How to Choose your Legs - Breakdown with Numbers - Armored Core 6 (AC6) 

NOTE: Bipedal: Tian-Qiang actually got a buff to AP that wasn't mentioned in the patch notes. It now has 5.3k AP which means that it has even higher defensive score/cost than the dessert! Also, blunder on my part. For the QB reload time of tank legs, they tend to be longer than stated because of the weight of tank legs themselves.

"there are more bipeds than reverse joints, tetrapods, and tanks combined" which is a _CRIME,_ by the way!!

Reverse joint legs are my absolute favorite, i just love the high jump

The legs are the soul. The pilot is stored in the groin

I found myself using Spring Chicken a lot just to carry good weapons, and mostly relying on the jump for dodging.

AC games have always had a bias towards bipedal legs, but the numbers in this game are extra skewed. I was floored when I saw a parts list and saw only 2 quad legs. Hopefully we get some DLC that fleshes out the non-bipeds significantly.

15:07 this is actually wrong, the Tian Qiang legs have 5300 AP now, making them basically hands-down the most efficient heavyweight bipeds in the game

You can take my Kasuars from my cold, dead, hands

For real though Chrightt you are my favorite AC6 content creator. Not just that, but any game you produce content for, you are always make the most informative and thorough videos of anyone.

Something I've found with the tank legs, is that usually ascent speed and EN consumption is so poor that you save energy by assault boosting at a high an angle and usually gain significantly more altitude doing so because of the speed.

Honestly, what really elevated my AC6 level from capable to really proficient was learning how to utilize kicks to the best of my ability. For my first playthrough and a half or so, I never used kicks or even rocket boosting really (didn't even bother with unlocking kicks until the second wave of OST boosters) and it was fine but I found the game to be pretty challenging. Then I unlocked kicks and accidentally did one, chunking my opponent's health. Never went back. It's amazing how much more damage you can milk if you kick at the end of an enemy's ACS downtime.

one thing worth mentioning is the physics of the boost kicks. because one issue i've found with bipeds, reverse joints and tetrapods is that where stops your forward momentum, which can be dangerous if you whiff. tank treads do not have this issue, as you'll just fly past your enemies, without stopping. this also turns the boost kick into an efficient mobility tool on tank builds.

I mentioned this on I believe your booster video but the altitude that reverse joint grounded quick boosts reach is inversely proportional to quick boost duration, meaning that if you’re running the fluegel or particularly the 12345, you can quick boost much more often.

I'm actually quite fond of the Kasuar. The reverse joint kick/boost interacts in an interesting way with boosters that have higher reload times but also longer jet duration. This can lead to you covering a lot of distance per boost and with the longer reload time, you can't really boost again until you hit the ground anyway. So, you get another grounded boost when it's ready again. The biggest difference between it an a biped leg (other than the obvious) is that you have to be more intentional with the Kasuar. For bipeds, you can constantly correct your position with quick reload speeds, but the kasuar lets you make much larger corrections.

9:15 Digitigrade means standing on toes. "Reverse joint" legs are digitigrade. The "reversed" joint in question is actually the ankle, and not reversed at all. Nachtreiher is plantigrade, same as Bipedal legs. They just look weird.

If you plan on using a kick on a stunned enemy, get a few shots in first since the kick can extend the stagger duration by a small amount since they'll be stuck in a "oh shit i got kicked" animation for a sec or two afterwards. Great way to extend a punish combo if you need just a little more time to reload your big guns but the enemy will recover before they finish reloading.

Well, just a personal opinion, but I want to frikin Object on Kasuar's bad rep in this vid. 1. Kasuar is one if not the best leg for a H&R or "Diver" build by having the lightest weight and highest Jump stat (both height and distance) and not everyone can keep track on a full jump of a kasuar leg with ease for aiming anything at close range so basically negates most of retaliation method. Easiest field example with kasuar and its build: Being a feather weight-Light weight build on 61k-65k range. With emphasis on close range fights between 0-100m (for me, it was 0-70ish), you can Jump in on an unsuspecting enemy from 150m easily and dump most of your damage then peace out faster than most people can react to you, or keep on the aggression by jumping over them when they tries to turn facing you, forcing them to keep track on you without doing any hits because either they try to keep aiming at you for a good shot or just entirely misses. 2. Before patch 1.31, this leg is an absolute perfect match with any dual zimmer build due to it can just Jump in unsuspected > unload double zimmer for instant ACS break > break punish with back weapon(in my case being Trueno since on 0 range you can easily shot it without fully lock-on) or kick them to next week and either keep the aggression or run away for another dive to either same target or different target if it's a 3v3 match. Now you can just replace the double zimmer with something else that can ACS break in a short combo like laser lance + sweet sixteen or something I rest my case

I’m always proud when I see the parts I’m using, and chright identifies the same strengths that I chose them for.

