Sobek Build w/ Riven

[_KOMIK]

I got a pretty decent sobek riven (94.5% Status Chance, 54.3% Reload Speed, 94.3% Toxin)

However, I’ve never actually tried the sobek so I got no idea how to build one. Any recommendations?

 

[Unagi604]

Get acid shells. It's great for clearing large packs of enemies.

[Ascarith]

My recommendation:

Make sure you hit 100% status before multishot. Your Riven should let you hit that with 3 of the dual-status mods. Alternatively, I think you slide in right above 100% with 2 dual-status and Shattering Justice if you'd rather have the syndicate effect over pure damage (for reference, Shattering Justice's flat status chance is added after multipliers (i.e. % status mods)).

For your other four mods, (Primed) Point Blank and Hell's Chamber are standard, while Acid Shells is great. That leaves one free slot for whatever you want. I personally run Blaze because base damage is a huge boost, but make sure it works out correctly for what elements you want to be running. 

Edited June 5, 2019 by Ascarith

[YazMatazO]

1 hour ago, _KOMIK said:

I got a pretty decent sobek riven (94.5% Status Chance, 54.3% Reload Speed, 94.3% Toxin)

However, I’ve never actually tried the sobek so I got no idea how to build one. Any recommendations?

Depends where you want to play the Sobek. If you're referring to generally lower, that is, 100- lvl content, then pretty much anything you put together with 100 % status would work well. Corrosive, Explosive, and you're ready to go. 

If you're going for higher level content, I'd advice to reroll that riven for tons of multishot(the riven is actually not that good). The increased pellet count is very important for some shotguns, and in my opinion, the Sobek is among them. Multishot also gives you status chance. Combine with Vicious Spread, and you end up with a very decent anti-riot weapon, with which you can cc groups of enemies. If you can get Multishot, Fire Rate, Punch Through, that's golden for the Sobek. To avoid the reload time, you can just swap, or melee, and use the Synth Set, which will refill ammo while holstered.

Acid Shells--a unique mod for the Sobek, works really well against Infested, but not with the rest of the factions.

[0_The_F00l]

I will give you a new build which takes advantage of one of the new "motus setup" mods

Since sobek has 27% SC you need 271% additional SC to reach 100%

2 dual status mods will get you 120%. 

Your riven with 94.5%, 

current SC with these 3 mods will be at 84.9%

Either another dual status, or the justice augment or the motus setup mod will push you to 100% true status. The setup mod has the increased bonus of critical chance and 22% CC on a shotgun is nice. 

So you have achieved 100% status chance with just 4 mods. And a single elemental combination (or 2 depending on your choice of dual status mods) 

The remaining 4 would be the typical point blank, hells chamber, acid shells and whatever utility you prefer (reload works well)