What if I told you there’s a Hunter build that turns you into an unkillable, invisible, lightning-fast brawler—punching through enemies, healing yourself, and vanishing before they even hit the ground? Welcome to the Liar’s Handshake Prismatic Hunter—a build that turns you into a one-person wrecking crew with infinite melee chains, constant buffs, and full-on style. Today I’m going to show you why this build is good, the gameplay loop, and put the build together so you can try it in Destiny 2.

Why this build is good

This Hunter Prismatic build in Destiny 2 stands out for its incredible synergy between melee combat, ability regeneration, healing, and crowd control. At the core of the build is the Liar’s Handshake Exotic gauntlets, which grant the Cross Counter perk. This allows you to unleash a powerful counterpunch that heals you whenever you use your Arc melee or get hit by one. Combined with the Combination Blow melee ability—which increases melee damage, restores health, and recharges your dodge on kill—you can continuously chain together powerful melee attacks and stay alive even in the middle of enemy groups.

The Grapple grenade furthers this aggressive playstyle by giving you high mobility and area-of-effect melee attacks. Grappling to a Tangle instantly refunds your grenade energy, allowing you to stay airborne and aggressive. After grappling, your melee deals AoE damage and applies Unravel, which disorients enemies and adds crowd control. This combo allows for rapid engagements, strong burst damage, and persistent control over groups of enemies.

The Stylish Executioner aspect adds another layer of lethality. It grants invisibility and Truesight (wallhacks) when you defeat a weakened, suppressed, or volatile target. While invisible, your next melee weakens enemies, starting the loop again. This invisibility and debuff cycle allows you to chain kills while remaining untouchable, constantly weakening targets to set up the next execution and invisibility trigger.

A powerful set of Prismatic fragments enhances this core loop. Facet of Dawn makes you Radiant with powered melee hits, boosting weapon damage. Facet of Courage increases ability damage against debuffed enemies—which you’re constantly creating through freeze, unravel, and weaken. Facet of Purpose turns Orb of Power pickups into random defensive buffs like Woven Mail, Overshield, and Frost Armor. Meanwhile, Facet of Protection increases damage resistance when surrounded, and Facet of Ruin boosts your AoE output by enhancing Stasis shatters and Solar ignitions. These fragments ensure you’re always empowered, tanky, and deadly.

The build’s mod setup creates an efficient ability regeneration loop. Heavy Handed and Reaper spawn Orbs of Power from melee and weapon kills. Mods like Innervation, Absolution, Bomber, and Dynamo reduce cooldowns for grenade, class ability, and super when you pick up Orbs or use your dodge near enemies. Recuperation provides healing from Orbs as well. Altogether, this setup guarantees that your abilities are always available, and you’re rarely, if ever, caught in a vulnerable state.

Your super ability, Silence and Squall, is great for freezing enemies and zoning the battlefield. Silence freezes and damages on impact, while Squall creates a damaging storm that slows enemies caught inside. This is excellent for crowd control, boss damage setups, or creating breathing room during chaotic encounters.

Finally, the weapon choices complement the build’s design. Tinasha’s Mastery is a powerful Stasis sidearm that synergizes well with Prismatic effects and benefits from Stasis fragments. Graviton Lance creates Void explosions and can help proc invisibility through Stylish Executioner. Qua Furor V, a Stasis machine gun, adds powerful AoE damage and plays into the Stasis side of your build with potential for shatter synergy.

In summary, this build turns your Hunter into a high-speed, self-sustaining melee brawler. You’re constantly healing, staying invisible, buffing your damage, controlling crowds with freezes and debuffs, and keeping your abilities cycling at near-permanent uptime. It’s fast, aggressive, and incredibly fun—ideal for dominating both PvE content and some PvP scenarios.

