RANKING EVERY AUGMENT IN BO6 ZOMBIES! - (*BEST* ENDGAME UPGRADES TIER LIST GUIDE!)

[@Chadly99]

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING RANKING OF THE BEST BLACK OPS 6 ZOMBIES AUGMENTS! THIS IS THE PERFECT VIDEO TO FALL ASLEEP TO AND REFERENCE IN MY OWN TERMINUS OR LIBERTY FALLS MATCH IN BO6

[@shinydmike8490]

great video! napalm burst is my absolute favorite for damage. firebomb (enemies explode and spread the fire) paired with incendiary (each damage tick can spread the fire) all you have to do is ignite 1 single zombie and it will explode, spread the fire, they will explode and spread the fire, and so on until an entire hoard has exploded. its a 1 hit kill for hordes! basically the shatter blast ammo mod from cold war. thanks for the great content, subscribed :D

[@jakubbercik6965]

Honestly, you should have done this on a per-equipment/skill basis, the structure of this video is really nonsensical and hard to understand..

[@jackkrysl175]

Really not that hard. S good F bad

[@Roonpuddle]

@@jackkrysl175you’re a genius aren’t you.

[@jackkrysl175]

@@Roonpuddle so I’ve been told

[@EpicNNG]

I wanted to keep the structure of a tier list where things are jumbled up, but still go with the 3 main categories. I figured it would be a risky decision, so I appreciate the feedback!

[@jakubbercik6965]

@@EpicNNG that ONLY works if we have a visual.. and yes, I know what you said at the start, but that's besides the point, it just doesn't work well, especially for a video that's nearly an hour long.

[@darceayy]

Jumping around the augments for a given section (perks/ammo mods/etc) makes it really hard to follow and compare the augments within a given item/perk. Please consider formats that are easier to understand for players who do not memorize every single augment. It also makes it easier to reference the video when people go to make a class later so you’ll get more views and Watch time.

[@thatonegamer117]

Did you not actually test all of these? It really seems like you rated a lot of these purely on description.

[@jhoncdln8732]

Hard to follow …..

[@Lewis0n_78]

1 (one) singular HOUR?????? Thats the ammount of time it took me to drive with a corpse from London to Luton

[@eonova]

What a statement 😂, that is a fun route to drive though

[@angelomendoza5977]

Ok

[@The_Mr_Zz]

The only thing I would disagree from the tier list is Reactive Armor. Don't get me wrong, Probiotic is Amazing! Great for early gameplay, new players, or simply trying to explore experiment certain plans. But It's more towards late rounds, it where reactive armor starts to shine heavily. You treat it like widow wine's perk. So, this is very useful when you trying to revive someone, when you are running a horde of zombies, or you about to get trap. It saves me so many late runs pass round 30 (31+ is where more than 2 manglers in solo starts to spawn.) Also, it helps remind you to plate and use your field upgrade (reaction time). Overall, I would rate it as a A.

[@darkwolf9637]

Reactive armor is definitely suoer underated here, it saves you so often but also the noise it makes when you lose a plate is a nice help to notice when a plate breaks

[@Jaymzi]

InsomniaVirus is using Probiotic on his round 600+ game he's streaming rn

[@ImCarpet]

You need to try Incendiary and Firebomb together. The explosions will chain to other zombies and make them explode too. It’s the best Combo in the game. I’ve had it take out entire hoards on high rounds.

[@EpicNNG]

I'll get in and do more testing! Any other combos you've found?

[@9000Dogs]

​@@EpicNNGTry mixing Big Game and Cooldown reduction for Shadow Rift. If you use one weapon with Napalm Burst for hordes, you can save another weapon with Shadow Rift to kill elites and specials quickly. Mix with fast weapon swap on Speed Cola and Chill Berry on Elemental.

[@lemons2513]

Spreading plague and explosion for brain rot

[@ImCarpet]

@@EpicNNG That’s the only crazy one I’ve found so far. I’ll be sure to let you know if I find anymore.

