Champion

Very agile close-range skirmisher, with enough range to threaten out to about 450m if you can lead the heavy gauss shots well.

Trades safer, longer-range ER mediums for more lethal medium pulses. Very precise burst brawler, but extremely slow for its tonnage and range-limited. Position carefully, because mistakes with punish you heavily.

This offers higher burst output than the pure 6MPL build of the CHP-3N, at the expense of synergy and sustain. You can also run LE295 by stripping the arms down.

This is a solid alpha, solid DPS, generally standard heavy brawl build, it can get somewhat toasty, but the DPS and alpha combination makes this build a solid choice for a faster style of brawl.

This build is very fun, but not for the faint of heart. Lacking in speed and heat efficiency, this build maximizes alpha damage, lending a somewhat disgusting almost pinpoint ~60 alpha on a mere 60-tonner with medium-like agility.

This build has the highest burst DPS among all Champion builds, high accuracy due to that excellent velocity quirk and tight convergence, and even some medium lasers to help with the burst damage even more. The worst that can be said about this build is its unfriendly heat curve, and terrible sustained DPS. But the burst output is well worth that low price.

A lack of quirks means this build falls behind other AC2 boats such as the Rifleman in terms of raw DPS, but the Champion has ideal torso convergence and a significant velocity quirk, making it one of the most accurate AC2 mechs in the game, while having above average durability and mobility.

The ERMLs heat up quickly, and can be swapped for standard MLs if you find yourself around 300m often.

This pure AC2 version removes all lasers and adds more ammo, making this an exclusively long range build with maximum sustain power. What it lacks in DPS, it makes up for in sustain, durability, and mobility.

This build does not have the most sustained DPS for a ballistic build, neither does it have the least. It does not have the highest burst DPS for a ballistic build, again, neither does it have the least. However, it has a solid alpha (again, for a ballistic DPS build), and a forced standard engine, which is both somewhat beneficial for maneuverability, but also detrimental for mobility.

This build is one of the strongest skirmish builds on any heavy 'mech. Good alpha, reasonable speed, good DPS, great convergence, this build, frankly, has it all, except range.

Compared to the generally superior AC20 + 4 MPL build, you basically just shoot people for 40 pinpoint, rinse repeat, relatively straight forward. However, it does lose a not insignificant amount of DPS and heat efficiency.

It's a Gauss rifle and 2 PPC's on a 60 ton 'mech with great agility, a good enough peeking profile, and 20% velocity. What more do you need to know!?

Among the more fun builds this chassis is capable of running - it truly plays more like a medium mech. While your alpha and range are quite low, your heat efficiency is nothing short of amazing, and your DPS is excellent, making for a notably squishier, but also stronger version of the vaunted cMPL Linebacker.

This is the less fun, but slightly more sensible version, of the 6 MPL XL build. Trading speed and a heat sink or two for some added survivability. Usually comes down to personal preference which one you would rather run.

More alpha and burst DPS than just 6MPL. The LB10 somewhat makes up for the lack of heatsinks, so the only real disadvantage here is a slower XL compared to 6MPL.

This alternative to the excellent CHP-1NB's AC20 + 4MPL build lacks DPS but boasts alpha damage. Also harder to sync the weapons, due to the AC20 having 10% reduced cooldown and the ML's having a not insignificant DPS reduction over the MPL's. However, due to the ML's having an inherently superior range bracket to the MPL's, and that excellent 10% range quirk, the range on this build is actually very comfortable, as opposed to the sightly restrictive range on the AC20 + 4 MPL version.

This version has higher alpha, higher burst, better sustain, and a shorter burn duration. The price paid is XL, speed, and a shorter range. You can swap the standard MLs for ERMLs to get back the range advantage, but you give up some sustain and recycle.

A staple IS laservomit mech with durability, some speed, decent range and heat efficiency, but lacking in alpha, which is rather typical.

Play this when you want people to feel your wrath, unfortunately that comes at the price of your wrath taking time to arrive, and said wrath being somewhat limited in range, the range quirk does help this, however.

Solid alpha, solid heat efficiency, cool down quirk for that Gauss Rifle, and added durability with the LE engine make this build a cooler running, but shorter ranged version of your typical laser vomit build.

Pure high-alpha trading build. Well, high as far as IS is concerned. Beware of being very slow, and with XL in order to carry this kind of firepower.

A simple-to-play ERLL boat with decent speed and good burst output, assisted by a range quirk. Great lightweight pick for FP range decks.

This offers better long-term sustain and tighter mounts at the expense of all else so that you don't have to worry about the arms and can make better use of the Champion's agility and geometry to make tight peeks. Find a good spot and abuse it non-stop, because you're a bit slow to reposition.

Good sustained DPS and good durability due to STD engine, but extremely slow. This not a true LBX brawler - stick to the edges of your ML optimal range. Twist aggressively when you need to - there's no excuse to lose your CT when you have a STD engine to take advantage of.

This is strictly inferior to other dakka Champions, but unfortunately one of the better and more flexible builds available to this lackluster variant.

Other variants of the Champion are simply better quirked for this loadout so there is no point in running it here. But if you insist on playing a CHP-1N anyways, this build is still very playable.

This build only exists to give something of use to this otherwise irredeemable variant. Even then you may choose to run this on most of the other Champion variants, too.

This build plays closer to a medium mech, such as a Griffin, Shadow Hawk, or even Dervish, rather than a proper SRM-boating heavy like a Catapult or Mad Dog. The wide convergence from the arms can be problematic at times, and it's not incredibly tanky, but it's one of the only InnerSphere options for an SRM heavy in this weight range.

This variation maxes out jumpjets and cooling for close-range poptarting. XL fragility means this is not a suitable brawler - it is meant to played predominately using cover and safe distances, even abusing the range quirk, for farming in solo queue.

This build is generally a worse version of the QKD-IV-4, however, this does not make it inherently bad. There is a quirk to boost the MRM range, but spread and velocity means you'll be inaccurate at those ranges anyways.