Top 10 Best Shields in Borderlands 2  

Back in the day, Bee + Conference Call = OP

Thought I didn’t have any dlc than I realized i have the handsome collection, here I come antagonist!

Summary: 10. Blockade 9. Big Boom Blaster 8. Rough Rider 7. Fabled Tortoise/Hoplite 6. Flame of the Firehawk 5. Love Thumper 4. Hide of Terramorphous 3. Sham 2. Bee 1. Antagonist

Krieg actualy mostly benefits from Rough Rider. He lowes all health stacking and damage resistances.

Flexing with the 94% sham shield

the hopelite does 20 percent lower movement speed for every hoplite too.

I like the black hole. It's fun.

"to acquire the hide of terramorphus , youll need to beat terramorphus in terramorphus peak" OH IS THAT SO? OH I THOUGHTI WAS GONNA GET IT FROM DUKINOS MOM IN LYCHWOOD ! tHaNkS fOr ThE iNfO ! nah for real tho nice vid :)

Blockade is worth it to acquire if you want to farm a perfect version of every single unique item in the game.

I couldn't live without the bee, It is by far the best shield for my kinda play and I actually love it.

**Sees The Bee** **Sees Sandhawk** *You've got to be kidding me.*

The Bee and the Ladyfist make killing the Warrior an absolute joke on your first two playthroughs

U forgot Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Kappa

However, Krieg has Silence the voices so if he hits him self with a broken Roid sheild he's lost basically all of his health. With the Rough Rider he resists his own punches so he takes less damage. Not to mention Krieg already has enough +100% melee damage skills.

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I find as Krieg at op8 does pleanty of damage with out a roid shield. Extra roid damage only causes you to one shot your self with silence the voices

Could you do a top list on best Relics in Borderlands 2? Great video btw.

Very good top ten list - in the end I think for my zero it's obviously the bee that is perfect, and for maya either this one or then the antagonist. Thanks for the good information!

I been needing this video, thanks VPG

I knew just from the title either bee or antagonist was gonna be first

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Just subbed. Great and helpful content man, thanks 👌🏻

I just found your channel from watching a few other Borderlands 2 videos and I have to say you're pretty cool!

Evolution Wheres the love for adaptive shields

Talking about Tortoise/Hoplite, doesnt mention when the penalty is greater than your entire health.

I find that on Gaige the fabled tortoise also works very well with unstoppable force to have actually decent movement during fights

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Mr Puma Gaming you forget one crucial thing you see the rough rider to a Melee krieg is actually really good since you get a higher base health and you get the dmg resistance meaning your skill wich heals you fully if below 30% and since u got higher health meaning your not gonna be deringly close to fight for your life when u proc it the higher health u got on higher dificulty puts u in a more beneficial situation compared to a roid shield. (Yes i do know that roid shields might be better but with the right skills the ROugh rider is more beneficial) :D

im going to call it the bee is number 1

i dropped the bee in my first playthrough of the dragon dlc in TVHM and it carried me through the TVHM with ease

glad to see more borderlands content being uploaded

when i was watching this videos i was playing borderlands 2 farming the snowman and i opened the loot and as soon as he started talking about the fabled tortoise i got one out of the chest lol

By the way, if you're farming The Bee, and you have the DLC, the tree ents are a much better way than Hunter Hellquist. They seem to drop much more often, and from I've seen tend to have better stats.

oh the hoplite, i remember that one, i never realised how much speed is reduced until you take the shield back off again

Puma: the SHAM brain: WOW

my first lgendary was the bee shield because its the only one I knew at the time

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I randomly got the bee without noticing, I just looked in my inventory and saw it. I had no idea how I got it until now.

Love the new Thumbnail, good job Puma!

@ VinylicPumaGaming ~~ the Evolution doesn't fit into your top ten shields for BL2?! If it's not the game's best adaptive shield, I dunno what is.

I always get mad when you just walk over the "out of body experience" quest.

Was in a game yesterday and a Bee Shield was the Item of the Day in Zeds Vendor, and also got a Sham from a random locker in Caustic Caverns, these were just so random.

