bonus for I love you guys if you request a high five and get meleed from enemies in solo.

59:08 And that is how our beloved Claptrap made their way to Pandora.

You were guaranteed to get Pirate Ship Mode at 20:00. When you unlock a new mode, your next VH will be that mode.

Boomtrap combined with a Jakobs shotgun makes for a great time. I had a lot of apprehension about playing Claptrap, and so left him last out of all the TPS vault hunters, but I was pleasantly surprised once I dove in and have him a go.

"If u start killing all ur friends u might lose some friends..." funny how its also true in real life lol.

I play a Fragmented Build and it is godly. It is probably better for solo play though, since you do have to pull up the menu a fair amount. As long as you can go with the flow, and let go of the need for control, you become a beast as soon as you get tripleclocked.

The pirate theme song is called the 1812 Overture by Peter Tchaikovsky.

I don't understand how people can hate such an awesome character (talking about the story, not the gameplay). I believe his backstory is one of the best backstories in the entire franchise tbh.

I personally like the randomness of his skills, just because it's something different. Also for any build safety first is good because Clappy already deals so much damage

Looking back at this, the community patch makes two small changes that makes the Fragmented tree so much cooler. Fuzzy Logic is a 4 point skill, and Cryo Exhaust uses more Frag stacks. You can go down the whole tree using only defensive subroutines, you can make it ridiculously easier to get your melee subroutine, you can actually abuse Element of Surprise cuz you can cycle off a terrible element much easier and as much as 96% multiplicitive damage is so worth it, its just a wonderful change. Also Maniacal Laughter is a much better skill on the patch, further boosting the usefulness of Element of surprise. It's honestly crazy how much better not being forced to take Gun subroutines makes that tree

I think I'm quite the opposite when it comes to Claptrap. I really do enjoy playing him and like his playstyles, but I really dislike him as a character. I think making Claptrap a VH was a horrible idea and GBX just did what the fans wanted to see. He just doesn't fit the role of a VH, his skill doesn't even make sense story wise (how does he know about action skills of BL2 characters if he never met them in TPS?) and I get that they somehow needed to explain why he was the last living Claptrap, but personally I believe this was one of the worst ways to do so. Anyway about the skills and stuff: Maniacal Laughter is actually pretty bad in my experience. Claptrap isn't an DoT character, 20% is very weak and the health regen is almost nothing, because it's not flat but based on your current health and also because stacks decay so quickly. I really prefer BB4L over it, because it stacks nicely with Blue Shell and helps Kick Him While He's Up. I think the only time it can make a difference is when Rainbow Coolant procs, but that's way to inconsistant and needs many enemies around you. I would only spec into it with a COM that boosts it tbh, probably even just a single point. Wax Off Wax On is also way too low imo. Claptrap is a health based class anyway so you normally don't even want to spec into it, but 5 points for such a low bonus isn't really worth it. Imo the only point to use that skill is by using Tediore Claptrap with a Chronicler COM which boosts it and already has a shield passive, so you're less reliant on health. But PSiP is usually a much better choice. Kick Him While He's Up can be pretty good, because Claptrap has so many bonuses in FFYL it can be a good thing to go into it and when you get up you still have a bonus from that. Also HIGH FIVE GUYS works with enemies that melee you. Torgue Fiesta can't actually kill you on it's own, but it's still dangerous because it puts you to low health. The damage isn't that amazing either, but the ricochet can be nice I suppose. Hyperion Punch is probably Claptrap's worst skill. It deals absolutely no damage, is locked to fire, is slow as hell and most importantly doesn't get melee damage bonuses. Also very interesting fact about OLT and splash. So it doesn't work exactly like Money Shot. Never tested it myself tbh. Livin' Near The Edge is another skill really worth pointing out, because Claptrap loves being in FFYL already and with this active at max capacity (because of 0 health and 0 shields in FFYL) you REALLY get to insane amounts of DPS. About the Subroutines, I hate the RNG as well but I think the bonuses as well as all the regular good skills in the tree are just too great to not go down that tree. I agree with One Shot Wonder, it completely ruins Tediore weapons, but Tripleclocked is just so amazing... About Death Machine, it defenitely is a great skill but as with any movement speed skill in TPS it's just too low imo. 20% compared to 60% in BL2 (Axton's Onslaught for example) is just... meh. I get that movement speed isn't needed as much in TPS because of Oz Kits, but still it could've been a bit higher to make it worth it. Melee Oz Kits for example have a massive movement speed increase and it's not like they'll get you through maps in seconds. Also I thought the same about the Factory Second COM, it's pretty good for a Deputy build. But the Sapper kinda just outperforms it because of OLT. Anyway nice video, Derch.