Gameplay loop

• Dodge or Grapple into enemies → recharge melee
• Punch enemies with Combination Blow + Liar’s Handshake → heal and buff
• Generate Orbs via melee and weapon kills
• Pick up Orbs → cooldowns + healing + defensive buffs
• Chain Stylish Executions → Invisibility + weakening melee
• Repeat with near-infinite uptime

Exotic Armor

Liar’s Handshake

Liar’s Handshake are Exotic Hunter Gauntlets and come with the perk Cross Counter.

Cross Counter – Using your Arc melee ability or being hit by a melee attack will allow you to follow up with an extremely powerful melee counterpunch that will heal you. You also get increased mobility.

You can get this from Master Rahool in the Tower and from Xur too.

Prismatic Subclass Setup

Super – Silence and Squall, Summon two Stasis kamas, Silence and Squall, that you throw one after another. Silence: Creates a flash-freeze blast that freezes and damages targets. Squall: Creates a Stasis Storm that slows and damages targets caught inside.

Class ability – Gambler’s Dodge, Dodge to perform a deft tumble, avoiding enemy attacks. Dodging near enemies fully recharges your Melee Ability.

Melee – Combination Blow, A quick strike that temporarily increases your melee damage when defeating a target, stacking three times. Defeating targets with this ability also fully refills your class ability energy and restores a small amount of health.

Grenade – Grapple, Weave a grappling hook, and quickly pull yourself forward. Grappling to a Tangle immediately recharges your grenade energy. During and shortly after grappling, your melee attack deals area damage and unravels targets.

Aspects

Winter’s Shroud – Slowing targets briefly increases your class ability regeneration. A desire for legacy, to be known, preserved in sterile glass. The world stops and starts at your command.

Stylish Executioner – Defeating a weakened, suppressed, or volatile target grants Invisibility and Truesight. After performing a Stylish Execution, your next melee attack while invisible weakens targets.

Fragments

Facet of Dawn – Powered melee hits against targets makes you radiant. Powered melee final blows make you and nearby allies radiant.

Facet of Courage – Your Arc, Solar, and Void abilities deal increased damage to targets afflicted with Darkness debuffs.

Facet of Purpose – Picking up an Orb of Power grants either Bolt Charge, Restoration, Frost Armor, Woven Mail, or Overshield based on the damage type of your equipped Super.

Facet of Protection – While surrounded by combatants, you are more resistant to incoming damage. While transcendent, the effect is increased.

Facet of Ruin – Increases the size and damage of the burst when you shatter a Stasis crystal or frozen target, and increases the area of effect of Solar ignitions.

Weapons

Tinasha’s Mastery

Tinasha’s Mastery is a Legendary Stasis Sidearm with a Rocket-Assisted Frame meaning sidearm fires self-propelled rocket ammunition. Projectiles explode on impact for high damage. You can get it from Iron Banner and it’s perfect for Stasis and Prismatic builds.

Graviton Lance

This is an Exotic Energy Pulse Rifle that is great for void builds.

Black Hole – Second shot of a burst rips a hole through space-time, doing high damage and recoil with no falloff.
Cosmology – Kills with this weapon cause enemy targets to detonate and spawn Void projectiles that track targets.

How to get: Xur

Qua Furor V

Qua Furor V is a Legendary Stasis Power Machine Gun with an Aggressive Frame which means high damage, high recoil. For the Origin Trait we have Wild Card. Final blows with this weapon have a chance to create experimental submunitions at the target’s location. Qua Furor V is a world drop weapon, meaning you’ll have to open legendary engrams, prime engrams and also gunsmith engrams to find the weapon.

Mods

Head
Hands On – Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.
Dynamo – Reduces Super cooldown when using your class ability near targets.

Arms
Heavy Handed – Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.

Chest
Concussive Dampener – Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
Melee Damage Resistance – Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at point-blank range.

Legs
Innervation – Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
Recuperation – Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
Absolution – Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class
Reaper – Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
Bomber – Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Powerful attraction – Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.

Let me know in the comments what you think.