Every point of Melee Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.
Melee weapon · Base game · tier I–IV
Pruner
Support
At the game default stat block
31.32 DPSExpected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)
Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.89 s · one equipped weaponThe coefficients competitors leave out
What Pruner scales from
Use your current stats
Your Pruner numbers
Using 1 equipped weapon
The keep-stacking answer
What +1 more point is worth now
+1 Melee Damage+1.25 DPS
Outside the number above
What Pruner does that its DPS does not count
The structure’s own numbers
Where values appear below, they are the placed structure’s own listed values for Brotato 1.1.15.4 — not a computed DPS figure. This site does not yet publish a DPS number for structures, because whether the player’s % Damage and Attack Speed reach them is unconfirmed.
- Damage
- 0No direct damage — does not attack
- Cooldown
- 900 ticks15 seconds
- Projectiles
- 0
- Max range
- 150
- Critical hit
- 0% × 1.5
These tiers place a Garden of their own, and each keeps its own separate set of values. Those values are not available to this site, so they are shown as unknown rather than guessed. The figures listed for the other tier are deliberately not carried over — separate values usually means different values.
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 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Cooldown | 35 ticks0.58 seconds | 30 ticks0.5 seconds | 25 ticks0.42 seconds | 20 ticks0.33 seconds |
| Critical hit | 3% × 1.25 | 6% × 1.5 | 9% × 1.75 | 12% × 2 |
| Melee Damage scaling | × 0.5 | × 0.65 | × 0.8 | × 1.0 |
| Shop price | 15 | 28 | 52 | 95 |
| Expected damage / hit | 10.09 | 15.48 | 21.35 | 28.00 |
| Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor | 8.82 | 14.59 | 21.84 | 31.32 |
Read from the character pages
Characters that can start with Pruner
Pruner is one of the starting weapon choices for 22 of the 64 characters, offered at Tier I in every one of them. 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.
Showing 10 of 22 characters, alphabetically.
Same computation, read by weapon
Where Pruner is a notable outlier
This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Pruner 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
Ranks notably higher than generic
Generated relationships