I love the idea of Claptrap. When he works, it's insanely fun. Early playthroughs are pretty frustrating though. You get a bad action package for the scenario and you just want to pull hair out. I was within sniping distance of a set of badasses, no one within a stone's throw, and it gave me the meat unicycle. Not the end of the world when you can escape, but damn. The whole idea of a combat loop can get really effed up. But then even that RNG madness can come together and be great fun, especially later when you have a decent amount of points to go around, have a full-sized backpack, and are now equipped to adapt. I've had a lot of fun with it recently. My turning point of realization in just how fun it can be came in UVHM when I went up against the Bosun fight. Had a glitched spitter. Hit VH.EXE, Pirate Ship Mode came up, and my spitter glitched to Loop, and I've never seen a boss bar go down for me so fast. I couldn't stop laughing. This is what patches are for. Cuz when he's on point, it's probably the most fun I've had in BL.

I friggin love claptrap, he takes down the Sentinel sooooo easily with tediore.

i actually like that glitch com (elemental damage, chance, slam damage, cryo slam skill, maniacal laughter, melee damage skill) for a sort of close range slam ish build - claptrap's got like six frigging nova skills, and it's one of the few things that actually boosts slam damage, along with being able to add cryo to any kind of slam via a skill - he's got great explosive bonuses, you can group foes and boost elemental stuff with the quasar, slam to get to the rainbow nova faster, and getting a bad gun debuff isn't really that harmful if you're mostly using it to freeze foes or have massive explosive bonuses or whatever.

Yeah the song for the pirate ship is the 1812 Overture. Infamously known for the Cannon accomponiment at certain parts of the song, and they timed the cannon shots to line up with where they would fire in the song, hence the slow fire at first but very rapid fire at the end.

I really want to see a co-op campaign of Aurelia and claptrap doing their team trees

It is the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. The Pirate Ship Mode song! IDK if that has already been stated or not.

Gun Wizard also refills ammo when you activate it, for everyone, for every ammo type except rockets.

Coincidental Combustion deals 115% bonus damage as explosive.

Maniacal laughter one of the best healing skills in the franchise. Aurelia *laughs in magic bullet*

By the way, start with a bang is one of the best skills in the game, especially with something like the Fridgia. Freeze them, then the nova goes off and shreds them. You can literally solo any mob area in the game with just that skill and a Fridgia.

Dear Derch, may I bring up an off-topic here? I am so satisfied by those whistling songs that you used as background music. They are so freaking amazing! Would you please provide the song list containing these fantastic whistling melodies. I will so appreciate that if you can do so.

Grenade Vent multiplies with Load 'n' Splode AND with gun subroutines (subroutines multiply with Load 'n' Splode too). That can get pretty ludicrous in terms of damage xD

This is probably the best build video on RU-vid. Great format!

I have to say I'm fully in the "Safety First as a standalone skill" camp. When you're stacking explosive damage effectively you really don't notice that -15%, and he has other ways of dealing with enemies anyway(I mob with the Fridgia/SWAB combo). The shield buff far outclasses the health one from my experience, but they're both nice and give a great deal of survivability on their own. The randomness of VH.exe is also overstated IMO, the worst of the Action Packages are contained in the skill tree itself and can be safely avoided, and once you get a feel for the triggers you can proc Pirate Ship Mode fairly consistently; your health seems to take priority over most of the other factors. As long as I'm below health gate and have a strong enemy presence on-screen, I can usually get it no problem. Besides, anything that gives you a free health refill is hard to say no to anyway.

If you use one last thing with a ravager with 8 mag, you deal that constant extra damage. With the flakker, he can use it to spam the 2nd shot damage boost, but not the first since the flakker doesn't direct hit very often.

Interesting thing I've noticed, claptrap has the fastest melee speed

Time stamps are in the descriptions, annotations coming soon........

This is a good review of clap trap. Well done. That you for not spending this out into 5 videos. Well done.

Also one thing I figured out with Fragmented Fragtrap is when you have 4 guns equipped you tend to get a subroutine based on your equipped guns, elements, etc. It doesn't all the time but makes it much better.

