A limited number of Perks can be obtained in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies to give you passive bonuses to use during Rounds against enemy hordes. In exchange for Essence, the currency gained by killing zombies, you can stack different buffs onto your Operator. As Rounds become more dangerous with stronger undead, it’s good to know which Perks are the best to get.
There are a total of eight Perks you can receive as Augments throughout a match in Zombies mode. These are obtained by spending Essence on Perk-A-Cola in CoD: Black Ops 6, which are small consumables you can drink for their effects. By conducting research with these items, you can unlock Major and Minor Augment upgrades for them that give them additional benefits to their effects.
8 Elemental Pop
Gain Random Bits Of Extra Damage
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Elemental Pop |
Every bullet you fire has a small chance to apply a random Ammo Mod effect. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Chill Berry – Chill Berry – Reduces all Ammo Mod cooldowns. |
Pineapple Blast – Chance at triggering random Ammo Mod while using equipment. |
Vulnear Bean – Increases enemy elemental weakness damage. |
|
Major Augments |
Citrus Focus – Elemental Pop only triggers an existing Ammo Mod. |
Electric Cherry – Creates an electric discharge that damages and stuns enemies with extra damage for an emptier magazine. |
Imperil Peach – Triggers random Ammo Mods when an enemy hits you. |
The Elemental Pop perk gives you a random chance to deal elemental damage with your shots to zombies. While you can’t predict which elements this Perk will activate, getting more damage from fire or ice bullets will always be something you want to have on hand. If you use an SMG or Assault Rifle in CoD: Black Ops 6, you’ll have more chances to activate this Perk as you fire more bullets than a Sniper or Marksman Rifle.
Additional Ammo Mod Augments synergize with this Perk well, even if you can’t plan for which elemental damage is sometimes added to your bullets. You can stack these effects, so don’t be afraid to spend Essence at an Arsenal Machine to make a build focusing on elemental effects.
7 Melee Macchiato
Make Your Strikes Hit Harder
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Melee Macchiato |
Replace weapon gun butt with a deadly punch that sends enemies flying. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Hidden Impact – Reloads a portion of your held weapon’s ammo on a melee kill. |
Stick ‘n Move – Increases backpedal speed after a melee attack. |
Strength Training – Can one-hit kill normal enemies for longer. |
|
Major Augments |
Espresso – Increases melee attack speed. |
Triple Shot – Hits multiple enemies at once. |
Vampiric Extraction – Heal HP on melee attacks. |
The Melee Macchiato Perk boosts your melee damage, causing you to knock zombies back instead of only stunning them for a short time. Normally, using a melee strike will do only small damage to a zombie, especially the higher-level variants that start appearing in later Rounds. This Perk makes melee useful again, allowing you to conserve your weapon’s ammo when running low.
As you can see in the above video by YouTube creator
MrDalekJD
, the Augment upgrades for Melee Macchiato can make this Perk much stronger than it appears if you put in time to research it.
When used on its own, this Perk can be great for eliminating smaller zombies when you’ve run out of ammo. However, the Perk’s effect also works great for pushing back Elite zombies to give you or your squad some much-needed space. When used in tandem with a strong Shotgun build in CoD: Black Ops 6, you can blast zombies up close before delivering the Melee Macchiato punch to inflict a devastating combo on your foes.
6 Stamin-Up
Run Around Maps With Ease
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Stamin-Up |
Increase movement speed. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Hard Target – Projectile Damage reduced while sprinting. |
Hot Foot – Speed boost when your equipment kills an enemy. |
Quarterback – Use equipment while TAC sprinting. |
|
Major Augments |
Dasher – Increases TAC Sprint duration. |
Free Faller – Immune to fall damage. |
Stalker – Walk faster while aiming. |
Mobility can mean the difference between life and death in Zombies, so Stamin-Up is a Perk you should grab whenever you can. This Perk not only increases your movement speed but also allows you to get where you need to go much faster. Simple and effective, this Perk is consistent enough to use in any situation with CoD: Black Ops 6‘s new omnidirectional movement features.
The new movement
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are extensive, so you may want to head to the Training Area at least once before a Zombies match to learn how these can be used often.
5 Speed Cola
Get Prepared Much Faster
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Speed Cola |
Increase reload and armor replating speed bonus by 30%. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Fast Pitcher – Deploy equipment faster. |
Speedy Roulette – Mystery Box works faster. |
Quick Swap – Switch weapons faster. |
|
Major Augments |
Classic Formula – Increases reload speed. |
Supercharged – Field Upgrades charge faster. |
Phantom Reload – Slowly refills weapon magazines over time. |
Not to be confused with Stamin-Up, Speed Cola is another utility Perk that affects how fast your character is. This Perk gives you the means to reload faster and apply armor quickly during intense circumstances. One of the most challenging aspects of Zombies mode is how you sometimes run out of ammo at the worst time and don’t have enough time to reload your weapon to fend off an enemy horde.
As you prepare in CoD: Black Ops 6 Zombies for additional Rounds, it sometimes takes too long to put on armor. With this Perk, you can always make sure your operator is protected before zombies start to show up again. Reloading every weapon you have and equipping whatever armor is at your disposal quickly frees up your prep time to do other tasks before you are off fighting the undead once more.
