Huntress: Bow Builds and Single-Target Damage

At a glance


Unlock	Unlocked through play. The achievement is The Hunt Is On!, which sits seventh in the achievement order — she is the earliest unlock in the game.
Signature	The bow line.
Damage identity	Single-target ranged.
Team leader achievement	Bow Before Me

What Huntress is for

Huntress is the pick that got better in 1.0 without being touched. Version 1.0 raised boss base HP by a quarter and increased elite spawn chance, and added Boss Rush — a mode where a single target is the entire encounter. Single-target damage went from a liability against hordes to the thing the newest mode is built around.

Ranks

Every survivor has five ranks, the fifth added in version 1.0 along with two new synergy nodes, two passive improvement nodes, and one passive node that buffs the whole team whenever Huntress is in the squad. Ranks 2 through 5 each have an achievement:

Rank	Achievement
Rank 2	An Arrow To The Knee
Rank 3	Bullseye!
Rank 4	Won’t See Me Coming
Rank 5	Pro Hunter License

The Survival Level each rank requires has never been published by the studio, and is not guessed at here.

Personal mission chain

Huntress asks for five missions, each its own achievement, and unlocks repeatable quests afterwards. Every one raises Team Bond, the squad-wide bonus to Cash and Specialization Points.

React → Recollect → Relinquish → Readjust → Reinvest

Every mission in her chain begins with Re- — react, recollect, relinquish, readjust, reinvest — which reads as someone working through something.

Patch history worth knowing

An October 2024 patch increased Grenade Trail ability Amount by +2 and base damage by +50, and a January 2024 patch stopped Arrow Penetration from wrongly reducing its own proc chance.

Where Huntress fits

See the survivor tier list for how Huntress ranks against the other eight and why, the full roster for every unlock and mission chain side by side, and builds and synergies for how squad composition actually works.

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