Every point of Ranged Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Ranged weapon · Base game · tier III–IV
Nuclear Launcher
HeavyExplosive
At the game default stat block
58.38 DPSExpected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)
Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 2.12 s · one equipped weaponThe coefficients competitors leave out
What Nuclear Launcher scales from
Every point of Elemental Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Use your current stats
Your Nuclear Launcher numbers
Using 1 equipped weapon
The keep-stacking answer
What +1 more point is worth now
+1 Ranged Damage+0.49 DPS
+1 Elemental Damage+0.49 DPS
Outside the number above
What Nuclear Launcher does that its DPS does not count
The DPS figure on this page measures direct damage to one target. Nuclear Launcher also carries the following, and none of it is in that figure. These are stated, not quantified: an amount the game itself declares is quoted as it stands, and no DPS is computed for a channel this site has not modelled.
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Explosion damage
Damage the ranking does not count
Hits produce an explosion. Explosion damage is not in the DPS figure.
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.
Listed values + computed output
All available tiers
Zero player bonus stats
| Metric | Tier III | Tier IV |
|---|---|---|
| Base damage | 60 | 120 |
| Cooldown | 110 ticks1.83 seconds | 110 ticks1.83 seconds |
| Critical hit | 3% × 2 | 3% × 2 |
| Ranged Damage scaling | × 1.0 | × 1.0 |
| Elemental Damage scaling | × 1.0 | × 1.0 |
| Shop price | 144 | 289 |
| Expected damage / hit | 61.80 | 123.60 |
| Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor | 29.19 | 58.38 |
Read from the character pages
Characters that can start with Nuclear Launcher
No character’s starting weapon pool offers Nuclear Launcher, so no character can open a run holding it. Every run that uses it has to acquire it after the run has started.
Same computation, read by weapon
Where Nuclear Launcher is a notable outlier
This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Nuclear Launcher 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
- Dwarf — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
- Gladiator — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
- Knight — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
- Ogre — Ranged weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
- Wildling — Weapon progression capped at Tier 2
Ranks notably lower than generic
Generated relationships