7:48 "doesn't seem to be worth 500 points" :p

I'm sorry I said your lightsaber guide wasn't a lightsaber, it is, and your videos are awesome, I hope you have a good day.

While shield subroutine is active, your shield recharge delay is reduced to 0. That combined with 9/5 in Wax On, Wax Off and purple Tediore shield, you're almost unkillable.

As much as RNG-y he may be, I find that the Cookie Cutter Fragtrap build is by far THE most consistent (and fun!) build in the ENTIRE game. Take away all the RNG, stick in all the buffs and explosive goodness = OP as fuck

I don't get why everyone's avoiding Fragmented Fragtrap like the plague. Seriously, if you don't get the what you want, the downside is just a -15% damage penalty. When I'm switching guns with the wrong subroutine I barely notice it. Tripleclocked, well, that's another story.

I love Claptrap. Defensive Subroutines is probably the single most loaded tier 1 skill in the game. You win no matter what it gives you and it's always on. If it's not the best tier 1, it's probably tied with Aurelia's Duchess or something Jack has. But we all know how OP Jack is. Coincidental Combustion is crazy good. It's even better on a cryo build or with cryo guns. CC with Two Scoops is obscenely powerful, to say nothing of all his reload buffs which you'll be activating constantly with the Two Scoops. It's probably one of his best guns. Especially with all his other synergies for shit like Load n Splode. Maniacal Laughter on a cryo-explosive build is also OP as fuck. The only random skill in vaulthunter.exe that I really hate is the Krieg one. The others you can control by not speccing into them. Most of the time, you'll get something decent when you activate his action skill, and sometimes you'll get the pirate ship or gun wizard and completely destroy everything. I mean, if gun wizard or pirate ship were his default action skill, that shit would be OP as fuck. So the randomness balances him a bit while still allowing him those OP action skills. Even the gunzerker skill, while not my favorite, is AMAZING when you have a weapon like the Two Scoops or Ravager.

29:30 "I have an idea!" Oh no...

I have no way to prove this but i have noticed that the more useful Action Packages appear when you activate the Action Skill on low health. This makes me wonder though: has anyone researched the conditions for different Action Packages?

Hey man, congrats on 10 111 subscribers. Love your videos.

For 1:36:52, regarding the bomber oz kit.. As amazing the free grenade chance is, using it with the skill "grenade vent" glitches the kit. Using both cancels the free chance, but you still get the grenade damage. I haven't done a lot of testing on it, but you may need to respec and/or re-equip the oz kit. Unfortunately, this is also the case with Jack: using the bomber oz kit with the skill "marginal benefit" negates the free grenade chance. Not sure if this was fixed in the PC community patches. This is a current problem on console, or at least on xbox one.

now that was a nice trip with those gear guides,Derch.They helped me a lot and I found them enjoyable. I think my favorite was for Sal made with Chuck ... because it showed me that there is more to the character then abusable glitches.But all of them were top fucking tier guides . I'am excited about mentioned round table podcasts,that would be another good place for me to learn more about game mechanics from other Community Badasses. Or you can invite Gothalion and ask him why he is such fucking asshole ,that'll do for me.

the reload sound of the flakker is so satisfying.

Good Dershbag adds timestamps in description. 10/10

On the topic of Torgue Fiesta I use the same thought process as my explosived Axton in BL2. If my weapons arent just as dangerous to me as they are my enemies, I'm not interested.

I'm a fan of the TORGUE shotguns coincidentally claptrap also works well with explosives so I love playing claptrap

derch exploring the final frontier

I'm barely playing this and your guide is pretty helpful. Right now I have max hammer and lvl 2 on laughter since many of my guns have elements.

Bro, I honestly do not understand how you do not have more followers!!!

Sorry for posting so much in this video, but I think you might have overlooked the Overclocker COM a bit. It seems amazing. Boosting cooldown improves his tanking. Death Machine is awesome and Grenade Vent is nuts at 10/5. It looks to me like the perfect Torgue class mod for medium range when not abusing OLT or pistols. Or you could use a weapon like the Hail that gets grenade splash and stack ML while still benefiting from grenade damage, where Load and Splode would ordinarily do nothing for you. You do have to get subroutines, but you don't need tripleclocked and 15% damage debuff is nothing compared to all the damage you get from your skills and boosts. Plus, if you do get a good subroutine, you get 10 stacks for 1 grenade. You'll stay in forever. I guess this COM gets overshadowed by the Sapper and Loose Cannon, but it's still good. You could go with a blue without Grenade Vent if you absolutely didn't want grenade splash damage, and get +6 Death Machine, +5 Thick and Thin for good cooldown and a fucking nuts kill skill. Or +6 Grenade Vent, +5 Death Machine and use the passive cooldown on the COM to avoid diminishing returns on cooldown.

sub·rou·tine ˈsəbro͞oˌtēn/ nounComputing noun: subroutine; plural noun: subroutines a set of instructions designed to perform a frequently used operation within a program.