Chrightt! I can't believe you! You had the perfect setup and you through it away! Why are the Legs the Soul of your Armored Core? Because that's where your feet are. 😝

Lol I made a Kasuar leg build just for the challenge, I ended up with a high risk high reward close range build that's pretty fun to play. The trick is to think vertically, areal quick boosts don't have the weird hop to them, and with the right booster/generator combo you can usually get an areal quick boost mid hop Also, neat trick for the heavy tank treads, you can quick turn fairly fast while in assault boost! If you do this in a zigzag you can cover a surprising amount of ground if you have high energy capacity. Works with other legs as a way to charge at an enemy without getting absolutely wrecked by missiles or cannons, but it's even more useful with treads since they don't quick boost too well

Me like HAL. Looks sick, high stats, high stability, good jump stats for a medium weight so you can still move quickly despite them being on the heavier side of medium weight.

A heavy biped build does have advantages over tank treads: -much wider angle at which you can assault boost (flies better) -much more responsive, if you actually try to avoid getting hit as well (maybe it's just bornemisza's bigger hitbox, but it feels like heavy bipeds dodge better).

Never really gave the Bornemissza a chance after seeing the boost speed on the stat sheet (what can I say? I love my lightweights), but seeing it hit 300 effortlessly has given me second thoughts. Thank you for the vid!

I didnt know the hal and basho werent worth it compared to the melander until now. I like the hal legs for the fashion and attitude stability tho. Good vid

Thanks for making these, I really appreciate all the work you put into these videos, especially having pictures of the part in question.

Shout out to my fellow Kasuar users! ^-^ Although I do use Nacht legs from time to time as they are pseudo-reverse joints. Great video, tempted to go Nacht legs fulltime

I use HAL for their high attitude stability (for bipedals). I was using Firmeza, but the speed wasn't helpful when I got staggered all the time. The HAL allow me to take more hits without getting staggered, and for a very modest EN load. Not only that, they have very decent jump distance, which gives me the effect I wanted from Firmeza with a lot higher AP

The Nachtreiher have been my favorite since the very beginning. I struggle a little with the low weight limit, but I've found the speed and evasive capabilities more than make up for it Great video! It's helped a lot with building some of my heavier ACs

Unused EN Load HAS a useful purpose: it increases EN Supply Efficiency. You might think thats not important because of how fast your energy already recharges on the ground, but in the air, a high enough score can get you a meaningfully fast recharge rate while falling. You can combine the AG-T-005 Hokushi Engine with its incredibly high EN Output to Weight ratio, the Gridwalker Boosters with their superior upward thrust characteristics, and a high output adjustment core to achieve permaflight without the coral engine gimmick. A En Supply Efficiency Score of 7000-8000 is what you want to aim for; the higher it is and the lighter your AC is the less finesse it takes to maintain permaflight.

I find using Gridwalker with Kasuar really covers each other's weaknesses very well. Sure, you're not Natricher mobile with your quick boosts, but your huge jump height on top of the highest upward thrust/low midair cost means you can take to the air extremely quickly. I use them with a VE-20B/Ephemera core build that has Aurora/VP66LS guns :)

Love your content. And just for funs in terms of pronounciation : Nachtreiher = Nart (like ART with a N in front) - Rai (like in RAIse) - Her (insist a bit on the H like if it was doubled). It is a name of a heron (bird) breed in german language, which also fit with the thematic of that whole frame of being pretty agile and nimble.

I still run Nacht legs indeed for that incredible lightweight vertical jump.

I used the Tian-Qiangs for ages. I don't think I stopped until I finally realized what Spring Chicken could do, and kept that going until NG++

Wrecker legs are good for breaking that all important 2000 attitude stability barrier to tank assault armor trades. important to note that the fortaleza stability was nerfed so that the max stability you can achieve is 1999, therefore you cant trade assault armor with those legs

Reverse joints charge kick/ double zimmer/direct impact missile (6x or 8x) was my favorite way to play at release. The amount of stagger this build was pumping out with an aggressive playstyle was a thing of beauty.

Nachtreiher. Never ceases to confuse me, because you think it's a reverse joint but it's actually a biped. Also, great guide once again. Helps when you want to build better designs.

Firemza, wrecker, alba, nacht legs are my favorites.

I've been killing time by making my own spreadsheets for AC6 recently, so it was neat to see that someone as meticulous as you also thought that load limt + weight was an important stat. It makes the categories much more visible, especially for the bipeds. I'd post the sheet but it would feel weird posting my own on your video, aheh.

