Neutral Spliced Bleed builds (Voidling Bound meta)
The current community meta is the Neutral Spliced Bleed build: a Neutral-typed voidling whose Bleed lets it execute enemies at around half health. Since the latest patch you can splice a Neutral voidling directly, and breeding one is still an option. Everything here uses real game systems (Neutral typing and Bleed). What the community adds is the Bleed strategy and the breeding tips, so treat those parts as player-reported.
What the Neutral Spliced meta is
A Neutral-typed spliced voidling deals Neutral damage, which applies Bleed. Bleed lets you execute an enemy once it drops to about 50% health, so in practice you only have to burn through the first half of its health bar. That execute is why Neutral Bleed builds are so strong right now.
How to get a Neutral voidling
Since the latest patch, Neutral is a Main Element you can splice directly. At the Splicing Station, pick Neutral as your Main Element and splice as usual, and your voidling deals Neutral damage. Breeding a Neutral voidling is still an option (covered below), but you no longer have to breed for it.
Breeding a Neutral voidling (still an option)
Splicing is the quick route, but breeding still works and is handy for carrying over the exact stats, abilities, and perks you already built up. Breeding passes a parent’s traits down to its children. The recipe players use:
- Take your strong, fully built "uber" spliced voidling.
- Breed it with an un-evolved Common of the same species (ideally one with 20 in every stat).
- If the baby comes out Neutral, keep it; if not, try again.
- Breed that result back with your uber to carry over the attacks and passives you want.
Expect a fair number of attempts, not just two or three. You are aiming for Neutral on the Main Element and on both the Primary and Secondary ability at the same time, and any perks that came from other voidlings through splicing also have to be carried over by breeding. Your mileage will vary.
How Bleed works
Bleed is a Neutral damage-over-time effect: up to 5 stacks, with the fastest tick rate of any status effect, plus the execute at roughly half health. This part is straight from the game (see Bleed in the Codex elements section).
Caveats and open questions
From what players report, a few things to watch:
- Not every ability deals Bleed. Only some say Bleed explicitly in their text, so check each one.
- If you breed for Neutral instead of splicing, a voidling tends not to come out Neutral on both its Primary and Secondary ability at once; one of them usually inherits an element.
Plan your Bleed build
Lay out a Bleed-oriented build in the Splicing Simulator: pick the species, set the abilities and modules, and watch the attributes update live before you commit anything in-game. Then browse community builds for ideas.