Weapon Damage

Weapon Damage is a stat that determines the player's Bullet Damage, and also increases their Melee Damage. Some abilities can deal Weapon Damage.

Video explaining Weapon Damage

Base Weapon Properties

Base Bullet Damage

Base Bullet Damage is the amount of damage your Hero deals with no items. This value is unique to each hero and increases automatically as you level up through Boons.

Spreadshots

Spreadshots allow certain weapons to fire multiple bullets at once (such as shotguns or shurikens). In these cases, all calculation rules apply to every individual bullet.

Drifter Is an exception to this, where the same amount of bullet damage is dealt to a target regardless of how many pellets hit per shot.

Piercing shots

Paige's weapon's shots pierce through enemies and can hit multiple enemies per projectile, disappearing only when they hit a map surface. However, they do not deal headshot bonus damage, but can proc headshot items.

The Doorman's weapon's shots also pierce enemies. Unlike Paige's, they can deal headshot damage but deal half damage to all enemies hit after the first.

Melee Damage

Melee Damage is considered a source of Weapon Damage and scales with the Weapon Damage stat by 50%. Items and abilities that trigger from "dealing weapon damage" or "weapon damage hits" (e.g. Stalker, Card Trick, etc.) include Melee Damage. Some effects that specify "bullets", such as Metal Skin and Toxic Bullets, have no effect with Melee Damage, but others do (such as Slowing Bullets and Weighted Shots).

In addition to Melee Resist gained from items, Bullet Resist affects all Weapon Damage, granting another source of resistance against Melee Damage. The only exception is Venator's innate Spirit-scaled Bullet Resist, although this is likely a bug.

Combat Modifiers

Damage Falloff

Damage Falloff reduces damage based on distance. All heroes have a Falloff Range in which damage is linearly reduced from 100% to 10%.

When aiming at an enemy hero, a dot on their health bar indicates the percentage of damage you will deal:

Dot Color	Damage Percentage
Red	10% - 20%
Orange	20% - 35%
Yellow	35% - 75%
Transparent	75% - 100%

Crit Multiplier

Aiming for the head deals increased damage. Troopers, Guardians, and Heroes have a weakpoint hitbox that receives 1.65x bullet damage when hit.

$\text{Crit Multiplier}=1+[(0.65+\text{Crit Bonus Scale})\times \text{Crit Resist}]$

The following heroes cannot deal critical damage:

• Graves
• Paige (though she can proc headshot item effects)
• Viscous' alt-fire
• Yamato's alt-fire

Crit Bonus Scale is a stat that modifies critical damage dealt by certain heroes.

Base Crit Bonus Scale Stats

Hero	Crit Bonus Scale (%)
Billy	-20
Celeste	-25
The Doorman	-30
Drifter	-45
Kelvin	-25
Rem	-20
Vyper	-30

Abilities that can deal critical damage have different critical modifiers. This replaces the +65% multiplier of base weapons.

Ability Crit Damage Stats

Hero	Ability	Crit Damage (%)
Paradox	Kinetic Carbine	14
Venator	Ira Domini	30
Vindicta	Assassinate	20

Target Modifiers

Bullet Resistance

Main article: Damage Resistance

Incoming damage is reduced by the target's Bullet Resist and increased by the attacker's Bullet Resist Reduction. These stats stack multiplicatively. For a detailed breakdown on how multiple items stack, see the main page.

Increased Bullet Damage

Increased Bullet Damage is a debuff inflicted on enemies. It multiplies the total amount of damage they take from you. Because this is applied at the end of the calculation, it also increases the effectiveness of your Flat Weapon Damage.

Flat Weapon Damage

Flat Weapon Damage is an extra amount of damage obtained through certain hero abilities.

Flat Weapon Damage is not increased by your "Weapon Damage %" multiplier. It is an additive source added to your total after the percentage multiplier is applied to your base. However, it is still affected by Damage Falloff, Bullet Resist, and Crit Multipliers.

Weapon Damage Formula

The final damage dealt by a bullet is determined by multiplying your base stats, your item bonuses, and various situational modifiers.

