Are these the best builds in 9 to Die?

They are the strongest on paper by a rule you can read, not the result of long play. They ignore stuns and range, so swap in what you enjoy.

What if the cards never offer a skill in my build?

Take the next best thing and move on. Your own department's skills turn up more often than shared ones, and you have three rerolls per run.

Builds

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How are these builds put together?

Each build is generated from that role's own data. It takes the starting skill, the role's three strongest others and the two strongest shared skills by final-form damage, then the passives those skills evolve with. Its talent plan is a real 51-point spend, checked against the game's own rules.

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Facilities150 health, Wet Floor
Legal140 health, Cease & Desist
Marketing95 health, Going Viral
IT100 health, Forced Reboot
HR120 health, Wellness Program
Engineering125 health, Technical Debt
Operations120 health, Just-In-Time
Sales100 health, Cold Call
Finance90 health, Budget Freeze

The cards are random, so a build is what to steer towards rather than a promise. Skills that hurt you are left out of the plan, even when the number looks good.