Annual Skate god roll & best perks

Annual Skate — Destiny 2 Hand Cannon
Legendary · Hand Cannon
Where it drops: Source: Open Legendary engrams and earn faction rank-up packages.

“"When the lake used to freeze, people would dance on the ice wearing boots with tiny swords. And fall in love."”

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Built from 199 curated wishlist rolls for this Hand Cannon. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

Recommended rolls

Community wishlist roll

controller pve 95 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Tactical Mag Outlaw Fastdraw HCS Timed Payload Swashbuckler Multikill Clip Surplus Triple Tap Dragonfly Appended Mag Extended Mag SteadyHand HCS TrueSight HCS

Community wishlist roll

45 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 238. PvE first choice roll add clear. Decent base stats, but not quite as good as Palindrome. Recommended MW: Stability or Reload Speed.

Strong alternatives

SteadyHand HCS Steady Rounds Surplus Wellspring Fastdraw HCS TrueSight HCS Tactical Mag Flared Magwell Outlaw Accurized Rounds Dragonfly

Community wishlist roll

24 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 238. PvE first choice roll for majors/champions. Decent base stats, but not quite as good as Palindrome. Recommended MW: Stability or Reload Speed.

Essential perks

Timed Payload

Strong alternatives

SteadyHand HCS Accurized Rounds Surplus Fastdraw HCS TrueSight HCS Steady Rounds Tactical Mag Flared Magwell Triple Tap

Community wishlist roll

10 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 238. PvP backup roll for duelling (3s). Decent base stats, but not quite as good as Palindrome. Recommended MW: Stability, or Handling for blinting, with Targeting Adjuster or Icarus Grip mod depending on play style.

Essential perks

Accurized Rounds

Strong alternatives

Opening Shot Fastdraw HCS Surplus TrueSight HCS SteadyHand HCS Slideshot Wellspring

Community wishlist roll

controller pvp 8 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

SteadyHand HCS Timed Payload Accurized Rounds Slideshot Opening Shot Tactical Mag Surplus Fastdraw HCS

Community wishlist roll

5 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 238. PvP backup roll for damage-chaining (6s). Decent base stats, but not quite as good as Palindrome. Recommended MW: Stability, or Handling for blinting, with Targeting Adjuster or Icarus Grip mod depending on play style.

Essential perks

Multikill Clip Accurized Rounds

Strong alternatives

Fastdraw HCS Tunnel Vision TrueSight HCS SteadyHand HCS Slideshot

Community wishlist roll

pvp 4 wishlist rolls

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Essential perks

TrueSight HCS

Strong alternatives

Timed Payload Accurized Rounds Slideshot Opening Shot Tactical Mag Surplus

Ekuegan

pve 2 wishlist rolls

Ekuegan (PvE): S-Tier (Best). Recommended MW: Range.

Essential perks

Outlaw Fastdraw HCS Flared Magwell

Strong alternatives

Multikill Clip Timed Payload

Ekuegan

pvp 2 wishlist rolls

Ekuegan (PvP): S-Tier (Best). Recommended MW: Reload.

Essential perks

Fastdraw HCS Tunnel Vision Accurized Rounds

Strong alternatives

Timed Payload Opening Shot

Community wishlist roll

2 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 238. PvP first choice roll for duelling (3s). Decent base stats, but not quite as good as Palindrome. Recommended MW: Stability, or Handling for blinting, with Targeting Adjuster or Icarus Grip mod depending on play style.

Essential perks

SteadyHand HCS Accurized Rounds Surplus

Strong alternatives

Opening Shot Wellspring

Community wishlist roll

controller god-pve 1 wishlist roll

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Essential perks

Tactical Mag Outlaw Fastdraw HCS Multikill Clip

Community wishlist roll

1 wishlist roll

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 238. PvP first choice roll for damage-chaining (6s). Decent base stats, but not quite as good as Palindrome. Recommended MW: Stability, or Handling for blinting, with Targeting Adjuster or Icarus Grip mod depending on play style.

Essential perks

SteadyHand HCS Multikill Clip Tunnel Vision Accurized Rounds

What these Annual Skate perks do

Opening Shot

Grants the following benefits for your first shot (of the burst): • 20 Aim Assist and 25 Range • 5% decreased Accuracy Cone Size • 10% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth Special weapons only receive 50% of the benefits. Stats are rounded up. Firing the weapon prevents the perk from activating for 3 seconds.

Surplus

Grants Stat Bonuses depending on the number of Charged Abilities. Stat Bonuses with 1|2|3+ Charged Abilities: • 5|15|25 Stability • 5|25|60 Handling • 10|25|60 Reload Speed

Slideshot

Sliding refills 15% of the Magazine (rounded up) and grants 20 Range and Stability for your next shot (of the burst) within 2.5 seconds. 0.3 second cooldown after activation but can activate multiple times during a slide. Buff is removed on stow.

Wellspring

On Weapon Kill: Grants 8% Ability Energy split equally amongst all uncharged abilities. Abilities with multiple charges only receive one third of the ability energy normally split to them once they have a full ability charge ready. Ability energy gained may be significantly decreased based on your selected ability's Chunk Energy Scalar. Learn more about this mechanic in our explainer blog post on the Clarity website.

Outlaw

Precision Kills grant 70 Reload Speed with a 0.9x decreased Reload Animation Duration for 6 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

Dragonfly

Precision Kills cause targets to explode, dealing up to 123.89 [95.3] weapon-matching elemental damage in a 4.5-meter radius.

Timed Payload

Splits off 55% of the Weapon's Bodyshot damage into a Explosive Payload that detonates after a 0.6 second delay. The Payload deals 30% increased damage in PvE and staggers PvE Combatants more. The remaining Impact damage portion receives an increased Crit Multiplier to compensate for the Payload not benefitting from crits. [PvE] Total damage is increased by ~16.5% of the weapon's Bodyshot damage. On Crits, the overall increase is 10.9% for Adaptive/Precision Hand Cannons and 10.17% for Aggressive Hand Cannons. [PvP] Total damage remains roughly the same but can vary by 1-2% in either direction for crits.

Triple Tap

Scoring 3 Precision Hits within 2 seconds of each refills 1 Ammo into the Magazine from thin air. Cannot load the Magazine beyond its base capacity. Precision Hit counter persists through stow.

Multikill Clip

Finishing a reload within 3.6 seconds of scoring 1|2|3 Weapon Kills within 3.5 seconds of each grants 17%|33%|50% increased damage for 5 seconds. Buff is overwritten every time it is triggered and is removed on stow.

Swashbuckler

Weapon Kills grant a Stack of 'Swashbuckler' for 4.5 seconds. Maximum of 5 Stacks. (Glaive) Melee Kills grant all 5 Stacks instantly. Damage increase at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: 6.7% | 13.3% | 20% | 26.6% | 33.3% Stowing the weapon removes the buff.

Tunnel Vision

Grants the following for 5 seconds upon finishing a Reload within 3.6 seconds of a Weapon Kill: • 20 Aim Assist • ? ADS Handling • ?% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth

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