Borderlands 4’s Most Broken Weapon Is a Purple Shotgun That Makes Damage Numbers Go Brrr — Nothing Takes More Than One Shot

Borderlands 4 promised basically infinite loot, and yeah, with billions of guns in the pool, something was always going to snap in half. Still, it is genuinely funny how completely a single purple shotgun can trivialize the entire game right now.

The purple shotgun that deletes everything

YouTuber Moxsy found a very particular epic that turns damage numbers into a wall of confetti: a Scattering QuincunX Stellium with the energy disc alt fire. In his latest video, he shows it erasing an Ultimate Vault Hunter rank five in about a second. It even literally makes a buzzing brrr noise while the damage floods the screen. Borderlands gonna Borderlands.

"Nothing's going to take really more than one shot."

• The gun: Scattering QuincunX Stellium (purple rarity) with the energy disc alt fire
• The must-have part: a Jakobs ricochet component
• The extra piece: a crit knife to complete the build
• No strict skill point setup or other gear required for it to pop off
• Not a legendary, but the rolls you need are still rare; Moxsy suggests hunting for these while you farm the legendaries you actually want

The video description straight-up calls it "the most broken weapon in Borderlands 4," and honestly, hard to argue. When a purple deletes endgame enemies on contact, that is not a gray area.

"We kind of knew going in that there's no way that this system was going to be totally balanced because it's literally infinite possibilities, and this particular possibility seems to break the game."

Inside baseball, sure, but this is exactly the kind of edge case you get when a game serves up billions of gun permutations. Also, who needs the other 29,999,999,999 guns when this one handles the job solo?

For what it is worth, Borderlands 4 sits in a respectable spot in the best-Borderlands rankings. And yes, the usual champion still holds the top slot. You already know which one.