The Devouring Maw

Regurgitate deals 2000 x Strength plus 10% of the launched enemy's current health as gas, then two forced gas procs, and Gastro adds bounces at 25% and 6.25%.

Feed it a level-9999 heavy gunner and it deals over a million raw plus millions per second in gas, multiplied 4.25x by Nourish's ten-stack viral retaliation.

It full-strips at 134% Strength.

Arcane Persistence caps damage at 500/s above 700 armour, which Grendel's base plus his swallow passive clears easily.

1.

Tap 1 (Feast) to ingest five enemies; keep it topped up.

2.

Tap 2 (Nourish) and keep it up for energy, viral, the AoE stun on hit, and as an emergency heal.

3.

Tap 4 (Regurgitate) to slow, strip, and nuke, producing Breach Surge sparks if subsumed.

4.

Optional: hold 1 to expel all five at once for a bigger hit.

Arcane Persistence (700+ armour, hit with Stand United or one armour shard or Unairu) caps damage at 500/s, and Nourish (~2000 on cast) plus Pulverize (~400-500/s) heals it back over the ~7s buffer the 3626 health gives.

Or Catalyzing Shields shield gating (max shields 19, one Nourish cast re-gates).

Positive Duration for Nourish uptime.

Negative Efficiency because Nourish multiplies all energy.

Range for Nourish retaliation and Regurgitate AoE.

Strength barely touches Regurgitate damage (health-scaled) but wants 134% for the strip and 250% to 500% for Pulverize's heal-per-second to match Persistence's drain.

The Umbral set (Intensify, Vitality, Fiber) plus Blind Rage is the Strength-and-tank core.

Hunter Adrenaline is the energy engine.

Primed Flow is the pool.

Hearty Nourishment is status immunity.

Gastro is the 4x Regurgitate DPS.

Growing Power aura for Strength.

Catapult exilus for Pulverize speed.

Hearty Nourishment to more Range if you do not need status immunity.

Adaptation plus Gourmand plus Vitality for a casual ~300k-EHP tank.

Mecha Empowered aura plus Mecha Pulse for a Kubrow nuke.

Pick one.

Subsume over Pulverize (heal with Nourish or a weapon instead).

- Breach Surge for line-of-sight blinds and sparks that scale off Regurgitate's damage.

- Roar to double-dip Regurgitate's forced toxin DoT.

- Resonator for wide crowd control.

- A grouping ability (Pull, Airburst, Ensnare, Larva) to line up Regurgitate.

Arcane Bellicose for 72% Strength, Arcane Persistence for the damage cap.

Arcane Arachne for a 2.5x Breach Surge multiplier if you go ability-DPS, Arcane Energize for more energy.

Any.

Unairu for the passive 200 armour toward Persistence.

Madurai for Strength.

Nourish supplies viral, so drop viral mods for damage, crit and fire rate: pure-toxin Torid Incarnon, electric Bubonico, Acid Shells Sobek, Dual Toxocyst, Ocucor.

Pulverize movement speed scales with Amalgam Serration, Ceramic Dagger Incarnon, Okina Prime, Ruvox.

Arcane Persistence plus Nourish and Pulverize healing, or shield gating.

It fails to Violence, nullifiers, magnetic, and heat or corrosive dropping armour below 700 (Hearty Nourishment covers status).

Nourish's multiplier plus Hunter Adrenaline plus Primed Flow.

A flood.

Overguard (usually larger than health) resists the percent-health nuke.

You must feed Regurgitate enemies of comparable health to the target.

6 forma plus Umbral forma is a huge cost.

Bosses.

A casual 300k-EHP tank build (0 forma).

A Mecha-set nuke build.

Strong: a nuke that scales with enemy health so it never falls off, a full strip, near-immortal, floods its own energy.

Weak: overguard-awkward, needs to eat comparable enemies, extremely forma-hungry, boss- blind.

Players who want a bruiser whose spit-nuke kills anything at any level, and who have the forma to spare.