2025 June 10

• Added C. Barossa Rev am to suggested weapons list

2025 May 2

• New meta airs! Azwester, Mecha Jetter Mod, Elena

2024 Aug 25

• Added a foreword
  
• Updated sections to reduce word count, for brevity.

2023 Feb 10

• Updated sample builds

2023 Feb 9

• Added updated weapon tunes for Alcy Remote bits, Cetusion LG and Shana
  
• Added Weapon modding/enchanting part under weapons section
  
• Added mach knight ace screenshot for Quad Beam Rail
  
• Added dogfighting part under How to Play section
  
• Added additional info on GAMMA LIGHTNING GUN

2022 Sept 12

• Correction: Royal Beezle LG should be Royal Beezle BS in reboost subweapons section

2022 Aug 22

• Added Shadow Kinesis BD to reboost subweapons section
  
• Added Shana to the main weapons section

2022 Aug 13

• Added Cetusion to weapons section
  
• Added screenshot of Shadow Kinesis

2022 July 31

• Created Guide

While you can still use this guide to build your airs, the meta has powercrept a lot of builds to the point where I wouldn't really recommend using any air that doesn't have some sort of barrier or long range.

Some airs that come to mind (not necessarily single shooters):
Valiant (both variants)
Aletta
Elena
Baltheon
Aegis Baltheon
Feng Mei
Istina

I will not likely continue to update this guide, but will keep it up for posterity.

While the list of single weapon meta airs is short, they are still worth including and are a breath of fresh air (heh) for this guide.

I have removed most of the options in this guide that have been powercrept to hell and back, moreso to give emphasis on the meta options right now. You are, of course, still free to use this guide as a building and tuning check-list when using other weapons not listed on this guide.

Single-shooter AIRs primarily only use one main weapon.

Here is a list of some of the AIR weapons you can use.

Free2Play

• Gamma Lightning Gun - SHOP. Useable if don't have gara options.
  
• Powered Laser - CRYSTAL COIN SHOP. Useable if you don't have gara options
  
• Double Beam Gatling - RT SHOP - you can pick this up for free in the weapon cube. Useable on bubble barrier airs (balth, aegis balth, armada sz)

There are also AIR robots who have weapons built in that are great to use as for single-shooter. Some of these weapons are detachable, but either cannot be used on other AIR robots or are better used on the original robot they came with

Garapon exclusive:

• Azwester - High burst damage BD weapon with incredibly long cooldown.
  
• Mecha Jetter Mod - Comes with free accele roll
  
• Elena
  
• C Barossa Rev Am - Incredible DPS and hitrate vs anything

Weapon Tunes:
When in doubt, you cannot go wrong with going 3x great rapid tunes. For Powered Laser, you'll want 3x Great Range Beta however.

Weapon Mods/Enchantment:
Modding is simple. Go for speed or range, dump stat is [-ammo].

Always take all your CAPACITY cartridges. No exceptions.
Always take ASCENDING FORCE. No exceptions.

Always take ACCELE ROLL. No exceptions. If your robot does not come with ACCELE ROLL, you may buy one for the cheap cost of 1000uc/day in the SHOP

Take STUN REGAIN if your robot has the cartridge. You will then want 25tgh if you take this cart (more on this later). If you cannot fit 25tgh, don't take this cartridge.

Take BEAM GUARD if your build can still fit it, especially if you cannot fit STUN REGAIN.

You must take 2 reboost sub weapons. A reboost SUB weapon is a SUB weapon which refills your boost gauge. Take 2 reboost subweapons to fly indefinitely.

Reboost parts are almost always part of the robot's LG, BS or CORE/BD.

Currently, one of the best reboost subs available is Mecha Jetter Mod BS. With good behavior (always dashing towards arrow key direction, or default to where mouse is faced) and the ability to deal damage while reboosting without the need of a lockon, the utility is incredible.



Here are other examples of reboost parts, that are also available free-to-play.

Free2Play:

• Aquila BD - You can get 1 free if you selected this robot as your starter. Fully restores your boost gauge but has a longer cooldown.
  
• Izuna BD1/BD2 - from HAKU COIN SHOP. If you are new and free2play, aim for this first.
  
• Haku LG - from HAKU COIN SHOP. If you are new and free2play, aim for this first.
  