Krieg is the one who benefits the most from rough rider. Roid shields apply the roid damage to himself if he gets the self hit from silence the voices, so a full melee build for krieg does NOT want a roid shield. On top of that, one of Kriegs earliest skills gives him a bonus melee dmg boost, which is increased if he doesn't have a shield or of his shield is down.

3:46 : Krieg is awful with Roid Shields, because of Silence the Voices. The Rough Rider may be its best option for melee, and a great option (the best imo) for Hellborn. Also, the Rough Rider is MADE for Krieg since he gets a lot of boosts by having his shield depleted OR taking damage directly on health. Great video anyways :D

I would put the antagonist at number 3 and bump the sham and bee up one:p but those are really the best shields, but if your trying to deal with surveyors I would personally go with a Transformer shield

I gotta say that flame of the firehawk & love thumper is my all time favorite for Krieg

I actually got Fabled Tortoise as a drop from Blue in the Caustic Caverns when doing the "Safe and Sound" side mission on ps3 as Axton :D (Though I sold it right away 'cause its movement penalty was pain in the ass)

Bee + booster would + sham = death to everything... RANDY WE NEED THIS NOW

my personal top would be: 10. white turtle shield. for extreme healgate builds, really funny but of cause you sacrifise some damage with... 9. the bee, yeah the bee ! its a weapon not a shield and as a shield it really suck the most ridiculus source of damage healthgate you directly. really usefull against raid 8. flame of the Firehawk, kind of a niche shield for krieg but a really good one, although maya can make great use of it. 7. Hide of terra, the best roid shield in the game and the best roid option for zero. really good on deathtrap. 6.neo/evolution I just happen to love them, I remember first time a beat the dragon a was wearing those, as Maya, took me a hell lot of time but I almost didn't take critical damage 5. rough rider. best roid option for krieg, a lot of great uses with the other characters, and its always fun to watch a 10+ teen raging online because he is dying as banshee Maya. 4. big boom, really usefull shield if playing grenade/fastball axton plus it as a high capacity and recharge rate 3. the sham. even though I don't like the shamefleeting morons polluting matchmackings no-one can deny that it may very well be the best shiel in the vanilla game (for bullet area of cause, if you're wearing thise against a rabid ennemy you're dead) 2. antagoniste. bullet reflection, damage reduction (only on bullet), damage increase up tu 880%on deflected bullet, and throw slag at attackers, really good cap/rate/delay do I relly need to explain why its a must have ? 1. blockade. 32% flat damage resistance on your shield and your health, yeah its hard to get but when you'll have it you'll be able to see a rabid wathever and take 3 or 4hit before he can break your shield and then tank 3 or 4 more hit before he can see you down, tank launcher enemy while having a good laugh, nova's like vorac/hyperyus will be nothing against your mightyness, Pyropete nova's if taken will take forever to kill you, the healthgate will become a long and distant memory that you will remember only when switching for the bee to fight an invincible

8:00 my favorite grenade, the storm front

Actually little disappointed evolution didn't make it but good list overall. Starting to love this channel

the blockade is by far the best shield in the game.

Seriously? You include Tortoise/Hoplite but not Neo/Evo? Wow that's sad.

Excellent review!

Good vid puma keep up the good work

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I think the bee is overrated. Not specifically on this list, but in general. It can be a bad choice for mobbing because it has no defensive perks, aside from a fast recharge rate. You're udually much better off with a smart build and something like an antagonist or blockade. Or the sham, I guess, though I don't like the sham either...

good video puma keep up the good work also some new games here and there and some lore videos would be awesome anywho just a suggestion keep it up! :D

When it comes to shields in borderlands 2 its always the bee and sham when i farm and now the antagonist.

Where's my the wiskey tango foxtrot? It's mega op w.t.f. > sham

blockade is easy to get

The antagonist with the siren is really good

I actually got The Bee off a base Treant today, barely made it into the forest for the first time and on my second kill. I just laughed like a hyena.

