Back 4 Blood – Solo Nightmare Melee Tank Build (Easy Way)

Guide to Solo Nightmare Melee Tank

Want to get rewards and achievements in Nightmare difficulty? I have a shotgun build from 2022, but melee makes it even easier. I’ll share my deck and setups that I used to finish all maps on Nightmare with 3 bots offline.

This deck makes you an unkillable tank while spamming the left mouse button. You can cut through hordes, bosses, and everything that moves. You don’t need skills, map knowledge, or positioning. Just move forward and attack to win.

Deck and Cards

Here’s my deck overview. I’ll explain what each card is for. You can change them to fit your playstyle.

DPS Related Cards:

  • Slugger – Increases health, melee stamina efficiency, and melee attack speed.
  • Brazen – Increases melee stamina efficiency and melee attack speed.
  • Meth Head – Each melee swing grants melee speed and stamina efficiency for a short time. Melee attacks don’t stick in tough enemies.
  • Adrenaline Fueled – Killing an enemy gives you stamina instantly and over time. It can stack up to 5 times.

These cards are about melee attack speed and stamina efficiency. Swinging faster means higher DPS. More stamina means more swinging and more DPS.

Direct Damage Cards:

  • Spiky Bits – Increases melee damage and damage resistance while using a melee weapon.
  • Mean Drunk – Increases melee damage. Melee attacks cleave through enemies, damaging a large area.

These cards increase the flat and percentage damage of your melee weapon.

Survival Cards:

  • Vanguard – Melee kills heal health.
  • Battle Lust – Melee kills heal health and trauma.
  • Face Your Fears – Heal temporary health when you kill a Ridden within close range.

These cards make it so killing zombies with melee replenishes your health. If you’re at max health, you get temporary bonus health.

  • Fresh Bandage – Heal trauma and restore health every level.
  • Durable – Increases trauma resistance, health, and fire resistance.
  • Fanny Pack – Increases trauma resistance and adds a support item slot.
  • Scar Tissue – Take less damage from Ridden and increase acid resistance.

Fresh Bandage is a must-have card. Trauma resistance is important to save money and prevent losing a run due to low max health. More money means more upgrades for survivability or damage.

  • Breakout – Lets you free yourself from grabs by holding a button. Reduces the cooldown.

This card is useful for melee builds since you’ll be walking into grabs often. You don’t have to rely on AI or other players to free you.

Free Slot:

  • Motorcycle Helmet – Increases damage resistance and health.
  • Or Fleet of Foot/Run Like Hell – Increases move speed and sprint speed.
  • Or Double Grenade Pouch – Adds offensive item slots.
  • Or Screwdriver – Increases use speed and stamina.

This slot is a personal choice. Motorcycle Helmet can save you healing items and money. I prefer the grenade slots to save money and hoard supplies. Movement speed cards let you avoid danger more easily. Use speed is good since you do all the objectives and actions as the only human player. Pick what you like.

Very Important Note: Corruption Cards

Be careful of corruption cards that give zombies acid, fire, or explosive heads. Avoid the fire axe and hatchet because their downward swings can trigger the explosions. Use a machete, crouch, and aim for the torso or legs. The fire and acid resistance cards help. Consider using a Burn Card for more elemental and trauma resistance if needed.

Characters / Cleaners

Melee-oriented characters like Evangelo, Holly, and Sharice are unstoppable with this build. But it works well on everyone.

Weapons

Avoid the fire axe and hatchet because of their overhead swings. They can be problematic with the volatile Ridden corruption card. I prefer melee weapons with a higher rate of fire over damage.

This build is strong enough to carry public lobbies because you’re so tanky. It’s bulletproof for every cleaner if you just want to unlock ZWAT suits. Have fun!

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