Every point of Melee Damage adds 0.8 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Melee weapon · Base game · tier I–IV
Knife
Precise
At the game default stat block
82.16 DPSExpected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)
Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.76 s · one equipped weaponThe coefficients competitors leave out
What Knife scales from
Use your current stats
Your Knife numbers
Using 1 equipped weapon
The keep-stacking answer
What +1 more point is worth now
+1 Melee Damage+0.00 DPS
Takes +2 Melee Damage before this DPS figure moves.
Metric boundary
What this number means
Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor) includes weapon base damage, the listed scaling coefficients, % Damage, weapon and player crit chance, projectile count, shooting duration, and steady-state mean cooldown. It assumes every projectile aimed at the primary target connects.
It excludes enemy armor, weapon-set damage bonuses, later pierce or bounce targets, melee area targets, misses, overkill, burning, explosions, spawned projectiles, on-hit effects, and weapon-scripted damage changes. The chain figure is separate and assumes enough distinct targets for every listed bounce and pierce. Neither figure is “actual DPS.”
Every figure here is measured with one equipped weapon. A character page ranks this same weapon inside that character’s own loadout, at the weapon-slot count that character starts with, and that count changes the steady-state cycle — so the same tier can show a different DPS there. Each character page states the count its figures use.
For melee cycle timing, the calculation uses the weapon’s listed maximum range as attack distance, matching the damage model’s cross-validation method; runtime target distance can change that timing.
Listed values + computed output
All available tiers
Zero player bonus stats
| Metric | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Tier IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base damage | 9 | 13 | 18 | 25 |
| Cooldown | 25 ticks0.42 seconds | 21 ticks0.35 seconds | 17 ticks0.28 seconds | 12 ticks0.2 seconds |
| Critical hit | 20% × 2.5 | 30% × 3 | 40% × 3.5 | 50% × 4 |
| Melee Damage scaling | × 0.8 | × 0.8 | × 0.8 | × 0.8 |
| Shop price | 10 | 22 | 45 | 91 |
| Expected damage / hit | 11.80 | 20.80 | 36.00 | 62.50 |
| Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor | 12.07 | 22.84 | 42.65 | 82.16 |
Read from the character pages
Characters that can start with Knife
Knife is one of the starting weapon choices for 25 of the 64 characters, at the tier each character’s own pool record declares. Each of those pages ranks that character’s whole opening pool by computed DPS, so you can see where this weapon lands before the first wave.
- Apprentice offers it at Tier I
- Baby offers it at Tier I
- Captain offers it at Tier I
- Chef offers it at Tier I
- Crazy offers it at Tier I
- Cryptid offers it at Tier I
- Curious offers it at Tier I
- Diver offers it at Tier I
- Entrepreneur offers it at Tier I
- Fisherman offers it at Tier I
Showing 10 of 25 characters, alphabetically.
Same computation, read by weapon
Where Knife is a notable outlier
This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Knife at all, and which ones its computed rank moves materially away from the generic, zero-bonus order. Same comparison each character page uses — default 10 Max HP, zero other bonus stats, weapons at their highest usable tier, before enemy armor; full stated assumptions are on each character’s own page.
Cannot use this weapon
Generated relationships
