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Code Vein Builds: Overview of the best character builds

In our Code V ein Builds Guide you will learn:

which blood codes you need for the builds
which weapons you should choose
which Blood Veil is best to play your build with
which active and passive talents you should skill up

Thanks to the many different blood codes and associated talents, there are a lot of ways to play your character in Code Vein. Also, the variety of weapons in Code Vein, their upgrades and transformations give you the opportunity to customize your fighting style. Thus, you can play your character in any way you want.

We'll give you builds that will be useful for leveling up, as well as in boss fights or in normal combat against the lost. By the way, you can learn all the basics you need for this guide in our Code Vein Guide: The Best Tips & Tricks.

Code Vein Queen Build: The Sniper

If ranged combat is your thing, this build is for you. It's user-friendly and easy to play. Other builds along these lines do about 25 percent more damage per shot, but they also require a lot of different talents and are more complicated to play.

In ranged combat, you deal a lot of damage quickly with consistent Ichor. The build is designed to maximize your ichor and increase your willpower and wits to deal the most ranged damage. To keep your Ichor up, you should use back and withdrawal attacks as often as possible.

You increase ichor and willpower using your blood codes. You'll start with Spellcaster and will replace it with Artemis once you get it. Already you will notice a huge increase in your damage. Switch to Harmonia once you have it and finally to Queen.

Your Blood Veils play a crucial role in the effectiveness of your talents. They should have good defense and increase the damage you do with withdrawal attacks, parries, and back attacks. Stay just under the weight limit to attack quickly with each blood code.

Blood Codes

Spellcasters
Artemis
Harmonia
Queen

Blood Veil

Nightclaw
Noble Silver

Weapons

Brodiaea
Libertador

Talents

Passive:

Quick destruction
Bayonet Master
Mind/Willpower
Skill/Strength

Active

Blood Sacrifice
Talent Extension
Impact from a distance
Override

Harmonia Build: The Dark Mage

Similar to the Queen build, the Harmonia build can be played. You act in ranged combat, need a lot of Ichor, use dark talents and adapt them to the weaknesses of your opponents. This makes it the most flexible build of all.

Your main focus is on willpower. Through the blood code Artemis you do more damage, but also your health, stamina and balance increase. Through Harmonia, it is even possible to reach a status value of S in Willpower.

Nothing works without your Blood Veil. Only through it will your dark talents take effect. The choice of your blood veil determines whether you have more attack or more defense has. However, the most important thing is that you regularly upgrade your Blood Veil, since each upgrade increases the total damage.

Unfortunately, you can't start out without weapons, even if you don't use them actively in combat. You'll strengthen them with passive talents. As the game progresses, you'll use them to perform withdrawal attacks for Ichor. Besides, later you'll find weapons with adequate willpower that will increase your damage in combat.

Master your talents as soon as possible to use them outside the blood code you've created. This way you'll be able to use the most effective talent on each opponent. Finally, through Blood Sacrifice you'll play a pure mage, replacing Ichor with Health.

Blood codes

Spellcasters
Artemis
Harmonia

Blood Veil

Blackblood Redeemer
(more defense)

Suicide Spur
(more damage)

Weapons

One-handed swords
Bayonets

Talents

Passive

Strength
One-handed sword master
Skill/Willpower
Ichor Oath
Max. Ichor Thrust
Strength/Willpower

Active

Roar talents (Fiery Roar, Plasma Roar,...)
Bloodshot
Blood Sacrifice
Explosive Storm

Atlas Build: The Immortal

This build makes you downright immortal. You focus on your defense and balance. This way you are able to take hits easily. Strength is the key here. It not only adds more damage to your attacks, but also increases your maximum life.

Vitality and steadfastness also increase your physical and elemental defense. With the Blood Code Berserker you'll gain a lot of life and a huge capacity of weight, so you'll be able to carry heavy weapons and armor. Its high balance ensures that you won't be interrupted in your attacks. With its extremely high stamina, you'll block and dodge attacks with ease. Atlas ultimately brings out the best in this build.