I recently discovered that bullets that bounce off of you seem to trigger OLT (It may have also been Luck Cannon's ability). I was holding my Luck Cannon and I heard OLT trigger even though I didn't actually shoot.

I finally will attempt a claptrap playthrough my take he's a unique character forcing to adapt and change your play style. He seems like a frustrating at times but fun character to play.

I remember it took me a long time to realise that you could go above 5/5. when I did I was so excited!

So, if you avoid all the guns and the elemental subroutine one you can get quite a potent Melee fighter....

try having only around 3 guntypes equipped with an empty inventory, that might work with the subroutines

I loved using clappy with a ice teodore smg so much fun reloading blowing shit up and freezint

Love the way you talk bro so soothing

Hello. I very much enjoy your content. You seem like the type of person that wants to get things right. I hope that you add the difference between "clip" and "magazine" in your repretoire. I'm a veteran with many years over seas. A Clip is meant to retain ammo until it is inserted into the Magazine. Just a minor point but it annoys us veterans. Keep up the awesome work, man.

It's such a shame how overshadowed TPS is in the franchise. While Fragmented Fragtrap is weird, it fits his character pretty well, and every other VH is designed with so much love and care. I still prefer these VHs to the BL3 ones; I really wish I could take Jack and Claptrap into the BL2 campaign just for more mobbing variety.

I'm three days from getting my ps4. handsome edition is the first game I'm getting. claptrap will be the first character I play.

I like the name, fight for your life loop. I've gotten stuck in it a bunch of times.

the podcast idea is freaking cool

i find that the minions are the most common action package to get

So does putting a point in a skill that provides you with a new action package guarantee you that action package the next time you use your action skill or was that just pure luck?

Coincidental combustion!!! Heyyyy!!! It's short fuse!!!

what happened at 59:24 was really funny to me

1:00:13 ''shocking isnt it?'' HAHAHAHAHAHA

I never played claptrap. Started playing again a few ways ago (4/24/19), Wow this guide is actually helpful! I don't see myself going down the frag trap tree..(unless I am a higher level) currently lvl 11. Anyways, I now have a better understanding of the characters skills. Didn't even think about possible changes that could of happened between 2017 and now 2019. I really wonder how many of his skills are changed since this video....

If Fuzzy Logic was a 4 or 5 point skill, the fragmented skilltree would be perfect, in my opinion. If you want just guns, go with guns, or maybe you want melee, sure, but you still have to pick health and shields. The issue is All the guns adds too many subroutines. The other change I'd make is adding the ammo refill Gun Wizard has at it's end to One Shot Wonder and Funzerker. That and the grenade and cryo slam chaning 10 stacks instead of 5.

I get why the RNG, especially on fragmented fragtrap, bums you out... but to me, that's the whole draw of the character. It makes things more interesting when it forces me to use different guns, rather than pick one that I think is awesome and only ever shoot that gun unless I'm out of ammo. I have 4 different weapons slotted with 4 elements, and that gets me by most of the time. With exhaust manifold you can just go slam crazy for those couple times when you get a subroutine you're not happy with, although even then I'm still doing a lot of damage so it's not really that bad even with tripleclocked. And when I do use the correct gun which is most of the time, damage output is just awesome :) It takes some getting used to but if you can get your head around it it's definitely worth it.

