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Helldivers 2: Armor Passive Tier List

Author : Logan Update : Feb 18,2025

Helldivers 2 Armor Passives: A Comprehensive Guide & Tier List

Helldivers 2 categorizes armor into light, medium, and heavy, impacting mobility and defense. However, the real power lies in the armor passives – potent perks significantly altering gameplay. This guide details all passives and provides a tier list to optimize your loadouts.

All Armor Passives and Their Effects

The game currently boasts 14 armor passives, each influencing your strategy and combat effectiveness. Note that only body armor grants passive abilities; helmets and capes offer no additional bonuses.

Armor Passive	Description
Acclimated	50% resistance to acid, electrical, fire, and gas damage.
Advanced Filtration	80% resistance to gas damage.
Democracy Protects	50% chance to survive lethal attacks (e.g., headshots); prevents chest injuries (e.g., internal bleeding).
Electrical Conduit	95% resistance to lightning arc damage.
Engineering Kit	+2 grenade capacity; 30% recoil reduction while crouching or prone.
Extra Padding	+50 armor rating.
Fortified	50% resistance to explosive damage; 30% recoil reduction while crouching or prone.
Inflammable	75% resistance to fire damage.
Med-Kit	+2 stim capacity; +2 seconds additional stim duration.
Peak Physique	100% increased melee damage; improved weapon handling (reduced weapon movement drag).
Scout	30% reduced enemy detection range; map markers generate radar scans.
Servo-Assisted	30% increased throwing range; 50% additional limb health.
Siege-Ready	30% increased primary weapon reload speed; 30% increased primary weapon ammo capacity.
Unflinching	95% reduced recoil flinching.

Armor Passive Tier List (Version 1.002.003)

This tier list assesses passives based on overall value, utility, and effectiveness across various missions and enemy types.

Tier	Armor Passive	Why?
S	Engineering Kit	Extra grenades are invaluable for diverse tasks: sealing bug holes, destroying fabricators, using Thermites, and stunning enemies.
	Med-Kit	Significantly boosts survivability, especially when combined with the Experimental Infusion booster, effectively allowing for "death cheating."
	Siege-Ready	Substantially improves ammo management and reload times, crucial for handling large enemy groups, particularly with high-ammo weapons.
A	Democracy Protects	Provides strong early-game defense, increasing survival against lethal damage.
	Extra Padding	Offers consistent defense boost against all damage types.
	Fortified	Extremely effective against Automatons, enabling survival against rockets and enhancing weapon effectiveness against robotic enemies.
	Servo-Assisted	Excellent against Terminids, allowing for safer stratagem deployment and mitigating injury from claw attacks due to increased throwing range.
B	Peak Physique	Less impactful as melee combat is generally avoided; the weapon handling improvement is useful but outweighed by other options.
	Inflammable	Best suited for fire-based builds and specific situations (e.g., fire tornadoes); effective against Terminids and Illuminate.
	Scout	Useful for revealing enemy positions, but its value is limited by the lack of additional information (e.g., points of interest).
C	Acclimated	Situational; rarely will all four elemental damage types be encountered in a single mission.
	Advanced Filtration	Only beneficial for gas-focused builds, and even then, the overall impact is relatively low.
	Electrical Conduit	Primarily useful against Illuminate, but other options offer superior benefits unless friendly fire is a major concern.
	Unflinching	Minimal impact on combat effectiveness; the reduction in camera shake and recoil is negligible.