Three factors are important in your Blood Veil: balance, defense, and weight. If you don't care too much about dodging, go ahead and exceed your weight. That way, you'll be better armored, and you'll easily take the hits while you're beating the crap out of your opponent. Note that upgrading your Blood Veil doesn't increase defense or balance, it only increases the damage of withdrawal attacks and the effectiveness of your talents.

As for your weapon, go for two-handed swords. They are slower to attack, but deal the most damage. Their slow mobility makes up for your high defense, and your balance allows you to attack continuously. Try to block enemy attacks and you will become almost immortal.

Blood Codes

Fighter
Berserker
Atlas

Blood Veil

Balance, defense, weight

Weapons

Two-handed swords

Talents

Passive

Stamina boost
Balance
Resilient Focus
Two-handed sword master
Block Stability

Active

Iron Will
Royal Heart
Block Reversal

Code Vein Hades Build: The Shadow

A stack of buffs for attacking from the shadows to deal exceptional damage with single attacks. This is the motto of the Hades build. It's especially good for leveling up, but not recommended for boss fights.

You use the blood code fighter at the beginning. It has the advantage of having more buffs than Berserker or Atlas due to increased Ichor. Despite this, you will need talents from these blood codes. Mastering them for the time being is therefore a good idea.

Prometheus offers high damage per hit, which you lose with Hades. However, Hades has the highest strength scaling, and by flashing fang you do a lot of damage with your first hit even against tough lost.

You also need one less buff, minimally simplifying the gameplay of this build. When choosing your Blood Veil, pay special attention to light talents and adequate defense. In the endgame, White Robe is advantageous because it has exactly these attributes.

A two-handed sword is again an advantage. Especially the kind of two-handed sword that deals maximum damage with each strike. After the fight against Juzo Mido, you will receive the Judgment Blade, which also fits the build. It uses the strength of Hades and deals the hardest.

Reinforce your weapons with Atlas Chrome to further expand your damage. You've already exceeded your maximum weight, so don't worry about continuing to maximize your weight. You just need to make sure that you send enemies to the afterlife with one blow.

Blood Codes

Fighters
Prometheus
Hades

Blood Veil

White robe

Weapons

(two-handed sword)
Judgement Blade

Talents

Passive

Survival Instinct
Two-Handed Swordmaster
Strength/Skill
Strength

Active

Adrenaline
Override
Blood Sacrifice
Flashing fang
Blow of madness
Talent extension
Night Mist Veil

Queen Slayer Build: The One-Handed

This build specializes in stuns, speed, and boss fights. Stunning your enemies is very effective if you do it right. Combined with the Last Journey talent, you can give yourself a huge advantage over your opponents.

With your blood codes, you'll specialize in Dexterity and Mobility at the beginning. Switch from Ranger to Prometheus as soon as you get it. As with the previous builds, you'll quickly notice an amazing improvement. Prometheus isn't ideal, but it's the best alternative until you get Queen Slaughterer.

The blood code Queen Slayer gives you the deadliest of all talents. And it doesn't just apply to your opponents. It significantly boosts your attacks, but can kill you yourself. This playstyle specializes in boss fights, so "Last Journey" gives you a three-minute chance to punch your stubborn opponent's lights out. Also, Queen Slayer gives you the Circulating Pulse talent, which lets you attack five times in a row without losing stamina.

For your Blood Veils, make sure to choose one from the Light talent tree and a Light weight. It's important to stay mobile in order to dodge. Noble Silver is a good option to boost Light talents and stay agile. It doesn't offer a good defense, but in this style of play the motto is: offense is the best defense.

You are free to choose your weapon. Just make sure it has good stats on dexterity or strength. It is important that it is fast and that you add a stun effect to the weapon. Together with stun marks you will stun faster and more often. So be sure to have stun marks up your sleeve.