[@melloweryellow]

Amazing video 32:34 perfect for getting me through the work day. I love the chill vibe and kept me entertained throughout. At 32:34 I think you said C tier for stamina up, but it showed S tier. Not a big deal but just letting you know

[@glue2065]

> hate everything sliding related > phd slider is s tier

[@ChumBucketMindControlHelmet]

I've honestly found turtleshell to be one of my favorite augments. On higher rounds I find myself not being able to cut through tight spaces to bunch up a horde because I take so much chip damage but mixing it with durable plates lets me do that ontop of being able to shoot at my horde for longer because I wont take damage from whatever is spawning behind me allowing me to speed up my zombie killing. At the end of the day, it really is a playstyle difference

[@crawdad6354]

I love turtle shell on liberty falls for fun and it is decent tyere although I would still rather have damage reduction from all sides but on terminus it is not good. At high rounds without armor the amalgom grab attack will 1 shot and since it forces you to look forward at it and turtle shell makes you take full damage from the front you just die instantly. I think turtle shell would be much better if it just gave damage immunity in the back and gave less effective armor in the front but still reduces damage enough to avoid 1 shot conditions like that to give players some lee way and skill expression with it.

[@ChumBucketMindControlHelmet]

@crawdad6354 I agree I haven't played terminus much because of the camo grind, but I can see how that would happen. Once regular zombies start doing 75 damage, it gets tough. Just had a mid 30's game where I got hit in the face by a mangler shot and hit by 1 zombie, and I was down.

[@AlainaSteele]

Reactive armour is busted, with frenzied guard, if you get trapped in a corner even in the high rounds, you can’t die

[@JoshTBM]

3:30 yea thats deffinatly napalm burst (look at text in corner)

[@EsaiasVega]

most of stamina up augment are amazing for running tomahawks. They are by far the best lethal. You can constantly pick them back up, can stack up to 5, they are a one hit guaranteed until at least round 50, and they go through the zombies so great for training, and getting multiple kills per tomahawk. Great if low on ammo or simply not wanting to use as much ammo. Also on high rounds zombies constantly spawn in front of you so they’re great to not get hit as much. So I will definitely be equipping those stamina up augments they actually seem like a dream come true for TOMAHAWKS ONLY.

[@xmultycapx124]

Any fellow Cryo freeze enjoyers here?

[@EpicNNG]

I cannot say I am a huge cry freeze enjoyer :(

[@xmultycapx124]

​@@EpicNNG I was also shocked that Tribologist wasn't an S tier, ever since i got it PHD has been one of my first perks regardless of if i have an explosive weapon. (I also really like free faller because those railings near the observation tower make me vault them randomly for some reason)

[@mrodri1012]

@@xmultycapx124tribologist and phd slider is so good for mobility. It makes training anywhere so easy and forgiving plus it kinda reminds me of the slide hop in BO3 where I’d slide around everywhere

[@xmultycapx124]

@@mrodri1012 Yes, anytime you make a mistake during training you can just slide and it usually fixes it

[@darkwolf9637]

It's my favorite aat for cammo grinding since its the only one that won't steal kills from you

[@bcboy_]

2 charge aether shroud is way higher than C tier imo, always having it up for rez's and team shroud for public games is way more useful than more duration because you dont really need the extended duration when you can technincally get 4 rez's off with 2 charges

[@lokraz574]

One BIG thing you missed with hidden impact from Melee Macchiato. the little bit of regenerated ammo is enough to get another nuke out of thrustodyne. that is HUGE i have literally had thrustodyne and macchiato carry me the first thirty rounds of a game. that niche case alone should bump it up to B or C on liberty falls.

