Helldivers 2: Armor Passive Tier List

When the wearer takes damage, they regain some stamina.

Provides a higher armor rating.

Siege Breakers

Wearer makes 50% less noise when moving.

Reduces range at which enemies can detect the wearer by 40%.

Redacted Regiment

Helps prevent Helldivers from ragdolling when hit.

Increases melee damage by 40%.

Python Commandos

Provides 40% resistance to fire, gas, acid, and electrical damage.

Increases throwing range by 20%.

Dust Devils

Wearer makes 50% less noise when moving.

Increases point-of-interest identification range by 30%.

Provides immunity to leg injuries.

Obedient Democracy Support Troopers

Provides one-time, short-lived resuscitation upon death, given that the Helldiver’s body is still intact.

Increases stim effect duration by 2.0s.

Provides 50% resistance to arc damage.

Control Group

Provides 25% resistance to chest damage.

Provides 25% resistance to explosive damage.

Prevents all damage from bleeding if chest hemorrhages.

Force of Law

Increases reload speed of primary weapons by 30%.

Gives wearer a 50% chance to avoid grievous limb injury.

Increases melee damage by 20%.

Masters of Ceremony

Increases sidearms reload speed by 40%.

Sidearm draw/holster speed increased by 50%.

Sidearm recoil reduced by 70%.

Borderline Justice

Armor explodes 1.5s after the wearer dies.

Increases initial inventory and holding capacity of throwables by +2.

Servants of Freedom

Provides 50% resistance to fire, gas, acid, and electrical damage.

Righteous Revenants

Increases reload speed of primary weapons by 30%.

Increases ammo capacity of all weapons by 20%.

Does not affect weapon backpacks.

Urban Legends

Helps prevent Helldivers from flinching when hit.

Provides a higher armor rating.

Markers placed on the map will generate radar scans every 2.0s.

Truth Enforcers

Provides 80% resistance to gas damage and effects.

Chemical Agents

Provides 75% damage resistance to fire, allowing bearer to rest assured in their inflammability.

Freedom’s Flame

Increases melee damage by 40%.

Improves weapons handling with less drag on weapon movement.

Viper Commandos

Increases throwing range by 30%.

Provides +50% limb health.

Polar Patriots

Steeled Veterans

Provides 95% resistance to arc damage.

Cutting Edge

Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.

Provides 50% resistance to explosive damage.

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Democratic Detonation

Polar Patriots

Markers placed on the map will generate radar scans every 2.0s.

Reduces range at which enemies can detect the wearer by 30%.

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Polar Patriots

Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.

Increases initial inventory and holding capacity of throwables by +2.

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Democratic Detonation

Increases initial inventory and holding capacity of stims by +2.

Increases stim effect duration by 2.0s.

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50% chance to not die when taking lethal damage.

Prevents all damage from bleeding if chest hemorrhages.

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Provides a higher armor rating.

Default Armor

Med-Kit

Being able to hold 6 Stims means less time spent scavenging for them, and the increased duration effect ensures your health continues to rise in the middle of a fight.

Peak Physique

The melee damage isn’t too impressive, but being able to greatly improve the ergonomics of weapons means less sway for heavier guns, which allows for perfect movement while shooting.

Siege-Ready

More ammo for all weapons and an increased reload speed for primary weapons ensure that you’re always ready for the fight against incoming enemy units.

Reduced Signature

Perfect for Commando missions and other missions where you want to avoid fighting enemies, and want to just focus on the objectives instead.

Rock Solid

The anti-ragdoll paired with extra melee damage is perfect for those who want to indulge in a melee weapon build, as they will no longer be thrown around by enemy units.

Adreno-Defibrillator

When you die (and your body hasn’t been exploded), you will be able to stay alive, but your health slowly deteriorates without Stims. This means you have a longer time in the fight, or to run to your destination, before you ultimately die without Stims. It’s great for hoarding Reinforcements.

Fortified

A 50% resistance to explosive damage is great against Automatons, and the reduction to recoil when crouching or prone will allow for greater suppressing fire against flying units that are hard to hit.

Supplemental Adrenaline

A free bonus to armor rating, paired with being able to generate stamina when taking damage, means you’re always on the move and shrugging off enemy fire.

Extra Padding

A +50 to armor rating is great, but it’s the only bonus to come from this passive.

Feet First

The less noise while moving is nice for stealth, and being able ot increase POI identification range means you will have an easier time locating sub objectives and samples for those farming.

Advanced Filtration

Practically become immune to gas, which is effective against all enemies as they get confused, allowing you to constantly gas them and then shoot them while you remain safe in the stink cloud.

Acclimated

A 50% resistance to all elemental damages allows you to use or get hit by any weapon with only minor injuries to heal, instead of near instant death.

Integrated Explosives

If you’re in combat, dying means that your armor can explode to deal a great deal of damage to enemies, perfect for Helldivers who want to blow up anti-tank enemies. However, if you’re already dead, a Hellpod can do the trick just as well.

Ballistic Padding

Resistance to chest and explosive damage will help on the battlefield to ensure you’re not killed by a rogue explosive that will ragdoll you while you bleed out without a Stim to stop it.

Gunslinger

Sidearms like Pistols and SMGs have an increased use through a fast reload and draw, with a reduction in recoil to make them more accurate when you need them most.

Democracy Protects

It’s a 50/50 if you live or die from an attack, but either way, you’ll be put on 1HP, meaning one rogue bullet or landing impact from an explosion means you’re dead before you can Stim.

Servo-Assisted

Throwing items doesn’t need a buff that warrants a whole passive, and limbs are still going to get destroyed either way.

Engineering Kit

Having 2 more throwables isn’t effective when you can resupply, and grenades are never the core kit of anyone’s arsenal.

Unflinching

A +25 to armor rating isn’t too bad, but having map scans from markers will be useless unless you’re desperate to avoid enemy patrols, and the flinch reduction isn’t enough, as you will still miss precision shots when hit.

Reinforced Epaulettes

The reload speed bonus to primary weapons is nice, but the 50% to avoid a limb injury won’t be necessary, and the same can be said for the increase to melee damage.

Inflammable

The fire resistance is only nice if you intentionally set yourself on fire with the weapons you’re using by staying at a close-range.

Desert Stormer

The resistance to fire, gas, acid, and electrical damage is unimpressive, as is an increase to throwing range, which rarely comes in handy.

Scout

Place markers on the map to generate scans to detect patrols, which is pretty much useless, as is the underwhelming 30% reduction that enemies can detect you, as they can still hear your footsteps.

Electrical Conduit

A great resistance to arc damage, but it’s still not enough to stop you from getting murdered by arc towers from Illuminates and allies.