Load and spload is multiplicative according to the wiki

Lost Legion marines look like the Guys from Halo

Derch, are you planning on going over changes made in the community patches to skills? Claptrap specifically got a huge boost to the Fragmented tree! Clatrap 134 Fuzzy Logic now has 4 ranks 135 Cryogenic Exhaust Manifold has increased Frag Stack consumption -2 stacks per rank up from -1 136 Grenade Vent has increased Frag Stack bonus 2 stacks per rank up from 1 137 Float Like A Bee boosts Melee Damage by 9% per rank up from 6%, also has increased Frag Stack bonus 1.5 per rank up from 1 138 Hyperion Punch now deals Explosive Damage and has increased Damage per rank, also the animation is now faster and control of guns is returned to the player sooner 139 Maniacal Laughter has greater Status Effect Chance 13.2% per rank up from 4%, also now boosts Health regen per stack per rank by 0.04% up from 0.03% but only has 150 max stacks down from 200 140 Wax Off, Wax On has increased Shield Recharge Rate 7% per rank up from 3% and increased Shield Recharge Delay -6% per rank up from -3% 141 Kick Him While He's Up has increased melee damage 8% up from 5% 142 Torgue Fiesta no longer deals self damage 143 Kick Him while he is down has Doubles the amount of health you get from Second wind. 144 Second wind (By Tediore) now gives you More FFYL Time

Hmm... Knowing how damage reduction works, I wonder how much Pain Simulator is Painful actually increases your actual health?... Damage Reduction 1/1.2 = 83.3% (repeating) 130%hp /.833 (repeating) = 156%ehp It gives you 56% more health, effectively. Combine it with All the things are awesome, though... 155%hp /.833 (repeating) = 186%ehp They give you 86% more health, effectively, solo. 185%hp /.833 (repeating) = 222%ehp Good god, ten perk points for +122%ehp... Can these skill be boosted?!? THEY CAN!! Level 11 PSiP Damage Reduction 1/1.355 = 73.8% 166%hp / .738 = 225%ehp Level 11 PSiP w/Lv. 5 ETiA 4-Player 221%hp / .738 = 299%ehp 10 points for 3x the normal health... Coupled with %hp based health regen... Jeeze...

Could you pls make guides like these for Borderlands 1 remaster?

I really like this series. Are there any plans to do the Borderlands 1 characters?

I like the luck of claptrap part

I hate how One last thing basically turns Luck Canon into a flashbang machine 🙈

fragmented would be soo much better if the koala skill could go to 5 or hell even just 4, if he could ignore the gun protos and the others further down so just be switching from melee to health or sheilds it would be alot better

what i want to see i bl3 is a skill that increases splash radius

My only problem with clap trap is that he is (imo) better for solo, yet he has an entire co-op tree

Hes the only pre sequel character I play

Hate the Fragtrap tree, it’s essentially saying you’re gonna suck at something... and it’s almost always gonna be with a gun...

do you ever plan skill tree videos on borderlands 1

You talking is why the increased speed option exists on youtube. I sped it up and it sounded like you were talking at a normal pace.

So derch, you spoke highly of his explosive tree and I am now deciding whether or not to do a playthrough as him, but I was wondering what you favorite explosive character is. Do you have a favorite? or do you just prefer regular gun damage and such? thanks for reading.

sometimes when I'm struggling to kill something I just down myself and kill it in ffyl

Fragmented Fragtrap would be pretty good if they just removed the penalty’s or significantly lowered them

How does One Shot Wonder stack with multiple claptraps? If they all get the same action package would it add the bonuses, multiply, or just count as one One Shot Wonder being active at a time?

Gotta disagree on Kick Him While he's Down. Because you become the center of attention and aggro, you make the FFYL loop really bad

I have to say that claptrap is the biggest example of good concept bad execution in borderlands while he isn't a bad class he is incredibly unfocused similar to gauge and the focused skills a surprising amount of the time RNG based making him too inconsistent

Chakofsky's 10th overture I believe is what it's called might have butchered the dude's name tho

I avoid using claptrap's action skill, because it can screw u over, other than that he is a pretty good vault hunter.

I REQUIRE KNOWLEDGE, if anyone knows, if i play claptrap and get one shot wonder with a jackobs rifle and get a crit, how much damage does it do? as in what's the multiplier and stuff can we one shot some bosses with this? :P i'm really curious, because you can spec into a skill that gives an action package and your next one will always be that one, so could we do some fancy things with that? i think nisha has some buffs for jackobs weapons specifically on some comms and stuff?, basically how do we break one shot wonder :P

so, the random bullshit tree is really fantastic in singleplayer, becuase you can abuse the pausing on opening your inventory to always have the right guns

who's more fun; clap or jack? I'm playing as a lvl 17 jack right now.

could you imagine Nisha with one hit wonder!?

it was 4 times the damage from the pistol, not 2 times the damage

Claptrap would be so much more appealing if you could put 5 points in fuzzy logic

Didn't bring Hoyle for this one Derch? Also I agree Repulsive definitely doesn't seem too be worth 500 points lmao! 7:44