$\begin{array}{c}\text{Final Damage}=\\ [(\text{Base DMG}\times \text{DMG Multiplier})+\text{Flat Bonus}]\\ \times \text{Falloff}\times \text{Resistances}\times \text{Crit Multiplier}\end{array}$

Weapon Damage Scaling

Some abilities scale with Weapon Damage.

For most Weapon Damage scaling abilities, they only scale based on the "Bonus Weapon Damage" stat, which is granted by items and Weapon shop investments (see list below). Paradox's Kinetic Carbine is an exception, since it scales with her Base Weapon Damage (counting as a full burst shot), and thus increases with Boons. Melee Damage scaling abilities also scale with Weapon Damage, since Melee Damage scales with Weapon Damage (by 50%).

Abilities that scale with weapon damage

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Hero	Ability	Notes
Haze	Fixation	Starts scaling on T3.
Paradox	Kinetic Carbine	Scales with Base Weapon Damage instead of Bonus, deals Spirit Damage.
Venator	Consecrating Grenade	—
	Gutshot	—
	Ira Domini	—

NPCs

Attacks from Troopers, Guardians, Neutrals, Base Turrets and the Mid-Boss deal weapon damage.

Sources

All weapon items provide an automatic increase in Weapon Damage based on the player's total soul investment in that category:

Souls	Weapon
	Weapon Damage (%)
	Individual	Accumulative
800	+9	+9
1600	+3	+12
2400	+3	+15
3200	+3	+18
4800	+28	+46
6400	+8	+54
8000	+8	+62
11200	+12	+74
16000	+12	+86
22400	+14	+100
28800	+15	+115

The following items grant increased weapon damage:

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Name	Cost	Category	Stat change
Close Quarters	800	Weapon	+20% Weapon Damage
Extended Magazine	800	Weapon	+8% Weapon Damage
High-Velocity Rounds	800	Weapon	+8% Weapon Damage
Restorative Shot	800	Weapon	+6% Weapon Damage
Fleetfoot	1,600	Weapon	+6% Weapon Damage
Long Range	1,600	Weapon	+40% Weapon Damage
Opening Rounds	1,600	Weapon	+8% Weapon Damage
Recharging Rush	1,600	Weapon	+10% Weapon Damage
Titanic Magazine	1,600	Weapon	+14% Weapon Damage
Cultist Sacrifice	3,200	Weapon	+10% Weapon Damage
Escalating Resilience	3,200	Weapon	+18% Weapon Damage
Express Shot	3,200	Weapon	+8% Weapon Damage
Headhunter	3,200	Weapon	+5% Weapon Damage
Hollow Point	3,200	Weapon	+35% Weapon Damage
Point Blank	3,200	Weapon	+50% Weapon Damage
Sharpshooter	3,200	Weapon	+10% Weapon Damage
			+60% Weapon Damage
Weighted Shots	3,200	Weapon	+30% Weapon Damage
Armor Piercing Rounds	6,400	Weapon	+8% Weapon Damage
Glass Cannon	6,400	Weapon	+80% Weapon Damage
Battle Vest	1,600	Vitality	+18% Weapon Damage
Bullet Lifesteal	1,600	Vitality	+6% Weapon Damage
Fury Trance	3,200	Vitality	+6% Weapon Damage
Colossus	6,400	Vitality	+15% Weapon Damage
Inhibitor	6,400	Vitality	+10% Weapon Damage
Leech	6,400	Vitality	+12% Weapon Damage
Phantom Strike	6,400	Vitality	+15% Weapon Damage
Siphon Bullets	6,400	Vitality	+15% Weapon Damage
Vampiric Burst	6,400	Vitality	+6% Weapon Damage
Bullet Resist Shredder	1,600	Spirit	+9% Weapon Damage
Unstable Concoction	Legendary	Spirit	+150% Weapon Damage

• Headshot Booster deals +45 bonus Weapon Damage with headshots.
• Monster Rounds increases Weapon Damage against NPCs by +25%.
• Berserker increases Weapon Damage by +7% per stack for sustaining damage.
• Headhunter additionally deals +75 x4 bonus Weapon Damage with headshots.
• Intensifying Magazine increases Weapon Damage to a maximum of 45% after continuously firing.
• Opening Rounds increases Weapon Damage by +25% against enemies above 50% health.
• Golden Goose Egg grants random Permanent Buffs, including Weapon Damage.