Borderlands 3 | Top 10 Legendary Sniper Rifles - Best Sniper Rifles for End Game Builds!

[@PopeCharlesIV]

The Cocky Bastard and Septimator Prime are criminally slept on snipers. The Bastard has decent base damage, and when multiplied with a crit becomes enormous. It synergizes well with Amara, Fl4k, and Zane because of their crit damage skills, but honestly can hold its own on anyone. Add a little ASE corrosive and you won't have to switch weapons at all. The Septimator on the other hand can be used for mobbing with some ammo regen (Moze, Zane, terror anoints), but for bossing it's basically a better version of the Krakatoa. When those meteors spawn it's lights out for anything weak to fire, especially when those meteors crit with Fl4k or are amped with Moze.

[@mr.beeves5912]

To anyone watching, I highly recommend the ASMD. It's a mobbing master, huge splash radius and millions of damage - you can kill entire Cartel beacon spawners with only one explosion. Best on Fl4k in my experience.

[@jesserushing1377]

Lol for real? For as long as I can remember that thing has been worth less than the trash can liner it goes into😂😂

[@johnborderlands]

lmao no this thing is one of the worst snipers

[@mr.beeves5912]

No way, the ASMD is fucking insane. Hip-fire the slow orb, then scope and fire the bolt at it and there'll be a huge explosion for millions of damage. I used Fl4K with 3-shot fade away, re-volter, and a 150/90 anoint. I was killing 5/6 enemies per explosion.

[@jsmeskeith8354]

@@jesserushing1377 ASMD is one of my favorite additions, as they stole it from super old Unreal Tournament's 'Shock Rifle". In that FPS deathmatch, if you were familiar with the map, timed firing the slow orb well to intersect with a hapless player, or group, then use the Shock Rifles primary precision rail beam, it functioned much as the ASDM, causing the Orb in UT to AoE explode, fragging a player, or whole groups instantly. So in principle I love the ASDM as mechanically one of the coolest weapons. In practice however, it's super noobcaked, allowing ginormous orbs compared to UT's orbs, and hilariously ASDM makes every player a super railgun god, as the mega orb near impossible to miss still detonates into annihilation, so long as you fire somewhere in the general direction, hey, well, close enough... uh, probably. And I mean annihilation if the blast hits barre, trash piles. Against a wave of scag pups - one may never know. Even after they gave ASDM a tremendous buff, one of the most pathetic pieces of trash. If anyone recalls Unreal Tournament Shock Rifle, raping players, if you weren't actually surgical fast pace chaos....sayonara, mother f**ker. Gearbox clearly doesn't think much of the scrubs playing BL3, but it was a cool nod at least of a satisfying play mechanic, despite Gearbox's inept abomination.

[@aaronbennett1266]

Always was afraid of trying that one

[@Zachary-]

The square root of damage, would be...less damage.

[@HumbleGuyGaming]

The sandhawk is my "emergency panic" button when im down. Right before i used it i asked... "whats so special about this sniper?" I use it on semi auto majority of the time.

[@jawsusthesharkpirate8002]

Got me a monicle with the anoint 150% damage increase on targets above 90% HP, that shit one shots pretty much anything w a crit fl4k build, personally for me a notable kill is a mayhem 10 anointed in one shot

[@armyofninjas9055]

I have a Krakatoa with more than 50% more dmg than a monocle. With that same annoint, shouldn't it be even better?

[@FelisImpurrator]

@@armyofninjas9055 Doubt. The Monocle is essentially the Hawkeye from BL2 but actually good: Its properties are absurdly high crit multiplier and zoom. The Krakatoa has raw damage but much less crit. So the oneshot is mostly due to the Monocle's absolutely ridiculous headshot multiplier.

[@FelisImpurrator]

On that note, a Monocle is possibly one of the best legendary drops for a sniper going into the mayhem levels. The M0 version can gib enemies in low mayhems just fine.

[@rmm3803]

My man. Back at it yet again. Keep going strong, the force is with you. Enjoyable and educational as always.

[@ChamberpotCharlie]

As much as I use the Sand Hawk, I always find myself going back to the Bird of Prey cuz of its sheer mobbing fun factor

[@Psychichazard]

Hey. I was a moderator for 10 years on the now closed Gearbox forums. My avatar there had a monocle, and often, if someone was posting multiple threads on the same topic, I'd close them with the phrase 'One is enough'. Imagine my delight on seeing the Jacobs Monocle and it's red text in BL3....

[@SpartanGameZone]

That's pretty cool man, sorry the forums are no longer live

[@Charysm]

Lies

[@L1mmiTT]

bcs of zane (and others but mainly zane) complex root is the best weapon in the game. Its not only 1 shooting bosses, but the whole map which sand hawk cant do in the slightest, plus it burns through ammo way too fast and the reload time dosent help it. Other thing to mention is the projectile pattern of the sand hawk, its very wide and slow moving which makes moving enemies very hard to hit.