Great vid, just one correction: you said that tank legs' QB Reload Ideal Weight is equal to their load limit, so if you stay within their load limit your QB reload will always be fastest, but the legs' own weight is taken into consideration for Ideal QB Reload, but not for load.

The statement about tank treads having optimal boost time if you don't overburden them is false, they actually lose their qb reload very easily. You can check this very easily. On a side note I have yet to find a build where you actually want the wrecker legs.

Here are 3 things I have foudn personally regarding 3 legs: 1) Basho's extra jump distance and speed is not to be underestimated. I think it has probably the smoothest side hops and general hops of any Biped. Great with a ground-based build using the Speed thrusters. you can circle hop while peppering your opponent with guns and avoiding return fire by throwing off the enemy fcs. 2) I said this before but 12345s on the Mind Beta seems to eliminate almost all landing lag of the grounded boosts that the reverse joints have. This is very unorthodox, but it does provide a unique vector of movement via a build that does nothing but grounded quick boosts to move around. Worth a shot although I haven't found its best use. Seems to pair well with redlines generators and gives enemy fcs tracking some trouble. 3) This hardly needs saying a light build using the VP-424s can reach quit fasts speeds while retaining a lot of stability. Ap sucks but a quad melee using the Pulse blade and more importantly the plasma thrower is a terrifying melee force that hardly requires the hover and nearly always has access to a punish melee attack when the enemy is in acs overload. You can also run a fast tetra with dual guns to utilize the hover to be able to maintain altitude and rain bullets (or in my build's case lasers) down on the opponent. this version of the build sacrifices back weaponry power however so it's very preference based. Both quad speed builds should be hitting roughly 340-350 boost using either alula or speed thrusters. Not the fastest but the benefit of precise altitude control helps make up for that.

This channel provided what is conveniently a college course for AC pilots. Thank you!

Great video as always, but I’m a so disappointed you didn’t go into how the tank leg boosters function. Specifically, QB reload speed is heavily reliant on weight for tank legs and I was wondering how/if the different tank legs had different thresholds for QB reload and other similarly effected stats. The booster video you put out said you would cover the tank leg boosters in this video. Hoping that you’d give us a graph like the normal booster got but instead of boost speed it would be QB reload. Maybe you’ll give this topic it’s own video later or when there will be more tank legs to compare like when they release DLC. 🤞 Got to give you the benefit of the doubt with all this excellent content you put out for the AC and Elden Ring community. Especially, in the face of these recent updates. Looking forward to your next release. Thank you for everything you do!

Great work Raven🎉

Always appreciate these videos, thank you for your service, sir

Ohh new Chrightt video!

These videos are great, I always learn a lot about AC building from them.

Thanks for these videos, probably the most important part on the AC. Cheers!

I love the way you format your vids

yayyy new chrightt breakdown, these have been invaluable for finetuning my builds, thanks for all the hard work

We appreciate the time and accuracy it takes to test and put together an info sheet/video like this. Good job Chrightt! 😁👌

These guides are incredible man, you’re the goat

Your videos are invaluable and sparked my love for AC6 helping me understand it all better!

Amazing video! Thank you for all this information. Very useful!

hey ch-right bro, i followed your build u made played it for a quite while, u rly are good at what u do, u rly know what u doing bro, that build has like 80% + victory rate, very well optimized, very well thought out build, ty brada, keep on keeping on!

Great video, this is so informative!

I know Nachtreiher is is a very popular leg, but as someone that switched to heavyweights after chapter 3 it's interesting just how much the jump affects how you can play it, the fact it has almost double the jumping ability of the other 3 lightweight bipeds while retaining the fastfall means tap-jumping can be used entirely in place of quickboosting on the ground. And the score/cost reflects that too. It's an interesting offensive leg that can happily take lower weight boosters like the MULE with the extra weight spent on more defense or weapons.

I could be missing some stuff but the Ve-42B/Hover Tank legs are just the best of in air combat. I tried Tetrapod legs and their hovering was really fun, but I often found myself falling pretty quickly to the ground.

In the chance we do one day see any form of DLC or update that introduces new parts, I would love to see the return of a "speed quad" If they can give us the wheelchair tank treads I don't see why a quad of a similar speed profile would be so impossible to ask for

Great video, I have subscribed to your channel!

I love the Firmeza

Good information! I’ve also felt like they were the most important, and I wish there were more

Great Video! I would request a breakdown on all melee weapons next!