[@liamleeyum]

I tried listening to this while driving so forgive me because I’m using dictation, but bro, you gotta do better than this if you want to make successful and worthwhile videos. it’s so bizarre that you firstly group augments out of order or out of a category which makes it really hard to skip to the video to see anything about a particular set of augments for say cryo freeze. you’re also generally spending way longer than you should on each I never do this but I had to put the video in 1.5 speed because you just did not explain quick enough and it’s like you do not care about the viewer’s time. because of how you formatted this, nobody can use this video as reference. They have to scrub the video to find information about a specific augment for a specific AAT for example but that is not how users want to look for the data because despite all the work you’ve clearly put to understand each of these elements, it is effectively for nothing because nobody’s going to remember it this way and nobody’s gonna be able to come back to this video when they need information about a particular set up or AAT or perk. also, within the first three minutes, I saw an editing mistake with the name of the AAT being referenced. more time and consideration to the viewer needs to be done when you’re making these videos but keep at it because hopefully things will improve. Cheers man

[@liamleeyum]

Of course, this is all my opinion, but 57 minutes is a really long time to ask of you to sit down to listen to your opinion on this. I would really like to think to hear an opinion about all the elements but absolutely not in this format and not in this delivery

[@dimitricandeiracistaro4543]

Epic genuinelt thanks so much for these rankings

[@EpicNNG]

No problem!

[@AkamexAris1023]

I use Plaque because I get a smile on my face every time I watch my pet's charming other zombie's. It's even more amusing on the vermin rounds

[@aidennagorski1930]

Shadow rift actually always will kill whatever zombie is effected by it. So if it hits a full HP Almagam it will instantly kill it.

[@ianternet9587]

43:47 hot foot works really well with combat axes, you can throw them if youre in a pinch and come back to pick them up

[@constantinovmaxim1249]

This is a great video idea! This is my first time watching you and you have potential! I will say as feedback try to organise this video more in the sense that: showcasing each augment and comparisons with/without it so us the viewers can see visually which are worth it and which aren’t. Keep grinding man, i’m sure with some tweaks you’ll grow! Good luck and you’ve received a like from me:)

[@gordogonk8068]

Does elemental pop trigger your AATs WITH their augments, or just base?

[@LucaPettenuzzo]

this is a peak video bro, good ass job

[@SgtWallie]

Yo actually a great video man! Mostly loved your takes but from what I could tell the PHD environmentalist augment comes in clutch during the Terminus easter egg against the tentacle projectiles lingering effect so I’d personally rate it higher

[@EpicNNG]

Wow does it actually help against that attack? If so I could for sure see more use cases for it.

[@nicknight0640]

got to and exfiled on round 31 in my game, great video, love your content

[@EpicNNG]

Nice work! Thanks for the comment

[@Super_AC1]

15:35 Frenzied Guard doesn't have an extra charge augment?

[@Lagging167]

combine stamina up minor augment hot foot with speed cola minor augment fast pitcher is so fun. just running around the map terminus

[@Im-Alibi]

Love the idea and super happy you did this video but the structure is harder to follow and definitely would have preferred going through each category such as mods, Felid upgrade and perk. Jumping around like this just isn’t enjoyable to watch tbh. Again thank you for the video you’re much appreciated!

[@EpicNNG]

Noted!

[@darkwolf9637]

i personally think frenzied is just better than aether shroud in basically every way. Aether shroud makes you invincible basically. frenzied with its armor regen on kill and armor taking all damage also makes you invincible however it also pulls all the zombies to you effectively giving your entire team aether shroud. I also find that on high rounds you get little to no armor drops so having a free armor refill button is really useful. I genuinely cannot think of a single scenario that aether shroud would save you when frenzied wouldn't while also saving anyone else on your team and refilling a resource. The only use i see for shroud over frenzied is using the teleport for speed run skips. Also the retribution augment also triggers when you get hit not just on activation

[@DNF_Dumb-As-FrenchFries]

What about Chain lightning for dead wire? Or did i somehow miss it?

[@Psycho_Raged]

Run hybrid instead of tap to slide in your movement settings if you feel like your slide is delayed. It will take some getting used to, but it only took me 2 days

[@nathan47293]

10:20 yes there is an interaction, use explosion and spread augment with napalm and fire only and reduce cooldown augment for elemental to get overpowered crowd control, doughnuts showcases this in a recent video

[@jashonlowry7442]

I definitely agree with this list except the dr ram phd augment it has actually saved me so many times mainly because im really stupid and get stuck in corners but it really isn't that bad.