[@SpartanGameZone]

I agree that Root + Eraser + Hustler with double splash rolls on Zane is the most disgusting thing in the game but I feel the Sand Hawk is an easier weapon to dominate with across the vault hunters.

[@ZachIdso]

Cocky bastard and malak's bane are fun too. Those jakobs hunt(er)/hunt(ed) rifles too for the extra multiplier. Even the purple ones are pretty cool to mess around with

[@DAonYT]

Antimatter Rifle (Maliwan sniper) is very nice

[@johnborderlands]

what drugs were you taking? cocky bastard sucks and malaks bane not only it doesnt do damage,but it deals high damage do your ammo count

[@donald984]

I love the skull masher, sand hawk, malaks bane and wood blocker

[@SpartanGameZone]

There's something wrong here but I can't quite put my finger on it

[@twiisted_freakk4015]

@@SpartanGameZone i think it’s the sand hawk. Nobody uses that gun

[@NordBrado]

@@twiisted_freakk4015 lol that’s how I know you don’t play borderlands

[@twiisted_freakk4015]

@@NordBrado it’s called sarcasm

[@naitikgreyman]

Malak's bane is the absolute most shit sniper in the game.

[@adopted2nuh]

If you use number 5 (expert storm) with Zane’s clone you pretty much get 2x-3x the dmg which is always fun. I got that weapon without knowing its potential. I love it

[@keynanmartinez]

The Skullmasher Is My Personal Favorite Along Side With The Sandhawk and Complex Root.

[@majin-buu4889]

My favorite sniper by far hands down The Unseen threat it's a shout-out to Kha'Zix passive from league of legends.

[@playboikilluazoldyck9083]

The "storm" destroyed bosses in my playthrough love it

[@devaughnsalter6264]

Here is something to try. Amara using the Storm with her fire action skill equipped. It will ocassionally trigger the effect of the Firestorm sniper. You're welcome.

[@Jason-Evans]

So fun to see these end game top 10 lists. While some excellent snipers, agree with other’s as they’re my least used gun type w each having a major drawback, imo. Appreciate the pet snail reference, Welsh ppl do love their cockles. Crack on!

[@High_Lord_Of_Terra]

I use sandhawk, Molok's Bane and Krakatoa. The Sandhawk lacks range for its class but its so versatile.

[@armyofninjas9055]

10:00 - Imaginary numbers ARE the square root of -1. Not any negative number. Although the general idea is the same. i squared = -1. i to the fourth = 1. :) And.....the square root of dmg would be LESS damage. For example, the square root of 4 is 2. Which is less than 4 lol.

[@devilish2345]

I recently got the expert arc helix sniper. Rifle crazy damage one you get the orbs going and they multiply it just constantly pumps out damage

[@juicebiscuit4922]

I'm so glad the storms got the love they deserve this is what we wanted from the storm in bl2 and never got it. I almost thought we wouldn't see it in 3 either but they did them both justice

[@treytison1444]

Can't believe the headsplosion isn't on the list. I don't think there's any way the firestorm is better than the headsplosion. Headsplosion, Storm, and Sandhawk are typically the only ones I carry, though Root, Skullmasher, and Boogeyman are all also good.

[@johnnystorm4139]

Firestorm and the Storm both got buffed independently from the sniper buff, so that their relative orbs do much better damage. So I'm not surprised they're up there.

[@triumvir_hunt]

the storm would be a nice weapon but the drawback is it needs to charge before it can shoot so you will be holding the trigger for multiple seconds which means your enemy can land some hits and maybe interrupt your attacks. if it was a click and shoot like normal guns it would easilly be the best

[@einaredvardsen]

Why do you need elemental boost when you one tap the biggest boss in the game? Help me understand

[@jettblade]

I feel the snipers were very underwhelming in this game even after the buffs. It is definitely the least used weapon type I use next to heavy weapons.

[@CentauriTT]

Tbh unless it’s the Skullmasher I don’t really use em

[@derekcwly]

I've found a lot of success with the Sand Hawk and Boogeyman with my Moze, and the Skullmasher with my Fl4k, but aside from those, I don't use too many sniper rifles myself, either.

[@jettblade]

@@derekcwly I haven't had any success with any of the snipers in the end game, playing through they were fine. Just today I had a Boogeyman with Infernal Wish on my Zane and I ran out of bullets before I could kill an anointed on Mayhem 11. It was just a single anointed, my ammo was completely full, and I mostly just got body shots because it was a zealot that loved teleporting every 1.5 seconds. I did struggle even with normal mobs with that Boogeyman and Infernal.