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dude, roid sheilds are horrible for kreig. either you're not using melee at all, and on dedicated melee builds for kreig you risk the chance of hitting yourself with a roid boosted silence the voices.

I got a level 54 bee shield from the leviathan's chests yesterday. If you can glitch it to get past the treasure room door maybe it is worth it. Also i got a legendary hunter class mod for Zer0

The Bee with the Lady Fist ... Massive critical hits

great video puma keep going

Got to love the love thumper very useful for a brawler like krieg

Flame of the firehawk! Works well with gaige as it turns deathtrap into a walking explosion and works infinitely well with hellborn krieg.

I got a shield called the bee it’s the first and only orange shield I’ve picked up

Krieg with the flame of the firehawk is basically invincible it's amazing lol

love the bee... collecting crystal for the antagonist

I have gotten ten different bee shields of varying g capacity rates and recharge from treeants , i can not wait for BL3

Loving the Impaler Shield with corrosive spikes

They should make shield types out of the antagonist's capacities in BL3, it'd be awesome to have shields launching a homming swarm of elemental balls as a legendary/unique/seraph/whateverraritytheyadd shield

For me personally the Blockade is the best defensive shield in the game. The Antagonist is also cool, though you have to watch not to get slagged if you take cover. The rough rider, the sham, the bee and the hide of terra for certain situations...

Damn son, vinylic puma got dat sweet 94 sham If only killer six watches this

My first legendary shield was the Impaler

Comes to Video Goes to End Sees Antagonist at #1 "Alright, I'll watch this video. Puma knows."

I like the sham with two rocketlaunchers and Logan's gun on gunzerker.

With the fabled tortoise, I got it from a vending machine in dragon keep

I had an awsom shield that had an insainly fast recharge delay, and speed. With my siren build i could stand infront of a psyco hed hit me, and by the next hit my shield would be fully charged. Of course this was during my first playthrough, and it only had a capacity of 210. I used it up to the bunker

I don't know if it was an update, or something, but since I've started playing Tiny Tina's DLC, I've gotten almost 6 Bee shields.

When I saw the antagonist on there I was relieved. I thought I was the only one who went around as zero with a sherrifs badge and 10 points in 2 fang with a Harold. It's kinda stupid actually.

hoplite does have a movement penalty that increases per person wearing it

That "zero is better off with a roid shield cus hes more melee based anyways" legit triggered me because my chaotic neutral rogue class mod actually makes my DPUH shoot like 8 times every second so the rough rider is amazing for the pure dps boost for always having Fearless active.

Your Hoplite demo reminded me of watching a ManOfLowMoralFiber video :3

With the rough rider don't use axton one of my favorite skills is the abilith to regen heatlh with a full sheild

I don't know what the name of it is, but I've got a pretty badass Legendary Shield that is a Corrosive Spike shield. Besides spiking melee attackers, it also launches homing spikes at gun attacks!!!

Hey, do you have any videos on your commando build? Seems fun as hell.

I gotta say the antagonist is the best shield, if you dont look at amp damage from the bee.

Gaige has good synergy w/ the rough rider. It's called the Buck Up bug.

It sounds like The Blockade is good at warding off a single huge first attack, like an explosion, but not so good with subsequent attacks (while it's not fully charged).

The Sham + Logan's Gun + Norfleet = OP

Could you do a video on skill trees and preferred weapons you often use that would help so much if you could puma :D

Got 2 Bee shields in Forrest from the sane tree near the dice chest. All in a week on-and-off. 1st was 6-10 serious attempts then the 2nd bee came from a casual, I wonder what my chances of getting 1 more are. I think I'll out one on ZerO and the other on Maya perhaps. I got sham off Bunker boy too. 85% and don't know who needs it out of the characters. I can't be bothered building them all up. I focus on 1 and have 2 In the wings. But grinding one character to help the others is the annoying part. But I learned that storing higher levelled gear does help as the lvl comes down. I think only on a new post through on higher lvl. My friend gave me 80 levelled guns and when I got to 30 they came down to my lvl.

YAY! A new video by VPG!

I love how he showed the sham 94% which is sooo hard to find.