[@EpicNNG]

Appreciate the feedback!

[@justcallmeguze7434]

Reactive armor at E? Thats insane

[@rhettbutler5397]

Easily S tier

[@porktaro6397]

Putting retaliation at B is more insane

[@Super_AC1]

On high rounds if you don't have any armor on you die in just two hits regardless of wether you have 250 health or 300. Reactive armor is better for high rounds

[@justnek2061]

Hidden Impact can be useful for camo grinding the launchers, as they have an ammo issue

[@Quackra]

Big Game isn't for Manglers, it's only for Amalgams and Abominations currently as AATs at base work on Manglers, so it's not Elite spam in this game, it's special spam or as it currently stands Mangler spam.

[@edh.3031]

My girl and I play split screen together. She uses the xm4 with napalm and the explosion augments, I use the marine sp with lightning strikes, such a fun combo to play with. I watch her 6 and she manages the horde. (Teaching her to be better) it’s been a blast so far.

[@scoresdavis3435]

Have you noticed how broken and glitched out split screen is? They didn't do any play testing for it

[@edh.3031]

@ yes. I can’t use gobble gums, I can’t do Sam trials. But it’s still fun.

[@proflow3157]

someone make a list of all the s tiers 🙏

[@dockickman7104]

I will say I disagree with the shadowrift big game ranking (on solo/terminus). It does 100k damage & appears to instantly kill even into the 40s (Amalgams specifically). Haven't had as much success with it against Abomination on Liberty falls, but the mod does make sure I never have to worry about boss zombies on Terminus. Really depends on what their healt cap ends up being.

[@EpicNNG]

Interesting! Maybe I need to do some more experimenting with it

[@giovanigomez9736]

Im waiting for someone to do an "in depth" video on every augment

[@matthewgarvey7600]

For dead shot: dead first is actually mathematically better than dead again. The initial no augments boost to crit damage with dead shot is 10% and dead again takes that bonus up to 15%, so a 5% increase. That would mean that in order to make dead again better a zombie would need to receive a minimum of 21 critical shots to do MORE extra damage than the initial 2x damage at full health. I think for the purposes of dead shot, it is unilaterally better. The only niche case would be for Patient 13 IF someone wanted to crank out that extra little boost.

[@Supaawesomeification]

How does armor on zombies and manglers affect this math?

[@scoresdavis3435]

​@Supaawesomeification heavily, you don't do crit damage if you hit armor, so on any armored enemy the augment does not work. Its really only that good for normal zombies and the heavy bosses, but it would still be good with a sniper. If your playing with a squad, chances are they will shoot the big boss before you do, and if you play in a different part of the map, your team will pull almost all the big bosses.

[@Supaawesomeification]

I’ve got almost 4 days of ingame time with zombies and I’m only missing 2 ammo mod trees and 2 field upgrade trees (so 24 augments total). I’ve got every other augment in the game. And I’m 2/3 done with nebula so lol

[@NoTalker_]

reactive armor in E is crazy

[@kuhlayoh]

Nah reactive armor is nutty its free widows wine

[@EpicNNG]

I'm not a huge fan! Do you find it helps you out a ton on high rounds?

[@Qyrx]

⁠@@EpicNNGthe synergy with frenzied guard could be fun and very affective.

[@kuhlayoh]

@@EpicNNG I haven’t really done high rounds with it yet but I do notice it whenever I’m trying to do my camo grind.

[@cragebors4181]

pineapple blast is defiantly not the best but when you get a brain rot proc on a monkey bomb with the pheromone on brain rote its pretty neat for that extra distraction time. but i loved the video.

[@DassVeryGood]

You should have a chart up for the entire vid

[@WDB_034]

respectfully, this (almost) hour long video would have been better served as a youtube short with a visual table. I would rate the delivery as an F tier, as you're expected to remember each and every small graphic, and the background video is 100% non related b-roll. I'm letting the video play all the way out because of the amount of commentary/situation experience being provided in the video. Cheers to the future videos.