Blood codes

Ranger
Prometheus
Queen Slayer

Blood Veil

Noble silver

Weapons

Fire Claw

Talents

Passive

Quick destruction
One-Handed Swordmaster
Mind/Willpower

Active

Bridge to Glory
Blood Sacrifice
Ornamental Pulse
Phantom Attack
Paralysis shot
Stun Mark
Talent extension
Last Journey

Fionn Build: The Hammer Tough

What do the talents Red Shoes, Impact Wave, and a Hammer result in? Crush Enemies. Hit them until you can't hit them anymore, and Impact Wave will do the rest and protect you from counterattacks. For the necessary momentum in this build, work towards the blood code Fionn.

Fighter gives you penetrating power and enough Ichor. Atlas gives you Impact Wave. At the same time, look for a Hammer, which goes hand in hand with this talent. With Fionn you will finally get Red Shoes.

Swing your hammer until you run out of stamina and even beyond. The toll you take is a small amount of life. With a two-handed weapon, you use more stamina per strike. However, there is a very good reason why you need a hammer in this build.

Impact Wave is only triggered when an "overhead attack" is performed. Only hammers are capable of this. King's Hammer can perform three of these attacks by performing two "light attacks" and one "heavy attack", making it ideal for using Impact Wave.

The Mighty Hammer is the only hammer whose normal attacks are exclusively "overhead attacks". The Blood Veil Noble Silver is the first choice due to its light weight. You are not too heavy and in the range of normal mobility. Alternatively, you can use a Blood Veil with more defense. However, this shouldn't be necessary as long as you stagger your opponents regularly.

Blood Codes

Fighter
Atlas
Fionn

Blood Veil

Noble silver

Weapons

King's Hammer
Mighty Hammer

Talents

Passive

Quick Destruction
Hammer Master
Mind/Willpower
Survival Instinct

Active

Adrenaline
Overdrive
Blood sacrifice
Talent extension
Bridge to glory
Dragon set
Red shoes
Impact Wave

Eos Build: The Hybrid in Code Vein

This hybrid build is fast and strong at the same time. You use melee attacks, spells, and dodge skillfully. With the help of the spells, you can take on multiple enemies at once and deal tons of damage.

At the beginning, the Blood Code Ranger only stands out for its dexterity, which helps you a lot in weapon attacks. With Prometheus, you'll master the first talents that you'll need later on. Blood Code Darkseeker is tentatively going in the direction of this build. With A on Dexterity and B on Sanity, the planned playstyle is starting to take shape.

Eos gives you up to S on Sanity. You also have a lot of strength as well as dexterity. The use of a weapon is powerful and the high Ichor allows you to use spells during combat. When it comes to Blood Veils, Noble Silver once again impresses with its ease.

However, you are extremely vulnerable and should avoid all attacks if possible. Choosing a strength-based weapon would be ideal, but they are heavier and make you sluggish. Therefore, choose a light weapon. You can increase your weapon damage with talents.

Iceblood is fast, strong, and light. With Bridge to Glory, you'll deal 2000 damage per hit from level 100. Nevertheless, you should have another weapon up your sleeve to be prepared against ice-resistant enemies.

Blood codes

Ranger
Prometheus
Darkseeker
Eos

Blood Veil

Noble Silver

Weapons

Ice Blood

Talents

Passive

Quick destruction
Skill
Mind
Light Pulse
Clever Evasion

Active

Bridge to glory
Blood sacrifice
Lightning volley
Ice salvo

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Code Vein Builds: Overview of the best character builds

Table of Contents

Code Vein Queen Build: The Sniper

Harmonia Build: The Dark Mage

Atlas Build: The Immortal

Code Vein Hades Build: The Shadow

Queen Slayer Build: The One-Handed

Fionn Build: The Hammer Tough

Eos Build: The Hybrid in Code Vein