Cyborg

Cyborg is one of three races that can be obtained through a quest.

Cyborg's special abilities allow the player to fight and combo more effectively in close quarters, by disabling Instinct or by dealing extra damage and increasing their own defense. This race is mainly used against teamers due to its ability to deal extremely effective wide-area damage. In general, this race is great for grinding, PvP against Teamers and especially breaking combos. Additionally, it is also good for Instinct-Breaking and doing combos with Instinct-trickable attacks. This race is only weak when it creates conditions to activate Ken's bug, allowing temporary immortality or 0.5s with V4's electricity, this sometimes gives the enemy a chance to escape or counter

Obtainment

To obtain Cyborg, the player needs to complete the Cyborg Puzzle.

Stages

Stage

Method

V2

Completing the Alchemist's Quest. To take this quest, the player has to have completed the Colosseum Quest.

V3

Completing the Arowe's Quest, which varies depending on the race. Cyborg's V3 quest is:

Give Arowe any physical Blox Fruit. (He doesn't take the fruit.)

The player must make sure to grab the quest every time they join the game as it will reset when you leave a server.

V4

Completing the Race Awakening Puzzle, then completing Trial of The Machine and winning in the battle.

Full steps can be found over at the Race Awakening page.

Changes of Stages

Each stage will give additional buffs and make visual changes to the player's avatar.

Stage

Buffs

Visual changes

Image

V1

No buffs.

Gives the user a metallic mask on the upper left part of their head.

V2

10% defense against melee, sword, and gun attacks. 15% of received damage passively converts to Energy.

No visual changes.

V3

Gives the user an ability called Energy Core, while activated:

Boosts the player's defense by 30%.
Creates an AoE lightning effect around the player during the ability that does tick damage to enemies within its range. It starts at 0 damage, then does 33 ticks of damage that scales with the player’s level.
- Example 1: Lv. 2600 = 2600 * 0.065 * 33 = 5577
- Example 2: Lv. 2000 = 2000 * 0.065 * 33 = 4290
- Example 3: Lv. 1500 = 1500 * 0.065 * 33 = 3217.5
- Example 4: Lv. 1750 = 1750 * 0.065 * 33 = 3853.75

It lasts 6.5 seconds, and has a 23.5 second cooldown. It does break Instinct unless the player is just on the range border of the attack.

Removes the metallic mask and gives the user a pair of black and red, futuristic glasses.

V4 unlocks different abilities depending on what "Gears" are put in. For more information, please refer to Race Awakening.

Ancient Powers: Upon transforming, receive max stats as well as increased damage, speed, and health regeneration by 10%.
Energy Control: Damage dealt now chains to nearby enemies through orbs. Allows the user to Super Jump (must have Instinct enabled).	Upgraded version: The effects of chain damage increase. Super Jump now deals damage and no longer requires Instinct to be enabled.
Aftershock: Attacks now apply an electrifying effect that disables the opponent's Instinct ability temporarily. It also does small amounts of tick damage.	Upgraded version: The electrifying effect becomes stronger and lasts longer.
Visual changes: User grows a pair of blue, futuristic wings, and the visor turns blue. While transformed, the visor and wings' blue glows turn purple. Mask of Cyborg V4. Mask of Cyborg V4. (active) The wings' idle animation. The transformation animation. The idle animation. Maximum energy orbs the user can summon.

Overview

Pros
General Best race for grinding. Good defense, especially with Energy Core. Good against teamers. All abilities starting from V3 have offensive capabilities (Energy Core and Aftershock have tick damage while Energy Control can transfer damage). The player will almost always have energy, due to the V2 passive. Also makes it good with Phoenix's huge energy drain.
Energy Core (V3) Quick and easy to obtain. Great for combos. Deals bonus damage for free. Improve one-shot combos or long combos. Breaks Instinct. Renders the opponent unable to Instinct trick moves. Decent damage and defense. Good for canceling out enemy's combos, especially the moves that need to be held. (Dough V, Death Step C, etc.) Decent for grinding. Can be used to finish an enemy or boss to level up mastery on a weapon or fruit without having stats on them.
Energy Control (V4) Great mobility. One of the fastest ways to travel combined with Skull Guitar's [TAP] ability. Excellent for grinding/PvP as it hits nearby enemies. Can be deadly in PvP with enemy NPCs around/when fighting teamers. Orbs can easily break Instinct without aiming the opponent. Recommend using builds that involve dealing tick damage for maximum benefit.
Aftershock (V4) Drains opponent's Instinct dodges. Doesn't require to break Instinct to apply the electrifying effect.

Cons
General No movement buffs, unlike other races. Using accessories that boost speed, such as Pilot Helmet, is recommended. No defense buffs against Blox Fruits. Very hard and expensive to obtain, requiring the player to obtain a Fist of Darkness and complete an entire puzzle. The energy passive (V2) is not really useful. None of the V4 gears can hit Sea Beasts.
Energy Core (V3) Can be countered by keeping distances. Requires to be close to break Instinct.
Energy Control (V4) Tier 1 requires Instinct to super jump. Vulnerable in air, requires a solid surface to super jump.
Aftershock (V4) Doesn't break Instinct. Opponents can be invincible to attacks at some times while dodging the electrifying effect. These include attacks that cannot be avoided, such as Godhuman [C] held ability.

Change History

Released in Update 14

Update 17.2

Cyborg's V3 ability was reworked to create lightning that deals continuous AOE damage, burns enemies over time, causing them to take a large amount of total damage and breaks Instinct when near. It also reduces damage taken by up to 30%. But it was nerfed shortly after release:
- Lightning damage is now equal to 6.5% of the player's current level instead of 10%. Base damage before level-based bonus also reduced from 0.1 to 0 (reduces damage per tick by 35%).
- The number of tick dots was reduced from 44 to 33.
- Reduces the range of lightning damage, as well as the range of Instinct break. Lightning will now no longer break Instinct when the enemy is at the edge of the lightning AOE, meaning the enemy must be closer to break Instinct.

Update 15

Changed how the V1 and V3 accessory looks.

Update 14

Cyborg was released.

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