[@xFROSTBITExx]

Dead head adds only 5% crit damage while Dead Again adds 100% for the first hit making it the clear choice as you would need to have 20 crits for Dead Head to catch up

[@The_Pyromaani]

Issue with Dead First is on armored enemies, since even little damage on enemy disables the 100% proc

[@emwols]

For frenzied guard, I am confused why rally is a minor augment (restore teammate armor to full) and phalanx is a major augment (teammates regenerate armor overtime). Rally is just straight up better than phalanx. Rally is insta full armor, phalanx is get enough kills and maybe you will get full armor. Makes no sense. Also, pairing both of these together is useless, because there will be no armor to repair from phalanx if your teammates just got full armor from rally. And they won’t be taking any damage during frenzied guard activation since the zombies will be attacking the frenzied guard user only so there is literally zero use for the phalanx.

[@crawdad6354]

I guess if you decided to run a different minor augment it would be useful but it makes more sense balancing wise for those two to flip the major and minor augment roles. At the same time I don't mind frenzied guard having good support with less consequences it is so much fun.

[@The_Pyromaani]

Nice list, however i heavily disagree with reactive armor rating. It's your widow's wine / winter's wail. Saved me a lot and since it stuns zombies around you they wont just gangbang you to death after plate breaks. Would put it to A at least. Extra 50HP is nice but at some point that 50HP wont matter too much.

[@EpicNNG]

I have seen a lot of praise for reactive, so I’m thinking of playing with it more to see if I can get along with it

[@The_Pyromaani]

@@EpicNNG Give it a shot! I think the value you see out of it is better seen in higher rounds than in lower ones! Like i said, overall a list i can agree with!

[@crawdad6354]

I think the extra 50 hp is better but reactive is definately a very solid alternative especially for players that get cornered. I'd rather have extra health because of elites and special zombies giving me the most trouble for damage but I can definately see the reasoning behind getting a semi reliable get out of jail free card and it definately deserves an a or s tier even if probiotic is more practical imo.

[@dilemma_yt]

People run big game on dead wire a napalm because they do extra damage to elites

[@notgabriel8624]

Started doing launcher camos at the start of this video, got to 774 at round 26. These things are ass!

[@jakubbercik6965]

Bro put reactive armour in FUCKING E TIER, BRO 🙂‍↕️😭😭😭😭😭 WHAT

[@supremecookie7123]

i know that augment saved me from getting cornered so many times!

[@nate4321]

Bro I would love to debate you on that did treyarch save zombies video

[@GabrielBotelho9]

Gotta drop the video for how hard it is to follow. I can't remember or find what's good after a few minutes. I'd rework that video.

[@Brizz979]

Wait shadow rift doesn’t just one tap? It seems to always one tap abominations at least before round 40.

[@EpicNNG]

I have not had the same experience

[@KoiNaCl]

This video did not need to be an hour long, could of been done in 5 or less

[@pemioi]

Dasher - wouldnt recommend it.... s tier.... what?

[@EpicNNG]

Supposed to say C Tier, my apologies!

[@onlycaige3337]

we all know a serial box addict

[@intrinsic_melon]

Very difficult to follow this video, your opinions are goated but structuring the the video per augmentable item would be much better. I missed something you said about healing rift and for my life i can not find it

[@EpicNNG]

Thanks for the feedback! I tried to order it like a tier list would be jumbling stuff up, but it’s clear it didn’t hit for most people.

[@intrinsic_melon]

@EpicNNG great video otherwise man, new sub here. people could have used this as a reference video more like dattos destiny weapon breakdowns rather than the one time watch tier list videos.

[@Rollerrot]

3:40 reused Big Game Brain rot inforgraph top left for Big Game Napalm Burst

[@EpicNNG]

NOOO- I knew it was bound to happen due to all of the re-used iconography for the game I was getting confused editing haha, well spotted

[@brodad2023]

​@@EpicNNGjust put the fries in the bag 😂 Love the video brother

[@chasebishop309]

energy mine and dead wire team here

[@willspark3242]

Brain rot good when you add zombies attract to them, it gives you so much time do stuff especially when it triggers on Manglers.