4 Deadshot Daiquiri
Make Single Targets Fall Quickly
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Deadshot Daiquiri |
Aiming down sight moves to enemy critical location. Increase enemy critical damage. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Dead Break – Increases damage to armor pieces. |
Dead Draw – Reduces hip-fire spread. |
Dead Set – Reduces gun movement while moving. |
|
Major Augments |
Dead Again – Chance to add bullet to the magazine with every critical hit. |
Dead First – Doubles critical damage to enemies at full health. |
Dead Head – Increases critical damage. |
The Deadshot Daiquiri Perk automatically aims where you shoot when you zoom down sights with particular weapons. This can include certain Marksman Rifles and Sniper Rifles in the game, but some other weapon builds in CoD: Black Ops 6 could also utilize this effect. This should help you aim at the most vulnerable parts of zombies, even those of high-level variants like the Amalgam or Abomination.
When looking for a specific Perk, try to find a Perk-A-Cola machine’s spawn point on one of the two maps. Between Terminus and Liberty Falls, every Perk-A-Cola can be found at specific spots in each region.
When you have your gun aimed at enemy weak points, you also deal increased Critical damage when this Perk is active. Try to use this Perk when there are high-priority targets on the battlefield, such as those leveled-up zombie variants mentioned before. When combined with a damaging weapon like a Sniper Rifle, this Perk can help you eliminate the deadliest enemies in only a few shots.
3 Quick Revive
Get Your Allies Back Into The Action
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Quick Revive |
Reduce the health regen delay time by 50%. Reduce the time it takes to revive an ally by 50%. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Karmic Return – Heals you when you revive an ally. |
Slow Death – Increases last stand time. |
Swift Recovery – Increases movement speed of you and your ally when that ally is revived. |
|
Major Augments |
EMT – Revived allies keep their perks. |
Equivalent Exchange – No quick revive, but you auto-revive upon killing an enemy while downed three times a match. |
Dying Wish – No quick revive, leaves you with 1 HP instead of dying. |
The Quick Revive Perk helps you stay alive for longer, making it a useful Perk to have no matter what Round you are on in Zombies. When playing with others, it can sometimes be a risk to take time to revive them when they get knocked down. With Quick Revive, it makes bringing back a teammate much less of a risk, as you can get them up faster to avoid enemies closing in on both of your Operators.
As you can see in the above video by YouTube creator MrRoflWaffles, the Quick Revive Perk reduces the delay in health regeneration from six seconds to three. This can be a tremendous buff in the right situations, allowing you to recover fast as you stay out of danger.
2 Jugger-Nog
Raise Your Health To Last Longer
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
Jugger-Nog |
Increase maximum health by 100. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Durable Plates – Armor Durability Increased. |
Hardened Plates – Armor Protection Increased. |
Retaliation – Deal extra damage when low on HP. |
|
Major Augments |
Probiotic – Increases Max HP. |
Reactive Armor – Stuns enemy when armor breaks. |
Turtle Shell – Armor absorbs all damage from the back but not from the front. |
Another great Perk for survivability is Jugger-Nog, which simply increases your max health. While very straightforward, this Perk is extremely valuable in every scenario you could think of during a Round of CoD: Black Ops 6 Zombies. Having more health allows you to take more damage from enemy attacks as you try to escape hordes that have grown larger than you can handle.
Any allies with higher health can also use more tools as they stay alive for a little longer. For example, using Jugger-Nog gives you the time to activate a Field Upgrade or even another Perk-A-Cola in CoD: Black Ops 6 Zombies to stack various effects. According to the above video by YouTube creator Supercali8, other items like Gobblegums or Real Juice have a better chance of being used when Jugger-Nog is active.
1 PhD Flopper
Gain Resistance To Desperate Solutions
|
Perk |
Effect |
|---|---|
|
PhD Flopper |
Immunity to all self-inflicted damage and status effects. Dive to prone triggers an explosion, which increases the higher you fall. Immunity from fall damage while diving to prone. |
|
Augment Type |
Augment 1 |
Augment 2 |
Augment 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minor Augments |
Environmentalist – Immune to environmental damage while sliding. |
EOD Technician – Reduces height and distance requirements for explosions. |
Tribologist – Increases sliding distance and speed. |
|
Major Augments |
Dr. Ram – Tac Sprint knocks down and damages basic zombies when hit. |
Gravity MD – Creates explosion when falling. |
PHD Slider – Triggers explosions when sliding into enemies. |
The PhD Flopper Perk is one of the strongest buffs you can have in CoD: Black Ops 6 Zombies because of how it gives you immunity to reckless choices. For example, you could throw a grenade down at your feet and not get hurt with this Perk active. This gives you the chance to fight zombies in unorthodox ways, from diving prone over and over to create explosions to leaping off buildings to escape enemy waves.
This Perk should be saved for dire situations, but it can undeniably turn the tide of battle when you do choose to use it. When stacked with some of the other Perks you can get in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies, you can be at your best to easily win encounters against even the toughest undead legions.
Source: MrDalekJD/YouTube, MrRoflWaffles/YouTube, Supercali8/YouTube
- Released
- October 25, 2024
- Developer(s)
- Treyarch , Raven Software
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer , Online Co-Op
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
