10 Character Builds That BROKE Video Games

4. Stealth Archer - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

A build so broken it became a meme is absolutely a build we will not be ignoring on this list so whether you’ve heard about it a million times or this is the first time you’ll have the pleasure, let me run you through Skyrim’s stealth archers.

Or more accurately they’ll run everybody else through. Silently. Because of the stealth killing. That was bad, let’s keep going.

Illusion mages and conjuration devotees may also have a fun and extremely broken time, not to mention going all in on that reliable smithing and enchanting loop, but stealth archery is a classic. You’ll be levelling up really fast just by committing to this playstyle as the associated skills just grow incidentally, and in general archery is just completely overpowered in Skyrim. The wild damage multiplier for attacking in stealth and the ease with which you can just pop off a bunch of headshots without anyone knowing you were there is as effective as it is extremely satisfying.

Even players who go in deciding to full conjuration report back that they just ended up conjuring up bows and falling right back down that stealth archer hole.