[@xMethy]

BUT WILL HE SAY HI??? 😍😍

[@EpicNNG]

METHY????

[@Alpha-lc8zu]

I got to level 30 Pistol camo Grind.

[@bobbybenz5301]

So what does Dying Wish do? All you said is its an invaluable S tier and then moved on

[@Miniduck9013]

Basically if you have quick revive instead of dying you just lose quick revive and are immune for a second or two

[@connorvlogs7195]

Can’t believe how bad dark flare is , it’s a net negative activating it tried it one game and would get killed in it . Mind boggling amounts of uselessness

[@gordogonk8068]

It not being inf pierce is stupid

[@9Lives-_]

not willing to get clips to show what he is talking about because it might take a bit of time, i work 12 hours a day. you can do it. put some effort in.

[@EpicNNG]

That would be over 100 clips, and some of them still would not properly convey what the augment does, leading to further confusion. I appreciate the feedback, but I do not think it'd be the smartest move in this case.

[@droversanity3682]

pheromone is best paired with Explosive.

[@kylejones1997]

57:15 My game was a round 51 exfil

[@EpicNNG]

@@kylejones1997 Let’s go dude!

[@Typher_]

You didn’t say what most augments did so I am lost half the vid

[@beastlyword0690]

I don’t wanna sound rude, but can’t u open the game and find said augment and see what they do? Like each thing only has 6 augments so it should take long to find the specific augment you r looking for :)

[@graipsoda]

⁠@@beastlyword0690you shouldn’t have to pull up the game just to understand the video. I don’t want to be mean either, but when you rank something you should explain what it is. If someone is watching this on the fence on if they should buy the game for zombies, they probably would be too confused to be interested.

[@ransomtheplumber]

@@graipsodahe literally said why you wasn’t gonna do that, it’d take too long

[@graipsoda]

@@beastlyword0690 5:43 he even says he’s going to explain what the augments do

[@beastlyword0690]

@@graipsoda “ if u r on the fence about the game” kinda weird that this is the video that makes or breaks the game for someone that is on the fence. This video is for ppl who know the game or have already committed to playing it. This isn’t for new players or players who aren’t into cod. With all due respect 🫡

[@smunim05]

the format of this video is so hard to go through mate, especially after making THE BEST structured destiny 2 raid videos.........................

[@horsewane]

Augments completely fail in design I haven’t swapped the good augments out yet and there’s no good reason to

[@bndn4018]

Bruh. No hard feeling but this video is so weird. The order makes barley sense and makes it harder to follow.btw the simpel, wich are the same hence confusing, are shown, but not the descriptions,wich differ. Why not just e.g talk abt napalm, ranks all augments from 1-6 and then move on to the next?

[@bndn4018]

*symbols

[@thekingsman9880]

Nah you tripping with big game with shadow rift it literally insta kills the elites doesn’t matter what

[@EpicNNG]

Really? For me I'd only ever want to run Explosive Rain Targeted

[@thekingsman9880]

@ yes bro I promise you every time it activates on elites it will insta kill them once they teleported back down

[@droversanity3682]

brain rot big game is the trash of em all bc it doesnt kill even when paired with explosive augment. CW Brain rot > BO6 Brain Rot

[@nick5163]

Like others said OP. You jump around to much, hard to follow. Should of gone through eachone fully.

[@oog420]

Also brain rot big game let's the amalgam heal and you could not do anything about it so I'd say tier

[@daxterrodriguez5306]

You should have spent more time on this video. Felt like it was a good opportunity, but it is so poorly edited.

[@Th3Extra]

This video is kind of mid. C tier.

[@killingkota]

32:30 It says Dasher is S tier, but you say not to really use it?

[@EpicNNG]

It's supposed to say C Tier, my apologies!