• Ghost Raider BD - from SHOP
  
• Brickgale BS - from SHOP. Has a bad behavior where if you're in the air and not flying (holding spacebar), you will shoot down straight to the ground ala vertical landing. Can be useful but 9 times out of 10 will get you killed.

End goal is to reach 38-40FLY and 40TEC, no exceptions.
If you took STUN REGAIN, you will also aim for 25TGH

You can safely drop STR and WLK to 0. Single shooter airs need neither of these stats. These are your dump stats.

Parts

• Pick the parts with the highest TEC and FLY.
  
• If you picked up STUN REGAIN, prioritize picking parts that have the highest TGH that do not reduce TEC and FLY. You will want to include little to no TGH tunes in your build, instead relying solely on parts to reach 25TGH
  
• When in doubt, just use Cross Raptor AMs and Cross Raptor HD from SHOP.
  
• If you need to use a statstick handheld, choose a +1FLY or +1TEC one.
  
• If using STUN REGAIN, you may use +1TGH statstick handheld.
  
• Protip: There are statstick handhelds with no subweapons. You may purchase these from the Mission Coin Shop. For TGH statstick handheld, you may get this from Vampyre Star (Valentines) quest.

Stat Tunes

• High Boost Beta for FLY. No exceptions.
  
• High Technique Beta for TEC. No exceptions.
  
• Eternal tune on the arm holding the weapon. No exceptions.
  
• If your arm has the built-in weapon, you may opt not to tune eternal, but this is personal preference depending on your weapon tunes.
  
• If you really cannot reach 25TGH with just parts, use High Tough Alpha.
  
• if you have remaining slots and capacity, they will go towards tuning some combination of Life, High Life or Great Life tunes, in that priority.
  
• Aim for at least 500hp

Basic:

• Fly towards the enemy
  
• Shoot enemies.
  
• If enemies dont fight back, keep shooting.
  
• If enemies shoot back, accele roll to dodge.
  
• If you run out of boost, use a reboost subweapon.
  
• If you're at 300-350hp or below, run back to your medic using accele roll and reboosts.
  
• Repeat until you win, die or run out of ammo.

Dogfighting:
You fight other airs using your own air.

• Retain lock on and keep gun pointed at enemy.
  
• Hold left click (fire nonstop)
  
• Accele roll forward twice, then use a reboost sub. (Accele roll 4 times if using a full reboost sub)
  
• Repeat until you win or need to retreat (300-350hp or below).

Spamming accele roll increases your chances of avoiding the enemy air's fire. Weaving in reboost sub means you never have to worry about running out of boost despite spamming accele roll.

These are my personal builds. Observe the cartridges, stats, HP and weapon tunes.


Izuna: This build is completely free2play friendly. 3x Great Rapid on Gamma Lightning Gun, combined with it's large projectile and a Speed Mod, means it's very easy to land shots. Speed Mod is completely optional. 25TGH for maximum HP gain from stun regain.

Azwester: Incredibly potent single weapon build. High burst damage on the BD weapon. As the BD capacity can allow it, the bot can be built with max TGH (38-40tgh). A BRD shield is used to protect itself from projectiles while the BD weapon is on its long cooldown. Double mecha jetter BS let's you weave in damage while the BD weapon is on cooldown as well, should the opportunity to secure kills present itself.

Mecha Jetter Mod: High DPS single weapon build. A BRD shield is used to protect itself from projectiles should the need arise. Double mecha jetter BS lets you do damage while recovering boost gauge. Though STR and WLK remain dump stats, I was able to manage keeping them both at 1. Particularly with 1str, this opens up the option to use various bits either for some additional minor survivability (Henrierre bits) or minor damage (laser bits, slayer bit, etc).

Pick a weapon and 2 reboosts from the lists above. Tune to 40TEC and 40FLY. Take all capa carts, Ascending force, Accele roll, and Beam Guard. If you take stun regain, tune to 25tgh.

Tune 3x great rapid on the weapon (or check Weapons section if your weapon falls under the exceptions to tuning)

Remaining slots and capa for HP tunes.

Fly to enemy, shoot red targets. Retreat if at 300-350hp. Fly to enemy again to shoot targets when healed.