[@furryikleewok]

Can you do the same trick with the disruptor, that you can do with the ripper? Using fish slap/stinger shield to apply the melee debuff?

[@ZachIdso]

Think so. And unless they changed it since I last tried the debuff will also proc things like short fuse or the electric banjo

[@furryikleewok]

@@ZachIdso interesting…

[@ZachIdso]

@@furryikleewok Yeah it's a weird one for sure. Very cool gun though

[@mazi_pnd]

Did the complex root get nerfed? It doesn’t seem to do as much damage as it used too (very minimal explosions). Also it only has a 6 bullet mag size now for some reason

[@charlesthreatt7096]

Moze with the root be like you get some and you everybody get some

[@baggedy6629]

Where is the Malaks Bane? Cant see it at number 1.

[@devilish2345]

That's funny you get it from. Katagawa I kept finding it in dlc 4 like 5 times lol and each one was just as good at the next lol

[@thegoon3299]

Next up launchers my guy

[@chancelamkin4607]

I just picked up a storm from where u showed to farm the fire version of it lol

[@johnnystorm4139]

The firestorm has 2 drop points: Red Jabber and Katagawa Jr.

[@m47t41]

awesome video

[@devilish2345]

Yeah I lent the storm to my gf but . Grabbing it back lol the damage is amazing most of the time I don't even aim I just shot the orbs all around so no enemy escapes the orbs and they basically get shock locked and can't move lol it's great for crowd control as well the storm that is

[@320Devil]

i love how the #1 is basically just an assault rifle with a sniper scope.......

[@johnborderlands]

septimator prime,narp,crossbow goes to honorable mentions

[@draco_r9364]

Well I do like sniper rifles with Scopes I've always liked sniper rifles that are iron sights you know non-scope-based you know they're just rifles but I wonder have you done a video where it basically tells you where you can find iron sight rifles

[@thomasjasonkittell]

This is a weird list I gotta say. Firestorm doesnt do a fraction of the damage of Krakatoa. I have a lvl 60 Krakatoa that out dps' my lvl 70 firestorm, by miles. both mayhem 10. In fact, Krakatoa seems to hit harder than anything else ive come across. i never see it on any lists?

[@branzenettin]

14:51 wait how Zane regen ammo?

[@blackwidowbrigade5042]

Since he's using the Digi clone, he has the "while Digi clone is active regen ammo anoint"

[@branzenettin]

@@blackwidowbrigade5042 and the reg Is so fast?

[@blackwidowbrigade5042]

@@branzenettin I guess so. I don't recall the percentage but I think it's a lot if I remember correctly

[@Roadburner4]

@@blackwidowbrigade5042 30% of the mag per second. At least that it was that the last time I checked.

[@davidmatheny398]

#DahlGang approves this top 10

[@S_I_E_P_]

Boogeyman is the best sniper. Use it as main for moze

[@folkerputt3781]

Have anyone here a hustler class mod with Splash damage/Radius? I Farm for it for Weeks but dont get it. i am on ps4. I would Trade with you if you want. Thank you very much for answer.

[@leonhell9627]

Im also farmimg it for ages

[@devilish2345]

The firestorm

[@СеваШенгур]

Complex root #1

[@avedis31]

what pets do you have?

[@yeetmcduggy8216]

The entire video I was praying that the operator wouldn't be on here and thank god it wasn't 🙏

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Anyone use sniper rifles like actual sniper rifles? Like from a distance and try to crit?

[@ASCRAFT-xp7bl]

The best weapons of the game are in dlc. it is fair

[@stormheretic2538]

Where's the Binary Operator? 🙃

[@XAlted1]

This isn't the real SGZ, how do I know? No Heeeeeeeeeeey warning. I wasn't able to sync saying hey with him due to this.

[@dylananderson6616]

They made the boogeyman for moze

[@BCRyot]

Yay SGZ

[@PhrazeMuzik]

Root is easily the most powerful, broken weapon in the entire game. You don't even need to aim.

[@darrenengler1177]

Borderlands 3 is the best

[@darrenengler1177]

Lyuda eats ammo like my grama eats pain pills (:

[@suaveclt]

If you're using Amara's Grasp ability then it doesn't consume any ammo at all

[@zordonelite]

Pog

[@craigolson6311]

How to get sandhawk?

[@Tuck7326]

Farm Katagawa Jr. at Atlas Headquarters

[@craigolson6311]

@@Tuck7326 thanks!

[@southerntommygun1353]

What? No Binary Operator? 😀

[@brn5218]

All of this is useless on difficulty level 10. What works at level 10, when mobs have modifications, make a top please

[@slavdog3180]

Then don’t play on mayhem 10.

[@slavdog3180]

Do mayhem 11

[@SpazerLaser]

why the fuck would you ever play m10

[@AmericanBarber82]

I wonder if the sand hawk will be #1?