It's like you forgot about your combined weight + load limit stat when you got to talking about tanks. If you use your entire tank load limit, you'll be way over the QB reload ideal weight. The Bornemissza is very hard to keep at the ideal QB weight without either stapling a silly little core on top of its enormous hull, or giving up on the tank's main draw of having a lot of heavy weapons.

As a biped main thanks for the tips,it was very helpful.

I feel awkward for not noticing horizontal jump distances of bipedals... oops. Thanks for the breakdown. Legs are definitely the most important part of the kit and it's nice to get a breakdown of what bipedals are good at. I'll have to check out what kind of stuff I can do with the Crawlers because I never really tried them before.

I actually really like the Kasuar legs for one major reason: they're excellent at close range, whether it's dodging or throwing off tracking. They're so damn fun to use with dual Vientos and a melee weapon.

0:09 because it’s a good pun

the real main selling point of the alba compared to other lightweight legs is that you get to look like a gundam

Good lord man you're a machine.

Love the wheelchair tank treads

Played almost always with bipeds/reverse. Quads are not my thing because to hover safely you have to be far away from the enemy, but gaining altitude is difficult and leaves me with low amount of energy (unless using redline engine). Most fun I had was using light(er) mechs. 60t close-mid range mech with 2x6 missiles, dagger and a weapon of choice is just 'chef's kiss'.

Ive been using the spring chicken for my pvp setup. Run the stun needle, zimmerman, pilebunker and weaponbay your left for a laser dagger. Low damage but if your energy is depleted and the enemy tries to run its got 3 separate lunges for each swing.

This one where style/fashion plays a big role.

We all know which leg piece you are going to use. All hail tha HAL leg!

This man has wisdom 😏🤌

Kasuar is actually good for melee builds since you can alternate between QB and melee cancel to move around while having a better kick than nachtreiher.

I never knew you were an author!

I use a heavy tetrapod and for the first time the other day i used a medium to light biped and i was amazed at the speed

happy that crawler is a great biped. the starter ac is my fave fashioncore

The boat legs also have a fantastic built-in booster for AB with AB values comparable to the dedicated AB booster Buerzel, so it can retain a surprising amount of mobility for its weight class.

I felt like I was being called out with how accurate the Tetrapod analysis at the start was lol

@Chrightt you are a real statistics wizard my man!! I needed to point this out, because I keep reading "number crunching" jargon referred to you, but that does not make any justice to your work! You study the data, produce/search for useful metrics and then provide meaningful conclusions!! You sir are a Statistician through and through! Do you happen to be a scientist?

Kasar is my favorite and I don't like you talking bad about it, but I also agree with you because all you have to do is equip one shoulder weapon and your overburdened.

Literal “my soul is stored in the balls”

I actually used the Kasuar/42Z legs through most of my first playthrough. It was a ride. I eventually went to use the Alba frame parts just because they are more defensive. Also it let me use a lot of different weapons.

I love ❤ your videos

I run either Reverse Joint for quick response and tricky to track dashing or tank treads to drift a mfer

I don’t wanna be a bother but I do watch your videos while I’m at work. I love your videos and find them very informative as a whole. My only problem is it’s hard to see the acs from a distance due to the dark coloring.

I wasn't ready for the Nachtreier revelation as biped and not reverse 😱🤣

I love making exact leg weight Limit ACS, it's satisfying and fun to build, though sometimes is not optimal. I used some to S some missions

We need fast running legs with super jump lol, and weapon arms need to come back, also I would really love to make an akimbo melee build so being restricted to which side a certain weapon is allowed on makes no sense to me at all, could you imagine dual wielding pulse daggers like holy crap non stop slashing hehe...

running a 73k tetra now and I love it

Boat legs (floating tank legs) actually have a really solid assault boost speed.

I could be a cool idea to compare the different preset builds you get after beating AC's in the arena. Just for fun, to see which is actually best optimized

Reverse Joints counterpoint - Kasuar legs look sick

Hey Chrightt, it seems that the Tetrapod legs hoover mode have innate stats that sometimes ignore the booster you have, so making use of boosters like the 12345 seems to be a good idea if you have a good energy pool to stay in that mode, would be neat to see if something can be refined with that knowledge

I went through NG with reverse joint, used the full Hal/IBIS set for NG+ and NG+2, now i think i might've found my true love with tetrapod. Lets me carry all the heavy murder goodness I was missing out on whilst not being nearly as ungodly slow as smelly stinky tank bits.

When you said soul of the ac i thought you were going to make a soul/sole pun and i was waiting

the kasuars definitely deserve some sort of buff, as they are now they just lose out to the nachtreiher legs, which are clearly supposed to be a middle ground between bipeds and reverse legs