The Ninja perk or class is one of the most stylish and deadliest perks in Killing Floor 3. It revolves around ranged weapons and gives you basically unlimited ammo, or lets you slice every Mire and Zed apart with your Kiba or Katana.
There are several archetypes you can do with the ninja, such as a support, a tank, or a DPS that focuses on the hordes or the bosses. This Ninja build guide provides an offensive, hack-and-slash build that excels in every situation.
Best Ninja Skill Build in Killing Floor 3
Ninjas have a very distinct playstyle. You don’t move faster than other perks, which I believe they should, but movement is foundational to your play.
When playing the Kunai or Shuriken, you throw ranged weapons at the enemies, but you have to pick them up so you can get the ammo back, making you think more about your route when kiting hordes of enemies.
For melee, you’ll want to know when to move and attack, and even utilize side-stepping. One of the most common strategies is to hold or charge your weapon attack and use the sprint and left or right directional keys to dodge and slice enemies.
This will become second nature once you play enough games, but there are more things you should be aware of compared to other perks because you are always up in their face.
This build will focus mainly on a hack-and-slash build that has amazing sustain, high single-target damage, and barely needs any support to clear hordes of enemies.
Passives Skills
Kenko gives you more health and restores 10 health over 5 seconds on perfect parries. Yoroi gives you more armor, and you lose less stamina when blocking. Overall, Kenko is generally way better, especially since you are playing in melee range. Bloats that explode or spit out acid burn through armor faster than usual, so you want more health.
Roaring Tiger
The only option for an offensive ninja built around shredding enemies. Roaring Tiger gives you a lot of extra damage against bosses and tough zeds like Fleshpounders and Scrakes.
Demon Stance
No brainer for a melee build. Skirmisher is the only choice for ranged builds like the Kunai or the Yumi.
Chi Kai Ri
Adds natural crowd control to your attacks, making you almost unstoppable when not surrounded by enemies. Sakki-jutsu is more for providing amazing support by causing everyone in a large radius to stumble with perfect parries.
Unyielding
Unyielding grants you more damage and gives you that much-needed health sustain.
Throwables Skills
Blunt Force
Easy pick to apply Shock, especially against a big group of Zeds or the boss.
More Caltrops and less radius, mainly for bursting bosses down.
Devil’s Circuit
Adds more damage and burst for the boss. Raijin or Inazuma and Thunderclap are amazing for mass crowd-controlling hordes.
Gadgets Skills
Eagle Strike
The first weapon attack after doing a grapple is hard to remember, but it does a lot of damage when you do a heavy attack after a hook, especially with all the bonus damage skills from above. Definitely the best skill to use against bosses.
Always use your grappling hook on boss scenarios to deal more damage immediately. Warrior of the Wind is also great overall.
The others feel pretty underwhelming for this build, so having more sustain by reducing damage taken is amazing in boss fights or situations where there’s a lot of environmental damage.
Lightning Incarnate
Yeah, this one is just too cool to pass up. Adds more damage and style to your Hebi-Ken. Iron Castle is better overall if you are constantly hitting perfect parries.
Leopard Fist
Adds so much utility, support, and damage by applying vulnerability to three types of damage for 10 seconds on the target. Watch the boss melt when your teammates pick up on the debuff.
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Best Ninja Weapon Build in Killing Floor 3
For the weapon build, you’ll want to play around with both the Kiba and Katana. Kiba is your starting weapon, and you’ll save enough Dosh to buy the Katana at around wave 3.
For the Katana, you’ll want to use the following mods:
All these mods revolve around increasing your attack speed, damage, and handling while sacrificing as much Block Stamina as you may in the process. You’ll attack faster than the enemy can hit you, so why the need for blocking, right?
For the coating, it really depends on your preference or what the stage calls for. You’ll want to have all three of these available anyway. You only have three choices:
Enfeeble is great against bosses if you want to reduce the overall damage. Toxic is great on single-target damage for Scrakes, Fleshpounder, and bosses. Stun is better against the horde.
The only thing you should keep an eye out for is the bonus ability. Bonus abilities are different, and you want the Melee Master for some more damage. Crafting it can be tricky, so don’t chase those bonus abilities before maxing out your other weapon mods. If you want to learn more about these bonus abilities, check out ourcomplete crafting guidehere.
Overall, the build revolves around rushing to the Katana and sustaining yourself by one-shotting every enemy that isn’t a large Zed, like a Fleshpounder or Scrake. You’ll keep your buff up and keep on stealing HP from slaying enemies. It is easy to get surrounded, so you always want to keep moving. You’ll have your Ebi-Ken and utilities to save you in tough situations.
Enzo Zalamea
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